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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudMax Boucherat|authortitle=Louis SacharThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Tamaya isnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't allowed s got the house to herself – no neighbour to walk home from school pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her ownlonesome. And Tamaya doesn't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a "shortcut" through the woods one dayblanket fort, she goes with himhas one main intention, even though she isn't really supposed and that is to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst log on to TamayaVoxminer, Marshall has chosen the route in order to avoid school bully Chadworld-building, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning for nothing at all critter- but you know, collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's how school bullies workworld But lying in the woods is an first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even greater threat than Chadmore spooky...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title=The Walled City|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In For the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, server she and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious her bestie and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek somethingnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Dai seeks information When malevolent eyes spark up on the criminal brotherhood which employs himher phone screen, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks and her sister safe place in the Walled City's brothelsgame has been doctored – well, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped in where is a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with the two-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as the officials of Seng Ngoi plan girl to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Self-Esteem TeamRachel Greenlaw|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs Compass and WTFs?!!Blade|rating= 43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% ''I can hear the song of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because the sea. The call of a lack of body confidence?the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
ShockingRosevear, isna remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't it?s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie Harry Allen|title=All My Secrets Children of the Sun|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fifteen-year old Evie is a normal teenager until a solicitor from Scotland appears on her doorstep with news of Ra Eun Seo lives in a £10 million inheritance North Korean town and she is a secret that turns her world upside downtalented singer. It's little wonder she struggles Life is hard and food is difficult to cope come by, so Seo and ends up being enrolled on a summer programme for troubled teens on the remote island of Lightsea. Little does she suspect that her troubles are only just beginning. At the same time as coping with her burgeoning attraction to two of the boys on the programmefriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she discovers the island is linked to her family secret. Evie is determined to get looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the bottom meagre rations of the mystery, unaware of the dangers that this will bring for both her rice and her new friendskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122212</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillAlexia Casale|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Zero Hour has passed. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a full on assault on Draculalife-changing disability too, but that's forces, what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the combined might middle of the supernatural departments failed a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to destroy avoid the ancient vampirepity stares, and he has returned desperate to full strength, ready get back to strike at humanity with unadulterated violencea life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Secrecy is no longer an option as the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are real. Department 19 has been through so muchMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, shaken her music A Level performance piece to its core by secretstry to sort out, betrayals and losses. With just the public eye now firmly upon them, the very fundamentals day to day traumas of all the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst challenges her body continues to throw at her to the forenavigate. Jamie, Larissa, Kate and Matt have always found themselves at the centre of the chaos, and despite each struggling with their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped them survive and So even thrive within the department. Humanitythough she can's last stand will need them at their very bestt dance anymore, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it might she be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stake. able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattSimon Fox|title=Black Waters (Strong Winds)Deadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Xanthe Ribiero had won the area championships in her sister's boat, but she Who knew that what I really needed to read right now had sponsorship ''and'' was a new laser dinghy. gay Arthurian RomCom? Best of all she had the letter from the GB Racing Committee which confirmed that she was But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the squad and was off to the Easter training camp at the National Sailing Academy at Weymoutha most delightful way. She was full of plans to train harderIn this story, watch her diet Gwen and - she had Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to admit their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - just a little bit pleased something that she might not have to worry about exam results and university applicationsArt discovers from her private diaries. ''This'' was as good as it got.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Meg Haston|title= Paper Weight|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Stevie had And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a plan. A good plan (boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in her mind)love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Butas their impending wedding draws ever closer, as is often the will they find a way, her plan has been interrupted. In her case it's by an unexpected and involuntary admission to an eating disorder unit in a different state. Under lock and key and constant supervisionwhich they can both truly be themselves, she doesn't have the resources or the freedom are they destined to go through with it. And it's all live a bit annoying.