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<!-- Miranda -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills*[[image:Miranda_Fragments|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Confident Readers|linksummary=https://wwwWe 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.amazon 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.co For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.uk/gp/product/0399556729 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?ie|isbn=UTF8&tag0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=thebookbag-21&linkCodeRachel Greenlaw|title=as2&campCompass and Blade|rating=1634&creative3.5|genre=6738&creativeASINTeens|summary=0399556729]]''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

===[[Fragments of Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Lost by Megan Miranda]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth has lost rocks and plundering the only boy she has ever loved. Jessa Whitworth has lost her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''wrecks. Many months have passed since Jessa's ex-boyfriendMira, Caleb, died but she still cannot find the strength to move on with like her life. So when Caleb's mother asks Jessa to clean out his roombefore her, things go from bad to worse. [[Fragments is one of the Lost by Megan Miranda|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Shaw -->*[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]] ===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake is determined seven who swim out to escape from his Home Academy survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and to find a new home with his dog, Jetany treasure that lies within. He thinks his biggest challenge is going to be getting out and over the wall but, But when he does, he finds this is the least of his worries. The governing 'Coalition' is able Council Watch lays a trap to track everyone in end the country via wrecking, they capture the island'hub chip' in their neck s leader and in no time Mira'the hubbers' (police) are on his trails father. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a gang of ''outwalker'' kids. After proving his worth, wreck survivor who is as charming as he is permitted secretive and with only coordinates to join their gang and together they set out on guide her, she sets off in search of a perilous journey north towards family secret that lies buried deep in the heavily guarded border with Scotlandsea.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Khan -->*[[image:Khan Thunder.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509874054?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509874054]] ===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the recent trend for politicised YA novels, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating watched streets of foreign islands to being a Muslim in modern Britain. It tells the story heart of Muznathe smuggler's territory, a shy teenager who is flattered when Arif, a fellow Muslim, chooses Mira must be determined to ask her out despite interest from several other girls stop at school. However, nothing to save the future of her delight wavers when home and the ones she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western cultureholds most dear. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ahmed -->*[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]] ===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]==isbn=0008664730}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]FrontpageLove, Hate and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. However, in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]<br><br><br>author=Harry Allen<!-- Holland -->*[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]]Children of the Sun|rating===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]===5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything she is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do nottalented singer. In debt Life is hard and struggling food is difficult to afford the rentcome by, Jules decides to ignore so Seo and her father's warnings friends Nari and take a job at EverlessMin go foraging every evening, an estate belonging looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward meagre rations of Sempera's queen, rice and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everythingkimchi at home... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]isbn=1805140493<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Zurcher -->|author=Alexia Casale*[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]]Sing if you Can't Dance|rating===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]===5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay and Eloisesummary=It's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to pick him up, they are told he does not work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like the beginning of navigate a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-andlife-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brownchanging disability too, but that's what actually lies behind this event Ven is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a quest dance performance that was going to rescue both change her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not humanlife. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ingemundsen -->*[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474940633?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474940633]] ===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came But she comes back fighting, desperate to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only a matter of pages, I was utterly engrossed by avoid the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girlpity stares, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (desperate to get back to a fact that I liked) but I suspect life that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrumas normal as she can possibly manage. But that isn't really what the book is about. It Meanwhile there's about Malin growing up, struggling at a new (cute!) boy in school, having a first dateher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and dealing with family difficulties, just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at the same timeher to navigate. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|Full Review]]isbn=0571373801<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Norris -->|author=Simon Fox[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|lefttitle=Deadlock|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]]5|genre===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]===Confident Readers*[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd Late one night Graham Blake is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of late back from his shift on the national under 18sforce, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At firstand then suddenly rings Archie, Floyd thinks Mike is just demanding he fetch something from a weird kid following secret place, and join him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the middle whiff of Southern trains when the matchfather is arrested, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is leaving Archie on the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred late express to Brighton, toting a specialist tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and together they unpick the mystery bearer of a whole heap of Mikequestions. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1839944420}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonLex Croucher|title=Sunflowers Gwen and Art Are Not in FebruaryLove|rating=3.54

