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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kendare BlakeMax Boucherat|title= Three Dark CrownsThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= We meet Lori on the first evening she''Three Dark Crowns'' is a high class fantasy novel following a set of triplets: Katharines got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Arsinoe and Mirabellamother at work, who are each gifted with specific magic and are equal heirs to the crown. Katharine is a poisoner with the ability to ingest the deadliest poisonsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, a girl who cannot dieon her lonesome. Meanwhile, Arsinoe is What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a naturalistblanket fort, who she has the power to bloom flowers one main intention, and control the fiercest animals. Finally, Mirabella that is an elemental, one gifted with the ability to create fire and incredible storms powerful enough log on to topple buildings. On Voxminer, the island of Fennbirnworld-building, as critter-collecting game that is tradition, the queens are separated at the age of nine and fostered by families who share their magic. From that point onwards, they are each trained to use their magic as a weapon hit in the fight to the death against the other sistersLori's world. On the But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night of the sistersdoesn'sixteenth birthdayt find herself entirely on her own, they will each begin their quest to secure and then she finds something even more spooky. For the throne server she and become the rightful Queenher bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. While When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the crown awaits the victorgame has been doctored – well, death awaits the two weaker queens.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I'll Be Home For ChristmasRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Benjamin Zephaniah Compass and OthersBlade|rating=3.5

|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced ''I'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some can hear the song of the most popular writers on the UK YA scenesea. The stories are connected by the theme call of home. What does home mean to you? Is it your house, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things to different peopledeep, can't it? The book opens with a powerful poem by Bookbag favourite, Benjamin Zephaniah. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales of hardship and fear, some warming the cockles of your answering beat in my heart. But all of them are about ''home''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kerry Drewery|title= Cell 7|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=Tired of ''Big Brother'' and ''I'm a Celebrity..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more gritty, something more 'real?' Welcome to the evolution of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives you, the viewer, the power of life and death. Listen to the evidence, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent and then simply text DIE or LIVE to 7997 (Calls cost £5).

Since the abolition of the court system Rosevear, a few years agoremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the power of jury has been given to rocks and plundering the peoplewrecks. Those accused Mira, like her mother before her, is one of murder have the seven days in seven cells, each with their own particular method of psychological torturewho swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. On But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the last daywrecking, they capture the accused island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is led as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to Cell 7guide her, dominated by the imposing electric chair she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the centresea. As With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the public votes pour inwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, viewers wait with eager anticipation Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to see if there will be a live execution that evening..save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentHarry Allen|title=The CatchersChildren of the Sun|rating=3.5

