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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareMax Boucherat|title= Lady MidnightThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Cassandra Clare is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set in We meet Lori on the City of Angels where first evening she grew up'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. She recalls What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, "I was an imaginative teenagershe has one main intention, always seeing supernatural creatures and potential magic around every corner". Her novel that is imbued with her love of film noirto log on to Voxminer, classical texts and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. These influences charge But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her urban crime fantasy with mystery own, and imaginationthen she finds something even more spooky. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to teenage fans enter shows signs of 'The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy to rejoin the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Julian last seen battling for their lives at her safe place in the age of 12 during the Dark Wars in 'The City of Heavenly Fire' and now facing painful decisions. game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben Davis and Mike LoweryRachel Greenlaw|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta NerdsvilleCompass 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)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= CynicalSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was so why is he running around London committing a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. series of robberies? And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now how did helearn to crack safes? You's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed ll have to wait to get an answer to proceed after saving the worldsecond question because I avoid spoilers. All he knows is that But I'll answer the first one: for his story isn't finishedgrandmother... Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth Oppel Patrick Ness and Jon KlassenTea Bendix|title=The NestDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Steven can narrate this book Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to usfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, but he can hardly ever mention the name so his desk is one of four with both his newborn baby brotherbest buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. ThatAs they's not down to re all fired up, straining at the leash only a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive handsingle-washing, nightmaressex school can form, anxiety attacks. It's because there's something wrong with the new addition talk in class and out often turns to the familysex. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying Which is confusing for a new child so late in lifeAnt, but whatever the reason there as he doesn't know what his score is something demanding a lot of medical care and attention, even if the child can more or less live where his achievements in the family homethat regard lie. But hope seems to be shining He's had a light into Steven from the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him in his dreamscasual relationship, from within a pleasantsecret one, light-filled havenfor several months now, with full knowledge of and so has effectively progressed up the familyladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's troubles and an offer of a way outset in stone, he can't be sure. Obviously, worried for And that's mostly because of who he's been having the happiness of his family, relationship and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes to the offer of help…sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldStitched Up|author=Rachel IgnotofskySteve Cole

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Women Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and celebrates their achievements. There are women from woman came to the ancient world and women working todayvillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Each of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait Some money changed hands and infoboxes with factoids Hanh was on one side and a page of text with a brief biography and outline of her achievementsthe mini-bus to Hanoi. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work Only, Hanh and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they other girls were women or even barred from employment because not going to work in a shop, they were black to work in virtual slavery in racially segregated Americaan illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria AveyardPatrice Lawrence|title= King's CageNeedle|rating= 4.53|genre= Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'He caught me in a princeof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's trap. And now I'm fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in a Kingher son Blake's cage. But Iold room while he'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mines at uni.'' The third instalment Such a tempestuous personality may be in the Red Queen seriesneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, picks up right after and the final events creation of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone and powerless without her lightning. At the mercy one such item is part of the boy who wears the crownplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, Mare and is haunted by the consequences making something full of love for her past decisions. Tortured and weak, Mare has younger sister – a front seat to watch Mavenyounger sister she's clever tactics unfold allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and destroy all that then force people to give her two days off school, when she believes inshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Being broken well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and beaten, Mare will never pointy those knitting needles can be the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with her life to fight another day? ...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardAnn Sei Lin|title= The Pavee and the Buffer GirlRebel Skies

|summary=''Lunar Inc. is lying 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 usdrink and make merry between their conquests. It's been lying However, when a man named Himura arrives to us from tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the moment lumite power was discoveredto form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire.'' After the dark days of future EarthHe asks her to come with him, where an energy crisis has led to chaos, lumite power has become leave the only solution for peace. Yet life of dreary servitude that peace is fragileall she has known. The memory of Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the reactor explosion at Andriannematter, ten years agobecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is still fresh in forced to flee out into the public's mindworld. FALLShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, the First Antia sky-Lumite Leagueship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, continues to campaign fiercely against the United Government and the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Inc. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe DaykinMarcus Sedgwick|title=Fish BoyWrath

