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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Courtney SheinmelMax Boucherat|title= EdgewaterThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Lorrie may run with We meet Lori on the big dogs, but right now first evening she's more of got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a mutt. Her mother is AWOL blanket fort, she has one main intention, and her aunt that is becoming more eccentric by to log on to Voxminer, the dayworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. She But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's politely asked to leave t find herself entirely on her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arriveown, and so then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she sets off home and her bestie and nobody else should be able to sort it all outenter shows signs of tampering. Again. It's becoming something of a habit this need to act the grown When malevolent eyes spark up while on her phone screen, and her safe place in the real grown ups fail game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to make the grade.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosemary HayesRachel Greenlaw|title= The MarkCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary='She's his markI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a 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. RachelBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's on the runfather. NaïveDesperate to save him from death, homeless Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and emotionalwith only coordinates to guide her, shesets 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 easy preyterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. But for whom?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miriam Moss Harry Allen|title=Girl on a PlaneChildren of the Sun

|summary= It's September 1970 Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and 15 year old Anna she is on her way back to boarding school in Englanda talented singer. Friends of her family joke about the recent hijackings but Anna Life is far more concerned about leaving her home in Bahrain hard and their mongrel dogfood is difficult to come by, Woofa. These worries are, however, wiped from so Seo and her mind when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas friends Nari and diverted to a disused airstrip in the Jordanian desert. Here they are forced to wait Min go foraging every evening, looking for days with almost no food tree bark and very little water while their captors issue their demands edible grasses to supplement the British government. If these demands are not met within three days, they will blow up the plane killing all the hostagesmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443316</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire McFallAlexia Casale|title= Black Cairn Point|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Heather agrees to a camping holiday with Dougie and his friends because sheSing if you Can's desperate to get closer to him. But when they disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, Heather becomes certain that they have woken a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in the pitch-black dark, and it is planning deadly revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=One|author=Sarah Crossant Dance

|summary=It's always been Tippi-and-Grace. Never Tippi and Grace. These twins canhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you't be separated re having to navigate a life- and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physically, changing disability too. Because Tippi and Grace are conjoined twins. They have two heads, two hearts, two sets but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of lungs, two pairs of armsa dance performance that was going to change her life. But at she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the waistpity stares, they come togetherand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Life hasn Meanwhile there't been easy - their father has lost his job as s a college professor new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at just the bank day to keep up day traumas of all the health insurance paymentschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Medical bills are crippling and money is tight So even though she can't dance anymore, so tight that the twins are going might she be able to have stop being homeschooled and enroll in a "normal" school for the first time.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethSimon Fox|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and FeelingDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the brain. We all have one. We all use it (force, and by 'it' I mean then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of secret place, and join him on the dayrun. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ballThey get together, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction but barely begin to body language. It's such a vital part smell the whiff of Southern trains when the bodyfather is arrested, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygenleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age. But in this varied and complex booktoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all timesbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimLex Croucher|title=The Astrologer's DaughterGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54|genre=Teens |summary=Horary Astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology in which an astrologer attempts Who knew that what I really needed to answer a question asked at an exact time by the construction of read right now was a horoscope around it. Clear as mudgay Arthurian RomCom? YesBut honestly, me tooit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Suffice to sayIn this story, an horary astrologer would Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to be a very gifted individual indeed and Avicenna Crowe's mothertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Joanneyou see, is such an astrologerin love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. In fact And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers and maniacally obsessed clients at creating the bad end subterfuge of the scale tofalling in love with each other, well, worsewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Sometimes ''much'' worse…But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyNick Brooks|title=Demon RoadPromise Boys

|summary= Amber Lamont was a relatively ordinary 16-year-old, living a pretty quiet, uneventful life; she went to When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, had a part-time job, and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over three boys find themselves called into the course of just one day everything goes completely to hellpolice station as suspects. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon Each, seemingly, has a genuinegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip a human to shreds. Her demon side is each could have been there at the least time of her problems, howeverhis murder. For Amber's parents are also demons But who killed him, and now that her powers have manifestedwhy, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on if any of the runboys are innocent, travelling the Demon Road across America in a desperate attempt will they be able to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his own. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Downham1919635017|title=UnbecomingA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Three women. Three sets Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of secrets about robberies? And how did he learn to be laid bare.Katie lives with her learning-disable brother Chris and her rather controlling mother. Theycrack safes? You've recently moved ll have to wait to get an answer to her mother's childhood town after Katie's father got a girlfriend and a new babythe second question because I avoid spoilers. Katie, a hardworking and dutiful girl, is halfway through her AS levels when everything - and But I mean everything - goes wrong. First up, Katie kisses her best friend Esme. Esme rejects her and, worse still, tells all 'll answer the mean girls at school what happened. They miss no opportunity to mock and name call. And then a phone call first one night brings Mary into their lives: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200646</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Red ShoeDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a 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 the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=They may Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be quite far apart, but three houses in a row fashion designer. Life in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people. In onevillage where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, a solitary old so when the smartly-dressed man of very few words, shuffling and woman came to the end of his days, but brandishing village to offer Hahn a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and with a gun in Hanh was on the corner of his loungemini-bus to Hanoi. In Only, Hanh and the middle, other girls were not going to work in a family of fiveshop, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due they were to the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the isolated time ones with intricate embroidery and location, and their three daughters – one of whom has given up beading on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radio. legs? 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 ones with the blue in luxury cars, artfully-placed rips and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Libba Bray|title= Lair of Dreams|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. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? 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, quite possible that Hanh and her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois and Ling Chan will fight to keep their powers secretco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhitePatrice Lawrence|title=Butterfly ShellNeedle|rating=53

