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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMax Boucherat|title=The Last Life of the Spirits|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Zoe Sugg|title=Girl Online|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=I've been intrigued by the idea of Girl Online since I first heard about it - I love books about blogging and the internet, and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had the experience of becoming well known online herself. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number of people who've completely dismissed this as a bad book while admitting they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it with an open mind - I've never watched any of her YouTube videos and at the time of reading, hadn't read her blog, although I've just checked out a couple of her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by them. I think that people who do the same thing will enjoy it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Misdirected|author=Ali Berman|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitan, multi-faith Boston to a small town in America's Bible Belt, much to Ben's disgust. He's not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high school and it doesn't take more than a few days before all his fears are realised. Open about his atheism, Ben meets shock and disgust from teachers and pupils alike. When he meets a girl, Tess, her parents forbid the relationship: as a non-believer Ben, to them, is a dangerous and pernicious influence. With his brother on a tour of Iraq with the military, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who won't talk to him, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo|title=Listen to the Moon|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's May, 1915. World War I is underway and the Scillionians have already seen losses. Like the rest of Britain, they are beginning to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one day, they hear a child's cries. On one of the archipelago's uninhabited islands, they find a half-starved little girl, abandoned and in a terrible state. She can only speak one word: Lucy. Who is this foundling? Is she a ghost? A mermaid? Or, more worryingly, could she be a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on the label of her blanket, after all. And why does she gaze at the moon with such longing in her eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betsy Tobin|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainLori Mills

|summary=Katie is back, and once more We meet Lori on the first evening she's back got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Victorian England, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. This timeWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, howevershe has one main intention, she isnand 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 quite sure who called find herself entirely on her back in time or for what purpose own, and, unfortunately, then she finds something went wrong as even more spooky. For the server she came and she brought someone her bestie and nobody else along with should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her! In safe place in the final episode of the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's lifegame has been doctored – well, trying where is a girl to prevent Britain messing up the outcome of the American Civil War, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusRachel Greenlaw|title=Shiver the Whole Night Through|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend to someone who works at the local carnival Compass and even heard that from someone else. Life is just rubbish and needs ending totally. This is something he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact he's still alive, he hears that Slaine McAuley, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herself. The only thing is that Aidan knows she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen to her and why does she choose to tell him, of all people? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=The PiperBlade

|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on ''I can hear the eve song of World War Two to the sea. The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from call of the moment they get there: there are children dancing in deep, the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be answering beat in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safemy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Murdstone Trilogy|author=Mal Peet|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit of a has-been. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknow. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finch, said agent, is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for itRosevear, she tells Philip, but a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a sword-remote and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint of what's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swordspartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and all plundering the rest of itwrecks. FantasyMira, you seelike her mother before her, is selling by one of the ''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot seven who swim out to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Shoot to Kill'' may be survey the sixth Young Bond in ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the series, but it is the first Council Watch lays a trap to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over end the reins from wrecking, they capture the highly capable Charlie Higsonisland's leader and Mira's father. Like the adult Bond books, the character has seen many people write about Desperate to save him since Ian Fleming’s from death, so there Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is no reason as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on board. In factguide her, Cole is able to inject a little more energy into she sets off in search of a series family secret that was starting to flag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Misty Falls|author=Joss Stirling|rating=2lies buried deep in the sea.5|genre=Teens|summary=Misty is always getting into trouble thanks With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the Savant ability which means she can't lie and causes people around her watched streets of foreign islands to be brutally honest if shethe heart of the smuggler's not careful. Can she find happiness? Or will the serial killer stalking territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Savant community strike at Misty or one future of her friends?home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnmadeHarry Allen|authortitle=Sarah Rees BrennanChildren of the Sun

|summary=Sorry-Ra Eun Seo lives in-the-Vale has been taken over by Rob Lynburn a North Korean town and his merry band of evil sorcerersshe is a talented singer. But Kami Glass has never been one Life is hard and food is difficult to let danger of death come by, so Seo and dismemberment stop her on her quest friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for truth. And Kami has tree bark and edible grasses to know supplement the truth about what happened to Jared, Jared who rescued her brother meagre rations of rice and hasn't been seen sincekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreview|title=Rebecca Is Always RightFrontpage|author=Anna CareyAlexia Casale|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=First things first: I must admit that I chose to review this book entirely based on its title. After all, what better book to keep on the coffee table and brandish at my husband when I'm making a point? What I did not realise when I volunteered is that it is the fourth book in a series that began in 2011 with ''The Real Rebecca'', for which Anna Carey won the Senior ChildrenSing if you Can's Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. This has its advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can tell that the characters are established and well-rounded. On the other hand, there are such frequent references to past events – presumably, adventures from the previous three books – that it is clear this is an instalment in an ongoing story and not a stand-alone book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847175651</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ghosts of Heaven|author=Marcus Sedgwickt Dance

