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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben Davis and Mike LoweryMax Boucherat|title=The Private Blog 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 Joe Cowley: Straight Outta Nerdsvilletampering. 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

|summary=A lot has happened in ''I can hear the life song of our hero Joe since we [[the sea. The Private Blog call of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis|first met him]]. A lot must have happened in the third book in deep, the series too, as we start here with him answering beat in a very new situationmy heart. He's in London' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, not survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Midlands town of his upbringingwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, and three is one of his flat-mates the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and buddies are any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a band about trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be signed by save him from death, Mira makes a major label, bargain with him a wreck survivor who is as charming as their ostensible manager. And he's got is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a newfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, cosmopolitan girlfriend. But this is a teen diary book full as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the comedy heart of embarrassmentthe smuggler's territory, and Mira must be determined to stop at nothing can ever be expected to go his way…save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Harry Allen|title=See How They Lie Children of the Sun

|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 Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town 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 of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks she's lucky. Or she does until is a chance incident reveals her parents have been lying about her mum's familytalented singer. Mae starts Life is hard and food is difficult to wonder what else they might have lied about. Soon Mae is questioning everything she's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerouscome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and potentially deadlyMin go foraging every evening, consequenceslooking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelAlexia Casale|title=Every Hiddden ThingSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Three things stir SamuelIt's teenaged heart. Duty hard enough to his father is one, and another is admiration for the mannavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's career as a dinosaur hunter and aspiration re having to follow in his tracks. Dad has never been navigate a professor as suchlife-changing disability too, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite a pioneer that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the field middle of finding fossilsa dance performance that was going to change her life. And But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the third thing? Rachel. Not conventionally beautifulpity stares, Samuel still finds enough in her and desperate to get back to arouse things. But a life that's where the trouble lies, for Rachelas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's father and his are confirmed enemies and rivals. And as luck would have ita new (cute!) boy in school, they're all four headed her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the same remote, outlawish region in search day to day traumas of notable remainsall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. How So even though she can they 't dance anymore, might she be loyal able to the science, and to their families, ''and'' to their heartssing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanSimon Fox|title=The Space BetweenDeadlock

|summary=''The Space Between'' tells the story of BethWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, over the course of it lifted my spirits in a yearmost delightful way. We In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see Beth dealing with her mental illness, locked away is in her own, personal love with Bridget (the kingdom'safe' world where she feels she can maintain s only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her happiness by remaining isolatedprivate diaries. Mouse And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the dogsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, however, has when really they are enabling their own other ideas about this! romantic attachments. With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comesBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, alsowill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light and love or are they destined to Beth's world.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=W S MarkendaleNick Brooks|title=Owen PendragonPromise Boys|rating=3.54

|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the army seems powerless to do anything about itpolice station as suspects. 12-year-olds Owen Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappeareach could have been there at the time of his murder. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to an ancient relativeBut who killed him, 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 why, and head if any of the round tableboys are innocent, no less: King Arthur.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stefan Mohamed1919635017|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used A Thief to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was Catch a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And 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>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen|title=The NestKitt Townsend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Steven can narrate this book to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brother. ThatSolomon Klyne isn's not down to t a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive hand-washingbad lad, nightmares, anxiety attacks. 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 why is something demanding he running around London committing a lot series of medical care and attention, even if robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the child can more or less live in the family homesecond question because I avoid spoilers. But hope seems to be shining a light into Steven from I'll answer the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him in first one: for his dreams, from within a pleasant, light-filled haven, with full knowledge of the family's troubles and an offer of a way outgrandmother... Obviously, worried for the happiness of his family, and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes to the offer of help…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World|author=Rachel Ignotofsky|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Women in Science'' 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 is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and a page of text with a brief biography and outline of her achievements. 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 even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Victoria Aveyard|title= King's Cage|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''He caught me in a prince'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 in the Red Queen series, 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 crown, Mare is haunted by the consequences 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 her life to fight another day? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard|title= The Pavee Patrick Ness and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, 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 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gemma FowlerTea Bendix|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 Different 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 BoyBoys

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty1800901232|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|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.

{{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

|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

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M PeytonMarcus Sedgwick|title=Wild LilyWrath|rating=4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonTori Bovalino|title=All About Mia The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa ThompsonPhilip Reeve|title=The Goldfish BoyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|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

{{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

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Lara AverySlingshot|rating=4.53

|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

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The One Memory of Flora BanksKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Emily BarrLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Flora Banks Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has anterograde amnesia. This means to come to terms with the fact that she hasnmay be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins 't laid down any new memories since 'Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she was ten years old and had talks to a brain tumour removedbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. She's now seventeen They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and can remember life before the tumour but canmess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't hold on respond to anything that happened after that the chat for more than an hour or twoa while, Priya becomes concerned. She gets by with the help of decides to steal her very protective parents ' car and her best friend Paige, and from the endless notes she writes drive to herself that tell her who she is, whatBrigid's wrong with house to check up on her, and . But whatshe doesn's been happening t expect to find there is a werewolf in her life. Flora the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''be brave''been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1683692349