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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookMax Boucherat|authortitle=Lara AveryThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Sam McCoy has her life all planned out. She is going to win ''I can hear the song of the national debating competition, go to college in New York and become a human rights lawyersea. She is so sure The call of this that it almost feels ordained. And she has worked for it toothe deep, sacrificing relationships and friendships in the service of ambition. You can imagine, then, that Sammie views a diagnosis of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than a rock answering beat in the roadmy heart. She won't let a pesky health condition stand in her way.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman|title=Tilt|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=To make an authorRosevear, you first show someone books. To make a readerremote and partially forgotten island, you first show them survives on luring ships into the books they want to, rocks and/or can, readplundering the wrecks. To make a builderMira, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes to introduce Simonetta, or Nettalike her mother before her, is one of the seven who lives in Pisa late in swim out to survey the thirteenth centuryruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – it's not for nothing But when the area will become known as Council Watch lays a trap to end the Field of Miracleswrecking, for the Cathedral, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeous. But something is wrong with they capture the latter one – itisland's definitely leaning, cracks are showing, leader and over the hundred-plus years itMira's taken father. Desperate to get this far people have built the floors at odd angles save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to correct guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the problemsea. Netta is intent on being the person who can solve itWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, alongside as her journey takes her father who's employed from the watched streets of foreign islands to finish it off. But therein lies the problem – itheart of the smuggler's all well and good showing someone buildingsterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and making them want to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda NewberyHarry Allen|title=Until We WinChildren of the Sun

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly Teens|summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsRa Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Lizzy Life is slowly leaving her boring village behind – hard and food is difficult to come by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, so Seo and getting a job in an office in the nearest proper town – her friends Nari and by saving to buyMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and teaching herself to ride, a bicycle. All that's under the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns edible grasses to knuckle down with supplement the housework on behalf meagre rations of the men, rice and an older brother working kimchi at the village hunt. At the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classes, but she gets diverted. A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for womenhome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The One Memory of Flora BanksAlexia Casale|authortitle=Emily BarrSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesia. This means It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that she hasn't laid down any new memories since s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she was ten years old comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and had desperate to get back to a brain tumour removedlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's now seventeen a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and can remember life before just the day to day traumas of all the tumour but challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't hold on dance anymore, might she be able to anything that happened after that for more than an hour or twosing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4. She gets by with 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the help of her very protective parents force, and her best friend Paigethen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and from join him on the endless notes she writes run. They get together, but barely begin to herself that tell her who she smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father isarrested, what's wrong with herleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and what's been happening in her life. Flora has the bearer of a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''be brave''whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Life in a FishbowlLex Croucher|authortitle=Len VlahosGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jared Stone has Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been diagnosed betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with a brain tumour. ItBridget (the kingdom's inoperable and he has only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a few months left to live. Desperate to ensure financial security for his family after he's goneboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Jared decides to auction himself - creating the rest subterfuge of his lifefalling in love with each other, his deathwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, everything - on eBay for will they find a reserve price of one million dollars. Unsurprisinglyway in which they can both truly be themselves, eBay cancels the auction as against their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come or are they destined to the attention of live a reality TV producer...lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdNick Brooks|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, 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 ThunderPromise Boys|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 Advocate|rating=3.5

|summary=Dana Scully can be added to When the list principal (headmaster) of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key yearsUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Her naval father being relocated has meant she Each, seemingly, has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic school to a regulargrudge of some description against Principal Moore, secular school elsewhere, but echoes and each could have been there at the time of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new homehis murder. But it's inside that the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana is seeing visions that could be claimed to be precognitivewho killed him, and dreams possibly peopled by a satanic angel figure. That would all be troubling enoughwhy, 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 is having even more troubling experiences as a result. Working out if any of the cause and effect here could fill an X-Fileboys are innocent, but of course we're in the years long before those exist. Dana might well will they be on her own in her investigations...able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kami Garcia1919635017|title=The X-Files Origins: Agent of ChaosA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Give Solomon Klyne isn't a person bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a book and you might change their day. Give the right person the right book and you might change their life. That is the philosophy series of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to a best schoolmate. He may well appear wait 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 get an answer to his wife's death, and so much more, is either out there, or in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novelsecond question because I avoid spoilers. ItBut I's a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself in, for he is eternally frustrated at the lack of effort he sees in ll answer the search first one: for his own baby sistergrandmother... But before he can settle back with his new read, 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Mind The Gap Different for Boys

