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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona ShawMax Boucherat|title=OutwalkersThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I 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, 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's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is 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 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 the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
|isbn=0008664730
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{{Frontpage
|author=Harry Allen
|title=Children of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Newly orphaned Jake Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is determined to escape from his Home Academy and to find a new home with his dog, Jettalented singer. He thinks his biggest challenge Life is hard and food is going difficult to be getting out come by, so Seo and over the wall buther friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, when he does, he finds this is the least of his worries. The governing 'Coalition' is able looking for tree bark and edible grasses to track everyone in supplement the country via the 'hub chip' in their neck and in no time 'the hubbers' (police) are on his trail. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into a gang meagre rations of ''outwalker'' kids. After proving his worth, he is permitted to join their gang rice and together they set out on a perilous journey north towards the heavily guarded border with Scotlandkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788450000</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay CummingsAlexia Casale|title=ZenithSing if you Can't Dance|rating=35
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Bloody Baroness It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the captain middle of the starship Maurader, and she and a dance performance that was going to change her all-female crew wreak havoc wherever they go across the galaxylife. On board, howeverBut she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the bloody baroness is just Andipity stares, the misfit crewand desperate to get back to a life that's friend and protectoras normal as she can possibly manage. One day they are capturedMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, something that just never happens her music A Level performance piece to try to themsort out, and they find themselves facing up just the day to their past lives, that they have been trying so hard day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to run away fromnavigate. Will they So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to face not just their fears but their own personal demons, as they are blackmailed into an impossible rescue missionsing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008228337</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Muhammad KhanSimon Fox|title= I am ThunderDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Adhering to Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the recent trend for politicised YA novelsforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating to being demanding he fetch something from a Muslim in modern Britainsecret place, and join him on the run. It tells They get together, but barely begin to smell the story whiff of MuznaSouthern trains when the father is arrested, a shy teenager who is flattered when Arifleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a fellow Muslim, chooses tin his father was determined to ask her out despite interest keep away from several other girls at school. However, her delight wavers when she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameelcolleagues, has become angered by Western cultureand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509874054</amazonuk>1839944420
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|genre=Teens
|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the road, she knows immediately Who knew that something is wrong. Then she sees her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin what I really needed to describe read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A disembodied ghost In this story, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own deathGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, as her friends and family struggle much to deal their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the fallout from the hitkingdom's only female knight) -and-run something that killed Art discovers from herprivate diaries. With no idea how to move on And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Lily starts to despaircreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's always had But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a strong bond with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else way in which they canboth truly be themselves, and gives her the chance to return or are they destined to the living world. Lily has live a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerNick Brooks|title= RenegadesPromise Boys|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once When the minority in a world principal (headmaster) of chaos and disorderUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Renegades fought for freedom and justicepolice station as suspects. Victorious in driving their opponents Each, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundseemingly, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range has a grudge of abilities are now some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the lawmakers and leaders time of the futurehis murder. But who killed him, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up towhy, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction if any of Anarchists that hide in the darknessboys are innocent, plotting and planning until will they are be able to get back what was stolen from them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vikki Wakefield1919635017|title=Ballad for A Thief to Catch a Mad GirlKiller|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'Ballad ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a Mad Girl''standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Grace becomes obsessed so his desk is one of four with solving both his best buddy from the mystery of Hannah Holtfootball 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 leash only a local girl who disappeared twentysingle-three years agosex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahwhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's ghost. The more she investigateshad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the more she is convinced Hannahladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's case is set in some way linked to her own Motherstone, he can't be sure. And that's death, a former classmate mostly because of Hannahwho he's who died in a strange accident two years agobeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= SM Wilson1800901232|title= The Extinction TrialsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 45|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a continent ruined by overpopulationfashion designer. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and Life in the rural village where she never knew lived with her fatherfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so she lives in one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for offer Hahn a jobin Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Lincoln's sister is dying from Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the blistering disease mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and he has no access the other girls were not going to the healthcare that could save her. It's work in a meanshop, desperate existence for them both and so they are first were to volunteer for work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the neighbouring continent of Piloria. legs? The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that a virus to kill Hanh and her co-workers made them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Patrice Lawrence|title=My Sweet Orange TreeNeedle
