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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Max Boucherat|title=See How They Lie |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Fifteen year-old Mae has only vague memories of life before her dad, an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creek. To Mae the strict timetable, stringent exercise routine and perfectly balanced organic diet are normal. The Creek's patients – teens with psychological problems – might find it unnerving to be trapped in the middle Last Life of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks she's lucky. Or she does until a chance incident reveals her parents have been lying about her mum's family. Mae starts to wonder what else they might have lied about. Soon Mae is questioning everything she's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerous, and potentially deadly, consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|title=Every Hiddden ThingLori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Three things stir SamuelWe meet Lori on the first evening she's teenaged heartgot 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. Duty to his father is What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has onemain intention, and another that is admiration for to log on to Voxminer, the manworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's career as a dinosaur hunter and aspiration to follow in his tracksworld. Dad But first Lori has never been a professor as suchtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite a pioneer in the field of finding fossils. And the third thing? Rachel. Not conventionally beautiful, Samuel still and then she finds enough in her to arouse thingssomething even more spooky. But that's where For the trouble lies, for Rachel's father server she and his are confirmed enemies her bestie and rivals. And as luck would have it, they're all four headed nobody else should be able to the same remote, outlawish region in search enter shows signs of notable remainstampering. How can they be loyal to the scienceWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and to their familiesher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, ''and'' where is a girl to their heartsturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanRachel Greenlaw|title=The Space Between|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''The Space Between'' tells the story of Beth, over the course of a year. We see Beth dealing with her mental illness, locked away in her own, personal 'safe' world where she feels she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolated. Mouse the dog, however, has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comes, also, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light Compass and love to Beth's world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen PendragonBlade
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|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in Cornwall my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the army seems powerless wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to do anything about it. 12-year-olds Owen survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappearany treasure that lies within. Imagine their surprise But when they realise that thanks the Council Watch lays a trap to an ancient relativeend the wrecking, they have more influence on what happens than they think capture the island's leader and not just on what happens on EarthMira's father. And their distant relative? The former monarch Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and head with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the round tablesea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, no less: King Arthuras her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedHarry Allen|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And Children of the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen|title=The NestSun
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|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldAlexia Casale|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskySing if you Can't Dance
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|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 s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in STEM fields and celebrates their achievements. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each middle of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a page of text with life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a brief biography new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and outline just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her achievementsto navigate. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or So even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated America.though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria AveyardSimon Fox|title= King's CageDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=''He caught me in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a prince's trap. And now I'm in a King's cage. But I'm not leaving this secret place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.'' The third instalment in the Red Queen series, picks up right after and join him on the final events of Glass Swordrun. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone and powerless without her lightning. At They get together, but barely begin to smell the mercy whiff of Southern trains when the boy who wears the crownfather is arrested, Mare is haunted by leaving Archie on the consequences of her past decisions. Tortured and weaklate express to Brighton, Mare has toting a front seat tin his father was determined to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold keep away from his colleagues, and destroy all that she believes inthe bearer of a whole heap of questions. Being broken and beaten, Mare will never be the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with her life to fight another day? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardLex Croucher|title= The Pavee Gwen and the Buffer GirlArt Are Not in Love|rating= 54|genre= Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When Jim's family halt at DundrayWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, his heart grows heavyit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A new Buffer school for In this Pavee boy story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And their mutual disgust! Gwen, you knowsee, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against in love with Bridget (the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, itkingdom's to stares and muttered insults only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the pupils and condescension from the teacherssubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Within days But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing will they find a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gemma FowlerNick Brooks|title= MoondustPromise Boys|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''Lunar Inc. When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is lying to us. It's been lying to us from murdered, three boys find themselves called into the moment lumite power was discoveredpolice station as suspects.'' After the dark days of future Earth Each, seemingly, where an energy crisis has led to chaosa grudge of some description against Principal Moore, lumite power has become and each could have been there at the only solution for peacetime of his murder. Yet that peace is fragile. The memory of the reactor explosion at AndrianneBut who killed him, ten years agoand why, is still fresh in and if any of the public's mind. FALLboys are innocent, the First Anti-Lumite League, continues will they be able to campaign fiercely against the United Government and the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Inc. