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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerMax Boucherat|title= RenegadesThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, thereWe meet Lori on the first evening she's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once got the minority house to herself – no neighbour to pop in a world of chaos and disorder, the Renegades fought for freedom and justicebabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Victorious What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in driving their opponentsa blanket fort, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundshe has one main intention, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range of abilities are now the lawmakers and leaders of that is to log on to Voxminer, the futureworld-building, governing critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a new peaceful tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and prosperous societythen she finds something even more spooky. They are For the heroes server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of society; the role models young children look tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up toon her phone screen, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction of Anarchists that hide her safe place in the darknessgame has been doctored – well, plotting and planning until they are able where is a girl to get back what was stolen from them.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldRachel Greenlaw|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlCompass and Blade

|summary=In ''Ballad for a Mad GirlI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Grace becomes obsessed with solving survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the mystery wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Hannah Holt, 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 local girl who disappeared twenty-three years agotrap to end the wrecking, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahthey capture the island's leader and Mira's ghostfather. The more she investigatesDesperate to save him from death, the more she Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is convinced Hannah's case as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in some way linked the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her own Motherfather, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's deathterritory, a former classmate Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agoher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonHarry Allen|title= The Extinction TrialsChildren of the Sun|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary= Storm Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Lincoln live on Earthasia, she is a continent ruined by overpopulationtalented singer. Space Life is scarce and energy hard and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newdifficult to come by, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died so Seo and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week friends Nari and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a meanMin go foraging every evening, desperate existence looking for them both tree bark and so they are first edible grasses to volunteer for supplement the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent meagre rations of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space rice and abundant food sources Piloria offers..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Alexia Casale|title=My Sweet Orange TreeSing if you Can't Dance|rating=35|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=''It's just hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that sometimes, Zeze, you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too naughty.'' And , but that's almost what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the entire truth about our narrator, Zeze – he's middle of 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, dance performance that perhaps he was born with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should residegoing to change her life. Instantly adept at being able to readBut she comes back fighting, even when he's only five, the precocious brat is forced desperate to face something that might be avoid the changing of himpity stares, once and for all – school. This time of change is also featuring desperate to get back to a move of home, life that's 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 normal as a confessional cum best friendshe can possibly manage. Whether either the Meanwhile there's a new home or the (cute!) boy in school will get , her music A Level performance piece to try to change Zezesort out, or neither, is and just the plot day to day traumas of this vintage Brazilian junior readall the challenges 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>1782691537</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonSimon Fox|title= Star by StarDeadlock|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918force, Stella is sent to live with her estranged aunt who runs and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a boarding housesecret place, and join him on the run. This coincides with a time They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of great change for the country as women are allowed to vote for Southern trains when the first time. Stella father is determined to follow in her mother's footsteps to help make historyarrested, and whilst her age denies her leaving Archie on the ability late express to vote herselfBrighton, she goes toting a tin his father was determined to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker keep away from his colleagues, and former childhood friend the bearer of a whole heap of her mother is able to cast hersquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T SmithLex Croucher|title= Grave MatterGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash Who knew that took her lifewhat I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Sam is it lifted my spirits in a broken soulmost delightful way. He In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is lost without in love with Bridget (the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died kingdom's only female knight) - something that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and Art discovers from her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help himprivate diaries. However And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover creating the Milk Man, which causes Sam subterfuge of falling in his grieving state to make a pact love with forces he doesn't understandeach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Things soon turn complicated But as supernatural powers start their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaNick Brooks|title= This Mortal CoilPromise Boys|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= A life threatening virus When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is spreading through the United Statesmurdered, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. 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 three boys find themselves called 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 inchpolice station as suspects. Set in America Each, but not an America we would recogniseseemingly, most has a grudge of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkerssome description against Principal Moore, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of each could have been there at the State, remain 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= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries within, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter the Elizabethan world time of 1577his murder. A world of intrigue But who killed him, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft why, and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced to flee from her home after the devastating death if any 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 freedomboys are innocent, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible.  