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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerMax Boucherat|title=My Side The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the Diamondfirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''You have to accept that if two people jump from I can hear the dome song of St Paul's they would be bound to landthe sea. They'd be dead but they would landThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Except Rosevear, in this most unusual booka remote and partially forgotten island, they didn'tsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Two people were seen leaving the outside Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the London Cathedral's dome, but were never found at seven who swim out to survey the foot of it ruins – rescuing any survivors and someone has been in prison ever since for pushing them offany treasure that lies within. ItBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's a most peculiar scenario, leader and our narrator Jaz is struggling Mira's father. Desperate to tell her mysterious interrogatorsave him from death, Mr Jones, all about it – Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and all about her relationship with only coordinates to guide her best friend. Now Becky, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the friendsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, was a child prodigy sci-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else as her journey takes her from life. Rushing around the watched streets of foreign islands to investigate the case heart of the fallerssmuggler's territory, she seems Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to have found that, in save the shape future of a hot-blooded romance. But what is Jaz doing starting her testimony with talk of inquests, evidence home and hatred?the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresHarry Allen|title=Blue Dog|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death and Mick was sent to live in in the outback with Granpa. On the face of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyone, with all the heat and the dust. But they've all got to make the best Children of the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=SatelliteSun

|summary=Born Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and raisedshe is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, along with twins Orion so Seo and her friends Nari and Libra, on the space station Moon 2, Leo has never set foot on Earth. And yet, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits about 250 miles above Earth. It travels at 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit Min go foraging every ninety minutes. If you ever look out of the porthole beneathevening, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean looking for real? Leo tree bark and the twins may soon be able edible grasses to do that now that they are teenagers and supplement the scientists below think they are strong enough to come home. Each has their own idea meagre rations of what it will be like rice and what they would like to do. Orion wants to go to a concert. Libra wants to dig her hands in soil. Leo wants to throw a ball and observe its arc. Everyone wants to see a bird in flightkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreview|title=The Dollmaker of KrakowFrontpage|author=R M RomeroAlexia Casale|ratingtitle=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Karolina is a refugee from the Land of the Dolls. Her homeland has been ravaged by rats and Karolina was blown by a magical wind into Krakow, Poland, at the height of WWII. She finds herself in a workshop belonging to Cyryl, known as the Dollmaker of Krakow. Lonely, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement a strong friendship which helps Cyryl in his life outside the workshop. But itSing if you Can's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under a vicious enemy: it's Poland, too. Together, Karolina and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours and determine to do whatever the can to save from the monstrous Nazi regime...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=Scarecrowt Dance

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= When JackIt's dad discovers illegal activity at work and blows the whistle, he makes some very powerful and dangerous enemies. He and Jack are forced hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to go into hiding in navigate a remote cottage life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Scottish highlandsmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. Miles from anywhere and anyone But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, they hope they will be alone and safe. But it quickly transpires desperate to get back to a life that they are neither's as normal as she can possibly manage. Dad Meanwhile there's enemies already know where they are heading anda new (cute!) boy in school, even before they move inher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Jack starts and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to have doubts whether they are actually alonenavigate. Did he really see the scarecrow next So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to their cottage movesing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ColeSimon Fox|title=SenselessDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=16 year old Kenzie MitchellLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, otherwise known as K-Boyand then suddenly rings Archie, thinks his every dream has come true when demanding he's wins the chance to attend fetch something from a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ secret place, and join him on a remote tropical islandthe run. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo They get together, but barely begin to smell the swankiest whiff of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it Southern trains when the father is. Within hoursarrested, events start leaving Archie on the late express to take Brighton, toting a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable tin his father was determined to see and one by one keep away from his other senses – touch, hearingcolleagues, smell and taste – flicker in and out. And he's not on his own. It's happening to the other contestants too, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just bearer of a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappearedwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneLex Croucher|title= Paradise GirlGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 34|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one Who knew that survives on what I really needed to read right now was a few hens and two or three cows and gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a few sheepmost delightful way. The kind of farm that might In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been profitable betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now kingdom's only female knight) - something that the grandparents are old and the father is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgenceArt discovers from her private diaries. There are no stock-handsAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs of creating the rest subterfuge of it. Already, falling in settinglove with each other, it's feeling a little unrealwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But maybe we as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can forgive that… both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingNick Brooks|authortitle=William SutcliffePromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a closed-offmurdered, bombed-out area known three boys find themselves called into the police station as ''The Strip''suspects. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are Each, seemingly, has a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job grudge of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorismsome description against Principal Moore, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in and each could have been there at the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622time of his murder. But Lex calls who killed him Dad. Lex , and why, and Alan if any of the boys are innocent, will never meet. But they be able to clear their lives will collide in devastating ways...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jay Jay Burridge1919635017|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= Travel back over Solomon Klyne isn't a hundred years into Whitbybad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's past ll have to see two witches battle wait to get an ancient evil. Follow young Lil as she tries answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers and find her best friend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian GallagherPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= PawnsDifferent for Boys|rating= 34.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=''Pawns'' tells the story of JohnnyAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Stella and Aliceis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, all so his desk is one of whom are growing up in Ireland during four with both his best buddy from the War of Independencefootball team, and who have somehow become friends two other old muckers – in spite of their very different political viewsfact they all go back to primary school days together. Stella is passionately pro-British As they're all fired up, while Johnny frequently risks his life to pass information to straining at the proleash only a single-Irish rebelssex school can form, the talk in class and Alice out often turns to sex. Which is left stranded confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the middleladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, supporting neither side he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the disputesex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zillah Bethell1800901232|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Auden has Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a condition called achromatopsiafashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, which means that he can't see colours. He likes so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to pretend that offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it doesn't matter but it doeswas an opportunity not to be missed. And Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the older Auden getsmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the more it seems other girls were not going to matter. Mind youwork in a shop, so does everything else...... because Auden lives they were to work in a near-future Britain virtual slavery in a world where climate change has taken rootan illegal garment factory. It never rains any more. Britain, an island You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with plenty of coastline, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the Water Authority Board is now a quasiartfully-government as the most important placed rips and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Audendistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's father is away fightingquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraPatrice Lawrence|title= They Both Die at the EndNeedle|rating= 43

