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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ethan I Was BeforeMax Boucherat|authortitle=Ali StandishThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Ethan 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 his family are moving that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a little town hit in Georgia from 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 big city server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Boston tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a last ditch attempt girl to help Ethan get over turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the loss song of best friend Kaceythe sea. And The call of the move does give Ethan deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a great deal else remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to think aboutsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. ThereBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's living in Grandpa Ikeleader and Mira's dilapidated old house and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himselffather. There's Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a new school bargain with a new pecking order wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to navigate. There's guide her, she sets off in search of a new friend family secret that lies buried deep in Coraleethe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, who has a great line in tall stories and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But ither journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's hard territory, Mira must be determined to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does..stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonya HartnettHarry Allen|title=SurrenderChildren of the Sun

|summary=Anwell Ra Eun Seo lives with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment for in a minor infraction North Korean town and she is a constant threat - talented singer. Life is hard and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity food is difficult to belittle her young son come by, so Seo and express her disappointment in him. Anwell is not popular at school friends Nari and his life at home is severely proscribed. So, when Finnigan appearsMin go foraging every evening, Anwell is grateful looking for a friend. Finnigan is strange tree bark and wild edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and full of a dark freedom. He doesn't even go to schoolkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareAlexia Casale|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)Sing if you Can't Dance|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=After the cataclysmic events of the devilishly macabre It'Lady Midnights hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequelbut 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. But she comes back fighting, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for desperate to avoid the Blackthorn family pity stares, and their friendsdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Their troubles are by no means over as they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade Meanwhile there's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants try to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma sort out, and just the reappearance day to day traumas of Annabel threatens all the challenges her body continues to tear them apartthrow at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandySimon Fox|title=ResurrectionDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he needs helpfetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded They get together and have plans , but barely begin to use their unique set smell the whiff of skills to wage war Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the mortal world. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have late express to Brighton, toting a scheme that should guarantee their success: they're going tin his father was determined to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite keep away from his powerscolleagues, Skulduggery can't defeat them aloneand the bearer of a whole heap of questions. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will she stay when the time runs out? Will they be able to save the world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyLex Croucher|title= Like Other GirlsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4.5

|summary=Like Other Girls is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a story about gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a girl called Laurenmost delightful way. She is not like other girls In this story, though she does sometimes like other girls. For oneGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, her mum is the headmistress of her schoolmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, for twoyou see, she doesn't fit is in to a clique, and for three, her boyfriend thinks shelove with Bridget (the kingdom's madonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a revelation boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of someone close to her and falling in love with each other, when something enormous happens to Laurenreally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, she has no one she will they find a way in which they can turn toboth truly be themselves, or so she believes.are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RookNick Brooks|authortitle=Anthony McGowanPromise Boys|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop principal (headmaster) of love and affection Urban Promise Prep school is all that's needed to keep murdered, three boys find themselves called into the bird alive but Nicky is scepticalpolice station as suspects. And in any case Each, seemingly, Nicky has other things to worry about, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequencegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who each could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stewart Foster|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied have been there at schoolthe time of his murder. Dan's the guy But who's bullying killed him, but he's not really sure and why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try to make it through if any of the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bulliesboys are innocent, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems will they be able to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Barter1919635017|title=TroublemakersA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itSolomon Klyne isn's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxt a bad lad, but Alena's family so why is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions in he running around London, triggered by committing a series of bombings, threaten robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to spill over and shatter the stability of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the only family Alena has ever knownfirst one: for his grandmother.. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into the past, at the life of activism that her mother led, a life that her brother has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Honor GirlDifferent for Boys

