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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WhelanMax Boucherat|title=The Box Last Life of DemonsLori Mills|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning a Box of Demons, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says on the tin. It contains three demons, of different kinds, that have hampered his concentration at school, caused no end of mischief he has had to take the blame for, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospital4. But is that all it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and for all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mimi Thebo|title=Dreaming the Bear|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's a typical teenager whose natural habitat is the shopping mall and the multiplex. It's, therefore, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible to adjust to living in a snowy wilderness without television, a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that she's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quickly. But it is this very weakness that changes her life when, exhausted, she stumbles into the shelter of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bear. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ross Welford|title=Time Travelling with a Hamster|rating=4

|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He livesWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, unknowinglyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, among a family of time travellerson her lonesome. His grandfather What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everythingone main intention, and could tell you what happened that is to log on every day of his lifeto Voxminer, and take himself back with his thoughts. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldworld-building, and critter-collecting game that is a snapshot of a sun that is remote both hit in time and spaceLori's world. But even harder to fathom is first Lori has a tiny inkling that Althis stormy night doesn's father is a real time travellert find herself entirely on her own, and is going to speak from beyond then she finds something even more spooky. For the grave, server she and her bestie and send Al nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on a true mission through timeher phone screen, one that will either save his lifeand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, or completely ruin all Al's forevers, for, er, for ever.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Anna and the Swallow ManRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Gavriel SavitCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=It's Poland in 1939. And Anna's linguistics professor father is about to be rounded up in I can hear the Nazi purge song of intellectualsthe sea. Knowing this is likely to happenThe call of the deep, he leaves her the answering beat in the care of a friend for the daymy heart. When her father doesn't return to collect her' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the frightened friend loses his nerve rocks and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous worldplundering the wrecks. Anna is just seven years old and will never see Mira, like her mother before her father again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Grant|title= Front Lines|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler , is pushing his way ever further, one of the USA adds its strength seven who swim out to survey the Alliance ruins – rescuing any survivors and women are allowed to fight in the military for the first timeany treasure that lies within. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in But when the war, Frangie Marr is desperate for Council Watch lays a way trap to keep her family’s heads above water end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill the man who is murdering JewsMira's father. All three go Desperate to war and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start togethersave him from death, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Courtney Summers|title=All The Rage|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In Mira makes a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, bargain with a teenage girl is raped. ''All The Rage'' wreck survivor who is as simple charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret thatlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and yet it is so much more complicated too. It touches upon as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the blame that is laid at heart of the victimsmuggler's feet; territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the ways in which survivors cope with the days future of her home and weeks and years after such an ordeal; the idea that, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you youones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonHarry Allen|title=Mind Your HeadChildren of the Sun

|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health Ra Eun Seo lives in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments available, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises North Korean town and she is written in a chatty but serious waytalented singer. Juno Dawson Life is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head hard and food is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure difficult 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 of the school running teamcome by, has a wonderful boyfriendso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, a great best friend looking for tree bark and she's all set to go edible grasses to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedy, Maisie finds herself in hospital in supplement the serious burns unit and without most meagre rations of her face. When a donor appears, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctors, parents and her annoyingly beautiful rice and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarring, she has no idea who she is anymorekimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How not to DisappearAlexia Casale|authortitle=Clare FurnissSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Hattie is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having rather to navigate a miserable summer. Both her best friendslife-changing disability too, Reuben and Nat, are away, living it up but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the south middle of France and Edinburgh respectivelya dance performance that was going to change her life. Hattie But she comes back fighting, meanwhiledesperate to avoid the pity stares, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at desperate to get back to a burger jointlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's hardly glamorous a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and it's very dispiriting just the day to be day traumas of all the one waiting challenges her body continues to throw at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho humher to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceSimon Fox|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=King Metabus had not been a good king and his escape Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached shift on the river he had to make a decision and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms force, and tied her to his javelinthen suddenly rings Archie, which demanding he threw across the torrentfetch something from a secret place, 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 join him on the forestrun. In nearby LaurentumThey get together, Acca had grown up hearing but barely begin to smell the story whiff of how Camilla giggled as she swung Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed of meeting herlate express to Brighton, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camilla's toting a tin his fatherwas determined to keep away from his colleagues, when and the girls became firm friendsbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperLex Croucher|title=A Dark TradeGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=At schoolWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. But at home Teva In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's life is about as far only female knight) - something that Art discovers from normal as it's possible to gether private diaries. Locked away And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house love with each other, when really they are eleven enabling their own other Tevasromantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates will they find a way in two with the new Teva going out in the world while the previous Teva is kept insidewhich they can both truly be themselves, trapped as her younger self.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewNick Brooks|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperPromise Boys

