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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BarnardMax Boucherat|title= A Quiet Kind The Last Life of ThunderLori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Steffi has just started a) sixth form and b) medication for her anxiety. ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's all rather trickygot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, as you can imaginebabysitter poorly, particularly as Temmother at work, Steffi's best just an avidly rule- wellbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, only - friend she has enrolled at the local FE college to do an NVQ one main intention, and so Steffi that is all by herself. On the first day, a teacher introduces Steffi to Rhyslog on to Voxminer, a new boy to the school and also just starting sixth form. Rhys world-building, critter-collecting game that is deaf and Steffi knows a little bit of sign language, hence the introductionhit in Lori's world. Both kids have communication barriers - Rhys can But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't hear find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and Steffi, who suffers from selective mutism her bestie and severe anxiety, often can't talknobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.And they fall into friendship When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, attractionand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, and love. But it's where is a rocky road...girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509810986</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryRachel Greenlaw|title=The X-Files Origins: Devil's AdvocateCompass and Blade

|summary=Dana Scully ''I can be added to hear the song of the list sea. The call of teenaged people upset by their family moving home the deep, the answering beat in those key yearsmy heart. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic school to ' Rosevear, a regularremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, secular school elsewherelike her mother before her, but echoes is one of religion are still everywhere the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new homerescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But it's inside that when the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana is seeing visions that could be claimed Council Watch lays a trap to be precognitiveend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and dreams possibly peopled by a satanic angel figureMira's father. That would all be troubling enoughDesperate to save him from death, but school children are dying in allegedly drug-fuelled car wrecks that nobody can really believe in, so straight-edged are the victims – and Dana Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is having even more troubling experiences as a result. Working out the cause charming as he is secretive and effect here could fill an X-Filewith only coordinates to guide her, but she sets off in search of course we're a family secret that lies buried deep in the years long before those existsea. Dana With only nine days to unearth what might well 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 on determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her own in her investigations..home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami GarciaHarry Allen|title=The X-Files Origins: Agent Children of Chaosthe Sun|rating=45

|summary=Give Ra Eun Seo lives in a person North Korean town and she is a book and you might change their daytalented singer. Give the right person the right book Life is hard and you might change their life. That food is the philosophy of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has difficult to a best schoolmate. He may well appear to be a wacky – some could even go as far as saying Spooky – conspiracy nut, with some novel manner in home security, but he certainly swears that the truth to his wife's deathcome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and so much more, is either out there, or in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novel. It's a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself inMin go foraging every evening, looking for he is eternally frustrated at the lack of effort he sees in the search for his own baby sister. But before he can settle back with his new read, tree bark and before The Major can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt in new, local cases of child kidnap, that even though he and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Earle |title=Mind The Gap |rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary= When Mikey's dad dies, he stops caring about anything. Indeed, he becomes so desperate edible grasses to feel something that he deliberately provokes supplement the one person on the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for him. Mikey's best mate also ends up in a pool meagre rations of blood. But that doesn't matter because his friend has already lost something more important. He lost Mikey when his dad died rice and he's determined to find a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extract, or a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voicekimchi at home. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren David Alexia Casale|title=The LiarSing if you Can's Handbook t Dance