|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue Ant is the key to this autobiographical graphic novel. Why is Maggie not happy in Year Eleven at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being quite a sleep-walkerstandard school, and ignore the fact she's from a different state is surprised to every other girl aroundfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all so his desk is one of a sudden become an ace shot on four with both his best buddy from the rifle rangefootball team, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, the bigger problem is something else two other old muckers – the in fact that she seems to be falling in love with one of the counsellor campers, there to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock they all go back to our narratorprimary school days together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Karen M McManus|title= One of Us Is Lying|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary=As they'The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?' Sign me re all fired up, please. But this YA mystery is more like a teenage Agatha Christie: it's twisty, complex, and straining at several points I began to wonder if the final reveal would be that everyone was the murderer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Shannon Hale and Dean Hale|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California to New Jersey and, quite by accident, embarks on a journey to become leash only a hero. A fantastic origin tale for the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engaging, fastsingle-pacedsex school can form, hip and extremely cool. What would a person be like if they had the proportional strength talk in class and agility of a squirrel? Wonder no moreout often turns to sex.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ron Butlin|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books Which is confusing for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be preciseAnt, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kind. But this isnhe doesn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor know what his score is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, where his achievements in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunsetthat regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, to take a break from civilisationsecret one, online Thor and his idiot Viking hordefor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the insanities in general of all adults. In their defenceladder headed by 'experienced', it seems a sensible move at the time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)|author=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Itbut whether that's not a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die and she dies set in the first few pages of ''Contagion'stone, he can't be sure. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful And that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. Shes mostly because of who he's been taken to a secretive medical facility on having the island of Shetland, experimented on, relationship and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formsex with. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1800901232|title=Passing for WhiteStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slavefashion designer. He Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was a talented carpenter toohappy, if not prosperous, but on November so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the 19th he was unnerved: village to offer Hahn a white woman job in Hanoi it was looking at him, smiling and being politean opportunity not to be missed. What Some money changed hands and Hanh was going on? the mini-bus to Hanoi. He wasn't just unnervedOnly, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at Hanh and the white womanother girls were not going to work in a shop, looking ''her'' they were to work in virtual slavery in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than thatan illegal garment factory. Only this wasn't a white womanYou know those jeans you really wanted: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? She could pass for white, but she too was a slave. The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop RosaIt's master from taking sexual advantage of quite possible that Hanh and her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Bali RaiNeedle|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Cal loves comic booksBrave. He also dreams Charlene, the 'heroine' of being this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a superhero pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and saving the day has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while simultaneously winning he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the heart creation of one such item is part of the girl (Freya being the girlplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, hopefully). Batman and is his favourite superhero. But Calmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-likeallowed contact with no more. Because Cal is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a bit of a geek store detective, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuthen force people to give her two days off school, who makes him complete homework assignments which when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then sells on to lazy classmates. Still.. well, it's what exactly happens is not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overturespointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessAnn Sei Lin|title= ReleaseRebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious household. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacher. Adam is used to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Spellslinger|rating= 4

|summary=''And when did I volunteer to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the world sky where soldiers of the Jan'TepEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, powerful mages someone with the ability power to draw on form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the seven magicsEmpire. Then meet KellenHe asks her to come with him, who despite being to leave the son of one life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the most formidable mages in matter, because the clanMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, has no magical ability whatsoeverand she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Karen GregoryWrath

|summary=Hedda Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is 20 weeks pregnantonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with oneof her eco-night stand, so there's no father on warrior parents saying the end of the scene. Sheworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's 17. She's in dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the grip of an eating disorder and truth? Well, not when Cassie has been for yearsgone missing he can't. Her best friend recently died. She's living in a grotty flat because her relationship with her parents has broken down. I think we can all agree that the situation is dire.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefTori Bovalino|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to you and me, if you please - do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has just returned to Strathfearndeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's 1938 headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her grandfatherfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Earl of Strathfearnbooks, has recently died, leaving a mountain scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of debt behind him. The familyThey's ancestral home has been sold re never meant to meet the debt and the death duties and will soon become a schoolreach him, of course. ButHer plan is to get her anger out like this, as the contents of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underwaythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, there is time if someone hadn't delivered them for Julie and her family to spend the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape and to friends, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenPhilip Reeve|authortitle=David OwenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Life In a word, rich. There is tough on the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope certainly an abundance of riches in the future. They're already judged by their poverty, their religion, their race. Carving out a prosperous future from this inauspicious place seems like story set on a pipe dream. Butpeculiar island called Wildsea, in their various waysBritish but way west, Siobhanbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, Keishaand sea-witches, Maida and Morris are all trying - whether legends of the Dark family that means making plans has to get outkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtwhere no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angie Thomas|title=The Hate U Give|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all current Darks are the wrong reasons: povertyWatcher, drugsAndrewe, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in the store', Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. It's where she can be herself and not care about what people think or how people expect her has to act - a freedom that isn't afforded to her at keep notes of activity from the posh suburban high school where she is one of just a handful of black students. HoweverHidden Lands, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in a drive-by. And nowhis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, itand Andrewe's the place where Starr witnesses the devastatingfoundling daughter, fatal shooting who washed up out of her unarmed friend, Khalil. At the hands of a police officersea one day eleven years ago. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her lifeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the lives world of everyone around herprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's 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 remarkable journey for our young protagonistsummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. It wasn't long ago Here be Vikings, that Micah Grey was still living kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the life of Iphigenia Lauruslantern, daughter of a noble familywhich is his specialist thing, trapped while mum will be leaving her career in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running away, Micah has managed algae behind to reinvent himself, first as a circus acrobat, and then as a magician's apprentice. Along hunt the way he's discovered love and friendships that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready to strike at every turnelusive Greenland shark. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing And Julia, the Chimaera are returningwell, she will be homesick and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping pointalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoyleJonathan Stroud|title=The Challenge|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary= One ordinary afternoon, Ben's best friend Will goes missing. Soon after, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school Outlaws Scarlett and take an interest in him. It turns out both twins have an obsession with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in their strange game. But with every new challenge they set him, he starts to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cat Clarke|title= GirlhoodBrowne

