Changes

[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OneMax Boucherat|authortitle=Sarah CrossanThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's always been Tippi-and-Grace. Never Tippi and Grace. These twins can't be separated got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physicallybreaking eleven year old, tooon her lonesome. Because Tippi and Grace are conjoined twins. They have two heads What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, two heartsshe has one main intention, two sets of lungsand that is to log on to Voxminer, two pairs of arms. But at the waistworld-building, they come togethercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Life hasn But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't been easy - their father has lost his job as a college professor find herself entirely on her own, and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at then she finds something even more spooky. For the bank server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to keep enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up the health insurance payments. Medical bills are crippling and money is tighton her phone screen, so tight that the twins are going to have stop being homeschooled and enroll her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a "normal" school for the first time.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethRachel Greenlaw|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking Compass and FeelingBlade

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Meet ''I can hear the song of the brainsea. We all have oneThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. We all use it (and by 'it' I mean  Rosevear, a heck of a lot more of it than remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the 10% of urban myth) every second of rocks and plundering the daywrecks. We engage with different parts of it for balanceMira, catching a balllike her mother before her, memorising a list is one of moves in controlling 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 video game charactertrap to end the wrecking, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body language. Itthey capture the island's leader and Mira's such father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a vital part 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 bodysea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as her journey takes her from the watched streets of oxygen, that understanding foreign islands to the heart of it cannot come at too young an age. But in this varied and complex bookthe smuggler's territory, looking Mira must be determined to stop at a varied nothing to save the future of her home and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all timesones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimHarry Allen|title=The Astrologer's DaughterChildren of the Sun

|summary= Amber Lamont was Ra Eun Seo lives in a relatively ordinary 16-year-old, living a pretty quiet, uneventful life; North Korean town and she went to school, had is a part-time job, talented singer. Life is hard and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over the course of just one day everything goes completely food is difficult to hell. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon, a genuine, red-skinnedcome by, satanic monster, with horns so Seo and talons that can rip a human to shreds. Her demon side is the least of her problems, however. For Amber's parents are also demons, friends Nari and now that her powers have manifestedMin go foraging every evening, they are intent on eating her looking for tree bark and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on the run, travelling edible grasses to supplement the Demon Road across America in a desperate attempt to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets meagre rations of his ownrice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny DownhamAlexia Casale|title=UnbecomingSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Three women. Three sets It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of secrets about a dance performance that was going to be laid barechange her life.Katie lives with her learning-disable brother Chris But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and her rather controlling mother. They've recently moved desperate to get back to her mothera life that's childhood town after Katieas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's father got a girlfriend and a new baby. Katie(cute!) boy in school, a hardworking and dutiful girl, is halfway through her AS levels when everything - and I mean everything - goes wrong. First upmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Katie kisses her best friend Esme. Esme rejects her and, worse still, tells just the day to day traumas of all the mean girls challenges her body continues to throw at school what happenedher to navigate. They miss no opportunity So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to mock and name call. And then a phone call one night brings Mary into their lives...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200646</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskySimon Fox|title=The Red ShoeDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=They may be quite far apart, but three houses in a row in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people. In oneforce, a solitary old man of very few wordsand then suddenly rings Archie, shuffling to the end of his days, but brandishing demanding he fetch something from a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWIIsecret place, and with a gun in join him on the corner of his loungerun. In the middleThey get together, a family of five, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due but barely begin to smell the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone in whiff of Southern trains when the isolated time and locationfather is arrested, and their three daughters – one of whom has given up leaving Archie on school after an alleged nervous breakdownthe late express to Brighton, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbourtoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea bearer of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out a whole heap of the radioquestions. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Libba BrayLex Croucher|title= Lair of DreamsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people's secrets, she's a media darling. It seems like everyone's in love with New York City's latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'. But while Evie is enjoying the high life, her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois and Ling Chan will fight to keep their powers secret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maureen White|title=Butterfly Shell|rating=5

