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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Haunt MeFrontpage|author=Liz KesslerMax Boucherat|rating=4|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Some quite difficult themes The Last Life of anxiety, bullying and self-harm in this beyond the grave love story, which at the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through them. Cute and enjoyable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Niven|title=Holding Up the UniverseLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= High school can be far from the easiest place to navigate through for a lot of teenagers, but some have a harder job than others. After We meet Lori on the sudden death of her mother, Libby started eating and first evening she didn't stop until she almost killed s got the house to herself. Years of doctors– no neighbour to pop in, counsellors and psychologistsbabysitter poorly, combined with determinationmother at work, sweat and tearsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and she is finally ready to return to school after almost five years outon her lonesome. Libby is determined to make up for lost time What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl who can do anythinghas one main intention, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem that is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her way. On the surfacelog on to Voxminer, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high school guy: charming but thoughtlessworld-building, superficial, and far too concerned with fitting in to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm and swagger, Jack critter-collecting game that is a nervous ticking time bombhit in Lori's world. Every day is a struggle to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself and the people around him. Because Jack But first Lori has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder tiny inkling that means he canthis stormy night doesn't recognise facesfind herself entirely on her own, whether it and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be his ownable to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, his family's or any of and her safe place in the hundreds of school kids that he game has been doctored – well, where is constantly surrounded by. a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katharine McGeeRachel Greenlaw|title= The Thousandth Floor|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The future's bright, and the future's TALL. In 2118, New York, life centres around The Tower. It's 1000 stories tall, takes up most of the island, and is now home to Grand Central station, Central Park, schools, shops, restaurants and gyms. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live on within the tower is a proxy for who you are and how successful you, or at least your parents, have become. Higher floors trump lower floors, and the pinnacle is that 1000th floor penthouse, owned by Avery Compass and her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=Word Nerd |rating=5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ambrose Bukowski is your typical nerd – clever and geeky with no friends and appalling dress sense. However, to add to his problems, he's also got a serious nut allergy and a slightly insane overprotective mother. When the school bullies almost kill him by putting a peanut in his sandwich, Ambrose is pulled out of school and educated at home. Lonely and bored, life is not looking good for Ambrose until he meets his neighbour's grown up son, Cosmos, who has just been released from prison. Outwardly the two have nothing in common other than a love of Scrabble but, as we soon discover, this turns out to be enough to form an unlikely friendship that helps them both. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti|title=SwarmBlade

|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The Zeroes have found a new homecall of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. If you didn't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld' Rosevear, Margo Lanagan a remote and Deborah Biancotti|last time]]partially forgotten island, they are six super-powered teens, with a guru amongst them survives on luring ships into the rocks and generally a skill that works best when concerning crowds of peopleplundering the wrecks. Their home Mira, like her mother before her, is a night-club – one can imbue of the simple act of handing seven who swim out flyers to it with survey the magic of his inner voice ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that tells everyone what lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they want most capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to hearsave him from death, the lighting gal Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is so in tune secretive and with technological signals only coordinates to guide her, she is practically part sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her rigfather, and as her journey takes her from the DJ herself can feed off and feed back watched streets of foreign islands to the emotions heart of the revellers. But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – is an ideal place for them smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to experiment, stop at nothing to enhance their powers and learn every nuance save the future of using them her home and what that means, they are inviting regular humans to come alongthe ones she holds most dear. That is, of course, until two brand new Zeroes slip the net – and prove to be quite talented, and more than a little malicious…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124916</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinHarry Allen|title=Blood for Blood|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Second and final book in sequence set in a world where Germany won WW2 and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humans. Can Yael defeat Children of the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving and absorbing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kendare Blake|title= Three Dark CrownsSun|rating= 5