|summary= ''Where are you guys? Text me backScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.'' Ending three lives But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends dark powers and a simpledarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, impatient text they plan to flee to his best friendthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. His best friend who is driving Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and on all the way horrors of post-apocalyptic society to pick him up at reach the Free Isles, but will they be any moment. His best friend who more accepted there than they are in replying to his text, rams into the back rest of a truck instantly killing himself and their other two best friends in the car.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Letters to the LostMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Brigid KemmererSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Juliet Gracie Welles has always written letters resigned herself to her motherbeing lonely. The award-winning photojournalist wasnAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people't at home much and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skypes lives. And Juliet is still writing those letters even though But when she defends a random boy in her class with her mother died in a hit-and-run accidentslingshot, rushing home to surprise her daughter by arriving earlier than expectedsimple existence is changed for good. Juliet leaves them at No longer can she spend her gravesidetime writing novels in solitude, overwhelmed with grief and guilt. If her mother hadn't come home early for her daughter, life now has a boy in it that she would still be alive todaynever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreview|title=Stargazing for Beginners|author=Jenny McLachlan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meg loves space. And when we say Meg loves space, this doesn't quite explain how much Meg loves space. Meg loves all things space to the exclusion of almost everything else. She has a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs to a stargazing club with her grandfather. She is determined to become an astronaut one day. And she dreams of winning a competition that will earn her a place on a trip to NASA in Houston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kiran Millwood HargraveT L Huchu|title= The Island at the End Library 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 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 MidnightDead

|summary= Cassandra Clare Ropa Moyo is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set in a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the City dead of Angels where Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she grew up. She recallsdropped out of school, "I was an imaginative teenagershe's been using it to support not only herself, always seeing supernatural creatures but her younger sister and potential magic around every corner"her aging grandmother. Her novel is imbued with her love However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of film noirEdinburgh, classical texts and targeting the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poecity's children. 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 Soon, Ropa is pulled into the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma and Julian last seen battling search for their lives a missing boy at the age request of 12 during his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the Dark Wars in 'The City world of Heavenly Firemagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could' ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and now facing painful decisions. bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben Davis and Mike LoweryKristen O'Neal|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta Nerdsville|rating=3|genre=Teens|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 in a very new situation. He's in London, not the Midlands town of his upbringing, Lycanthropy and three of his flat-mates and buddies are a band about to be signed by a major label, with him as their ostensible manager. And he's got a new, cosmopolitan girlfriend. But this is a teen diary book full of the comedy of embarrassment, and nothing can ever be expected to go his way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Wallman |title=See How They Lie Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary= Fifteen year-old Mae Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has only vague memories to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life before her dad. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creekonline support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. To Mae the strict timetableThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, stringent exercise routine while also providing an escape to just joke and perfectly balanced organic diet are normalmess around. The CreekWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's patients – teens with psychological problems – might find it unnerving t respond to be trapped in the middle of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks she's luckychat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Or she does until a chance incident reveals She decides to steal her parents have been lying about her mum' car and drive to Brigid's familyhouse to check up on her. Mae starts But what she doesn't expect to wonder what else they might have lied about. Soon Mae find there is questioning everything a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she's has been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerous, and potentially deadly, consequencestalking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>1683692349