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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marisa ReichardtMax Boucherat|title=UnderwaterThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Morgan has a post-it note in her apartment: ''1I can hear the song of the sea. Breathe''<br>''2The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. You are okay''<br>''3. You are not dying'' And if you had escaped a school shooting alive, you might need a note like this too, right?

People died. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwardsRosevear, Morgan's school closed for a whileremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Morgan started attending a new school but it was just too much for Mira, like her. She retreated to mother before her apartment, enrolled at an online high school is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and didn't leaveany treasure that lies within. Morgan hasnBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island't crossed the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then shes leader and Mira's safefather. And Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a shut-wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in's life has search of a rhythmfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. MorganWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's day is predictable: daytime TVterritory, online school, grilled cheese and soup for lunch, visits from Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her therapist. And Mom home and little brother Ben to liven up the eveningsones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fallout (Lois Lane)Harry Allen|authortitle=Gwenda BondChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=Lois Lane Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is an army brat with a history of, shall we say, oppositional behaviourtalented singer. Or at least, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injustice, that's all. And if something unjust Life is hard and food is happening, she can't let it slide. But this timedifficult to come by, so Seo and her nth time in a new town friends Nari and a new schoolMin go foraging every evening, Lois has vowed looking for tree bark and edible grasses to herself that things will be different. She'll be good. She'll keep her mouth shut. She'll fly under supplement the radar. Heck, she might even make a friend or twomeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CrushAlexia Casale|authortitle=Eve AinsworthSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=AnnaIt's mother has left her father hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- and her brotherchanging disability too, and Anna herself. Thatbut that's how Anna sees it and although what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her mother wants contactlife. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Anna is refusing it. Itand desperate to get back to a life that's not as though Anna sees this normal as some heroic defence of father and brother either: shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's fed up with thema new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, too. Her father is always distracted and he isdefinitely favouring little brother Eddie, who, as Anna sees it, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on just the fact that day to day traumas of all is not right with Anna and has signed the challenges her body continues to throw at her up for counselling sessions..to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnSimon Fox|authortitle=Tania UnsworthDeadlock

|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house is full of antiques force, and treasures then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and hoardings - because Daisy's mother does like join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to hoard - and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something to look at or investigate. Which smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is just as wellarrested, because Daisy has never gone outside leaving Archie on the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded - she's terrified of loss because of a family tragedy in her own childhood. Despite thislate express to Brighton, Daisy has toting a loving relationship with her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: with her pet rattin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, with the peacocks and rabbits in the gardens, and also with paintings and topiary and other creatures bearer of a whole heap of her imagination, all in the knowledge that she's being kept safe from The Crazy that once ran in her familyquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseLex Croucher|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware Who knew that her duty is what I really needed to marry well read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in order to repair the Camperdowne fortunesa most delightful way. To In this endstory, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Eliza is sent in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her family home at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hallprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, to be educated in creating the ways subterfuge of noble ladiesfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Here But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still will they find a young girl. And from thereway in which they can both truly be themselves, it's on or are they destined to the Tudor court of Henry VIII, who is currently married to Anne of Cleves.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyBrooks|title= Defender of the RealmPromise Boys|rating= 54|genre= Teens|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's When the right person to be heir to principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the thronepolice station as suspects. He's awkward Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, bullied and always in each could have been there at the front page time of the news for his latest mishapmurder. His brother Richard, as the papers love to remind But who killed him, would be much better suited to the part. But when their father the King suddenly dies, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer the heirand why, he is the king and with that defender if any of the realm. Together with an unlikely ally in the anti- royalist Hayley, Alfie learns his true heritageboys are innocent, 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 they be left of the countryable to clear their names? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Susin Nielsen1919635017|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voice. His family has been fragmented by the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses to talk about. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish, Henry is struggling A Thief to readjust whilst living with his dad in Catch 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 has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author= Richard Kurti|title= MaladaptedKitt Townsend|rating= 34.5

