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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
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|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenWe meet Lori on the first evening she't read 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 [[Zomworld-B by Darren Shan|building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first book]] 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 this seriesthe game has been doctored – well, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HereRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Gayle FormanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary=''I regret to inform you that I have had to take can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my own lifeheart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieHarry Allen|title=The Absolutely True Diary Children of a Part-Time Indianthe Sun
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|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior as he is known on the Spokane Indian Reservation where he Ra Eun Seo lives, is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challenges. He knows the decision to go to the rich all-white school, in the nearby a North Korean town of Reardan, and she is a necessary onetalented singer. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to a town where he's going to be even more of a target, even more out of place, than he already Life is on the rez. It means risking the wrath of the other Indians, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend hard and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it food is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishmentdifficult to come by, depression so Seo and her friends Nari and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservationMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and it is a path that he must walk for edible grasses to supplement the sake meagre rations of not just his future, but that of his triberice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsAlexia Casale|title=JuvieSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5
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|summary=With the title It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Juviere having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'' it’s clear s what this book Ven is going to be about, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure dealing with after collapsing on stage in the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alike, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at middle of a party and finds herself at a situation, Sadie helps dance performance that was going to change her outlife. But she comes back fighting, against her better judgement. The two girls end up at the wrong place at desperate to avoid the wrong timepity stares, and before they know it theydesperate to get back to a life that're in court trying to clear their namess as normal as she can possibly manage. Carla has Meanwhile there's a history and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some timenew (cute!) boy in school, away from her young daughter in a way that no one wants. There is a way music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, though. Sadie is, if not a good girl, then definitely and just the better sister. If she takes day to day traumas of all the blame, she'll likely get off with a caution for a first offence, no harm donechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's not ideal, but So even though she can take one for the team. Except things don't go to plandance anymore, and Sadie gets sent might she be able to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for sing her supposed role in the crime.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3Frontpage|author=Andy McNab|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce Platoon. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if you're going to be an in-theatre intelligence gatherer for the British Army, then you need to be ready for anything. And despite his training, Liam is new to this game. He still has a lot to learn and he's going to have to do it the hard way - in Kenya, where the border with Somalia is subject to incursions from the al-Shabaab militant group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Thompson Walker|title=The Age of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed that, but I did. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen EveFox|title=SienaDeadlock
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley HighLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, along with her clique demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Starletsrun. Nothing can stand in her way – not even They get together, but barely begin to smell the return whiff of ex-Starlet and her former best friend RomySouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, who spent toting a term in France after a shocking incident one night led tin his father was determined to the headmistress deciding the girl needed to spend some time keep away from their school. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]his colleagues, you know roughly what happens here, but you don't necessarily know why. If you haven’t read it, I'd definitely suggest going for that one first. (There may be spoilers here, although I've tried to avoid anything too specificand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlotteLex Croucher|authortitle=Alex BellGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary=When Sophie and Jay play around with a ouija board app Who knew that Jay has downloaded what I really needed to his phoneread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, things go awfully wrongit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Sophie asks In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to speak to Rebeccatheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a cousin boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of hers who died falling in mysterious circumstanceslove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very nightas their impending wedding draws ever closer, Jay drowns will they find a way in the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accident. Or was itwhich they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardNick Brooks|title=Red QueenPromise Boys
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|summary=Mare When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a Red - a race kept in lives grudge of poverty some description against Principal Moore, and servitude by each could have been there at the Silverstime of his murder. But who killed him, and why, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives if any of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitboys are innocent, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves will they be able to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Jekyll's MirrorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=William HusseyKitt Townsend|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sam Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is doing his best but he feels the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to death, wouldncrack safes? You't you? He tries ll have to wait to concentrate on schoolwork and his art and keep that anger locked away deep down inside, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does her best get an answer to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustful, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasnsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't fallen far from (ll answer the first one: for his father's) treegrandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EvePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=StellaDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=What do you get when you mix up Cecily Von Ziegesar's delightfully trashy ''Gossip Girl'' series with Dickens's classic ''Great Expectations''Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and throw in a splash of ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story is surprised to find his geography class (within which has surprising depth and it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one I've been thinking about a lot since originally reading it towards the start of four with both his best buddy from the yearfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. I read Stella for the first time after getting it out of the libraryAs they're all fired up, and straining at the time I was extremely impressed by leash only a single-sex school can form, the voices of lead characters Stella talk in class and Caitlinout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, but as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had issues with it. On rereadinga casual relationship, a secret one, to prepare myself for upcoming prequel several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'Siena, but whether that's set in stone, he can', I think itt be sure. And that's one mostly because of who he's been having the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time around, although those issues haven't vanished completelyrelationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Williamson1800901232|title=The Art of Being NormalStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
