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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author= Carl Hiaasen|title= Skink No Surrender|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Skink No Surrender is a love letter to the wildlife of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered with references to literature, folk legends, the ecological history of the area, the importance of conservation and the art of fishing. Hiaasen's protagonists are vividly observed and fully rounded. Skink is an eccentric, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade with a n anarchic, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitude. He is a good hearted protector of the innocent, possesses an assortment of false eyes, wrangles alligators, battles storms, lectures on politeness and deals out rough justice. His portrait is messianic and folkloric in places. Richard is plucky and loyal but is he in over his head? Malley is selfish, stubborn, smart, caustic, sarky and brave but also naive, vulnerable and susceptible to charm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Garth Nix|title=To Hold the Bridge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= A collection of 21 short stories loosely divided into six different categories, ‘’To Hold the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readers. It’s undoubtedly a must-read book for fans of Garth Nix and these fans will, I suspect, quibble with my four star rating and challenge me to add another star. Those new to Garth’s writing might, in turn, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature of the stories in the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jess Vallance|title=Birdy|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frances has always been a loner, quiet and isolated, so when she's asked to look after the eccentric new girl Alberta for a few days she doesn't expect anything to come of it, only hoping that the whole incident will pass without embarrassment. The last thing she expects is for the new girl to become her best friend. Alberta's warm companionship is everything Frances has been missing for so many years, so when conflict inevitably arises, Frances is determined to do anything to save their friendship. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leah Thomas|title=Because You'll Never Meet Me|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ollie and Moritz can never meet. Because if they did, one of them would almost certainly die. Why? Because Ollie is allergic to electricty and Moritz has an electrical pacemaker inserted in his heart. Ollie spends his life hidden away in a log cabin in the forest - away from all the electricity that sends him into life-threatening seizures - with only his mother and the occasional visit from Dr Auburn-Stache for company. He did also have a friend, Liz, but he lost her a while back. Moritz is equally isolated even though he goes to school. Born without eyes, Moritz "sees" the world through echolocation, like a bat. You might think that's miraculous, but Moritz just thinks it makes him a freak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886262X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz |author=Bernard Ashley|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's London in 1940. Most of the men have been conscripted and the East End is populated mainly by women and children. Josie and her friends are carrying on much as usual, though, grouping into little gangs and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thames. But then comes a terrible night of bombing. It's the start of the Blitz and 57 consecutive nights of bombing for the East End. The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity and the lucky ones make it out of the shelters in the morning, while the unlucky ones don't see another sunrise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Accident Season|author=Moira Fowley-Doyle|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=For a month in every year, the month leading up to Halloween, Cara's family are susceptible to accidents. There are cuts and scrapes and bruises. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimes, the accidents are even fatal... ... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Fire Colour OneFrontpage

|summary=Iris has never known her father. He didn't want herElk and Mab are best friends, her mother has always said. He threw them out years ago. But now she's about to meet him again. Her father is rich, you see, and dyingor more than that even, and Iris's mother and stepfather have worn out their welcome friendship is a once in LAa lifetime connection. So They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately theydon're running away from debts and towards a rich, terminally ill old man, ripe for exploitation. Theret get each other's also contact details at the small matter of some of Iris's own bad behaviourtime. But the less said about thatthen chance brings them back together, the better|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Potion Diaries|author=Amy Alward|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Samantha is a mixer of potions extraordinaireand they are inseparable. Which is just as well, because someone Something has to save a princess who has fallen in love with herself. Yeshappened though, you heard right! You might not think this is the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled something terrible and pamperedtragic, is it any wonder and now they fall in love with themselves? But this isn't what's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken a love potion meant to make someone else fall in love with ''her''. And the resulting havoc caused by the wrong person taking the right potion leads to some very unstable magic that could threaten the very kingdom itself. Hence the ''Wilde Hunt''must work through their grief, and their friendship, a national quest to find the ingredients for a curetogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Thirteen Days of MidnightMax Boucherat|authortitle=Leo HuntThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Luke Manchett really isn't that upset when he gets We meet Lori on the news that his father has died. You might think thatfirst evening she's a tad harshgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, but Luke has been estranged from his father for years. His primary concern is his motherat work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, who is disabled by crushing cluster headacheson her lonesome. So What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, rather than worry hershe has one main intention, Luke heads off and that is to a lawyer's office log on to deal with Voxminer, the reading of his fatherworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's will by himselfworld. And he gets But first Lori has a shocktiny 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. Luke's inheritance adds When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayRachel Greenlaw|title=TrollhuntersCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=West Coast USA in the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew of missing children reports. The parents with their new anguishes, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trolls, guilty of snatching the children. Last to go, Jack Sturgess. Cue the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginable, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as you'd expect. Unfortunately, however, I can hear the trolls are about to make a return to their nastiest song of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marissa Meyer|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel to The Lunar Chronicles is to her fans, The Lunartics. This book is especially for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as a standalone too. According to the publisher’s note Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until nowsea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=The Snake Trap: Travis Delaney Investigates |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Teen private investigator Travis Delaney is still looking for call of the people who killed his parents. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. Anddeep, fresh from a narrow escape from death at the hands of a criminal mastermind, Travis now suspects that there's a traitor answering beat in the campmy heart. This third installment in the ''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming opening. Travis is abducted by terrorists and held captive alongside Winston, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty of his father's death.