|summary=Cillian Solomon Klyne isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical geniusbad lad, so why is he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite running around London committing a series of robberies? And how above average he is until did helearn to crack safes? You's ll have to wait to get an answer to the sole survivor of a train explosionsecond question because I avoid spoilers. With But I'll answer the first one: for his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new lightgrandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Book of LiesDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalTeens |summary= Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'they' has re all fired up, straining at the usual themes leash only a single-- confused sense of identitysex school can form, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernaturaltalk in class and out often turns to sex. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited Which is confusing for Ant, as teenagershe doesn't know what his score is, having been separated at birthwhere his achievements in that regard lie. We follow their journey as they discover each other He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and reveal so has effectively progressed up the complexities of their shared familyladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilitieshe can't be sure. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints And that's mostly because of witchcraft, hounds of death who he's been having the relationship and family cursesthe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tommy Wallach1800901232|title=Thanks for the TroubleStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Parker hasn't spoken Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a singlefashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, solitary word for so when the last five yearssmartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. He hasn't started applying for college yet Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, either. Not that he'd likely get Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in: his grades are rubbish and he spends as much time skipping school as he does attending class. He has also developed a petty theft habitshop, which he indulges they were to work in virtual slavery in wellan illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you saying. touched them? It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, there are, but reasons don't help muchquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughPatrice Lawrence|title=13 MinutesNeedle|rating=43

|summary=If you think about it, you can count several things in 13sBrave. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous releaseCharlene, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email the chance 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to read this titlelike, characters and readers both. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes Kicked out of famemultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than everAnnie, and one of those social media starlets – as far as ''the hivehas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howlanda comfort blanket, was clinically dead for 13 minutesyou might perhaps think, before she was fished out and the creation of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morning. This utterly dramatic teen read such item is concerned with part of the fight plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her to work out why younger sister – a younger sister she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from the point of view of allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a girl on the edge of store detective, and then force people to give her circletwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, Beccawhat exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimAnn Sei Lin|title=AfterlightRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the life sky where soldiers of your parents is really all it takes the Empire come to drink and make your world fall apartmerry between their conquests. You might hope that a new beginning in However, when a different high school is going man named Himura arrives to jumpstart your life; tell her that she is a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie TeagueCrafter like him, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets someone with the chance power to find out, form paper into whatever she is visited by Evedesires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie He asks her to be her go-come with him, to girl. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she diedhas known. Eve Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a ghost shikigami, and dealing with she is forced to flee out into the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be world. She joins Himura aboard the biggest challenge Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of Sophie’s life.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Sara BarnardWrath

|summary=Caddy Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Rosie have been best friends for years he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and even going with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to different schools hasn't parted themhis best friend, Cassie. And this is They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the summer that Rosie intends to be different. She'll get enigmatic – saying she could hear a boyfriend, finallysubhuman hum coming from the earth. Perhaps even lose Is this connected with one of her virginity. eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And experience a Significant Life Event. But can Fitz find out the best laid plans and all thattruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettTori Bovalino|title= ElectrigirlThe Devil Makes Three|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 and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of Demons|rating=35

|summary=Meet Ben RobsonWorking 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. He What makes it worse is haunted by owning the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a Box man Tess hates. As a petty act of Demonsrevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, which like those TVTess sticks post-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says notes on each of the tin. It contains three demonsbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of different kinds. They're never meant to reach him, that have hampered his concentration at school, caused no end of mischief he has had course. Her plan is to take the blame forget her anger out like this, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospitalthen take them all off before delivering them. But is that all No harm done… Or it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might would 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 someone hadn't delivered them for all?her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboPhilip Reeve|title=Dreaming Utterly Dark and the BearFace of the Deep

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's In a typical teenager whose natural habitat 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 shopping mall Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the multiplexDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. It'sThe current Darks are the Watcher, thereforeAndrewe, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible who has to adjust keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to living in a snowy wilderness without televisionworry about such local yokel superstitions, a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that sheand Andrewe's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quicklyfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But it is this very weakness that changes her life whenAndrewe Dark drowns himself, exhausted, she stumbles both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the shelter world of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterJulia and the Shark