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'It's just that sometimesof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Zeze, you're too naughtycharacters and readers both.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narratorKicked out of multiple homes and schools, Zeze – heshe's fostering with a young tykepleasant yoga tutor, and everyone in his largeAnnie, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks has taken up residence in the neighbourhood – knows her son Blake's old room while he's skilled at being up to no gooduni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, that you might perhaps he was born with a little think, and the creation of one such item is part of the devil in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to readplot here, even when he's only fiveas Charlene is a wonder knitter, the precocious brat and is forced to face making something that might be the changing full of him, once and love for all her younger sister – schoola younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. This time of change is also featuring We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a move of homestore detective, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes and then force people to feature the titular treegive her two days off school, which almost works when she shouts someone down as a confessional cum best friendexpletively ignorant. And then... Whether either the new home or the school will get well, what exactly happens is not for me to change Zezesay, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonAnn Sei Lin|title= Star by StarRebel Skies|rating= 3.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in Ireland by the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her suffragette motherthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. When He asks her mother dies from to come with him, to leave the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in November 1918the matter, Stella because the Midori is sent destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to live flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=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 her estranged aunt who runs 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 per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a boarding housesubhuman hum coming from the earth. This coincides Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a time done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of great change for music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the country as women are allowed last thing Tess Matheson wants to vote do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the first timeman who requested the books: Mr Birch. Stella is determined to follow in her motherThe boarding school's footsteps to help make historyheadmaster, and whilst her age denies 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 ability to vote herselfbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she goes can think of. They're never meant to great lengths reach him, of course. Her plan is to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker get her anger out like this, and former childhood friend of then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her mother is able to cast hers.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T SmithPhilip Reeve|title= Grave MatterUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary= Since Eliza diedIn a word, since rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the night Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the car crash Dark family that took her lifehas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Sam is a broken soulwhere no ship dare sail. He is lost without The current Darks are the girl he lovesWatcher, Andrewe, feeling as though a part who has to keep notes of him died that night activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with toomuch science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But he is desperate when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and he cannot live without Elizahis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie |isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her peculiar healing powers parents and wonders if she might their cat from the family home in SW England to be able to help himlighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. However Here be Vikings, finding his Aunt Marie leads him that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to discover be automating the Milk Manlantern, which causes Sam is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in his grieving state algae behind to make a pact with forces he doesn't understandhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaJonathan Stroud|title= This Mortal CoilThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= A life threatening virus Scarlett McCain is spreading through an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the United StatesSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, an already broken country a dark boy with dark powers and a Government that many do not trustdarker past. The top scientists are frantically trying With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to produce a vaccine flee to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pacemythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two yearsTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State cannibalistic Tainted and taken by force to work in all the national laboratories. His last message horrors of post-apocalyptic society to her was to hide from reach the State and not to trust them an inch. Set in AmericaFree Isles, but not an America we would recognise, most of the citizens will they be any more accepted there than they are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditionsthe rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Others, less trusting As a secret illegitimate daughter of the Statea man with a "real" family, remain she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in hiding on the surfaceher class with her slingshot, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who her simple existence is infectedchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingT L Huchu|title= WitchbornThe Library of the Dead
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, too foul for your eyes using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to look upon'' Enter take messages from the Elizabethan world dead of 1577Edinburgh for their living relatives. A world Ever since she dropped out of intrigueschool, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced she's been using it to flee from support not only herself, but her home after the devastating death of younger sister and her Motheraging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the only person she had ever loved. Tried and deemed a witchruined streets of Edinburgh, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at targeting 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 shecity's not alonechildren. Endangered and being followedSoon, Alyce Ropa is determined to keep her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will find end up discovering an occult library and realise that she the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever thought possiblecould've imagined. And Alyce, although Will she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal find the throne missing children and the other determined bring an end to keep it…this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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'Kristen O', 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)Neal|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World Lycanthropy and Found His HeartOther Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Tortot. He's a camp chef for an army, Having recently been diagnosed with a cold heart – he sheds no tearschronic Lyme disease, or at least as much as does a fish – and a brilliant way of gauging the warfare going on around him. The book even starts with him crossing the battlefield Priya has to start work for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on the winning side once more. But now he's not alone – for he has managed come to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Foody|title= Daughter of the Burning City|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours the land, entertaining the crowds terms 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 fact that she will one day become may be in constant pain for the Proprietor and take over from rest of her fatherlife. At sixteenShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she is keen talks to start learning everything she can from Villiam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cara Delevigne|title= Mirror, Mirror|rating= 2|genre=Teens|summary= If the news that Cara Delevigne had written her first novel (how did you miss it? Were you living under a rock?), all about a group bunch of other teens who go looking for living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their friend who disappearedtroubles and help each other out, makes you roll your eyes while also providing an escape to just joke and say mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn''well, that sounds t respond to the chat for a bit like Paper Towns''while, donPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents't worry: youcar and drive to Brigid're not alone (seriously, spend thirty seconds s house to check up on Goodreads)her. ItBut what she doesn's t expect to find there is a pretty lazy write-off, though, so I was curious werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to read this be the girl she has been talking to see what could be said about itonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>1683692349
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