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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonMax Boucherat|title=Boy 23The Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=''Boy 23 isn't in My Place any moreI can hear the song of the sea. He can't see The Screencall of the deep, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alonethe answering beat in my heart.''

Before being dumped alone in Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the forest by The Voicewrecks. Mira, Boy 23 - or Jesperlike her mother before her, as we shall call him - has lived in a room entirely by himselfis one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of But when the world has been through Council Watch lays a few short video clipstrap to end the wrecking, shown they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him on his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Nowfrom death, he finds himself alone Mira makes a bargain with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life wreck survivor who is in danger, people have been sent to kill him, as charming as he must head north west is secretive and with only coordinates to the Low Countriesguide her, The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan Graudin|title=Wolf by Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= It's 1956. And she sets off in search of a very different world from family secret that lies buried deep in the one you'd expectsea. Germany won World War II and With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the Nazi project is in full flow. Lebensraum is expanding. The extermination project has spread watched streets of foreign islands to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant and the United States is pursuing an isolationist policyheart of the smuggler's territory, hoping Nazism never makes it Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Americas. The main Axis powers future of Germany her home and Japan have pretty much divided territory between them. To commemorate a victorious war, the two powers host the annual Axis Tour, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felixones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J RyanHarry Allen|title=Missing Dad: Wanted|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is in big trouble. He's been driving the car his grandfather bought him before he's even old enough to take the driving test. And been caught. Still worse, he's suspected Children of a hit-and-run and the police don't look as though they believe him when he insists he - and his car - were nowhere near the scene. Mum is unimpressed but also worried and Joe feels horribly guilty. As if things couldn't be worse, Joe is also suspended from school. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Natasha Carthew|title=The Light That Gets LostSun

|summary=At just seven years of age, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brother. He escapes the attack by hiding Ra Eun Seo lives in a wardrobe. After that, he North Korean town and she is taken into care. We meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. He's on his way to Camp Kernow, a work camp for recalcitrant teenstalented singer. For Trey, this Life is the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes that the man who murdered his parents works at the camp hard and he intends food is difficult to find him and kill him. In Trey's mindcome by, things are simple: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever after.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|title=Once Upon a Place|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-so Seo and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to me, is more full than usual of people, things her friends Nari and ideasMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached edible grasses to them. The places might not be supplement the famous ones, but they can be the source meagre rations of pride, rice and of stories, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about itkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam MunsonAlexia Casale|title= The November Criminals|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Addison Schacht is a high school senior (that's sixth form Sing if you're British) in Washington DC and a bit of a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgil's Aeineid - he owns three copies and reads from one of them every single day. He has applied to the University of Chicago, where he wants to study classics.So far, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peers. Hmm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Mulligan|title= Liquidator|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief as you enter the crazy, exciting and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulligan. You will encounter ruthless villains, non-stop danger, at least one near-death experience and a rather jolly lorry driver. Where does all this happen, you ask? In the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere way, way more dangerous. Work experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Yates|title=The Winter Place|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Axel and Tess live in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have a knight for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining and a good thing - because Sam is the only parental figure in their lives. Axel and Tess's mother died when Axel was born. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over the care of Axel, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late mother. Axel is, well, an individual child, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Stead|title=Goodbye Stranger|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamian, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York traffic. Bridget is told by a nurse that she is lucky to be alive and that she must have survived the accident for a reason. Bridget, who has no real memory of the accident, has to miss a year of school and on her return, tells everyone she now wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I donCan't feel like Bridget anymore''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Here Be Dragons Dance

|summary=Few people would be happy living 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 a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially when dance performance that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way was going to charge your phone, no telly and no Christmas dinnerchange her life. But when you’re sixteenshe comes back fighting, like Ellie Morgandesperate to avoid the pity stares, it and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can become almost unbearablepossibly manage. All Ellie wants is Meanwhile there's a regular ‘four-by-four life’ with four walls around new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and four wheels under just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her, all designed body continues to keep throw at her safeto navigate. But safe is one thing that Ellie’s not destined So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to be … not from the moment she glimpses the strange boy sing her way through the mist and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) he is. instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneSimon Fox|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child in 1930s Paris he Late one night Graham Blake is going to have a very awkward journey through late back from his young life. His father is a violent drunkshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, reacting badly to what demanding he saw in WWIfetch something from a secret place, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanjoin him on the run. That womanThey get together, Emiliebut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, is going leaving Archie on the late express to dieBrighton, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in toting a home where he is bullied. But tin his father was determined to keep away from the reaches of Europe his colleagues, and from the black corners bearer of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, whole heap of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghofquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonLex Croucher|title=Dreamland|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several towns, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then the rumours would start about how she Gwen and her mum were crazy and the friend wouldn't talk to her. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves Art Are Not in to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Spirit of London|author=Rob KeeleyLove

