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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoMax Boucherat|title= Crooked KingdomThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori'They dons world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know who we arefind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Not really For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. They don When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary='t know what we've doneI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, what we've managed together… so let's show them they picked the wrong damn fightanswering beat in my heart.''

First things first if you haven't read [[Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yetRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the first book in rocks and plundering the duologywrecks. Mira, you should read it as soon as possiblelike her mother before her, buy it or borrow it before anything else is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and then read Crooked Kingdomany treasure that lies within. Trust meBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, because while Six of Crows is unimaginably cleverthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with diverse characters a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a brilliant heist plotfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Crooked Kingdom is on a whole other levelas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriHarry Allen|title= A Poem for Every Night of the Year|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidating, to children and grown-ups. All those school lessons of dissecting poems in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend to kill the beauty of a well-written poem. This collection is a year-long tour through a vast history of poetry, and gives the reader a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosetti.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ransom Riggs|title= Tales of the PeculiarSun|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control the currents of the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just a few of the brilliant stories to be found in ''Tales of the Peculiar'', all of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world - a place familiar to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]. The stories in this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative way, and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Smith|title=The Darziods' Stone|rating=4

|summary=When the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends Ra Eun Seo lives in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwall. Amelia, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great a North Korean town and, even if it isn't as great as Blackpool, anything she is better than being stuck at home, right? Ryan a talented singer. Life is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded of boys hard and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-crunchers. But he goes along anyway, even if it food is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn't want difficult to be left at home come by himself.And it doesn't take long , so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - tree bark and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead them edible grasses to hidden treasure. And it might well do, but supplement the code will also lead them to something much more dangerous..meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The HypnotistAlexia Casale|authortitle=Laurence AnholtSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=PipIt'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 parents died what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a traffic accident and he has been living in an orphanage ever sincedance performance that was going to change her life. He has only one treasured possession - a battered copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, given and desperate to him by his schoolteacher mother. Thatget back to a life that's how Pip got his name and he has a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling him of his own great expectationsas normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's thanks a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to his ability try to read that Pip finds himself released into sort out, and just the care - well, sold, actually - day to day traumas of old Zachary, who wants a companion for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, all the challenges her body continues to throw at Dead River Farmher to navigate. Lilybelle likes being read So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonSimon Fox|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonDeadlock

|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps AlleyLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory secret place, and join him on the heavy work has taken a toll on his healthrun. He likes They get together, but barely begin to drink an ale or two after worksmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, spending money leaving Archie on the family can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth late express to her younger sister, MegsBrighton, toting a wispy, shy child. Father married again - tin his father was determined to Mildredkeep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a sharp-tongued woman who is free with a beating, particularly if the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care whole heap of themquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Saint DeathLex Croucher|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Anapra is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a slum just outside the Mexican city of Juarezmost delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, right on the border is in love with Bridget (the United Stateskingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. People scrape And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a living working at one or more boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of the American factoriesfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which pay wages so low that workers they can barely feed both truly be themselves. This is where people come to try and find their own way into the US, or pay people traffickers are they destined to do it for them. It's also live a place where the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on the wrong side of the drug cartels.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Haunt MeNick Brooks|authortitle=Liz KesslerPromise Boys