|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next to. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' Ethan, who When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is 14murdered, is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school career in a brand new townthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan Each, now Drewseemingly, is has a Changer, one of an ancient race grudge of humankindsome description against Principal Moore, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one for each year could have been there at the time of his time at high schoolmurder. Drew's parents But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are overjoyed at innocent, will they be able to clear their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=River of Ink 1: GenesisA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Helen DennisKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''Some people believe that when you drownt a bad lad, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in the river saw only bottles, driftwood and the dented licence plate so why is he running around London committing a series of a foreign car. Not his life. But robberies? And how did he knew for certain that he was drowninglearn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers.'' But River Boy doesnI't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on ll answer the banks of the Thames, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordlessfirst one: for his grandmother. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable 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 draws?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff Patrick Ness and Annie Prime (translator)Tea Bendix|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Different for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Despite the nameAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, there and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing masculine about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the island of Menos at football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they allgo back to primary school days together. Apart from As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a few male farm animals single-sex school can form, the talk in class and birdsout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, everything is feminine – the island as he doesn't know what his score is , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a rugged mountain landcasual relationship, home to only a secret one abbey where everyone is female, for several months now, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in three ages stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of lifewho he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. The novices there are on Life in the cusprural village where she lived with her family was happy, in several ways – of girls turning to womenif not prosperous, of students turning so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means for them starting village to practise offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it with a duty was an opportunity not to othersbe missed. And, of course, they are Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the border between the past that took them mini-bus to the abbey and what could come if they ever leaveHanoi. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famineOnly, Hanh and the inability other girls were not going to support themselveswork in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. New girl Jai, who has latched You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you to discover, in this trilogytouched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-opening fantasyworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilPatrice Lawrence|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high schoolBrave. Now they must decide what to do with Charlene, the rest 'heroine' of their livesthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Move to the city? Enrol at university? Get Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a job pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and make has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a life tempestuous personality may be in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not need of a career in art comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and comic books is possible. And if it the creation of one such item ispart of the plot here, as Charlene is it worth leaving a happy life wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a friendship group for? Ityounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a frightening choicestore detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Is she good enough? And in any casethen... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decidesonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Because each member of it has the same choice before them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Ann Sei Lin|title=Dangerous Lies Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Whisked into Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the witness protection programmeMidori, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside down. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend and forced a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to abandon both her friends drink and her identitymake merry between their conquests. Leaving city life behind However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her, that she's convinced there is no way a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she will be able desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to adapt come with him, to Thunder Basinleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, Nebraska. Butsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, thenbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she hadn't expected is forced to fall for flee out into the boy next doorworld. 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>1471125084</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtMarcus Sedgwick|title=Orbiting JupiterWrath

