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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Max Boucherat|title=Dangerous Lies |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programme, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside down. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend and forced to abandon both her friends and her identity. Leaving city life behind her, she's convinced there is no way she will be able to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraska. But, then, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next door. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gary D Schmidt|title=Orbiting JupiterThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Twelve We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old Jack , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is informed to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Josephis a hit in Lori's world. But Joseph isnfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't like most fourteen year-oldsfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. He's troubled: For the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to kill his teacherenter shows signs of tampering. And there's something else about Joseph When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, too: he and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a daughter.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardRachel Greenlaw|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered the secret of happiness. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen Compass and Lucy Ivison |title=Never EversBlade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Two English schools''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, six 14 year-old friends 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. But when the Council Watch lays a ski / snowboarding trip trap to Franceend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Add Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and you have with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the perfect recipe for a light-hearted sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and funny teen romancethe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy HarperHarry Allen|title=Keep The FaithChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= The basics of the plot here are that Faith Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is going on a French exchange, which best friend Megs talented singer. Life is hard and food is strangely reluctant difficult to join come by, so Seo and her on. Meanwhile there's more boy troublefriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, while she's also trying to juggle revising looking for exams tree bark and applying edible grasses to become a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice in supplement the minds meagre rations of certain teachers!) The plot is never really the main point of a Faith book though - instead it's a welcome way to catch up with one of the best friendship groups in recent YA fictionrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsAlexia Casale|title=Lucerin: IdentitySing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Aiden Chase seemsIt'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 face middle of ita dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bulliesavoid the pity stares, homework and girls. He has no idea that he has Lucerin blood; the key desperate to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time and even materialising solid items from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable get back to one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head of a group of powerful Lucerin who life that'pull the stringss as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there' behind the world scenes. Initially s a force for peacenew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in day to day traumas of all the last few yearschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Could a boy like Aiden have the power to change all of that and bring harmony So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to the Lucerin once moresing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiSimon Fox|title= I Am Malala|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' is my OH's response to any mention of Malala. I can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girl. One voice among many. It's just that she decided to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her to a hospital, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to the UK for treatment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Anything That Isn't ThisDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Frank Palp lives in a dull, dystopian world, where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect of life, from the food to the architecture. So insidious are these changes, that no-one seems to have noticed them, apart from Frank. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem to be completely oblivious to the sinister nature of the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quo. The all-powerful ''Ministry'' has a stranglehold on everything and everyone, with each household having its own assigned student, who records everything and reports suspicious activity to the mysterious Mr Vertex. Frank thinks he is the only person who hates this oppressive world, but one day he finds a message in a bottle with a wish for ''anything that isn't this,'' and goes on a desperate search for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mate.
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{{newreview
|author= E R Murray
|title= The Book of Learning
|rating= 4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony Smart's world Late one night Graham Blake is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt she didn't know existedlate back from his shift on the force, Ebony soon discovers that her new homeand then suddenly rings Archie, 23 Mercury Lanedemanding he fetch something from a secret place, is full of secretsand join him on the run. Discovering that she They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is part of an ancient order of people who have arrested, leaving Archie on the power late express to reincarnateBrighton, Ebony is soon under threat from toting a terrible evil that threatens tin his father was determined to destroy their existence. With just her pet rat Winstonkeep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a mysterious book to help her, she must figure out why her people are disappearing and how to save their souls, and her own, before time runs out…whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonLex Croucher|title=Boy 23Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Boy 23 isn't Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in My Place any morea most delightful way. He can't In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alone.'' Before being dumped alone in love with Bridget (the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 kingdom's only female knight) - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in a room entirely by himselfsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of the world has been through And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a few short video clipsboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice creating the subterfuge of falling in My Placelove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Now But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, he finds himself alone with only will they find