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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyMax Boucherat|title=The Red ShoeLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=They may be quite far apartWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, but three houses on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a row in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people. In blanket fort, she has onemain intention, a solitary old man of very few wordsand that is to log on to Voxminer, shuffling to the end of his daysworld-building, but brandishing critter-collecting game that is a Japanese sword hehit in Lori's purloined after WWII, and with a gun in the corner of his loungeworld. In the middle, But first Lori has a family of fivetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due to the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone in then she finds something even more spooky. For the isolated time server she and location, her bestie and their three daughters – one nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of whom has given tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbourher phone screen, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes her safe place in the idea of spies, and game has an imaginary friend who came out of the radio. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live been doctored – after allwell, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building where is home a girl to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and with at least one gun of their own…turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Libba BrayRachel Greenlaw|title= Lair of DreamsCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Evie Othe answering beat in my heart.'Neill has outed herself as ' Rosevear, a Divinerremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. With Mira, like her mother before her uncanny ability , is one of the seven who swim out to read peoplesurvey 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's secretsfather. 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's sets off in search of a media darlingfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. It seems like everyoneWith 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 in love with New York City's latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'. But while Evie is enjoying territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the high life, future of her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois home and Ling Chan will fight to keep their powers secretthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhiteHarry Allen|title=Butterfly ShellChildren of the Sun

|summary=One of the worst kind of nerve-wracking days has arrived: that first day of Secondary School. As we all remember, that's part scary, part exciting for any girl (or boy too, of course, but this Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a girls' school)talented singer. It's an age when you're anxious about making new friends Life is hard and fitting in anyway, but at ''her'' new school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim food is difficult to a group of bullies. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Six.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author= Chris Weitz|title= The Young World|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a mysterious sickness wipes out the rest of the populationcome by, the young survivors band together in small tribes, desperately trying to rebuild their society of old. In New York City, Jefferson, reluctant leader of the tribe from Washington Square, hears of a potential cure for The Sickness. So, he so Seo and a squad of heavily armed teens set out across New York in search of this cure. Along the way they must avoid gangs her friends Nari and cultsMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and brave edible grasses to supplement the perils meagre rations of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankind's futurerice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn BennettAlexia Casale|title=Night OwlsSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Beatrix is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a serious girl; small and slightlife-changing disability too, considered and studious but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a quiet determination dance performance that was going to follow change her dream of becoming a medical illustratorlife. Pretty and petiteBut she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipsters, Beatrix knows desperate to get back to a life that Jack is all the kinds of boys 's as normal as she should avoidcan possibly manage. Loose-limbed Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and slim with a slash just the day to day traumas of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled and has cheekbones you the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can hang from and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transitt dance anymore, might she be able to sing her world is turned upside down. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisSimon Fox|title=All Sorts of PossibleDeadlock

|summary=''When the sinkhole opened, there was no time Who knew that what I really needed to break or turn the wheel, and the old green Land Rover read right now was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rim.'' Somehowa gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Daniel makes it out of the sinkhole and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father isn't so lucky. While he lies lifted my spirits in hospital in an induced coma due to a severe brain injury, Daniel is released into the care of his aunt, a woman he has never metmost delightful way. There had been a family falling out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a baby In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enoughthey were tiny, Daniel finds it difficult much to trust her or open up to her... ... and theretheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's a lot to open up aboutonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Johnstone|title= The Mirror Chronicles: Circles of Stone|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Sylas Tate has been through And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a lotboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, considering he wasn't yet creating the subterfuge of falling in his teens love with each other, when his journeys beganreally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. His mother is lost, leaving him to the less than tender mercies of his uncle But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and after will they find a strange incident way in book one of this series he found himself travelling to another world. Even more bizarrewhich they can both truly be themselves, while he was there he encountered Naeo, his other half – not some jokey reference or are they destined to live a future wife, but the true second part of his soul. The two worlds (ours, based on science, and the Other, based on magic) were once one, and it is the dearest wish of the down-trodden inhabitants Sylas meets to unite them again.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katie EversonNick Brooks|title= Drop|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novel, ‘Drop,’ is a tale of grief and healing, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A-student, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined to change her predictable life. When her absentee mother is offered a job in London, Carla transfers to yet another school and this time she is desperate to not be overlooked. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Fuzzy Mud|author=Louis SacharPromise Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Tamaya isn't allowed to walk home from When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school on her own. And Tamaya doesn't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking a "shortcut" through the woods one dayis murdered, she goes with him, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through three boys find themselves called into the woodspolice station as suspects. Unbeknownst to Tamaya Each, Marshall has chosen the route in order to avoid school bully Chadseemingly, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning for nothing grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at all - but you know, that's how school bullies workthe time of his murder.  But lying in who killed him, and why, and if any of the woods is an even greater threat than Chad...boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ryan Graudin1919635017|title=The Walled City|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothels, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped in A Thief to Catch 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 to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=The Self-Esteem Team|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5

