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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa TotenMax Boucherat|title=The Unlikely Hero Last Life of Room 13BLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Fifteen 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 Adam , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has a list. He needs one main intention, and that is to log on to get betterVoxminer, grow taller and marry the love of his lifeworld-building, Robyncritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But while Adam develops first Lori has a metaphorical tunnel vision so tiny inkling that he can focus only this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on winning Robyn’s loveher own, everything he is ignoring in and then she finds something even more spooky. For the periphery is unravellingserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. How can Adam help his own overwhelming OCD when he’s so focussed When malevolent eyes spark up on fixing everyone around him? When her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is it ok a girl to hang up your own superhero cloak and admit that you might need savingturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406362999</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerRachel Greenlaw|title=Game ChangerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Mikey is afraid ''I can hear the song of open spacesthe sea. He would much rather hide in his room - in his wardrobeThe call of the deep, actually - than face the world outsideanswering beat in my heart. But his family'' Rosevear, in particular his sister Meggiea remote and partially forgotten island, are very supportivesurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. And with Meggie's helpMira, like her mother before her, Mikey is gradually beginning one of the seven who swim out to face survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that world outsidelies within. But then something goes horriblywhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, horribly wrongthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Mikey sees something Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he shouldn't have seenis secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. And With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the gang knows what he saw. The gang knows where he lives. And heart of the gang wants smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to talk stop at nothing to him..save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794159</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughHarry Allen|title=The Death HouseChildren of the Sun

|summary=Toby would appear to be lucky, having the run of an isolated country mansion on Ra Eun Seo lives in a small island off the coast of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, North Korean town and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He she is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective genetalented singer. Whatever it would normally lead Life is hard and food is difficult tocome by, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, so Seo and her friends Nari and being the cause of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things Min goforaging every evening, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbers, looking for tree bark and one of them, Clara, is the agent of that change. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want edible grasses to sleep either…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Charlie Fletcher|title=Dragon Shield: 02: The London Pride|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Your city is lost. Your city is not yours. Your city is mine.'' That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddess, freed from thousands of years imprisonment, has unleashed her magic. Time has stopped. All the humans are frozen in suspended animation. All supplement the humans except, that is, brother and sister Will and Jo, who are protected by the scarab bracelets they wear. And now, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some meagre rations of the Spits (good statues) rice and has sent the bad statues (Taints) to find the two children who are threatening her planskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyAlexia Casale|title=The Sin EaterSing if you Can's Daughter t Dance

|summary=In It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a land of fantasylife-changing disability too, Twylla lives but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the court, engaged middle of a dance performance that was going to the princechange her life. But this is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touchcomes back fighting, made immune desperate to avoid the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment of a goddesspity stares, Twylla is the executioner, forced and desperate to get back to kill those who commit treasona life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until Meanwhile there's a new guard Lief arrives(cute!) boy in school, who could see her as a friendmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, or even romantically. The question of whether and just the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least day to day traumas of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by all the queen’s obsession with destroying challenges her body continues to throw at her enemiesto navigate. Can So even though she survivecan't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerrySimon Fox|title=Mind GamesDeadlock|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Luna is a Refuser. In her world, a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector and a Luddite. In this post WW3 Britain, almost everyone has a brain implant which they use to spend most of their lives in a virtual environment. People don't just play in the vast array of games: they work, they learn, they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt out, like Luna, are shut out of the best careers and viewed with suspicion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jane Elson|title=How to Fly with Broken Wings|rating=5