|summary= ''Three Dark Crowns'' is a high class fantasy novel following Ra Eun Seo lives in a set of triplets: Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella, who are each gifted with specific magic North Korean town and are equal heirs to the crown. Katharine she is a poisoner with the ability to ingest the deadliest poisons, a girl who cannot dietalented singer. Meanwhile, Arsinoe Life is a naturalist, who has the power to bloom flowers hard and control the fiercest animals. Finally, Mirabella food is an elementaldifficult to come by, one gifted with the ability to create fire so Seo and her friends Nari and incredible storms powerful enough to topple buildings. On the island of Fennbirn, as is traditionMin go foraging every evening, the queens are separated at the age of nine looking for tree bark and fostered by families who share their magic. From that point onwards, they are each trained edible grasses to use their magic as a weapon in supplement the fight to the death against the other sisters. On the night meagre rations of the sisters'sixteenth birthday, they will each begin their quest to secure the throne rice and become the rightful Queen. While the crown awaits the victor, death awaits the two weaker queenskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I'll Be Home For ChristmasAlexia Casale|authortitle=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Ire having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of the most popular writers s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by the theme middle of homea dance performance that was going to change her life. What does home mean But she comes back fighting, desperate to you? Is it your houseavoid the pity stares, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things and desperate to get back to different people, a life that's as normal as she canpossibly manage. Meanwhile there't it? The book opens with s a powerful poem by Bookbag favouritenew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Benjamin Zephaniah. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales of hardship and fear, some warming just the cockles day to day traumas of your heartall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But all of them are about So even though she can''home''.t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry DrewerySimon Fox|title= Cell 7Deadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Tired of ''Big Brother'' Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and ''I'm a Celebrity..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something more 'real?' Welcome to the evolution of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives youfrom a secret place, and join him on the viewer, the power of life and deathrun. Listen to the evidence They get together, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent and then simply text DIE or LIVE but barely begin to 7997 (Calls cost £5). Since smell the abolition whiff of Southern trains when the court system a few years agofather is arrested, leaving Archie on the power of jury has been given late express to the people. Those accused of murder have seven days in seven cellsBrighton, each with their own particular method of psychological torture. On the last day, the accused is led toting a tin his father was determined to Cell 7keep away from his colleagues, dominated by and the imposing electric chair in the centre. As the public votes pour in, viewers wait with eager anticipation to see if there will be bearer of a live execution that evening..whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentLex Croucher|title=The CatchersGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54

|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert is wandering along perfectly happily in his very normal twelve-year-old lifeWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, when a sprite suddenly appears it lifted my spirits in his bedroom. The sprite is followed by a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also in his bedroommost delightful way. There's a knock at the door In this story, so Jamie takes the sprite Gwen and opens it. Down a passageArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Jamie finds an old man wearing a pointy hat who introduces himselfmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, grandlyyou see, as is in love with Bridget (the kingdom''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhichs only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, of creating the Magic and Mythical creature catchers department, subterfuge of the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branch''. Jamie is falling in Magictasiumlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. After But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a brief magical interlude with Colin and Trixieway in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a teenage witch, Colin returns home...lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born ScaredNick Brooks|authortitle=Kevin BrooksPromise Boys

|summary=Everything scares ElliottWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And by everything Each, we really mean ''everything''. Elliott is not afraid of his mumseemingly, his aunt and his doctor. And that's it. Imagine that. Being frightened has a grudge of your room. Of colours. Of noises. Of most things around yousome description against Principal Moore, no matter how everyday and mundane they are. This is each could have been there at the natural state time of things for Elliotthis murder. And it's been that way since he was born prematurely But who killed him, and his twinwhy, Ellamayand if any of the boys are innocent, died. will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Very Good ChanceThief to Catch a Killer|author=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldKitt Townsend

|summary=Minty Solomon Klyne isn't having a great time at home. It's quite clear, from the hissing conversations in other rooms and the looming silencesbad lad, that her parents' marriage is in trouble. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that to Minty. School so why is he running around London committing a bit series of a bore, unless itrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralungall have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Minty needs an escapeBut I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014781</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Double Down (Lois Lane) Frontpage|author=Gwenda Bond|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lois Lane is doing pretty well in Metropolis. The oppositional, trouble-seeking army brat we first met in [[Fallout (Lois Lane) 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 her school. Her online relationship with the mysterious Smallville Guy is also going pretty well. But her army general father Patrick Ness and her school principal are both still keeping a weather eye on Lois. And newspaper editor Perry White is putting her under pressure for a new story...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782023690</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Natasha FarrantTea Bendix|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and PrejudiceDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5

