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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantMax Boucherat|title=HungerThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|summary=In late 19th century America, young Will Henry has been We meet Lori on the apprentice of first evening she's got the sternhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his parentsbabysitter poorly, mother at work, who were also employed by the doctor. The twelve just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old boy has seen many things , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in his service to the monstrumologist - a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor the twin corpses of a young girl blanket fort, she has one main intention, and the headless creature with fangs in his chest who had tried that is to feast log on her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Delaney |title=The Spook's Stories: Witches|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary='Warning: Not to be read after darkVoxminer,' are the only words on the back of ''The Spook's Stories''world-building, and on the inside flap, 'The Times' warns us critter-collecting game that this book is 'seriously scary'... The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamely, though, with a story about a young Spook (a sort of monster-hunter) who falls hit in love with a witch and is forced to bear the consequences when the witchLori's sister comes to stay and exhibits a taste for the neighbor-childrenworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Wake|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Janie is seventeen and studying hard for college. She's also working lots of hours at But first Lori has a local nursing home to earn money for college as ittiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's unlikely t find herself entirely on her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way of resourcesown, and then she finds something even more spooky. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than For the one server she's lived so far and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in the pursuit bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her goal. Only one thing stands safe place in her way...the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn Moriarty Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorCompass and Blade
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|summary=Listen Taylor's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into 'I can hear the Zing family, with all song of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed to work on the 'Zing Family Secret'. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break upsea. The stories call of these people come together to create a tale of lifethe deep, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family meansthe answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>}}''
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|summary=Cassie Ra Eun Seo lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby North Korean town and she can't help feeling is a huge hole in her hearttalented singer. Her scientist father Life is remote hard and unloving food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A J Healy|title=Tommy Storm friends Nari and the Galactic Knights|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING from destruction. Not just the planetMin go foraging every evening, or the solar system, or even the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know what's going to cause this destruction, or when, but he and his friends looking for tree bark and their ship seem edible grasses to be supplement the only people proactively going about saving the day. So it's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about to kill themmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonAlexia Casale|title=The Battle of the SunSing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonaldIt's first adult novelhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but a brief browse at the juvenile title, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when youthat're stuck s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the pre-scene yearsmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. SoBut she comes back fighting, despite its labeldesperate to avoid the pity stares, I've given it four and desperate to get back to a half stars based on its appeal life that's as normal as a girlie bookshe can possibly manage. That said, IMeanwhile there'm well over eighteens a new (cute!) boy in school, read the story avidlyher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and enjoyed just the ironyday to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So well doneeven though she can't dance anymore, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly told. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>0571373801
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Young Robert Late one night Graham Blake is put on a train late back to school by from his stepmother. It's shift on the first journey force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's made fetch something from a secret place, and join him on his ownthe run. It turns out They get together, but barely begin to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagined. The train stalls at smell the mouth whiff of a tunnel and while Southern trains when the other passengers sleep through father is arrested, leaving Archie on the waitlate express to Brighton, toting a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a difference. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allan Poe tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Gris Grimly|title=Tales the bearer of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master whole heap of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this editionquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayLex Croucher|title=The HollowGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary=When Abbey's best friendWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Kristenit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, disappears Gwen and is assumed deadArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Abbey feels as though she has no-one left much to talk to. Refusing to believe that Kristen their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is really gone, while struggling to come to terms in love with life on her own, Abbey meets Bridget (the mysterious Caspian, a young man who appears to be the perfect gentleman, showering her with handkingdom's only female knight) -crafted gifts and words of wisdom within weeks of meeting something that Art discovers from herprivate diaries. But beneath those piercing green eyes and soft-spoken manner And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Caspian has secrets creating the subterfuge of his falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their ownother romantic attachments. Hoping to uncover those But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and determined to will they find out what really happened to her best frienda way in which they can both truly be themselves, Abbey begins or are they destined to question her sanity, as the truth proves more frightening than she thought.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael P. SpradlinNick Brooks|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail of FatePromise Boys