|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert has given him an assignment he's going to find difficult. He must make two friends of Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his own age. That's tricky when you're shift on the autistic spectrum force, and you don't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join in with Finn when then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he bullies you fetch something from a secret place, and makes you jump from increasingly high placesjoin him on the run. Sasha They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is torn. She loves Finn arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to pieces but she can't bear bullying keep away from his colleagues, and she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has the bearer of a secret whole heap of his own that's driving his rotten behaviourquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaLex Croucher|title=SoulprintGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Alina Chase lives Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a future America obsessed by soulprintingmost delightful way. Scientific advances In this story, Gwen and Arthur 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 of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods been betrothed since they were tiny, much to the person in whom their soul mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and in love with Bridget (the problems have led to Alinakingdom's ''containment''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jasmine Warga|title=My Heart and Other Black Holes|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhere. She’s smart but not popular, so high school’s not much fun, and her partonly female knight) -time job, cold calling the town’s residents on behalf of various customers, is far something that Art discovers from satisfyingher private diaries. It’s understandable that she’s not And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a very happy girl. She’s not boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the preppy cheerleader or the honour roll student who sidelines as class president. She’s nobodysubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when reallythey are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But she’s nobody with as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a dark secret. She wants to take her own lifeway in which they can both truly be themselves, and she’s making plans or are they destined to make this happen.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardNick Brooks|title=Red QueenPromise Boys

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Darkest Part of the ForestA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Holly BlackKitt Townsend

|summary=The people Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of Fairfold know not robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to meddle with the faerie folk, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out of the forest on the full moonsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far and wide to see But I'll answer the faerie town and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but first one or two always go missing, never to be seen again: for his grandmother.. Tourists, the locals say, the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Love Hurts|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereft. Mixed in are enough moments of heartsease (and heart's joy!) to keep you believing in love. And we all want to believe in love, don't we? If you are one of the few who don't, you might as well look away now. The rest of us are in Different for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbag, and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows of love as it is experienced by young people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner|title=These Broken StarsBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=Lilac Ant is the untouchable LaRoux princess, daughter of the richest man in the Universe. Tarver is Year Eleven at quite a decorated war herostandard school, allowed and is surprised to mingle outside find his social circles because geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the upper classes love football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to celebrate his heroismprimary school days together. After chance meeting aboard As they're all fired up, straining at the Icarus leash only a single- sex school can form, the most luxurious ship space travel has talk in class and out often turns to offer - neither Lilac nor Tarver can deny the attraction blossomingsex. But Tarver knows Which is confusing for Ant, as he isndoesn't good enough know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for Lilacseveral months now, and Lilac knows so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that her father has very strong ideals about who she spends time with's set in stone, he can't be sure. It And that's over before itmostly because of who he's even begunbeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423171020</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1800901232|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the [[Zommini-B by Darren Shan|first book]] bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in this seriesa shop, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HerePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Gayle FormanNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'I regret of this piece is extremely hard for some people to inform you that I have had to take my own lifelike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by emails at uni. A flatSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, formalyou might perhaps think, email. We follow her over and the creation of one such item is part of the ensuing months plot here, as she searches Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for answers. How could her younger sister – a younger sister she not have realised that her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongingsallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, Cody finds emails on her laptop and then force people to a boy that has broken give her heart. Is Ben McAllister the cause of Meg's suicide? But there's an encrypted filetwo days off school, toowhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And when Cody finally opens itthen... well, she finds information that will take her on a journeywhat exactly happens is not for me to say, not only through Meg's life, but also her ownto remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieAnn Sei Lin|title=The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior Kurara has spent her entire life as he is known a servant on the Spokane Indian Reservation Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where he livessoldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is about a Crafter like him, someone with the power to face form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challengesEmpire. He knows the decision asks her to go come with him, to leave the rich life of dreary servitude that is all-white schoolshe has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the nearby town of Reardanmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a necessary one. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to monstrous paper spirit known as a town where he's going shikigami, and she is forced to be even more of a target, even more flee out of place, than he already is on into the rezworld. It means risking the wrath of She joins Himura aboard the other IndiansOrihime, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it sky-ship whose express purpose is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishment, depression and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservationto hunt down shikigami, and it is a path that he must walk for the sake of not just his future, but that whole world of his tribe.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsMarcus Sedgwick|title=JuvieWrath

