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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vicki GrantMax Boucherat|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About YouThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''Two random strangers. Thirty-six questions guaranteed s got the house to herself – no neighbour to make them fall pop in love, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What's not to likecould possibly go wrong?'' Based Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on a psychological theoryto Voxminer, Grant's novel explores the concept world-building, critter-collecting game that love can be engineered by using thirty-six is a hit in Lori''simple'' questionss world. Questions such as ''What would constitute But first Lori has a perfect day?tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'' or ''When did you last sing to yourself? To someone 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?'' are designed should be able to reveal the souls and characters enter shows signs of both participantstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, enabling them to form a deep connection with a stranger. In a modern world dominated by technologyand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, this face to face interaction where is performed a girl to test whether genuine human interaction can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reservedturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattRachel Greenlaw|title= Truth or DareCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary= After an accident leaves his brother, Kam, with severe neurodisability, it's obvious that 'I can hear the lives song of Sef and his family will never be the same againsea. Plagued by feelings The call of guilt and struggling to cope, Sef turns all his attention to the only way that he might be able to help - money. In an attempt to raise funds for his brother's care, he enlists the help of Claire. As a volunteer at the facility looking after Kam, she's the only person from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation is, and how important it is to get the funding that he needs. Aided by Claire's equipment and YouTube know-howdeep, the two create a channel where their alter-egos, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their cause. However, £60,000 is no small amount, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy feat. Just how far are they willing to go for their cause? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=High Spirits (Spirits 4)|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Millions of people will die answering beat in the war, Ellie. And it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easymy heart.''

And if that's not ominousRosevear, I don't know what is. It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her frienda remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do rocks and live a normal, boring, human life. Mum is still working for plundering the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longerwrecks. Money is tight and MumMira, as everlike her mother before her, is stressed. Dad got compensation for his accident, so he is living one of the life of Riley. He's eager seven who swim out to help out but Mum won't hear of itsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. And Ellie has But when the Council Watch lays a romantic interest in Luke. All in alltrap to end the wrecking, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting of timelines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gwyneth Rees|title=Libby in capture the Middle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sister, Bellaisland's leader and Mira's father. Bella used Desperate to be save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a real confidante wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to Libby but things have changed since guide her, she got sets off in search of a boyfriend. Now, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries family secret that it will never come backlies buried deep in the sea. Libby also has a younger sister, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems With only nine days to Libby that Graceunearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the baby watched streets of foreign islands to the familyheart of the smuggler's territory, commands all Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the parental love future of her home and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her ownones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonHarry Allen|title=FreshersChildren of the Sun

|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, Ra Eun Seo lives in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want to become. Going to university a North Korean town and she is a monumental transitiontalented singer. For some, it's an escape. A chance Life is hard and food is difficult to start anew. A freedom of the sort that you'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you forever. Howevercome by, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people so Seo and the pressure to make new her friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adults, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, very quickly. Phoebe Nari and Luke went to the same high school, but never really floated in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness of Fresher's weekMin go foraging every evening, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds looking for a messy, intense tree bark and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forget. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Livingstone|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took edible grasses to supplement the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report meagre rations of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophie McKenzie|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Carey rice and Amelia are best friends, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreak, a malicious online account, begins to abuse Amelia. To make matters worse, the police soon find evidence that Carey was the one who sent the messages. Soon everyone, even Amelia, is convinced of Carey's guilt. Only her sister, Poppy, accepts her innocence. When the online threats spill over into real life, Carey is determined to discover who is framing herkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HeathfieldAlexia Casale|title= Flight of a StarlingSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a double act as a trapeze act life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the travelling circus middle of a dance performance that forms a backdrop was going to their liveschange her life. Always on But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the movepity stares, travelling from one place and desperate to get back to another, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever knowna life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. The sisters are surrounded by Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the love day to day traumas of their family and all the close friends who make up the other circus actschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Their lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boy So even though she can't dance anymore, a special boy named Dean. Their growing friendship, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon CohenSimon Fox|title=The Starman and MeDeadlock