|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen Ant is in Year Eleven 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 receivedbeen restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, amongst and two other giftsold muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a diary from her bookish older sister Marysingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. She Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after allt know what his score is, writing where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a diary every day seems such casual relationship, a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in Merytonstone, Lydia decides that there just might he can't be something exciting to write about after all.sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess Vallance1800901232|title= The Yellow RoomStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= SixteenTwelve-year-old Anna lives an ordinary, uneventful life with her workaholic mother after her father left them both years before without Hanh wanted to be a single word sincefashion designer. However Anna's simple life is suddenly changed when Life in the rural village where she receives a letter from Edielived with her family was happy, her father's girlfriendif not prosperous, telling her that he has died so when the smartly-dressed man and she would like for them woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to meetbe missed. Anna isn't sure how to feel at first – she Some money changed hands and Hanh was estranged from her father but on the news has still come as a shockmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and so Anna agrees the other girls were not going to meet Edie and work in a shop, they start up were to work in virtual slavery in an unlikely friendshipillegal garment factory. Edie is eccentric You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and warm and offers Anna beading on the companionship she lacks legs? The ones with her own unemotional mother, so much the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Anna manages to gather up the courage to tell Edie about the troublesome secret she has been carrying deep inside Hanh and herco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Peadar o GuilinNeedle|rating=53

|summary=The Aes Sidhe are backBrave. And in their quest Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to win back Ireland from humankindlike, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandcharacters and readers both. Nobody can get in or Kicked out. North? South? Doesnof multiple homes and schools, she't matter any more. What does matter is ''The Calls fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. At some point during adolescenceSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, every teenager and the creation of one such item is transported to part of the Sidhe realmplot here, that greyas Charlene is a wonder knitter, colourless land to which they were banished thousands and is making something full of years beforelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a full day (just three minutes in the human world) store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then their lives are spared... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Fewer than one in ten children survive.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GrayAnn Sei Lin|title=The OtherlifeRebel Skies

|summary= Ben Kurara has spent her entire life as a dark gift: he can see servant on the OtherlifeMidori, a world massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of ancient Norse myths, wildness the Empire come to drink and dangermake merry between their conquests. It means freedom from examsHowever, warring parents, and everyone's impossible expectations. Then Ben meets Hobiewhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a charming, ruthless bullypower sought after all across the Empire. He's a born mischief-maker who always gets away asks her to come with it. Hobie him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has everything he could possibly wantknown. Except Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Otherlifeworld. And he'll do anything She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to be hunt down shikigami, and a part whole world of it. Anything.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SmithMarcus Sedgwick|title=Boy XWrath

|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=When Ash McCarthy wakes up in some sort Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of medical facility he immediately knows something frustration at himself. Lockdown is wrong. But he doesn't suspect only just how much until he steps outside over, and finds himself on a remote tropical island. Then he smells the blood and begins should be free to find the bodies. A deadly virus has been released anddo what he wants, to make matters worsego where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it's being taken off the island when he talks to be sold as his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a weapon that desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could wipe out humanityhear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. The antidote Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is being taken with already a done deal? Is it and, unless Ash some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can stop them within 24 hoursFitz find out the truth? Well, everyone on the island who not when Cassie has been infected (including Ashgone missing he can's mum) will diet...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489042</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katharine Corr and Elizabeth CorrTori Bovalino|title=The Witch's KissDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5

|summary= Merry is an average teenager. SheWorking all summer in her boarding school's also library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a witchhundred books that she has to deliver herself. SheWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's trying not to beheadmaster, but she isand a man Tess hates. Then Jack comes into As a petty act of revenge for making her life find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can't help falling under his spellthink of. One problem – heThey's part re never meant to reach him, of an evil, centuries-old curse that Merry now has course. Her plan is to break. If Merry has lost get her heartanger out like this, will she lose her life too? and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or can true loveit would be, if someone hadn's kiss save the day? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PaverPhilip Reeve|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods Utterly Dark and Warriors Book 5) the Face of the Deep

|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle Paver's Gods and Warriors series has arrivedIn a word, rich. This series There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set in on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of the mainland (Mycenaean) Scillies. There are troll people on it, and Crete (Minoan). Our two central characters represent both: Hylassea-witches, and legends of the boy searching Dark family that has to keep watch for his sister, is Mycenaean, magical islands and Pirratheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the daughter of a high priestessWatcher, is Minoan. TogetherAndrewe, they are trying who has to defeat keep notes of activity from the evil Crows Hidden Lands, his brother Will who are ravaging lands far lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and wideAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But to do thatwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, they need to retrieve both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the dagger world of Kronos from deep inside Crow territory. If they failprotecting their island, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones will rule all the land and all the peoplelike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>1788452372