|summary=Everyone tells River It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that heyou's re having to navigate a liar life-changing disability too, but he doesnthat't see it that way – as far as River s what Ven is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill dealing with after collapsing on stage in the gaps in what he knowsmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. His lies are harmless: unlike But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the lies pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that his mum's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new boyfriend(cute!) boy in school, Jasonher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, tells. Jason is a total fake and River is on a crusade just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to expose himnavigate. However, River's investigation doesn So even though she can't work out as planned. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father and the police) but will anyone believe himdance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanSimon Fox|title=CharismaDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Charismatic Late one night Graham Blake is exactly what Aislyn was not. She was shy, to late back from his shift on the extent that she panicked when she was in large crowds. This shyness clearly affected herforce, 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 friendthen suddenly rings Archie, Eviedemanding he fetch something from a secret place, knows just how bad it is and has tried multiple ways to help herjoin him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to no avail. So, naturally, smell the whiff of Southern trains when Aislyn the father is offered Charismaarrested, an underground drug with a guarantee leaving Archie on the late express to bring her out of her shellBrighton, she accepts it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johanna Handley|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' toting a tin his 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 determined to shield her keep away from the scary outside world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johanna Handley|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 nowhis colleagues, 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 bearer of a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside worldwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyLex Croucher|title=No VirginGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=This book, although rather short, managed to put its message across clearly. Who knew that what I was interested really needed to read thisright now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, as it is a theme that I had not read before lifted my spirits in a bookmost delightful way. I found it very difficult to read at times In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, but I always found myself turning the next page a minute after the last. I was quite nervous much to read thistheir mutual disgust! Gwen, but after I had finishedyou see, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it - it showed me is in love with Bridget (the mindkingdom's only female knight) -set of the main character after something that Art discovers from her experienceprivate diaries. I found this an interesting and unique book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405788</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Song from Somewhere Else|author=A F Harrold and Levi Pinfold|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=If you were being stalked by And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the school bully and his two sidekicks, and if a kindly soul rescued you from them subterfuge of falling in the parklove with each other, you'd be grateful, right? Or would you? Frank knows she should be grateful when Nick rescues her from Neil Noble and his acolytes Rob and Royreally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But she also knows that Nick - laughed at for being flea-ridden and smelly at school - is not as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a person you'd want to way in which they can both truly be associated with. So Frank intends themselves, or are they destined to say thanks and get the heck out of Nick's house as quickly as she can...live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853361</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarNick Brooks|authortitle=Nicola YoonPromise Boys

|summary=Natasha When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a rationalist. She thinks life is all about observable facts: data and murdered, three boys find themselves called into the effective analysis of itpolice station as suspects. In fact Each, seemingly, she wants to become has a data analyst grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and help make each could have been there at the world a better place through the evidence-based policies that will flow from ittime of his murder. But this ambition is looking less likely now. Because Natasha is an undocumented immigrant to New Yorkwho killed him, the authorities have found out about it thanks to her reckless fatherand why, and unless there's a miracleif any of the boys are innocent, Natasha will they be deported back able to Jamaica in just twelve hours.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Leigh Bardugo1919635017|title= Crooked KingdomA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''They donSolomon Klyne isn't know who we are. Not really. They don't know what we've donea bad lad, what we've managed together… so letwhy is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's show them they picked ll have to wait to get an answer to the wrong damn fightsecond question because I avoid spoilers.But I'' First things first if you haven't read [[Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yet, ll answer 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 Kingdomone: for his grandmother.. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= A Poem Different for Every Night of the YearBoys|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Rhymes and VerseTeens |summary=Poetry can feel Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a little intimidatingstandard school, and is surprised to children 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 football team, and grown-upstwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. All those As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school lessons of dissecting poems can form, the talk in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word class and stylistic form tend out often turns to kill the beauty of a well-written poemsex. This collection Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a year-long tour through casual relationship, a vast history of poetrysecret one, for several months now, and gives so has effectively progressed up the reader a new poem to try every nightladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosetti.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ransom Riggs1800901232|title= Tales of the PeculiarStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= A forkTwelve-year-tongued princessold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. A boy who can control Life in the currents of rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the sea. Cannibals who feast on smartly-dressed man and woman came to the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just to offer Hahn a few of the brilliant stories job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be found in ''Tales of missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the Peculiar''mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, all of which hold mystical information about Hanh and the peculiar world - other girls were not going to work in a place familiar shop, they were to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs work in virtual slavery in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The stories in this collection explore peculiar history ones with the artfully-placed rips and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative way, distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the talesher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard SmithPatrice Lawrence|title=The Darziods' StoneNeedle|rating=43

|summary=When Brave. Charlene, the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer to include Harryheroine's friends in their trip of this piece is extremely hard for some people to Tredock Cove in Cornwall. Amelialike, Mitch characters and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes andschools, even if it isnshe't as great as Blackpools fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, anything is better than being stuck at homeAnnie, right? Ryan is less convinced. Heand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's not at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the most open-minded creation of boys one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is making something full of carrot-crunchers. But he goes along anyway, even if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesnlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she't want to be left at home by himself.And it doesn't take long for the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much s allowed contact with no more exciting - and frightening. The kids find We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a secret code store detective, and become convinced that cracking it will lead them then force people to hidden treasuregive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And it might then... well do, but the code will also lead them what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to something much more dangerousremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The HypnotistAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Laurence AnholtRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Pip's parents died in Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a traffic accident and he has been living massive dining hall floating in an orphanage ever since. He has only one treasured possession - a battered copy the sky where soldiers of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, given the Empire come to him by his schoolteacher motherdrink and make merry between their conquests. That's how Pip got his name and he has However, when a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling him of his own great expectations. It's thanks man named Himura arrives to his ability to read tell her that Pip finds himself released into the care - well, sold, actually - of old Zachary, who wants she is a companion for his bedridden wifeCrafter like him, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farm. Lilybelle likes being read someone with the power to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Clover Moon|author=Jacqueline Wilson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps Alley, form paper into whatever she desires – a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory and power sought after all across the heavy work has taken a toll on his healthEmpire. He likes asks her to drink an ale or two after workcome with him, spending money to leave the family can barely affordlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. CloverWell, soon Kurara won's mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Megst have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a wispyshikigami, shy childand she is forced to flee out into the world. Father married again - to MildredShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sharpsky-tongued woman who ship whose express purpose is free with a beatingto hunt down shikigami, particularly if the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care a whole world of them.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreview|title=Saint DeathFrontpage

