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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonMax Boucherat|title=All About Mia The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has 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 game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Mia thinks she's being ironic when she has the phrase 'All About Mia' emblazoned on her T-shirt. Ironic because it's NEVER about her. How I can it be? She's just hear the song of the mess in sea. The call of the middle – sandwiched between her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sisterdeep, Grace, and her super-talented soon-to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audreythe answering beat in my heart. As far as Mia's concerned she may as well get permanently wasted. She's convinced there's no point trying until a series of events coincide to show her just how wrong she is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191098910X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Trenton Lee Stewart|title= The Secret Keepers|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Reuben is a small boy growing up with his mum in Rosevear, a big city full of injustice remote and fear. The family have little money partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and working two jobs means that Reuben's mum trusts him to be on his own a lotplundering the wrecks. For a young child Reuben develops a lot of independenceMira, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might be valuable and dreams of being able to buy his mum like her mother before her ideal home. Unfortunately there , is someone else also looking for one of the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game of hide and seek as he dares seven who swim out to take on survey the most powerful ruins – rescuing any survivors and ruthless man in the city|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Goldfish Boy|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Matthew has OCD. Not that he knows any treasure that's what it islies within. He just likes things clean, he really hates germs, or going outside, and he feels safest upstairs in his room and But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the front bedroomwrecking, where he can control they capture the dirt, island's leader and where he can watch everything thatMira's going on outsidefather. Desperate to save him from death, making notes on his neighbours' activities. When Mira makes a bargain with a little boywreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, Teddy, from next door goes missing one day, it turns out she sets off in search of a family secret that Matthew was lies buried deep in the last person sea. With only nine days to see himunearth what might save her father, and with all as her journey takes her from the watched streets of his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against his crippling anxieties in order foreign islands to try and uncover the truth heart of what happened the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to Teddysave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanHarry Allen|title=We Come ApartChildren of the Sun

|summary=''We Come Apart'' tells the story of Ra Eun Seo lives in a burgeoning friendship North Korean town and romance between Jess she is a talented singer. Life is hard and Nicu. Both have problems food is difficult to deal with. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up come by, so Seo and her mother. Nicu is a Romanian immigrant friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the UK meagre rations of rice and faces xenophobia in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns kimchi at home. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes more, a lot more...... but is there a future for Jess and Nicu?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Alexia Casale|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Everything seems to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actress, Elektra James. The summerIt's here and she's finally landed the boy of her dreams. Added hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that sheyou's about re having to start filming navigate a blockbuster film with internationally famous colife-stars. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… Nochanging disability too, definitely … especially when said boy of her dreams lands his own starring role in a TV series but that's filming what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in Transylvaniathe middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. And But she comes back fighting, desperate to make matters worseavoid the pity stares, shooting and desperate to get back to a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume life that looks like 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a sacknew (cute!) isnboy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined. dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookSimon Fox|authortitle=Lara AveryDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sam McCoy has her life all planned out. She Late one night Graham Blake is going to win late back from his shift on the national debating competitionforce, go to college in New York and become then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a human rights lawyer. She is so sure of this that it almost feels ordainedsecret place, and join him on the run. And she has worked for it too They get together, sacrificing relationships and friendships in but barely begin to smell the service whiff of ambition. You can imagineSouthern trains when the father is arrested, thenleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, that Sammie views toting a diagnosis tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than a rock in the road. She won't let a pesky health condition stand in her waywhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanLex Croucher|title=TiltGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesia. This means Who knew that she hasn't laid down any new memories since she what I really needed to read right now was ten years old and had a brain tumour removedgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She's now seventeen In this story, Gwen and can remember life before Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the tumour but cankingdom't hold on to anything s only female knight) - something that happened after that for more than an hour or twoArt discovers from her private diaries. She gets by with And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the help subterfuge of her very protective parents and her best friend Paige, and from the endless notes she writes to herself that tell her who she is, what's wrong falling in love with hereach other, and what's been happening in her lifewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Flora has But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''way in which they can both truly be brave''.themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Life in a FishbowlNick Brooks|authortitle=Len VlahosPromise Boys

