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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary G ThompsonMax Boucherat|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie DeeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Six years agoWe 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, cousins Amy and Dee were abductedon her lonesome. They were never recovered What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and no trace of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns home, alone and unable to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened log on to her. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her familyVoxminer, the world-building, but shecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a different person after spending most of tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her teen years in captivityown, and then she's not sure if finds something even more spooky. For the server she can ever fully go back to and her old life. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old bestie and in the years nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her absencephone screen, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them her safe place in the first place? And game has been doctored – well, where is Deea girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie StantonRachel Greenlaw|title=Waking in TimeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Abbi has had a hard year''I can hear the song of the sea. Her beloved grandmother died andThe call of the deep, before the grief really had answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a chance to settleremote and partially forgotten island, Abbi has left survives on luring ships into the safety rocks and security plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of home the seven who swim out to start college in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she has left survey the two most important people in her life - mother ruins – rescuing any survivors and grandmother - behindany treasure that lies within. But itwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's hard to forget leader and somehow the past keeps hold of AbbiMira's mindfather. And thenDesperate to save him from death, one morningMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she wakes sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her dorm room from the watched streets of foreign islands to find herself transported back in time to 1983. And it wonthe heart of the smuggler't s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the first time-shift she experiences. As Abbi jumps further future of her home and further back in time, the ones she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, not backwards and his journey began in 1927holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberHarry Allen|title=CaravalChildren of the Sun

|summary=Lily did love Antony. She was just 14 years old and he was 17, but Antony was the son of the big house and Lily was the daughter of one of the estate workers. They laughed and played together with all the other teens and children on the estate and Antony accepted Lily's adoration and was fond of her. He was an odd mixture of Ra Eun Seo lives in a spoiled brat North Korean town and she is a neglected childtalented singer. His mother was long dead Life is hard and his father mainly absent on business food is difficult to come by, so Seo and parenting was something which was bought in. In the early 1920s cars her friends Nari and aeroplanes were in their infancy and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th...) Antony asked Min go foraging every evening, looking for an aeroplane. His father agreed tree bark and Antony went edible grasses to Brooklands supplement the meagre rations of rice and bought a Sopwithkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonAlexia Casale|title=All About Mia Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Mia thinks sheIt's being ironic when she has the phrase hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'All About Mia' emblazoned on her Tre having to navigate a life-shirt. Ironic because itchanging disability too, but that's NEVER about her. How can it be? She's just the mess what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle – sandwiched between of a dance performance that was going to change her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sisterlife. But she comes back fighting, Gracedesperate to avoid the pity stares, and her super-talented soon-desperate to get back to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audrey. As far as Miaa life that's concerned as normal as she may as well get permanently wastedcan possibly manage. She's convinced Meanwhile there's no point trying until a series new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of events coincide all the challenges her body continues to show throw at her just how wrong to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she is. be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098910X</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Trenton Lee StewartSimon Fox|title= The Secret KeepersDeadlock|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Reuben is a small boy growing up with his mum in a big city full of injustice and fear4. The family have little money and working two jobs means that Reuben's mum trusts him to be on his own a lot. For a young child Reuben develops a lot of independence, 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 her ideal home. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game of hide and seek as he dares to take on the most powerful and ruthless man in the city|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Goldfish Boy|rating=5

|summary=Matthew has OCD. Not that he knows that's what it Late one night Graham Blake is. He just likes things clean, he really hates germs, or going outsidelate back from his shift on the force, and he feels safest upstairs in his room and the front bedroomthen suddenly rings Archie, where demanding he can control the dirtfetch something from a secret place, and where he can watch everything that's going join him on outside, making notes on his neighbours' activitiesthe run. When a little boyThey get together, Teddybut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, from next door goes missing one day, it turns out that Matthew was leaving Archie on the last person late express to see himBrighton, and with all of toting a tin his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against father was determined to keep away from his crippling anxieties in order to try colleagues, and uncover the truth bearer of a whole heap of what happened to Teddyquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanLex Croucher|title=We Come ApartGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=''We Come Apart'' tells the 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 of a burgeoning friendship and romance between Jess , Gwen and Nicu. Both Arthur have problems been betrothed since they were tiny, much to deal their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her motherprivate diaries. Nicu is And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a Romanian immigrant to boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the UK and faces xenophobia subterfuge of falling in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage love with each other, when he returns homereally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship way in which they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes morecan both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lot more...... but is there a future for Jess and Niculie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Nick Brooks|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Promise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Everything seems to be slotting When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into place for 15 year-old wannabe actress, Elektra James. The summer's here and she's finally landed the boy of her dreamspolice station as suspects. Added to that she's about to start filming Each, seemingly, has a blockbuster film with internationally famous co-stars. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… Nogrudge of some description against Principal Moore, definitely … especially when said boy and each could have been there at the time of her dreams lands his own starring role in a TV series that's filming in Transylvaniamurder. And But who killed him, to make matters worseand why, shooting a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume that looks like a sack) isn't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined. if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Memory BookA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Lara AveryKitt Townsend