|summary=If anyone ever suggests 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 science and art (or philosophy) don't go together, give them this book! The Ghosts of Heaven presents four fabulous stories from different time frames linked by s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the natural constant middle of the spirala dance performance that was going to change her life. The introduction provides a lyrical explanation of the birth of But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the universepity stares, the Solar System and us and of the dimensional spiral we call the helix. It also explains desperate to get back to a life that we 's as normal as she can read possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the stories in any day to day traumas of all the twenty-four possible orders we pleasechallenges 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>1780621981</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 StoriesSimon Fox|authortitle=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and othersDeadlock

|summary=How long do you keep your birthday presents for? A weekLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, a monthand then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a year – or life? Is that time-scale differentsecret place, perhaps, when you're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who is, of course, both 51 (in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a character. In 2013 we were given a great book that gave us a story for every Doctor Who we've seen join him on TV, in honour of the 50th birthday proceedingsrun. But now is a year on They get together, and we're a further Doctor down but barely begin to smell the line. And so what was '11 Doctors, 11 Stories' is now '12 Doctors, 12 Stories'. So while many whiff of us would have cherished and kept said birthday present, Southern trains when the only addition father is arrested, leaving Archie on the lastlate express to Brighton, which like the rest toting a tin his father was available as an e-book. So it's worth revisiting what I said about the book last timedetermined to keep away from his colleagues, then chucking in and the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the endbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|title=Opal PlumsteadFrontpage|author=Jacqueline WilsonLex Croucher|ratingtitle=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Living in Edwardian England, Opal Plumstead is a fiercely intelligent girl. She has already won a scholarship to a public school and dreams of going to university. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her father is sent to prison Gwen and Opal is forced to abandon her education for a job Art Are Not in the Fairy Glen sweet factory. The other workers there find Opal snobby and arrogant but the factory's owner, Mrs Roberts, notices her artistic talent and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Roberts, Opal learns about the suffragette movement and even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurst. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lies We Tell Ourselves|author=Robin TalleyLove|rating=54

|summary=The year is 1959, and Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a small group of black students are attending Jefferson Highgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a previously all-white schoolmost delightful way. Barely anyone is happy that Sarah Dunbar and her friends are going to Jefferson In this story, Gwen and the group face a terrifying ordeal as Arthur have been betrothed since they're surrounded by people who want were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see them fail. Chief amongst them , is Linda Hairston, daughter of one of in love with Bridget (the townkingdom's most vocal segregationalistsonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But And then when Sarah and Linda start working together on Gwen then catches Art kissing a school projectboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they start to realise are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they may have more find a way in common than which they think - and friendship might not can both truly be all themselves, or are they're looking for from each other.destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkNick Brooks|authortitle=John Twelve HawksPromise Boys