|summary=Some quite difficult themes When the principal (headmaster) of anxietyUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, bullying and self-harm in this beyond three boys find themselves called into the grave love storypolice station as suspects. Each, which seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through themof his murder. Cute But who killed him, and enjoyable.why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Niven1919635017|title=Holding Up the UniverseA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= High school can be far from the easiest place to navigate through for Solomon Klyne isn't a lot of teenagersbad lad, but some have so why is he running around London committing a harder job than others. After the sudden death series of her mother, Libby started eating and she didnrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't stop until she almost killed herself. Years of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, and she is finally ready ll have to return wait to school after almost five years out. Libby is determined get an answer to make up for lost time, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl who can do anything, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her waythe second question because I avoid spoilers. On But I'll answer the surface, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high school guyfirst one: charming but thoughtless, 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 is a nervous ticking time bombfor his grandmother. 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 has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faces, whether it be his own, his family's or any of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katharine McGeePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Thousandth FloorDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The future's brightAnt 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 been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the future's TALL. In 2118football team, New York, life centres around The Towerand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It As they's 1000 stories tallre all fired up, takes up most of straining at the islandleash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is now home to Grand Central stationconfusing for Ant, Central Parkas he doesn't know what his score is, schools, shops, restaurants and gymswhere his achievements in that regard lie. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live on within the tower is He's had a proxy for who you are and how successful youcasual relationship, or at least your parentsa secret one, have become. Higher floors trump lower floorsfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the pinnacle is ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that 1000th floor penthouse's set in stone, owned by Avery he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and her familythe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susin Nielsen1800901232|title=Word Nerd Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre= Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= Ambrose Bukowski is your typical nerd – clever and geeky Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with no friends and appalling dress sense. Howeverher family was happy, to add to his problemsif not prosperous, he's also got a serious nut allergy so when the smartly-dressed man and a slightly insane overprotective mother. When woman came to the school bullies almost kill him by putting village to offer Hahn a peanut job in his sandwich, Ambrose is pulled out of school Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and educated at homeHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Lonely Only, Hanh and bored, life is the other girls were 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 going to work in common other than a love of Scrabble but, as we soon discovershop, this turns out they were to be enough to form work in virtual slavery in an unlikely friendship illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that helps felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them both. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah BiancottiPatrice Lawrence|title=SwarmNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=The Zeroes have found a new homeBrave. If you didnCharlene, the 'heroine't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott Westerfeldof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Margo Lanagan characters and Deborah Biancotti|last time]], they are six super-powered teensreaders both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a guru amongst them pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and generally has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a skill that works best when concerning crowds tempestuous personality may be in need of people. Their home is a night-club – comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one can imbue the simple act such item is part of handing out flyers to it with the magic of his inner voice that tells everyone what they want most to hearplot here, the lighting gal as Charlene is so in tune with technological signals she a wonder knitter, and is practically part making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her rigbelligerence with a store detective, and the DJ herself can feed then force people to give her two days off and feed back to the emotions of the revellersschool, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – well, what exactly happens is an ideal place not for them me to experimentsay, only to enhance their powers remark how sharp and learn every nuance of using them and what that means, they are inviting regular humans to come alongpointy those knitting needles can be. That is, of course, until two brand new Zeroes slip the net – and prove to be quite talented, and more than a little malicious…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124916</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan Graudin|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 the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving and absorbing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kendare BlakeAnn Sei Lin|title= Three Dark CrownsRebel Skies

|summary=Tired Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of ''Big Brother'' the Empire come to drink and ''I'm a Celebritymake merry between their conquests..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittyHowever, something more 'real?' Welcome when a man named Himura arrives to the evolution of reality TV: ''Death tell her that she is Justice'' gives youa Crafter like him, someone with the viewer, power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the power of life and deathEmpire. Listen He asks her to the evidencecome with him, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent and then simply text DIE or LIVE to 7997 (Calls cost £5). Since leave the abolition life of the court system a few years ago, the power of jury dreary servitude that is all she has been given to the peopleknown. Those accused of murder Well, soon Kurara won't have seven days any say in seven cellsthe matter, each with their own particular method of psychological torture. On because the last dayMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, the accused and she is led forced to Cell 7, dominated by flee out into the imposing electric chair in the centreworld. As She joins Himura aboard the public votes pour inOrihime, viewers wait with eager anticipation a sky-ship whose express purpose is to see if there will be hunt down shikigami, and a live execution that evening...whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentMarcus Sedgwick|title=The CatchersWrath|rating=34.5

|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert is wandering along perfectly happily in his very normal twelve-year-old lifeMeet Fitz, when a sprite suddenly appears in his bedroomyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The sprite Lockdown is followed by a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his bedroombest friend, Cassie. There's They were half of a knock at desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the door, so Jamie takes enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the sprite and opens itearth. Down a passage, Jamie finds an old man wearing a pointy hat who introduces himself, grandly, as ''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhich, Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Magic and Mythical creature catchers department, end of the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branch''. Jamie world is in Magictasium. After already a brief magical interlude with Colin and Trixiedone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, a teenage witch, Colin returns homenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born ScaredTori Bovalino|authortitle=Kevin BrooksThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Everything scares Elliott. And by everything, we really mean ''everything'Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Elliott What makes it worse is not afraid of his mumthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, his aunt and his doctora man Tess hates. And that's As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-itnotes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Imagine that. Being frightened They're never meant to reach him, of your roomcourse. Of colours. Of noises. Of most things around youHer plan is to get her anger out like this, no matter how everyday and mundane they are. This is the natural state of things for Elliottthen take them all off before delivering them. And No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's been that way since he was born prematurely and his twin, Ellamay, diedt delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Very Good ChancePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Minty isn't having In a great time at homeword, rich. It's quite clearThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, from beyond the hissing conversations in other rooms Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the looming silencesDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, that her parents' marriage is in troublewhere no ship dare sail. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to Minty. School is a bit keep notes of a boreactivity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, unless itand Andrewe's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralunga. Minty needs an escape.foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago.But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014781</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Double Down (Lois Lane) Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Gwenda BondJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lois Lane is doing pretty well in Metropolis. The oppositionalJulia, troubleour pre-seeking army brat we first met in [[Fallout (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond|Fallout]] teen heroine, has made some friends, got a job as a cub reporter on ''The Daily Scoop'' been packed off with her parents and even exposed their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a scandal at her schoolsummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Her online relationship with Dad is going to be automating the mysterious Smallville Guy lantern, which is also going pretty well. But his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her army general father and her school principal are both still keeping a weather eye on Loiscareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And newspaper editor Perry White is putting her under pressure for a new story..Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023690</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Natasha FarrantJonathan Stroud|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride Outlaws Scarlett 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 RoomBrowne|rating= 4.5

