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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyMax Boucherat|title=Moth Girls|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The first seven weeks of secondary school changed Mandy Crystal's life. It was in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong and Tina Pointer. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Street. That was the last time anyone saw either of them – Petra and Tina disappeared, never to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' by the media, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had to live with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen her friends. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found it she'd told the police where they'd gone sooner? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Wallman |title=Lying About Last Summer |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Skye's sister, Luisa, died in a tragic accident last summer and Skye is still struggling to come to terms with both the events she witnessed and the loss of her sister. It's, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday for bereaved teens. She's up for anything that will stop her thinking about the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access to. Rather than erasing all thoughts Life of the past, Skye finds herself having to confront her worst fears. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alice Oseman|title=Radio SilenceLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= We meet Lori on the first evening she''School'' Frances is a single-minded study machines got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, with just one purpose: get into Cambridge. She's responsible, studiousan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and furiously focused on ticking all the boxes needed for her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a perfect applicationblanket fort, she has one main intention, boxes with no place for friends and hobbies. And this is the Frances that pretty much everyone sees. Only her mum knows there is more to her than meets the eyelog on to Voxminer, from her distinctive, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love for the wonderful podcast showworld-building, Universe Citycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. When But first Lori has a chance encounter leads to tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her meeting the creator of University City, Aled Lastown, and then she finally has a friend with whom finds something even more spooky. For the server she can genuinely be comfortable around, and celebrate all her weird bestie and wonderful quirksnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. However When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, when complications and secrets threaten to shatter this powerful friendshipher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, Francis finds herself at where is a crossroads, caught between her old secure path of least resistance, and the much scarier option of putting her true self out there and risking it all girl to discover what she truly wants. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian ConaghanRachel Greenlaw|title=The Bombs That Brought Us TogetherCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Charlie Law is fourteen. He has always lived in Little Town and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to be. There's no drinking. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard to get, which is a problem when your mum, like Charlie's mum, has trouble breathing. But even breathing is less important than keeping out I can hear the song of the way sea. The call of the Rascalsdeep, the Regimeanswering beat in my heart.'s enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sheila O'Flanagan |title=The Crystal Run |rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Running away from Rosevear, a couple of bulliesremote and partially forgotten island, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself in survives on luring ships into the strange world of rocks and plundering the Carcassian peoplewrecks. Suspected as a terroristMira, traitor or spylike her mother before her, he's attached is one of the seven who swim out to Kaia survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and sent to join her on any treasure that lies within. But when the 'Crystal Run' – Council Watch lays a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory trap to replace end the precious crystals that power wrecking, they capture the protective Carcassian shieldisland's leader and Mira's father. He really wants Desperate to return to Earth but save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he soon finds himself fighting for survival is secretive and forming with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a close friendship with Kaiafamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her mission and Joefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to find a way stop at nothing to keep save the future of her alivehome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nova Ren SumaHarry Allen|title=The Walls Around UsChildren of the Sun

|summary=Amber Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is an inmate at Aurora Hills, a juvenile detention centre reserved for the most serious young criminalstalented singer. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks Life is hard and food is difficult to us from the past come by, so Seo and she details life at Aurora Hills her friends Nari and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and the guards. One nightMin go foraging every evening, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the girls spend a glorious meagre rations of rice and dangerous night out of their cells. During this night, Amber has a paranormal experience, during which she "meets" Oriannakimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E DurrantAlexia Casale|title=Little Bits of SkySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Olivia - Vee It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and her brother Aidan are trying desperate to get back to Earth after a mystery virus killed everyone, including their parents, on their shiplife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's been a lonely three years and a dangerous onenew (cute!) boy in school, tooher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, as they've tried and just the day to avoid day traumas of all the dangerous and xenophobic Mazonschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But sometimes the Mazons So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be avoided and this is one of them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough able to launch a rescue mission.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterSimon Fox|title=A Seven-Letter WordDeadlock

