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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaMax Boucherat|title=Soulprint|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled the tracking of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluid. Reincarnation is now an established fact and the government maintains a database The Last Life of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to the person in whom their soul is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jasmine Warga|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesLori 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
|rating=4.5
|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
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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
|genre=Teens
|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
|rating=5
|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 the village to do so 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 collideartfully-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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildPatrice Lawrence|title=The Vanishing MomentNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book appealed Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to me on various groundslike, characters and readers both. It is teen fiction ( Kicked out of multiple homes andschools, joy she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of joysa comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, devoid and the creation of werewolves one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and dystopia), it is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves)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 store detective, and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what-ifs). I was intrigued exactly happens is not for me to see if the author could live up say, only to my expectationsremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah BenwellAnn Sei Lin|title=The Last Leaves FallingRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close to Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a plot summary massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of something I really love - this will probably the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the maximum possible impact if you go power to form paper into itwhatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life 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 I dida shikigami, knowing barely anything about itand she is forced to flee out into the world. If you trust my recommendations enough She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to buy on one sentencehunt down shikigami, stop reading now and pre-order - this is a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely be one whole world of the best books, YA or otherwise, published in 2015.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909531227</amazonuk>1406399590
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|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
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I was caught up by this novel from Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the first pages and read it with absorption in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a single sittinghundred books that she has to deliver herself. The young heroine, Lana Dukovskaya, What makes it worse is a third generation ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet but man who requested the experiences of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lostbooks: Mr Birch. Her grandmotherThe boarding school's nameheadmaster, we discover, has been erased from the records and her mother is a troubled secretive figureman Tess hates. Lana challenges the conventional notion As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a ballerina: large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she has close cropped haircan think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, loves high speed motor bikes and most of then take them all she wants to experiment with the repertoireoff before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallPhilip Reeve|title=This is ShynessUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''This is Shyness'' In a word, rich. There is certainly an unusual 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 brilliant story about Wolfboy legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and Wildgirltheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, two strangers who meet has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in a pub London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the town of Shynesssea one day eleven years ago. The teenagers But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are drawn togetherthrust into the world of protecting their island, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselveslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Nick Vincent MurphyTom de Freston|title=Moone Boy: Julia and the Blunder YearsShark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Martin MooneJulia, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazyour pre-teen heroine, he decides has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to get himself an imaginary friend. He enlists be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the help far NE of his friend who already has an imaginary friend, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isn't any good at being your imaginary friendScottish islands. Here be Vikings, and who you'd really like that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be your imaginary friend is automating 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 lantern, which is twelvehis specialist thing, and would much rather while mum will be a boy. She attends a stage school and we first meet leaving her being criticised by her Headmistress for having had her hair cut short, career in algae behind to hunt the hope of playing a boy’s part in a showelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyJonathan Stroud|title=The Last of the SpiritsOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Teenage Sam Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and his little sister Lizzie are starving on Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the streets Seven Kingdoms of LondonBritain, which is gripped by terrible coldrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Asking an old businessman for moneyBut then she meets Albert Browne, a man who looks at them dark boy with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hatedark powers and a darker past. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or dieLondon Lagoon. But before he can do soTogether, a strange spirit appears to himthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and warns him about all the terrible path he horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several they be any more spirits show him accepted there than they are in the possible consequences rest of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zoe SuggMercedes Helnwein|title=Girl OnlineSlingshot|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 Gracie Welles has had the experience of becoming well known online resigned herselfto being lonely. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people who've completely dismissed this as s lives. But when she defends a bad book while admitting they haven't read it seems surprisingly highrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. I approached it with an open mind - I've never watched any of No longer can she spend her YouTube videos and at the time of readingwriting novels in solitude, hadn't read for her blog, although I've just checked out life now has a couple of her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by them. I think boy in it that people who do the same thing will enjoy itshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MisdirectedT L Huchu|authortitle=Ali BermanThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitanRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, multi-faith Boston to using Zimbabwean magic (and a small town in America's Bible Belt, much bit of Scottish pragmatism) to Ben's disgusttake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. HeEver since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high school and it doesn't take more than a few days before all his fears are realised. Open about his atheismonly herself, Ben meets shock but her younger sister and disgust from teachers and pupils alikeher aging grandmother. When he meets a girlHowever, Tessthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, her parents forbid targeting the relationship: as a non-believer Ben, to themcity's children. 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 realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous and pernicious influencethan she ever could've imagined. With his brother on a tour of Iraq with Will she find the military, a sister away at college missing children and two Boston friends who won't talk bring an end to himthis evil, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong...or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael MorpurgoKristen O'Neal|title=Listen to the MoonLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Aidan FloodHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's life is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend , an online support group where she talks to someone who works at the local carnival a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and even heard that from someone else. Life is help each other out, while also providing an escape to just rubbish joke and needs ending totallymess around. This is something he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a do-gooder passer-bywhile, Priya becomes concerned. The next morning while coming She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to terms with the fact heBrigid's still alive, he hears that Slaine McAuley, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herselfhouse to check up on her. The only thing is that Aidan knows But what she hasndoesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen and for that werewolf to her and why does be the girl she choose has been talking to tell him, of all people? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find outonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>1683692349
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