|summary= Sixteen-year-old Anna lives Scarlett McCain is an ordinaryoutlaw, uneventful life with her workaholic mother after her father left them both years before without a single word sincerejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. However Anna's simple life is suddenly changed when But then she receives meets Albert Browne, a letter from Edie, her father's girlfriend, telling her that he has died dark boy with dark powers and she would like for a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to meet. Anna isn't sure how flee to feel at first – she was estranged from her father but the news has still come as a shockmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, and so Anna agrees to meet Edie and they start up an unlikely friendship. Edie is eccentric and warm must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and offers Anna all the companionship she lacks with her own unemotional mother, so much so that Anna manages horrors of post-apocalyptic society to gather up reach the courage to tell Edie about Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the troublesome secret she has been carrying deep inside her.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405818</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CallMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Peadar o GuilinSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=The Aes Sidhe are backGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. And in their quest As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed not being a magical seal around the entire island. Nobody can get priority in or out. North? South? Doesnpeople't matter any mores lives. What does matter is ''The Call''. At some point during adolescenceBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, every teenager her simple existence is transported to the Sidhe realm, that grey, colourless land to which they were banished thousands of years beforechanged for good. If they No longer can evade the vengeful faerie kind she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a full day (just three minutes boy in the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children surviveit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GrayT L Huchu|title=The OtherlifeLibrary of the Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= Ben has Ropa Moyo is a dark gift: he can see the Otherlifeghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a world bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of ancient Norse mythsschool, she's been using it to support not only herself, wildness but her younger sister and dangerher aging grandmother. It means freedom from examsHowever, warring parentsthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, and everyonetargeting the city's impossible expectationschildren. Then Ben meets HobieSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a charming, ruthless bullymissing boy at the request of his dead mother. HeShe will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's a born mischief-maker who always gets away with it. Hobie has everything he could possibly wantve imagined. Except Will she find the Otherlife. And he'll do anything missing children and bring an end to be a part of this evil, or will it. Anything.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SmithKristen O'Neal|title=Boy XLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=When Ash McCarthy wakes up in some sort of medical facility he immediately knows something is wrong. But he doesn't suspect just how much until he steps outside and finds himself on a remote tropical island. Then he smells the blood and begins to find the bodies. A deadly virus has been released and, to make matters worse, it's being taken off the island to be sold as a weapon that could wipe out humanity. The antidote is being taken with it and, unless Ash can stop them within 24 hours, everyone on the island who has been infected (including Ash's mum) will die.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katharine Corr and Elizabeth Corr|title=The Witch's Kiss|rating= 4

|summary= Merry is an average teenagerHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. Shejoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's also a witch. She's trying not to be, but an online support group where she istalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Then Jack comes into her life They talk about their troubles and she can't help falling under his spell. One problem – he's part of each other out, while also providing an evil, centuries-old curse that Merry now has escape to breakjust joke and mess around. If Merry has lost When Brigid—one of her heartclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, will she lose Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her life too? Or can true loveparents's kiss save 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 car and Warriors Book 5) |rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle Paverdrive to Brigid's Gods and Warriors series has arrivedhouse to check up on her. This series But what she doesn't expect to find there is set a werewolf in the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of the mainland (Mycenaean) basement – and Crete (Minoan). Our two central characters represent both: Hylas, the boy searching for his sister, is Mycenaean, and Pirra, the daughter of a high priestess, is Minoan. Together, they are trying that werewolf to defeat be the evil Crows who are ravaging lands far and wide. But girl she has been talking 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 online for the peoplepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>1683692349

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 Flanagan|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 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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]