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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geraldine MillsMax Boucherat|title= GoldThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Twins Starn and Esper are growing up in a world made dark and silent by massive volcanic explosions. Ash now covers We meet Lori on the planet and every aspect of life is controlled by first evening she's got the governmenthouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, policed by the strictmother at work, heavyjust an avidly rule-handed Sagittarsbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. They long for sunshine What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, fresh air and the freedom of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game of dares leads them that is to log on to discover an ancient book written by their great-great auntVoxminer, filled with strange writing and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across the darkened skies in a handworld-built gliderbuilding, in search of the gold critter-collecting game that will vastly improve their lives. What they find there is a hidden hit in Lori's world; one left behind when the volcanoes exploded. The revelation of 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 gold is not at all what they thought it would server she and her bestie and nobody else should beable 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 discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planet.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenRachel Greenlaw|title=We Are All Made of Molecules Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= After two years ''I can hear the song of pain following his mumthe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''s death Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Stewart is pleased his dad has found someone else one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and heany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's 89father.9% excited that Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and his dad are moving in with Ashley and only coordinates to guide her mom. Ashley, however, is 110% horrified at the prospect she sets off in search of a new 'blended' familysecret that lies buried deep in the sea. She's still dealing with With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her parentfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's breakup and territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the revelation that future of her dad is gay. She's simply not prepared for a new step-dad home and his geeky, socially clueless, sonthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisHarry Allen|title=The Power Children of Darkthe Sun|rating= 5

|summary= Something is brewing Ra Eun Seo lives in the coastal a North Korean town of Whitby. To best friends Lil and Verne, it just seems like she is a particularly bad stormtalented singer. But Cherry Cherise, the last of the town's guardian witches, fears that ancient forces are work, reviving the curse of a long-lost magical artefact Life is hard and a feud that has survived beyond death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jesse Ball|title=How food is difficult to Set a Fire come by, so Seo and Why|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Lucia Stanton is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who lives with her elderly Aunt Lucy in a garage they rent from an evil landlord at the bottom of his large garden. She never comes right out friends Nari and explains why she's thereMin go foraging every evening, but if you read between the lines you work out that her father is dead and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably looking for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified tree bark and principled – ''Don't do things you aren't proud edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes rice and mostly lives off of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade breadkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bone SparrowAlexia Casale|authortitle=Zana FraillonSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Subhi is ten It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years old. He has lived his whole 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 middle of a detention centre for refugees in Australiadance performance that was going to change her life. He is Rohingya But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting himdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. They left Subhi Meanwhile there's father behind a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and are waiting for him just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to join themsing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4. Subhi believes that his father 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is sending him secret messages contained in tokens that wash up late back from the Great Sea of his imagination. And these tokens mean a great deal to Subhi because shift on the camp isn't force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a very nice secret place, and join him on the run. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is inedible. Water runs out arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a regular basis. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And the guards? Welltin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, with and the exception bearer of Harvey, they are not very nice peoplea whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusLex Croucher|authortitle=Caighlan SmithGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray Who knew that what I really needed to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, find their it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way through it to Alyssia. In this story, Gwen and become angels. Every child yearns Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Claramutual disgust! Gwen, our girl's best friendyou see, is in love with Bridget (the most devout of everyone. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosen. In kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her society, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silentprivate diaries. Andthen when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, along creating the subterfuge of falling in love with Claraeach other, chosen she iswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire Hennessy|title= Nothing Tastes But as Good|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= As warnings against disordered eating gotheir impending wedding draws ever closer, this one is quite interesting. Annabelwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, you see, is already dead when we meet her. She got too thin and one day that was it, her body ceased or are they destined to function. Her mind, however, is still sharp.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoNick Brooks|title=BlamePromise Boys