|summary=One of Brave. Charlene, the worst kind 'heroine' of nerve-wracking days has arrived: that first day this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of Secondary School. As we all remembermultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, thatand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's part scaryat uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part exciting for any girl (or boy tooof the plot here, of courseas Charlene is a wonder knitter, but this and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a girlsyounger sister she' school)s allowed contact with no more. It's an age when you're anxious about making new friends We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and fitting in anyway, but at ''then force people to give her'' new two days off school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim , when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to a group of bulliesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Six.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzAnn Sei Lin|title= The Young WorldRebel Skies|rating= 3.5

|summary= After Kurara has spent her entire life as a mysterious sickness wipes out servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the rest sky where soldiers of the populationEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the young survivors band together in small tribespower to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, desperately trying to rebuild their society leave the life of olddreary servitude that is all she has known. In New York CityWell, Jeffersonsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, reluctant leader of because the tribe from Washington Square, hears of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a potential cure for The Sickness. Soshikigami, he and a squad of heavily armed teens set she is forced to flee out across New York in search of this cureinto the world. Along She joins Himura aboard the way they must avoid gangs and cultsOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and brave the perils a whole world of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankind's future. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn BennettMarcus Sedgwick|title=Night OwlsWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Beatrix Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a serious girl; small only just over, and slighthe should be free to do what he wants, considered to go where he wants and studious with a quiet determination whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to follow her dream his best friend, Cassie. They were half of becoming a medical illustrator. Pretty and petite, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipstersdesultory school band, Beatrix knows that Jack is all but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the kinds of boys enigmatic – saying she should avoidcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. LooseIs this connected with one of her eco-limbed and slim with warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a slash done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled and ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has cheekbones you gone missing he can hang from and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transit, her world is turned upside downt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisTori Bovalino|title=All Sorts of PossibleThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''When s library is the sinkhole opened, there was no time last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to break or turn deliver herself. What makes it worse is the wheelman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rima man Tess hates.'' SomehowAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Daniel makes Tess sticks post-it out notes on each of the sinkhole and emerges to safety books, scribbled with just a few scratches and bruisesthe ugliest insults she can think of. But his father isnThey't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due re never meant to a severe brain injuryreach him, Daniel is released into the care of his aunt, a woman he has never metcourse. There had been a family falling Her plan is to get her anger out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a babylike this, and since then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult to trust t delivered them for her or open up to her... ... and there's a lot to open up about.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian JohnstonePhilip Reeve|title= The Mirror Chronicles: Circles Utterly Dark and the Face of Stonethe Deep|rating= 45|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Sylas Tate has been through In a lotword, considering he wasn't yet in his teens when his journeys beganrich. His mother There is lostcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, leaving him to British but way west, beyond the less than tender mercies of his uncleScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and after a strange incident in book one legends of this series he found himself travelling the Dark family that has to another worldkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Even more bizarreThe current Darks are the Watcher, while he was there he encountered NaeoAndrewe, his other half – not some jokey reference who has to a future wifekeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, but the true second part of his soul. The two worlds (ours, based on brother Will who lives in London with too much sciencein his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the Other, based on magic) were once sea oneday eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and it is his curious ward are thrust into the dearest wish world of the down-trodden inhabitants Sylas meets to unite them againprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katie EversonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= Drop|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novel, ‘Drop,’ is a tale of grief and healing, whirlwind romance Julia 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 SacharShark

|summary=Tamaya isn't allowed to walk home from 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 dayJulia, she goes with himour pre-teen heroine, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst to Tamaya, Marshall has chosen been packed off with her parents and their cat from the route family home in order SW England to avoid school bully Chadbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who has threatened him with a reckoningin the far NE of the Scottish islands. A reckoning for nothing at all - but you know Here be Vikings, that's how school bullies workkind of Scottish island. But lying Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the woods is an even greater threat than Chad.elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinJonathan Stroud|title=The Walled CityOutlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= In Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the walled city draconian conformity of Hak Namthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, there are three rules; run fast, trust no onerobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and always carry your knifea darker past. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lordsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisonedLondon Lagoon. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothelsTogether, evading the roaming streetthey must brave man-gangs as she goes. Mei Yeeeating wildlife, trapped in a brothel in the city cannibalistic Tainted and forced into sexual relations with all the twohorrors of post-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days apocalyptic society to accomplish thisreach the Free Isles, as but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents rest of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Self-Esteem TeamMercedes Helnwein|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!Slingshot|rating= 43