|summary= Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'No matter how we choose of this piece is extremely hard for some people to livelike, we characters and readers both die at the end. 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' The year is 2017s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the place creation of one such item is Americapart of the plot here, but this as Charlene is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know the exact date wonder knitter, and is making something full of everyonelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's death allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and make it their mission then force people to inform Deckers that they will be dead within the next twenty-four hoursgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Many have tried well, what exactly happens is not for me to cheat deathsay, all have failedonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Sarah CrossanRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is seventeen Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearsmake merry between their conquests. And the reason for However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texasa Crafter like him, convicted of someone with the murder of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a police officerpower sought after all across the Empire. Ed says he's innocentHe asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Aunt Karen doesnWell, soon Kurara won't believe him. And Mum is long gonehave any say in the matter, no-one knows where. When because the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job and Midori is destroyed by a spot on monstrous paper spirit known as a summer athletics scholarship shikigami, and treks from New York across she is forced to flee out into the country so that Ed is not aloneworld. He She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I am TraitorMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Wrath

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above LondonMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The Prime Minister appeared on TV Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to announce this ominous visitation and order a curfew. After thatdo what he wants, to go where he went AWOL wants and took all reliable information with himwhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, leaving Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the army to patrol enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the streetsearth. Not that Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the army has any answer to end of the long pipes that snake down from world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the ships and gobble up teenagerstruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. To where, nobody knows.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysTori Bovalino|authortitle=Alex BellThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''Charlotte sayss library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself... don't open What makes it worse is the man who requested the doorbooks: Mr Birch.'' JemimaThe boarding school's mother died in an awful fire not long ago headmaster, and that is why Jemima decides to leave London a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and take up deliver such a job as a teacher large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on the Isle each of Skye. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping books, scribbled with the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on that terrible nightugliest insults she can think of. It doesnThey't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the schoolre never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is a strangeto get her anger out like this, forbidding sortand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy AdlingtonPhilip Reeve|title=The Red RibbonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=Ella is rushing to her audition for In a job in fashionword, as are several other young womenrich. Thrown There is certainly an abundance of riches in at this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the deep end in the highScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-pressure workplacewitches, she is tasked with creating a dress and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from scratch for an important client before four pm that dayeven further west, where no ship dare sail. But she manages itThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, even working through who has to keep notes of activity from the non-existent lunch breakHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to design a silk wonder worthy worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of any environmentthe sea one day eleven years ago. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design housewhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and this is no normal environment for his curious ward are thrust into the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – world of protecting their island, like it or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Inot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= Genuine FraudJulia and the Shark|rating= 4|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= I'm going to straight up say that I'm not going to mention Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the plot family home in this reviewSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistingthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, turning, great suspense that kind of a novelScottish island. All I will say Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie his specialist thing, while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the side of a bus any time soonelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, and if that happenswell, then it she will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backsidebe homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsJonathan Stroud|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary=''Things a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the story draconian conformity of three teenage girls, all the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of whom are fighting for women's suffrageBritain, despite coming from very different backgroundsrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. There's EvelynBut then she meets Albert Browne, an upper-class girl expected to marry at a young agedark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Maythey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, a middlethey must brave man-class girl with an opinionated Mothereating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Nell, a workingall the horrors of post-class girl who does what she can to help her large family scrape by. The novel chronicles both their contributions apocalyptic society to reach the fight for suffrageFree Isles, and but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the way their lives change when World War One begins.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinMercedes Helnwein|title= InvictusSlingshot|rating= 4.53|genre= Teens|summary= It's the 24th century and human beings have cracked the Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of time travel. Farway Gaius McCarthy a man with a "real" family, she is 17 and dreams of following used to not being a priority in his motherpeople's footsteps as lives. But when she defends a Recorder random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for the Corps of Central Time Travellersgood. If he succeedsNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, he is determined to track down Empra, who disappeared on a mission when for her son was just 7. But Farway tanks his final exam and his ambitions seem crushed. He's given another chance by Lux, life now has a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder the past of its artifacts - artifacts boy in it that fetch fortunes in credits in the Central Time worldshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M A BennettT L Huchu|title= S.T.A.G.SThe Library of the Dead