|summary=One of the worst kind of nerve-wracking days has arrived: Who knew that first day of Secondary Schoolwhat I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. As we all remember In this story, that's part scaryGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, part exciting for any girl (or boy toomuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, of courseyou see, but this is a girlsin love with Bridget (the kingdom' schools only female knight)- something that Art discovers from her private diaries. It's an age And then when you're anxious about making new friends and fitting Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in anywaylove with each other, but at ''her'' new school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim to when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a group of bullies. They call way in which they can both truly be themselves The Super Six which , or are they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Six.destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzNick Brooks|title= The Young WorldPromise Boys|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a mysterious sickness wipes out the rest of the population, 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 and a squad of heavily armed teens set out across New York in search of this cure. Along the way they must avoid gangs and cults, and brave the perils of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankind's future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenn Bennett|title=Night Owls|rating=54

|summary= Beatrix When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a serious girl; small and slightmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, considered and studious with has a quiet determination to follow her dream grudge of becoming a medical illustrator. Pretty and petitesome description against Principal Moore, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipsters, Beatrix knows that Jack is all each could have been there at the kinds time of boys she should avoidhis murder. Loose-limbed and slim with a slash of unruly hair that works for But who killed him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled , and has cheekbones you can hang from why, and when Beatrix meets Jackif any of the boys are innocent, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transit, her world is turned upside down. will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rupert Wallis1919635017|title=All Sorts of PossibleA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=''When the sinkhole opened, there was no time to break or turn the wheel, and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rim.'' Somehow, Daniel makes it out of the sinkhole and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father Solomon Klyne isn't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due to a severe brain injurybad lad, Daniel so why is released into the care of his aunt, a woman he has never met. There had been running around London committing a family falling out after Daniel's mother died when series of robberies? And how did he was just a baby, and since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult learn to trust her or open up to her... ... and therecrack safes? You's a lot ll have to open up about.|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 a lot, considering he wasn't yet in his teens when his journeys began. His mother is lost, leaving him wait to the less than tender mercies of his uncle, and after a strange incident in book one of this series he found himself travelling get an answer to another world. Even more bizarre, while he was there he encountered Naeo, his other half – not some jokey reference to a future wife, but the true second part of his soulquestion because I avoid spoilers. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katie Everson|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 Sachar|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tamaya isn't allowed to walk home from school on her own. And Tamaya doesnBut I't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking a "shortcut" through ll answer the woods first one day, she goes with him, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst to Tamaya, Marshall has chosen the route in order to avoid school bully Chad, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning : for nothing at all - but you know, that's how school bullies work. But lying in the woods is an even greater threat than Chadhis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|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 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>}}{{newreview|author=The Self-Esteem Team|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!|rating= 4|genre=Teens|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 a lack of body confidence? Shocking, isn't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>

{{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, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, but she now had sponsorship ''s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, andhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' s at uni. Such a new laser dinghy. Best tempestuous personality may be in need of all she had a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the letter from creation of one such item is part of the GB Racing Committee which confirmed that she was in the squad plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and was off to the Easter training camp at the National Sailing Academy at Weymouth. She was is making something full of plans to train harderlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, watch her diet and - she had then force people to admit - just a little bit pleased that give her two days off school, when she might shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not have for me to worry about exam results say, only to remark how sharp and university applicationspointy those knitting needles can be.. ''This'' was as good as it got.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899262261</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Meg HastonAnn Sei Lin|title= Paper Weight|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Stevie had a plan. A good plan (in her mind). But, as is often the 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 supervision, she doesn't have the resources or the freedom to go through with it. And it's all a bit annoying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404560</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Carl Hiaasen|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 younger sister and her fansaging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, The Lunarticstargeting the city's children. This book Soon, Ropa is especially pulled into the search for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and Cress more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and are desperately awaiting Winterbring an end to this evil, though or will it works as claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a standalone toobunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. According When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the publisher’s note Queen Levana is chat for a ruler who uses while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her glamour parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to gain powercheck up on her. But long before what she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and Cress, Levana lived a very different story- a story for that werewolf to be the girl she has never been told… until nowtalking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>1683692349