|summary=''He wasn't an alienLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, I was sure of that. It was more like demanding he'd walked in through an ancient door fetch something from the past... except he was herea secret place, in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real join him on Planet Earththe run.'' Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when he spied a tiny human the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a roundabout near tin his father was determined to keep away from his house. But he wasn't. Rorty Thrutch is as real as you or me. But how did Rorty come to be hiding out in colleagues, and the middle bearer of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that he'll soon be ''bad dead''? whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrenceLex Croucher|title=Indigo DonutGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=''In Bailey's opinionWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Indigo didn't look like she needed it lifted my spirits in a heromost delightful way. One by one In this story, she looked MonaGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Saskiamuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, Betti and Kay you see, is in love with Bridget (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...'' Thatkingdom's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious only female knight) - something that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes Art discovers from herprivate diaries. And that's then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the least subterfuge 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 motherfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Various Authors|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= ''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 But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And it's live a great response.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew ShvartsNick Brooks|title= Royal Bastards|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 CollinsPromise Boys

|summary=Em - Emerald - has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents have sent her to a posh private When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school. She's friends with all is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the right people, police station as her social media accounts will attestsuspects. Everything is sweetness Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and light in Em's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in each could have been there at the crosshairs time of the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about to turn from secret to open crisishis murder. And when Em's mother overdoses But who killed him, the dominoes start to topple.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hayley Long|title= The Nearest Faraway Place|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthdayand why, 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 if any of the point of view of his brotherboys are innocent, Dylan, as will they both try be able to come to terms with the end of clear their world as they know it. names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clementine Beauvais1919635017|title=PiglettesA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|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 sympathySolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Mireille so why is at first too hard-hearted he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to give a damn, for angry self-defence is her default modethe second question because I avoid spoilers. But soon all three medallists in I'll answer the unwanted competition form a trio, and all three see a reason to go and gatecrash the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – first 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-superior, 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>grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Love & GelatoDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' Ant is in hope of Year Eleven at quite a light-hearted summery readstandard 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 an added draw being that both his best buddy from the action takes place football team, and two other old muckers – in Italyfact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a favourite country of minesingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and thatout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn's exactly t know what I gothis score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. The novel tells the story of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother He's wish by spending had a casual relationship, a summer in Tuscanysecret one, conveniently staying just outside of Florencefor several months now, getting to know and so has effectively progressed up the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest ladder headed by a journal her Mom left her'experienced', documenting the year she met Linabut whether that's father whilst studying photography set in Florencestone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summaryisbn=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol 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 from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years ago, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1800901232|title=The Ethan I Was BeforeStitched Up|author=Ali Standish|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ethan and his family are moving to a little town in Georgia from the big city of Boston in a last ditch attempt to help Ethan get over the loss of best friend Kacey. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else to think about. There's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. There's a new school with a new pecking order to navigate. There's a new friend in Coralee, who has a great line in tall stories and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But it's hard to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sonya Hartnett|title=SurrenderSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father Twelve-year- vicious corporal punishment for old Hanh wanted to be a minor infraction is a constant threat fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and his mentally abusive mother who loses no woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to belittle her young son and express her disappointment in himbe missed. Anwell is not popular at school Some money changed hands and his life at home is severely proscribedHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. So Only, when Finnigan appearsHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, Anwell is grateful for a friendthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Finnigan is strange You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and wild beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and full of a dark freedom. He doesndistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't even go to schools quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClarePatrice Lawrence|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)Needle|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=Resurrection|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs help. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together and have plans to use their unique set of skills to wage war on the mortal world. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have a scheme that should guarantee their success: they're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powers, Skulduggery can't defeat them alone. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire Hennessy|title= Like Other Girls|rating= 4.53

|summary=Like Other Girls is a story about a girl called LaurenBrave. She Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is not extremely hard for some people to like other girls, though characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she does sometimes like other girls's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. For Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one, her mum such item is part of the headmistress of her schoolplot here, for two, she doesn't fit in to as Charlene is a cliquewonder knitter, and is making something full of love for three, her boyfriend thinks younger sister – a younger sister she's madallowed contact with no more. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a revelation of someone close store detective, and then force people to give her and two days off school, when something enormous she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to Laurensay, she has no one she only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can turn to, or so she believesbe...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreview|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>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stewart FosterAnn Sei Lin|title= All The Things That Could Go WrongRebel Skies

|summary=Alex Kurara has OCDspent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and as if make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that wasn't awful enoughshe is a Crafter like him, he's getting badly bullied at schoolsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Dan's the guy who's bullying He asks her to come with him, but he's not really sure why he to leave the life of dreary servitude that is apart from the fact Sophie says he shouldall she has known. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brotherWell, Ben. soon Kurara won''All t have any say in the matter, because the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Dan's stories as they just try she is forced to make it through flee out into the daysworld. While Alex fights his OCD and his bulliesShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems to have inside him now. You might think this a sky-ship whose express purpose is going to be hunt down shikigami, and a cut and dried story whole world of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BarterMarcus Sedgwick|title=TroublemakersWrath

