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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneMax Boucherat|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port Last Life of PerilLori Mills

|genre=Fantasy Confident Readers|summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at We meet Lori on the beginning of first evening she's got the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]]house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my penbabysitter poorly, mapping papermother at work, and most importantlyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, diceon her lonesome. For the first time What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a longblanket fort, long timeshe has one main intention, I would not read and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a book for reviewhit in Lori's world. I would play itBut 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. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set offFor the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. This is When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the report of that journey game has been doctored – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review., where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophie McKenzieRachel Greenlaw|title= SweetFreakCompass and Blade

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends to a double act as a trapeze act in ''I can hear the travelling circus that forms a backdrop to their lives. Always on song of the move, travelling from one place to another, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever knownsea. The sisters are surrounded by the love call of their family and the close friends who make up the other circus acts. Their lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boy, a special boy named Dean. Their growing friendshipdeep, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sharon Cohen|title=The Starman and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''He wasn't an alien, I was sure of that. It was more like he'd walked in through an ancient door from the past... except he was here, answering beat in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earthheart.''

Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied Rosevear, a tiny human remote and partially forgotten island, survives on a roundabout near luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to his housesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But he wasnwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'ts father. Rorty Thrutch Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as real charming as you or me. But how did Rorty come he is secretive and with only coordinates to be hiding out guide her, she sets off in the middle search of a roundabout family secret that lies buried deep in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that hethe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler'll soon s territory, Mira must be ''bad dead''? determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrenceHarry Allen|title=Indigo DonutChildren of the Sun

|summary=''In Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed Ra Eun Seo lives in a hero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti North Korean town and Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth schoola talented singer. Pitt Academy Life is a last chance for Indigo hard and her foster mother Keeley food is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - difficult to come by, so Seo and her reputation friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for kicking off always precedes her. And that's tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the least meagre rations of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her motherrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsAlexia Casale|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Sing if you Can''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And it's a great response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Shvarts|title= Royal Bastardst Dance|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdom. Royal plots, magic, adventure and a rich culture to immerse yourself in. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=No Filter|author=Orlagh Collins|rating=4

|summary=Em It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- Emerald - has led changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a pretty privileged dance performance that was going to change her life. Her wealthy parents have sent her But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a posh private school. Shelife that's friends with all the right people, as her social media accounts will attestnormal as she can possibly manage. Everything is sweetness and light in Em Meanwhile there's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the crosshairs day to day traumas of all the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets challenges her body continues to throw at home about to turn from secret her to open crisisnavigate. And when Em So even though she can's mother overdosest dance anymore, the dominoes start might she be able to topple.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hayley LongSimon Fox|title= The Nearest Faraway Place|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthday, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in a road accident. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brother, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clementine Beauvais|title=PiglettesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The results are in – and for the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in school, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathy, Mireille Late one night Graham Blake is at first too hard-hearted to give a damn, for angry self-defence is her default mode. But soon all three medallists in late back from his shift on the unwanted competition form a trioforce, and all three see a reason to go and gatecrash the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored for a major military honour in favour of his ex-superiorthen suddenly rings Archie, who should instead be getting hauled over the coals and not applauded; and for Mireille, the reason is that the President's husband is her natural birth father, and has never acknowledged her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenna Evans Welch|title= Love & Gelato|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' in hope of demanding he fetch something from a light-hearted summery read, with an added draw being that the action takes secret place in Italy, a favourite country of mine, and that's exactly what I got. The novel tells the story of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother's wish by spending a summer in Tuscany, conveniently staying just outside of Florence, getting to know the father she has never known. She is aided join him on this quest by a journal her Mom left her, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florencerun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary='' They need something to believe inget together, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need but barely begin to believe in the old stories. In smell the power whiff of Southern trains when the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell throughis arrested, and at leaving Archie on the tender age of fivelate express to Brighton, King Antoine held toting a pistol tin his father was determined to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving keep away from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years agohis colleagues, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face bearer of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable a whole heap of powerful magic to make the very Earth movequestions. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ethan I Was BeforeLex Croucher|authortitle=Ali StandishGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment for Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a minor infraction is gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a constant threat - most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to belittle their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her young son and express her disappointment private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in him. Anwell is not popular at school and his life at home is severely proscribed. Solove with each other, when Finnigan appearsreally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Anwell is grateful for will they find a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild and full of way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a dark freedom. He doesn't even go to school.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareNick Brooks|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=After the cataclysmic events of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight', Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and their friends. Their troubles are by no means over as they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=ResurrectionPromise Boys

