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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseMax Boucherat|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty is to marry well in order to repair We meet Lori on the Camperdowne fortunes. To this end, Eliza is sent from her family home at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to be educated in the ways of noble ladies. Here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while first evening she too is still a young girl. And from there, it's on to got the Tudor court of Henry VIII, who is currently married house to Anne of Cleves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby|title= Defender of the Realm|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person herself – no neighbour to be heir to the throne. He's awkward, bullied and always pop in the front page of the news for his latest mishap. His brother Richard, as the papers love to remind himbabysitter poorly, would be much better suited to the part. But when their father the King suddenly diesmother at work, ready or notjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, suitable or noton her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Alfie is no longer the heirshe has one main intention, he is the king and with that defender of is to log on to Voxminer, the realm. Together with an unlikely ally in the antiworld- royalist Hayleybuilding, Alfie learns his true heritage, protecting the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows exist... Suddenly all the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparison. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needs, or who knows what will be left of the country? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susin Nielsen|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen critter-collecting game that is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression and how ithit in Lori's who you are that matters not what you look likeworld. When we But first meet Henry he is in counselling Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voicethen she finds something even more spooky. His family has been fragmented by For the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to talk aboutenter shows signs of tampering. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living with his dad and her safe place in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but the road to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he game has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical geniusbeen doctored – well, he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he where is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words girl to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryRachel Greenlaw|title=Book of LiesCompass and Blade

|summary=Parker hasn't spoken a single'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, solitary word for the last five yearsanswering beat in my heart. He hasn't started applying for college yet' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, eithersurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Not 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 helies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish s leader and he spends Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as much time skipping school charming as he does attending class. He has also developed is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a petty theft habit, which he indulges family secret that lies buried deep in well-heeled hotelsthe sea. Oh dearWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parkerher journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's behaviourterritory, there are, but reasons don't help muchMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughHarry Allen|title=13 MinutesChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=If you think about it, you can count several things Ra Eun Seo lives in 13s. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous release, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]North Korean town and she is a talented singer. It probably took me 13 seconds Life is hard and food is difficult to accept come by email the chance to read this title. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes of fame', considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, so Seo and her friends Nari and one of those social media starlets – as far as ''the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha HowlandMin go foraging every evening, was clinically dead looking for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morning. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned with the fight for her tree bark and edible grasses to work out why she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from supplement the point meagre rations of view of a girl on the edge of her circle, Beccarice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimAlexia Casale|title=AfterlightSing if you Can't Dance

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes It's hard enough to make navigate your world fall apart. You might hope teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a new beginning life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a different high school is dance performance that was going to jumpstart your change her life; that a chance . But she comes back fighting, desperate to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teagueavoid the pity stares, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need and desperate to get byback to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But before Sophie gets the chance Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to find sort out, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to be throw at her go-to girlnavigate. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since So even though she died. Eve is a ghost and dealing with the dead who have can''unfinished business'' could t dance anymore, might she be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsSimon Fox|authortitle=Sara BarnardDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Caddy Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Rosie have been best friends for years then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and even going join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to different schools hasn't parted them. And this smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the summer that Rosie intends late express to be different. She'll get Brighton, toting a boyfriendtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, finally. Perhaps even lose her virginity. And experience and the bearer of a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans and all that..whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettLex Croucher|title= Electrigirl|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirl, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of the characters in her brother's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate a massive amount of electricity in seconds, a skill that can, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control it. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides to become her mentor Gwen and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival Art Are Not in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of DemonsLove|rating=34