|summary=Olivia Mead When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is strongmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, independently-minded and unrepentant in her beliefsseemingly, but there is has a certain natural vulnerability to her personality which makes her so appealing. She isn’t a ruthlessgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, remorseless warriorand each could have been there at the time of his murder. She is a human being But who simply wants to be treated like onekilled him, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beautywhy, because this isn’t and if any of the point of her character. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held valuesboys are innocent, which she sticks by even at an age when it would will they be so easy able to go with the flow.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=BelzharA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Meg WolitzerKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''I was sent here because of t a boy. His name was Reeve Maxfieldbad lad, and I loved him and then so why is he died, and almost running around London committing a year passed and no-one knew what series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to do with methe second question because I avoid spoilers.But I'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of him and ll answer the forty-first one days of their relationship: for his grandmother. She's not interested in school. friends, food, family, even therapy. And so, in desperation, Jam's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)Different for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test Ant is in Year Eleven at the first attempt and he ''knew'' it meant that he was quite a great driver. There was just one snag: his mother wasn't exactly on board about this standard school, and wouldn't let him borrow her car. There was always an excuse as is surprised to why find his geography class (within which it just wasn't possibleseems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, even when he'd promised so his desk is one of four with both his friends that he could have best buddy from the car so football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they could all go off somewhereback to primary school days together. Finally he got his Mum to admit that she was As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a bit worried about him using it single- but she did offer sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to go out with him so that he could get some practice insex. Ryan knew that the time Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn''practicing'' was pastt know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. I meanHe's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, heand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'd experienced', but whether that'passed'' his tests set in stone, hadnhe can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he?'s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The Winter HorsesStitched Up|author=Philip KerrSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=It’s Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the winter of 1941 smartly-dressed man and we are woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in the UkraineHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. A fourteen year old girl is hiding in a wood Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the vast and bittermini-cold steppebus to Hanoi. Her name is Katinka Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a name from folk song and fairy taleshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and she has been befriended by two of beading on the legs? The ones with the wild Przelowski’s horsesartfully-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>1406359831</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsPatrice Lawrence|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)Needle|rating=43

|summary=SheBrave. Charlene, the 's MADDYheroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, you knowcharacters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, not MADELEINE, but thatshe's only one of the problems which she fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has with taken up residence in her parentsson Blake's old room while he's at uni. They might Such a tempestuous personality may be on holiday in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the most beautiful places on earthplot here, but as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her mother simply will not lighten up. Sheyounger sister – a younger sister she's always complaining about what Maddy doesallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, what when she wears or doesn't wear (there's not ''nearly'' enough of that bikinishouts someone down as expletively ignorant.And then..) and Maddy has had enough. She slams out of their bungalow and goes down well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away remark how sharp and tragedy hitspointy those knitting needles can be... Will Maddy have the chance to apologise for all the hurtful things which she said?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanAnn Sei Lin|title=ZOM-B FamilyRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in 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 that 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. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't read have any say in the matter, because the first book in this seriesMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the LightMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Derek LandyWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Everything comes down 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 whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to thishis best friend, Cassie. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely They were half of a prelude to the real battledesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the fight against Darquesse, perhaps enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the most powerful sorcerer earth. Is this connected with one of all time. Prophesied to burn everyone and everything to ashes, her arrival heralds eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world as everyone knows is already a done deal? Is it, and some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the stakes have never been highertruth? Well, the need never greater, for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains of his allies to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the facenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=ErenFrontpage|author=Simon P Clark|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=People - Mum, mostly - are keeping secrets from Oli. Why have they had to leave London and come to live in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes on? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli when he doesn't even know him? When will Dad come? When will life go back to normal? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=Young Sherlock: Stone Cold|author=Andrew LaneThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Every human being Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a mystery, even to themselves, so there's request for over a particular pleasure hundred books that she has to be found in tracing deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the roots of someonebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's interests headmaster, and life's worka man Tess hates. Just how did our hero develop his ability, As a petty act of revenge for example, to tell making her find and deliver such a person's characterlarge request, profession and history within minutes Tess sticks post-it notes on each of meeting him or her? In this, the seventh volume in the series of books about , scribbled with the early years ugliest insults she can think of the famous Sherlock Holmes. They're never meant to reach him, we see how events and a most intriguing couple of mentors combine course. Her plan is to lead him down a path to his eventual role as a consulting detectiveget her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. WellNo harm done… Or it would be, if he survives till adulthood, that is. Of all his talents the most pronounced one does seem to be the knack of finding people who are determined to kill himsomeone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272579</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|title=The RisingFrontpage|author=Tom MoorhousePhilip Reeve|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Strife Utterly Dark and Kale are two young water voles who can sniff out trouble better than their careful sister Ivy and to the fury Face of their protective mother, Aven. They just can't help it. But Kale isn't telling Strife everything - he has a secret. When long-lost Uncle Sylvan arrives warning of danger and the siblings eavesdrop on the adults' conversation, Kale's secret is exposed. Even though she doesn't fully understand it, Strife follows her brother into danger to avert a bigger danger. The quest on which these two young water voles embark will test them to their limits and they'll need all the help Uncle Sylvan and Fodur the rat can provide...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness|author=Michelle PaverDeep

