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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=W S MarkendaleMax Boucherat|title=Owen PendragonThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade

|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and ''I can hear the song of the army seems powerless to do anything about itsea. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to an ancient relative, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earth. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head call of the round tabledeep, no less: King Arthurthe answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5'|genre= Science Fiction|summary= CynicalRosevear, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came rocks and plundering the superpowerswrecks. And Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the super powered allies. And seven who swim out to survey the mysterious enemiesruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. And But when the terrifying monsters. And Council Watch lays a trap to end the stunning revelations. And wrecking, they capture the apocalypse. Now heisland's leader and Mira's not sure what he father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is. Or where as charming as he issecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Or how exactly one is supposed With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isnheart of the smuggler't finisheds territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenHarry Allen|title=The NestChildren of the Sun

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Steven can narrate this book to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brother. That's not down to Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attackstalented singer. It's because there's something wrong with the new addition to the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying for a new child so late in life, but whatever the reason there Life is something demanding a lot of medical care hard and attention, even if the child can more or less live in the family home. But hope seems food is difficult to be shining a light into Steven from the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him in his dreamsby, from within a pleasant, light-filled haven, with full knowledge of the family's troubles so Seo and her friends Nari and an offer of a way out. ObviouslyMin go foraging every evening, worried looking for the happiness of his family, tree bark and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes edible grasses to supplement the offer meagre rations of help…rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldAlexia Casale|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskySing if you Can't Dance

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Women in Sciencere having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievements. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each of them s what Ven is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes dealing with factoids after collapsing on one side and a page stage in the middle of text with a brief biography and outline of dance performance that was going to change her achievementslife. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Victoria Aveyard|title= Kingdesperate to get back to a life that's Cage|rating= 4as normal as she can possibly manage.5|genre= Teens|summary=''He caught me in a prince Meanwhile there's trap. And now I'm in a King's cage. But I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.'' The third instalment new (cute!) boy in the Red Queen seriesschool, picks up right after the final events of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone and powerless without her lightning. At the mercy of the boy who wears the crownmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Mare is haunted by and just the consequences day to day traumas of her past decisions. Tortured and weak, Mare has a front seat to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold and destroy all that she believes in. Being broken and beaten, Mare will never be the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with challenges her life body continues to fight another day? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard|title= The Pavee and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt throw at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy her to attendnavigate. Jim doesn So even though she can't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you knowdance anymore, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's might she be able to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gemma FowlerSimon Fox|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 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 BoyDeadlock

|summary=Billy Late one night Graham Blake is struggling at school. He's being picked late back from his shift on by the school bully force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's starting to feel very alone. His mum is sick, although nobody seems to know what's wrong with her. She has been sick for fetch something from a long time meaning that she can't worksecret place, so Billy's dad is working extra hours to try to keep the family afloat and Billy is frequently left to fend for himself. His only escape is in watching his favourite, David Attenborough, or in swimming in join him on the searun. One dayThey get together, however, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks but barely begin to him! This, combined with smell the entrance whiff of a new boy at school, starts to change Billy's life in some rather unexpected ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jack Cheng|title=See You in Southern trains when the Cosmos|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. He's just elevenfather is arrested, but is sure he has the responsibility age of a thirteen year old. He'll prove this by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' and his dog Carl Sagan leaving Archie on an Amtrak train to the desert late express to Brighton, toting a launch festival for hobbyist rocket-makers – and all without the help of the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, tin his seemingly comatose couch potato mother, and the father he was told died when Alex was three years old. This book is a transcript of verbal essays and conversations he has made determined to put in keep away from his rocket to send to the stars, so aliens can learn about life on earth in 2017. The fact that we're able to find out what's on it does seem to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3''colleagues, but as for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some bearer of the history a whole heap of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it allquestions. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craft, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, 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 the history of books conveying all this to a young audience. 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 aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsLex Croucher|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, Gwen 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, 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 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 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

|summary=Abbi has had Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a hard yeargay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most 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 Willwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Time is pushing Will forwards But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, not backwards and his journey began will they find a way in 1927.which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberNick Brooks|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 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=K M Peyton|title=Wild LilyPromise Boys

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Williamson1919635017|title=All About Mia A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|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>

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1800901232|title=The Goldfish BoyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanPatrice Lawrence|title=We Come ApartNeedle|rating=53

|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 Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a 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 an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns homeexpletively ignorant. And then.. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship they strike up well, what exactly happens is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes morenot for me to say, a lot moreonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= 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. but 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 there forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a future for Jess sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Nicu?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Marcus Sedgwick|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Wrath|rating=4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookTori Bovalino|authortitle=Lara AveryThe Devil Makes Three

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda NewberyPhilip Reeve|title=Until We WinUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|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, and an older his brother working at the village hunt. At the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classes, but she gets diverted. A chance encounter Will who lives in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones London with too much science in her way – en route his head to becoming a fully committed Suffragetteworry about such local yokel superstitions, concerned only with making demands for votes for women.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The One Memory of Flora Banks|author=Emily Barr|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=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. SheAndrewe's now seventeen and can remember life before foundling daughter, who washed up out of the tumour but can't hold on to anything that happened after that for more than an hour or twosea one day eleven years ago. She gets by with the help of her very protective parents and her best friend PaigeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and from his curious ward are thrust into the endless notes she writes to herself that tell her who she isworld of protecting their island, 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''like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Life in a FishbowlKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Len VlahosJulia and the Shark

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdJonathan Stroud|title=Welcome to NowhereThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BarnardT L Huchu|title= A Quiet Kind The Library of Thunderthe Dead

|summary= Steffi has just started Ropa Moyo is a) sixth form ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and ba bit of Scottish pragmatism) medication to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for her anxietytheir living relatives. ItEver since she dropped out of school, she's all rather trickybeen using it to support not only herself, as you can imaginebut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, particularly as Temthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, Steffitargeting the city's best - wellchildren. Soon, only - friend has enrolled at the local FE college to do an NVQ and so Steffi Ropa is all by herself. On pulled into the first day, search for a teacher introduces Steffi to Rhys, a new missing boy to at the school and also just starting sixth formrequest of his dead mother. Rhys is deaf She will end up discovering an occult library and Steffi knows a little bit realise that the world of sign language, hence the introduction. Both kids have communication barriers - Rhys can't hear magic is far bigger and Steffi, who suffers from selective mutism and severe anxiety, often canmore dangerous than she ever could't talkve imagined.And they fall into friendshipWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, attraction, and love. But or will it's a rocky road...claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509810986</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryKristen O'Neal|title=The X-Files Origins: Devil's AdvocateLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=3.5

|summary=Dana Scully can Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be added to in constant pain for the list rest of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key yearsher life. Her naval father being relocated has meant She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she has been uprooted from talks to a nunbunch of other teens living 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's Catholic school t respond to the chat for a regularwhile, secular school elsewhere, but echoes of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new homePriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But itwhat she doesn's inside that the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana t expect to find there 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 werewolf in, so straight-edged are the victims basement – and Dana is having even more troubling experiences as a result. Working out for that werewolf to be the cause and effect here could fill an X-File, but of course we're in girl she has been talking to online for the years long before those exist. Dana might well be on her own in her investigations..past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>1683692349