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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick Lake|title=Satellite|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Born and raised, along with twins Orion and Libra, on the space station Moon 2, Leo has never set foot on Earth. And yet, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits about 250 miles above Earth. It travels at 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. If you ever look out of the porthole beneath, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean for real? Leo and the twins may soon be able to do that now that they are teenagers and the scientists below think they are strong enough to come home. Each has their own idea of what it will be like and what they would like to do. Orion wants to go to a concert. Libra wants to dig her hands in soil. Leo wants to throw a ball and observe its arc. Everyone wants to see a bird in flight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The Dollmaker Last Life of Krakow|author=R M RomeroLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Karolina is a refugee from We meet Lori on the Land of first evening she's got the Dolls. Her homeland has been ravaged by rats and Karolina was blown by a magical wind into Krakowhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Polandbabysitter poorly, mother at the height of WWIIwork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. She finds herself What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a workshop belonging blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to CyrylVoxminer, known as the Dollmaker of Krakow. Lonelyworld-building, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement critter-collecting game that is a strong friendship which helps Cyryl hit in his life outside the workshopLori's world. But it's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under first Lori has a vicious enemy: ittiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's Polandt find herself entirely on her own, tooand then she finds something even more spooky. Together, Karolina For the server she and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours her bestie and determine nobody else should be able to do whatever enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the can game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to save from the monstrous Nazi regime...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonRachel Greenlaw|title=ScarecrowCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work and blows 'I can hear the song of the whistle, he makes some very powerful and dangerous enemiessea. He and Jack are forced to go into hiding in a remote cottage in The call of the Scottish highlands. Miles from anywhere and anyonedeep, they hope they will be alone and safethe answering beat in my heart. But it quickly transpires that they are neither. Dad's enemies already know where they are heading and, even before they move in, Jack starts to have doubts whether they are actually alone. Did he really see the scarecrow next to their cottage move?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>'}}{{newreview|author=Steve Cole|title=Senseless|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-BoyRosevear, thinks his every dream has come true when he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical and partially forgotten island. The contestants are flown in , survives on their own private jet luring ships into the rocks and transferred by limo to plundering the swankiest of hotelswrecks. It all seems too good to be true – which Mira, like her mother before her, is one of course it is. Within hours, events start the seven who swim out to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in survey the night unable to see and one by one his other senses ruins – touch, hearing, smell rescuing any survivors and taste – flicker in and outany treasure that lies within. And he's not on his own. It's happening But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the other contestants toowrecking, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isnthey capture the island't really happening. He wants to believe its leader and Mira's just a really good virtual reality gamefather. But with Sensia in controlDesperate to save him from death, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phill Featherstone|title= Paradise Girl|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on Mira makes a Yorkshire farm – bargain with a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a few sheep. The kind of farm family secret that might have been profitable lies buried deep in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been strugglingsea. A teenage boy not pulling his weightWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, now that as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the grandparents are old and heart of the father is deadsmuggler's territory, would not Mira must be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-hands, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers determined to stop at nothing to save the costs future of her home and the rest of itones she holds most dear. Already, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingHarry Allen|authortitle=William SutcliffeChildren of the Sun

|summary=Lex Ra Eun Seo lives in what used to be Londona North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Today, it Life is hard and food is a closed-offdifficult to come by, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in so Seo and her friends Nari and nobody can Min go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the job meagre rations of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. Lex rice and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeAlexia Casale|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=''I'm thirteen years OLD, not young.'' And it's a good job too, for her grandma and godfather have taken Bea on an extended holiday to Indonesia, where the wild dinosaurs live. Yes, this is a world where they never went extinct, and have been used for riding for leisure or as pack animals ever since mankind domesticated them. But wild and dangerous ones still exist, such as the Raptors of Paradise. Bea's older guardians have another reason to go there, though – they are in search of clues that might lead them to at last discover the fate of Bea's birth parents, who disappeared a decade ago. She's unaware of this being the final grasp at one last clue – and all of them are ignorant of how the real danger and mystique on the island may actually come not from the fabulous beasts, but from other humans…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786968002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robin Jarvis|title= Time of Blood|rating= 4

|summary= Travel back over It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a hundred years into Whitbylife-changing disability too, but that's past what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to see two witches battle an ancient evilchange her life. Follow young Lil as But she tries comes back fighting, desperate to avoid spoilers the pity stares, and find her best frienddesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brian Gallagher|title= Pawns|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Meanwhile there''Pawns'' tells the story of Johnny, Stella and Alice, all of whom are growing up s a new (cute!) boy in Ireland during the War of Independenceschool, and who have somehow become friends in spite of their very different political views. Stella is passionately pro-British, while Johnny frequently risks his life her music A Level performance piece to pass information try to the pro-Irish rebelssort out, and Alice is left stranded in just the middle, supporting neither side day to day traumas of all the disputechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zillah BethellSimon Fox|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareDeadlock

