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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperMax Boucherat|title=A Dark TradeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Georgina FridayWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, known to everyone as Ginajust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, grew up on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in an orphanage a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and when she was sixteen went that is to log on to be a servant Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a big house hit in central LondonLori's world. There were seven members of But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the family server she and twelve servants - her bestie and Gina was the one at the bottom who had nobody else should be able to run about after everyone and who was the butt enter shows signs of practical jokestampering. She could cope with thatWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions of one of the young men of the family. She'd already heard the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to run away.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn Evans Rachel Greenlaw|title=More of Me Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=At school''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalthe 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. But at home Tevawhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's life father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is about as far from normal charming as it's possible he is secretive and with only coordinates to getguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Locked away in With only nine days to unearth what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house are eleven other Tevasmight save her father, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with as her journey takes her from the new Teva going out in watched streets of foreign islands to the world while heart of the previous Teva is kept insidesmuggler's territory, trapped as Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her younger selfhome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewHarry Allen|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next to. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' Ethan, who is 14, is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school career Ra Eun Seo lives in a brand new North Korean townand she is a talented singer. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan, now Drew, Life is hard and food is a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankinddifficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and he will undergo not oneMin go foraging every evening, but THREE more such changes - one looking for each year tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy rice and kimchi at allhome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisAlexia Casale|authortitle=Helen DennisSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=It''Some people believe s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that when you drown're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, your whole life flashes before you. The boy but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the river saw only bottles, driftwood and the dented licence plate middle of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain dance performance that he was drowninggoing to change her life.''  But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the banks of the Thamespity stares, something propels him and desperate to get back to St Paula life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's Cathedrala new (cute!) boy in school, where Reverend Solomon finds himher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordlessjust the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. After several days in hospital So even though she can't dance anymore, River Boy remains unable might she be able to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively drawssing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Simon Fox|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Despite Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the nameforce, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birdsthen suddenly rings Archie, everything is feminine – the island is demanding he fetch something from a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone is femalesecret place, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of lifejoin him on the run. The novices there are on the cuspThey get together, in several ways – of girls turning but barely begin to women, smell the whiff of students turning to SistersSouthern trains when the father is arrested, of people learning what leaving Archie on the religion means for them starting late express to practise it with Brighton, toting a duty tin his father was determined to others. And, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes keep away from a family that lost one daughter through faminehis colleagues, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from bearer of a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasywhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilLex Croucher|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide Who knew that what I really needed to do with the rest of their lives. Move to the cityread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? Enrol at university? Get But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a job most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and make a life in Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career in art and comic books is possible. And if it ismutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? Itin love with Bridget (the kingdom's a frightening choiceonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Is she good enough? And in any casethen when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because subterfuge of falling in love with each member of it has the same choice before themother, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. 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>1847156835</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Nick Brooks|title=Dangerous Lies Promise Boys

|summary=Whisked When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the witness protection programmepolice station as suspects. Each, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside downseemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend But who killed him, and forced to abandon both her friends why, and her identity. Leaving city life behind herif any of the boys are innocent, she's convinced there is no way she will they be able to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraska. But, then, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next door. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary D Schmidt1919635017|title=Orbiting JupiterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph Solomon Klyne isn't like most fourteen year-olds. He's troubled: the rumour a bad lad, so why is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teacher. And there's something else about Joseph, too: he has running around London committing a daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear series of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that robberies? And how did he's chosen learn to share with us a few of his wise words. crack safes? 