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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonMax Boucherat|title=Mind Your HeadThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. 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 server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The number call of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-yearthe deep, the answering beat in my heart. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services ' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and healthcare availableplundering the wrecks. Enter Mind Your Head.This Mira, like her mother before her, is a frank and accessible overview one of the issues facing young people with regards seven who swim out to mental ill healthsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. It covers But when the various types of illnessCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the treatments availableisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, how Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written guide her, she sets off in search of a chatty but serious wayfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you With only nine days to unearth what might have known before save her father, as James Dawson. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance journey takes her from the watched streets of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure foreign islands to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alyssa Sheinmel|title=Faceless|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Maisie is a normal high school student. She's the star heart of the school running team, has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend and shesmuggler's all set territory, Mira must be determined to go stop at nothing to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedy, Maisie finds herself in hospital in save the serious burns unit and without most future of her face. When a donor appears, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctors, parents and her annoyingly beautiful home and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky the ones she is... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarring, she has no idea who she is anymoreholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How not to DisappearHarry Allen|authortitle=Clare FurnissChildren of the Sun

|summary=Hattie Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is having rather a miserable summertalented singer. Both her best friends, Reuben Life is hard and Natfood is difficult to come by, are away, living it up in the south of France so Seo and Edinburgh respectively. Hattie, meanwhile, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings friends Nari and working at a burger joint. It's hardly glamorous Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and it's very dispiriting edible grasses to be supplement the one waiting meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceAlexia Casale|title=Queen of the Silver Arrow|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=King Metabus had not been a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached the river he had to make a decision and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her to his javelin, which he threw across the torrent, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with her father and ran wild in the forest. In nearby Laurentum, Acca had grown up hearing the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed of meeting her, but this didnSing if you Can't happen until after the death of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=A Dark Trade|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house in central London. There were seven members of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with that, 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 to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Evans |title=More of Me Dance

|summary=At schoolIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalbut that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But at home Tevashe comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's life is about as far from normal as itshe can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's possible to get. Locked away a new (cute!) boy in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house are eleven other Tevasschool, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with the new Teva going her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out in , and just the world while day to day traumas of all the previous Teva is kept insidechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, trapped as might she be able to sing her younger self.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewSimon Fox|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next to. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' EthanLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, who is 14and then suddenly rings Archie, is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school career in demanding he fetch something from a brand new townsecret place, and join him on the run. Imagine his shock They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethanfather is arrested, now Drewleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, is toting a Changertin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, one and the bearer of an ancient race a whole heap of humankind, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one for each year of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at allquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisLex Croucher|authortitle=Helen DennisGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=''Some people believe Who knew that when you drownwhat I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, your whole life flashes before youit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. The boy in the river saw only bottles In this story, driftwood Gwen and the dented licence plate of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowning.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on the banks of the ThamesArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, something propels him much to St Paul's Cathedraltheir mutual disgust! Gwen, where Reverend Solomon finds himyou see, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in love with Bridget (the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively draws?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translatorkingdom's only female knight)|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite the name, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all- something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Apart from And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a few male farm animals and birdsboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, everything is feminine – creating the island is a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone is female, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages subterfuge of life. The novices there are on the cusp, falling in several ways – of girls turning to women, of students turning to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means for them starting to practise it love with a duty to others. And, of courseeach other, when really they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leaveenabling their own other romantic attachments. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famineBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, 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 will they find a place even darker – but whose future might way in which they can both truly be more blackened by darkness is for you to discoverthemselves, in this trilogy-opening fantasy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Keil|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now or are they must decide what destined to do with the rest of live a lie their whole lives. Move to the city? Enrol at university? Get a job and make a life in 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 is, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? It's a frightening choice. Is she good enough? And in any case, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member of it has the same choice before them.|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 nerd. His favourite book is Virgil's Aeineid - he owns three copies and reads Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from one the dead of them every single dayEdinburgh for their living relatives. He has applied to the University Ever since she dropped out of Chicagoschool, where he wants she's been using it to study classics.So farsupport not only herself, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant but her younger sister and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peersher aging grandmother. Hmm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Mulligan|title= Liquidator|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemenHowever, 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 there's an evil spy? In stalking the secret laboratory ruined streets of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere wayEdinburgh, 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 targeting the only parental figure in their lives. Axel and Tesscity's mother died when Axel was bornchildren. Tess Soon, Ropa is just moving pulled into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over the care of Axel, who has inherited search for a rare form missing boy at the request of muscular dystrophy from his late dead 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 She will end up discovering an eight year old Bridget Barsamian, who woke up in hospital following a horrific occult library and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York traffic. Bridget is told by a nurse realise that she the world of magic is lucky to be alive far bigger and that more dangerous than she must have survived the accident for a reasonever could've imagined. Bridget, who has no real memory of Will she find the accident, has to miss a year of school missing children and on her return, tells everyone she now wants bring an end to be known as Bridgethis evil, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiKristen O'Neal|title=Here Be Dragons Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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