{{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 Kiran Millwood Hargrave 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 and loved. They're finally safe… Until the trees start moving closer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Liz FlanaganTom de Freston|title=Eden Summer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Best friends for longer than they can remember, Jess and Eden have always been there for each other, through the good Julia and the bad, though there's been a lot more of the latter over the last year. They've needed each other for support more than ever. But now, Eden is missing. The police are on the case, but Jess is wracked with worry. Overwhelmed by grief, Eden hasn't been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic and often veering towards 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 and Eden spent together, digging up buried memories and secrets in the hope that they might yield some insight into where her friend might be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Rose in the Blitz|author=Rebecca StevensShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rose's father died a while back. She still misses himJulia, our pre-teen heroine, even though life goes on has been packed off with her parents and her mother is remarrying tomorrow. Rose knows deep down that Sal is their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a nice guy butsummer, butin the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, butthat kind of Scottish island... a wedding? It's sent her into a spin. Sal doesn't smell right. His woolly jumpers are embarrassing. His beard Dad is weird. Rose isn't looking forward going to be automating the wedding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Non Pratt|title=Unboxed|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: Alixlantern, Benwhich is his specialist thing, Dean, Millie and Zara, and they had made a promise to return while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the school where they had hidden a memory box five years later. Only five years later there are only four of them: Millie had died of stomach cancerelusive Greenland shark. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in the boxAnd Julia, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are nowwell, but most of all they're missing Millieshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E K JohnstonJonathan Stroud|title= A Thousand NightsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary=E. K Johnston describes ''1000 Nights'' as a work fashioned around the creation of beautiful crafts charged with magic. She confesses that her setting Scarlett McCain is not historically accuratean outlaw, explaining, ''I cheated a bit, because rejecting the usual date for draconian conformity of the stories ranges from Middle Persian literature Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the Caliphate Erawildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and I set the book about two thousand years before thatshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.'' Her locations are beautifully evoked But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and based on her sensory experiences as an archaeologist in Jordana darker past. A Turkish bath in AmmanWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the Umayyad palace on top mythical Free Isles of the Amman Citadel London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the swirling sands at Wadi Rum are just a few sources she has used horrors of post-apocalyptic society to recreate reach the spirit of Lo Melkhiin's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed with Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the mercurial nature rest of his wife's desert home.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290372</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keren DavidMercedes Helnwein|title= CuckooSlingshot|rating= 53|genre= Teens|summary= Jake is a household name thanks Gracie Welles has resigned herself to his role on the UK's most popular soap operabeing lonely. But his character went upstairs to his bedroom six months ago and never came down againAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, and now Jake she is facing an uncertain future. Add used to that his dad's anger issues, the family's precarious finances and the demands of not being a severely autistic brother; Jakepriority in people's home feels like lives. But when she defends a powder keg waiting to exploderandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. It's easier to No longer can she spend nights on friends' sofas and futonsher time writing novels in solitude, but what happens when you feel like for her life now has a cuckoo boy in every nest?it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonT L Huchu|title= All About The HypeLibrary of the Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= Jessie JeffersonRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, daughter using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I first got Scottish pragmatism) to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] has left take messages from the UK behind to move to the City dead of Angels and be with her long-lost, recently-rediscovered fatherEdinburgh for their living relatives. As the third book in the ''Jessie'' offshootEver since she dropped out of school, thereshe's a bit of back story been using it to be had but long story short, she grew up support not knowing about himonly herself, but then her mother died in horrible circumstances younger sister and one thing led to another and it all came out in the washher aging grandmother. NowHowever, a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two half-brothers. |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 there's an evil stalking the planet and every aspect ruined streets of life is controlled by Edinburgh, targeting the governmentcity's children. Soon, policed by Ropa is pulled into the strict, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long search for sunshine, fresh air and a missing boy at the freedom request of a life only vaguely remembered by a fewhis dead mother. But a game of dares leads them to discover She will end up discovering an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing occult library and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across the darkened skies in a hand-built glider, in search of realise that 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 magic is not at all what they thought it would be, far bigger and is a discovery that more dangerous than she ever could expose 've imagined. Will she find the governments' lies missing children and save a dying planet.bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenKristen O'Neal|title=We Are All Made of Molecules Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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