And Alyce, although she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal the throne and the other determined to keep it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Moira Young|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 be able to take Miss Flint on her final road trip, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive a car. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)1919635017|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Meet Tortot. HeSolomon Klyne isn's t a camp chef for an armybad lad, with a cold heart – so why is he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does running around London committing a fish – and a brilliant way series of gauging robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the warfare going on around himsecond question because I avoid spoilers. The book even starts with him crossing But I'll answer the battlefield to start work first one: for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on the winning side once moregrandmother... But now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Daughter of the Burning CityDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Gomorrah, Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a travelling circus as big as a citystandard school, tours the landand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, entertaining so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the crowds with fantastic shows of magicfootball team, illusion and sleight of handtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But As they're all fired up, straining at the proprietor of Gomorrahleash only a single-sex school can form, Villiamthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, believes as he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in the circusthat regard lie. He has political ambition's had a casual relationship, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in the circusstone, Sorina knows he can't be sure. And that she will one day become 's mostly because of who he's been having the Proprietor relationship and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiamthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Delevigne1800901232|title= Mirror, MirrorStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 25|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= If Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the news that Cara Delevigne had written rural village where she lived with her first novel (how did you miss family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it? Were you living under a rock?)was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, all about Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a group of teens who go looking for their friend who disappearedshop, makes they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you roll your eyes really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and say ''well, distressed seams that sounds a bit like Paper Towns'', don't worry: felt so soft when you're not alone (seriously, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads). touched them? It's a pretty lazy writequite possible that Hanh and her co-off, though, so I was curious to read this to see what could be said about itworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorPatrice Lawrence|title=The TreatmentNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=When DrewBrave. Charlene, the 's brother heroine' of this piece is once again expelled from schoolextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and sent away to schools, she's fostering with a special reform schoolpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Drew doesnand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he't really cares at uni. She has enough Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of her own troubles to deal with. But then one day she such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is followed home from school by a mysterious doctorwonder knitter, who claims to have and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a sinister message from younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her brotherbelligerence with a store detective, begging Drew and then force people to help him because the give her two days off school , when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not a reform schoolfor me to say, only to remark how sharp and actually all the children there are being brainwashedpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleAnn Sei Lin|title= The Beast is an Animal Rebel Skies

|summary=The Beast is an Animal, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when Kurara has spent her village was set upon by entire life as a servant on the Soul EatersMidori, she was a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the only one Empire come to see themdrink and make merry between their conquests. Alys and the other orphans are sent However, when a man named Himura arrives to the neighbouring village but this place tell her that she is not a Crafter like home. In the strange village of Defaid people are pioushim, they say that Alys's village must have been in league someone with the Beast, that they drew power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Soul Eaters inEmpire. People in Defaid are suspiciousHe asks her to come with him, and they are particularly suspicious to leave the life of Alys, though she never tells a soul what dreary servitude that is all she has seenknown. Despite itWell, soon Kurara won's piety and it devotion to the ways of t have any say in the Shepherdmatter, Defaid feels because the Soul Eaters creeping ever closerMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, 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 forced to themflee out into the world. As she grows older and She joins Himura aboard the danger grows greaterOrihime, the dark question grows larger in Alys's minda sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, is she bad like them? and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julie BertagnaMarcus Sedgwick|title= ExodusWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Exodus Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a book whichonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, though fifteen years oldto go where he wants and with whom he wants, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in right at this momentit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Set in They were half of a world ravaged by global warming and melting ice-capsdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this is connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the story end of the last inhabitants world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of an island called Wing, who set sail in search music she's dreaming of a new life once Wing is sunk under ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the rising tidetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thing, and one which dredges up so many interesting questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 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 ReedTori Bovalino|title=The Nowhere GirlsDevil Makes Three|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 Diamond|rating=4

