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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Max Boucherat|title=Mind The Gap Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary= When MikeyWe meet Lori on the first evening she's dad diesgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, he stops caring about anythingmother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Indeed What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, he becomes so desperate and that is to feel something that he deliberately provokes the one person log on to Voxminer, the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for him. Mikeyworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's best mate also ends up in a pool of bloodworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't matter because his friend has already lost find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more importantspooky. He lost Mikey when his dad died For the server she and he's determined her bestie and nobody else should be able to find a way to bring his best friend backenter shows signs of tampering. That's why he sets off When malevolent eyes spark up on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movieher phone screen, a radio extractand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, or where is a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend girl to remember his dad's voice. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it beturn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren David Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Liar's Handbook Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Everyone tells River that he's a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill in I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the gaps answering beat in what he knowsmy heart. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriend' Rosevear, Jasona remote and partially forgotten island, tellssurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Jason Mira, like her mother before her, is a total fake one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and River is on any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a crusade trap to expose him. Howeverend the wrecking, Riverthey capture the island's investigation doesnleader and Mira't work out s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as plannedhe is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological With only nine days to unearth what might save her father , as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the police) but will anyone believe him?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanHarry Allen|title=CharismaChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Charismatic Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is exactly what Aislyn was nota talented singer. She was shy, Life is hard and food is difficult to the extent that she panicked when she was in large crowds. This shyness clearly affected hercome by, so Seo and at the beginning of the book it showed how much of an impact it would have on her future had it been left untreated. Her best friendfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Evie, knows just how bad it is looking for tree bark and has tried multiple ways edible grasses to help her, but to no avail. So, naturally, when Aislyn is offered Charisma, an underground drug with a guarantee to bring her out supplement the meagre rations of her shell, she accepts itrice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyAlexia Casale|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's family. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxic,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanket. So for now, it's James and Juniper against the world. Well, it would be, Sing if James hadnyou Can't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johanna Handley|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Dance|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's family. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxic,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanket. So for now, it's James and Juniper against the world. Well, it would be, if James hadn't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=No Virgin|rating=4

|summary=This book, although rather short, managed It's hard enough to put its message across clearly. I was interested navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to read thisnavigate a life-changing disability too, as it but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a theme dance performance that I had not read before in a bookwas going to change her life. I found it very difficult But she comes back fighting, desperate to read at timesavoid the pity stares, but I always found myself turning the next page and desperate to get back to a minute after the lastlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. I was quite nervous Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to read thissort out, but after I had finished, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it - it showed me and just the mind-set day to day traumas of all the main character after challenges her body continues to throw at her experience. I found this an interesting and unique bookto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405788</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Song from Somewhere ElseSimon Fox|authortitle=A F Harrold and Levi PinfoldDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=If you were being stalked by Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the school bully force, and his two sidekicksthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and if a kindly soul rescued you from them in join him on the parkrun. They get together, you'd be grateful, right? Or would you? Frank knows she should be grateful but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when Nick rescues her from Neil Noble and his acolytes Rob and Roy. But she also knows that Nick - laughed at for being flea-ridden and smelly at school - the father is not arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a person you'd want tin his father was determined to be associated with. So Frank intends to say thanks keep away from his colleagues, and get the heck out bearer of Nick's house as quickly as she can..a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853361</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarLex Croucher|authortitle=Nicola YoonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Natasha is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a rationalist. She thinks life is all about observable facts: data and the effective analysis of gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In factthis story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, she wants much to become a data analyst and help make their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the world a better place through the evidencekingdom's only female knight) -based policies something that will flow Art discovers from ither private diaries. But this ambition is looking less likely now. Because Natasha is an undocumented immigrant to New York And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the authorities have found out about it thanks to her reckless fathersubterfuge of falling in love with each other, and unless there's a miraclewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Natasha will they find a way in which they can both truly be deported back themselves, or are they destined to Jamaica in just twelve hours.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoNick Brooks|title= Crooked Kingdom|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=''They don't know who we are. Not really. They don't know what we've done, what we've managed together… so let's show them they picked the wrong damn fight.'' First things first if you haven't read [[Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yet, the first book in the duology, you should read it as soon as possible, buy it or borrow it before anything else and then read Crooked Kingdom. Trust me, because while Six of Crows is unimaginably clever, with diverse characters and a brilliant heist plot, Crooked Kingdom is on a whole other level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Allie Esiri|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 Peculiar|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' StonePromise Boys