a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life is way in dangerwhich they can both truly be themselves, people have been sent or are they destined to kill him, he must head north west to the Low Countries, The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinNick Brooks|title=Wolf by WolfPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= It's 1956. And a very different world from When the one you'd expect. Germany won World War II and the Nazi project principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is in full flow. Lebensraum is expanding. The extermination project has spread to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant and the United States is pursuing an isolationist policymurdered, hoping Nazism never makes it to three boys find themselves called into the Americaspolice station as suspects. The main Axis powers Each, seemingly, has a grudge of Germany some description against Principal Moore, and Japan each could have pretty much divided territory between thembeen there at the time of his murder. To commemorate a victorious war But who killed him, and why, and if any of the two powers host the annual Axis Tourboys are innocent, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felix.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J Ryan1919635017|title=Missing Dad: WantedA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Joe Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is in big troublehe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. HeBut I's ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different 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 driving restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the car his grandfather bought him before he's even football team, and two other old enough muckers – in fact they all go back to take primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the driving testleash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. And been caught. Still worse Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's suspected of had a casual relationship, a hit-and-run secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the police donladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't look as though they believe him when be sure. And that's mostly because of who he insists he - 's been having the relationship 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 schoolsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Carthew1800901232|title=The Light That Gets LostStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=At just seven years of ageTwelve-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, Trey witnesses so when the murder of his parents smartly-dressed man and woman came to the grievous injuring of his older brother. He escapes the attack by hiding village to offer Hahn a job in a wardrobe. After that, he is taken into care. We meet Trey again years later, as Hanoi it was an adolescentopportunity not to be missed. He's Some money changed hands and Hanh was on his way the mini-bus to Camp KernowHanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work camp for recalcitrant teensin virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. For Trey, this is You know those jeans you really wanted: the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes that ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the man who murdered his parents works at legs? The ones with the camp artfully-placed rips and he intends to find him and kill him. In Treydistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's mind, things are simple: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever afterquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Patrice Lawrence|title=Once Upon a PlaceNeedle|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-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 and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, 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 it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Munson|title= The November Criminals|rating= 4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Addison Schacht 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 high school senior (thatpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's sixth form if youold room while he're British) s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in Washington DC need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a bit wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgilyounger sister she's Aeineid - he owns three copies allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and reads from one of them every single day. He has applied then force people to the University of Chicagogive her two days off school, where he wants to study classicswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then...So farwell, so model pupil, right?The thing what exactly happens isnot for me to say, Addison is also a consistent truant only to remark how sharp and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peerspointy those knitting needles can be... Hmm!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy MulliganAnn Sei Lin|title= LiquidatorRebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief Kurara has spent her entire life as you enter a servant on the crazyMidori, exciting and thoroughly silly world a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the new book by the fantabulous Andy MulliganEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. You will encounter ruthless villainsHowever, non-stop dangerwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, at least one near-death experience and someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a rather jolly lorry driverpower sought after all across the Empire. Where does He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all this happenshe has known. Well, you ask? In soon Kurara won't have any say in the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In matter, because the secret laboratory of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere wayshikigami, way more dangerous. Work experienceand she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesMarcus Sedgwick|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 StrangerWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget BarsamianMeet Fitz, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Bridget Lockdown is told by a nurse that she is lucky only just over, and he should be free to be alive and that she must have survived the accident for a reason. Bridgetdo what he wants, who has no real memory of the accident, has to miss a year of school go where he wants and on her return, tells everyone she now with whom he wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Here Be Dragons |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Few people would be happy living but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially it when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way he talks to charge your phonehis best friend, no telly and no Christmas dinnerCassie. But when you’re sixteenThey were half of a desultory school band, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearablebut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. All Ellie wants is a regular ‘four-by-four life’ Is this connected with four walls around one of her and four wheels under her, all designed to keep her safe. But safe eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is one thing that Ellie’s not destined to be … not from the moment already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she glimpses just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the strange