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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 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 The call 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 isdeep, and how important it is to get the funding that he needs. Aided by Claire's equipment and YouTube know-how, 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 happensmy heart. That's why our work isn't easy.'' And if that's not ominous, I don't know what is.

It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the spirit world or talked to wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her friend, is one of the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She has tried seven who swim out to do what Viewpoint asked her to do survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and live any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a normaltrap to end the wrecking, boringthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, human life. Mum Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is still working for the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longer. Money charming as he is tight secretive and Mumwith only coordinates to guide her, as ever, is stressedshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Dad got compensation for his accidentWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, so he is living as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the life heart of Riley. Hethe smuggler's eager to help out but Mum won't hear of it. And Ellie has a romantic interest in Luke. All in allterritory, things could Mira must be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting determined to stop at nothing to save the future of timelinesher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesHarry Allen|title=Libby in the Middle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sister, Bella. Bella used to be a real confidante to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriend. Now, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries that it will never come back. Libby also has a younger sister, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems to Libby that Grace, as the baby Children of the family, commands all the parental love and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison|title=FreshersSun

|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 to start anew. A freedom of the sort that you'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity Life is hard and food is difficult 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 adultsNari and Min go foraging every evening, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, very quickly. Phoebe looking for tree bark and Luke went edible grasses to supplement the same high school, but never really floated in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness meagre rations of Fresher's week, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messy, intense rice and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forgetkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneAlexia Casale|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 FantasySing if you Can'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took to 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 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 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 her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Heathfield|title= Flight of a Starlingt 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. 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 live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsNick Brooks|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 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 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 headmaster, and a sleepman Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-walkerit notes on each of the books, and ignore scribbled with the fact ugliest insults shecan think of. They's from a different state re never meant to every other girl aroundreach him, and practically only there of course. Her plan is to obey get her motheranger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's family tradition – she's all t delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a sudden become word, rich. There is certainly an ace shot abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the rifle rangeScillies. There are troll people on it, and can boss sea-witches, and legends of the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough Dark family that has to keep watch for Maggie to feel settled magical islands and like she's enjoying her summertheir monster approaching from even further west, and anyway they do come with their own problemswhere no ship dare sail. NoThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems to be falling Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in love London with one too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the counsellor camperssea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, there to look after both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the welfare world of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen M McManusKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= One of Us Is LyingJulia and the Shark|rating= 54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary='The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?' Sign me upJulia, 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 summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, pleasethat kind of Scottish island. But this YA mystery Dad is more like a teenage Agatha Christie: it's twistygoing to be automating the lantern, complexwhich is his specialist thing, and at several points I began while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to wonder if hunt the final reveal would elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be that everyone was the murdererhomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleJonathan Stroud|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54

|summary= Doreen Green moves from California Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to New Jersey wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks andshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, quite by accident, embarks on a journey to become dark boy with dark powers and a herodarker past. A fantastic origin tale for With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engagingLondon Lagoon. Together, fastthey must brave man-pacedeating wildlife, hip the cannibalistic Tainted and extremely cool. What would a person all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be like if any more accepted there than they had are in the proportional strength and agility rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a squirrel? Wonder no moreman with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ron ButlinT L Huchu|title= Steve and Frandan Take on The Library of the WorldDead

|summary= Like many books for confident readers Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and teens, our heroes are the victims a bit of cruel bullies – Scottish pragmatism) to be precise, as we are well into take messages from the twenty-first century here, dead of the cyber kindEdinburgh for their living relatives. But this isnEver since she dropped out of school, she't some worthy self-helps been using it to support not only herself, tell-an-adult bookbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who canthere't see s an evil stalking the point ruined streets of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (andEdinburgh, in targeting the light of later eventscity's children. Soon, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away Ropa is pulled into the sunset, to take search for a break from civilisation, online Thor and missing boy at the request of his idiot Viking horde, dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the insanities in general world of all adultsmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. In their defenceWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it seems a sensible move at the time... claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Kristen O'Neal|authortitle=Teri TerryLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=It's not a spoiler if I tell you Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that Callie dies because she does die and she dies may be in constant pain for the first few pages rest of her life. She joins ''ContagionOof Ouch My Bones''. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than , an online support group where she talks to a year agobunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Her brother Kai is still looking for herThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, hopeful that she will be found alive while also providing an escape to just joke and wellmess around. But Callie isnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't alive and wellrespond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Shedecides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's been taken house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a secretive medical facility on werewolf in the island of Shetland, experimented on, basement – and then burned for that werewolf to death. But Callie survived be the girl she has been talking to online for the burning in non-corporeal formpast few months. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1683692349