|summary=Living six thousand years agoIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, after the Ice Age British but before way west, beyond the spread of agricultureScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, Torak and his people understand legends of the natural worldDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. They revere The current Darks are the animals they hunt and never waste an ounce Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of prey. A deer provides them not only with foodactivity from the Hidden Lands, but also his brother Will who lives in London with clothestoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, water carriersand Andrewe's foundling daughter, shoeswho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, rope, even needles. Torak both his sullen brother and his people also understand spirituality. They see curious ward are thrust into the sacred in the seasons and the cycle world of the moon. And they believe in demonsprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444015419</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FoundKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Harlan CobenJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been eight months since Mickey watched his father die packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a car accident. Since thensummer, he's been drawn into in the work far NE of the mysterious Abeona ShelterScottish islands. Here be Vikings, rescuing children and young people from dangerous situationsthat kind of Scottish island. The latest person to go missing Dad is Ema's online boyfriend. Mickey isn't convinced he exists, but Ema's adamant they need going to look for him. Meanwhile, Mickey's nemesis Troy has been taken off be automating the basketball team after failing a steroid test. Troy isn't exactly Mickey's favourite personlantern, but he knows the team won't play so well without him, so when Troy asks Mickey for help to prove which is his innocencespecialist thing, Mickey reluctantly agrees.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409124517</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=No Stone Unturned|author=Helen Watts|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kelly doesn't have any friends at school. People don't like travellers. So she's glad while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to find a new friend in Ben over hunt the summer holidayselusive Greenland shark. Even Kelly's dog And Julia, Tysonwell, likes Ben. Exploring the disused quarries local to their village of Wilmcote, they find some interesting treasures, including an old boot. So when school starts again she will be homesick and Mr Walker sets a local history project, Kelly decides to find out more about the old quarries, the coming of the railway and the use of Wilmcote limestone in the construction of the Houses of Parliament. Ben offers to help and soon the pair uncover worrying evidence about what really went on all that time ago..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472905407</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Counting By 7sJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Holly Goldberg SloanThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Willow Scarlett McCain is not like an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other girlsoutlaws to keep herself alive. She is not just smartBut then she meets Albert Browne, but certifiably gifted. She gets on better a dark boy with adults than she does her peersdark powers and a darker past. She loves patterns and plantsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the colour red and mythical Free Isles of the number 7London Lagoon. She is charming Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and adorable and quirky. She is one all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the most real characters I've met Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in a book this year. And she is hurting.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124163</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The 100 SocietyMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Carla SpradberySlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Grace and her friends at the Clifton Academy boarding school have Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret. They have resurrected the 100 Society and intend illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to complete the grafitti tagging of not being a hundred locations around the citypriority in people's lives. A scandal involving But when she defends a previous incarnation of the society means that this random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is an expulsion offence so Grace is playing with firechanged for good. But to No longer can she spend hertime writing novels in solitude, the 100 Society isn't for her life now has a game; boy in it's an obsession. And that she's determined to complete the missionnever asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444920081</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BoundlessT L Huchu|authortitle=Kenneth OppelThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=William Everett's father has risen high in the railway. But it wasn't always thus. He spent many years working for Cornelius Van Horne as Ropa Moyo is a manual labourerghostalker, cutting using Zimbabwean magic (and blasting through swathes a bit of Canada and laying tracks. When Will and his father witness Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the laying dead of the last piece Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of trackschool, thereshe's an avalanchebeen using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. And WillHowever, there's father saves Van Hornean evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's lifechildren. Promotion and success followed and now Van Horne Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead, Will's father is general manager mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the worldof magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's biggest train - ve imagined. Will she find the Boundlessmissing children and bring an end to this evil, at 987 carriages long - or will carry his body in perpetuity. it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Impossible Knife of MemoryKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Laurie Halse AndersonLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Hayley is back in her childhood home after years on the road Having recently been diagnosed with her fatherchronic Lyme disease, trying Priya has to come to outrun terms with the pastfact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She doesnjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t really remember , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living herewith chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, nor does she really want while also providing an escape tojust joke and mess around. Not when When Brigid—one of her father canclosest friends—doesn't drive under bridges respond to the chat for fear of snipersa while, Priya becomes concerned. Not when heShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's self medicating with alcohol house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and drugs. Not when he refuses help from for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the VApast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147668</amazonuk>1683692349