|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is wandering along perfectly happily in his very normal twelve-year-old life, when a sprite suddenly appears in his bedroomtalented singer. The sprite Life is followed hard and food is difficult to come by a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also in his bedroom. There's a knock at the door, so Jamie takes the sprite Seo and her friends Nari and opens it. Down a passageMin go foraging every evening, Jamie finds an old man wearing a pointy hat who introduces himself, grandly, as ''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhich, of looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Magic and Mythical creature catchers department, meagre rations of the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branch''. Jamie is in Magictasium. After a brief magical interlude with Colin rice and Trixie, a teenage witch, Colin returns kimchi at home...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born ScaredAlexia Casale|authortitle=Kevin BrooksSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Everything scares Elliott. And by everything, we really mean It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'everythingre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that''. Elliott s what Ven is not afraid dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of his muma dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, his aunt and his doctor. And desperate to get back to a life that's itas normal as she can possibly manage. Imagine that. Being frightened of your room. Of colours. Of noises. Of most things around you Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, no matter how everyday and mundane they are. This is just the natural state day to day traumas of things for Elliottall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. And it So even though she can's been that t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way since he was born prematurely and his twin, Ellamay, died. through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Very Good ChanceSimon Fox|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Minty isn't having 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 great time at homesecret place, and join him on the run. It's quite clear They get together, from but barely begin to smell the hissing conversations in other rooms and whiff of Southern trains when the looming silencesfather is arrested, that her parents' marriage is in trouble. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that leaving Archie on the late express to Minty. School is Brighton, toting a bit tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a bore, unless it's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralunga. Minty needs an escape..whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014781</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Double Down (Lois Lane) Lex Croucher|authortitle=Gwenda BondGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Lois Lane is doing pretty well Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Metropolisa most delightful way. The oppositional In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, trouble-seeking army brat we first met is in [[Fallout love with Bridget (Lois Lanethe kingdom's only female knight) by Gwenda Bond|Fallout]] has made some friends, got a job as a cub reporter on ''The Daily Scoop'' and even exposed a scandal at - something that Art discovers from her schoolprivate diaries. Her online relationship And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with the mysterious Smallville Guy is also going pretty welleach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But her army general father and her school principal as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are both still keeping they destined to live a weather eye on Lois. And newspaper editor Perry White is putting her under pressure for a new story...lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023690</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Natasha FarrantNick Brooks|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and Prejudice|rating= 5|genre=Teens |summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen and has received, amongst other gifts, a diary from her bookish older sister Mary. She'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after all, writing in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives in Meryton, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting to write about after all...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jess Vallance|title= The Yellow RoomPromise Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Sixteen-year-old Anna lives an ordinary, uneventful life with her workaholic mother after her father left them both years before without a single word since. However Anna's simple life is suddenly changed when she receives a letter from Edie, her father's girlfriend, telling her that he has died and she would like for them to meet. Anna isn't sure how to feel at first – she was estranged from her father but the news has still come as a shock, and so Anna agrees to meet Edie and they start up an unlikely friendship. Edie is eccentric and warm and offers Anna the companionship she lacks with her own unemotional mother, so much so that Anna manages to gather up the courage to tell Edie about the troublesome secret she has been carrying deep inside her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405818</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Call|author=Peadar o Guilin|rating=5

|summary=The Aes Sidhe are backWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankind Each, seemingly, they have placed has a magical seal around the entire island. Nobody can get in or out. North? South? Doesn't matter any more. What does matter is ''The Call''. At grudge of some point during adolescencedescription against Principal Moore, every teenager is transported to and each could have been there at the Sidhe realmtime of his murder. But who killed him, that greyand why, colourless land to which they were banished thousands and if any of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then their lives boys are sparedinnocent, although will they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survive.be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julia Gray1919635017|title=The Otherlife|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Ben has a dark gift: he can see the Otherlife, a world of ancient Norse myths, wildness and danger. It means freedom from exams, warring parents, and everyone's impossible expectations. Then Ben meets Hobie, a charming, ruthless bully. He's a born mischief-maker who always gets away with it. Hobie has everything he could possibly want. Except the Otherlife. And he'll do anything A Thief to be Catch a part of it. Anything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Dan Smith|title=Boy XKitt Townsend