Travis has Rosevear, a lot remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of questionsthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But will when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he get any answers? And can he get himself out is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. 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 heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of this horribly dangerous situation?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessHarry Allen|title=Lady: My Life as a BitchChildren of the Sun

|summary=Sandra is Ra Eun Seo lives in a naughty kid. Fed up with the pressure of exams, a lovely but slightly boring boyfriend North Korean town and an overbearing mother, she's gone is a bit wildtalented singer. She's thrown over the boring boyfriend and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEs, Life is hard and food is running with some exciting but unreliable new pals. She's done a bit of shoplifting and slept with a few boysdifficult to come by, so Seo and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing moments. On this particular day, she's getting off with Wayne friends Nari and cheesing off MichelleMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into a homeless alcoholic man, causing him edible grasses to spill his can supplement the meagre rations of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious rice and chases her and Sandra is furious too, because he's ruining her day and HOW DARE HE? And then, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A dogkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Scott K AndrewsAlexia Casale|title= Timebomb|rating=4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In 2141, Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper. She never hits the ground. In 1640, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt woman. When she reaches out to comfort her, she’s flung through time. And on a rainy day in our time, Kaz Cecka sneaks into the ruins of Sweetclover hall in search of a dry spot to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from the time of Charles I, and an angry girl from the future. Thrown into a war that spans millennia, the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villains, and stay one step ahead of a fanatical army…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Silver Skin|author=Joan LennonSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Rab lives It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the distant futuremiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, in a world where space is at a premium due desperate to population pressures avoid the pity stares, and in which status is expressed by how much room you have desperate to get back to live ina life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. People Meanwhile there's lives are guided and supported by their Comsa new (cute!) boy in school, AIs which teach, medicateher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, navigate and just the day to day traumas of all sorts else besidesthe challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. When Rab So even though she can's mother buys him a silver skin - time travel technology - Rab is overjoyed. The fieldwork he'll t dance anymore, might she be able to do with it will allow him to produce work that will set him up for life. He decides to investigate the 19th century discovery of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae - because his tower block of the future is built on that very site. But something goes wrong and Rab is ejected from his status as time travelling observer right into life in Stone Age Skara Brae.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780272847</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John McNallySimon Fox|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Deadlock|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall and still a teenager, but he's already saved the world once. Accidentally shrunk by his mad scientist Uncle Al, he joined a crack military team and helped foil the threat of a lethal bio-weapon, the Scarlatti wasp. But there's no let-up for Finn. Before Al can restore him to normal size, a new threat emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Craigie|title= What Was Never Said |rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have faced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Non Pratt|title= Remix|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Kaz and Ruby have been best friends for a long time but their lives are about to change irrevocably. Ruby has a sassy, devil may care outer shell that hides her vulnerability but where do her loyalties really lie? Kaz, short for Karizma, thinks she knows what she wants but what does she really need? Stu longs to shake off his bad reputation and win back the love of his life while Tom is unsure of what he wants and takes the coward’s way out. Meanwhile Ruby’s brother Lee and his boyfriend Owen have some of their own decisions to make. Throw into the mix an arrogant pop star, secrets, betrayal, jealousy, misunderstandings, new faces and some bad choices and the ingredients are there for an explosive weekend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347701</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cassie Beasley|title=Circus Mirandus|rating=5

|summary=Micah Late one night Graham Blake is an orphan who has been raised by late back from his grandfathershift on the force, but now Micah’s grandfather is dying. And if that wasn’t bad enoughand then suddenly rings Archie, his horrible great aunt has arrived to take care of him, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is not lost. When grandpa Ephraim was demanding he fetch something from a child he visited the mysterious Circus Mirandussecret place, where he was promised a miracle by and join him on the miraculous Man Who Bends Lightrun. All Micah has to do is They get a message together, but barely begin to smell the Light Bender and his grandfather can have his miracle. With the help whiff of Jenny Mendoza (Southern trains when the smartest girl in the class)father is arrested, Micah sets his sights leaving Archie on the circuslate express to Brighton, toting a task that requires unconditional love tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and faith. Aunt Gertrudis is wrong, Ephraim’s stories aren’t just stories ..the bearer of a whole heap of questions. are they?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Finding AudreyLex Croucher|authortitle=Sophie KinsellaGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Audrey has been stuck at home for Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a while nowgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, ever since that awful business at her last schoolit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. It left her suffering from social anxiety disorder In this story, Gwen and depression. Dr Sarah Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is impressed in love with AudreyBridget (the kingdom's progress towards recovery, but Audrey still can't go out of the house, speak to strangers, or even make eye contact with her family. The painfully slow path to wellness is beginning to weight heavily on only female knight) - something that Art discovers from herprivate diaries. And then her brother's friend Linus shows up and begins to entice Audrey outside when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of herself againfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. He has But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a lovely orange-slice smile and writes funny notes and - to Audrey's disbelief - seems way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to like her. But Audrey really does need to heed Dr Sarah's warning that recovery is not a smooth progression: it's live a series of two steps forward and one step back.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534580</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Extraordinary MeansNick Brooks|authortitle=Robyn SchneiderPromise Boys|rating=4.5