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 ll have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered wait to get an answer to the secret of happinesssecond question because I avoid spoilers. PoohBut I's take on life is very simple and none ll answer the worse first one: for thathis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen Patrick Ness and Lucy Ivison Tea Bendix|title=Never EversDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Two English schoolsAnt 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, six 14 year-so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip muckers – in fact they all go back to Franceprimary school days together. Add As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a 15 yearsingle-old French popstar shooting 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 latest video achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and you have 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 perfect recipe for a light-hearted relationship and funny teen romancethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Candy Harper1800901232|title=Keep The FaithStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= The basics of 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 plot here are that Faith is going on village to offer Hahn a French exchange, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to join her be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was onthe mini-bus to Hanoi. Meanwhile there's more boy trouble Only, while she's also trying to juggle revising for exams Hanh and applying the other girls were not going to become work in a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice 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 minds of certain teachers!) legs? The plot is never really ones with the main point of a Faith book though artfully- instead itplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a welcome way to catch up with one of the best friendship groups in recent YA fictionquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsPatrice Lawrence|title=Lucerin: IdentityNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Aiden Chase seemsBrave. Charlene, on the face 'heroine' of it, this piece is extremely hard for some people to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bullies, homework characters and girlsreaders both. He Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has no idea that taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he has Lucerin blood; 's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the key to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time and even materialising solid items from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable to creation of one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman such item is head part of the plot here, as Charlene is a group wonder knitter, and is making something full of powerful Lucerin who love for her younger sister – a younger sister she'pull the strings' behind the world sceness allowed contact with no more. Initially 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 peaceme to say, the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have the power only to change all of that remark how sharp and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiAnn Sei Lin|title= I Am MalalaRebel Skies

|genre= AutobiographyTeens|summary= ''She's Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a phenomenon'' is my OH's response massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to any mention of Malaladrink and make merry between their conquests. I can't disagree on some levelHowever, but what this book proves is when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that on another she is just a girlCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. One voice among many. It's just He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she decided to speak louder than mosthas known. We know about Malala Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she got luckyis forced to flee out into the world. She got lucky because when she got shot by joins Himura aboard the Taliban there were people nearbyOrihime, doctors who got her a sky-ship whose express purpose is to a hospitalhunt down shikigami, 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.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMarcus Sedgwick|title=Anything That Isn't ThisWrath

|summary=Frank Palp lives in Meet Fitz, a dullyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, dystopian worldand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect of lifehe wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from the food putting his foot in it when he talks to the architecturehis best friend, Cassie. So insidious are these changesThey were half of a desultory school band, that no-but Cassie was also one seems to have noticed them, apart hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from Frankthe earth. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem to be completely oblivious to Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the sinister nature end of the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quo. The all-powerful is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she''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 s dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the only person who hates this oppressive worldtruth? Well, but one day not when Cassie has gone missing he finds a message in a bottle with a wish for ''anything that isncan't this,'' and goes on a desperate search for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mate...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E R MurrayTori Bovalino|title= The Book of Learning|rating= 4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony Smart's world is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt she didn't know existed, Ebony soon discovers that her new home, 23 Mercury Lane, is full of secrets. Discovering that she is part of an ancient order of people who have the power to reincarnate, Ebony is soon under threat from a terrible evil that threatens to destroy their existence. With just her pet rat Winston, and 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school'Boy 23 isn't in My Place any mores headmaster, and a man Tess hates. He As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she canthink of. They't see The Screenre never meant to reach him, he can't hear The Voiceof course. Boy 23 Her plan is aloneto get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them.No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn''t delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersBefore being dumped alone |summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the forest by The VoiceScillies. There are troll people on it, Boy 23 and sea- or Jesperwitches, as we shall call him - and legends of the Dark family that has lived in a room entirely by himselfto keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. He The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience to keep notes of activity from the world has been through a few short video clipsHidden Lands, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice brother Will who lives in My Place. Now, he finds himself alone London with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: too much science in his life is in dangerhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, people have been sent to kill himand Andrewe's foundling daughter, he must head north west to who washed up out of the Low Countriessea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, The Voice will meet him there both his sullen brother and explain everythinghis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Wolf by WolfJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's 1956. And Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a