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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Life in a FishbowlMax Boucherat|authortitle=Len VlahosThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jared Stone has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's inoperable and he has only a few months left got the house to live. Desperate herself – no neighbour to ensure financial security for his family after he's gonepop in, Jared decides to auction himself - the rest of his lifebabysitter poorly, his deathmother at work, everything just an avidly rule- breaking eleven year old, on eBay for her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a reserve price of blanket fort, she has one million dollars. Unsurprisinglymain intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, eBay cancels the auction as against their terms and conditions but world-building, critter-collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's okay because Jared world. But first Lori has come a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the attention of game has been doctored – well, where is a reality TV producer...girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdRachel Greenlaw|title=Welcome to Nowhere|rating=5|genre= Teens|summary= Omar is a twelve-year-old boy living in Bosra, Syria. He works two small jobs before and after school. He prefers the jobs to school. Omar dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur with a network of businesses to rule over. He's already developing a successful sales patter. Omar has a clever sister who wants to be a teacher, Compass and a clever brother who few realise is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people can't see past his speech impediment. He has a father who works for the government, a mother who worries too much, a hypercritical granny and a couple of annoying younger siblings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sara Barnard|title= A Quiet Kind of Thunder|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Steffi has just started a) sixth form and b) medication for her anxiety. It's all rather tricky, as you can imagine, particularly as Tem, Steffi's best - well, only - friend has enrolled at the local FE college to do an NVQ and so Steffi is all by herself. On the first day, a teacher introduces Steffi to Rhys, a new boy to the school and also just starting sixth form. Rhys is deaf and Steffi knows a little bit of sign language, hence the introduction. Both kids have communication barriers - Rhys can't hear and Steffi, who suffers from selective mutism and severe anxiety, often can't talk.And they fall into friendship, attraction, and love. But it's a rocky road...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509810986</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=The X-Files Origins: Devil's AdvocateBlade

|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 leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a guarantee tin his father was determined to bring her out keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of her shell, she accepts itquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyLex Croucher|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, 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= Johanna Handley|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper Gwen and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is Art Are Not 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 VirginLove

|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 Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in a traffic accident the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and he has been living in an orphanage ever sincemake merry between their conquests. He has only one treasured possession - However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a battered copy of Great Expectations by Charles DickensCrafter like him, given someone with the power to him by his schoolteacher motherform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. That's how Pip got his name and he has a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling He asks her to come with him , to leave the life of his own great expectationsdreary servitude that is all she has known. ItWell, soon Kurara won's thanks t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to his ability to read that Pip finds himself released flee out into the care - wellworld. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, sold, actually a sky- of old Zacharyship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, who wants and a companion for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farm. Lilybelle likes being read to.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreview|title=Clover Moon|author=Jacqueline Wilson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps Alley, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory and the heavy work has taken a toll on his health. He likes to drink an ale or two after work, spending money the family can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Megs, a wispy, shy child. Father married again - to Mildred, 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 of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>}}{{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 Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and final book their cat from the family home in sequence set SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in a world where Germany won WW2 and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humansthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Can Yael defeat Dad is going to be automating the Wehrmacht? Interestinglantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, moving she will be homesick and absorbingalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kendare BlakeJonathan Stroud|title= Three Dark CrownsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54|genre=Teens|summary= ''Three Dark Crowns'' Scarlett McCain is a high class fantasy novel following a set of triplets: Katharinean outlaw, Arsinoe and Mirabella, who are each gifted with specific magic and are equal heirs to rejecting the crown. Katharine is a poisoner with draconian conformity of the ability Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to ingest wander the deadliest poisons, a girl who cannot die. Meanwhile, Arsinoe is a naturalist, who has wildlands between the power to bloom flowers and control the fiercest animals. FinallySeven Kingdoms of Britain, Mirabella is an elemental, one gifted with the ability to create fire robbing banks and incredible storms powerful enough shooting other outlaws to topple buildingskeep herself alive. On the island of FennbirnBut then she meets Albert Browne, as is tradition, the queens are separated at the age of nine a dark boy with dark powers and fostered by families who share their magica darker past. From that point onwardsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they are each trained plan to use their magic as a weapon in the fight flee to the death against mythical Free Isles of the other sistersLondon Lagoon. On the night of the sisters'sixteenth birthdayTogether, they will each begin their quest to secure must brave man-eating wildlife, the throne cannibalistic Tainted and become all the rightful Queen. While horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the crown awaits the victorFree Isles, death awaits but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the two weaker queens.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I'll Be Home For ChristmasMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersSlingshot|rating=53

|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 sceneGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. The stories are connected by the theme As a secret illegitimate daughter of home. What does home mean to you? Is it your housea man with a "real" family, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things she is used to different not being a priority in people, can't it? The book opens s lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with a powerful poem by Bookbag favouriteher slingshot, Benjamin Zephaniahher simple existence is changed for good. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales of hardship and fearNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, some warming the cockles of your heart. But all of them are about ''home''for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry DreweryT L Huchu|title= Cell 7The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary=Tired Ropa 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. Ever since she dropped out of school, she''Big Brother'' s been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and ''I'm a Celebrityher aging grandmother..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittyHowever, something more 'real?there' Welcome to s an evil stalking the evolution ruined streets of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives youEdinburgh, targeting the viewer, the power of life and deathcity's children. Listen to the evidenceSoon, decide whether the condemned criminal Ropa is guilty or innocent and then simply text DIE or LIVE to 7997 (Calls cost £5). Since pulled into the abolition of the court system search for a few years ago, missing boy at the power request of jury has been given to his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the people. Those accused world of murder have seven days in seven cells, each with their own particular method of psychological torturemagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. On Will she find the last day, the accused is led missing children and bring an end to Cell 7this evil, dominated by the imposing electric chair in the centre. As the public votes pour in, viewers wait with eager anticipation to see if there or will be a live execution that evening...it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentKristen O'Neal|title=The CatchersLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=3.5

|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert is wandering along perfectly happily Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in his very normal twelve-year-old constant pain for the rest of her life, when a sprite suddenly appears in his bedroom. The sprite is followed by a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also in his bedroom. ThereShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s a knock at the door, so Jamie takes the sprite and opens it. Down a passage, Jamie finds an old man wearing online support group where she talks to a pointy hat who introduces himself, grandly, as ''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhich, bunch of the Magic other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and Mythical creature catchers departmenthelp each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branchchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents'car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Jamie But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in Magictasium. After a brief magical interlude with Colin the basement – and Trixie, a teenage witch, Colin returns home..for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>1683692349