|summary=Auden has Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a condition called achromatopsiasecret place, which means that he can't see coloursand join him on the run. He likes They get together, but barely begin to pretend that it doesn't matter but it does. And smell the whiff of Southern trains when the older Auden getsfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the more it seems late express to matter. Mind youBrighton, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in toting a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastlinetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now bearer of a quasi-government as the most important and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Auden's father is away fightingwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraLex Croucher|title= They Both Die at the EndGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4

|summary= ''No matter how we choose Who knew that what I really needed to liveread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, we both die at the end''much to their mutual disgust! The year is 2017Gwen, the place is Americayou see, but this is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know in love with Bridget (the exact date of everyonekingdom's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they will be dead within find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat deathsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, all have failedwhen 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>1471166201</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseNick Brooks|authortitle=Sarah CrossanPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=Joe When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearsmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texas Each, seemingly, convicted has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder of a police officer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe But who killed him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes throughand why, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across if any of the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined boys are innocent, will they be able to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=I am TraitorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Sif Sigmarsdottir Kitt Townsend

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order committing a curfew. After that, series of robberies? And how did he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to patrol the streetssecond question because I avoid spoilers. Not that the army has any But I'll answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagersfirst one: for his grandmother.. To where, nobody knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Alex BellDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died Ant is in an awful fire not long ago Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and that is why Jemima decides surprised to leave London find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and take two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up , straining at the leash only a job as a teacher on single-sex school can form, the Isle of Skyetalk in class and out often turns to sex. But leaving the place Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima know what his score is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on , where his achievements in that terrible nightregard lie. It doesn He't help that Miss Graysons had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the mistress at the schoolladder headed by 'experienced', is a strangebut whether that's set in stone, forbidding sort, while he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Adlington1800901232|title=The Red RibbonStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Ella is rushing Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to her audition for be a job in fashion, as are several other young womendesigner. Thrown Life in at the deep end in rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the highsmartly-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a dress from scratch for job in Hanoi it was an important client before four pm that dayopportunity not to be missed. But she manages it, even working through Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the nonmini-existent lunch break, bus to design a silk wonder worthy of any environmentHanoi. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design houseOnly, Hanh and this is no normal environment for the recipient other girls were not going to be wearing work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the frock. legs? This is Birchwood – or AuschwitzThe ones with the artfully-Birkenau to placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and Iher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartPatrice Lawrence|title= Genuine FraudNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary= Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. IKicked out of multiple homes and schools, she'm going to straight s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up say that Iresidence in her son Blake'm not going to mention the plot in this review, because I cans old room while he't without inevitably spoiling something s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in this twistingneed of a comfort blanket, turningyou might perhaps think, great suspense and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a novel. All I will say wonder knitter, and is that I felt like I was watching making something full of love for her younger sister – a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see this advertised as Charlene prove her belligerence with a film on the side of a bus any time soonstore detective, and if that then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happensis not for me to say, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backsideonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsAnn Sei Lin|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoRebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary=''Things Kurara has spent her entire life as a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells servant on the story of three teenage girlsMidori, all a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgroundsthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. There's EvelynHowever, an upper-class girl expected when a man named Himura arrives to marry at tell her that she is a young age, MayCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a middle-class girl power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with an opinionated Motherhim, and Nellto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a working-class girl who does what shikigami, and she can is forced to help her large family scrape byflee out into the world. The novel chronicles both their contributions She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to the fight for suffragehunt down shikigami, and the way their lives change when World War One begins.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinMarcus Sedgwick|title= InvictusWrath|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 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.S|rating= 4.5|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|genre=Teens|summary= Valor is under arrest for the attempted assassination of Anatol, Demidova's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - a brutal prison constructed of stone and ice...... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is it? But the thing is, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and she's even prepared to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve it. Because Valor's sister Sasha is already in Tyur'ma - accused of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing a peace treaty between Demidova and a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced of her sister's innocence and intends to break her out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Ling|title=The Glow of Fallen Stars|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''The Glow of Fallen Stars'' 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]]. Seren and Dom, together with Ezra and Mariana, have escaped the Ventura, the spaceship on which they have spent their whole lives, and crash landed on the planet Huxley 3. At last, they are away from the stifling authoritarianism of life on board the ship and free to pursue their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real land.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Seager|title=Editing Emma|rating=4