|summary= Merry is an average teenager. SheSolomon Klyne isn's also t a witch. She's trying not to bebad lad, but she so why is. Then Jack comes into her life and she can't help falling under his spell. One problem – he's part running around London committing a series of an evil, centuries-old curse that Merry now has robberies? And how did he learn to break. If Merry has lost her heart, will she lose her life toocrack safes? Or can true loveYou's kiss save ll have to wait to get an answer to the day? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Paver|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods and Warriors Book 5) |rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle Paversecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I's Gods and Warriors series has arrived. This series is set in ll answer the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of the mainland (Mycenaean) and Crete (Minoan). Our two central characters represent bothfirst one: Hylas, the boy searching for his sister, is Mycenaean, and Pirra, the daughter of a high priestess, is Minoan. Together, they are trying to defeat the evil Crows who are ravaging lands far and widegrandmother. But to do that, they need to retrieve the dagger of Kronos from deep inside Crow territory. If they fail, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones will rule all the land and all the people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn Kurtagich|title= The Creeper Man|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon a protector out of Python Wood. But with a grinning mouth and without eyes, The Creeper Man is not their protector. In 2016 two sisters, Silla and Nori, runaway from London and their cruel father to La Baume, the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath lives. Away from fear and hurt, the girls are finally happy Patrick Ness and loved. They're finally safe… Until the trees start moving closer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Liz FlanaganTea Bendix|title=Eden SummerDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= Best friends for longer than they can rememberAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Jess and Eden have always is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been there for each restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two otherold muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, through straining at the good leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the badout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, though therewhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's been had a casual relationship, a lot more of the latter over the last year. They've needed each other secret one, for support more than ever. But several months now, Eden is missing. The police are on and so has effectively progressed up the caseladder headed by 'experienced', but Jess is wracked with worry. Overwhelmed by griefwhether that's set in stone, Eden hasnhe can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic and often veering towards having the dangerous. Desperate to find Eden, Jess takes the search into her own hands. As she makes her way through the West Yorkshire countryside, she finds herself retracing the summer she relationship and Eden spent together, digging up buried memories and secrets in the hope that they might yield some insight into where her friend might besex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Rose in the Blitz1800901232|author=Rebecca Stevens|rating=4|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Rose's father died a while back. She still misses him, even though life goes on and her mother is remarrying tomorrow. Rose knows deep down that Sal is a nice guy but, but, but... a wedding? It's sent her into a spin. Sal doesn't smell right. His woolly jumpers are embarrassing. His beard is weird. Rose isn't looking forward to the wedding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655546</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Non Pratt|title=UnboxedSteve Cole|rating=4.5

|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, Benif not prosperous, Dean, Millie so when the smartly-dressed man and Zara, and they had made woman came to the village to offer Hahn a promise job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to return be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the school where other girls were not going to work in a shop, they had hidden a memory box five years laterwere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Only five years later there are only four of themYou know those jeans you really wanted: Millie had died of stomach cancer. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in ones with the box, worried about what their thirteenartfully-yearplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-old selves might reveal about who they are now, but most of all they're missing Millieworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E K JohnstonPatrice Lawrence|title= A Thousand NightsNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary=EBrave. K Johnston describes 'Charlene, the '1000 Nightsheroine'' as a work fashioned around the creation of beautiful crafts charged with magic. She confesses that her setting this piece is not historically accurateextremely hard for some people to like, explainingcharacters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she''I cheated s fostering with a bitpleasant yoga tutor, because the usual date for the stories ranges from Middle Persian literature to the Caliphate EraAnnie, and I set the book about two thousand years before that.has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' Her locations are beautifully evoked and based on her sensory experiences as an archaeologist in Jordans at uni. A Turkish bath Such a tempestuous personality may be in Ammanneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the Umayyad palace on top creation of one such item is part of the Amman Citadel plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and the swirling sands at Wadi Rum are just is making something full of love for her younger sister – a few sources younger sister she has used to recreate the spirit of Lo Melkhiin's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with the mercurial nature of his wife's desert homea store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290372</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keren DavidAnn Sei Lin|title= CuckooRebel Skies

|summary= Jake is Kurara has spent her entire life as a household name thanks to his role servant on the UK's most popular soap opera. But his character went upstairs Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to his bedroom six months ago drink and never came down againmake merry between their conquests. However, and now Jake when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is facing an uncertain futurea Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Add He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that his dadis all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's anger issuest have any say in the matter, because the family's precarious finances and the demands of Midori is destroyed by a severely autistic brother; Jake's home feels like monstrous paper spirit known as a powder keg waiting shikigami, and she is forced to explodeflee out into the world. It's easier She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to spend nights on friends' sofas hunt down shikigami, and futons, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest?whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonMarcus Sedgwick|title= All About The HypeWrath|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jessie Jefferson, daughter of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I first got to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] has left the UK behind to move to the City of Angels and be with her long-lost, recently-rediscovered father. As the third book in the ''Jessie'' offshoot, there's a bit of back story to be had but long story short, she grew up not knowing about him, but then her mother died in horrible circumstances and one thing led to another and it all came out in the wash. Now, a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two half-brothers4. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraldine Mills|title= Gold|rating= 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 the planet and every aspect of life is controlled by the government, policed by the strict, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long for sunshine, fresh air and the freedom of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game of dares leads them to discover an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across the darkened skies in a hand-built glider, in search of the gold that will vastly improve their lives. What they find there is a hidden world; one left behind when the volcanoes exploded. The revelation of the gold is not at all what they thought it would be, and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=We Are All Made of Molecules |rating=5