|summary=Meet Ben Robson. Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? He is haunted by owning a Box of DemonsBut honestly, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says on the tinlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. It contains three demonsIn this story, of different kinds, that Gwen and Arthur have hampered his concentration at schoolbeen betrothed since they were tiny, caused no end of mischief he has had much to take their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the blame for, and may even have had kingdom's only female knight) - something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospitalthat Art discovers from her private diaries. But is that all it contains? The demonsAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in creating the grand scheme subterfuge of thingsfalling in love with each other, and where when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as a result might Ben end uptheir impending wedding draws ever closer, if the forces of good and evil choose now (will they find a wet and stormy February)way in which they can both truly be themselves, and here (North Wales) or are they destined to have it out once and for alllive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboNick Brooks|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 HamsterPromise Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Al ChaudhuryWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He livesEach, unknowinglyseemingly, among has a family grudge of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everythingsome description against Principal Moore, and each could tell you what happened on every day have been there at the time of his life, and take himself back with his thoughtsmurder. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldBut who killed him, and is a snapshot of a sun that is remote both in time and space. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time travellerwhy, and is going to speak from beyond if any of the graveboys are innocent, and send Al on a true mission through time, one that will either save his life, or completely ruin all Al's forevers, for, er, for ever.they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Anna and the Swallow ManA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Gavriel SavitKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=ItSolomon Klyne isn's Poland in 1939. t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And Annahow did he learn to crack safes? You's linguistics professor father is about ll have to wait to be rounded up in the Nazi purge of intellectuals. Knowing this is likely get an answer to happen, he leaves her in the care of a friend for the daysecond question because I avoid spoilers. When her father doesnBut I't return to collect her, ll answer the frightened friend loses first one: for his nerve and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous worldgrandmother.. Anna is just seven years old and will never see her father again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Front LinesDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is pushing surprised to find his way geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever furtherlearnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the USA adds its strength football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the Alliance leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and women are allowed out often turns to fight sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in the military for the first timethat regard lie. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the war He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way to keep her family’s heads above water several months now, and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill so has effectively progressed up the man who is murdering Jewsladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. All three go to war And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expectedthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Courtney Summers1800901232|title=All The RageStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a small townfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, where everyone knows everything about everyone elseif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a teenage girl is rapedjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as that Only, Hanh and yet it is so much more complicated toothe other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It touches upon You know those jeans you really wanted: the blame that is laid at ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope legs? The ones with the days artfully-placed rips and weeks and years after such an ordeal; the idea distressed seams that, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you felt so soft when youtouched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonPatrice Lawrence|title=Mind Your HeadNeedle|rating=53

|summary=The number Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of young this piece is extremely hard for some people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk aboutlike, characters and readers both. And mental health still hasn Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she't achieved parity s fostering with physical health a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in terms need of services a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This the creation of one such item is a frank and accessible overview part of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illnessplot here, the treatments availableas Charlene is a wonder knitter, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in making something full of love for her younger sister – a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. Sheyounger sister she's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to help give hertwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dournessthen... Because Mind Your Head well, what exactly happens is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure not for me to say, only to readremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyssa SheinmelAnn Sei Lin|title=FacelessRebel Skies|rating= 4.5

