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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Charlotte SaysFrontpage|author=Alex Bell|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that is why Jemima decides to leave London and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skye. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on that terrible night. It doesn't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the school, is a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old building.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy AdlingtonMax Boucherat|title=The Red RibbonLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Ella is rushing We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to her audition for a job pop in fashion, as are several other young womenbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Thrown What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in at the deep end in the high-pressure workplacea blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is tasked with creating a dress from scratch for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages itto log on to Voxminer, even working through the nonworld-existent lunch breakbuilding, to design critter-collecting game that is a silk wonder worthy of any environmenthit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this is no typical make-or-break-stormy night doesn'em fashion design houset find herself entirely on her own, and this is no normal environment for then she finds something even more spooky. For the recipient server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to be wearing the frockenter shows signs of tampering. This When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau a girl to you and I.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartRachel Greenlaw|title= Genuine Fraud|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I'm going to straight up say that I'm not going to mention the plot in this review, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twisting, turning, great suspense of a novel. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on the side of a bus any time soon, and if that happens, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sally Nicholls|title= Things A Bright Girl Can Do|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''Things a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells the story of three teenage girls, all of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgrounds. There's Evelyn, an upper-class girl expected to marry at a young age, May, a middle-class girl with an opinionated Mother, and Nell, a working-class girl who does what she can to help her large family scrape by. The novel chronicles both their contributions to the fight for suffrage, and the way their lives change when World War One begins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title= Invictus|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= It's the 24th century and human beings have cracked the secret of time travel. Farway Gaius McCarthy is 17 and dreams of following in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined to track down Empra, who disappeared on a mission when her son was just 7. But Farway tanks his final exam Compass and his ambitions seem crushed. He's given another chance by Lux, a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder the past of its artifacts - artifacts that fetch fortunes in credits in the Central Time world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M A Bennett|title= S.T.A.G.SBlade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary=''One weekend. Three deadly activities''. Greer MacDonald is a new student at the prestigious St Aidan the Great Boarding School, known to its exclusive pupils as S.T.A.G.S. It is a school where technology is absent, the teachers are replaced by friars, and a group of elite students –known as the Medievals – run the school. When Greer inexplicably receives an invitation from the Medievals to spend a weekend at the stately home of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular boy at school, she is too curious decline such an invitation. But little does Greer realise that there is more to the weekend than she initially understands. Ultimately she and the other two students who have been invited must come together to uncover the truth about the infamous Medievals, and the blood sports they have been chosen to take part in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ruth Lauren|title=Prisoner of Ice and Snow|rating=4

|summary= Valor is under arrest for ''I can hear the song of the attempted assassination sea. The call of Anatolthe deep, Demidovathe answering beat in my heart.'s Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma -  Rosevear, a brutal prison constructed of stone remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and iceplundering the wrecks...... it's not sounding too great for ValorMira, like her mother before her, is it? one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the thing iswrecking, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and shethey capture the island's even prepared to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidovaleader and Mira's court father. Desperate to achieve it. Because Valor's sister Sasha save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is already secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in Tyur'ma - accused search of stealing a national treasure vital family secret that lies buried deep in the 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 cementing a peace treaty between Demidova and a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced the heart of her sisterthe smuggler's innocence and intends territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to break save the future of her outhome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LingHarry Allen|title=The Glow Children of Fallen Starsthe Sun|rating=45