|summary= After two years Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of pain following his mum's deathfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, Stewart is pleased his dad has found someone else and he's 89.9% excited that 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 dad are moving foot in with Ashley and her momit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Ashley, howeverThey were half of a desultory school band, is 110% horrified at but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the prospect of enigmatic – saying she could hear a new 'blended' familysubhuman hum coming from the earth. She's still dealing Is this connected with one of her parent's breakup and eco-warrior parents saying the end of the revelation that her dad world is gay. Shealready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's simply dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not prepared for a new step-dad and his geeky, socially clueless, sonwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisTori Bovalino|title=The Power of DarkDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5

|summary= Something Working all summer in her boarding school's library is brewing in the coastal town last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of Whitby. To best friends Lil revenge for making her find and Vernedeliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it just seems like a particularly bad storm. But Cherry Cherisenotes on each of the books, scribbled with the last ugliest insults she can think of the town. They's guardian witchesre never meant to reach him, fears that ancient forces are workof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, reviving the curse of a long-lost magical artefact and a feud that has survived beyond death…then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BallPhilip Reeve|title=How to Set a Fire Utterly Dark 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 Face of his large garden. She never comes right out and explains why she's there, but if you read between the lines you work out that her father is dead and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified and principled – ''Don't do things you aren't proud of'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes and mostly lives off of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade bread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Bone Sparrow|author=Zana FraillonDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Subhi In a word, rich. There is ten years old. He has lived his whole life certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a detention centre for refugees in Australiapeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. He is Rohingya There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and his mother legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting himmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. They left Subhi's father behind and The current Darks are waiting for him the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to join them. Subhi believes that keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his father is sending him secret messages contained brother Will who lives in London with too much science in tokens that wash up from the Great Sea of his imagination. And these tokens mean a great deal head to Subhi because the camp isnworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs s foundling daughter, who washed up out on a regular basis. There's no school because of the classroom burned downsea one day eleven years ago. And the guards? WellBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, with both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the exception world of Harveyprotecting their island, they are like it or not very nice people.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Caighlan SmithJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the ages far NE of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angelsScottish islands. Every child yearns to Here be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. ClaraVikings, our girl's best friend, is the most devout that kind of everyoneScottish island. She knows she Dad is destined going to become an angel. Our girlbe automating the lantern, thoughwhich is his specialist thing, does not want to while mum will be chosen. In leaving her society, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silentcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. AndJulia, along with Clarawell, chosen she iswill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyJonathan Stroud|title= Nothing Tastes as GoodThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= As warnings against disordered eating go, this one Scarlett McCain is quite interesting. Annabelan outlaw, you seerejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, is already dead when we meet herrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She got too thin But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and one day that was ita darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, her body ceased they plan to flee to functionthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Her mindTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, howeverthe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, is still sharp.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoMercedes Helnwein|title=BlameSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''A small hand in hersGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (As a secret illegitimate daughter of a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in man with a prison – HMP London"real" family, no lessshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. Since the death of the EU and But when she defends a hugerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre her simple existence is changed for the crimes 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. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' No longer can she spend her time writing novels in theresolitude, due to 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 for her life now has a boy in Britainit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellT L Huchu|title= WaveThe Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= WaveRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, set in WW1, tells the story using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the battle dead of the SommeEdinburgh for their living relatives. Although the story spans 100 yearsEver since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, 1st July 1916 but her younger sister and 1st July 2016her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the majority ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7city's children.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothersSoon, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the moment when they are to go over request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the top, as the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story world of magic is a poignant, reflective far bigger and brutally honest account of more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the events which lead missing children and bring an end to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Concentr8Kristen O'Neal|authortitle=William SutcliffeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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