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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gemma FowlerMax Boucherat|title= Moondust|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''Lunar Inc. is lying to us. It's been lying to us from the moment lumite power was discovered.'' After the dark days of future Earth, where an energy crisis has led to chaos, lumite power has become the only solution for peace. Yet that peace is fragile. The memory Last Life of the reactor explosion at Andrianne, ten years ago, is still fresh in the public's mind. FALL, the First Anti-Lumite League, continues to campaign fiercely against the United Government and the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Inc. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Daykin|title=Fish BoyLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Billy is struggling at school. He's being picked We meet Lori on by the school bully and hefirst evening she's starting got the house to herself – no neighbour to feel very alonepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. His mum What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is sickto log on to Voxminer, although nobody seems to know whatthe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's wrong with herworld. She But first Lori has been sick for a long time meaning tiny inkling that she canthis stormy night doesn't workfind herself entirely on her own, so Billy's dad is working extra hours to try to keep and then she finds something even more spooky. For the family afloat server she and her bestie and Billy is frequently left nobody else should be able to fend for himselfenter shows signs of tampering. His only escape 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|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in watching his favouritemy heart.'' Rosevear, David Attenborougha remote and partially forgotten island, or in swimming in survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the seawrecks. One dayMira, howeverlike her mother before her, things take is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a mackerel wreck survivor who speaks is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to him! Thisguide her, combined with the entrance she sets off in search of a new boy at schoolfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, starts as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to change Billythe heart of the smuggler's life in some rather unexpected waysterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack ChengHarry Allen|title=See You in Children of the CosmosSun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. He's just eleven, but Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is sure he has the responsibility age of a thirteen year oldtalented singer. He'll prove this Life is hard and food is difficult to come by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' , so Seo and his dog Carl Sagan on an Amtrak train to the desert to a launch festival for hobbyist rocket-makers – her friends Nari and all without the help of the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato motherMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the father he was told died when Alex was three years old. This book is a transcript meagre rations of verbal essays rice and conversations he has made to put in his rocket to send to the stars, so aliens can learn about life on earth in 2017kimchi at home. The fact that we're able to find out what's on it does seem to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3'', but as for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyAlexia Casale|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Teens|summary=I take it as read It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you know some of 're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the history middle of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it alla dance performance that was going to change her life. So I won't go into But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftpity stares, and the processes we needed desperate to get back to be expert in before we could launch anythinga life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that weMeanwhile there're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet wass a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is just the history day to day traumas of books conveying all this the challenges her body continues to a young audiencethrow at her to navigate. 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 stately, and often arenSo even though she can't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boringdance anymore, plain white page. Until now…might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsSimon Fox|title=Knife EdgeDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested in there ever being a knife in junior fictionLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, unless it comes with demanding he fetch something from 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 outsecret place, and quick to get join him on the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or notrun. Sam is They get together, but barely begin to smell the student whiff of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the pupils do odd jobs for local elderlylate express to Brighton, and he finds toting a perfect knife he thinks will defend him tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the local gang – bearer of a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary schoolwhole heap of questions. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary G ThompsonLex Croucher|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee|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 her. 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 Gwen 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 Art Are Not in TimeLove
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Abbi has had Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a hard yearmost delightful way. Her beloved grandmother died In this story, Gwen andArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, before the grief really had a chance much to settletheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Abbi has left the safety and security of home to start college you see, is in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she has left love with Bridget (the two most important people in her life - mother and grandmother - behind. But itkingdom's hard to forget and somehow the past keeps hold of Abbi's mindonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And thenwhen Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, one morning, she wakes in her dorm room to find herself transported back in time to 1983. And it won't be creating the first time-shift she experiences. As Abbi jumps further and further back subterfuge of falling in timelove with each other, she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, not backwards and his journey began in 1927.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Garber|title=Caraval|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 when really they are world famous but very exclusiveenabling their own other romantic attachments. It's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive tickets. These will take them away from But as their sadistic father and prison-like island home for the first time. Caraval is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnappedimpending wedding draws ever closer, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of will they find a game way in which nothing is what it seems.they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M PeytonNick Brooks|title=Wild LilyPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lily did love AntonyWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She was just 14 years old and he was 17Each, seemingly, but Antony was the son has a grudge of the big house some description against Principal Moore, and Lily was each could have been there at the daughter time of one of the estate workershis murder. They laughed But who killed him, and played together with all the other teens why, and children on the estate and Antony accepted Lily's adoration and was fond if any of her. He was an odd mixture of a spoiled brat and a neglected child. His mother was long dead and his father mainly absent on business and parenting was something which was bought in. In the early 1920s cars and aeroplanes were in boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their infancy and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th...) Antony asked for an aeroplane. His father agreed and Antony went to Brooklands and bought a Sopwith.