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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonMax Boucherat|title= All About The HypeLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Jessie Jefferson, daughter of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to know pop in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] , 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 left the UK behind one main intention, and that is to move log on to Voxminer, the City of Angels and be with her longworld-lostbuilding, recentlycritter-rediscovered father. As the third book collecting game that is a hit in the ''Jessie'' offshoot, thereLori's world. But first Lori has a bit of back story to be had but long story shorttiny 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 grew up not knowing about him, but then and her mother died in horrible circumstances bestie and one thing led nobody else should be able to another enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and it all came out her safe place in the wash. Nowgame has been doctored – well, where is a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two half-brothers. girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geraldine MillsRachel Greenlaw|title= GoldCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Twins Starn and Esper are growing up in a world made dark and silent by massive volcanic explosions''I can hear the song of the sea. Ash now covers the planet and every aspect The call of life is controlled by the governmentdeep, policed by the strictanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long for sunshinea remote and partially forgotten island, fresh air survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the freedom wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of a life only vaguely remembered by a fewthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a game of dares leads them trap to discover an ancient book written by their great-great auntend the wrecking, filled with strange writing they capture the island's leader and a treasure mapMira's father. This propels them headlong into Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a journey across the darkened skies in bargain with a hand-built gliderwreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the gold that will vastly improve their livessea. What they find there is a hidden world; one left behind when 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 volcanoes exploded. The revelation heart of the gold is not smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at all what they thought it would be, nothing to save the future of her home and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planetones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenHarry Allen|title=We Are All Made Children of Molecules the Sun

|summary= After two years of pain following his mum's death, Stewart Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is pleased his dad has found someone else and he's 89a talented singer.9% excited that he Life is hard and his dad are moving in with Ashley food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her mom. Ashleyfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, however, is 110% horrified at looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the prospect meagre rations of a new 'blended' family. She's still dealing with her parent's breakup rice and the revelation that her dad is gay. She's simply not prepared for a new step-dad and his geeky, socially clueless, sonkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisAlexia Casale|title=The Power of DarkSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 5

|summary= Something 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 brewing dealing with after collapsing on stage in the coastal town middle of Whitbya dance performance that was going to change her life. To best friends Lil But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and Verne, it just seems like desperate to get back to a particularly bad stormlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But Cherry Cherise Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the last day to day traumas of all the townchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's guardian witchest dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, fears that ancient forces are workand join him on the run. They get together, reviving but barely begin to smell the curse whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a long-lost magical artefact tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a feud that has survived beyond death…whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BallLex Croucher|title=How to Set a Fire Gwen and WhyArt Are Not in Love

|summary=Subhi is ten years old. He has lived his whole life Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a detention centre for refugees in Australiamost delightful way. He In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is Rohingya and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting him. They left Subhilove with Bridget (the kingdom's father behind and are waiting for him to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained in tokens only female knight) - something that wash up Art discovers from the Great Sea of his imaginationher private diaries. And these tokens mean then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a great deal to Subhi because the camp isn't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs out on a regular basis. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And the guards? Wellboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, with creating the exception subterfuge of Harveyfalling in love with each other, when really they are not very nice peopleenabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusNick Brooks|authortitle=Caighlan SmithPromise Boys

|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between When the ages principal (headmaster) of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find their way through it to Alyssiathemselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Claraseemingly, our girl's best friendhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, is and each could have been there at the most devout time of everyonehis murder. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl But who killed him, thoughand why, does not want to be chosen. In her society, this is such a badge and if any of shame that she keeps silent. Andthe boys are innocent, along with Clara, chosen she is.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire Hennessy1919635017|title= Nothing Tastes as Good|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= As warnings against disordered eating go, this one is quite interesting. Annabel, you see, is already dead when we meet her. She got too thin and one day that was it, her body ceased A Thief to function. Her mind, however, is still sharp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCatch a Killer|author=Simon Mayo|title=BlameKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (t a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in a prison – HMP bad lad, so why is he running around London, no less. Since the death of the EU and committing a huge, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for the crimes series of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisoned. robberies? And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due how did he learn to their parents' activities, theycrack safes? You've since been adopted by people who ll have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as to wait to get an answer to the worst criminal family in Britainsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Surely, then, thereBut I's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= WaveDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary= WaveAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, set in WW1and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, tells the story so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the battle of the Sommefootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Although As they're all fired up, straining at the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016leash only a single-sex school can form, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am talk in class and 7.30am on 1st July 1916out often turns to sex. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare Which is confusing for the moment when they are to go over the topAnt, as the first wavehe doesn't know what his score is, into No Man’s Landwhere his achievements in that regard lie. The story is He's had a poignantcasual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, reflective and brutally honest account of so has effectively progressed up the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the history of relationship and the British Armysex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Concentr8Stitched Up|author=William SutcliffeSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a speculative nearfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-future London, there's dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a new wonder drug job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to treat ADHDbe missed. Concentr8 is cheap Some money changed hands and effectiveHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. So effective that Only, Hanh and the mayor has instituted a programme other girls were not going to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen work in London is taking ita shop, often before they've actually become troublesomewere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But then an austerity drive sees You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by legs? The ones with the unmedicated teensartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The LeavingPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Tara AltebrandoNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the traumatic event creation of one such item is part of the local community knows plot here, as The LeavingCharlene is a wonder knitter, five sixteen-year-olds come homeand 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 belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Where have they been? Who took them? And where then... well, what exactly happens is Maxnot for me to say, the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? And why only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca SimonAnn Sei Lin|title= The Monstrous ChildRebel Skies|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Hel is the ultimate gloomy, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly ever around, her mum is at best indifferent to her, and her brothers are evil little beasts. She lives in a land of sleet and noise and ice. But that's not the worst of it. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpse, with all the accompanying odours that produces, and - wait for it – there'll never be an end to her misery because she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|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 Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. I would say this was a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan Matson|title= The Unexpected Everything|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 is Meet Fitz, a Changeryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Changers are an ancient race of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to inhabit for the rest of their lives. Because of thisdo what he wants, Changers gain insight into other people's lives to go where he wants and become better people because of with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in itwhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They literally walk in another man's shoeswere half of a desultory school band, if you willbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote Is this connected with one of my allher eco-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the dayt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz Tori Bovalino|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, and all four got lumped into British but way west, 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 inclusiveno ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, tribal nicknameAndrewe, who has to keep notes of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to activity from the stars. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in New York, and is London with too much science in town at a hipsterish swanky hotel. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fanshis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and hardly seeing anything other than girlsAndrewe' tights – as you dos foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But this is through no intent of when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his own – for he has been kidnapped by four curious ward are thrust into the world of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff ZentnerKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Serpent King|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation of the young-adult fiction market in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genre, Julia and here's the thing – I really want to like it, too. I know there's good stuff out there, but it seems like the more I look the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundreds, who knows – of formulaic, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Bird|title=The HuntShark

|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 terrorist, traitor or spyThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, 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 check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a way werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to keep her aliveonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>1683692349