|summary=''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show When the situation. Ant principal (a teenaged girlheadmaster) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in a prison – HMP Londonof Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, no lessthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Since the death of the EU and a hugeEach, all-conquering recessionseemingly, people are being imprisoned lefthas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, right and centre for each could have been there at the crimes time of their parents his murder. But who killed him, and their parents in turnwhy, meaning anyone with and if any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from of the common good is having their children imprisoned. And even though Ant and Mattie boys are ''legitimately'' in thereinnocent, due will they be able to clear their parents' activities, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britain. Surely, then, there's no hopenames?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Paul Dowswell1919635017|title= Wave|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Wave, set in WW1, tells the story of the battle of the Somme. Although the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare for the moment when they are A Thief to go over the top, as the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story is Catch a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Concentr8Killer|author=William SutcliffeKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn't a speculative near-future Londonbad lad, there's a new wonder drug to treat ADHD. Concentr8 so why is cheap and effective. So effective that the mayor has instituted he running around London committing a programme series of robberies? And how did he learn to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking it, often before theycrack safes? You've actually become troublesomell have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But then an austerity drive sees I'll answer the program cut abruptlyfirst one: for his grandmother.. Riots break out, led by the unmedicated teens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The LeavingPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tara AltebrandoDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven years after at quite a standard school, and 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 his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they disappeared in 're all fired up, straining at the traumatic event leash only a single-sex school can form, the local community knows talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as The Leavinghe doesn't know what his score is, five sixteen-year-olds come homewhere his achievements in that regard lie. Where have they been? Who took them? And where is Max He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the sixth child? Why has ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he not come home too? can't be sure. And why can that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Francesca Simon1800901232|title= The Monstrous ChildStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 45|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Hel is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the ultimate gloomyrural village where she lived with her family was happy, angstif not prosperous, so when the smartly-ridden teendressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Her dad's hardly ever around, her mum is at best indifferent Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to herHanoi. Only, Hanh and her brothers are evil little beasts. She lives the other girls were not going to work in a land of sleet shop, 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 noise beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and ice. But distressed seams thatfelt so soft when you touched them? It's not the worst of it. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpse, with all the accompanying odours quite possible that produces, Hanh and her co- wait for it – there'll never be an end to her misery because she's eternalworkers made them. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison UmmingerPatrice Lawrence|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit card, and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in a town full of lost souls and wannabes, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongNeedle

|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=''HelloBrave. Charlene, sweetie.the 'heroine' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Songthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, one of modern TV's more infuriating charactersand readers both. Now Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's likeable enoughfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made Annie, and has taken up residence in her hard to live withson Blake's old room while he's at uni. I would say this was Such a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it tempestuous personality may be in our futureneed of a comfort blanket, which is her pastyou might perhaps think, and vice versa at the samecreation of one such item is part of the plot here, eras Charlene is a wonder knitter, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection and is making something full of love for her escapades to younger sister – a YA audienceyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as seen elsewhereexpletively ignorant. And then... well, but what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can certainly frustrate as usualbe...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan MatsonAnn Sei Lin|title= The Unexpected EverythingRebel Skies|rating=35

|summary= The Unexpected Everything follows AndieKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the daughter sky where soldiers of a prominent US politicianthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, who has led when a careful life as man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a result. Incredibly organisedCrafter like him, her plans of attending someone with the John Hopkins medical program power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all summer long are set. Until they're notacross the Empire. A political scandal implicating He asks her dad causes to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all her neatly arranged plans to evaporateshe has known. So insteadWell, to make sure her summer isnsoon Kurara won't wasted and there's no gap have any say in her resumethe matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she gets is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a dogsky-walking job.ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471146146</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stewart Foster Marcus Sedgwick|title=Bubble Boy Wrath

|summary=Ethan Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a Changeronly 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. Changers are an ancient race They were half of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona to inhabit for desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the rest of their livesearth. Because Is this connected with one of this, Changers gain insight into other people's lives and become better people because her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it. They literally walk in another mansome spooky new kind of music she's shoesdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, if you willnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyTori Bovalino|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Trigger Mortis The Devil Makes Three

