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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyMax Boucherat|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I take it as read that you know some of We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the history of space explorationhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it allon her lonesome. So I won't What could possibly go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftwrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the processes we needed to be expert world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in before we could launch anythingLori's world. You probably have some But first Lori has a tiny inkling of how we learnt that wethis stormy night doesn're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet wast find herself entirely on her own, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolvesthen she finds something even more spooky. What you might not For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be so genned up on is the history able to enter shows signs of books conveying all this to a young audiencetampering. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but statelymalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such her safe place in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boringgame has been doctored – well, plain white page. Until now…where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsRachel Greenlaw|title=Knife Edge|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested in there ever being a knife in junior fiction, unless it comes with a lesson. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quick. Knives can be quick to find, are quick to whip out, and quick to get the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or not. Sam is the student of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderly, Compass and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary school. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary G Thompson|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie DeeBlade|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=Six years ago, cousins Amy and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered 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 to her3. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her family, but she's a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivity, and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back to her old life. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old and in the years of her absence, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them in the first place? And where is Dee|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angie Stanton|title=Waking in Time|rating=45
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberHarry Allen|title=CaravalChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit a Caraval. These interactive events put on by magician and entrepreneur Legend are world famous but very exclusive. It's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive tickets. These will take them away from their sadistic father and prison-like island home for the first time. Caraval is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnapped, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of a game in which nothing is what it seems.
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{{newreview
|author=K M Peyton
|title=Wild Lily
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonAlexia Casale|title=All About Mia Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{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
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanLex Croucher|title=We Come ApartGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Nick Brooks|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Promise Boys|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Memory BookA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Lara AveryKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|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>
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1800901232|title=Until We WinStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The One Memory of Flora BanksPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Emily BarrNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{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>}}{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Laird|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>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BarnardAnn Sei Lin|title= A Quiet Kind of ThunderRebel Skies|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Steffi Kurara has just started a) sixth form and b) medication for spent her anxiety. It's all rather tricky, entire life as you can imaginea servant on the Midori, particularly as Tem, Steffi's best - well, only - friend has enrolled at a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the local FE college Empire come to do an NVQ drink and so Steffi is all by herselfmake merry between their conquests. On the first dayHowever, when a teacher introduces Steffi man named Himura arrives to Rhys, a new boy to the school and also just starting sixth form. Rhys tell her that she is deaf and Steffi knows a little bit of sign languageCrafter like him, hence someone with 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 power to form paper into friendship, attraction, and love. But it's whatever she desires – 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 power sought after all across the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key yearsEmpire. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic school He asks her to a regularcome with him, secular school elsewhere, but echoes to leave the life of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new home. But it's inside dreary servitude 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 resultshe has known. Working out the cause and effect here could fill an X-FileWell, but of course wesoon Kurara won're t have any say 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 matter, because the right person the right book and you might change their life. That Midori is the philosophy of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has to destroyed by a best schoolmate. He may well appear to be monstrous paper spirit known as 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 deathshikigami, and so much more, she is either forced to flee out there, or in into the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novelworld. It's She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself in, for he sky-ship whose express purpose 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 readto hunt down shikigami, and before The Major can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt in new, local cases a whole world of child kidnap, that even though he and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Marcus Sedgwick|title=Mind The Gap Wrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= When Mikey's dad dies, he stops caring about anything. Indeed, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes the one person on the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for him. Mikey's best mate also ends up in a pool of blood. But that doesn't matter because his friend has already lost something more important. He lost Mikey when his dad died and he's determined to find a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extract, or a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voice. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be?
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{{newreview
|author=Keren David
|title=The Liar's Handbook
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanTori Bovalino|title=CharismaThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Song from Somewhere ElsePhilip Reeve|authortitle=A F Harrold Utterly Dark and Levi Pinfoldthe Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Nicola YoonJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|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 going to be automating the lantern, which is an undocumented immigrant his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to New York, hunt the authorities have found out about it thanks to her reckless fatherelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, and unless there's a miraclewell, Natasha she will be deported back to Jamaica in just twelve hourshomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoJonathan Stroud|title= Crooked KingdomThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54
|genre= Teens
|summary=''They don't know who we are. Not really. They don't know what we've doneScarlett McCain is an outlaw, what we've managed together… so let's show them they picked rejecting the wrong damn fight.'' First things first if you haven't read [[Six draconian conformity of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yet, the first book in Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the duologySeven Kingdoms of Britain, you should read it as soon as possiblerobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, buy it or borrow it before anything else a dark boy with dark powers and then read Crooked Kingdoma darker past. Trust meWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, because while Six they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of Crows is unimaginably cleverthe London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, with diverse characters the cannibalistic Tainted and a brilliant heist plotall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, Crooked Kingdom is on a whole other level.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriMercedes Helnwein|title= A Poem for Every Night of the YearSlingshot|rating= 43|genre= Children's Rhymes and VerseTeens|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidating, Gracie Welles has resigned herself to children and grown-upsbeing lonely. All those school lessons As a secret illegitimate daughter of dissecting poems in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended a man with every word and stylistic form tend a "real" family, she is used to kill the beauty of not being a well-written poempriority in people's lives. This collection But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is a year-long tour through a vast history of poetrychanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and gives the reader for her life now has a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosettiboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ransom RiggsT L Huchu|title= Tales The Library of the PeculiarDead|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control the currents Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs dead of a village of peculiarsEdinburgh for their living relatives. These are just a few Ever since she dropped out of the brilliant stories school, she's been using it to be found in support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there''Tales s an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Peculiar'city's children. Soon, all Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of which hold mystical information about his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the peculiar world - a place familiar to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrinemagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's Home for Peculiar Children]]ve imagined. The stories in Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative wayevil, and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard SmithKristen O'Neal|title=The Darziods' StoneLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=When the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelledHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Harry's parents offer Priya has to include Harry's friends in their trip come to Tredock Cove terms with the fact that she may be in Cornwallconstant pain for the rest of her life. AmeliaShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Mitch an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and, even if it isnmess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't as great as Blackpool, anything is better than being stuck at homerespond to the chat for a while, right? Ryan is less convincedPriya becomes concerned. HeShe decides to steal her parents's not the most open-minded of boys car and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-crunchers. But he goes along anyway, even if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesndrive to Brigid't want s house to be left at home by himselfcheck up on her.And it But what she doesn't take long for the quiet break in Cornwall expect to turn into something much more exciting - and frightening. The kids find there is a secret code werewolf in the basement – and become convinced for that cracking it will lead them werewolf to hidden treasure. And it might well do, but be the code will also lead 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 girl she has been living in an orphanage ever since. He has only one treasured possession - a battered copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, given talking 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 to read that Pip finds himself released into online for the care - well, sold, actually - of old Zachary, who wants a companion for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farm. Lilybelle likes being read topast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>1683692349
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