|summary=Like Other Girls When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a story about a girl murdered, three boys find themselves called Laureninto the police station as suspects. She is not like other girls Each, seemingly, though she does sometimes like other girls. For onehas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, her mum is and each could have been there at the headmistress time of her schoolhis murder. But who killed him, for two, she doesn't fit in to a cliqueand why, and for three, her boyfriend thinks she's mad. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by a revelation if any of someone close to her and when something enormous happens to Laurenthe boys are innocent, she has no one she can turn will they be able to, or so she believes.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|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 of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is sceptical. And in any case, 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 sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Stewart Foster1919635017|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 at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure 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 the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems A Thief to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be Catch 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersKitt 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 Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to 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 buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to be funprimary school days together. As they''<br>''Well excuse me for not having re all fired up, straining at the time of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is leash only a single-sex school can form, the key talk in class and out often turns to this autobiographical graphic novelsex. Why Which is Maggie not happy at camp? confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Forget the way sheHe's isolated by being had a casual relationship, a sleep-walkersecret one, for several months now, and ignore so has effectively progressed up the fact sheladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's from a different state to every other girl aroundset in stone, and practically only there to obey her motherhe can't be sure. And that's family tradition – shemostly because of who he's all of a sudden become an ace shot on been having the rifle range, relationship and can boss the Backstreet Boyssex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-themed talent performanceyear-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like Life in the rural village where she's enjoying lived with her summerfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and anyway they do come with their own problemsHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. NoOnly, Hanh and the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems other girls were not going to be falling work in love with one of the counsellor campersa shop, there they were to look after work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the welfare of ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorartfully-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>0763687553</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen M McManusPatrice Lawrence|title= One of Us Is LyingNeedle|rating= 53

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?heroine' Sign me up, please. But of this YA mystery piece is more extremely hard for some people to like , characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a teenage Agatha Christie: itpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's twistyat uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, complexyou might perhaps think, and at several points I began the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to wonder if the final reveal would remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be that everyone was the murderer...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleAnn Sei Lin|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldRebel Skies

|summary= Doreen Green moves from California 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 New Jersey drink andmake merry between their conquests. However, quite by accidentwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, embarks on a journey someone with the power to become form paper into whatever she desires – a heropower sought after all across the Empire. A fantastic origin tale for He asks her to come with him, to leave the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story life of dreary servitude that is engagingall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, fast-pacedbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, hip and extremely coolshe is forced to flee out into the world. What would She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a person be like if they had the proportional strength sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and agility a whole world of a squirrel? Wonder no more.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ron ButlinMarcus Sedgwick|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the WorldWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teensMeet Fitz, our heroes are the victims a young Scottish lad full of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kindfrustration at himself. But this isn't some worthy self-helpLockdown is only just over, tell-an-adult bookand he should be free to do what he wants, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (to go where he wants andwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the light it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of later eventsa desultory school band, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the sunset, to take enigmatic – saying she could hear a break subhuman hum coming from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of all adults. In their defence, the world is already a done deal? Is it seems a sensible move at some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the timetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's not library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a spoiler if I tell you hundred books that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the first few pages of ''Contagion'books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than As a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking petty act of revenge for making herfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, hopeful that scribbled with the ugliest insults she will be found alive and wellcan think of. But Callie isnThey't alive and wellre never meant to reach him, of course. She's been taken Her plan is to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented onget her anger out like this, and then burned to deathtake them all off before delivering them. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya LandmanPhilip Reeve|title=Passing for WhiteUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=In 1847a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Maconthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, GeorgiaBritish but way west, Benjamin was a slavebeyond the Scillies. He was a talented carpenter tooThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, but on November and legends of the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at himDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, smiling and being politewhere no ship dare sail. What was going on? He wasn't just unnervedThe current Darks are the Watcher, but nervous: you seeAndrewe, Benjamin was looking at who has to keep notes of activity from the white womanHidden Lands, looking ''her'' his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the eye his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasnAndrewe't a white woman: this was Rosas foundling daughter, who was mixed racewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. She could pass for whiteBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but she too was a slave. Rosa both his sullen brother and Benjamin eventually marriedhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, but like it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Bali RaiJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and saving their cat from the day while simultaneously winning family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the heart far NE of the girl (Freya being Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the girllantern, hopefully). Batman which is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuspecialist thing, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to lazy classmateshunt the elusive Greenland shark. Still And Julia, well, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely she will be homesick and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessJonathan Stroud|title= Release|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 The Outlaws Scarlett 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= SpellslingerBrowne

|summary=''And when did I volunteer Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter wander the wildlands between the world Seven Kingdoms of the Jan'TepBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, powerful mages a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the ability to draw on mythical Free Isles of the seven magicsLondon Lagoon. Then meet KellenTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who despite being the son of one cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the most formidable mages Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the clan, has no magical ability whatsoever. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Karen GregorySlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Hedda is 20 weeks pregnantGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. It was As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a one-night stand"real" family, so thereshe is used to not being a priority in people's no father on the scenelives. She's 17. She's But when she defends a random boy in the grip of an eating disorder and has been her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for yearsgood. Her best friend recently died. She's living No longer can she spend her time writing novels in a grotty flat because solitude, for her relationship with her parents life now has broken down. I think we can all agree a boy in it that the situation is direshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefT L Huchu|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia to you Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and me, if you please - has just returned a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to Strathfearntake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. ItEver since she dropped out of school, she's 1938 been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her grandfatheraging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the Earl ruined streets of StrathfearnEdinburgh, has recently diedtargeting the city's children. Soon, leaving Ropa is pulled into the search for a mountain missing boy at the request of debt behind himhis dead mother. The family's ancestral home has been sold to meet the debt She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the death duties and will soon become a school. But, as the contents world of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underway, there magic is time for Julie far bigger and her family to spend more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape missing children and bring an end to friendsthis evil, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenKristen O'Neal|authortitle=David OwenLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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