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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaMax Boucherat|title= This Mortal CoilThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= A life threatening virus is spreading through We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the United Stateshouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an already broken country with avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a Government blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying is to produce a vaccine log on to save humanityVoxminer, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at world-building, critter-collecting game that is a frightening pacehit in Lori's world. Catarina But first Lori has lived alone a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and in hiding for then she finds something even more spooky. For the past two years, since server she and her brilliant father was rounded up by the State bestie and taken by force nobody else should be able to work in the national laboratoriesenter shows signs of tampering. His last message to When malevolent eyes spark up on her was to hide from the State and not to trust them an inch. Set in America, but not an America we would recognise, most of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkersphone screen, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of the State, remain her safe place in hiding on the surfacegame has been doctored – well, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who where is infected.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingRachel Greenlaw|title= WitchbornCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, too foul for your eyes to look uponthe answering beat in my heart.''
Enter the Elizabethan world of 1577. A world of intrigueRosevear, terror a remote and suspicion. A world of witchcraft partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and witch-huntingplundering the wrecksAlyce is a young girl forced to flee from Mira, like her home after the devastating death of mother before her Mother, is one of the only person she had ever lovedseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Tried and deemed But when the Council Watch lays a witch, her Mother was sentenced trap to being burnt at end the stake by wrecking, they capture the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she canisland't leave behind, Alyce escapes to London but shes leader and Mira's not alonefather. Endangered and being followedDesperate to save him from death, Alyce Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is determined as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to keep guide her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find sets off in search of a family secret that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possiblelies buried deep in the sea.  And AlyceWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, although she doesnas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't yet realise its territory, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to steal save the throne future of her home and the other determined to keep it…ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungHarry Allen|title= The Road to Ever After|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeur, and we watch as she gradually softens towards him and they become friends. So far, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'', an apt comparison in a book which references several well-loved classic films. But the obvious similarity ends there. Davy, hired to take Miss Flint on her final road trip, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive a car. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)|title=Tortot, Children of the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartSun|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meet Tortot. He's a camp chef for an army, with Ra Eun Seo lives in a cold heart – he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does a fish – North Korean town and she is a brilliant way of gauging the warfare going on around himtalented singer. The book even starts with him crossing the battlefield Life is hard and food is difficult to start work for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and defeat themMin go foraging every evening, leaving Tortot on the winning side once more. But now he's not alone – looking for he has managed tree bark and edible grasses to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel supplement the meagre rations of the Emperors' favourite rice and most important gherkins…kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyAlexia Casale|title= Daughter of the Burning CitySing if you Can't Dance|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours the land, entertaining the crowds with fantastic shows of magic, illusion and sleight of hand. But the proprietor of Gomorrah, Villiam, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts in the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in the circus, Sorina knows that she will one day become the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cara Delevigne|title= Mirror, Mirror|rating= 25
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|summary= If the news It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that Cara Delevigne had written her first novel (how did you miss it? Were you living under 're having to navigate a rock?)life-changing disability too, all about but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a group of teens who go looking for their friend who disappeareddance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, makes you roll your eyes and say ''well, desperate to get back to a life that sounds a bit like Paper Towns'', don't worry: you're not alone (seriously, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads)s as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's a pretty lazy write-offnew (cute!) boy in school, thoughher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, so I was curious and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to read this throw at her to see what could navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be said about it.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorSimon Fox|title=The TreatmentDeadlock
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When Drew's brother Late one night Graham Blake is once again expelled late back from schoolhis shift on the force, and sent away to then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a special reform schoolsecret place, Drew doesn't really careand join him on the run. She has enough They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of her own troubles to deal with. But then one day she Southern trains when the father is followed home from school by a mysterious doctorarrested, who claims leaving Archie on the late express to have Brighton, toting a sinister message tin his father was determined to keep away from her brotherhis colleagues, begging Drew to help him because and the school is not bearer of a reform school, and actually all the children there are being brainwashedwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleLex Croucher|title= The Beast is an Animal |rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=The Beast is an Animal, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when her village was set upon by the Soul Eaters, she was the only one to see them. Alys and the other orphans are sent to the neighbouring village but this place is not like home. In the strange village of Defaid people are pious, they say that Alys's village must have been in league with the Beast, that they drew the Soul Eaters in. People in Defaid are suspicious, and they are particularly suspicious of Alys, though she never tells a soul what she has seen. Despite it's piety and it devotion to the ways of the Shepherd, Defaid feels the Soul Eaters creeping ever closer, luring them with their singing. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong there, Alys knows the danger of the Soul Eaters but she is drawn to them. As she grows older and the danger grows greater, the dark question grows larger in Alys's mind, is she bad like them? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julie Bertagna|title= Exodus|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Exodus is a book which, though fifteen years old, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live in right at this moment. Set in a world ravaged by global warming Gwen and melting ice-caps, this is the story of the last inhabitants of an island called Wing, who set sail in search of a new life once Wing is sunk under the rising tide. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thing, and one which dredges up so many interesting questions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon P Clark|title=Art Are Not Yet Dark|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Philippa and Danny have been friends since they were tiny. But now, at fifteen and into the unforgiving world of adolescence, there are stresses and pressures. Danny has some new friends in the rugby team and they are full of the obnoxious, somewhat sexist, bravado of the jock world. They make jokes about Philippa and she doesn't like it. She gets angry when Danny doesn't shut them down. And, if she's truthful, she's a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with them. For his part, Danny feels a bit suffocated by this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy Reed|title=The Nowhere Girls|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' is another timely novel that aims to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at the moment. It sees Grace, Erin and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite to create a movement, known as The Nowhere Girls, which will challenge the sexist culture at their school. In the process, they hope to get justice for Lucy, a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Perkins|title= There's Someone Inside Your House|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young is still adjusting to her new life with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska after her parents send her away from her beloved Hawaiian home. She's made friends and has even had a hint of romance, yet her old life is hard to forget. But things in her new quiet little Nebraskan town take a strange turn when one by one, her classmates are violently murdered. No one knows who is next on the killer's list or why they are being targeted, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=My Side of the DiamondLove
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|summary=''You have to accept Who knew that if two people jump from the dome of St Paul's they would be bound what I really needed to land. read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? They'd be dead but they would land.'' ExceptBut honestly, it lifted my spirits in this a most unusual book, they didn'tdelightful way. Two people were seen leaving the outside of the London Cathedral's domeIn this story, but were never found at the foot of it – Gwen and someone has Arthur have been in prison ever betrothed since for pushing them off. It's a most peculiar scenariothey were tiny, and our narrator Jaz is struggling much to tell her mysterious interrogatortheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Mr Jonesyou see, all about it – and all about her relationship is in love with her best friend. Now Becky, Bridget (the friend, was a child prodigy scikingdom's only female knight) -fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else that Art discovers from lifeher private diaries. Rushing around to investigate And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the case subterfuge of the fallersfalling in love with each other, she seems to have found that, in the shape of a hot-blooded romancewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But what is Jaz doing starting her testimony with talk of inquestsas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, evidence and hatredor are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresNick Brooks|title=Blue DogPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death and Mick was sent to live in in When the outback with Granpa. On the face principal (headmaster) of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no Urban Promise Prep school to attendis murdered, in fact no other children anywhere nearthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Granpa's busy too: life on Each, seemingly, has a cattle station is brutal for anyonegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, with all the heat and each could have been there at the dusttime of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they've all got be able to make the best of the situation.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Lake1919635017|title=SatelliteA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5
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|summary=Born and raisedSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, along with twins Orion and Libra, on the space station Moon 2, Leo has never set foot on Earth. so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And yet, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits about 250 miles above Earth. It travels at 17,500 miles how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutesanswer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. If you ever look out of the porthole beneath, youBut I'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see answer the ocean first one: 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 homehis grandmother. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dollmaker of KrakowPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=R M RomeroDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Karolina Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a refugee standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the Land of 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 Dolls. Her homeland has been ravaged by rats and Karolina was blown by leash only a magical wind into Krakow, Polandsingle-sex school can form, at the height of WWII. She finds herself talk in a workshop belonging class and out often turns to Cyrylsex. Which is confusing for Ant, known as the Dollmaker of Krakowhe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Lonely He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and so has effectively progressed up the two cement a strong friendship which helps Cyryl ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in his life outside the workshopstone, he can't be sure. But it And that's not just the Land mostly because of the Dolls suffering under a vicious enemy: itwho he's Poland, too. Together, Karolina been having the relationship and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours and determine to do whatever the can to save from the monstrous Nazi regime..sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Weston1800901232|title=ScarecrowStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work and blows the whistle, he makes some very powerful and dangerous enemies. He and Jack are forced to go into hiding in a remote cottage in the Scottish highlands. Miles from anywhere and anyone, they hope they will be alone and safe. 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?