|summary=Twelve year-old Jack Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is informed that only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his parents will be fostering another boy foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – fourteen year-old Josephsaying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen yearIs this connected with one of her eco-olds. He's troubled: warrior parents saying the end of the rumour world is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teacher. And therealready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's something else about Josephdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, too: not when Cassie has gone missing he has a daughtercan't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardTori Bovalino|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 and Lucy Ivison |title=Never EversThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Two English schoolsWorking 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's headmaster, six 14 year-old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip to Franceman Tess hates. Add As a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video petty act of revenge for making her find and you have the perfect recipe for deliver such a lightlarge request, Tess sticks post-hearted it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and funny teen romancethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy HarperPhilip Reeve|title=Keep The FaithUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= The basics 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 plot here Scillies. There are that Faith is going troll people on a French exchangeit, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant to join her on. Meanwhile there's more boy troubleand sea-witches, while she's also trying and legends of the Dark family that has to juggle revising keep watch for exams magical islands and applying their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to become a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice in the minds keep notes of certain teachers!) The plot is never really activity from the main point of a Faith book though - instead itHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's a welcome way to catch foundling daughter, who washed up with out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of the best friendship groups in recent YA fictionprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Lucerin: IdentityJulia and the Shark|rating=3.54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Aiden Chase seemsJulia, on the face of it, to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing realour pre-world issues like bulliesteen heroine, homework and girls. He has no idea that he has Lucerin blood; the key to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time been packed off with her parents and even materialising solid items their cat from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable the family home in SW England to one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head of be lighthousekeepers for a group of powerful Lucerin who 'pull the strings' behind the world scenes. Initially a force for peacesummer, the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have the power to change all far NE of that and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malala Yousafzai|title= I Am Malala|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' is my OH's response to any mention of MalalaScottish islands. I can't disagree on some levelHere be Vikings, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girlkind of Scottish island. One voice among many. It's just that she decided Dad is going to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by be automating the Taliban there were people nearbylantern, doctors who got her to a hospitalwhich is his specialist thing, and then luckier still because when while mum will be leaving 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 This|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Frank Palp lives career in a dull, dystopian world, where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect of life, from the food algae behind to hunt the architectureelusive Greenland shark. So insidious are these changes And Julia, that no-one seems to have noticed themwell, apart from Frank. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem to she will be completely oblivious to the sinister nature of the world around them homesick 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 alone – until she suddenly finds company 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-matenight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E R MurrayJonathan Stroud|title= The Book of LearningOutlaws Scarlett and Browne

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony Smart's world Scarlett McCain is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt she didn't know existedoutlaw, Ebony soon discovers that her new home, 23 Mercury Lane, is full rejecting the draconian conformity of secrets. Discovering that she is part of an ancient order of people who have the power Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to reincarnatewander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Ebony is soon under threat from a terrible evil that threatens robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to destroy their existencekeep herself alive. With just her pet rat WinstonBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious book militiamen hunting them down, they plan to help herflee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, she they must figure out why her people are disappearing brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and how all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to save their soulsreach the Free Isles, and her own, before time runs out…but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonMercedes Helnwein|title=Boy 23Slingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=''Boy 23 isn't in My Place any more. He can't see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alone.'' Before being dumped alone in the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - Gracie Welles has lived in a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human resigned herself to being or been outsidelonely. His only experience As a secret illegitimate daughter of the world has been through a few short video clipsman with a "real" family, shown she is used to him on his Screen by The Voice not being a priority in My Placepeople's lives. NowBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in dangersolitude, people have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to the Low Countries, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinT L Huchu|title=Wolf by WolfThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= It's 1956. And Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a very different world bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the one youdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she'd expects been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Germany won World War II and However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Nazi project is in full flowcity's children. Lebensraum Soon, Ropa is expandingpulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. The extermination project has spread to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the United States world of magic is pursuing an isolationist policy, hoping Nazism never makes it to the Americas. The main Axis powers of Germany far bigger and Japan have pretty much divided territory between themmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. To commemorate a victorious war, Will she find the two powers host the annual Axis Tour, a continental motorcycle race. The previous yearmissing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it was won for the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as claim her brother Felix.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J RyanKristen O'Neal|title=Missing Dad: WantedLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=Joe is Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in big troubleconstant pain for the rest of her life. HeShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's been driving the car his grandfather bought him before he's even old enough , an online support group where she talks to take the driving testa bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. And been caughtThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Still worse, he's suspected When Brigid—one of a hit-and-run and the police donher closest friends—doesn't look as though they believe him when he insists he - and his car - were nowhere near respond to the scenechat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Mum is unimpressed but also worried She decides to steal her parents' car and Joe feels horribly guiltydrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. As if things couldnBut what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be worse, Joe is also suspended from schoolthe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1683692349

We meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. He's Move on his way to Camp Kernow, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Trey, this is the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes 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 simple: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever after.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|title=Once Upon a Place|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]