|summary=Ever since Alena can rememberMeet Fitz, it's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after hera young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Her mother died when she was Lockdown is only just three years old. It might over, and he should be small free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and unorthodoxwith whom he wants, but Alena's family is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in Londonit when he talks to his best friend, triggered by Cassie. They were half of a series of bombingsdesultory school band, threaten to spill over and shatter but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the stability of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the only family Alena has ever knownearth. Faced Is this connected with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into one of her eco-warrior parents saying the past, at end of the life world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of activism that her mother led? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, a life that her brother not when Cassie has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answersgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashTori Bovalino|title=Honor GirlThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=Teens |summary=''ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's camp. It's supposed library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me do — especially when she gets a request for not having the time of my lifeover a hundred books that she has to deliver herself.'' That simple piece of dialogue What makes it worse is the key to this autobiographical graphic novelman who requested the books: Mr Birch. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way sheThe boarding school's isolated by being a sleep-walkerheadmaster, and ignore the fact she's from a different state to every other girl around, man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all of deliver such a sudden become an ace shot large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the rifle rangebooks, and scribbled with the ugliest insults she can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performancethink of. But those arenThey't enough for Maggie re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to feel settled and get her anger out like she's enjoying her summerthis, and anyway they do come with their own problemsthen take them all off before delivering them. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems to harm done… Or it would 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 to our narratorif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen M McManusPhilip Reeve|title= One Utterly Dark and the Face of Us Is Lyingthe Deep|rating= 5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary='The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?' Sign me upIn a word, pleaserich. But There is certainly an abundance of riches in this YA mystery is more like story set on a teenage Agatha Christie: peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the 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 twistyfoundling daughter, complexwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and at several points I began to wonder if his curious ward are thrust into the final reveal would be that everyone was the murdererworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Dean HaleTom de Freston|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldJulia and the Shark|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Doreen Green moves Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from California the family home in SW England to New Jersey andbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, quite by accidentin the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, embarks on a journey that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to become a hero. A fantastic origin tale for be automating the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story lantern, which is engaginghis specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, fast-pacedwell, hip and extremely cool. What would a person she will be like if they had the proportional strength homesick and agility of a squirrel? Wonder no morealone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ron ButlinJonathan Stroud|title= Steve The Outlaws Scarlett and Frandan Take on the WorldBrowne|rating= 4.5

|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teensScarlett McCain is an outlaw, our heroes are rejecting the victims draconian conformity of cruel bullies – the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to be precise, as we are well into wander the wildlands between the twenty-first century hereSeven Kingdoms of Britain, of the cyber kindrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But this isn't some worthy self-helpthen she meets Albert Browne, tell-an-adult booka dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see they plan to flee to the point mythical Free Isles of going onthe London Lagoon. Nope – these guys take Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the unusual (cannibalistic Tainted and, in all the light horrors of later events, utterly daft) decision post-apocalyptic society to simply sail away into reach the sunsetFree Isles, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the insanities in general rest of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the time... Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Teri TerrySlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=It's Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die and she dies priority in the first few pages of ''Contagion'people's lives. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than But when she defends a year ago. Her brother Kai random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is still looking changed for good. No longer can she spend hertime writing novels in solitude, hopeful for her life now has a boy in it that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented on, and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formnever asked for: Wade Scholfield. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya Landman|title=Passing for White|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was a slave. He was a talented carpenter too, but on November the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at him, smiling and being polite. What was going on? He wasn't just unnerved, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at the white woman, looking ''her'' in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasn't a white woman: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. She could pass for white, but she too was a slave. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but 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 was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewT L Huchu|title=The Harder They Fall|author=Bali Rai|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is a bit Library of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmates. Still, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Ness|title= ReleaseDead

|summary=Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she''And when did I volunteer s been using it to die down support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter s an evil stalking the world ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Jancity'Teps children. Soon, powerful mages with Ropa is pulled into the ability to draw on search for a missing boy at the seven magicsrequest of his dead mother. Then meet Kellen, who despite being She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the son of one world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the most formidable mages in the clanmissing children and bring an end to this evil, has no magical ability whatsoever. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Karen GregoryLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=Hedda is 20 weeks pregnantHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. It was She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a one-night standbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, so therewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's no father on t respond to the scenechat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Shedecides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's 17house to check up on her. SheBut what she doesn's t expect to find there is a werewolf in the grip of an eating disorder basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for years. 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 direpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>1683692349