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=EllieWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Charlie Gwen and Mum Arthur have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home to Londonbeen betrothed since they were tiny, where Mum's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century house, 47 Foster Square. But it's not quite ''home'' to London. They're not returning much to their old house but to another tinymutual disgust! Gwen, cramped flat. When asked whyyou see, all Mum will say is, "Ask your father."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero|title=The 50 States: Explore in love with Bridget (the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Childrenkingdom's Nononly female knight) -Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nationsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other areas of the place , when really they call homeare enabling their own other romantic attachments. But while as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they get little sympathy from me when find a way in which they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would both truly be much harder for them if themselves, or are they actually lived in destined to live a large country, such as the USA. 50 lie their whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabel PitcherNick Brooks|title=Silence is GoldfishPromise Boys

|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers she's a Pluto and her parents wanted a Mercury or Venus, at least.'' When Tess the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is in her father's studymurdered, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secretthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Suddenly Each, for Tessseemingly, everything has changed. She decides to run away but chickens out a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the last minutetime of his murder. As her life falls apart But who killed him, and why, Tess retreats into selective mutism and her only conversations if any of the boys are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torch.innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Skuse1919635017|title=MonsterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=More than anything elseSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, sixteen year-old Nash wants so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to be Head Girl of Bathory School. Indeed shecrack safes? You's willing ll have to put up with almost anything wait to get an answer to the top jobsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But, just when sheI's poised to be awarded ll answer the role, everything starts to unravelfirst one: for his grandmother. Nash and a group of school misfits have to stay at school over the Christmas holidays and, trapped by the worst weather in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives. Not everyone is going to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Username: EvieDifferent for Boys

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens |summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school – for a trendy , and attractive girl, nobody at all is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems to have any time for herabsolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, apart so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bus. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house football team, and two other old muckers – after in fact they all, she must be a witch go back to live thereprimary school days together. ItAs they's not that she would wish to live therere all fired up, with nobody else aroundstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the memory of her deceased motherout often turns to sex. But luckily someone Which is choosing a place confusing for her –her father Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is able to put all , where his work into achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a cyber-world secret one, for herseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the E-Scapeladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, which is close to the perfect worldhe can't be sure. All And that remains is to programme 's mostly because of who he's been having the humans to be her friends, relationship and make the connection Evie has with them and them sex with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren ShanPatrice Lawrence|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Needle|rating= 43

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you havenmight perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriess allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah MussiAnn Sei Lin|title= BreakdownRebel Skies

|summary= From Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the start sky where soldiers of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand Empire come to drink and doesn’t let gomake merry between their conquests. She uses shortHowever, sharp, savage sentences to urge them when a man named Himura arrives to follow tell her protagonist Melissa on that she is a terrifying odyssey Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a relentlessly brutal world where only power sought after all across the meanestEmpire. He asks her to come with him, smartest and toughest surviveto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. It Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a horrific vision of monstrous paper spirit known as a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fearshikigami, poverty, corrupt militarisation and anarchyshe is forced to flee out into the world. Ravenous dogs roam She joins Himura aboard the streets Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and the stench a whole world of violence and sexual slavery is never far away. Melissa is blessed with beauty which some might consider a curse. Will she emerge into the light or be trapped in Hades forever?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMarcus Sedgwick|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Wrath

|summary=(By the way there are spoilers ahead – this Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is definitely a series only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to be read in ordergo where he wants and with whom he wants, starting but he cannot stop himself from [[Tesla 1 by Mark Lingane|Tesla 1]] ). Alone again now that Melanie has been killed, Sebastian makes putting his foot in it when he talks to North Americahis best friend, Cassie. Far They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from it being the land earth. Is this connected with one of promise it used to be, her eco-warrior parents saying the country is now an apocalyptic ruin, full end of people scavenging for their survival and the Infected forging world is already a path done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of worse-than-death and destruction. Sebastian needs to focus on his ultimate challenge as foreseen in a rather scary way but theremusic she's a small matter distracting him: whodreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's firing rockets at him?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1515000796</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaTori Bovalino|title=Fans of the Impossible LifeThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5