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Billy is struggling Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at schoolhimself. He's being picked on by the school bully Lockdown is only just over, and he's starting should be free to feel very alone. His mum is sickdo what he wants, although nobody seems to know what's wrong go where he wants and with her. She has been sick for a long time meaning that she can't workwhom he wants, so Billy's dad is working extra hours to try to keep the family afloat and Billy is frequently left to fend for but he cannot stop himself. His only escape is from putting his foot in watching it when he talks to his favouritebest friend, David AttenboroughCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, or in swimming in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the seaearth. One day, however, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks to him! This, combined Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the entrance end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new boy at schoolkind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, starts to change Billynot when Cassie has gone missing he can's life in some rather unexpected wayst...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack ChengTori Bovalino|title=See You in the CosmosThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. HeWorking all summer in her boarding school's just eleven, but library 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 on an Amtrak train to the desert last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a launch festival request for hobbyist rocket-makers – and all without over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the help of man who requested the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato motherbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and the father he was told died when Alex was three years olda man Tess hates. This book is As a transcript petty act of verbal essays revenge for making her find and conversations he has made to put in his rocket to send to deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the starsbooks, so aliens scribbled with the ugliest insults she can learn about life on earth in 2017think of. The fact that weThey're able never meant to find reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out what's on like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it does seem to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3'would be, if someone hadn', but as t delivered them for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyPhilip Reeve|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to Utterly Dark and the Face of the Mars Rover and BeyondDeep

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I take it as read that you know some In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of the history of space explorationriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, even if beyond the young person you buy books for doesn't know Scillies. There are troll people on it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craft, and sea-witches, and legends of the processes we needed Dark family that has to be expert in before we could launch anythingkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not The current Darks are the centre Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of everything – activity from the gradual discovery Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of how curved the planet wassea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we his curious ward are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is thrust into the history world 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 protecting their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boringisland, plain white pagelike it or not. Until now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Knife EdgeJulia and the Shark