|summary=Finlay has got more than Late one PROBLEM. He lives alone with night Graham Blake is late back from his father, who chain-smokes in between trips out to do odd jobs for peopleshift on the force, and seems to have reduced his worth to just one recipe since his wifethen suddenly rings Archie, Finlay's motherdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, vanished two years agoand join him on the run. Things are still bitter with him – he says she might as well be dead – They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the issue manifests itself badly with Finlayfather is arrested, and he has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads leaving Archie on the late express to no end of TEASING at school. His one way out, it seemsBrighton, is for toting a change an eight-letter word, SCRABBLE – he can hide tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the mismanagement bearer of words that his speaking implies he has over a set whole heap of tiles and can play a decent gamequestions. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine his love of the word game with his quest for the truth about his mother's ABSENCE?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordLex Croucher|title=When We CollidedGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jonah's father diedWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. His mother has locked herself away in grief In this story, leaving Jonah Gwen and his two older siblings Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to not only run their own lives but also take care of their three younger siblings. It's a lot and Jonah is grievingmutual disgust! Gwen, too. Unsurprisinglyyou see, he has fallen into the fog of depression. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi and her artist mother are spending is in love with Bridget (the summer in Jonahkingdom's town. And Vivi is bright and beautiful and vivid and amazing and ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonah's life like a shower of meteors and changes everything. But Vivi has her own problems...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Darren Shan|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12only female knight)|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!  Go on. Run along|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marisa Reichardt|title=Underwater|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Morgan has a post-it note in something that Art discovers from her apartment: ''1. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3private diaries. You are not dying''  And if you had escaped then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a school shooting aliveboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, you might need a note like this toocreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, right? People diedwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwards, Morgan's school closed for a while. Morgan started attending a new school but it was just too much for her. She retreated to her apartment But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, enrolled at an online high school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn't crossed the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then she's safe. And will they find a shut-way in's life has a rhythm. Morgan's day is predictable: daytime TVwhich they can both truly be themselves, online school, grilled cheese and soup for lunch, visits from her therapist. And Mom and little brother Ben or are they destined to liven up the evenings. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fallout (Lois Lane)Nick Brooks|authortitle=Gwenda BondPromise Boys

|summary=Lois Lane When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is an army brat with a history ofmurdered, shall we say, oppositional behaviourthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Or at least Each, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injusticeseemingly, that's all. And if something unjust is happeninghas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, she can't let it slideand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But this timewho killed him, and why, her nth time in a new town and a new schoolif any of the boys are innocent, Lois has vowed to herself that things will they be different. She'll be good. She'll keep her mouth shut. She'll fly under the radar. Heck, she might even make a friend or two.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=CrushA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Eve AinsworthKitt Townsend

|summary=AnnaSolomon Klyne isn's mother has left her father - and her brothert a bad lad, and Anna herself. That's how Anna sees it and although her mother wants contact, Anna so why is refusing it. It's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence he running around London committing a series of father and brother either: sherobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's fed up with them, tooll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. 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 But I'll answer the fact that all is not right with Anna and has signed her up first one: for counselling sessionshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tania UnsworthDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother Ant is in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house 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 full one of antiques four with both his best buddy from the football team, and treasures and hoardings - because Daisytwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's mother does like to hoard re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something out often turns to look at or investigatesex. Which is just confusing for Ant, as wellhe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, because Daisy and so has never gone outside effectively progressed up the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisyladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's mother keeps her secluded - sheset in stone, he can't be sure. And that's terrified of loss mostly because of who 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 family tragedy fashion designer. Life in her own childhood. Despite this, Daisy has a loving relationship with her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: rural village where she lived with her pet ratfamily was happy, if not prosperous, with so when the peacocks smartly-dressed man and rabbits woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the gardensmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and also with paintings and topiary and the other creatures of her imaginationgirls were not going to work in a shop, all they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the knowledge ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's being kept safe from The Crazy quite possible that once ran in Hanh and her familyco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RosePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=ElizaBrave. Charlene, the 's family isnheroine't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty of this piece is extremely hard for some people to marry well in order to repair the Camperdowne fortuneslike, characters and readers both. To this end Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Eliza is sent from and has taken up residence in her family home son Blake's old room while he's at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be educated in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the ways creation of noble ladies. Hereone such item is part of the plot here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too as Charlene is still a young girl. And from therewonder knitter, itand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's on allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to the Tudor court of Henry VIIIgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, who what exactly happens is currently married not for me to say, only to Anne of Clevesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyAnn Sei Lin|title= Defender of the RealmRebel Skies