|summary=''The Glow of Fallen Stars'' Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is the second book in Kate Ling's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review of the first instalment [[The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]a talented singer. Seren Life is hard and Domfood is difficult to come by, together with Ezra so Seo and her friends Nari and Mariana, have escaped the Ventura, the spaceship on which they have spent their whole livesMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and crash landed on the planet Huxley 3. At last, they are away from edible grasses to supplement the stifling authoritarianism meagre rations of life on board the ship rice and free to pursue their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real landkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe SeagerAlexia Casale|title=Editing EmmaSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Emma Nash is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions life-changing disability too, but that come 's what Ven is dealing with this age. When after collapsing on stage in the love middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life ''ghosts'' her (i.e. breaks up with her by acting as if But she doesn't exist)comes back fighting, she spends desperate to avoid the summer moping in her pyjamas. Howeverpity stares, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form and a resolution desperate to make some important ''edits'' get back to her a life. This includes e-tweaking herself with disastrous, and often hilarious, consequences. The whole experiment is recorded in Emmathat's private blog: a blog that as normal as she might just regret ever writingcan possibly manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vicki Grant|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Meanwhile there''Two random strangers. Thirty-six questions guaranteed s a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to make them fall in love. What's not try to like?'' Based on a psychological theorysort out, Grant's novel explores and just the concept that love can be engineered by using thirty-six ''simple'' questions. Questions such as ''What would constitute a perfect day?'' or ''When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?'' are designed day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to reveal the souls and characters of both participants, enabling them throw at her to form a deep connection with a strangernavigate. In a modern world dominated by technology So even though she can't dance anymore, this face might she be able to face interaction is performed to test whether genuine human interaction can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reservedsing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattSimon Fox|title= Truth or DareDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= After an accident leaves Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his brothershift on the force, Kamand then suddenly rings Archie, with severe neurodisabilitydemanding he fetch something from a secret place, it's obvious that the lives of Sef and his family will never be join him on the same againrun. Plagued by feelings of guilt and struggling to cope They get together, Sef turns all his attention to the only way that he might be able but barely begin to help - money. In an attempt to raise funds for his brother's care, he enlists smell the help whiff of Claire. As a volunteer at Southern trains when the facility looking after Kamfather is arrested, she's leaving Archie on the only person late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation ishis colleagues, and how important it is to get the funding that he needs. Aided by Claire's equipment and YouTube know-how, the two create bearer of a channel where their alter-egos, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game whole heap 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 featquestions. Just how far are they willing to go for their cause? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Lex Croucher|authortitle=Rob KeeleyGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=''Millions of people will die in the warWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Ellie. And it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easylifted my spirits in a most delightful way.'' And if that's not ominous In this story, I don't know what is. It's Gwen and Arthur have been two years betrothed since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her friendthey were tiny, the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her much to do and live a normaltheir mutual disgust! Gwen, boringyou see, human life. Mum is still working for in love with Bridget (the Journeyback historical rekingdom's only female knight) -enactment company but it looks as though something that Art discovers from her job won't last much longerprivate diaries. Money is tight and Mum And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws evercloser, is stressed. Dad got compensation for his accident, so he is living the life of Riley. He's eager to help out but Mum won't hear of it. And Ellie has will they find a romantic interest way in Luke. All in allwhich they can both truly be themselves, things could be better but or are they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting of timelines.destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesNick Brooks|title=Libby in the MiddlePromise Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sisterWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Bella. Bella used to be a real confidante to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriendthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Now Each, Bella makes Libby feel childishseemingly, 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 sistergrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems to Libby that Grace, as and each could have been there at the baby time of the familyhis murder. But who killed him, commands all the parental love and attention. Libby is well why, and truly stuck in if any of the middleboys are innocent, without a role of her own.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison1919635017|title=FreshersA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing upSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want to become. Going to university so why is he running around London committing a monumental transition. For some, it's an escape. A chance series of robberies? And how did he learn to start anew. A freedom of the sort that youcrack safes? You'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you forever. However, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people and the pressure wait to make new 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 and Luke went an answer to the same high school, but never really floated in the same circlessecond question because I avoid spoilers. But when the two collide in I'll answer the madness of Fresher's week, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds first one: for a messy, intense and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forgethis grandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstonePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilDifferent for Boys

|genre=Fantasy Teens |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back Ant is in Year Eleven at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson quite a standard school, and Ian Livingstone|is surprised to find his geography class (herewithin which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt)]]has been restructured, I took 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 primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the brand-newleash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for-2017 volume with my penAnt, mapping paperas he doesn't know what his score is, and most importantly, dicewhere his achievements in that regard lie. For the first time in He's had a longcasual relationship, long timea secret one, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And several months now, and sohas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skillwhether that's set in stone, I set offhe can't be sure. This is And that's mostly because of who he's been having the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being relationship and the usual useful book reviewsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sophie McKenzie1800901232|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>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Lisa Heathfield|title= Flight of a StarlingSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends tooTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Their partnership extends Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a double act as a trapeze act job in the travelling circus that forms a backdrop Hanoi it was an opportunity not to their livesbe missed. Always Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the movemini-bus to Hanoi. Only, travelling from one place Hanh and the other girls were not going to anotherwork in a shop, never staying they were to work in virtual slavery in one town for long is all they have ever knownan illegal garment factory. The sisters are surrounded by You know those jeans you really wanted: the love of their family ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the close friends who make up legs? The ones with the other circus acts. Their lives are happy artfully-placed rips and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boy, a special boy named Dean. Their growing friendship, together with a secret distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Lo discovers, will change things for everHanh and her co-workers made them. |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, in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earth.'' Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied a tiny human on a roundabout near to 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 the middle of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that he'll soon be ''bad dead''? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage

|title=Indigo DonutNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'In Bailey's opinionof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Indigo didn't look like she needed a herocharacters and readers both. One by one Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she looked Mona's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, SaskiaAnnie, Betti and Kay has taken up residence 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...her son Blake'' Thats old room while he's Indigo for at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you! Indigo might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy part of the plot here, as Charlene is a last chance wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that younger sister – a younger sister she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her reputation for kicking two days off always precedes herschool, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And that's the least of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' then... well, what exactly happens is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her mothernot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsAnn Sei Lin|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeRebel Skies

|summary= ''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of stories the Empire come to drink and poems interpreting make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the theme of change by twelve BAME writersEmpire. It's Stripes Publishing's response He asks her to come with him, to leave the under-representation life of BAME authors dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the UKmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. And it's She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a great response.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew ShvartsMarcus Sedgwick|title= Royal BastardsWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= A group Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of teens witness something that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdomfrustration at himself. Royal plotsLockdown is only just over, magicand he should be free to do what he wants, adventure to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a rich culture to immerse yourself indesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Can Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the pack end of bastards make the world is already a done deal? Is it to safety before some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the vicious warriors chasing them catch themtruth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No FilterTori Bovalino|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Em - Emerald - has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents have sent Working all summer in her to a posh private boarding school. She's friends with all library is the right people, as her social media accounts will attestlast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Everything What makes it worse is sweetness and light in Emthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's worldheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. Or is As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in notes on each of the books, scribbled with the crosshairs ugliest insults she can think of the school. They's cool girl pecking orderre never meant to reach him, of course. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about Her plan is to turn from secret to open crisisget her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. And when EmNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's mother overdoses, the dominoes start to topplet delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hayley LongPhilip Reeve|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthdayIn a word, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family rich. There is caught up certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a road accidentpeculiar 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 Nearest Faraway Place'' is told current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the point of view of Hidden Lands, his brotherWill who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, Dylanand Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, as they both try to come to terms with his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the end world of protecting their world as they know island, like itor not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clementine BeauvaisKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=PiglettesJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The results are in – Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and for their cat from the first time family home in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in school, but only the third ugliestfar NE of the Scottish islands. When her replacement at Here be Vikings, that exalted low position comes calling for sympathy, Mireille kind of Scottish island. Dad is at first too hard-hearted going to give a damnbe automating the lantern, for angry self-defence which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her default modecareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. But soon all three medallists in the unwanted competition form a trioAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and all three see a reason to go and gatecrash the 14th July Presidential Garden Party alone – until she suddenly finds company 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…night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchJonathan Stroud|title= Love & GelatoThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' in hope Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of a light-hearted summery read, with an added draw being that the action takes place in Italy, a favourite country Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of mineBritain, robbing banks and that's exactly what I gotshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The novel tells the story of LinaBut then she meets Albert Browne, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother's wish by spending dark boy with dark powers and a summer in Tuscanydarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, conveniently staying just outside they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of Florencethe London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, getting the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to know reach the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest by a journal her Mom left herFree Isles, documenting but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florence.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Callie BatesMercedes Helnwein|title= The Waking LandSlingshot|rating= 43|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''They need something Gracie Welles has resigned herself to believe inbeing lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need she is used to believe not being a priority in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elannapeople's life changed completelylives. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held But when she defends a pistol to random boy in her head and took class with her hostage. Raised by the Kingslingshot, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she once loved. Now twentyspend her time writing novels in solitude, 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 life now has a boy in 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 destinynever asked for: Wade Scholfield. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ethan I Was BeforeT L Huchu|authortitle=Ali StandishThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Ethan Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and his family are moving to a little town in Georgia from the big city bit of Boston in a last ditch attempt Scottish pragmatism) to help Ethan get over take messages from the loss dead of best friend KaceyEdinburgh for their living relatives. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to think aboutsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. ThereHowever, there's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house and an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. Therecity's a new school with a new pecking order to navigatechildren. There's a new friend in CoraleeSoon, who has Ropa is pulled into the search for a great line in tall stories missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey didmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. But it's hard Will she find the missing children and bring an end to leave grief behindthis evil, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does...or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonya HartnettKristen O'Neal|title=SurrenderLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Anwell lives Having recently been diagnosed with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for a minor infraction is a constant threat - and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity to belittle the rest of her young son and express her disappointment in him. Anwell is not popular at school and his life at home is severely proscribed. SoShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', when Finnigan appears, Anwell is grateful for an online support group where she talks to a friendbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Finnigan is strange They talk about their troubles and wild help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and full mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a dark freedomwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. He But what she doesn't even go expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to schoolbe the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>1683692349