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404560</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carl HiaasenNick Brooks|title= Skink No Surrender|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Skink No Surrender is a love letter to the wildlife of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered with references to literature, folk legends, the ecological history of the area, the importance of conservation and the art of fishing. Hiaasen's protagonists are vividly observed and fully rounded. Skink is an eccentric, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade with a n anarchic, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitude. He is a good hearted protector of the innocent, possesses an assortment of false eyes, wrangles alligators, battles storms, lectures on politeness and deals out rough justice. His portrait is messianic and folkloric in places. Richard is plucky and loyal but is he in over his head? Malley is selfish, stubborn, smart, caustic, sarky and brave but also naive, vulnerable and susceptible to charm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Garth Nix|title=To Hold the BridgePromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= A collection When the principal (headmaster) of 21 short stories loosely divided Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into six different categories, ‘’To Hold the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readerspolice station as suspects. It’s undoubtedly Each, seemingly, has a must-read book for fans grudge of Garth Nix and these fans will, I suspectsome description against Principal Moore, quibble with my four star rating and challenge me to add another stareach could have been there at the time of his murder. Those new to Garth’s writing might But who killed him, in turnand why, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature and if any of the stories in the book.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jess Vallance1919635017|title=BirdyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Frances has always been Solomon Klyne isn't a loner, quiet and isolatedbad lad, so when shewhy is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's asked ll have to wait to get an answer to look after the eccentric new girl Alberta for a few days she doesnsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't expect anything to come of it, only hoping that ll answer the whole incident will pass without embarrassmentfirst one: for his grandmother. The last thing she expects is for the new girl to become her best friend. Alberta's warm companionship is everything Frances has been missing for so many years, so when conflict inevitably arises, Frances is determined to do anything to save their friendship. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404668</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah ThomasPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Because You'll Never Meet MeDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersTeens |summary=Ollie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Moritz can never meet. Because if they didis 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 them would almost certainly die. Why? Because Ollie is allergic to electricty four with both his best buddy from the football team, and Moritz has an electrical pacemaker inserted two other old muckers – in his heartfact they all go back to primary school days together. Ollie spends his life hidden away in As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a log cabin in the forest single- away from all sex school can form, the electricity that sends him into life-threatening seizures - with only his mother talk in class and the occasional visit from Dr Auburn-Stache out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for companyAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He did also have 's had a friendcasual relationship, Liza secret one, but he lost her a while back. Moritz is equally isolated even though he goes to school. Born without eyesfor several months now, Moritz "sees" and so has effectively progressed up the world through echolocationladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, like a bathe can't be sure. You might think And that's miraculous, but Moritz just thinks it makes him a freakmostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886262X</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz Stitched Up|author=Bernard AshleySteve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=It's London Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in 1940. Most of the men have been conscripted rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the East End is populated mainly by women and childrenvillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Josie Some money changed hands and her friends are carrying Hanh was on much as usual, thoughthe mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, grouping into little gangs Hanh and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thames. But then comes other girls were not going to work in a terrible night of bombingshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It's You know those jeans you really wanted: the start of the Blitz ones with intricate embroidery and 57 consecutive nights of bombing for beading on the East End. legs? The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity and the lucky ones make it out of with the shelters in the morning, while the unlucky ones donartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't see another sunrises quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accident SeasonPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Moira Fowley-DoyleNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=For a month in every yearBrave. Charlene, the month leading up 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to Halloweenlike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Caraand has taken up residence in her son Blake's family are susceptible to accidentsold room while he's at uni. There are cuts Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and scrapes the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and bruisesis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Sometimes there are broken bonesWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And sometimes, the accidents are even fatalthen... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fire Colour OneAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Jenny ValentineRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Iris Kurara has never known spent her fatherentire 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. He didn't want However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell herthat she is a Crafter like him, her mother has always saidsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He threw them out years ago. But now she's about asks her to meet come with him again, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Her father is rich, you see, and dyingWell, and Irissoon Kurara won's mother and stepfather t have worn out their welcome any say in LA. So they're running away from debts and towards the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a richshikigami, terminally ill old man, ripe for exploitation. There's also and she is forced to flee out into the small matter of some of Iris's own bad behaviourworld. But She joins Himura aboard the less said about thatOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, the betterand a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreview|title=The