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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=Stargazing for BeginnersThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny McLachlanRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Meg loves space''I can hear the song of the sea. And when we say Meg loves spaceThe call of the deep, this doesnthe answering beat in my heart.'t quite explain how much Meg loves space' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Meg loves all things space Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the exclusion of almost everything elseruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She has But when the Council Watch lays a space mural in her bedroomtrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. She belongs Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a stargazing club bargain with her grandfather. She a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is determined secretive and with only coordinates to become an astronaut one day. And guide her, she dreams sets off in search of winning a competition family secret that will earn lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her a place on a trip father, as 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 NASA in Houstonsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kiran Millwood HargraveHarry Allen|title= The Island at the End of Everything|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set in the Philippines at the beginning of the last century, Ami lives with her mother on Culion Island. It's a beautiful place covered in lush forests and surrounded by a blue sea that matches the sky. It's Ami's home and the only place she has ever known. But Culion is an island for people with leprosy who are sent there to live on the edge Children of the world away from civilisation. Ami's mother is among the infected but Ami herself remains untouched, so when government official Mr Zamora arrives to transport the islanders who are free from the sickness to another island, Ami's world is torn apart. Banished across the sea to an orphanage, Ami is determined to get back home and crosses great lengths to return to her sick mother once more, on the island at the end of everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Clare|title= Lady MidnightSun|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Cassandra Clare is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set in the City of Angels where she grew up. She recalls, "I was an imaginative teenager, always seeing supernatural creatures and potential magic around every corner". Her novel is imbued with her love of film noir, classical texts and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe. These influences charge her urban crime fantasy with mystery and imagination. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially to teenage fans of 'The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy to rejoin the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma and Julian last seen battling for their lives at the age of 12 during the Dark Wars in 'The City of Heavenly Fire' and now facing painful decisions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Davis and Mike Lowery|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta Nerdsville|rating=3

|summary=A lot has happened in the life of our hero Joe since we [[The Private Blog of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis|first met him]]. A lot must have happened in the third book in the series too, as we start here with him Ra Eun Seo lives in a very new situation. He's in London, not the Midlands North Korean town of his upbringing, and three of his flat-mates she is a talented singer. Life is hard and buddies are a band about food is difficult to be signed come by a major label, with him as their ostensible manager. And he's got a newso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, cosmopolitan girlfriend. But this is a teen diary book full of looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the comedy meagre rations of embarrassment, rice and nothing can ever be expected to go his way…kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Alexia Casale|title=See How They Lie Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Fifteen yearIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-old Mae has only vague memories changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life before her dad. But she comes back fighting, an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creek. To Mae desperate to avoid the strict timetablepity stares, stringent exercise routine and perfectly balanced organic diet are desperate to get back to a life that's as normalas she can possibly manage. The Creek Meanwhile there's patients – teens with psychological problems – might find it unnerving a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to be trapped in sort out, and just the middle day to day traumas of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks she's lucky. Or she does until a chance incident reveals all the challenges her parents have been lying about body continues to throw at her mum's family. Mae starts to wonder what else they might have lied aboutnavigate. Soon Mae is questioning everything So even though shecan's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangeroust dance anymore, and potentially deadly, consequences.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelSimon Fox|title=Every Hiddden ThingDeadlock

|summary=Three things stir Samuel's teenaged heartWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Duty In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to his father is onetheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, and another is admiration for in love with Bridget (the mankingdom's career as a dinosaur hunter and aspiration to follow in his tracksonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Dad has never been And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a professor as suchboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite a pioneer in creating the field subterfuge of finding fossils. And the third thing? Rachel. Not conventionally beautiful, Samuel still finds enough falling in her to arouse things. But that's where the trouble lieslove with each other, for Rachel's father and his when really they are confirmed enemies and rivalsenabling their own other romantic attachments. And But as luck would have ittheir impending wedding draws ever closer, will they're all four headed to the same remote, outlawish region find a way in search of notable remains. How which they can they both truly be loyal to the sciencethemselves, and to their families, ''and'' or are they destined to live a lie their heartswhole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanNick Brooks|title=The Space BetweenPromise Boys|rating=4.5

