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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Jenn Bennett|title=Night Owls|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Beatrix is a serious girl; small and slight, considered and studious with a quiet determination to follow her dream of becoming a medical illustrator. Pretty and petite, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipsters, Beatrix knows that Jack is all the kinds of boys she should avoid. Loose-limbed and slim with a slash of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled and has cheekbones you can hang from and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transit, her world is turned upside down. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisMax Boucherat|title=All Sorts The Last Life of PossibleLori Mills

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Self-Esteem TeamRachel Greenlaw|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs Compass and WTFs?!!Blade|rating= 43.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie Harry Allen|title=All My Secrets Children of the Sun|rating=4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillAlexia Casale|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Sing if you Can't Dance

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattSimon Fox|title=Black Waters (Strong Winds)Deadlock

|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 to admit - just a little bit pleased that she might not Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to worry about exam results and university applications. their mutual disgust! ''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 a plan. A good plan (in her mind). ButGwen, you see, as is often in love with Bridget (the way, her plan has been interrupted. In her case itkingdom's by an unexpected and involuntary admission to an eating disorder unit in a different state. Under lock and key and constant supervision, she doesn't have the resources or the freedom to go through with itonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And it's all then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a bit annoying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404560</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Carl Hiaasen|title= Skink No Surrender|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Skink No Surrender is a love letter to boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the wildlife subterfuge of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered falling in love with references to literature, folk legends, the ecological history of the areaeach other, the importance of conservation and the art of fishing. Hiaasen's protagonists when really they are vividly observed and fully roundedenabling their own other romantic attachments. Skink is an eccentric But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade with will they find a n anarchicway in which they can both truly be themselves, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitude. He is or are they destined to live 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 headlie their whole lives? Malley is selfish, stubborn, smart, caustic, sarky and brave but also naive, vulnerable and susceptible to charm.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixNick Brooks|title=To Hold the BridgePromise Boys

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jess Vallance1919635017|title=BirdyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah ThomasPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Because You'll Never Meet MeDifferent for Boys

|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

{{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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accident SeasonPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Moira Fowley-DoyleNeedle|rating=43

|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

{{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 a rich, terminally ill old man, ripe for exploitation. There's also the small matter of some of Iris's own bad behaviour. But the less said about that, because the better|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Potion Diaries|author=Amy Alward|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Samantha Midori is destroyed by a mixer of potions extraordinaire. Which is just monstrous paper spirit known as well, because someone has to save a princess who has fallen in love with herself. Yesshikigami, you heard right! You might not think this is the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pampered, she 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 forced 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 flee out into the very kingdom itselfworld. Hence She joins Himura aboard the ''Wilde Hunt''Orihime, a national quest sky-ship whose express purpose is to find the ingredients for hunt down shikigami, and a cure.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Thirteen Days of MidnightMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Leo HuntWrath

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayTori Bovalino|title=TrollhuntersThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=West Coast USA Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a slew of missing children reports. The parents with their new anguishes, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies request for over a city of trolls, guilty of snatching the children. Last hundred books that she has to go, Jack Sturgessdeliver herself. Cue What makes it worse is the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in man who requested the most barricaded and secure home imaginable, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as you'd expectbooks: Mr Birch. 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marissa Meyer|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levanaboarding school'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 Cinderheadmaster, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as a standalone tooman Tess hates. According to the publisher’s note Queen Levana is As a ruler who uses petty act of revenge for making her glamour to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet find and Cressdeliver such a large request, Levana lived a very different storyTess sticks post- 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 it notes on each of the people who killed his parents. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. Andbooks, fresh from a narrow escape from death at scribbled with the hands ugliest insults she can think of a criminal mastermind, Travis now suspects that there's a traitor in the camp. This third installment in the They''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming openingre never meant to reach him, of course. Travis Her plan is abducted by terrorists to get her anger out like this, and held captive alongside Winstonthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty of his fatherif someone hadn's deatht delivered them for her. Travis has a lot of questions. But will he get any answers? And can he get himself out of this horribly dangerous situation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessPhilip Reeve|title=Lady: My Life as a BitchUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|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 sail. On 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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Scott K AndrewsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= TimebombJulia and the Shark

|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

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John McNallyMercedes Helnwein|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Slingshot|rating=43

|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

{{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

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cassie BeasleyKristen O'Neal|title=Circus MirandusLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Micah is an orphan who has Having recently been raised by his grandfatherdiagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, but now Micah’s grandfather is dyingPriya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. And if that wasn’t bad enoughShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', his horrible great aunt has arrived an online support group where she talks to take care a bunch of himother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is not lostwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When grandpa Ephraim was Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a child he visited the mysterious Circus Miranduswhile, where he was promised a miracle by the miraculous Man Who Bends LightPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. All Micah has But what she doesn't expect to do find there is get a message to werewolf in the Light Bender basement – and his grandfather can have his miracle. With the help of Jenny Mendoza (for that werewolf to be the smartest girl in she has been talking to online for 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 ..past few months. are they?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>1683692349