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|summary=After his ship When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is lost in a storm murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as he is returning to Englandsuspects. Each, seemingly, Tristan is washed up on has a grudge of some foreign shoredescription against Principal Moore, completely lost and with no sign each could have been there at the time of his companionsmurder. When he wakes But who killed him, he's surrounded by four men and two womenwhy, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises he's in France. He explains his situation to Celia, one and if any of the young womenboys are innocent, and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly will they be a spy, she ignores his pleas for directions able to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marilyn Kaye 1919635017|title=Gifted: Here Today, Gone TomorrowA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Emily has a gift – she can predict the future. But her visions arenSolomon Klyne isn't always clear and she sometimes gets them wrong. She a bad lad, so why is one he running around London committing a series of nine students from the Gifted class, though at the moment she feels like the weakest person there. But now her classmates need her, they are starting to disappear and Emily is their only hope. Will she robberies? And how did he learn how to interpret her blurry visions in timecrack safes? And be able You'll have to wait to use her gift get an answer to save her friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510061</amazonuk>the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Klavan Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Last Thing I Remember (Homelander)Different for Boys
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Charlie West - US Air Force hopeful Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and karate expert - remembers when is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his main concern was whether schoolmate Beth would best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out with himoften turns to sex. So why Which is confusing for Ant, as he strapped to doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a chair secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in a windowless cell?stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755352998</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1800901232|title=PastworldStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the futurerural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, London has been restored so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to its Victorian state and turned into the village to offer Hahn a theme park. Pastworld prides itself on its authenticity and indeed many of its full time residents don't even realise that they're living job in a fantasy recreation of Hanoi it was an old reality. Eve is one suchopportunity not to be missed. Cossetted Some money changed hands and overHanh was on the mini-protected by her guardianbus to Hanoi. Only, Jack, she feels a desperate need for freedom Hanh and runs away the other girls were not going to join work in a travelling circusshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Here she discovers not only You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the truth about Pastworld, but some remarkable, almost supernatural, talentsartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747581738</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyson Noel Patrice Lawrence|title=The Immortals: EvermoreNeedle
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|summary=Sixteen-year-old Ever used Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to be normallike, popular evencharacters and readers both. She had Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a best friendpleasant yoga tutor, a cute boyfriendAnnie, and has taken up residence in her whole future ahead son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of her. Then a tragic car accident claimed comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the lives creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her family younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her parents belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her little sister Riley. Ever survivedtwo days off school, but not unscathedwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512854</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Walter Moers |title=The Alchemaster's Apprentice|rating=4And then.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Echo the Crat. He is a rare example of his species, which is a cat that can speak every language known. His life among the miserablewell, permanently ill citizens of Malaisea what exactly happens is not greatfor me to say, which is why, when the strange scientist from the castle that looms over everyone only to remark how sharp and everything offers him a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury on the streets, the offer is acceptedpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=L J SmithAnn Sei Lin|title=Dark Visions: The Strange Power, The Possessed, The PassionRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Kaitlyn Fairchild Kurara has always known she was different. She's able to draw things that haven't happened yet - although spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the drawings are never specific enough Empire come to be of any usedrink and make merry between their conquests. WorseHowever, they scare people, as do when a man named Himura arrives to tell her weird eyes. Sothat she is a Crafter like him, when someone with the power to form paper into whatever she's given desires – a power sought after all across the opportunity Empire. He asks her to go away to an Institute where she, and four other teens come with other powershim, will be trained to control their abilities, leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she jumps at the chancehas known. After meeting charismatic healer RobWell, psychokinetic Lewissoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Anna, who can talk she is forced to flee out into the animals, she already feels at homeworld. Even the addition of She joins Himura aboard the fifth teenOrihime, convicted murderer Gabriela sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, can't dull her happiness.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386822</amazonuk>1406399590