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Daykin1919635017|title=Fish BoyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Billy Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is struggling at school. He's being picked on by the school bully and herunning around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's starting ll have to feel very alone. His mum is sick, although nobody seems wait to get an answer to know what's wrong with herthe second question because I avoid spoilers. She has been sick for a long time meaning that she can't work, so BillyBut I's dad is working extra hours to try to keep ll answer the family afloat and Billy is frequently left to fend first one: for himselfhis grandmother. His only escape is in watching his favourite, David Attenborough, or in swimming in the sea. One day, however, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks to him! This, combined with the entrance of a new boy at school, starts to change Billy's life in some rather unexpected ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack ChengPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=See You in the CosmosDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Alex. He's just elevenAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, but and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is sure he ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the responsibility age of a thirteen year football team, and two other oldmuckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. HeAs they'll prove this by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' and his dog Carl Sagan on an Amtrak train to re all fired up, straining at the desert to leash only a launch festival for hobbyist rocketsingle-makers – and all without sex school can form, the help of the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato mother, talk in class and the father he was told died when Alex was three years oldout often turns to sex. This book Which is a transcript of verbal essays and conversations confusing for Ant, as he has made to put in doesn't know what his rocket to send to the starsscore is, so aliens can learn about life on earth where his achievements in 2017that regard lie. The fact that we're able to find out whatHe's on it does seem to suggest had a casual relationship, a failure with secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'Voyager 3', but whether that's set in stone, but as for finding out about life – we he can only suppose 't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the lad is a bit more successful…sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1800901232|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
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|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. 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…
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Swindells
|title=Knife Edge
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=I'm just not interestedTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. I'm Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not interested in there ever being prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a knife job in junior fiction, unless Hanoi it comes with a lessonwas an opportunity not to be missed. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quickSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Knives can be quick to find, are quick to whip outOnly, Hanh and quick the other girls were not going to get the bearer into troublework in a shop, whether they actually meet flesh or notwere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Sam is You know those jeans you really wanted: the student of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderly, ones with intricate embroidery and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from beading on the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary school. legs? As for The ones with the rest – Iartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It'll leave his personable firsts quite possible that Hanh and her co-person narrative to teach you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>workers made them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary G ThompsonPatrice Lawrence|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie DeeNeedle|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 in Time|rating=43
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|summary=Abbi has had a hard yearBrave. Her beloved grandmother died andCharlene, before the grief really had a chance 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to settlelike, Abbi has left the safety characters and security readers both. Kicked out of home to start college in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though multiple homes and schools, she 's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has left the two most important people taken up residence in her life - mother and grandmother - behind. But itson Blake's old room while he's hard to forget at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and somehow the past keeps hold creation of one such item is part of Abbithe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's mindallowed contact with no more. And We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and thenforce people to give her two days off school, one morning, when she wakes in her dorm room to find herself transported back in time to 1983shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And it won't be the first time-shift she experiencesthen... As Abbi jumps further and further back in timewell, she meets Will. Time what exactly happens is pushing Will forwardsnot for me to say, not backwards only to remark how sharp and his journey began in 1927pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberAnn Sei Lin|title=CaravalRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Scarlett Dragna Kurara has had one desire all spent her entire life: to visit as a Caraval. These interactive events put servant on by magician the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and entrepreneur Legend are world famous but very exclusivemake merry between their conquests. It's therefore However, when a huge surprise when Scarlett and man named Himura arrives to tell her sister Tella receive ticketsthat 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. These will take them away from their sadistic father and prison-like island home for He asks her to come with him, to leave the first timelife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Caraval Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is never what one expects though destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and when Tella she is kidnappedforced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of a game in which nothing sky-ship whose express purpose is what it seems.to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M PeytonMarcus Sedgwick|title=Wild LilyWrath|rating=4.5
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|summary=Lily did love AntonyMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. She was Lockdown is only just 14 years old over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he was 17wants, but Antony was the son he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of the big house and Lily a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the daughter of one of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the estate workersearth. They laughed and played together Is this connected with all one of her eco-warrior parents saying the other teens and children on end of the estate and Antony accepted Lilyworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's adoration and was fond dreaming 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 ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the early 1920s cars and aeroplanes were in their infancy and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th..truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.) Antony asked for an aeroplane. His father agreed and Antony went to Brooklands and bought a Sopwith.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonTori Bovalino|title=All About Mia The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
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|summary= Mia thinks sheWorking all summer in her boarding school's being ironic library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has the phrase 'All About Mia' emblazoned on her T-shirtto deliver herself. Ironic because What makes it's NEVER about herworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. How can it be? SheThe boarding school's just the mess in the middle – sandwiched between her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sister, Graceheadmaster, and her super-talented soon-to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audreya man Tess hates. As far as Mia's concerned she may as well get permanently wasted. She's convinced there's no point trying until a series petty act of events coincide to show revenge for making her just how wrong she is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191098910X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Trenton Lee Stewart|title= The Secret Keepers|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Reuben is find and deliver such a small boy growing up large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with his mum in a big city full the ugliest insults she can think of injustice and fear. The family have little money and working two jobs means that ReubenThey's mum trusts re never meant to reach him , of course. Her plan is to be on his own a lot. For a young child Reuben develops a lot of independenceget her anger out like this, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secretthen take them all off before delivering them. He hopes No harm done… Or it might would be valuable and dreams of being able to buy his mum , if someone hadn't delivered them for 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|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ThompsonPhilip Reeve|title=The Goldfish BoyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