|genre=Teens |summary= When Mikey's dad diesAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, he stops caring and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about anything. Indeedgeography is ever learnt) has been restructured, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes the his desk is one person on of four with both his best buddy from the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly football team, and not just for himtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Mikey As they's best mate also ends re all fired up , straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in a pool of bloodclass and out often turns to sex. But that Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't matter because know what his score is, where his friend has already lost something more importantachievements in that regard lie. He lost Mikey when his dad died and he's determined to find had a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on casual relationship, a secret one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extractfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', or a YouTube clip – something but whether that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voiceset in stone, he can't be sure. Mikey And that's mostly because of who he's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keren David 1800901232|title=The Liar's Handbook Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone tells River that he's Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill fashion designer. Life in the gaps in what he knows. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendrural village where she lived with her family was happy, Jasonif not prosperous, tellsso when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Jason is a total fake Some money changed hands and River is Hanh was on a crusade the mini-bus to expose himHanoi. However Only, River's investigation doesn't Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work out as plannedin virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the police) but will anyone believe himlegs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk> 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-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanPatrice Lawrence|title=CharismaNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Charismatic Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is exactly what Aislyn was notextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. She was shy Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, to the extent that she panicked when she was 's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in large crowdsher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. This shyness clearly affected herSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and at the beginning creation of one such item is part of the book it showed how much plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of an impact it would have on love for her future had it been left untreatedyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Her best friend, EvieWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, knows just how bad it is and has tried multiple ways then force people to help give hertwo days off school, but to no availwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Sowell, naturally, when Aislyn what exactly happens is offered Charismanot for me to say, an underground drug with a guarantee only to bring her out of her shell, she accepts itremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyAnn Sei Lin|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Rebel Skies

|summary=Juniper Kurara has 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 James are best friends, but make merry between their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's familyconquests. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxicHowever,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having when a close friend who can make decisions for man named Himura arrives to tell her and speak in her behalf 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 comfort blanket. So for nowto come with him, it's James and Juniper against to leave the worldlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, it would be, if James hadnsoon Kurara won't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guiltyhave 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 was joins Himura aboard the last person Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to see James alive hunt down shikigami, and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside whole world.of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Wrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and James are best friendshe should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but their friendship is more intense than mosthe cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's familyCassie. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxicThey were half of a desultory school band,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a close friend who can make decisions for subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her and speak in her behalf eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is her comfort blanket. So for now, already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's James and Juniper against dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the world. truth? Well, it would be, if James hadnnot when Cassie has gone missing he 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyTori Bovalino|title=No VirginThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=This book, although rather short, managed Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to put its message across clearly. I was interested to read this, as it is do — especially when she gets a request for over a theme hundred books that I had not read before in a bookshe has to deliver herself. I found What makes it very difficult to read at times, but I always found myself turning worse is the next page a minute after man who requested the lastbooks: Mr Birch. I was quite nervous to read thisThe boarding school's headmaster, but after I had finishedand a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it Tess sticks post- it showed me notes on each of the books, scribbled with the mind-set ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of the main character after course. Her plan is to get her experience. I found anger out like this an interesting , and unique bookthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405788</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Song from Somewhere ElsePhilip Reeve|authortitle=A F Harrold Utterly Dark and Levi Pinfoldthe Face of the Deep