|summary=Sam McCoy has her life all planned out. She Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is going to win the national debating competition, go to college in New York and become he running around London committing a human rights lawyer. She is so sure series of this that it almost feels ordained. robberies? And she has worked for it too, sacrificing relationships and friendships in how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the service of ambitionsecond question because I avoid spoilers. You can imagine, then, that Sammie views a diagnosis of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than a rock in But I'll answer the roadfirst one: for his grandmother.. She won't let a pesky health condition stand in her way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=TiltDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=To make an authorAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, you first show someone books. To make a readerand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, you first show them so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the books football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they want all go back to, and/or can, readprimary school days together. To make As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a buildersingle-sex school can form, you first show someone buildingsthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. I use those platitudes to introduce SimonettaWhich is confusing for Ant, or Nettaas he doesn't know what his score is, who lives in Pisa late where his achievements in the thirteenth centurythat regard lie. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – itHe's not for nothing the area will become known as the Field of Miracleshad a casual relationship, a secret one, for the Cathedralseveral months now, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeous. But something is wrong with so has effectively progressed up the latter one – itladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's definitely leaningset in stone, cracks are showing, and over the hundred-plus years ithe can's taken to get this far people have built the floors at odd angles to correct the problemt be sure. Netta is intent on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father And that's mostly because of whohe's employed to finish it off. But therein lies been having the problem – it's all well relationship and good showing someone buildings, and making them want to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1800901232|title=Until We WinStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly |summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Lizzy is slowly leaving her boring Life in the rural village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at where she lived with her lessonsfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and getting woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an office in opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the nearest proper town – and by saving mini-bus to buyHanoi. Only, Hanh and teaching herself the other girls were not going to ridework in a shop, a bicyclethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. All that's under You know those jeans you really wanted: the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns to knuckle down ones with the housework intricate embroidery and beading on behalf of the men, and an older brother working at the village hunt. legs? At The ones with the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand artfully-placed rips and typing classes, but she gets diverted. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in It's quite possible that Hanh and her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for womenco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The One Memory of Flora BanksPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Emily BarrNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesiaBrave. This means that she hasnCharlene, the 'heroine't laid down any new memories since she was ten years old of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and had a brain tumour removedreaders both. She Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's now seventeen fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and can remember life before the tumour but canhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he't hold on to anything that happened after that for more than an hour or twos at uni. She gets by with Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the help creation of one such item is part of her very protective parents and her best friend Paigethe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and from the endless notes she writes to herself that tell is making something full of love for her who younger sister – a younger sister she is, what's wrong allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove herbelligerence with a store detective, and what's been happening in then force people to give her lifetwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Flora has a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be brave''...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreview|title=Life in a Fishbowl|author=Len Vlahos|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jared Stone has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. It's inoperable and he has only a few months left to live. Desperate to ensure financial security for his family after he's gone, Jared decides to auction himself - the rest of his life, his death, everything - on eBay for a reserve price of one million dollars. Unsurprisingly, eBay cancels the auction as against their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come to the attention of a reality TV producer...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdAnn Sei Lin|title=Welcome to NowhereRebel Skies|rating=5

|summary= Omar 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 make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a twelve-year-old boy living in BosraCrafter like him, Syria. He works two small jobs before and someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after schoolall across the Empire. He prefers the jobs asks her to school. Omar dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur come with a network him, to leave the life of businesses to rule overdreary servitude that is all she has known. HeWell, soon Kurara won's already developing a successful sales patter. Omar has t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a clever sister who wants to be monstrous paper spirit known as a teachershikigami, and a clever brother who few realise she is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people can't see past his speech impedimentforced to flee out into the world. He has a father who works for She joins Himura aboard the governmentOrihime, a mother who worries too muchsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, a hypercritical granny and a couple whole world of annoying younger siblings.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BarnardMarcus Sedgwick|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 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|genre=Teens|summary=Give a person 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 of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has 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 death, 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 in, 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, 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 Wrath

|summary=Everyone tells River that Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he's a liar wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he doesn't see cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it that way – as far as River is concerned when he just thinks up interesting stuff talks to fill in the gaps in what he knows. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendbest friend, JasonCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, tellsbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Jason Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a total fake and River is on a crusade to expose him. However, Riverdone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's investigation doesndreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't work out as planned. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father and the police) but will anyone believe him?..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanTori Bovalino|title=CharismaThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Charismatic Working all summer in her boarding school's library is exactly what Aislyn was not. She was shy, the last thing Tess Matheson wants to the extent do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she panicked when she was in large crowdshas to deliver herself. This shyness clearly affected her, and at What makes it worse is the beginning of man who requested the book it showed how much of an impact it would have on her future had it been left untreatedbooks: Mr Birch. Her best friend, EvieThe boarding school's headmaster, knows just how bad it is and has tried multiple ways to help her, but to no availa man Tess hates. So, naturally, when Aislyn is offered Charisma, an underground drug with As a guarantee to bring her out petty act of revenge for making her shellfind and deliver such a large request, she accepts Tess sticks post-it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johanna Handley|title= The Burning notes on each of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper and James are best friendsthe books, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's familyscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Most outsiders would consider their relationship They''toxicre never meant to reach him,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her and speak in her behalf of course. Her plan is to get her comfort blanket. So for nowanger out like this, it's James and Juniper against the worldthen take them all off before delivering them. Well, No harm done… Or it would be, if James someone hadn't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=No Virgin|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book, although rather short, managed to put its message across clearly. I was interested to read this, as it is a theme that I had not read before in a book. I found it very difficult to read at times, but I always found myself turning the next page a minute after the last. I was quite nervous to read this, but after I had finished, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it - it showed me the mind-set of the main character after delivered them for her experience. I found this an interesting and unique book.|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 JuarezHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, right on Priya has to come to terms with the border with fact that she may be in constant pain for the United Statesrest of her life. People scrape She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living working at one or more with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help 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 American factorieschat for a while, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselvesPriya becomes concerned. This is where people come She decides to try steal her parents' car and find their own way into the US, or pay people traffickers drive to Brigid's house to do it for themcheck up on her. ItBut what she doesn's also t expect to find there is a place where werewolf in the drug cartels run everything basement – and things don't end well if you get on for that werewolf to be the wrong side of girl she has been talking to online for the drug cartelspast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>1683692349