|summary= Jeremy, Mira and Sebby are very different people, each with their own complex and difficult issues, who find themselves inexplicably drawn together. Jeremy Working all summer in her boarding school's library is an artist, painfully shy and still struggling the last thing Tess Matheson wants to get do — especially when she gets a request for over the horrible incident a hundred books that ruined his last year of schoolshe has to deliver herself. Mira What makes it worse is cool and fashionable, but suffers from depression, constantly fighting against a sleep that threatens to overpower her for days on endthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Then thereThe boarding school's Sebbyheadmaster, flamboyantand a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, irreverent and charmingTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, but scribbled with hurt and troubles simmering behind his façadethe ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, and no family or support network of course. Her plan is to lean on. The powerful friendship get her anger out like this, and love that forms between then take them could save all off before delivering them from their broken selves. No harm done… Or it would be, but it could just as easily drag if someone hadn't delivered them all down togetherfor her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Courtney SheinmelPhilip Reeve|title= EdgewaterUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Lorrie may run with the big dogsIn a word, but right now she's more rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a muttpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Her mother is AWOL There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and her aunt is becoming more eccentric by legends of the dayDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. SheThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's politely asked to leave her sleepaway riding camp foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when payment fails to arriveAndrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and so she sets Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to sort it all outbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Again Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. It's becoming something of a habit this need Dad is going to act be automating the grown up lantern, which is his specialist thing, while the real grown ups fail mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to make hunt the gradeelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosemary HayesJonathan Stroud|title= The MarkOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54

|summary='She's his mark'Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Rachel's on But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the runLondon Lagoon. NaïveTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, homeless the cannibalistic Tainted and emotionalall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, she's easy prey. But for whombut will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miriam Moss Mercedes Helnwein|title=Girl on a PlaneSlingshot|rating=53

|summary= It's September 1970 and 15 year old Anna Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is on her way back used to boarding school not being a priority in Englandpeople's lives. Friends of But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her family joke about the recent hijackings but Anna simple existence is far more concerned about leaving changed for good. No longer can she spend her home time writing novels in Bahrain and their mongrel dogsolitude, Woofa. These worries are, however, wiped from for her mind when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas and diverted to life now has a disused airstrip boy in the Jordanian desert. Here they are forced to wait it that she never asked for days with almost no food and very little water while their captors issue their demands to the British government. If these demands are not met within three days, they will blow up the plane killing all the hostages: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443316</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire McFallT L Huchu|title= Black Cairn PointThe Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= Heather agrees to Ropa Moyo is a camping holiday with Dougie ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and his friends because a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's desperate been using it to get closer to himsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. But when they disturb a pagan burial site above However, there's an evil stalking the beachruined streets of Edinburgh, Heather becomes certain that they have woken targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a malevolent spiritmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. Something She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is alive out there in far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the pitch-black darkmissing children and bring an end to this evil, and or will it is planning deadly revenge.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OneKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Sarah CrossanLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=It's always Having recently been Tippi-and-Grace. Never Tippi and Grace. These twins can't be separated - and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physicallydiagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, too. Because Tippi and Grace are conjoined twins. They have two heads, two hearts, two sets of lungs, two pairs of arms. But at the waist, they Priya has to come together. Life hasn't been easy - their father has lost his job as a college professor and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at the bank to keep up terms with the health insurance payments. Medical bills are crippling and money is tight, so tight fact that the twins are going to have stop being homeschooled and enroll she may be in a "normal" school constant pain for the first time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth|title=Brain Twisters: The Science rest of Thinking and Feeling|rating=3her life.5|genre=ChildrenShe joins ''s Non-Fiction|summary=Meet the brain. We all have one. We all use it (and by Oof Ouch My Bones'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of the day. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction an online support group where she talks to body language. It's such a vital part bunch of the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an ageother teens living with chronic illnesses. But in this varied They talk about their troubles and complex bookhelp each other out, looking at a varied while also providing an escape to just joke and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all timesmess around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=The AstrologerWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's Daughter|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Horary Astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology in which an astrologer attempts t respond to answer a question asked at an exact time by the construction of chat for a horoscope around it. Clear as mud? Yeswhile, me tooPriya becomes concerned. Suffice She decides to say, an horary astrologer would have steal her parents' car and drive to be a very gifted individual indeed and Avicenna CroweBrigid's mother, Joanne, house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is such an astrologer. In fact, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers werewolf in the basement – and maniacally obsessed clients at for that werewolf to be the bad end of girl she has been talking to online for the scale to, well, worsepast few months. Sometimes ''much'' worse…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>1683692349