|summary=If you were being stalked by In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the school bully Scillies. There are troll people on it, and his two sidekickssea-witches, and if a kindly soul rescued you legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from them in even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the parkWatcher, you'd be gratefulAndrewe, right? Or would you? Frank knows she should be grateful when Nick rescues her who has to keep notes of activity from Neil Noble and the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his acolytes Rob head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and RoyAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But she also knows that Nick - laughed at for being flea-ridden when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and smelly at school - is not a person you'd want to be associated with. So Frank intends to say thanks and get his curious ward are thrust into the heck out world of Nick's house as quickly as she can..protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853361</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Nicola YoonJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Natasha is a rationalist. She thinks life is all about observable facts: data Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the effective analysis of it. In fact, she wants family home in SW England to become be lighthousekeepers for a data analyst and help make summer, in the world a better place through far NE of the evidence-based policies Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that will flow from itkind of Scottish island. But this ambition Dad is looking less likely now. Because Natasha is an undocumented immigrant going to New York, be automating the authorities have found out about it thanks to her reckless fatherlantern, and unless there's a miraclewhich is his specialist thing, Natasha while mum will be deported back leaving her career in algae behind to Jamaica in just twelve hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Leigh Bardugo|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, hunt 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 Kingdomelusive Greenland shark. Trust me And Julia, because while Six of Crows is unimaginably cleverwell, with diverse characters she will be homesick and a brilliant heist plot, Crooked Kingdom is on a whole other levelalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriJonathan Stroud|title= A Poem for Every Night of the YearThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the currents draconian conformity of the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just a few of the brilliant stories Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to be found in ''Tales of wander the Peculiar'', all of which hold mystical information about wildlands between the peculiar world - a place familiar to many Seven Kingdoms 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 wayBritain, robbing banks and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Smith|title=The Darziods' Stone|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer shooting other outlaws to include Harry's friends in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwall. Amelia, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great and, even if it isn't as great as Blackpool, anything is better than being stuck at home, right? Ryan is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded of boys and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-cruncherskeep herself alive. But he goes along anywaythen she meets Albert Browne, even if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn'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 more exciting - a dark boy with dark powers and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead them to hidden treasuredarker past. And it might well do, but the code will also lead With mysterious militiamen hunting them to something much more dangerous...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Hypnotist|author=Laurence Anholt|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Pip's parents died in a traffic accident and he has been living in an orphanage ever since. He has only one treasured possession - a battered copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickensdown, given they plan to him by his schoolteacher mother. That's how Pip got his name and he has a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling him of his own great expectations. It's thanks to his ability flee to read that Pip finds himself released into the care - well, sold, actually - mythical Free Isles of old Zachary, who wants a companion for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farm. Lilybelle likes being read 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, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory and the heavy work has taken a toll on his healthLondon Lagoon. 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 MildredTogether, a sharpthey must brave man-tongued woman who is free with a beatingeating wildlife, particularly if the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings cannibalistic Tainted and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Saint Death|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anapra is a slum just outside all the Mexican city horrors of Juarez, right on the border with the United States. People scrape a living working at one or more of the American factories, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselves. This is where people come post-apocalyptic society to try and find their own way into reach the USFree Isles, or pay people traffickers to do it for them. It's also a place where the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the wrong side rest of the drug cartels.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Haunt MeMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Liz KesslerSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Some quite difficult themes Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of anxietya man with a "real" family, bullying and self-harm she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in this beyond the grave love storyher class with her slingshot, which at the same her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time creates writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a positive message about finding a path through them. Cute and enjoyableboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer NivenT L Huchu|title=Holding Up the Universe|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= High school can be far from the easiest place to navigate through for a lot of teenagers, but some have a harder job than others. After the sudden death of her mother, Libby started eating and she didn't stop until she almost killed herself. Years of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, and she 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 who can do anything, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her way. On the surface, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high school guy: charming but thoughtless, superficial, and far too concerned with fitting in to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm and swagger, Jack is a nervous ticking time bomb. Every day is a struggle to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself and the people around him. Because Jack has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faces, whether it be his own, his family's or any The Library of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katharine McGee|title= The Thousandth FloorDead

|summary= The future's brightRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the futuredead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's TALLbeen using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. In 2118, New YorkHowever, life centres around The Tower. Itthere's 1000 stories tallan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, takes up most of targeting the islandcity's children. Soon, and Ropa 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 pulled into the tower is search for a proxy for who you are and how successful you, or missing boy at least your parents, have becomethe request of his dead mother. Higher floors trump lower floors, She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the pinnacle world of magic is that 1000th floor penthousefar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, owned by Avery and or will it claim her family.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenKristen O'Neal|title=Word Nerd Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=The Zeroes have found a new home. If you didn't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott WesterfeldHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, 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 Priya has to come to it terms with the magic of his inner voice fact that tells everyone what they want most to hear, she may be in constant pain for the lighting gal is so in tune with technological signals she is practically part rest of her riglife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', and the DJ herself can feed off and feed back an online support group where she talks to the emotions a bunch of the revellersother teens living with chronic illnesses. But They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – is providing an ideal place escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for them to experimenta while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to enhance their powers and learn every nuance of using them steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what that means, they are inviting regular humans she doesn't expect to come along. That find there is, of course, until two brand new Zeroes slip a werewolf in the net basement – and prove for that werewolf to be quite talented, and more than a little malicious…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124916</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan Graudin|title=Blood the girl she has been talking to online for Blood|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Second and final book in sequence set in a world where Germany won WW2 and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humans. Can Yael defeat the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving and absorbingpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>1683692349