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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=Head Over HeartThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Colette VictorRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
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|summary=Like many other British thirteen-year-olds, Zeyneb is struggling with her feelings as she grows up, and with juggling her friends and family. However, she has an extra dilemma - she's a Muslim girl who's attracted to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve I can hear the song ofthe sea. AdditionallyThe call of the deep, she needs to decide whether to wear a headscarf or notthe answering beat in my heart. What should she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ZOM-B Clans|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!'
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{{newreview|title=WingerFrontpage|author=Andrew SmithHarry Allen|rating=2.5|genretitle=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West is at boarding school. His roommate is a bully, his closest male friends are idiots, and his best friend is an older girl he's madly in love with who doesn't seem to see him in Children of the same way. But this could be a year that changes everything for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Sun
|rating=5
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|summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging Ra Eun Seo lives in daily a North Korean town and she is as much of a problem as a resourcetalented singer. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' Life is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb hard and Melanie are doing their best food is difficult to fight come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and surviveMin go foraging every evening, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have looking for tree bark and edible grasses to go into supplement the enemy's hive meagre rations of rice and bring the battle to the cyborgskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreview|title=Don't Even Think About ItFrontpage|author=Sarah MlynowskiAlexia Casale|rating=4|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Something weird happens after 10B get their flu shots - they develop telepathy. There are good points - they know what other people think of them, they can cheat on tests, and they have the upper hand in conversations with others. But there are some drawbacks as well - not only do they no longer have any secrets from each other, but also, knowing what other people think of them can be a two-edged sword! High school is hard enough to survive when Sing if youCan're normal - will being an Espie make it even more difficult?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Since You've Been Gone|author=Morgan Matsont Dance
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|summary=Sloane and Emily are best friends. Until Sloane disappears. She and It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her parents have vanishedlife. There’s been no phone call But she comes back fighting, textdesperate to avoid the pity stares, or e-mailand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Then Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, two weeks laterher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Emily gets a list in and just the day to day traumas of all the mail from Sloane, giving challenges her body continues to throw at her tasks to donavigate. If So even though she does them allcan't dance anymore, can might she find be able to sing her way back to Sloanethrough instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122662</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreview|title=Dragon ShieldFrontpage|author=Charlie Fletcher|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''"Dragons don't exist,"whispered Jo. But even those three short words sounded more like a wish than a statement of fact.'' Something dark and sinister is going on at the British Museum. An ancient power has awoken and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and his sister Jo are still moving. The only humans still moving, that is. The dragons are moving. They're spitting real fire, too. And they're attacking Will and Jo. A glorious golden girl comes to their rescue, followed by an angel and a muse. And Will and Joe are plunged into a world where statues are alive and where good battles evil. Why are they still moving? Who is behind the stopping of time? And will they ever get Mum back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917323</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie RutkoskiDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Egypt – a land of mystery and beautyLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, where history surrounds you and death is always present. There are treasures to uncoverthen suddenly rings Archie, riddles to solve and demanding he fetch something from a colourful secret place, and exotic world to explorejoin him on the run. A perfect setting for this They get together, but barely begin to smell the first in a new series of thrillers which combines intriguing landscapes, archaeology and adventure. Much whiff of Southern trains when the architecture and scenery in this book really exists and can be visitedfather is arrested, including some of leaving Archie on the tombs and museumslate express to Brighton, and many readers will feel inspired toting a tin his father was determined to seek further information about this most exciting keep away from his colleagues, and dramatic the bearer of a whole heap of locationsquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010395</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=OMG! I'm Gwen and Art Are Not in Love with a Geek!|author=Rae Earl
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hattie Moore is determined Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this year she’ll find true story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love - could it be with Goose, Bridget (the boy next door who shekingdom's starting to think of as more than just a geek, or will he only ever see female knight) - something that Art discovers from her as private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a friend? If she finds another boythey find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will he get jealous? And now she's found her real dadthey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, will she get or are they destined to know him properlylive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=War GirlsNick Brooks|authortitle=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HousePromise Boys|rating=54
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|summary=This collection of short stories written by some When the principal (headmaster) of the leading writers for young adults today Urban Promise Prep school is a moving and engaging account of an aspect of murdered, three boys find themselves called into the First World War not often covered in teen fictionpolice station as suspects. Each story explores how , seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the war changed the lives time of young women his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of that time forever as the boys are innocent, will they learned be able to cope with loss and grief.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Searching for SkyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jillian CantorKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
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|summary=River is everything to Sky. Since her mother and Helmut diedSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, this girl and boy are the only two human beings on the Island. River is the only boy Sky has ever known. Their life so why is simple, calm and fulfilling. Until, one day, he running around London committing a boat comes and everything changes. Taken back series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to civilisation, get an answer to the world her mother left behind, Sky is separated from Riversecond question because I avoid spoilers. Sky hates everything about California - its houses, its rules, its people who donBut I't tell her ll answer the truthfirst one: for his grandmother. And so she sets out to find River. But when she does, she discovers the truth and why it is keeping them apart. Can anything make it right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408846640</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Department 19: Zero HourFrontpage|author=Will Hill|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risen, betrayal has left Department 19 and their allies from across the world not knowing who they can trust, and rightly or wrongly, every hero seems to have at least one secret to keep. Valentin is away searching for his brother and Dracula, Frankenstein is coming to terms with lycanthropy, Patrick Ness and the secrecy which the department has always relied on is becoming a thing of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTea Bendix|title=High and Dry|author=Sarah SkiltonDifferent for Boys