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Williamson1919635017|title=All About Mia A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Mia thinks sheSolomon Klyne isn's being ironic when she has t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the phrase 'All About Mia' emblazoned on her T-shirt. Ironic second question because it's NEVER about herI avoid spoilers. How can it be? SheBut I's just ll answer the mess in the middle – sandwiched between her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sister, Grace, and her super-talented soon-to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audreyfirst one: for his grandmother. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Trenton Lee StewartPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Secret KeepersDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Reuben Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a small boy growing up standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his mum best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a big city full of injustice single-sex school can form, the talk in class and fearout often turns to sex. The family have little money and working two jobs means Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that Reubenregard lie. He's mum trusts him to be on his own had a lot. For casual relationship, a young child Reuben develops a lot of independencesecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might can't be valuable and dreams of being able to buy his mum her ideal homesure. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game And that's mostly because of hide and seek as who he dares to take on 's been having the most powerful relationship and ruthless man in the citysex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1800901232|title=The Goldfish BoyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Matthew has OCDTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Not that he knows that's what Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it iswas an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. He just likes things cleanOnly, he really hates germs, or Hanh and the other girls were not going outsideto work in a shop, and he feels safest upstairs they were to work in virtual slavery in his room an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the front bedroom, where he can control legs? The ones with the dirt, artfully-placed rips and where he can watch everything distressed seams thatfelt so soft when you touched them? It's going on outside, making notes on his neighbours' activities. When a little boy, Teddy, from next door goes missing one day, it turns out quite possible that Matthew was the last person to see him, Hanh and with all of his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against his crippling anxieties in order to try and uncover the truth of what happened to Teddyher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanPatrice Lawrence|title=We Come ApartNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'We Come Apart'' tells the story of a burgeoning friendship this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and romance between Jess readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Nicu. Both have problems to deal schools, she's fostering with. Jess a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has an abusive stepfather who beats taken up residence in her motherson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Nicu is Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a Romanian immigrant to comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the UK and faces xenophobia in creation of one such item is part of the UK plot here, as well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns home. Both kids get caught shoplifting Charlene is a wonder knitter, and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship they strike up is born making something full of circumstance yet gradually becomes more, love for her younger sister – a lot younger sister she's allowed contact with no more.We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant..And then... but well, what exactly happens is there a future not for Jess me to say, only to remark how sharp and Nicu?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= 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 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 to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Honor Cargill a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Wrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Everything seems to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actressMeet Fitz, Elektra Jamesa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The summer's here Lockdown is only just over, and she's finally landed the boy of her dreams. Added he should be free to that she's about do what he wants, to start filming a blockbuster film go where he wants and with internationally famous co-starswhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… NoThey were half of a desultory school band, definitely … especially when said boy 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 dreams lands his own starring role in eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a TV series thatdone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's filming in Transylvania. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? Andcan Fitz find out the truth? Well, to make matters worse, shooting a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume that looks like a sack) isnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookTori Bovalino|authortitle=Lara AveryThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam McCoy has Working all summer in her life all planned out. She boarding school's library is going to win the national debating competition, go last thing Tess Matheson wants to college in New York and become do — especially when she gets a request for over a human rights lawyer. She is so sure of this hundred books that it almost feels ordained. And she has worked for to deliver herself. What makes it too, sacrificing relationships and friendships in worse is the man who requested the service of ambitionbooks: Mr Birch. You can imagineThe boarding school's headmaster, then, that Sammie views a diagnosis of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than and a rock in the roadman Tess hates. She won't let As a pesky health condition stand in petty act of revenge for making her way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman|title=Tilt|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=To make an author, you first show someone books. To make find and deliver such a readerlarge request, you first show them Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books they want to, and/or scribbled with the ugliest insults she can, readthink of. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes They're never meant to introduce Simonettareach him, or Netta, who lives in Pisa late in the thirteenth century. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – it's not for nothing the area will become known as the Field of Miracles, for the Cathedral, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeouscourse. But something Her plan is wrong with the latter one – it's definitely leaning, cracks are showing, and over the hundred-plus years it's taken to get her anger out like this far people have built the floors at odd angles to correct the problem. Netta is intent on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it and then take them all offbefore delivering them. But therein lies the problem – No harm done… Or it's all well and good showing someone buildings, and making them want to would be an architect, but if theysomeone hadn're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda NewberyPhilip Reeve|title=Until We WinUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly Confident Readers|summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsIn a word, rich. Lizzy There is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job in certainly an office abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the nearest proper town – Scillies. There are troll people on it, and by saving to buysea-witches, and teaching herself legends of the Dark family that has to ridekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, a bicyclewhere no ship dare sail. All that's under The current Darks are the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns Watcher, Andrewe, who has to knuckle down with the housework on behalf keep notes of activity from the menHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and