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|summary=Matthew has OCDIn a word, rich. Not that he knows that's what it There is. He just likes things cleancertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, he really hates germsBritish but way west, or going outsidebeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and he feels safest upstairs in his room sea-witches, and legends of the front bedroomDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where he can control no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the dirtWatcher, and where he can watch everything that's going on outsideAndrewe, making who has to keep notes on of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his neighbourshead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe' activities. When a little boys foundling daughter, Teddy, from next door goes missing who washed up out of the sea one dayeleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, it turns out that Matthew was the last person to see him, both his sullen brother and with all of his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against his crippling anxieties in order to try and uncover curious ward are thrust into the truth world of what happened to Teddyprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Brian ConaghanTom de Freston|title=We Come ApartJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''We Come Apart'' tells Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the story far NE of a burgeoning friendship and romance between Jess and Nicuthe Scottish islands. Both have problems to deal with Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up her mother. Nicu Dad is a Romanian immigrant going to be automating the UK and faces xenophobia lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the UK as elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns home. Both kids get caught shoplifting , she will be homesick and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter)alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. The friendship they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes more, a lot more...... but is there a future for Jess and Nicu?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Jonathan Stroud|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary= Everything seems to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actressScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Elektra James. The summer's here rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and she's finally landed Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the boy Seven Kingdoms of her dreamsBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Added to that But then she's about to start filming meets Albert Browne, a blockbuster film dark boy with internationally famous co-starsdark powers and a darker past. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… NoWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, definitely … especially when said boy they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of her dreams lands his own starring role in a TV series that's filming in Transylvaniathe London Lagoon. AndTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to make matters worsereach the Free Isles, shooting a blockbuster film (while dressed but will they be any more accepted there than they are in a costume that looks like a sack) isn't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined. the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Lara AverySlingshot|rating=4.53
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|summary=Sam McCoy Gracie Welles has her life all planned outresigned herself to being lonely. She As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is going used to win the national debating competition, go to college not being a priority in New York and become people's lives. But when she defends a human rights lawyer. She random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is so sure of this that it almost feels ordainedchanged for good. And No longer can she has worked for it too, sacrificing relationships and friendships spend her time writing novels in the service of ambition. You can imaginesolitude, then, that Sammie views a diagnosis of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than for her life now has a rock boy in the road. She won't let a pesky health condition stand in her wayit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanT L Huchu|title=TiltThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=To make an author, you first show someone books. To make Ropa Moyo is a reader, you first show them the books they want toghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and/or can, read. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes bit of Scottish pragmatism) to introduce Simonetta, or Netta, who lives in Pisa late in take messages from the thirteenth centurydead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – itEver since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not for nothing the area will become known as the Field of Miraclesonly herself, for the Cathedral, Baptistry but her younger sister and bell tower look gorgeousher aging grandmother. But something is wrong with the latter one – itHowever, there's definitely leaning, cracks are showingan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, and over targeting the hundred-plus years itcity's taken to get this far people have built the floors at odd angles to correct the problemchildren. Netta Soon, Ropa is intent on being pulled into the person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it off. But therein lies search for a missing boy at the problem – it's all well 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Linda Newbery|title=Until We Win|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly |summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsrequest of his dead mother. Lizzy is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job in She will end up discovering an office in the nearest proper town – occult library and by saving to buy, and teaching herself to ride, a bicycle. All realise that's under the watchful eye world of a mother insistent magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she learns to knuckle down with find the housework on behalf of the men, missing children and bring an older brother working at the village hunt. At the office, however, further steps are suggested end to her – shorthand and typing classesthis evil, but she gets diverted. A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in or will it claim her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for women.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The One Memory of Flora BanksKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Emily BarrLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
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|summary=Flora Banks Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya 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 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 come to terms with the help of her very protective parents and her best friend Paige, and from the endless notes she writes to herself fact that tell her who she is, what's wrong with her, and what's been happening may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. Flora has a tattoo on her arm. It simply says She joins ''be braveOof Ouch My Bones''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Life in , an online support group where she talks to a Fishbowl|author=Len Vlahos|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jared Stone has been diagnosed bunch of other teens living with a brain tumourchronic illnesses. It's inoperable They talk about their troubles and he has only a few months left help each other out, while also providing an escape to livejust joke and mess around. Desperate When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to ensure financial security the chat for his family after hea while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's gone, Jared decides house to auction himself - the rest of his life, his death, everything - check up on eBay for her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a reserve price of one million dollars. Unsurprisingly, eBay cancels werewolf in the auction as against their terms basement – and conditions but for that's okay because Jared werewolf to be the girl she has come been talking to online for the attention of a reality TV producer..past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>1683692349
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