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|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Dixon Ant is having in Year Eleven at quite a bad week. Still struggling standard school, and is surprised to get over being dumped by find his girlfriendgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, he’s turned to alcoholso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and now finds himself the lead suspect two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the near-fatal drug overdose of leash only a schoolmate. Offered an alibi by an exsingle-girlfriend who needs him sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to find her sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a missing flash drivesecret one, for several months now, he takes and so has effectively progressed up the chance to investigate – ladder headed by 'experienced', but quickly finds whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that the truth is hard to come by and a lot 's mostly because of people seem to have who he's been doing some dark dealings. Can he solve having the case relationship and win the girl back?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyStitched Up|author=Natasha FarrantSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Patrice Lawrence
|title=Needle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=After a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s familyBrave. Charlene, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside down. She’s desperate the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for au pair Zoran some people to come back to them but Zoran like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has problems taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of his own love for her younger sister – including new guitar protégé Zacha younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and the then force people to give her two immediately hit it days offschool, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting her foot in itwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Will Flora ever talk well, what exactly happens is not for me to her againsay, only to remark how sharp and when Zach goes missing, pointy those knitting needles can the sisters and the rest of their family help find him?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Geek Girl: Picture PerfectAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Holly SmaleRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners is moving Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to New Yorkdrink and make merry between their conquests. Her head However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is full of facts about a Crafter like him, someone with the Big Apple, but will this be enough power to allow form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to cope come with him, to leave the life across of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Atlanticworld. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=L M MontgomeryWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rilla Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of Ingleside frustration at himself. Lockdown is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the warover, and he should be free to do what he wants, about the warto go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is an incredibly important work. It tells of what happened when he talks to the women who stayed at homehis best friend, the limited aspects Cassie. They were half of war work that they were able to doa desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened timeearth. The novel begins as Europe is on Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the brink end of war, and Rilla the world is only 15 years old and, still, already a rather silly young girl. I have to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this one, done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's just a spoilt baby and at the start dreaming of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. However, ? Is she just as bonkers? And can Fitz find out the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of timetruth? Well, Rilla herself grows from a child to a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lobsters|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of teen fiction and I think it does an awful lot of things really well. Amongst other things, it not when Cassie has gone missing he can transport the reader to faraway times and places't. It can also let them empathise with people in situations that they’ll probably – and in many cases hopefully – never be in themselves. I think it’s fair to say, looking at the recent Carnegie longlist as just one example, that books which do either of the above things tend to be the most critically-acclaimed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Robin StevensThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Kieran sees Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the world in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a different way from most 14-year-old boyshundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. He’s an artist, inspired by LowryThe boarding school's headmaster, and a boy with man Tess hates. As a strong sense petty act of right revenge for making her find and wrong. So when deliver such a homeless man called Colin is killedlarge request, and Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the police don’t seem interestedbooks, Kieran decides scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to investigate himselfreach him, of course. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantlyHer plan is to get her anger out like this, can he survive his home life with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying him?then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Predict a RiotPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Catherine BrutonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Aspiring film-maker Maggie lives In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on Coronation Road with her mum, a politicianpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but without her dadway west, who's left thembeyond the Scillies. Tokes is another teen living without a father There are troll people on it, and sea- new to the neighbourhoodwitches, he and his mother are trying not legends of the Dark family that has to be found by his dadkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The pair meet and become friendscurrent Darks are the Watcher, but fury is brewing in their townAndrewe, and a young boy called Little Pea is about who has to unwittingly set things keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in motion that will lead his head to terrible eventsworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Will Maggie But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and Tokes survive as his curious ward are thrust into the streets turn to violence?world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405267194</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreview|title=Seven Second DelayFrontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom Eastonde Freston|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=In the future, the difference between West Julia and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Code Red Lipstick|author=Sarah SkyShark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jessica Cole is a schoolgirl model with an exJulia, our pre-spy for a father. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpfulteen heroine, she's forced to use has been packed off with her talents for both modelling parents and spying to try and mount her own rescue mission. But the bad guys here have some really evil plans, and if Jessica's not able to stop them, she could find that she's not only lost her father, but she's missed their cat from the chance to save many more people. With danger seeming to lurk around every corner, she'll need not only all her resourcefulness but also help from her allies. If she can only work out who she can trust...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year!|author=Rae Earl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore has got a nightmare family with an evil brother, a gran who’s a ‘total mental’, and a father who she knows nothing about. As well, she wants home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a total hotness goddess and take down rival Miss Gorgeous Knickers but there’s no boy interested summer, in her (or is there?) Hattie’s diary tells the story far NE of a year that could just change her lifethe Scottish islands. As long as her stepfather doesn’t hate her too much for throwing up in his fish tank Here be Vikings, that is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fools' Gold|author=Philippa Gregory|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sent kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to Venice, be automating the world's biggest marketplacelantern, Luca Vero and his friends are given strange instructions - to make money for the church by trading and even gambling. It's the only way to expose a possible coin counterfeiting scheme, but it also opens them up to participating in Venice's famous Carnival, where romance and excitement are at a high. While Brother Peter which is distressed by the thought of committing usury, Luca has other things on his mind - both his growing feelings for Isolde and the possibility of finally finding his father, who he'd given up for dead. But with dark forces at workspecialist thing, the five friends while mum will need all of their willpower and ingenuity to survive be leaving her career in Venice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077406</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=The Night Raid|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The Trojan War is over and the few survivors have algae behind to find somewhere else to live. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children at hunt the end of the war and both with their own burden of guilt and horror - are obsessed by the need to seek vengeance and protect the land on which they have now settled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for yearselusive Greenland shark. They were scampsAnd Julia, well, mischief makers - lads having a bit of fun - she will be homesick and they were led by Joe Gillespie who was a year or two older. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst alone – until she suddenly finds company one or two of the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going to hurt people. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, you see) happened the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in the town of Felling. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for the Bad Ladsnight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jane of Lantern HillJonathan Stroud|authortitle=L M MontgomeryThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Lucy Maud MontgomeryScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the Canadian author, is best known for her classic story, ''Anne draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Green Gables''Britain, but in her lifetime robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she wrote meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a large number of books that are not so well knowndarker past. This story is one of With mysterious militiamen hunting themdown, and is, in fact, one they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of my favourite stories. Jane Stuart is a wonderful heroinethe London Lagoon. She is straight-talkingTogether, down-tothey must brave man-eartheating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and funny too. This book follows her journey from a life all the horrors of miserypost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, closeted but will they be any more accepted there than they are in a home lacking in love, through to a joyous happy ending.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Maya Van WagenenSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=At the age Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of 13, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide to popularity, written by teen model Betty Cornell. Unhappy at school and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas''man with a "real" family, she secretly decides is used to try and change her life by putting the book into practice, not being a chapter a monthpriority in people's lives. But surely when she defends a random boy in her class with her dad slingshot, her simple existence is rightchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and Betty's words have no place for her life now has a boy in the modern world? Read this and find out!it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353252</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Serpent HouseT L Huchu|authortitle=Bea DavenportThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1898 and Annie Ropa Moyo is living a miserable existence with her aunt ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and cousinsa bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Not long orphanedEver since she dropped out of school, she misses 's been using it to support not only herself, but her mam every dayyounger sister and her aging grandmother. So Annie is overjoyed when her brotherHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's employer Lady Hexer allows him to bring his sister to live with him on children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a cottage on missing boy at the estate at Hexer Hallrequest of his dead mother. Lady Hexer takes She will end up discovering an interest in both brother occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and sistermore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. But whyWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreview|title=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)Frontpage|author=Helen Douglas|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Chasing Stars'' is the follow-up to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - in which Ryan travels back in time to save the world from disaster by preventing the discovery of a far-off planet. In so doing, he falls in love with Eden. In this second story, Ryan travels back once again - this time to save Eden's life. And now Eden must make a sacrifice, too. The boy she loves has given up everything to save her and now she must give up everything to save him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408828707</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sentinel|author=Joshua Winning|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=In many ways this book is not as typical of fantasy and mild horror as the summary might suggest. Unlike a lot of stories where we join the main character in the aftermath of a major event, this one begins before Nicholas is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for a train journey, coming so soon after a menacing and mysterious prologue, makes it pretty clear to us that they wonKristen O't be returning, and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Two Boys Kissing|author=David Levithan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Two boys - no longer a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high school. But this is no ordinary kiss. This is a kiss which they intend to last over 32 hours, breaking the world record for longest kiss. Their friend will document it, spreading the world to, Lycanthropy and beyond, their community, some of whom will be supportive, others of whom will be disgusted. Two other boys are in a relationship, while two more may be about to start one. An eighth is looking for something he may never find. ''Two Boys Kissing'' tells the story of all these different boys, at different stages of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fifteen Bones|author=R J MorganOther Chronic Illnesses
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