|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because of Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a lack series of body confidencerobberies? Shocking, isnAnd how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=All My Secrets Different for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year old Evie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a normal teenager until a solicitor standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from Scotland appears on her doorstep with news of a £10 million inheritance the football team, and a secret that turns her world upside downtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It As they's little wonder she struggles to cope and ends re all fired up being enrolled on , straining at the leash only a summer programme for troubled teens on single-sex school can form, the remote island of Lightseatalk in class and out often turns to sex. Little does she suspect Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that her troubles are only just beginningregard lie. At the same time as coping with her burgeoning attraction to two of the boys on the programme He's had a casual relationship, she discovers the island is linked to her family a secret. Evie is determined to get to one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the bottom of the mysteryladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, unaware he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the dangers that this will bring for both her relationship and her new friendsthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122212</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Hill1800901232|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Zero Hour has passedTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into a full on assault on Dracula's forces Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the combined might of the supernatural departments failed smartly-dressed man and woman came to destroy the ancient vampire, and he has returned village to full strength, ready offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to strike at humanity with unadulterated violencebe missed. Secrecy is no longer an option as Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are realmini-bus to Hanoi. Department 19 has been through so much Only, shaken to its core by secrets, betrayals Hanh and losses. With the public eye now firmly upon themother girls were not going to work in a shop, the very fundamentals of the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the fore. Jamie, Larissa, Kate ones with intricate embroidery and Matt have always found themselves at beading on the centre of legs? The ones with the chaos, artfully-placed rips and despite each struggling with their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them survive and even thrive within the department. Humanity? It's last stand will need quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them at their very best, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stake. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattPatrice Lawrence|title=Black Waters (Strong Winds)Needle|rating=4.53

|summary=Xanthe Ribiero had won Brave. Charlene, the area championships in her sister's boatheroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, but she now had sponsorship ''characters and'' a new laser dinghyreaders both. Best Kicked out of all she had the letter from the GB Racing Committee which confirmed that she was in the squad multiple homes and was off to the Easter training camp at the National Sailing Academy at Weymouth. She was full of plans to train harderschools, watch her diet and - she had to admit - just 's fostering with a little bit pleased that she might not have to worry about exam results pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and university applications. has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he'This'' was as good as it gots at uni.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Meg Haston|title= Paper Weight|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Stevie had Such a plan. A good plan (tempestuous personality may be in her mind). Butneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is often the waya wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her plan has been interruptedyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. In We see Charlene prove her case it's by an unexpected belligerence with a store detective, and involuntary admission then force people to an eating disorder unit in a different stategive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Under lock and key and constant supervisionwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, she doesn't have the resources or the freedom only to go through with itremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. And it's all a bit annoying.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404560</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carl HiaasenAnn Sei Lin|title= Skink No SurrenderRebel Skies

|summary= Skink No Surrender is Kurara has spent her entire life as a love letter to servant on the wildlife of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered with references to literature, folk legendsMidori, a massive dining hall floating in the ecological history sky where soldiers of the area, the importance of conservation Empire come to drink and the art of fishingmake merry between their conquests. Hiaasen's protagonists are vividly observed and fully rounded. Skink However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is an eccentrica Crafter like him, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a n anarchic, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitudepower sought after all across the Empire. He is a good hearted protector of asks her to come with him, to leave the innocent, possesses an assortment life of false eyes, wrangles alligators, battles storms, lectures on politeness and deals out rough justice. His portrait dreary servitude that is messianic and folkloric in placesall she has known. Richard is plucky and loyal but is he Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in over his head? Malley the matter, because the Midori is selfish, stubborn, smart, causticdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, sarky and brave but also naive, vulnerable and susceptible she is forced to charmflee out into the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Garth Nix|title=To Hold She joins Himura aboard the Bridge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= A collection of 21 short stories loosely divided into six different categoriesOrihime, ‘’To Hold the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readers. It’s undoubtedly a mustsky-read book for fans of Garth Nix and these fans will, I suspectship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, quibble with my four star rating and challenge me to add another star. Those new to Garth’s writing might, in turn, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature a whole world of the stories in the book.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jess VallanceMarcus Sedgwick|title=BirdyWrath