|summary= Bond Working all summer in her boarding school's library is back, this time authored by international best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. It all begins with the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a seemingly simple mission (at least request for Bond). After over a few days training, James heads hundred books that she has to Germany to race in deliver herself. What makes it worse is the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop man who requested the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victorybooks: Mr Birch. HoweverThe boarding school's headmaster, we're not surprised that Bond soon uncovers and a much bigger and more serious plot: man Tess hates. As a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) petty act of revenge for making her find and SMERSH (deliver such a toplarge request, Tess sticks post-secret department it notes on each of the Russian government) books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to undermine the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions reach him, of New Yorkers and toppling the Empire State Buildingcourse. As the clock ticks downHer plan is to get her anger out like this, only Bond and CIA field-agentthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, Jeopardy Lane, can stop itif someone hadn't delivered them for her. But are they already too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Goldy MoldavskyPhilip Reeve|title=Kill Utterly Dark and the Boy BandFace of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rupert Pierpont has put his head above the parapet and taken his juggling act onto In a ''Britain's Got Talent''-styled TV showword, as you dorich. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contestingThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, and all four got lumped into beyond the same boy band – The RupertsScillies. There are troll people on it, as you do. Several massive albums and hugely successful tours later, the four lads are globally knownsea-witches, and have entered the world legends of true fandom – the realms where girls know Dark family that has to wear incontinence pads keep watch for magical islands and live with it rather than forsake their front-row concert positionmonster approaching from even further west, and where girl fans (with their own inclusive, tribal nickname, of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to the starsno ship dare sail. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform in New Yorkcurrent Darks are the Watcher, and is in town at a hipsterish swanky hotel. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fansAndrewe, and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights – as you do. But this is through no intent of his own – for he who has been kidnapped by four of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeff Zentner|title=The Serpent King|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation keep notes of activity from the young-adult fiction market Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so London with too much they seem science in his head to exclusively read this genreworry about such local yokel superstitions, and hereAndrewe's the thing – I really want to like itfoundling daughter, too. I know there's good stuff who washed up out there, but it seems like of the more I look the less I findsea one day eleven years ago. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundredsBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, who knows – both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of formulaicprotecting their island, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in melike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BirdKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The HuntJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This is Britain after Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the Very Big Crash. Life is very differentfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, especially if you live in one the far NE of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authorityScottish islands. Cush lives in one such suburb Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. He works as a detective in Dad is going to be automating the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himselflantern, which is pretty good at his jobspecialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. His wife Samir doesn't work And Julia, well, even though she'd like to, will be homesick and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsessionalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob KeeleyJonathan Stroud|title= The Sword of the Spirit (Spirits 3)Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= Cassie lives with her father in a New Jersey beach town. Dad spends most Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD Britain, robbing banks and its concomitant anger issuesshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. FranklyBut then she meets Albert Browne, Cassie finds him best avoideda dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Cassie herself is doing okWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, despite a recent tragedythey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. UntilTogether, that isthey must brave man-eating wildlife, she finds a dismembered foot on the beachcannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, thought to but will they be from a victim any more accepted there than they are in the rest of a serial killer stalking the locality.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyMercedes Helnwein|title=Moth GirlsSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=The first seven weeks Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of secondary school changed Mandy Crystala man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lifelives. It was But when she defends a random boy in those seven weeks that she became friends her class with Petra Armstrong and Tina Pointerher slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that No longer can she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Street. That was the last spend her time anyone saw either of them – Petra and Tina disappearedwriting novels in solitude, never to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' by the media, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had to live with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen her friends. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found life now has a boy in it that she'd told the police where they'd gone sooner? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everythingnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman T L Huchu|title=Lying About Last Summer The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Skye's sisterRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Luisa, died in using Zimbabwean magic (and a tragic accident last summer and Skye is still struggling bit of Scottish pragmatism) to come to terms with both take messages from the events dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she witnessed and the loss dropped out of her sister. It'sschool, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday for bereaved teens. She's up for anything that will stop her thinking about the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account been using it to support not only Luisa had access to. Rather than erasing all thoughts of the pastherself, Skye finds herself having to confront but her younger sister and her worst fearsaging grandmother. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alice Oseman|title=Radio Silence|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= ''School'' Frances is a single-minded study machineHowever, with just one purpose: get into Cambridge. Shethere's responsible, studious, and furiously focused on ticking all an evil stalking the boxes needed for a perfect applicationruined streets of Edinburgh, boxes with no place for friends and hobbies. And this is targeting the Frances that pretty much everyone seescity's children. Only her mum knows there Soon, Ropa is more to her than meets pulled into the eye, from her distinctive, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love search for a missing boy at the wonderful podcast show, Universe Cityrequest of his dead mother. When a chance encounter leads to her meeting She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the creator world of University City, Aled Last, magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she finally has a friend with whom ever could've imagined. Will she can genuinely be comfortable around, find the missing children and celebrate all her weird and wonderful quirks. However, when complications and secrets threaten bring an end to shatter this powerful friendshipevil, Francis finds herself at a crossroads, caught between or will it claim her old secure path of least resistance, and the much scarier option of putting her true self out there and risking it all to discover what she truly wants. too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian ConaghanKristen O'Neal|title=The Bombs That Brought Us TogetherLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Charlie Law is fourteen. He Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has always lived in Little Town and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to come to terms with the fact that she may bein constant pain for the rest of her life. ThereShe joins 's no drinking. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard to get, which is a problem when your mum, like Charlie's mum, has trouble breathing. But even breathing is less important than keeping out of the way of the Rascals, the RegimeOof Ouch My Bones''s enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sheila O'Flanagan |title=The Crystal Run |rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Running away from an online support group where she talks to a couple bunch of bullies, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself in the strange world of the Carcassian peopleother teens living with chronic illnesses. Suspected as a terroristThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, traitor or spy, he's attached while also providing an escape to Kaia just joke and sent to join mess around. When Brigid—one of her on the 'Crystal Runclosest friends—doesn' – a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory t respond to replace the precious crystals that power the protective Carcassian shield. He really wants to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting chat for survival and forming a close friendship with Kaiawhile, Priya becomes concerned. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes She decides to steal her mission parents' car and Joedrive to Brigid's determined house to find a way to keep check up on her alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nova Ren Suma|title=The Walls Around Us|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amber But what she doesn't expect to find there is an inmate at Aurora Hills, a juvenile detention centre reserved werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the most serious young criminals. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks girl she has been talking to us from online for the past and she details life at Aurora Hills and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and the guards. One night, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails and the girls spend a glorious and dangerous night out of their cells. During this night, Amber has a paranormal experience, during which she "meets" Oriannafew months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>1683692349