very different world from summer, in the far NE of the one you'd expectScottish islands. Germany won World War II and the Nazi project is in full flow Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Lebensraum Dad is expanding. The extermination project has spread going to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant and be automating the United States lantern, which is pursuing an isolationist policyhis specialist thing, hoping Nazism never makes it while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Americaselusive Greenland shark. The main Axis powers of Germany and Japan have pretty much divided territory between them. To commemorate a victorious war And Julia, the two powers host the annual Axis Tourwell, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felixshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J RyanJonathan Stroud|title=Missing Dad: WantedThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe Scarlett McCain is in big trouble. He's been driving an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the car his grandfather bought him before he's even old enough Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to take wander the driving testwildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. And been caughtBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Still worseWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, he's suspected they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of a hit-and-run and the police don't look as though London Lagoon. Together, they believe him when he insists he must brave man- eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and his car all the horrors of post- were nowhere near apocalyptic society to reach the scene. Mum is unimpressed Free Isles, but also worried and Joe feels horribly guilty. As if things couldn't will they be worse, Joe is also suspended from school. any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha CarthewMercedes Helnwein|title=The Light That Gets LostSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=At just seven years Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of age, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brother. He escapes the attack by hiding in a wardrobe. After thatman with a "real" family, he she is taken into care. We meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. Heused to not being a priority in people's on his way to Camp Kernowlives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, a work camp her simple existence is changed for recalcitrant teensgood. For TreyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, this is the realisation of for her life now has a longstanding plan - he believes boy in it that the man who murdered his parents works at the camp and he intends to find him and kill him. In Trey's mind, things are simpleshe never asked for: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever afterWade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)T L Huchu|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-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 Library 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 CriminalsDead

|genre=Teens|summary=Addison Schacht Ropa Moyo is a high school senior ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (that's sixth form if you're British) in Washington DC and a bit of a classics nerdScottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. His favourite book is VirgilEver since she dropped out of school, she's Aeineid - he owns three copies been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and reads from one of them every single dayher aging grandmother. He has applied to However, there's an evil stalking the University ruined streets of ChicagoEdinburgh, where he wants to study classicstargeting the city's children.So farSoon, so model pupil, right?The thing Ropa is, Addison pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is also a consistent truant far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and runs his own business - selling drugs bring an end to his peers. Hmm!this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 TessKristen O'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 SteadNeal|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 Lycanthropy 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 don't feel like Bridget anymore''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Here Be Dragons Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Few people would be happy living in a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way to charge your phone, no telly and no Christmas dinner. But when you’re sixteen, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearable. All Ellie wants is a regular ‘four-by-four life’ Having recently been diagnosed with four walls around her and four wheels under herchronic Lyme disease, all designed Priya has to keep her safe. But safe is one thing that Ellie’s not destined come to be … not from terms with the moment fact that she glimpses may be in constant pain for the strange boy through the mist and snow and sets rest of her heart on discovering who (and what) he is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Boyne|title=The Boy at the Top of the Mountain|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child in 1930s Paris he is going to have a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is a violent drunkShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', reacting badly to what he saw in WWI, and although married an online support group where she talks to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. That woman, Emilie, is going to die, They talk about their troubles and leave Pierrot an orphanhelp each other out, which will leave him in a home where he is bullied. But from the reaches of Europe and from the black corners of his family comes while also providing an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – she escape to just works there joke and had to ask special permission from someone specialmess around. The place? The Berghof.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert L Anderson|title=Dreamland|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several towns, moving with When Brigid—one of her mother as if pursued. Itclosest friends—doesn's always t respond to the same. She'd make chat for a friend and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy and the friend wouldn't talk to herwhile, Priya becomes concerned. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time decides to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep steal her safe when sheparents's doing this but when Connor moves 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 Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ellie, Charlie and Mum have left Inchwood Manor car and are headed home drive to London, where MumBrigid's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century house, 47 Foster Squareto check up on her. But it's not quite ''home'what she doesn' t expect to London. They're not returning to their old house but to another tiny, cramped flat. When asked why, all Mum will say find there is, "Ask your father."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Balkan a werewolf in the basement – and Sol Linero|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nation. People just don't seem that werewolf to have learnt about or be the girl she has been talking to other areas of 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 online for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 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 bookpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>1683692349