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''You have s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to accept do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that if two people jump from the dome of St Paul's they would be bound she has to landdeliver herself. They'd be dead but they would land.'' Except, in this most unusual book, they didn't. Two people were seen leaving What makes it worse is the outside of man who requested the London Cathedralbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's domeheadmaster, but were never found at the foot of it – and someone has been in prison ever since for pushing them offa man Tess hates. It's As a most peculiar scenario, and our narrator Jaz is struggling to tell petty act of revenge for making her mysterious interrogator, Mr Jones, all about it – find and all about her relationship with her best friend. Now Becky, the frienddeliver such a large request, was a child prodigy sciTess sticks post-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else from life. Rushing around to investigate the case it notes on each of the fallersbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she seems can think of. They're never meant to have found thatreach him, in the shape of a hot-blooded romancecourse. But what Her plan is Jaz doing starting to get her testimony with talk of inquestsanger out like this, evidence and hatred?then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresPhilip Reeve|title=Blue Dog|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death and Mick was sent to live in in the outback with Granpa. On the face of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyone, with all the heat Utterly Dark and the dust. But they've all got to make the best Face of the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=SatelliteDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Born 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 Scillies. There are troll people on it, and raisedsea-witches, along with twins Orion and Libralegends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, on where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the space station Moon 2Watcher, Leo Andrewe, who has never set foot on Earth. And yetto keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about 250 miles above Earth. It travels at 17such local yokel superstitions,500 miles an hourand Andrewe's foundling daughter, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. If you ever look who washed up out of the porthole beneathsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean for real? Leo both his sullen brother and the twins may soon be able to do that now that they his curious ward are teenagers and thrust into the scientists below think they are strong enough to come home. Each has world of protecting their own idea of what island, like 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 flightor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dollmaker of KrakowKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=R M RomeroJulia and the Shark

|summary=Karolina is a refugee from the Land of the Dolls. Her homeland Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been ravaged by rats packed off with her parents and Karolina was blown by their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a magical wind into Krakowsummer, Poland, at in the height far NE of WWIIthe Scottish islands. She finds herself in a workshop belonging to Cyryl Here be Vikings, known as the Dollmaker that kind of KrakowScottish island. Lonely Dad is going to be automating the lantern, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement a strong friendship which helps Cyryl is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in his life outside algae behind to hunt the workshopelusive Greenland shark. But it's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under a vicious enemy: it's Poland And Julia, too. Togetherwell, Karolina she will be homesick and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours and determine to do whatever the can to save from the monstrous Nazi regime..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonJonathan Stroud|title=ScarecrowThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and blows Faith Houses to wander the whistlewildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, he makes some very powerful robbing banks and dangerous enemiesshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. He But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and Jack are forced to go into hiding in a remote cottage in the Scottish highlandsdarker past. Miles from anywhere and anyoneWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they hope they will be alone and safeplan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But it quickly transpires that Together, they are neither. Dad's enemies already know where they are heading must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted andall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, even before but will they move in, Jack starts to have doubts whether be any more accepted there than they are actually alone. Did he really see in the scarecrow next to their cottage moverest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ColeMercedes Helnwein|title=SenselessSlingshot|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks his every dream Gracie Welles has come true when he's wins the chance resigned herself to attend being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on man with a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo to the swankiest of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it "real" family, she is. Within hours, events start used to take not being a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes priority in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touch, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in and out. And hepeople's not on his ownlives. It's happening to the other contestants tooBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just a really her simple existence is changed for good virtual reality game. But with Sensia No longer can she spend her time writing novels in controlsolitude, the line between realities for her life now has almost entirely disappeareda boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneT L Huchu|title= Paradise GirlThe Library of the Dead|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on Ropa Moyo is a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a few sheepbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. The kind Ever since she dropped out of farm that might have school, she's been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy using it to support not pulling his weightonly herself, now that the grandparents are old but her younger sister and the father is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgenceher aging grandmother. There are no stock-handsHowever, no farm managers, no applications for subsidiesthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, or worries about targeting the tax returncity's children. Maybe Soon, Ropa is pulled into the unwelcome wind turbine covers search for a missing boy at the costs request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the rest world of itmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Already, in settingWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingKristen O'Neal|authortitle=William SutcliffeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Lex lives in what used Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be Londonin constant pain for the rest of her life. Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as She joins ''The StripOof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Nobody comes in They talk about their troubles and nobody can go help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Drones are a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job When Brigid—one of drone pilot. He hasnher closest friends—doesn't bombed anyone yet but herespond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents's hyped up car and drive to do it. ItBrigid's fighting terrorism, after allhouse to check up on her. AlanBut what she doesn's observation target t expect to find there is a high-profile target - a man high up werewolf in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dadbasement – 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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