|summary=With the title ''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book is going to be about, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alikeMeet Fitz, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at a party and finds herself young Scottish lad full of frustration at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgementhimself. The two girls end up at the wrong place at the wrong timeLockdown is only just over, and before they know it they're in court trying he should be free to do what he wants, to clear their names. Carla has a history go where he wants and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some timewith whom he wants, away but he cannot stop himself from her young daughter putting his foot in a way that no one wants. There is a way outit when he talks to his best friend, thoughCassie. Sadie is, if not They were half of a good girldesultory school band, then definitely but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the better sister. If enigmatic – saying she takes could hear a subhuman hum coming from the blame, she'll likely get off earth. Is this connected with a caution for a first offence, no harm done. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's not ideal, but she can take one for the team. Except things don't go to plan, and Sadie gets sent to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for of her supposed role in eco-warrior parents saying the crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3|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 end of the British Army, then you need to be ready for anything. And despite his training, Liam world is new to this game. He still has already a lot to learn and he's going to have to do done deal? Is 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 some spooky new kind of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=music she''The Age s dreaming of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the time to read on its first go around. I'm truth? Well, 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 when Cassie has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing Igone missing he can'd usually misst.. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveTori Bovalino|title=SienaThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley High, along with her clique the Starlets. Nothing can stand Working all summer in her way – not even boarding school's library is the return of ex-Starlet and her former best friend Romy, who spent last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a term in France after request for over a shocking incident one night led hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the headmistress deciding man who requested the girl needed to spend some time away from their books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, you know roughly what happens hereTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, but you donscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They't necessarily know whyre never meant to reach him, of course. If you haven’t read itHer plan is to get her anger out like this, I'd definitely suggest going for that one firstand then take them all off before delivering them. (There may No harm done… Or it would be spoilers here, although Iif someone hadn've tried to avoid anything too specifict delivered them for her.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlottePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Alex BellUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When Sophie In a word, rich. There is 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 Jay play around with a ouija board app sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that Jay has downloaded to his phonekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, things go awfully wrongwhere no ship dare sail. Sophie asks The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to speak keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to Rebeccaworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, a cousin who washed up out of hers who died in mysterious circumstancesthe sea one day eleven years ago. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very nightwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Jay drowns in both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accidentworld of protecting their island, like it or not. Or was it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Red QueenJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Mare is a Red Julia, our pre- a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude by the Silversteen heroine, a race has been packed off with wealth her parents and mutant powers that allow them their cat from the family home in SW England to live lives of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, Mare is swiftly thrown into in the world far NE of the Silvers - one that proves to Scottish islands. Here be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedVikings, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every cornerthat kind of Scottish island.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Jekyll's Mirror|author=William Hussey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam Dad is doing his best but he feels going to be automating the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother to deathlantern, wouldn't you? He tries to concentrate on schoolwork and which is his art and keep that anger locked away deep down insidespecialist thing, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does while mum will be leaving her best career in algae behind to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustfulhunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) treeshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveJonathan Stroud|title=StellaThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|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''Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, and throw in a splash of ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story which has surprising depth and has been one I've been thinking about a lot since originally reading it towards rejecting the start draconian conformity of the year. I read Stella for the first time after getting it out of the library, Surviving Towns and at Faith Houses to wander the time I was extremely impressed by wildlands between the voices Seven Kingdoms of lead characters Stella Britain, robbing banks and Caitlinshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, but had issues a dark boy with itdark powers and a darker past. On rereadingWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to prepare myself for upcoming prequel ''Siena''flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, I think it's one they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time aroundFree Isles, although those issues haven't vanished completely.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonMercedes Helnwein|title=The Art of Being NormalSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Fourteen-year-old David Gracie Welles has always known that he is a transgender girlresigned herself to being lonely. (Note: As David uses male pronouns in his internal dialogue I have continued a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to do so not being a priority in my review.) However David has chosen a new girlpeople's name and collects feminine clothes to express that inner selflives. This But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie and Felixchanged for good. When Leo DentonNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, who also for her life now has a secret, moves to David's school Eden Park from the rougher Cloverdale, the worlds of the two collideboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildT L Huchu|title=The Vanishing MomentLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This book appealed Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to me on various groundstake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. It is teen fiction (Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister andher aging grandmother. However, joy there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of joysEdinburgh, devoid targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of werewolves his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and dystopia), it realise that the world of magic is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves), far bigger and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs)more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. I was intrigued to see if Will she find the author could live up missing children and bring an end to my expectations.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah BenwellKristen O'Neal|title=The Last Leaves FallingLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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