|summary=''The Space Between'' tells When the story principal (headmaster) of BethUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, over three boys find themselves called into the course of a yearpolice station as suspects. We see Beth dealing with her mental illnessEach, seemingly, locked away in her ownhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, personal 'safe' world where she feels she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolatedand each could have been there at the time of his murder. Mouse the dogBut who killed him, howeverand why, has other ideas about this! With and if any of the entrance of Mouse into her life there comes, alsoboys are innocent, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light and love will they be able to Beth's world.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=W S Markendale1919635017|title=Owen PendragonA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to kidnap children in Cornwall and the army seems powerless crack safes? You'll have to do anything about it. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks wait to get an ancient relative, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earthanswer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head of But I'll answer the round table, no lessfirst one: King Arthurfor his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stefan MohamedPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)Different for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionTeens |summary= CynicalAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, solitary Stanly Bird used and is surprised to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came buddy from the superpowersfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. And As they're all fired up, straining at the super powered allies. And leash only a single-sex school can form, the mysterious enemiestalk in class and out often turns to sex. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn's not sure t know what he his score is. Or , where he ishis achievements in that regard lie. Or how exactly He's had a casual relationship, a secret one is supposed to proceed after saving , for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the worldladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. All And that's mostly because of who he knows is that his story isn't finisheds been having the relationship and the sex with. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen1800901232|title=The NestStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Steven can narrate this book Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brotherbe a fashion designer. That's Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not down prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attacksjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. It's because there's something wrong with Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the new addition mini-bus to the familyHanoi. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying for a new child so late in lifeOnly, but whatever Hanh and the reason there is something demanding other girls were not going to work in a lot of medical care and attentionshop, even if the child can more or less live they were to work in virtual slavery in the family homean illegal garment factory. But hope seems to be shining a light into Steven from You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him in his dreams, from within a pleasant, light-filled haven, legs? The ones with full knowledge of the familyartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's troubles quite possible that Hanh and an offer of a way outher co-workers made them. 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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyNeedle|rating=53|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and celebrates their achievementsreaders both. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each Kicked out of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait multiple homes and infoboxes schools, she's fostering with factoids on one side and a page of text with a brief biography pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and outline of has taken up residence in 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= Kingson Blake's Cage|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''He caught me in a princeold room while he's trapat uni. And now I'm Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of 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 seriescomfort 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 exclusivea bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. ItEver since she dropped out of school, she's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her sister Tella receive ticketsaging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. These will take them away from their sadistic father and prison-like island home Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the first timerequest of his dead mother. Caraval is never what one expects though She will end up discovering an occult library and when Tella is kidnapped, Scarlett experiences realise that the sinister side world of a game in which nothing magic is what far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it seems.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M PeytonKristen O'Neal|title=Wild Lily|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lily did love Antony. She was just 14 years old and he was 17, but Antony was the son of the big house and Lily was the daughter of one of the estate workers. They laughed and played together with all the other teens and children on the estate and Antony accepted Lily's adoration and was fond 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 Lycanthropy and parenting was something which was bought in. In the early 1920s cars and aeroplanes were in their infancy and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th...) Antony asked for an aeroplane. His father agreed and Antony went to Brooklands and bought a Sopwith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Williamson|title=All About Mia 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 to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might be valuable and dreams of being able online support group where she talks 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 while also providing an escape to try just joke and uncover the truth of what happened to Teddymess around.|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 When Brigid—one of a burgeoning friendship and romance between Jess and Nicu. Both have problems to deal with. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up her mother. Nicu is a Romanian immigrant closest friends—doesn't respond to the UK and faces xenophobia in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns home. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on chat for a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually while, Priya becomes more, a lot moreconcerned...... 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 She decides to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actress, Elektra James. The summersteal her parents's here car and she's finally landed the boy of her dreams. Added drive to that sheBrigid's about house to start filming a blockbuster film with internationally famous co-stars. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… No, definitely … especially when said boy of check up on 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) isnBut what she 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 expect to win the national debating competition, go to college in New York and become a human rights lawyer. She find there is so sure of this that it almost feels ordained. And she has worked for it too, 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 werewolf in the road. 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