|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

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vikki Wakefield1919635017|title=Ballad for A Thief to Catch a Mad GirlKiller|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn''Ballad for t a Mad Girl''bad lad, Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery so why is he running around London committing a series of Hannah Holt, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's ghostll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. The more she investigates, But I'll answer the more she is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked to her own Mother's death, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agofirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage<!-- Wilson -->|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix*[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|lefttitle=Different for Boys|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]]5|genre===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]===Teens  [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Storm Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Lincoln live on Earthasiais surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space so his desk is scarce one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and energy 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 single-sex school can form, the talk in class and food are rationedout often turns to sex. Education Which is minimal and mostly focused around searching confusing for newAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, efficient food sourceswhere his achievements in that regard lie. Storm He's mother has died had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and she never knew her father, so she lives in one of Earthasiahas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 's overcrowded experienced', but whether that'shelterss set in stone, he can't be sure. And that', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincolns mostly because of who he's sister is dying from been having the blistering disease relationship and he has no access the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the healthcare that could save rural village where she lived with her. It's a meanfamily was happy, if not prosperous, desperate existence for them both so when the smartly-dressed man and so they are first woman came to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for village to offer Hahn a new mission job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the neighbouring continent of Piloriamini-bus to Hanoi. The aim is Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that work in a virus shop, they were to kill them can be engineered work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the citizens of Earthasia will have access to legs? The ones with the space artfully-placed rips and abundant food sources Piloria offers..distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]]<br>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Patrice Lawrence|title=My Sweet Orange TreeNeedle

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonAnn Sei Lin|title= Star by StarRebel Skies|rating= 3.5

|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up in Ireland by Kurara has spent her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from entire life as a servant on the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe Midori, a massive dining hall floating in November 1918the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Stella is sent when a man named Himura arrives to live with tell her estranged aunt who runs that she is a boarding house. This coincides Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a time of great change for power sought after all across the country as women are allowed Empire. He asks her to come with him, to vote for leave the first timelife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Stella is determined to follow Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in her mother's footsteps to help make historythe matter, and whilst her age denies her because the ability to vote herselfMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she goes is forced to great lengths flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker hunt down shikigami, and former childhood friend a whole world of her mother is able to cast hers.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1406399590

{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick<!-- Dawson -->|title=Wrath*[[image:Dawson_Grave|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=https://wwwMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself.amazonLockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie.coThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.uk/gp/product/1781126046Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal?ieIs it some spooky new kind of 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=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith]]4.5|genre=Teens|summary== [[imageWorking 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 books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books:4Mr Birch. The boarding school's 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 reach him, of course.5starHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them.jpgNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|linkisbn=Category:{1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly=5|Dyslexia Friendly]]genre=Confident Readers Since Eliza died|summary=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, since 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. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1510107789}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaJonathan Stroud|title= This Mortal CoilThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingT L Huchu|title= WitchbornThe Library of the Dead

|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 to keep it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Moira Young|title= The Road bring an end to Ever After|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeurthis evil, 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 or will it claim her final road trip, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive a car. too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Kristen O'Neal|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World Lycanthropy and Found His HeartOther Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|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 Priya has to come to terms with him crossing the battlefield to start work fact that she may be in constant pain for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on the winning side once morerest of her life. But now heShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s not alone – for he has managed , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also inherit providing an assistant, who lives in a barrel escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of the Emperorsher closest friends—doesn' favourite and most important gherkins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amanda Foody|title= Daughter of t respond to the Burning City|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as chat for a citywhile, tours the land, entertaining the crowds with fantastic shows of magic, illusion Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and sleight of handdrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But the proprietor of Gomorrah, Villiam, believes he has what she doesn't expect to find there is a far more important role than merely organising the acts werewolf in the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in the circus, Sorina knows basement – and for that she will one day become werewolf to be the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, girl she is keen has been talking to start learning everything she can from Villiamonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>1683692349