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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildMax Boucherat|title=The Vanishing MomentLast 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=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5
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|summary=This book appealed to me ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on various groundsluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. It Mira, like her mother before her, is teen fiction (one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors andany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, joy of joys, devoid of werewolves they capture the island's leader and dystopia)Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, it Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves)secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what-ifs). I was intrigued might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to see if the author could live up heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to my expectationssave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah BenwellHarry Allen|title=The Last Leaves FallingChildren of the Sun
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|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close to Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a plot summary of something I really love - this will probably make the maximum possible impact if you go into it, as I did, knowing barely anything about ittalented singer. If you trust my recommendations enough Life is hard and food is difficult to buy on one sentencecome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, stop reading now looking for tree bark and pre-order - this is a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely be one edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of the best books, YA or otherwise, published in 2015rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909531227</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Cohn and David LevithanAlexia Casale|title=Dash and LilySing if you Can's Book of Darest Dance
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|summary=Just before ChristmasIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, sixteen-year-old Lily leaves a notebook but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the shelf middle of a dance performance that was going to change her favourite bookshoplife. But she comes back fighting, in an effort desperate to find avoid the kind of love pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that has made 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her brother so happy. Dash finds it music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and follows just the instructions, setting off a chain day to day traumas of passing all the book back and forth trading their hopes and dreamschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Could the two So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be just as right for each other in person as they are in writingable to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848451725</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie Perkins (Editor)Simon Fox|title=My True Love Gave to MeDeadlock
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John GreenLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle]] that there was then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a real lack of festive YA around – at the timesecret place, I think and join him on the choice seemed to be pretty much limited to that or ''Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares'' by David Levithan and Rachel Cohnrun. Both fantastic books They get together, but a thin spread compared barely begin to smell the amount out there for adults and for younger children. (If I’m missing obvious ones, by whiff of Southern trains when the way, please let me know!) Thankfully, a dozen authorsfather is arrested, with Stephanie Perkins as leaving Archie on the editorlate express to Brighton, have got together to produce toting a perfect Christmas present here with twelve short stories set around the holidays.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144727279X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Kiem|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret Keeper|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I tin his father was caught up by this novel determined to keep away from the first pages and read it with absorption in a single sitting. The young heroinehis colleagues, Lana Dukovskaya, is a third generation ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet but the experiences of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lost. Her grandmother's name, we discover, has been erased from the records and her mother is a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges the conventional notion bearer of a ballerina: she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes and most whole heap of all she wants to experiment with the repertoirequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallLex Croucher|title=This is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy Gwen and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet Art Are Not in a pub in the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy|title=Moone Boy: the Blunder YearsLove
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|summary=Who knew that what I've really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been intrigued by the idea of Girl Online betrothed since I first heard about it - I they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love books about blogging and with Bridget (the internetkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had creating the experience subterfuge of becoming well known online herselffalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number of people who've completely dismissed this But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a bad book while admitting way in which they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it with an open mind - I've never watched any of her YouTube videos and at the time of readingcan both truly be themselves, hadn't read her blog, although I've just checked out or are they destined to live a couple of her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by them. I think that people who do the same thing will enjoy it.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MisdirectedNick Brooks|authortitle=Ali BermanPromise Boys
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|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitanWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, multi-faith Boston to has a small town in America's Bible Beltgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, much to Ben's disgust. He's not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high school and it doesn't take more than a few days before all each could have been there at the time of his fears are realisedmurder. Open about his atheism But who killed him, Ben meets shock and disgust from teachers and pupils alike. When he meets a girl, Tess, her parents forbid the relationship: as a non-believer Benwhy, to them, is a dangerous and pernicious influence. With his brother on a tour if any of Iraq with the militaryboys are innocent, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who won't talk will they be able to him, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo1919635017|title=Listen to the Moon|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's May, 1915. World War I is underway and the Scillionians have already seen losses. Like the rest of Britain, they are beginning A Thief to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one day, they hear a child's cries. On one of the archipelago's uninhabited islands, they find a half-starved little girl, abandoned and in a terrible state. She can only speak one word: Lucy. Who is this foundling? Is she a ghost? A mermaid? Or, more worryingly, could she be Catch a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on the label of her blanket, after all. And why does she gaze at the moon with such longing in her eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Betsy Tobin|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=JerichoSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Ohio - 1979. Annemarie so why is he running around London committing a clever, funny and spirited girlseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Born with sight, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates But I'll answer the first one: for her disabilityhis grandmother. Living amongst the small-town folk of Jericho, she has a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many in the town - especially her charming neighbour Ethan. All is calm, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K A S QuinnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Katie is back, and once more she's back in Victorian England. This time, however, she isn't quite sure who called her back in time or Different for what purpose and, unfortunately, something went wrong as she came and she brought someone else along with her! In the final episode of the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's life, trying to prevent Britain messing up the outcome of the American Civil War, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darragh McManus|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughBoys
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|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost one of four with both his girlfriend to someone who works at best buddy from the local carnival football team, and even heard that from someone elsetwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Life is just rubbish As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and needs ending totallyout often turns to sex. This Which is something confusing for Ant, as he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasndoesn't for a do-gooder passer-byknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact heHe's still alivehad a casual relationship, he hears that Slaine McAuleya secret one, a girl he knows vaguelyfor several months now, and so has killed herself. The only thing is effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that Aidan knows she hasn's set in stone, he can't – she told him herself after she'd diedbe sure. What did happen to her and why does she choose to tell him, And that's mostly because of all people? Aidan is on a mission: who he ''will'' find outs been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=The PiperFrontpage|ratingisbn=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1800901232|title=The Murdstone TrilogyStitched Up|author=Mal PeetSteve Cole
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|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit of a hasTwelve-been. The onceyear-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknowold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finch, said agent, is all about what Life in the rural village where she can sell. There's nothing for itlived with her family was happy, she tells Philipif not prosperous, but a foray into fantasy. He's going so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to have the village to write offer Hahn a sword-job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands andHanh was on the mini-sorcery epicbus to Hanoi. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords Only, Hanh and all the rest of itother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Fantasy, You know those jeans you see, is selling by 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''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''s quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>
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{{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=TeensFrontpage|summary=''Shoot to Kill'' may be the sixth Young Bond in the series, but it is the first to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over the reins from the highly capable Charlie Higson. Like the adult Bond books, the character has seen many people write about him since Ian Fleming’s death, so there is no reason to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on board. In fact, Cole is able to inject a little more energy into a series that was starting to flag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPatrice Lawrence|title=Misty Falls|author=Joss StirlingNeedle|rating=2.53
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|summary=Misty Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is always getting into trouble thanks extremely hard for some people to the Savant ability which means like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she can't lie s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and causes people around has taken up residence in her to be brutally honest if sheson Blake's old room while he's not carefulat uni. Can she find happiness? Or will Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the serial killer stalking creation of one such item is part of the Savant community strike at Misty or one plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her friends?younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnmadeAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Sarah Rees BrennanRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sorry-Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in-the-Vale has been taken over by Rob Lynburn sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and his make merry band of evil sorcerersbetween their conquests. But Kami Glass has never been one However, when a man named Himura arrives to let danger of death and dismemberment stop tell her on that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her quest for truthto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. And Kami has 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 know flee out into the truth about what happened world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to Jaredhunt down shikigami, Jared who rescued her brother and hasn't been seen since.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreview|title=Rebecca Is Always Right|author=Anna Carey|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=First things first: I must admit that I chose to review this book entirely based on its title. After all, what better book to keep on the coffee table and brandish at my husband when I'm making a point? What I did not realise when I volunteered is that it is the fourth book in a series that began in 2011 with ''The Real Rebecca'', for which Anna Carey won the Senior Children's Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. This has its advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can tell that the characters are established and well-rounded. On the other hand, there are such frequent references to past events – presumably, adventures from the previous three books – that it is clear this is an instalment in an ongoing story and not a stand-alone book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847175651</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ghosts of HeavenFrontpage
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Wrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=If anyone ever suggests Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to you that science do what he wants, to go where he wants and art (or philosophy) don't go togetherwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, give them but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this book! The Ghosts connected with one of Heaven presents four fabulous stories from different time frames linked by her eco-warrior parents saying the natural constant end of the spiral. The introduction provides world is already a lyrical explanation done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the birth music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the universetruth? Well, the Solar System and us and of the dimensional spiral we call the helixnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. It also explains that we can read the stories in any of the twenty-four possible orders we please.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621981</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 StoriesTori Bovalino|authortitle=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and othersThe Devil Makes Three
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=How long Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do you keep your birthday presents — especially when she gets a request for? A week, a month, over a year – or life? Is hundred books that time-scale different, perhaps, when youshe has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who iss headmaster, of course, both 51 (in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a characterman Tess hates. In 2013 we were given As a great book that gave us petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a story for every Doctor Who we've seen large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on TV, in honour each of the 50th birthday proceedings. But now is a year onbooks, and we're a further Doctor down scribbled with the lineugliest insults she can think of. And so what was They'11 Doctorsre never meant to reach him, 11 Stories' of course. Her plan is now '12 Doctorsto get her anger out like this, 12 Stories'and then take them all off before delivering them. So while many of us No harm done… Or it would have cherished and kept said birthday present, the only addition is the lastbe, which like the rest was available as an e-book. So itif someone hadn's worth revisiting what I said about the book last time, then chucking in the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the endt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Opal PlumsteadPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