|summary=Jared Stone has been diagnosed with a brain tumourWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. It's inoperable and he Each, seemingly, has only a few months left to live. Desperate to ensure financial security for his family after he's gonegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Jared decides to auction himself - and each could have been there at the rest time of his lifemurder. But who killed him, his deathand why, everything - on eBay for a reserve price and if any of one million dollars. Unsurprisinglythe boys are innocent, eBay cancels the auction as against will they be able to clear their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come to the attention of a reality TV producer...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Laird1919635017|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 A Thief 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, Catch a hypercritical granny and a couple of annoying younger siblings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Sara Barnard|title= A Quiet Kind of ThunderKitt Townsend|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|genre=Teens|summary=Dana Scully can be added to the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key years. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic school to a regular, secular school elsewhere, but echoes of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new home. But it's inside that the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana is seeing visions that could be claimed to be precognitive, and dreams possibly peopled by a satanic angel figure. That would all be troubling enough, 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 the cause and effect here could fill an X-File, but of course we're in the years long before those exist. Dana might well be on her own in her investigations...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kami Garcia|title=The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos|rating=4

|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 argumentwhole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Now Juniper Lockdown is all alone only just over, and exposedhe should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with nobody whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to shield his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her from eco-warrior parents saying the end of the scary outside worldis already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|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 Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the limbs Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a village of peculiarsdarker past. These are just a few of With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the brilliant stories to be found in ''Tales mythical Free Isles of the Peculiar''London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world post- a place familiar apocalyptic society to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]. The stories in this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative way, and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each the rest of the tales.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard SmithMercedes Helnwein|title=The Darziods' StoneSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=When the school summer trip Gracie Welles has resigned herself to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwallbeing lonely. AmeliaAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great and, even if it isn't as great as Blackpool, anything she is better than used to not being stuck at home, right? Ryan is less convinced. Hea priority in people's not the most open-minded of boys and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-cruncherslives. But he goes along anywaywhen she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, even if it her simple existence is reluctantlychanged for good. Even Ryan doesn't want to be left at home by himself.And it doesn't take long No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for the quiet break her life now has a boy in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced it that cracking it will lead them to hidden treasure. And it might well do, but the code will also lead them to something much more dangerous..she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The HypnotistT L Huchu|authortitle=Laurence AnholtThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Pip's parents died in Ropa Moyo is a traffic accident ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and he has been a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living in an orphanage ever relatives. Ever since. He has only one treasured possession - a battered copy she dropped out of Great Expectations by Charles Dickensschool, given she's been using it to him by his schoolteacher mothersupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. ThatHowever, there's how Pip got his name and he has an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a vague but treasured memory missing boy at the request of his own father telling him of his own great expectationsdead mother. It's thanks to his ability to read She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that Pip finds himself released into the care - well, sold, actually - world of old Zachary, who wants a companion for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farmmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Lilybelle likes being read Will she find the missing children and bring an end to.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreview|title=Clover MoonFrontpage|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 itKristen O's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNeal|title=Saint Death|author=Marcus SedgwickLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=Anapra is a slum just outside the Mexican city of Juarez, right on the border Having recently been diagnosed with the United States. People scrape a living working at one or more of the American factorieschronic Lyme disease, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselves. This is where people Priya has to come to try and find their own way into terms with the US, or pay people traffickers to do it fact that she may be in constant pain for themthe rest of her life. ItShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s also , an online support group where she talks to a place where the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on the wrong side bunch of the drug cartelsother teens living with chronic illnesses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Haunt Me|author=Liz Kessler|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Some quite difficult themes of anxiety, bullying They talk about their troubles and self-harm in this beyond the grave love storyhelp each other out, which at the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through them. Cute while also providing an escape to just joke and enjoyablemess around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Niven|title=Holding Up When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Universe|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= High school can be far from the easiest place to navigate through chat for a lot of teenagerswhile, but some have a harder job than othersPriya becomes concerned. After the sudden death of She decides to steal her mother, Libby started eating and she didnparents't stop until she almost killed herself. Years of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, car and she is finally ready drive to return to school after almost five years out. Libby is determined Brigid's house to make check up for lost time, and refuses to be defined by on her weight – . But what she wants doesn't expect to be a girl who can do anything, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem find there 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 werewolf in to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm basement – and swagger, Jack is a nervous ticking time bomb. Every day is a struggle for that werewolf to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself and be the people around him. Because Jack girl she has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faces, whether it be his own, his family's or any of been talking to online for the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded bypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>1683692349