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=HomeworkMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Drinking your milkLockdown 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. Coming home on time. Keeping your mouth shut. These are the sort They were half of rules you would associate with 14 year old Ruthie's mother. Her mother's glamorous sistera desultory school band, Aunt Marty (aka but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the Goddess enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of Love at a swish NYCher eco-based magazine), on warrior parents saying the end of the other hand, world is already a different story. And when done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she swoops into town and sweeps Ruthie away in a whirlwind of silk underwear, virgin Cosmopolitans and a whole career's worth dreaming of advice on all things boy related? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Ruthie not when Cassie has a feeling things will never be quite the same againgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382290</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy Brett Tori Bovalino|title=Ember FuryThe Devil Makes Three
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|summary=Ember Morton-Fury Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the daughter of rock super-star Lyndon Fury and artist Amica Morton, who died last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when Em was she gets a request for over a small childhundred books that she has to deliver herself. It's What makes it worse is the beginning of man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school holidays and she's on her way to Los Angeles to see her father (well, his entourageheadmaster, actually as he doesn't do ''the dad thing'') and his new wife ''the'' actress Charity Lanea man Tess hates. I say that As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it's the beginning notes on each of the school holidaysbooks, but thatscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They's a moot point as Em has been expelled from yet another school because re never meant to reach him, of the small matter of a major fire which she startedcourse. You just know that things are not going Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be any better in LA, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347889</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trisha Telep (Editor) Philip Reeve|title=The Eternal KissUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Do you love vampires but aren't sure where to go from here? Perhaps you've just read the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series everyone's talking about but don't know what else is out there. Maybe you've always been In a die-hard vampire fan and aren't sure which of the contemporary fantasy authors fit your tasteword, rich.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762437170</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=G P Taylor|title=Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mariah Mundi There is leaving the famed Prince Regent Hotel certainly an abundance of his past adventures and going out into the wider world. This time, his friend and mentor, Captain Charity, is bringing him along riches in this story set on board a luxury liner peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the ''Triton'', as Scillies. There are troll people on it races another liner, the ''Ketos''and sea-witches, across and legends of the Atlantic. Charity's mission is to protect the prize money Dark family that the ''Triton'' carries in its hold. But someone doesn't want the ''Triton'' has to win. In factkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, they don't even want to give it a chancewhere no ship dare sail. What they want is The current Darks are the prize moneyWatcher, preferably before they sink the ''Triton'' Andrewe, who has to the bottom keep notes of activity from the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571227007</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ann Turnbull|title=Alice Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in Love and War|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alice Newcombe is unhappy, and has been since the death of her father five years ago. Living on a farm London with an uncle who makes advances on her whenever he cantoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and an aunt who doesnAndrewe't believe a word she sayss foundling daughter, and never really wanted her anyway – Alice dreams who washed up out of escape, to run away and find something better. Now, with the Civil War on, everything is about to change. Royalist soldiers soon set up camp on the farm and sea one soldier in particular catches Alice's eye – Robinday eleven years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406302449</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabriella Poole |title=Secret Lives (Darke Academy)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie Bell knows the value of information. Raised in a care homeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, she's tough both his sullen brother and smart, and when she earns a scholarship to his curious ward are thrust into the exclusive Darke Academy, she knows it's her ticket to a new and better life. The snobby, upper class students who bought world of protecting their way in aren't going to stop her experiencing life at the Academy to its fullestisland, and taking all the opportunities like it offersor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340989246</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=LeviathanJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=You have to hand it to Scott Westerfeld. He writes a great pageJulia, our pre-turner teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and he has an enviable eye their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a good angle on contemporary interests. In Leviathansummer, he's bringing steampunk to junior readers. If you're not a trainspotterish fan in the far NE of the maze of sci-fi and fantasy sub-genres, you may not know what steampunk is, let alone whether you or your children will like itScottish islands. Basically Here be Vikings, steampunk fiction is set in a world in which steam is still the main source that kind of powerScottish island. Often, the world Dad is an alternate history past, but it can going to be automating the future too. Westerfeld's chosen an alternate history for Leviathan - we're in 1914lantern, the Archduke Ferdinand has just been assassinated and Europe which is on the brink of WWI. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385192</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Higson|title=The Enemy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=HA! ''28 Days Later'' and ''Shaun of the Dead'' meet ''Lord of the Flies'' his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in Charlie Higson's latest series. A mysterious disease has decimated algae behind to hunt the population, attacking everyone over fourteen. Most of the adults are dead but the ones that remain are shuffling zombies with just one thought in their addled brains - killing and feasting on childrenelusive Greenland shark. The narrative focuses on London And Julia, where pockets of children are holed up in old supermarkets and tourist attractions. Rumour has it that there's a group in Buckingham Palace who are not only safewell, but who are beginning to envisage ways of building a new life. Both the Waitrose she will be homesick and the Morrisons crew know that they can't last forever by scavenging, and so they decide to make the dangerous journey across London to the Palacealone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384646</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harry HillJonathan Stroud|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At LargeOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=HumourTeens|summary=It's been a while since Tim Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Fly's [[Tim Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]]Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world: Fly is getting married shooting other outlaws to his girlfriendkeep herself alive. Tim's But then she meets Albert Browne, a little worried because dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they've only known each other for a weekplan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. The marriage goes aheadTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Tim finds himself kicking his heelsall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, so he gets a pet. And so the brief episodes but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the life rest of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark WaldenMercedes Helnwein|title=Dreadnought (Hive)Slingshot|rating=3.5
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|summary=Life goes on at H. IGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. V. E. (the Higher Institute As a secret illegitimate daughter of Villainous Education)a man with a "real" family, with the pupils heading off she is used to the 93%er - an Arctic training exercise where only 93% of students survivenot being a priority in people's lives. Things are going less smoothly at the parent organisationBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Gher simple existence is changed for good. L. O. V. E. (the Global League of Villainous Enterprises)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: Jason Drake has broken away and is planning to overthrow his former colleagues, installing himself as the new headWade Scholfield. Why oh why can't villains play nicely with one another?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747594848</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross KempT L Huchu|title=Ganglands: BrazilThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Luiz Alves Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and his sister Ana were adopted into a good home and escaped the ''favela'' which is now under the control bit of a vicious gang, Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Comando Negro. Only a matter dead of days ago a young basketball star had been murdered on a bus Edinburgh for no better reason than that he had once made the killer look badtheir living relatives. Luiz had no intention Ever since she dropped out of getting involved with the gangschool, or with another shadowy organisation, Trojan Industriesshe's been using it to support not only herself, but events dictated otherwiseher younger sister and her aging grandmother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141325895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Augarde |title=X-isle|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It was a momentous day when the salvage ship sailed up BazHowever, there's street. This is a future England, where an eco-catastrophe has drowned evil stalking the world, and left just pockets ruined streets of humanity, with no power, no Internet, little hope. But this is a momentous dayEdinburgh, not because of targeting the boat travelling across Bazcity's townchildren. Soon, not because this Ropa is pulled into the only powered vehicle anyone knows search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of, but because today magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the day Baz missing children and his best-friend-bring an end to-be Ray manage to barter their way on boardthis evil, and across to a different island, and a land of milk and honey.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385610610</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffKristen O'Neal|title=The Bride's FarewellLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Pell Ridley runs away from home on Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the morning fact that she's supposed to get marriedmay be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She just canjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t face it. Birdie is a good man, an online support group where she talks to a good friend evenbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, but Pell doesnwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't want respond to the chat for a husbandwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She doesn't want decides to end up like steal her mother - parents''worn car and shapeless with a leaking bladder, great knotted blue veins, and breasts flat as old wineskins'drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. And who can blame her? So But what she saddles up her white pony Jack doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and, at for that werewolf to be the last minute, takes her foster brother Bean along girl she has been talking to online for the journeypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141383933</amazonuk>1683692349
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