Potion DiariesFrontpage|author=Amy Alward|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Samantha is a mixer of potions extraordinaire. Which is just as well, because someone has to save a princess who has fallen in love with herself. Yes, you heard right! You might not think this is the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pampered, is it any wonder they fall in love with themselves? But this isn't what's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken a love potion meant to make someone else fall in love with ''her''. And the resulting havoc caused by the wrong person taking the right potion leads to some very unstable magic that could threaten the very kingdom itself. Hence the ''Wilde Hunt'', a national quest to find the ingredients for a cure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMarcus Sedgwick|title=Thirteen Days of Midnight|author=Leo HuntWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Luke Manchett really isn't that upset 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 gets the news that talks to his father has diedbest friend, Cassie. You might think that's They were half of a tad harshdesultory school band, but Luke has been estranged Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from his father for yearsthe earth. His primary concern is his mother, who Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is disabled by crushing cluster headaches. So, rather than worry her, Luke heads off to already a lawyer's office to done deal with the reading ? Is it some spooky new kind of his fathermusic she's will by himself. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he gets a shockcan't.. Luke's inheritance adds up to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayTori Bovalino|title=TrollhuntersThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=West Coast USA Working 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 1960sbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew man Tess hates. As a petty act of missing children reports. The parents with their new anguishes, revenge for making her find and new rules against playing out after darkdeliver such a large request, have no idea Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trollsbooks, guilty scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of snatching the children. Last They're never meant to goreach him, Jack Sturgessof course. Cue the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-up brother JimHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginablethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as youif someone hadn'd expectt delivered them for her. Unfortunately, however, the trolls are about to make a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerPhilip Reeve|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel to The Lunar Chronicles is to her fans, The Lunartics. This book is especially for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress Utterly Dark and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as a standalone too. According to the publisher’s note Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=The Snake Trap: Travis Delaney Investigates |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Teen private investigator Travis Delaney is still looking for the people who killed his parents. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. And, fresh from a narrow escape from death at the hands Face of a criminal mastermind, Travis now suspects that there's a traitor in the camp. This third installment in the ''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming opening. Travis is abducted by terrorists and held captive alongside Winston, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty of his father's death. Travis has a lot of questions. But will he get any answers? And can he get himself out of this horribly dangerous situation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Lady: My Life as a BitchDeep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sandra is In a naughty kidword, rich. Fed up with the pressure There is certainly an abundance of examsriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, a lovely British but slightly boring boyfriend and an overbearing motherway west, she's gone a bit wildbeyond the Scillies. She's thrown over the boring boyfriend There are troll people on it, and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEssea-witches, and is running with some exciting but unreliable new pals. She's done a bit legends of shoplifting the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and slept with a few boystheir monster approaching from even further west, and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing momentswhere no ship dare sailOn this particular dayThe current Darks are the Watcher, she's getting off with Wayne and cheesing off MichelleAndrewe, and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into a homeless alcoholic manwho has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, causing him to spill his can of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious and chases her and Sandra is furious brother Will who lives in London with toomuch science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, because heand Andrewe's ruining her foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and HOW DARE HE? And thenhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A doglike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Scott K AndrewsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= TimebombJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= In 2141Julia, Yojana Patel throws herself our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a skyscraper. She never hits summer, in the far NE of the groundScottish islands. In 1640 Here be Vikings, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt womanthat kind of Scottish island. When she reaches out Dad is going to comfort herbe automating the lantern, she’s flung through time. And on a rainy day in our timewhich is his specialist thing, Kaz Cecka sneaks into the ruins of Sweetclover hall while mum will be leaving her career in search of a dry spot algae behind to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from the time of Charles I, and an angry girl from hunt the futureelusive Greenland shark. Thrown into a war that spans millennia And Julia, the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villainswell, she will be homesick and stay alone – until she suddenly finds company one step ahead of a fanatical army…night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Silver SkinJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Joan LennonThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Rab lives in Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the distant futureSeven Kingdoms of Britain, in a world where space is at a premium due to population pressures robbing banks and in which status is expressed by how much room you have shooting other outlaws to live inkeep herself alive. People's lives are guided and supported by their ComsBut then she meets Albert Browne, AIs which teach, medicate, navigate a dark boy with dark powers and all sorts else besides. When Rab's mother buys him a silver skin - time travel technology - Rab is overjoyeddarker past. The fieldwork he'll be able With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to do with it will allow him flee to produce work that will set him up for lifethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. He decides to investigate Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the 19th century discovery of cannibalistic Tainted and all the Neolithic village horrors of Skara Brae post- because his tower block of apocalyptic society to reach the future is built on that very site. But something goes wrong and Rab is ejected from his status as time travelling observer right into life Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in Stone Age Skara Brae.