an older brother working at Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the village huntsea one day eleven years ago. At the officeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, however, further steps both his sullen brother and his curious ward are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classes, but she gets diverted. A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragettethrust into the world of protecting their island, concerned only with making demands for votes for womenlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreview|title=The One Memory of Flora BanksFrontpage|author=Emily BarrKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|rating=5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesia. This means that she hasn't laid down any new memories since she was ten years old and had a brain tumour removed. She's now seventeen Julia and can remember life before the tumour but can't hold on to anything that happened after that for more than an hour or two. She gets by with the help 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 with her, and what's been happening in her life. Flora has a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''be brave''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Life in a Fishbowl|author=Len VlahosShark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jared Stone Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been diagnosed packed off with a brain tumour. It's inoperable her parents and he has only a few months left to live. Desperate their cat from the family home in SW England to ensure financial security be lighthousekeepers for his family after he's gonea summer, Jared decides to auction himself - in the rest far NE of his lifethe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, his death, everything - on eBay for a reserve price that kind of one million dollarsScottish island. Unsurprisingly Dad is going to be automating the lantern, eBay cancels the auction as against their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the attention of a reality TV producer.elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdJonathan Stroud|title=Welcome to NowhereThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54
|genre= Teens
|summary= Omar Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a twelve-year-old dark boy living in Bosrawith dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Syriathey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. He works two small jobs before Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and after school. He prefers all the jobs horrors of post-apocalyptic society to schoolreach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Omar dreams As a secret illegitimate daughter of becoming a successful entrepreneur man with a network of businesses "real" family, she is used to rule over. Henot being a priority in people's already developing a successful sales patterlives. Omar has But when she defends a clever sister who wants to be a teacherrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, and a clever brother who few realise her simple existence is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people changed for good. No longer can't see past his speech impediment. He she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a father who works boy in it that she never asked for the government, a mother who worries too much, a hypercritical granny and a couple of annoying younger siblings: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BarnardT L Huchu|title= A Quiet Kind The Library of Thunderthe Dead
|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 Ropa Moyo is all by herself. On the first day, a teacher introduces Steffi to Rhysghostalker, a new boy to the school using Zimbabwean magic (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 Scottish pragmatism) to take messages 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 dead of teenaged people upset by Edinburgh for their family moving home in those key yearsliving relatives. Her naval father being relocated has meant Ever since she has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic dropped out of 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 itshe's inside that the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana is seeing visions that could be claimed been using it to be precognitive, and dreams possibly peopled by a satanic angel figure. That would all be troubling enoughsupport not only herself, but school children are dying in allegedly drug-fuelled car wrecks that nobody can really believe in, so straight-edged are the victims – her younger sister and Dana is having even more troubling experiences as a resulther aging grandmother. Working out the cause and effect here could fill an X-FileHowever, but of course wethere're in s an evil stalking 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 ruined streets 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 MajorEdinburgh, targeting 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 wifecity's death, and so much morechildren. Soon, Ropa is either out there, or in pulled into the pages of search for 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 missing boy at the lack request of effort he sees in the search for his own baby sisterdead mother. But before he can settle back with his new read, She will end up discovering an occult library and before The Major can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt in new, local cases realise that the world of child kidnap, that even though he magic is far bigger and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Earle |title=Mind The Gap |rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary= When Mikeymore dangerous than she ever could's dad dies, he stops caring about anythingve imagined. Indeed, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes Will she find the one person on the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly missing children 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 an end to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extractthis evil, 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 beclaim her too? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren David Kristen O'Neal|title=The Liar's Handbook Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Everyone tells River that he's a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill in the gaps in what he knows. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Jason, tells. Jason is a total fake and River is on a crusade Priya has to expose him. However, River's investigation doesn't work out as planned. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father and the police) but will anyone believe him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeanne Ryan|title=Charisma|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Charismatic is exactly what Aislyn was not. She was shy, come to terms with the extent fact that she panicked when she was may be in large crowds. This shyness clearly affected her, and at constant pain for the beginning rest of the book it showed how much of an impact it would have on her future had it been left untreatedlife. Her best friendShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Evie, knows just how bad it is an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and has tried multiple ways to help hereach other out, but while also providing an escape to no availjust joke and mess around. So, naturally, when Aislyn is offered Charisma, an underground drug with a guarantee to bring her out When Brigid—one of her shell, she accepts it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johanna Handley|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though Jamesclosest friends—doesn' father is in prison t respond to the chat for murdering Juniper's familya while, Priya becomes concerned. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxic,She decides to steal her parents'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her car and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanket. So for now, itdrive to Brigid's James and Juniper against the worldhouse to check up on her. Well, it would be, if James hadnBut what she doesn't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person expect to see James alive and they had find there is a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone werewolf in the basement – and exposed, with nobody for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to shield her from online for the scary outside worldpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1683692349
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