|summary=Emma Nash is Meet Fitz, a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions that come with this age. When the love young Scottish lad full of her life ''ghosts'' her (ifrustration at himself.e. breaks up with her by acting as if she doesn't exist), she spends the summer moping in her pyjamas. HoweverLockdown is only just over, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form and a resolution he should be free to make some important ''edits'' do what he wants, to her life. This includes e-tweaking herself go where he wants and with disastrouswhom he wants, and often hilariousbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, consequencesCassie. The whole experiment is recorded in Emma's private blog: They were half of a blog that desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she might just regret ever writingcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vicki Grant|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=''Two random strangers. ThirtyIs this connected with one of her eco-six questions guaranteed to make them fall in love. What's not to like?'' Based on a psychological theory, Grant's novel explores warrior parents saying the end of the concept that love can be engineered by using thirty-six ''simple'' questions. Questions such as ''What would constitute world is already a perfect daydone deal?Is it some spooky new kind of music she'' or ''When did you last sing to yourselfs dreaming of? To someone elseIs she just bonkers?'' are designed to reveal And can Fitz find out the souls and characters of both participantstruth? Well, enabling them to form a deep connection with a stranger. In a modern world dominated by technology, this face to face interaction is performed to test whether genuine human interaction not when Cassie has gone missing he can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reserved?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattTori Bovalino|title= Truth or DareThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= After an accident leaves his brother, Kam, with severe neurodisability, itWorking all summer in her boarding school's obvious that library is the lives of Sef and his family will never be the same again. Plagued by feelings of guilt and struggling last thing Tess Matheson wants to cope, Sef turns all his attention do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the only way that he might be able to help - moneybooks: Mr Birch. In an attempt to raise funds for his brotherThe boarding school's careheadmaster, he enlists the help of Claireand a man Tess hates. As a volunteer at the facility looking after Kampetty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, she's Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the only person from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation isbooks, and how important it is to get scribbled with the funding that he needsugliest insults she can think of. Aided by ClaireThey's equipment and YouTube know-how, the two create a channel where their alter-egosre never meant to reach him, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their causecourse. However, £60,000 Her plan is no small amountto get her anger out like this, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy featthen take them all off before delivering them. Just how far are they willing to go No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for their cause? her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Philip Reeve|authortitle=Rob KeeleyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45

|summary=''Millions In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of people will die riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the war, EllieScillies. And There are troll people on it's our job to make sure it happens. 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 the spirit world or talked to her friendand sea-witches, and legends of the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She Dark family that has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do keep watch for magical islands and live a normal, boringtheir monster approaching from even further west, human lifewhere no ship dare sail. Mum is still working for The current Darks are the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longer. Money is tight and MumWatcher, as everAndrewe, is stressed. Dad got compensation for who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his accidenthead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, so he is living the life of Riley. Heand Andrewe's eager to help foundling daughter, who washed up out but Mum won't hear of itthe sea one day eleven years ago. And Ellie has a romantic interest in Luke. All in allBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of timelinesprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Libby in Julia and the MiddleShark

|summary=TwelveJulia, our pre-year-old Libby teen heroine, has an older sisterbeen 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, Bellathat kind of Scottish island. Bella used Dad is going to be a real confidante automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriendhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Now And Julia, Bella makes Libby feel childishwell, foolish she will be homesick and unwantedalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The close friendship they had shared has gone Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and Libby worries that it will never come backshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Libby also has But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a younger sisterdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems they plan to flee to Libby that Grace, as the baby mythical Free Isles of the familyLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, commands the cannibalistic Tainted and all the parental love and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the middle, without a role rest of her own.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonMercedes Helnwein|title=FreshersSlingshot|rating=53

|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want Gracie Welles has resigned herself to becomebeing lonely. Going to university is As a monumental transition. For some, it's an escape. A chance to start anew. A freedom secret illegitimate daughter 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 a man with you forever. However, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line"real" family, after all, between the opportunity she is used to meet new not being a priority in people and the pressure 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 quicklylives. Phoebe and Luke went to the same high schoolBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, but never really floated in the same circlesher simple existence is changed for good. But when the two collide No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the madness of Fresher's weeksolitude, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for her life now has a messy, intense and hilarious term boy in it that neither of them will ever forgetshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneT L Huchu|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port Library of Perilthe Dead|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 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

|summary= Carey Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Amelia are best friends, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreak, a malicious online accountbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, begins she's been using it to abuse Ameliasupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. To make matters worseHowever, there's an evil stalking the police soon find evidence that Carey was ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the one who sent the messagescity's children. Soon everyone, even Amelia, Ropa is convinced pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of Careymagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's guiltve imagined. Only her sister, Poppy, accepts her innocence. When Will she find the online threats spill over into real lifemissing children and bring an end to this evil, Carey is determined to discover who is framing or will it claim her.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HeathfieldKristen O'Neal|title= Flight of a StarlingLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to a double act as a trapeze act terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the travelling circus that forms a backdrop to their livesrest of her life. Always on the moveShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', travelling from one place an online support group where she talks to another, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever knowna bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. The sisters are surrounded by the love of They talk about their family troubles and the close friends who make up the help each other circus acts. Their lives are happy out, while also providing an escape to just joke and securemess around. Until one day Lo meets When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a boywhile, a special boy named DeanPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Their growing friendship, together with But what she doesn't expect to find there is a secret werewolf in the basement – and for that Lo discovers, will change things werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for everthe past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>1683692349