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780272847</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John McNallyMercedes Helnwein|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Slingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall and still Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a teenager"real" family, but heshe is used to not being a priority in people's already saved the world oncelives. Accidentally shrunk by his mad scientist Uncle Al, he joined But when she defends a crack military team and helped foil the threat of a lethal bio-weaponrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, the Scarlatti wasp. But there's no let-up her simple existence is changed for Finngood. Before Al No longer can restore him to normal sizeshe spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a new threat emergesboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma CraigieT L Huchu|title= What Was Never Said |rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life The Library of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have faced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Non Pratt|title= RemixDead|rating= 34.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Kaz Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Ruby have been best friends a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for a long time but their lives are about living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to change irrevocably. Ruby has a sassysupport not only herself, devil may care outer shell that hides but her vulnerability but where do younger sister and her loyalties really lie? Kazaging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, short Ropa is pulled into the search for Karizma, thinks she knows what she wants but what does she really need? Stu longs to shake off a missing boy at the request of his bad reputation dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and win back realise that the love world of his life while Tom magic is unsure of what he wants far bigger and takes more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the coward’s way out. Meanwhile Ruby’s brother Lee missing children and his boyfriend Owen have some of their own decisions bring an end to make. Throw into the mix an arrogant pop starthis evil, secrets, betrayal, jealousy, misunderstandings, new faces and some bad choices and the ingredients are there for an explosive weekend. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406347701</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cassie BeasleyKristen O'Neal|title=Circus MirandusLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Micah is an orphan who has been raised by his grandfather, but now Micah’s grandfather is dying. And if that wasn’t bad enough, his horrible great aunt has arrived to take care of him, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is not lost. When grandpa Ephraim was a child he visited the mysterious Circus Mirandus, where he was promised a miracle by the miraculous Man Who Bends Light. All Micah has to do is get a message to the Light Bender and his grandfather can have his miracle. With the help of Jenny Mendoza (the smartest girl in the class), Micah sets his sights on the circus, a task that requires unconditional love and faith. Aunt Gertrudis is wrong, Ephraim’s stories aren’t just stories ... are they?
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{{newreview
|title=Finding Audrey
|author=Sophie Kinsella
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Audrey has Having recently been stuck at home for a while nowdiagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, ever since Priya has to come to terms with the fact that awful business at she may be in constant pain for the rest of her last schoollife. It left her suffering from social anxiety disorder and depression. Dr Sarah is impressed with AudreyShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's progress towards recovery, but Audrey still can't go out of the house, speak an online support group where she talks to strangers, or even make eye contact a bunch of other teens living with her familychronic illnesses. The painfully slow path They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to wellness is beginning to weight heavily on herjust joke and mess around. And then When Brigid—one of her brotherclosest friends—doesn's friend Linus shows up and begins t respond to entice Audrey outside of herself againthe chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. He has a lovely orange-slice smile and writes funny notes She decides to steal her parents' car and - drive to AudreyBrigid's disbelief - seems house to like check up on her. But Audrey really does need what she doesn't expect to heed Dr Sarah's warning that recovery is not a smooth progression: it's a series of two steps forward and one step back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534580</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Extraordinary Means|author=Robyn Schneider|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Lane rocks up at Latham House, he has no intention of being find there long. There is no way he is going to allow a diagnosis of total-drug-resistant tuberculosis to get werewolf in the way of his inexorable progress to an Ivy League college basement – and a stellar career. He has even brought extra textbooks and test papers with him, so for that he doesn't fall behind during this period of quarantine in this medical facility for kids with this new strain of TB. But when he meets Sadie and her group of misfit friends, Lane begins werewolf to wonder if he's got his priorities straight. Perhaps there's more be the girl she has been talking to life - and illness - than a progression of tests and achievements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Steven Camden|title= It’s About Love|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= As an acclaimed hip-hop style performance poet, Steven Camden is skilful at painting evocative imagery with words. His second novel online for teens enters the world of the film script, cleverly playing with cinematic intertextuality. It is a tale of past mistakes, violence, revenge, friendship and love. An emotive, powerful, thought provoking experience it rates a 4.5 because it lacks the magical ingredients of Camden’s debut, ‘Tape’. It doesn’t make the reader's heart sing but it does put their nerves on edge. I challenge you not to shed a tearfew months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007511248</amazonuk>1683692349
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