|summary=Maisie is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a normal high school student. She's massive dining hall floating in the star sky where soldiers of the school running teamEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, has when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a wonderful boyfriendCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a great best friend and she's power sought after all set across the Empire. He asks her to go come with him, to a good collegeleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. But when an early morning run ends in tragedyWell, Maisie finds herself in hospital soon Kurara won't have any say in the serious burns unit and without most of her face. When a donor appearsmatter, Maisie because the Midori is given destroyed by a miraculous face transplant. Her doctorsmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she isforced to flee out into the world... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new faceShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, with its heavy scarringa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, she has no idea who she is anymore. and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How not to DisappearMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Clare FurnissWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Hattie is having rather Meet Fitz, a miserable summeryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Both her best friendsLockdown is only just over, Reuben and Nathe should be free to do what he wants, are awayto go where he wants and with whom he wants, living but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it up in 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 – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the south end of France and Edinburgh respectively. Hattie, meanwhile, the world is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at already a burger joint. It's hardly glamorous and done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's very dispiriting to be dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the one waiting at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their livestruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Ho hum.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceTori Bovalino|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=King Metabus had not been a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the river he had last thing Tess Matheson wants to make do — especially when she gets a decision and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her request for over a hundred books that she has to his javelin, which he threw across deliver herself. What makes it worse is the torrent, pledging as he did so that he would serve man who requested the Goddess Dianabooks: Mr Birch. Camilla should have grown up as The boarding school's headmaster, and a Princess but instead she lived in man Tess hates. As a cave with petty act of revenge for making her father find and ran wild in deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the forest. In nearby Laurentumbooks, Acca had grown up hearing scribbled with the story ugliest insults she can think of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed . They're never meant to reach him, of meeting course. Her plan is to get heranger out like this, but this didnand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't happen until after the death of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friendsdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperPhilip Reeve|title=A Utterly 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 Face 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 Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At schoolIn a word, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalrich. But at home Teva's life There is about as far from normal as certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it's possible , and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to getkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Locked away in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house The current Darks are eleven other Tevasthe Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates his brother Will who lives in two London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the new Teva going out in 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 while the previous Teva is kept insideof protecting their island, trapped as her younger selflike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper Julia and T Cooperthe Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England tobe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Others worry about who they'll wake up as Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island...'' Ethan, who Dad is 14going to be automating the lantern, which is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in a brand new town. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRLalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan And Julia, now Drew, is a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankindwell, she will be homesick and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - alone – until she suddenly finds company 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 allnight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Helen DennisThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Some people believe that when you drownScarlett McCain is an outlaw, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in rejecting the draconian conformity of the river saw only bottles, driftwood Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the dented licence plate wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of a foreign car. Not his lifeBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But he knew for certain that he was drowningthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the banks mythical Free Isles of the ThamesLondon Lagoon. Together, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedralthey must brave man-eating wildlife, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wildthe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable apocalyptic society to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in reach the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the strange signs he obsessively drawsrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Mercedes Helnwein|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Slingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Despite the name, there is nothing masculine about the island Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birdsman with a "real" family, everything is feminine – the island she is a rugged mountain land, home used to only one abbey where everyone is female, and worshipping not being a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess priority in three ages of lifepeople's lives. The novices there are on the cusp, But when she defends a random boy in several ways – of girls turning to womenher class with her slingshot, of students turning to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means her simple existence is changed for them starting to practise it with a duty to othersgood. AndNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, 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 from a family that lost one daughter through famine, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like for her shadow to learn the ropes, life now has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is boy in it that she never asked for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilT L Huchu|title=The Incredible Adventures Library of Cinnamon Girlthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alba Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide what a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to do with take messages from the rest dead of Edinburgh for their livesliving relatives. Move Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to the city? Enrol at university? Get a job and make a life in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba support not only herself must decide whether or not a career in art , but her younger sister and comic books is possibleher aging grandmother. And if it isHowever, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? Itthere's a frightening choice. Is she good enough? And in any case, an evil stalking the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member ruined streets of it has Edinburgh, targeting the same choice before themcity's children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick |title=Dangerous Lies |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Whisked Soon, Ropa is pulled into the witness protection programme, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside downsearch for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend will end up discovering an occult library and forced to abandon both her friends realise that the world of magic is far bigger and her identity. Leaving city life behind her, more dangerous than sheever could's convinced there is no way ve imagined. Will she will be able find the missing children and bring an end to adapt to Thunder Basinthis evil, Nebraska. But, then, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next door. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D Schmidt|title=Orbiting Jupiter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen year-olds. He's troubled: the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teacher. And there's something else about Joseph, too: he has 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 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. PoohKristen O's take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison Neal|title=Never Evers|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Two English schools, six 14 year-old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip to France. Add a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video Lycanthropy and you have the perfect recipe for a light-hearted and funny teen romance. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Candy Harper|title=Keep The FaithOther Chronic Illnesses

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