|summary=''One weekend. Three deadly activities''. Greer MacDonald Ropa Moyo is a new student at the prestigious St Aidan the Great Boarding Schoolghostalker, known using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to its exclusive pupils as Stake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives.T.A.G.S. It is a Ever since she dropped out of school where technology is absent, the teachers are replaced by friarsshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and a group her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of elite students –known as Edinburgh, targeting the Medievals – run the schoolcity's children. When Greer inexplicably receives an invitation from Soon, Ropa is pulled into the Medievals to spend search for a weekend missing boy at the stately home request of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular boy at school, she is too curious decline such his dead mother. She will end up discovering an invitation. But little does Greer occult library and realise that there the world of magic is far bigger and more to the weekend dangerous than she initially understandsever could've imagined. Ultimately Will she find the missing children and the other two students who have been invited must come together bring an end to uncover the truth about the infamous Medievalsthis evil, and the blood sports they have been chosen to take part in.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth Lauren|title=Prisoner of Ice and Snow|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Valor is under arrest for the attempted assassination of Anatol, Demidova's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - a brutal prison constructed of stone and ice...... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is it? But the thing is, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and she's even prepared to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve it. Because ValorKristen O's sister Sasha is already in Tyur'ma - accused of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing a peace treaty between Demidova and a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced of her sister's innocence and intends to break her out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate LingNeal|title=The Glow of Fallen Stars|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''The Glow of Fallen Stars'' is the second book in Kate Ling's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review of the first instalment [[The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]. Seren Lycanthropy and Dom, together with Ezra and Mariana, have escaped the Ventura, the spaceship on which they have spent their whole lives, and crash landed on the planet Huxley 3. At last, they are away from the stifling authoritarianism of life on board the ship and free to pursue their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real land.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Seager|title=Editing EmmaOther Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=Emma Nash is a typical 16 year old Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with all the insecurities and obsessions fact that come with this age. When she may be in constant pain for the love rest of her life . She joins ''ghostsOof Ouch My Bones'' her (i, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses.eThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. breaks up with When Brigid—one of her by acting as if she doesnclosest friends—doesn't exist)respond to the chat for a while, she spends the summer moping in Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her pyjamas. However, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form parents' car and a resolution drive to make some important ''edits'Brigid' s house to check up on her life. This includes e-tweaking herself with disastrous, and often hilarious, consequences. The whole experiment But what she doesn't expect to find there is recorded a werewolf in Emma's private blog: a blog the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she might just regret ever writinghas been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>1683692349

It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked Move on to her friend, the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do and live a normal, boring, human life. Mum is still working for the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longer. Money is tight and Mum, as ever, is stressed. Dad got compensation for his accident, so he is living the life of Riley. He's eager to help out but Mum won't hear of it. And Ellie has a romantic interest in Luke. All in all, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting of timelines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gwyneth Rees|title=Libby in the Middle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sister, Bella. Bella used to be a real confidante to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriend. Now, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries that it will never come back. Libby also has a younger sister, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems to Libby that Grace, as the baby of the family, commands all the parental love and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison|title=Freshers|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want to become. Going to university is a monumental transition. For some, it's an escape. A chance to start anew. A freedom of the sort that you'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you forever. However, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people and the pressure to make new friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adults, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, very quickly. Phoebe and Luke went to the same high school, but never really floated in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness of Fresher's week, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messy, intense and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forget. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Livingstone|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)Newest Thrillers Reviews]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}