|summary=Anapra is Meet Fitz, a slum just outside the Mexican city young Scottish lad full of Juarez, right on the border with the United States. People scrape a living working frustration at one or more of the American factories, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselveshimself. This Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where people come to try he wants and find their own way into the USwith whom he wants, or pay people traffickers but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to do it for themhis best friend, Cassie. It's They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a place where subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on of the wrong side world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the drug cartels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Haunt Me|author=Liz Kessler|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Some quite difficult themes music she's dreaming of anxiety, bullying and self-harm in this beyond ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the grave love storytruth? Well, which at the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through themnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Cute and enjoyable.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>1800900899

{{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 school after almost five years out. Libby is determined to make up for lost time, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl the man who can do anything, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her wayrequested the books: Mr Birch. On the surface, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high The boarding school guy: charming but thoughtless, superficial's headmaster, 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 bombman Tess hates. Every day is As a struggle to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself petty act of revenge for making her find and the people around him. Because Jack has prosopagnosia, deliver such a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faceslarge request, whether Tess sticks post-it be his own, his family's or any notes on each of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katharine McGee|title= The Thousandth Floor|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The future's brightbooks, and scribbled with the future's TALL. In 2118, New York, life centres around The Towerugliest insults she can think of. ItThey's 1000 stories tallre never meant to reach him, takes up most of the island, and course. Her plan is now home to Grand Central station, Central Park, schools, shopsget her anger out like this, restaurants and gymsthen take them all off before delivering them. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live on within the tower is a proxy No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenPhilip Reeve|title=Word Nerd Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|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 problemsIn a word, he's also got a serious nut allergy and a slightly insane overprotective motherrich. When the school bullies almost kill him by putting a peanut in his sandwich, Ambrose There is pulled out certainly an abundance 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 riches in common other than this story set on a love of Scrabble peculiar island called Wildsea, British butway west, as we soon discover, this turns out to be enough to form an unlikely friendship that helps them bothbeyond the Scillies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Scott WesterfeldThere are troll people on it, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti|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 supersea-powered teenswitches, with a guru amongst them and generally a skill legends of the Dark family that works best when concerning crowds of peoplehas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Their home is a night-club – one can imbue The current Darks are the simple act Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of handing out flyers to it with activity from the magic of Hidden Lands, his inner voice that tells everyone what they want most to hear, the lighting gal is so brother Will who lives in tune London with technological signals she is practically part of her rigtoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and the DJ herself can feed off and feed back to the emotions Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the revellerssea one day eleven years ago. But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – is an ideal place for them to experimentwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, to enhance their powers both his sullen brother and learn every nuance his curious ward are thrust into the world of using them and what that meansprotecting their island, they are inviting regular humans to come alonglike it or not. 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>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Blood for BloodJulia and the Shark

|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? InterestingJulia, 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: Katharineour pre-teen heroine, Arsinoe and Mirabella, 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 queens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I'll Be Home For Christmas|author=Benjamin Zephaniah and Others|rating=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 and fear, some warming the cockles of your heart. But all of them are about ''home''alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry DreweryJonathan Stroud|title= Cell 7The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|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

|summary=Minty isn't having a great time at home. It's quite clearHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, from Priya has to come to terms with the hissing conversations fact that she may be in other rooms and constant pain for the looming silences, that rest of her parentslife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'' marriage is in trouble, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to Mintyjust joke and mess around. School is a bit When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a borewhile, unless itPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralunga. Minty needs an escape.house to check up on her.But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014781</amazonuk>1683692349