|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He livesJulia, unknowinglyour pre-teen heroine, among a has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a mind palace to store anything and everythingsummer, and could tell you what happened on every day in the far NE of his life, and take himself back with his thoughtsthe Scottish islands. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldHere be Vikings, and is a snapshot that kind of a sun that is remote both in time and spaceScottish island. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time traveller, and Dad is going to speak from beyond be automating the gravelantern, and send Al on a true mission through timewhich is his specialist thing, one that while mum will either save his lifebe leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, or completely ruin all Al's foreverswell, for, er, for evershe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreview|title=Anna and the Swallow ManFrontpage|author=Gavriel SavitJonathan Stroud|rating=5|genretitle=Teens|summary=It's Poland in 1939. And Anna's linguistics professor father is about to be rounded up in the Nazi purge of intellectuals. Knowing this is likely to happen, he leaves her in the care of a friend for the day. When her father doesn't return to collect her, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous world. Anna is just seven years old The Outlaws Scarlett and will never see her father again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Grant|title= Front LinesBrowne|rating= 54

|summary=1942: Hitler Scarlett McCain is pushing his way ever furtheran outlaw, rejecting the USA adds its strength to draconian conformity of the Alliance Surviving Towns and women are allowed Faith Houses to fight in wander the military for wildlands between the first timeSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the warBut then she meets Albert Browne, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants flee to kill the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war -eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start togetherthe horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, their paths intersect as but will they all take on roles that leave be any more scars accepted there than expected.they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney SummersMercedes Helnwein|title=All The RageSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=In Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, man with a teenage girl is raped. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as that"real" family, and yet it she is so much more complicated too. It touches upon the blame that is laid at the victimused to not being a priority in people's feet; the ways lives. But when she defends a random boy in which survivors cope her class with the days and weeks and years after such an ordeal; the idea thather slingshot, while it changes youher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it cannot fully erase what makes you youthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonT L Huchu|title=Mind Your Head|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 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 Library of illness, the treatments available, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson 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 is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alyssa Sheinmel|title=FacelessDead

|summary=Maisie Ropa Moyo is a normal high school studentghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. She's the star Ever since she dropped out of the school running team, has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend and she's all set been using it to go to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedysupport not only herself, Maisie finds herself in hospital in the serious burns unit but her younger sister and without most of her faceaging grandmother. When a donor appearsHowever, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctorsthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie doesntargeting the city't feel luckys children. Under this new face, with its heavy scarringSoon, she has no idea who she Ropa is anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=How not to Disappear|author=Clare Furniss|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie is having rather pulled into the search for a miserable summermissing boy at the request of his dead mother. Both her best friends, Reuben She will end up discovering an occult library and Nat, are away, living it up in realise that the south world of France and Edinburgh respectively. Hattie, meanwhile, magic is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings far bigger and working at a burger jointmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. It's hardly glamorous Will she find the missing children and it's very dispiriting bring an end to be the one waiting at home for the odd text this evil, or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline Lawrence|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 didn't happen until after the death of CamillaKristen O's father, when the girls became firm friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary HooperNeal|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 - Lycanthropy 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 Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=At schoolHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normal. But at home Teva's life is about as far from normal as it's possible Priya has to come to get. Locked away in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house are eleven other Tevas, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two terms with the new Teva going out fact that she may be in constant pain for the world while the previous Teva is kept inside, trapped as rest of her younger selflife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Changers, Book One: Drew|author=Allison Glock-Cooper and T Cooper|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next , an online support group where she talks toa bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Others worry They talk about who theytheir troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn'll wake up as..t respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned.She decides to steal her parents'car and drive to Brigid' Ethan, who is 14, is just hoping s house to wake check up in time to begin his high school career in a brand new townon her. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the But what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan, now Drew, she doesn't expect to find there is a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankind, werewolf in the basement – 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 allthat werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1683692349

But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on the banks of the Thames, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, 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 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 (translator)|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. Apart from a few male farm animals and birds, everything is feminine – 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 of life. The novices there are on the cusp, 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 with a duty to others. And, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famine, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched Move 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 you to discover, 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 they must decide what to do with the rest of their 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick |title=Dangerous Lies |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programme, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside down. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend and forced to abandon both her friends and her identity. Leaving city life behind her, she's convinced there is no way she will be able to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraska. But, then, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next door. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gary D Schmidt|title=Orbiting 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]