|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelledis murdered, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwallthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Amelia Each, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great andseemingly, even if it isn't as great as Blackpoolhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, anything is better than being stuck and each could have been there at home, right? Ryan is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded time of boys and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-crunchershis murder. But he goes along anywaywho killed him, even and why, and if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn't want to be left at home by himself.And it doesn't take long for any of the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead them to hidden treasure. And it might well doboys are innocent, but the code will also lead them they be able to something much more dangerous...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The HypnotistA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Laurence AnholtKitt Townsend

|summary=PipSolomon Klyne isn's parents died in t a traffic accident and bad lad, so why is he has been living in an orphanage ever since. He has only one treasured possession - running around London committing a battered copy series of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, given to him by his schoolteacher mother. That's robberies? And how Pip got his name and did he has a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling him of his own great expectations. Itlearn to crack safes? You's thanks ll have to his ability wait to get an answer to read that Pip finds himself released into the care - well, sold, actually - of old Zachary, who wants a companion second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farmgrandmother.. Lilybelle likes being read to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Clover Moon lives Ant is in Cripps AlleyYear 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, a slum street so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in Victorian Englandfact they all go back to primary school days together. Her father works As they're all fired up, straining at the factory leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the heavy work has taken a toll on out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his healthachievements in that regard lie. He likes to drink an ale or two after work's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, spending money and so has effectively progressed up the family ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can barely afford't be sure. Clover And that's mother died giving birth mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her younger sisterfamily was happy, Megsif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a wispy, shy childjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Father married again Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini- bus to MildredHanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a sharpshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-tongued woman who workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is free extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a beatingpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, particularly if you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the beating goes plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to Clovergive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Clover And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has another four half-siblings spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and itmake merry between their conquests. However, when 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 power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's Clovert 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 world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, rather than Mildreda sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, who takes care and a whole world of them.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreview|title=Saint DeathFrontpage

|summary=Anapra Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a slum only just outside the Mexican city over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of Juareza desultory school band, right on but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the border with enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the United Statesearth. People scrape a living working at Is this connected with one or more of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the American factories, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselves. This world is where people come to try and find their own way into the US, or pay people traffickers to do already a done deal? Is it for them. Itsome spooky new kind of music she's also a place where dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the drug cartels run everything and things dontruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't end well if you get on the wrong side of the drug cartels...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreview|title=Haunt Me|author=Liz Kessler|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Some quite difficult themes 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>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer NivenTori Bovalino|title=Holding Up the UniverseThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= High Working all summer in her boarding school can be far from 's library is the easiest place last thing Tess Matheson wants to navigate through do — especially when she gets a request for over a lot of teenagers, but some have a harder job than others. After the sudden death of her mother, Libby started eating and hundred books that she didn't stop until she almost killed has to deliver herself. Years of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, and she What makes it worse is finally ready to return to the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school after almost five years out. Libby is determined to make up for lost time's headmaster, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl who can do anything, man Tess hates. As a girl whose confidence petty act of revenge for making her find and self-esteem is immune to anything that deliver such a few idiot high schoolers might throw her way. On the surfacelarge request, Jack Masselin seems like Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the archetypal idiot high school guy: charming but thoughtless, superficialbooks, and far too concerned scribbled with fitting in the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm and swaggerreach him, Jack is a nervous ticking time bombof course. Every day Her plan is a struggle to get throughher anger out like this, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself and the people around himthen take them all off before delivering them. Because Jack has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faces, whether No harm done… Or it would be his own, his familyif someone hadn's or any of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded byt delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katharine McGeePhilip Reeve|title= The Thousandth Floor|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The future's bright, Utterly Dark and the future's TALL. In 2118, New York, life centres around The Tower. It's 1000 stories tall, takes up most Face 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 and her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=Word Nerd Deep