|summary= Frances has always been a loner, quiet and isolatedMeet Fitz, so when she's asked to look after the eccentric new girl Alberta for a few days she doesn't expect anything to come young Scottish lad full of it, only hoping that the whole incident will pass without embarrassmentfrustration at himself. The last thing she expects Lockdown is for the new girl to become her best friend. Alberta's warm companionship is everything Frances has been missing for so many yearsonly just over, so when conflict inevitably arises, Frances is determined and he should be free to do anything what he wants, to save their friendship. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leah Thomas|title=Because You'll Never Meet Me|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ollie go where he wants and Moritz can never meet. Because if they didwith whom he wants, one of them would almost certainly die. Why? Because Ollie is allergic but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to electricty and Moritz has an electrical pacemaker inserted in his heartbest friend, Cassie. Ollie spends his life hidden away in They were half of a log cabin in desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the forest - away enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from all the electricity that sends him into lifeearth. Is this connected with one of her eco-threatening seizures - with only his mother and warrior parents saying the occasional visit from Dr Auburn-Stache for company. He did also have a friend, Liz, but he lost her a while back. Moritz is equally isolated even though he goes to school. Born without eyes, Moritz "sees" end of the world through echolocation, like is already a bat. You might think thatdone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's miraculousdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, but Moritz just thinks it makes him a freaknot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886262X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Bernard AshleyThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's London in 1940library 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. Most of What makes it worse is the men have been conscripted and man who requested the East End is populated mainly by women and childrenbooks: Mr Birch. Josie and her friends are carrying on much as usual, thoughThe boarding school's headmaster, grouping into little gangs and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thamesa man Tess hates. But then comes As a terrible night petty act of bombing. It's the start of the Blitz and 57 consecutive nights of bombing revenge for the East End. The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity making her find and the lucky ones make deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it out notes on each of the shelters in the morningbooks, while scribbled with the unlucky ones donugliest insults she can think of. They't see another sunrisere never meant to reach him, of course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Accident Season|author=Moira Fowley-Doyle|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=For a month in every year, the month leading up Her plan is to Halloweenget her anger out like this, Cara's family are susceptible to accidents. There are cuts and scrapes and bruisesthen take them all off before delivering them. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimesNo harm done… Or it would be, the accidents are even fatal... if someone hadn't delivered them for her... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fire Colour OnePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Jenny ValentineUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Iris has never known her father. He didn't want herIn a word, her mother has always saidrich. He threw them out years ago. But now she's about to meet him again. Her father There is richcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, you seeBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and dyingsea-witches, and Iris's mother legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and stepfather have worn out their welcome in LAmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. So they're running away The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from debts and towards a richthe Hidden Lands, terminally ill old manhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, ripe for exploitation. Thereand Andrewe's also foundling daughter, who washed up out of the small matter of some of Iris's own bad behavioursea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the less said about thatworld of protecting their island, the betterlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Potion DiariesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Amy AlwardJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Samantha is a mixer of potions extraordinaire. Which is just as wellJulia, our pre-teen heroine, because someone has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to save be lighthousekeepers for a princess who has fallen summer, in love with herselfthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Yes Here be Vikings, you heard right! You might not think this that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pamperedlantern, which is it any wonder they fall his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in love with themselves? But this isn't what's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken a love potion meant algae behind to make someone else fall in love with ''her''hunt the elusive Greenland shark. 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''Julia, well, a national quest to find the ingredients for a cureshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Thirteen Days of MidnightJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Leo HuntThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Luke Manchett really isn't that upset when he gets Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the news that his father has died. You might think that's a tad harshwildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, but Luke has been estranged from his father for yearsrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. His primary concern is his motherBut then she meets Albert Browne, who is disabled by crushing cluster headachesa dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. So, rather than worry herWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Luke heads off they plan to a lawyer's office flee to deal with the reading mythical Free Isles of his father's will by himselfthe London Lagoon. And he gets a shock. Luke's inheritance adds up Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayMercedes Helnwein|title=TrollhuntersSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=West Coast USA in the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a slew secret illegitimate daughter of missing children reports. The parents a man 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 a city of trolls"real" family, guilty of snatching the children. Last she is used to go, Jack Sturgess. Cue the modern era and Jacknot being a priority in people's younger, now grown-up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live lives. But when she defends a sheltered life random boy in the most barricaded and secure home imaginableher class with her slingshot, and Jim Jr's life her simple existence is as exciting as you'd expectchanged for good. UnfortunatelyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, however, the trolls are about to make for her life now has a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerT L Huchu|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's StoryLibrary of the Dead

|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to The Lunar Chronicles is take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her fansyounger sister and her aging grandmother. However, The Lunarticsthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. This book Soon, Ropa is especially pulled into the search for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as a standalone toomissing boy at the request of his dead mother. According to She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the publisher’s note Queen Levana world of magic is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain powerfar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. But long before Will she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet find the missing children and Cressbring an end to this evil, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until now.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksKristen O'Neal|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 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 Lycanthropy 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 BitchOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Sandra is a naughty kid. Fed up Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the pressure fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of examsher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', a lovely but slightly boring boyfriend and an overbearing mother, online support group where she's gone talks to a bit wildbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. She's thrown over the boring boyfriend They talk about their troubles and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEshelp each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and is running with some exciting but unreliable new palsmess around. She's done a bit When Brigid—one of shoplifting and slept with a few boys, and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing moments. On this particular day, sheclosest friends—doesn's getting off with Wayne and cheesing off Michelle, and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into t respond to the chat for a homeless alcoholic manwhile, causing him Priya becomes concerned. She decides to spill his can of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious and chases steal her parents' car and Sandra is furious too, because hedrive to Brigid's ruining house to check up on her day and HOW DARE HE? And then, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A dog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Scott K Andrews|title= Timebomb|rating=4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In 2141, Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper. She never hits the ground. In 1640, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt woman. When But what she reaches out doesn't expect to comfort her, she’s flung through time. And on find there is a rainy day werewolf in our time, Kaz Cecka sneaks into the ruins of Sweetclover hall in search of a dry spot basement – and for that werewolf to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from be the time of Charles I, and an angry girl from she has been talking to online for the futurepast few months. Thrown into a war that spans millennia, the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villains, and stay one step ahead of a fanatical army…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>1683692349