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in there ever being SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a knife summer, in junior fiction, unless it comes with a lessonthe far NE of the Scottish islands. And I'm just not interested unless Here be Vikings, that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quickkind of Scottish island. Knives can Dad is going to be quick to findautomating the lantern, are quick to whip outwhich is his specialist thing, and quick while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to get hunt the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or notelusive Greenland shark. Sam is the student of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderlyAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and he alone – until she suddenly finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary schoolcompany one night. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary G ThompsonJonathan Stroud|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie DeeThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary=Six years agoScarlett McCain is an outlaw, cousins Amy rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered and no trace Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns homeBritain, alone robbing banks and unable shooting other outlaws to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to herkeep herself alive. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her familyBut then she meets Albert Browne, but she's a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivitydark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back they plan to flee to her old lifethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and in all the years horrors of her absencepost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the first placerest of Britain? And where is Dee|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie StantonMercedes Helnwein|title=Waking in TimeSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Abbi Gracie Welles has had resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a hard year. Her beloved grandmother died and, before the grief really had man with a chance to settle"real" family, Abbi has left the safety and security of home she is used to start college not being a priority in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she has left the two most important people in her life - mother and grandmother - behind. But it's hard to forget and somehow the past keeps hold of Abbi's mindlives. And then, one morning, But when she wakes defends a random boy in her dorm room to find herself transported back in time to 1983class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. And it won't be the first No longer can she spend her time-shift she experiences. As Abbi jumps further and further back writing novels in timesolitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, not backwards and his journey began in 1927never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberT L Huchu|title=CaravalThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit Ropa Moyo is a Caraval. These interactive events put on by magician ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (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 bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take them away messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their sadistic father and prison-like island home for the first timeliving relatives. Caraval is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnappedEver since she dropped out of school, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of a game in which nothing is what she's been using it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=K M Peyton|title=Wild Lily|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lily did love Antony. She was just 14 years old and he was 17to support not only herself, but Antony was the son of the big house her younger sister and Lily was her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the daughter of one ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the estate workerscity's children. They laughed and played together with all Soon, Ropa is pulled into the other teens and children on search for a missing boy at the estate and Antony accepted Lily's adoration and was fond request of herhis dead mother. He was She will end up discovering an odd mixture occult library and realise that the world of a spoiled brat magic is far bigger and a neglected child. His mother was long dead and his father mainly absent on business and parenting was something which was bought inmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. In Will she find the early 1920s cars missing children and aeroplanes were in their infancy and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th...) Antony asked for bring an aeroplane. His father agreed and Antony went end to Brooklands and bought a Sopwith.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonKristen O'Neal|title=All About Mia Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary= Mia thinks she's being ironic when she Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the phrase 'All About Mia' emblazoned on her T-shirt. Ironic because it's NEVER about her. How can it fact that she may be? She's just the mess in constant pain for the middle – sandwiched between rest of her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sister, Grace, and her super-talented soon-to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audreylife. As far as MiaShe joins 's concerned she may as well get permanently wasted. She's convinced thereOof Ouch My Bones's no point trying until a series of events coincide to show 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 a small boy growing up with his mum in a big city full of injustice and fear. The family have little money and working two jobs means that Reuben's mum trusts him to be on his own a lot. For a young child Reuben develops a lot of independence, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides online support group where she talks to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might be valuable and dreams of being able to buy his mum her ideal home. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game bunch of hide and seek as he dares to take on the most powerful and ruthless man in the city|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Goldfish Boy|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Matthew has OCDother teens living with chronic illnesses. Not that he knows that's what it is. He just likes things clean, he really hates germs, or going outside, and he feels safest upstairs in his room and the front bedroom, where he can control the dirt, They talk about their troubles and where he can watch everything that's going on outside, making notes on his neighbours' activities. When a little boy, Teddy, from next door goes missing one day, it turns help each other out that Matthew was the last person to see him, 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 Teddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan|title=We Come Apart|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''We Come Apart'' tells the story of a burgeoning friendship and romance between Jess and Nicu. Both have problems to deal with. Jess has while also providing an abusive stepfather who beats up her mother. Nicu is a Romanian immigrant escape to the UK just joke and faces xenophobia in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns homemess around. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill |title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Everything seems to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actress, Elektra James. The summer's here and she's finally landed the boy of her dreams. Added to that she's about to start filming a blockbuster film with internationally famous co-stars. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… No, definitely … especially when said boy When Brigid—one of her dreams lands his own starring role in a TV series that's filming in Transylvania. And, to make matters worse, shooting a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume that looks like a sack) isnclosest friends—doesn't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Memory Book|author=Lara Avery|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam McCoy has her life all planned out. She is going respond to win the national debating competition, go to college in New York and become chat for a human rights lawyer. She is so sure of this that it almost feels ordained. And she has worked for it toowhile, sacrificing relationships and friendships in the service of ambition. You can imagine, then, that Sammie views a diagnosis of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than a rock in the roadPriya becomes concerned. She wondecides to steal her parents't let a pesky health condition stand in 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 a reader, you first show them the books they want to, car and/or can, read. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes drive to introduce Simonetta, 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 gorgeous. But something is wrong with the latter one – itBrigid's definitely leaning, cracks are showing, and over the hundred-plus years it's taken house to get this far people have built the floors at odd angles to correct the problem. Netta is intent check up on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it off. But therein lies the problem – itwhat she doesn's all well and good showing someone buildings, and making them want t expect to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or find there 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 steps. Lizzy is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job in an office werewolf in the nearest proper town basement – and by saving to buy, and teaching herself to ride, a bicycle. All for that's under the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns werewolf to knuckle down with the housework on behalf of be the men, and an older brother working at the village hunt. At the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classes, but girl she gets diverted. A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route has been talking to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands online for votes for womenthe past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>1683692349