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|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=FourteenTwelve-year-old David has always known that he is Hanh wanted to be a transgender girlfashion designer. (Note: As David uses male pronouns Life in his internal dialogue I have continued the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to do so the village to offer Hahn a job in my reviewHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed.) However David has chosen a new girl's name Some money changed hands and collects feminine clothes Hanh was on the mini-bus to express that inner selfHanoi. This is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie Only, Hanh and Felix. When Leo Denton, who also has the other girls were not going to work in a secretshop, moves they were to David's school Eden Park from work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the rougher Cloverdale, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the worlds of legs? The ones with the two collide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Wild|title=The Vanishing Moment|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book appealed to me on various grounds. artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It is teen fiction ('s quite possible that Hanh and, joy of joys, devoid of werewolves and dystopia), it is by an Australian author (underher co-represented on UK shelves), and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs). I was intrigued to see if the author could live up to my expectationsworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah BenwellPatrice Lawrence|title=The Last Leaves FallingNeedle|rating=53
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|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a plot summary of something I really love - this will probably make the maximum possible impact if you go into itpleasant yoga tutor, as I didAnnie, knowing barely anything about itand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. If Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you trust my recommendations enough to buy on might perhaps think, and the creation of one sentencesuch item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, stop reading now and pre-order - this is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely be one of the best booksstore detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, YA or otherwisewhat exactly happens is not for me to say, published in 2015only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909531227</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Cohn and David LevithanAnn Sei Lin|title=Dash and Lily's Book of DaresRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Just before ChristmasKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, sixteen-year-old Lily leaves a notebook on massive dining hall floating in the shelf sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her favourite bookshopthat 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 to come with him, in an effort to find leave the kind life of love dreary servitude that is all she has made her brother so happyknown. Dash finds it and follows Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the instructionsmatter, setting off because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a chain of passing shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the book back and forth trading their hopes and dreamsworld. Could She joins Himura aboard the two be just as right for each other in person as they are in writing?Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848451725</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie Perkins (Editor)Marcus Sedgwick|title=My True Love Gave to MeWrath
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|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John GreenMeet Fitz, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle]] that there was a real lack young Scottish lad full of festive YA around – frustration at the timehimself. Lockdown is only just over, I think the choice seemed and he should be free to be pretty much limited do what he wants, to that or ''Dash go where he wants and Lily’s Book of Dares'' by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn. Both fantastic bookswith whom he wants, but a thin spread compared he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to the amount out there for adults and for younger childrenhis best friend, Cassie. (If I’m missing obvious onesThey were half of a desultory school band, by but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the way, please let me know!) Thankfully, enigmatic – saying she could hear a dozen authors, subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with Stephanie Perkins as one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the editor, have got together to produce world is already a perfect Christmas present here with twelve short stories set around done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the holidaystruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144727279X</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth KiemTori Bovalino|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret KeeperThe Devil Makes Three
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|summary=I was caught up by this novel from the first pages and read it with absorption Working all summer in a single sitting. The young heroine, Lana Dukovskaya, is a third generation ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet but the experiences of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lost. Her grandmotherboarding school's name, we discover, has been erased from library is the records and her mother is last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges the conventional notion of request for over a ballerina: hundred books that she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes and most of all she wants to experiment with the repertoiredeliver herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leanne Hall|title=This What makes it worse is Shyness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers the man who meet in a pub in requested the town of Shynessbooks: Mr Birch. 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 Oboarding school'Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy|title=Moone Boy: the Blunder Years|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Martin Moone, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazy, he decides to get himself an imaginary friend. He enlists the help of his friend who already has an imaginary friends headmaster, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isn't any good at being your imaginary friend, and who you'd really like to be your imaginary friend is the customer services representative who comes to try and help you out?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Magorian|title=Impossible!|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Josie is twelve, and would much rather be a boyman Tess hates. She attends As a stage school and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress petty act of revenge for having had making her hair cut short, in the hope of playing a boy’s part in a show. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=The Last of the Spirits|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Teenage Sam find and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, a man who looks at them with deliver such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to himlarge request, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself Tess sticks post-it notes on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences each of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Zoe Sugg|title=Girl Online|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=I've been intrigued by the idea of Girl Online since I first heard about it - I love books about blogging and the internet, and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had scribbled with the experience of becoming well known online herself. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number ugliest insults she can think of people who've completely dismissed this as a bad book while admitting they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it with an open mind - IThey've re never watched any meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her YouTube videos anger out like this, and at the time of readingthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't read her blog, although I've just checked out a couple of delivered them for her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by them. I think that people who do the same thing will enjoy it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreview|title=MisdirectedFrontpage|author=Ali BermanPhilip Reeve|ratingtitle=4|genre=Teens|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitan, multi-faith Boston to a small town in America's Bible Belt, much to Ben's disgust. He's not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high school Utterly Dark and it doesn't take more than a few days before all his fears are realised. Open about his atheism, 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 Ben, to them, is a dangerous and pernicious influence. With his brother on a tour Face of Iraq with the military, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who won't talk to him, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo|title=Listen to the MoonDeep
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|summary=It's MayIn a word, 1915rich. World War I There is underway certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Scillionians have already seen lossesDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Like The current Darks are the rest Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of Britainactivity from the Hidden Lands, they are beginning his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie worry about such local yokel superstitions, and his father are out fishing one day, they hear a childAndrewe's cries. On one foundling daughter, who washed up out of the archipelago's uninhabited islands, they find a half-starved little girl, abandoned and in a terrible state. She can only speak sea one word: Lucyday eleven years ago. Who is this foundling? Is she a ghost? A mermaid? OrBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, more worryingly, could she be a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the label world of her blanketprotecting their island, after alllike it or not. And why does she gaze at the moon with such longing in her eyes?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Betsy TobinKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Things We Couldn't Explain|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jericho, Ohio - 1979. Annemarie is a clever, funny Julia and spirited girl. Born with sight, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates for her disability. 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>}} {{newreview|author=K A S Quinn|title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus)Shark
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|summary=Katie is backJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and once more she's back their cat from the family home in Victorian SW England. This timeto be lighthousekeepers for a summer, however, she isn't quite sure who called her back in time or for what purpose and, unfortunately, something went wrong as she came and she brought someone else along with her! In the final episode far NE of the Chronicles Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's lifelantern, which is his specialist thing, trying while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to prevent Britain messing up hunt the outcome of the American Civil Warelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusJonathan Stroud|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life Scarlett McCain is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to someone who works at wander the wildlands between the local carnival Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and even heard that from someone elseshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Life is just rubbish But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and needs ending totallya darker past. This is something he almost manages With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to accomplish as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming flee to terms with the fact he's still alivemythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, he hears that Slaine McAuleythey must brave man-eating wildlife, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herself. The only thing is that Aidan knows she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen to her the cannibalistic Tainted and why does she choose all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to tell himreach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of all peopleBritain? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonMercedes Helnwein|title=The PiperSlingshot|rating=3.5
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|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of World War Two a man with a "real" family, she is used to The Grange at Romney Marshnot being a priority in people's lives. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing But when she defends a random boy in the garden and strange music that plays at nighther class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. When Peter realises that Daisy might be No longer can she spend her time writing novels in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mothersolitude, keep his sister safefor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Murdstone TrilogyT L Huchu|authortitle=Mal PeetThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Philip Murdstone Ropa Moyo is becoming a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of a has-beenScottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknow. 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 FinchEver since she dropped out of school, said agent, is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for been using it, she tells Philipto support not only herself, but a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a sword-her younger sister and-sorcery epicher aging grandmother. SheHowever, there's even got an A4 blueprint evil stalking the ruined streets of whatEdinburgh, targeting the city's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swordschildren. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and all realise that the rest world of itmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Fantasy, you see, is selling by Will she find the ''bucketloadsmissing children and bring an end to this evil, containerloads, downloads''.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=Teens|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>}} {{newreview|title=Misty Falls|author=Joss Stirling|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Misty is always getting into trouble thanks to the Savant ability which means she can't lie and causes people around her to be brutally honest if she's not careful. Can she find happiness? Or will the serial killer stalking the Savant community strike at Misty or one of her friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=UnmadeFrontpage|author=Sarah Rees Brennan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sorry-in-the-Vale has been taken over by Rob Lynburn and his merry band of evil sorcerers. But Kami Glass has never been one to let danger of death and dismemberment stop her on her quest for truth. And Kami has to know the truth about what happened to Jared, Jared who rescued her brother and hasnKristen O't been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|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 Lycanthropy 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 Heaven|author=Marcus SedgwickOther Chronic Illnesses
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