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ambrose Bukowski In a word, rich. There is your typical nerd – clever certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and geeky with their monster approaching from even further west, where no friends and appalling dress senseship dare sail. HoweverThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to add keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to his problemsworry about such local yokel superstitions, heand Andrewe'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 sandwichfoundling daughter, Ambrose is pulled who washed up out of school and educated at homethe sea one day eleven years ago. Lonely But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother 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 curious ward are thrust into the two have nothing in common other than a love world of Scrabble butprotecting their island, as we soon discover, this turns out to be enough to form an unlikely friendship that helps them bothlike it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Deborah BiancottiTom de Freston|title=Swarm|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Zeroes have found a new home. If you didn't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti|last time]], they are six super-powered teens, with a guru amongst them and generally a skill that works best when concerning crowds of people. Their home is a night-club – one can imbue the simple act of handing out flyers to it with the magic of his inner voice that tells everyone what they want most to hear, the lighting gal is so in tune with technological signals she is practically part of her rig, and the DJ herself can feed off and feed back to the emotions of the revellers. But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – is an ideal place for them to experiment, to enhance their powers Julia and learn every nuance of using them and what that means, they are inviting regular humans to come along. 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 BloodShark

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kendare Blake|title= Three Dark Crowns|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= ''Three Dark Crowns'' is a high class fantasy novel following a set of triplets: KatharineJulia, Arsinoe and Mirabellaour pre-teen heroine, who are each gifted has been packed off with specific magic her parents and are equal heirs to their cat from the crown. Katharine is a poisoner with the ability family home in SW England to ingest the deadliest poisons, be lighthousekeepers for a girl who cannot die. Meanwhilesummer, Arsinoe is a naturalist, who has in the power to bloom flowers and control far NE of the fiercest animalsScottish islands. Finally Here be Vikings, Mirabella that kind of Scottish island. Dad is an elemental, one gifted with the ability to create fire and incredible storms powerful enough going to topple buildings. On be automating the island of Fennbirnlantern, as which is traditionhis specialist thing, 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 while mum will be leaving her career in the fight algae behind to hunt the death against the other sisterselusive Greenland shark. On the night of the sisters'sixteenth birthday And Julia, well, they she will each begin their quest to secure the throne be homesick and become the rightful Queen. While the crown awaits the victor, death awaits the two weaker queensalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreview|title=I'll Be Home For ChristmasFrontpage|author=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersJonathan Stroud|ratingtitle=5|genre=Teens|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 of the most popular writers on the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by the theme 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 people, 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 Outlaws Scarlett and fear, some warming the cockles of your heart. But all of them are about ''home''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kerry Drewery|title= Cell 7Browne

|summary=Tired of ''Big Brother'' and ''I'm a Celebrity..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittyScarlett McCain is an outlaw, something more 'real?' Welcome to rejecting the evolution draconian conformity of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives you, the viewer, the power of life Surviving Towns and death. Listen Faith Houses to wander the evidencewildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent robbing banks and then simply text DIE or LIVE shooting other outlaws to 7997 (Calls cost £5)keep herself alive. Since the abolition of the court system But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a few years agodarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the power mythical Free Isles of jury has been given to the peopleLondon Lagoon. Those accused of murder have seven days in seven cellsTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, each with their own particular method of psychological torture. On the last day, cannibalistic Tainted and all the accused is led horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Cell 7, dominated by the imposing electric chair in the centre. As reach the public votes pour inFree Isles, viewers wait with eager anticipation to see if there but will they be a live execution that evening...any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentMercedes Helnwein|title=The CatchersSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert is wandering along perfectly happily in his very normal twelve-year-old lifeGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, when a sprite suddenly appears in his bedroom. The sprite she is followed by used to not being a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also priority in his bedroom. Therepeople's a knock at the door, so Jamie takes the sprite and opens itlives. Down But when she defends a passagerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, Jamie finds an old man wearing a pointy hat who introduces himself, grandly, as ''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhich, of the Magic and Mythical creature catchers department, of the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branch''her simple existence is changed for good. Jamie is No longer can she spend her time writing novels in Magictasium. After a brief magical interlude with Colin and Trixiesolitude, for her life now has a teenage witch, Colin returns home..boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born ScaredT L Huchu|authortitle=Kevin BrooksThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Everything scares ElliottRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. And by everythingEver since she dropped out of school, we really mean she''everything''. Elliott is s been using it to support not afraid of his mumonly herself, his aunt but her younger sister and his doctorher aging grandmother. And thatHowever, there's it. Imagine that. Being frightened an evil stalking the ruined streets of your room. Of colours. Of noisesEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. Of most things around youSoon, no matter how everyday and mundane they are. This Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the natural state request of things for Elliotthis dead mother. And itShe 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 been that way since he was born prematurely ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and his twinbring an end to this evil, Ellamay, died. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Very Good ChanceKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

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