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Cole
|title=Senseless
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=16 Twelve-year -old Kenzie MitchellHanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, otherwise known as K-Boyif not prosperous, thinks his every dream has come true so when he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet smartly-dressed man and transferred by limo woman came to the swankiest of hotels. It all seems too good village to be true – which of course offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it is. Within hours, events start was an opportunity not to take a sinister turnbe missed. Kenzie wakes in Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the night unable mini-bus to see Hanoi. Only, Hanh and one by one his the other senses – touchgirls were not going to work in a shop, hearing, smell and taste – flicker 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 out. And he's not beading on his own. It's happening to the other contestants too, sometimes legs? The ones with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe itthe artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's just a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappearedquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstonePatrice Lawrence|title= Paradise GirlNeedle|rating= 3|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheep. The kind of farm that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been strugglingBrave. A teenage boy not pulling his weightCharlene, now that the grandparents are old and the father 'heroine' of this piece is deadextremely hard for some people to like, would not be met with exasperated indulgencecharacters and readers both. There are no stock-handsKicked out of multiple homes and schools, no farm managersshe's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, no applications for subsidiesAnnie, or worries about the tax returnand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Maybe Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs creation of one such item is part of the rest of it. Alreadyplot here, in settingas Charlene is a wonder knitter, itand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's feeling allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a little unrealstore detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then. But maybe we .. well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can forgive that… be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=William SutcliffeRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lex lives Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in what used the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to be Londondrink and make merry between their conquests. TodayHowever, it when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a closed-offCrafter like him, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a constant presence overhead. Alan spends power sought after all his time watching The Stripacross the Empire. His talent as a gamer got He asks her to come with him , to leave the job life of drone pilotdreary servitude that is all she has known. He hasnWell, soon Kurara won't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorismhave any say in the matter, after all. Alan's observation target because the Midori is destroyed by a high-profile target - monstrous paper spirit known as a man high up in shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''world. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. Lex She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways...a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeMarcus Sedgwick|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseWrath
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|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…
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{{newreview
|author= Robin Jarvis
|title= Time of Blood
|rating= 4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Travel back Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over , and he should be free to do what he wants, 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 desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred years into Whitbyper cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's past to see two witches battle an ancient evil. Follow young Lil as dreaming of? Is she tries to avoid spoilers and just bonkers? And can Fitz find her best friendout the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian Gallagher|title= Pawns|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Pawns'' tells the story of Johnny, Stella and Alice, all of whom are growing up in Ireland during the War of Independence, 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 to pass information to the pro-Irish rebels, and Alice is left stranded in the middle, supporting neither side of the dispute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zillah BethellTori Bovalino|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Auden has a condition called achromatopsia, which means that he can't see colours. He likes to pretend that it doesn't matter but it does. And the older Auden gets, the more it seems to matter. Mind you, so does everything else...
... because Auden lives in a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastline, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now 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 fighting.
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{{newreview
|author= Adam Silvera
|title= They Both Die at the End
|rating= 4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school''No matter how we choose s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to live, we both die at deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the endbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school'' The year is 2017s headmaster, the place is America, but this is not and a place we recogniseman Tess hates. A company called DeathAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-Cast know it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the exact date ugliest insults she can think of everyone. They's death and make it their mission re never meant to inform Deckers that they will be dead within the next twenty-four hoursreach him, of course. Many have tried Her plan is to cheat deathget her anger out like this, and then take them all have failedoff before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonrisePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Sarah CrossanUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Joe In a word, rich. There is seventeen certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and he hasn't seen his brother legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for ten yearsmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. And The current Darks are the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in TexasWatcher, Andrewe, convicted who has to keep notes of activity from the murder of a police officer. Ed says heHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gonefoundling daughter, no-who washed up out of the sea one knows whereday eleven years ago. When the execution date comes throughBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Joe passes up on both his job sullen brother and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across his curious ward are thrust into the country so that Ed is world of protecting their island, like it or not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreview|title=I am TraitorFrontpage|author=Sif Sigmarsdottir |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation Kiran Millwood Hargrave and order a curfew. After that, he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army to patrol the streets. Not that the army has any answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagers. To where, nobody knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTom de Freston|title=Charlotte Says|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 Julia 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 Adlington|title=The Red RibbonShark|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ella is rushing Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to her audition be lighthousekeepers for a job in fashionsummer, as are several other young women. Thrown in at the deep end in far NE of the high-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating a dress from scratch for an important client before four pm that dayScottish islands. But she manages itHere be Vikings, even working through the non-existent lunch break, to design a silk wonder worthy that kind of any environmentScottish island. But this Dad is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design housegoing to be automating the lantern, and this which is no normal environment for the recipient his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to be wearing hunt the frockelusive Greenland shark. This is Birchwood And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Iuntil she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartJonathan Stroud|title= Genuine FraudThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= I'm going Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to straight up say that I'm not going to mention wander the wildlands between the plot in this reviewSeven Kingdoms of Britain, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistingrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, turning, great suspense of a noveldark boy with dark powers and a darker past. 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 With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the side mythical Free Isles of a bus any time soonthe London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and if that happensall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, then it but will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside. they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsMercedes Helnwein|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoSlingshot|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary=''Things Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells the story secret illegitimate daughter of three teenage girlsa man with a "real" family, all of whom are fighting for womenshe is used to not being a priority in people's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgroundslives. There's Evelyn, an upper-class girl expected to marry at But when she defends a young age, May, a middle-random boy in her class girl with an opinionated Motherher slingshot, and Nellher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a working-class girl who does what boy in it that she can to help her large family scrape by. The novel chronicles both their contributions to the fight never asked for suffrage, and the way their lives change when World War One begins: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinT L Huchu|title= InvictusThe Library of the Dead
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= It's the 24th century Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and human beings have cracked a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the secret dead of time travelEdinburgh for their living relatives. Farway Gaius McCarthy is 17 and dreams Ever since she dropped out of following in his motherschool, she's footsteps as a Recorder for the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined been using it to track down Emprasupport not only herself, who disappeared on a mission when but her son was just 7. But Farway tanks his final exam younger sister and his ambitions seem crushedher aging grandmother. HeHowever, there's given another chance by Luxan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder missing boy at the past request of its artifacts - artifacts his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that fetch fortunes in credits in the Central Time worldof magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{Frontpage
|author=Kristen O'Neal
|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.
|isbn=1683692349
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