|summary=When Lane rocks up at Latham Housethe principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, he has no intention a grudge of being some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there long. There is no way he is going to allow a diagnosis of total-drug-resistant tuberculosis to get in at the way time of his inexorable progress to an Ivy League college and a stellar careermurder. He has even brought extra textbooks But who killed him, and test papers with himwhy, so that he doesn't fall behind during this period of quarantine in this medical facility for kids with this new strain of TB. But when he meets Sadie and her group if any of misfit friendsthe boys are innocent, Lane begins will they be able to wonder if he's got his priorities straight. Perhaps there's more to life - and illness - than a progression of tests and achievements.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115488</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Steven Camden1919635017|title= It’s About LoveA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= As an acclaimed hip-hop style performance poetSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Steven Camden so why is skilful at painting evocative imagery with words. His second novel for teens enters the world he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the film script, cleverly playing with cinematic intertextualitysecond question because I avoid spoilers. It is a tale of past mistakes, violence, revenge, friendship and love. An emotive, powerful, thought provoking experience it rates a 4.5 because it lacks But I'll answer the magical ingredients of Camden’s debut, ‘Tape’first one: for his grandmother. It doesn’t make the reader’s heart sing but it does put their nerves on edge. I challenge you not to shed a tear. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007511248</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jennifer Niven Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= All the Bright PlacesDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= Finch Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Violet are is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both counting his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school daystogether. Violet is on countdown to graduation As they're all fired up, to getting away from straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and town out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that hold so many torturous memoriesregard lie. Finch He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, meanwhile for several months now, and so has started from zero and is logging effectively progressed up the number of days ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in a row stone, he is awakecan't be sure. And he doesn’t mean that in terms 's mostly because of physically awake, but more so in terms of his emotions. Neither of them are particularly happy. At least one of them has a plan to make who he's been having the pain stop in relationship and the most final way possible. It’s pretty horrificsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357037</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer|titleisbn=Off the Page|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Many readers can identify with the idea of falling in love with a hero from a book. After all, they are written to be appealing, with rugged good looks, charming personality, strength and wit. But what if the hero from your favourite book came to life and joined you in the real world? Can a storybook romance flourish in a High School setting? Or will our fairytale prince be keen to return to his homeland of unicorns, fairies, castles and mermaids? These are the dilemmas faced by awkward teen Delilah and her fantasy prince Oliver, who swaps places with a human boy in order to join his true love in the real world. The lovers may be together for now, but the book has other ideas, and soon begins rewriting itself to put everything back to how it was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473614287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Marr|title=Made For You|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Eva Tilling comes from a wealthy, influential family and reigns supreme at school - she is well thought of and has expectations to live up to - nothing ever changes for her, but that’s just how things are in obsolete Jessup: nothing unusual or unexpected ever happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007584202</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1800901232|title=Read Me Like A BookStitched Up|author=Liz KesslerSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Read Me Like A Book'' is both a comingTwelve-ofyear-age and old Hanh wanted to be a coming-out storyfashion designer. Ash feels as though everything is a mess. Her parents aren't getting on and Ash is terrified they're going to split up. She's struggling to keep up her relationships Life in the rural village where she lived with her friends. She trying to decide whether or family was happy, if not to lose her virginity prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and how exactly she even feels about woman came to the boy she might lose village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it withwas an opportunity not to be missed. She's falling behind in her grades at school Some money changed hands and half of her is a rebellious teen who couldn't care less about itHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, while Hanh and the other half is panicking that she might girls were not get into universitygoing to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And if all 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 wasnfelt so soft when you touched them? It't enough, Ash is struck by a bolt from the blue when she develops an almighty crush on Miss Murray, s quite possible that Hanh and her English teacher..co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622090</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersPatrice Lawrence|title=AlienatedNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Two years ago, aliens made contactBrave. NowCharlene, Cara Sweeney has been chosen the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to host Aelyxlike, a L'eihr exchange studentcharacters and readers both. The first exchange student. Cara gets a free ride to any college she chooses Kicked out of the dealmultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, some excellent material for her blogAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a chance to tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of historythe plot here, helping in as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and 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 own way belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to form an alliance between the give her two racesdays off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersAnn Sei Lin|title=InvadedRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= To save the alliance between Humans and Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the L'eihrMidori, and save a massive dining hall floating in the planet from sky where soldiers of the deadly algae blooms Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that threaten she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to destroy form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the lifeof dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Cara and Aeylx have she is forced to persuade flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the L'eihr that Humans Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and L'eihr can peacefully co-exist.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423169492</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon MayoMarcus Sedgwick|title= ItchcraftWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Third book Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the Itch sequence about enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the audacious, intrepid teen obsessed earth. Is this connected with collecting elements from one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Periodic Table to end of the detriment world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of his own lifemusic she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Electrifying, explosive, punchy and action packed tour de force sizzling with surprising shocks.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569062</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidTori Bovalino|title=This is not a Love StoryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=This Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a perfect holiday read – but hundred books that doesn't mean you need she has to be on holiday to read deliver herself. What makes itworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They'This Is Not A Love Storyre never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn'' will waft you away from your bed or your fireside or your tube train seat and relocate you to Amsterdamt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001405</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingePhilip Reeve|title=The Lie TreeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerieIn a word, unreal atmosphere rich. There is certainly an abundance of her books. Mysteries lurk riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the shadowsScillies. There are troll people on it, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characterssea-witches, and legends of the strange Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the banal jostle each other for space on Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in 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 pagesea one day eleven years ago. A world But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both familiar his sullen brother and outlandish is offered to ushis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turnlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael ByrneKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Lottery BoyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Twelve year old Bully and his mongrel dogJulia, Jackour pre-teen heroine, have has been living rough packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for almost six months – ever since Bully's mum dieda summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. The future holds no hope until Here be Vikings, quite by accidentthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, he finds the lottery ticket he purchased for which is his specialist thing, while mum hidden inside will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the last birthday card elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she gave himsuddenly finds company one night. He checks |isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the numbers Surviving Towns and discovers he's won Faith Houses to wander the jackpotwildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But there's only days left before the ticket expires then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and Bully's not old enough a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to claim the moneymythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. To make matters worseTogether, word they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of his winning ticket has got out and every unsavoury character on post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the streets is now after him.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358290</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PantherMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=David OwenSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Things have gone woefully wrong for Derrick. He's binge eating and his weight Gracie Welles has spiralledresigned herself to being lonely. HeAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's fallen out with his best friendlives. The girl he likes doesn't like him. He's But when she defends a random boy in trouble at school. And if it weren't her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for his sister Charlotte, none of this shiznit would be happeninggood. If Charlotte wasn't depressed, if No longer can she hadn't tried to... wellspend her time writing novels in solitude, you know... everything would be fine, just like for her life now has a boy in it used to bethat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116429</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy BirchallT L Huchu|title=The It GirlLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Anna Ropa Moyo is an awkward 14-year-old who is trying a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to fit in with people at her new take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school – and convince them that , she wasn’t actually trying 's been using it to set support not only herself, but her popular classmate’s hair on fireyounger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, it just happenedtargeting the city's children. Her dad Soon, Ropa is a well-known journalist who’s just written a book, and they get on well - until he falls pulled into the search for a famous actressmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. With the paparazzi buzzing over She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the news world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the engagement, Anna becomes a new target for them – but can missing children and bring an end to this shyevil, nerdy girl cope with the sudden attentionor will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>1529039452