boy through the mist and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he iscan't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneTori Bovalino|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child Working all summer in 1930s Paris he her boarding school's library is going the last thing Tess Matheson wants to have do — especially when she gets a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is request for over a violent drunk, reacting badly hundred books that she has to what he saw in WWI, and although married to a French woman, deliver herself. What makes it worse is still staunchly Germanthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. That woman, Emilie, is going to dieThe boarding school's headmaster, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where he is bulliedman Tess hates. But from the reaches As a petty act of Europe revenge for making her find and from deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the black corners ugliest insults she can think of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give . They're never meant to reach him a home, of a kindcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, at a most unusual mountaintop buildingand then take them all off before delivering them. ItNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's not t delivered them for her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghof.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonPhilip Reeve|title=DreamlandUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in several townsthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always British but way west, beyond the sameScillies. She'd make a friend There are troll people on it, and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy sea-witches, and legends of the friend wouldn't talk Dark family that has to her. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from time to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreamseven further west, where no ship dare sail. There The current Darks are rules that the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important worry about such local yokel superstitions, and thatAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousAndrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rob KeeleyJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=EllieJulia, Charlie our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to Londonbe automating the lantern, where Mum's latest ''Journeyback'' project which is renovating an old 18th century househis specialist thing, 47 Foster Square. But it's not quite ''home'' while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to Londonhunt the elusive Greenland shark. They're not returning to their old house but to another tiny And Julia, cramped flat. When asked whywell, all Mum she will say is, "Ask your fatherbe homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night."|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroJonathan Stroud|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=2.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to other areas of wander the place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as wildlands between the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history Seven Kingdoms of their ownBritain, their own famous places robbing banks 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 bookshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Annabel Pitcher|title=Silence is Goldfish|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers But then she's meets Albert Browne, a Pluto dark boy with dark powers and her parents wanted a Mercury or Venus, at leastdarker past.'' When Tess is in her father's studyWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secretthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. SuddenlyTogether, for Tessthey must brave man-eating wildlife, everything has changed. She decides the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to run away but chickens out at reach the last minute. As her life falls apartFree Isles, Tess retreats into selective mutism and her only conversations but will they be any more accepted there than they are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torch.in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C J SkuseMercedes Helnwein|title=MonsterSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=More than anything else, sixteen year-old Nash wants Gracie Welles has resigned herself to be Head Girl being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Bathory School. Indeed a man with a "real" family, sheis used to not being a priority in people's willing to put up with almost anything to get the top joblives. But, just when she's poised to be awarded the roledefends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, everything starts to unravelher simple existence is changed for good. Nash and No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a group of school misfits have to stay at school over the Christmas holidays and, trapped by the worst weather boy in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting it that she never asked for their lives. Not everyone is going to survive: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggT L Huchu|title=Username: EvieThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girl, nobody at all seems bit of Scottish pragmatism) to have any time for her, apart take messages from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the busdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house – after allEver since she dropped out of school, she must be a witch to live there. It's been using it to support not that she would wish to live there, with nobody else aroundonly herself, but her younger sister and the memory of her deceased motheraging grandmother. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for herHowever, there's an evil stalking the E-Scaperuined streets of Edinburgh, which is close to targeting the perfect worldcity's children. All that remains Soon, Ropa is to programme pulled into the humans to be her friends, and make search for a missing boy at the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be request of mutual, confirming, happy benefithis dead mother. But someone else has entered She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the E-Scape, world of magic is far bigger and their influence seems all that much more powerful dangerous than Evieshe ever could's tentative happiness…ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanKristen O'Neal|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating= 45
|genre=Teens
|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! 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 bunch 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. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}}
If you haven't read the Move on to [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first bookNewest Thrillers Reviews]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Mussi|title= Breakdown|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= From the start of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand and doesn’t let go. She uses short, sharp, savage sentences to urge them to follow her protagonist Melissa on a terrifying odyssey into a relentlessly brutal world where only the meanest, smartest and toughest survive. It is a horrific vision of a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fear, poverty, corrupt militarisation and anarchy. Ravenous dogs roam the streets and the stench 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>}}

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