|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 Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a lack of body confidence? Shockingman with a "real" family, isnshe is used to not being a priority in people't s lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it?that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie T L Huchu|title=All My Secrets The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year old Evie Ropa Moyo is a normal teenager until ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a solicitor bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from Scotland appears on her doorstep with news the dead of a £10 million inheritance and a secret that turns her world upside downEdinburgh for their living relatives. ItEver since she dropped out of school, she's little wonder she struggles been using it to cope support not only herself, but her younger sister 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 beginningaging grandmother. At However, there's an evil stalking the same time as coping with her burgeoning attraction to two ruined streets of the boys on the programmeEdinburgh, she discovers targeting the island is linked to her family secretcity's children. Evie Soon, Ropa is determined to get to pulled into the search for a missing boy at the bottom request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the mystery, unaware world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the dangers that missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will bring for both her and it claim her new friends.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122212</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillKristen O'Neal|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary= Zero Hour has passed. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into a full on assault on Dracula's forces, the combined might of the supernatural departments failed to destroy the ancient vampire, and he has returned to full strengthHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, ready to strike at humanity with unadulterated violence. Secrecy is no longer an option as the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are real. Department 19 Priya has been through so much, shaken to its core by secrets, betrayals and losses. With the public eye now firmly upon them, the very fundamentals of the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst to the fore. Jamie, Larissa, Kate and Matt have always found themselves at the centre of the chaos, and despite each struggling terms with their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped them survive and even thrive within the department. Humanity's last stand will need them at their very best, will need every force fact that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it she may be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when in constant pain for the entire future rest of humanity is at stake. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julia Jones and Claudia Myatt|title=Black Waters (Strong Winds)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Xanthe Ribiero had won the area championships in her sister's boat, but she now had sponsorship ''and'' a new laser dinghylife. Best of all she had the letter from the GB Racing Committee which confirmed that she was in the squad and was off to the Easter training camp at the National Sailing Academy at Weymouth. She was full of plans to train harder, watch her diet and - she had to admit - just a little bit pleased that she might not have to worry about exam results and university applications. joins ''ThisOof Ouch My Bones'' 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). 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, online support group where she doesn't have the resources or the freedom talks to go through with it. And it's all 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 the wildlife bunch of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered other teens living with references to literature, folk legends, the ecological history of the area, the importance of conservation and the art of fishingchronic illnesses. Hiaasen's protagonists are vividly observed They talk about their troubles and fully rounded. Skink is an eccentric, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade with a n anarchic, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitude. He is a good hearted protector of the innocent, possesses an assortment of false eyes, wrangles alligators, battles storms, lectures on politeness and deals help each other out rough justice. His portrait is messianic and folkloric in places. Richard is plucky and loyal but is he in over his head? Malley is selfish, stubborn, smart, caustic, sarky and brave but while also naive, vulnerable providing an escape to just joke and susceptible to charmmess around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Garth Nix|title=To Hold the Bridge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= A collection When Brigid—one of 21 short stories loosely divided into six different categories, ‘’To Hold her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readers. It’s undoubtedly chat for a must-read book for fans of Garth Nix and these fans willwhile, I suspect, quibble with my four star rating and challenge me to add another starPriya becomes concerned. Those new She decides to Garth’s writing might, in turn, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature of the stories in the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jess Vallance|title=Birdy|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frances has always been a loner, quiet steal her parents' car and isolated, so when shedrive to Brigid's asked house to look after the eccentric new girl Alberta for a few days check up on her. But what she doesn't expect anything to come of it, only hoping that the whole incident will pass without embarrassment. The last thing she expects find there 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>}}{{newreview|author=Leah Thomas|title=Because You'll Never Meet Me|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ollie and Moritz can never meet. Because if they did, one of them would almost certainly die. Why? Because Ollie is allergic to electricty and Moritz has an electrical pacemaker inserted in his heart. Ollie spends his life hidden away in a log cabin werewolf in the forest - away from all the electricity that sends him into life-threatening seizures - with only his mother basement – and 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 that werewolf to school. Born without eyes, Moritz "sees" be the world through echolocation, like a bat. You might think that's miraculous, but Moritz just thinks it makes him a freak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886262X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz |author=Bernard Ashley|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's London in 1940. Most of the men have girl she has been conscripted and the East End is populated mainly by women and children. Josie and her friends are carrying on much as usual, though, grouping into little gangs and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thames. But then comes a terrible night of bombing. It's the start of the Blitz and 57 consecutive nights of bombing talking to online for the East End. The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity and the lucky ones make it out of the shelters in the morning, while the unlucky ones don't see another sunrisepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>1683692349

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