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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonMax Boucherat|title= The Extinction TrialsLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Storm and Lincoln live We meet Lori on Earthasiathe first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newbabysitter poorly, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her fatherlonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, so she lives in has one of Earthasia's overcrowded sheltersmain intention, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister that is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to log on to Voxminer, the healthcare world-building, critter-collecting game that could save her. Itis a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a meantiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for then she finds something even more spooky. For the Stipulators' trials for a new mission server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the neighbouring continent enter shows signs of Piloriatampering. The aim When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus girl to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=My Sweet Orange Tree|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers |summary=''It's just that sometimes, Zeze, you're too naughty.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narrator, Zeze – he's a young tyke, and everyone in his large, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks in the neighbourhood – knows he's skilled at being up to no good, that perhaps he was born with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to read, even when he's only five, the precocious brat is forced to face something that might be the changing of him, once Compass and for all – school. This time of change is also featuring a move of home, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes to feature the titular tree, which almost works as a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sheena Wilkinson|title= Star by StarBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918, Stella is sent to live with her estranged aunt who runs a boarding house. This coincides with a time of great change for the country as women are allowed to vote for the first time. Stella is determined to follow in her mother's footsteps to help make history, and whilst her age denies her the ability to vote herself, she goes to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood friend of her mother is able to cast hers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title= Grave Matter|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Since Eliza died, since 'I can hear the night song of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emily Suvada|title= This Mortal Coil|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= A life threatening virus is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trustsea. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two years, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and taken by force to work in the national laboratories. His last message to 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 call of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkersdeep, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of the State, remain answering beat in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicholas Bowling|title= Witchborn|rating= 4my heart.5|genre= Teens|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries within, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter the Elizabethan world of 1577. A world of intrigue, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Mother, the only person she had ever loved. Tried and deemed a witch, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she can't leave behind, Alyce escapes to London but she's not alone. Endangered and being followed, Alyce is determined to keep her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible.

And AlyceRosevear, although she doesna remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is 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 wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't yet realise its father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is caught between two strong as charming as he is secretive and powerful Queenswith only coordinates to guide her, one desperate she sets off in search of a 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 steal the throne and heart of the other smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to keep it…stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>0008664730

{{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

|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

{{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

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorSimon Fox|title=The TreatmentDeadlock

|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 a special reform school, Drew doesn't really care. She has enough of her own troubles to deal with. But then one day she is followed home from school by a mysterious doctorsuddenly rings Archie, who claims to have a sinister message demanding he fetch something from her brother, begging Drew to help him because the school is not a reform schoolsecret place, and actually all join him on the children there are being brainwashedrun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Peternelle van Arsdale|title= The Beast is an Animal |rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=The Beast is an Animal They get together, 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 barely begin to see them. Alys and smell 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 whiff of Southern trains when the Soul Eaters but she father is drawn to them. As she grows older and the danger grows greaterarrested, leaving Archie on 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 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 late express 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=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 truthfulBrighton, she's toting a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with them. For tin 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 father was determined to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at the moment. It sees Gracekeep away from his colleagues, 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, bearer of a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result whole heap of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rapequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie PerkinsLex Croucher|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 Gwen and has even had a hint of romance, yet her old life is hard to forget. But things Art Are Not 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

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresNick Brooks|title=Blue DogPromise Boys

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick Lake1919635017|title=SatelliteA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|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>

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danny Weston1800901232|title=ScarecrowStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and blows woman came to the whistle, he makes some very powerful village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and dangerous enemiesHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. He Only, Hanh and Jack are forced the other girls were not going to go into hiding work in a remote cottage shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the Scottish highlands. Miles from anywhere ones with intricate embroidery and anyone, they hope they will be alone beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and safe. But it quickly transpires distressed seams that they are neither. Dadfelt so soft when you touched them? It's enemies already know where they are heading quite possible that Hanh and, even before they move in, Jack starts to have doubts whether they are actually aloneher co-workers made them. Did he really see the scarecrow next to their cottage move?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ColePatrice Lawrence|title=SenselessNeedle|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=16 year old Kenzie MitchellBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, otherwise known as K-BoyAnnie, thinks his every dream and has come true when taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on uni. Such a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown tempestuous personality may be in on their own private jet need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and transferred by limo to the swankiest creation of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which one such item is part of course it the plot here, as Charlene is. Within hoursa wonder knitter, events start to take and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a sinister turnyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and one by one his other senses – touchthen force people to give her two days off school, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in and outwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And he's then... well, what exactly happens is not on his own. It's happening for me to the other contestants toosay, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants only to believe it isn't really happeningremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. He wants to believe it's just a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneAnn Sei Lin|title= Paradise GirlRebel Skies|rating= 35|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – Kurara has spent her entire life as a somewhat idealised one that survives servant on the Midori, a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheep. The kind of farm that might have been profitable massive dining hall floating in the 1950s but by sky where soldiers of the time Kerryl has arrived should have been strugglingEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. A teenage boy not pulling his weightHowever, now when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that the grandparents are old and the father she is deada Crafter like him, would not be met someone with exasperated indulgencethe power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. There are no stock-handsHe asks her to come with him, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about to leave the tax returnlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Maybe Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the unwelcome wind turbine covers matter, because the costs of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the rest of itworld. AlreadyShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, in settinga sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, it's feeling and a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=William SutcliffeWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Lex lives in Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what used he wants, to be London. Todaygo where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a closed-offdesultory school band, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a constant presence overheadsubhuman hum coming from the earth. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the job end of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do the world is already a done deal? Is it. Itsome spooky new kind of music she's fighting terrorismdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, after all. Alannot when Cassie has gone missing he can'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 and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating wayst...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeTori Bovalino|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= Travel back Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred years into Whitbybooks that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's past headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to see two witches battle an ancient evilreach him, of course. Follow young Lil as she tries Her plan is to avoid spoilers get her anger out like this, and find then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her best friend. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian GallagherPhilip Reeve|title= PawnsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Pawns'' tells In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the story of JohnnyScillies. There are troll people on it, Stella and Alicesea-witches, all and legends of whom the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are growing up in Ireland during the War Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of Independenceactivity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who have somehow become friends in spite washed up out of their very different political viewsthe sea one day eleven years ago. Stella is passionately pro-BritishBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, while Johnny frequently risks both his life to pass information to the pro-Irish rebels, sullen brother and Alice is left stranded in his curious ward are thrust into the middleworld of protecting their island, supporting neither side of the disputelike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zillah BethellKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5

|summary=Auden has a condition called achromatopsiaJulia, which means that he can't see colours. He likes to pretend that it doesn't matter but it does. And the older Auden getsour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the more it seems family home in SW England to matter. Mind yoube lighthousekeepers for a summer, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken rootthe far NE of the Scottish islands. It never rains any more. Britain Here be Vikings, an that kind of Scottish island with plenty of coastline, . Dad is doing better than many countries thanks going to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and be automating the Water Authority Board lantern, which is now a quasi-government as the most important and powerful body his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the landelusive Greenland shark. Water wars have broken out worldwide And Julia, well, she will be homesick and Auden's father is away fightingalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraJonathan Stroud|title= They Both Die at the EndThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= ''No matter how we choose Gracie Welles has resigned herself to livebeing lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, we both die at the endshe is used to not being a priority in people'' The year is 2017s lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, the place her simple existence is Americachanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, but this is not for her life now has a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know the exact date of everyone's death and make boy in it their mission to inform Deckers that they will be dead within the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat death, all have failedshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>152905818X