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|summary=Living in Edwardian EnglandIn a word, Opal Plumstead rich. There is a fiercely intelligent girl. She has already won a scholarship to a public school and dreams certainly an abundance of going to university. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her father is sent to prison and Opal is forced to abandon her education for riches in this story set on a job in peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Fairy Glen sweet factoryScillies. The other workers there find Opal snobby There are troll people on it, and arrogant but the factory's owner, Mrs Robertssea-witches, notices her artistic talent and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Roberts, Opal learns about legends of the suffragette movement Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurstfurther west, where no ship dare sail. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lies We Tell Ourselves|author=Robin Talley|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The year is 1959current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, and a small group who has to keep notes of black students are attending Jefferson Highactivity from the Hidden Lands, a previously all-white school. Barely anyone is happy that Sarah Dunbar and her friends are going his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to Jeffersonworry about such local yokel superstitions, and the group face a terrifying ordeal as theyAndrewe're surrounded by people s foundling daughter, who want to see them fail. Chief amongst them is Linda Hairston, daughter washed up out of the sea one of the town's most vocal segregationalistsday eleven years ago. But when Sarah Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and Linda start working together on a school projecthis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, they start to realise they may have more in common than they think - and friendship might like it or not be all they're looking for from each other.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=John Twelve HawksJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jacob Underwood is dead. At leastJulia, he thinks he is. Suffering the after effects of a traumatic accident, Jacob believes he is dead, just a spark existing inside a bodyour pre-teen heroine, but unable to fully interact has been packed off with anything around him. Emotionally detached her parents and living their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a shadowysummer, silent world, Jacob is in the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned to him, Jacob must prepare himself - and his journey will change both his self, and how he sees far NE of the world around himScottish islands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Cure For Dreaming|author=Cat Winters|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Olivia Mead is strong Here be Vikings, independently-minded and unrepentant in her beliefs, but there is a certain natural vulnerability to her personality which makes her so appealingthat kind of Scottish island. She isn’t a ruthless, remorseless warrior. She Dad is a human being who simply wants going to be treated like oneautomating the lantern, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beautywhich is his specialist thing, because this isn’t while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the point of her characterelusive Greenland shark. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held values And Julia, well, which she sticks by even at an age when it would will be so easy to go with the flowhomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BelzharJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Meg WolitzerThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''I was sent here because Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of a boy. His name was Reeve Maxfieldthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and I loved him and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then he diedshe meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and almost a year passed and no-one knew what darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to do with me.'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think the mythical Free Isles of him and the forty-one days of their relationship. She's not interested in schoolLondon Lagoon. friendsTogether, foodthey must brave man-eating wildlife, family, even therapy. And sothe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in desperation, Jam's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)Slingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test at the first attempt and he Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people''knew'' it meant that he was s lives. But when she defends a great driver. There was just one snag: his mother wasn't exactly on board about this and wouldn't let him borrow random boy in her class with her car. There was always an excuse as to why it just wasn't possibleslingshot, even when he'd promised his friends that he could have the car so they could go off somewhereher simple existence is changed for good. Finally he got his Mum to admit that No longer can she was spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a bit worried about him using boy in it - but that she did offer to go out with him so that he could get some practice in. Ryan knew that the time never asked for ''practicing'' was past: Wade Scholfield. I mean, he'd ''passed'' his test, hadn't he?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Winter HorsesT L Huchu|authortitle=Philip KerrThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the winter dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of 1941 school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and we are in her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Ukrainecity's children. A fourteen year old girl Soon, Ropa is hiding in pulled into the search for a wood on missing boy at the vast request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and bitter-cold steppe. Her name realise that the world of magic is Katinka, a name from folk song and fairy tale, far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she has been befriended by two of find the wild Przelowski’s horses.missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsKristen O'Neal|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=She's MADDY, you know, not MADELEINE, but that's only one of the problems which she has with her parents. They might be on holiday in one of the most beautiful places on earth, but her mother simply will not lighten up. She's always complaining about what Maddy does, what she wears or doesn't wear (there's not ''nearly'' enough of that bikini...) and Maddy has had enough. She slams out of their bungalow and goes down to the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away Lycanthropy and tragedy hits. Will Maddy have the chance to apologise for all the hurtful things which she said?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Family|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light|author=Derek LandyOther Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Everything comes down Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to this. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely a prelude come to terms with the real battle, fact that she may be in constant pain for the fight against Darquesserest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', perhaps the most powerful sorcerer an online support group where she talks to a bunch of all timeother teens living with chronic illnesses. Prophesied They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to burn everyone just joke and everything mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to ashesthe chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her arrival heralds the end of . But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the world as everyone knows it, basement – and for that werewolf to be the stakes have never girl she has been higher, the need never greater, talking to online for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains of his allies to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the facepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>1683692349
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