|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir to Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the throne. He's awkwardMidori, bullied and always a massive dining hall floating in the front page sky where soldiers of the news for his latest mishapEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. His brother RichardHowever, as the papers love when a man named Himura arrives to remind tell her that she is a Crafter like him, would be much better suited someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the partEmpire. But when their father the King suddenly diesHe asks her to come with him, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer to leave the heir, he life of dreary servitude that is the king and with that defender of the realmall she has known. Together with an unlikely ally Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the anti- royalist Hayleymatter, Alfie learns his true heritagebecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, protecting and she is forced to flee out into the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows existworld... Suddenly all She joins Himura aboard the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparison. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needsOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, or who knows what will be left and a whole world of the country? adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K LarsenWrath|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 to readjust whilst living with his dad 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 has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 35

|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenagerMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He knows Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he's a mathematical geniuswants, to go where he wants and with whom he's already at university studying advanced theorywants, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he's talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the sole survivor of enigmatic – saying she could hear a train explosionsubhuman hum coming from the earth. With his father Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is dead and his last words to Cillian already a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole done deal? Is it some spooky new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Book kind of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction music she''Book s dreaming of Lies'' has all ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the usual themes -- confused sense of identitytruth? Well, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also not when Cassie has another element: the supernaturalgone missing he can't. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachTori Bovalino|title=Thanks for the TroubleThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Parker hasnWorking all summer in her boarding school't spoken s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a single, solitary word request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the last five yearsman who requested the books: Mr Birch. He hasnThe boarding school't started applying for college yets headmaster, either. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish and he spends as much time skipping school as he does attending classa man Tess hates. He has also developed As a petty theft habitact of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, which he indulges in wellTess sticks post-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, there are, but reasons don't help much.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=13 Minutes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you think about itnotes on each of the books, you can count several things 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]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email scribbled with the chance to read this title. You ugliest insults she can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes think of fame. They', considering that the Internet he would re never have known about just makes fame even faster meant to achieve than everreach him, and one of those social media starlets – as far as ''the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howland, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morningcourse. This utterly dramatic teen read Her plan is concerned with the fight for to get her to work anger out why she was in that riverlike this, although and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's mostly taken from the point of view of a girl on the edge of t delivered them for her circle, Becca.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimPhilip Reeve|title=AfterlightUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning riches in this story set on a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that a chance has to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teaguekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, rather than Sophie-where no ship dare sail. The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to get by. But before Sophie gets keep notes of activity from the chance Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to find outworry about such local yokel superstitions, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girlAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and dealing with his curious ward are thrust into the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge world of Sophie’s lifeprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Sara BarnardJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Caddy and Rosie have Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been best friends for years packed off with her parents and even going their cat from the family home in SW England to different schools hasn't parted thembe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. And this Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is the summer that Rosie intends going to be different. She'll get a boyfriendautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, finally. Perhaps even lose while mum will be leaving her virginitycareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And experience a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans Julia, well, she will be homesick and all that..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettJonathan Stroud|title= ElectrigirlThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= Holly Sparkes Scarlett McCain is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirloutlaw, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of lightning Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But 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 meets Albert Browne, a massive amount of electricity in seconds, dark boy with dark powers and a skill that candarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn they plan to flee to control itthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Her brother JoeTogether, an expert in these thingsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, decides to become her mentor the cannibalistic Tainted and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to good effect. They get reach the opportunity sooner Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they expect with are in the arrival in their town rest of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WhelanMercedes Helnwein|title=The Box of DemonsSlingshot

|summary=Meet Ben RobsonGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. He is haunted by owning As a Box secret illegitimate daughter of Demonsa man with a "real" family, 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 she is used to take the blame for, and may even have had something to do with his mother not being incarcerated a priority in a special hospitalpeople's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is that all it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the grand scheme of thingssolitude, and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose for her life now (has a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have boy in it out once and that she never asked for all?: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboT L Huchu|title=Dreaming The Library of the BearDead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Darcy's Ropa Moyo is a typical teenager whose natural habitat is the shopping mall ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the multiplexdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. It's, thereforeEver since she dropped out of school, not surprising that she's finding been using it almost impossible to adjust to living in a snowy wilderness without televisionsupport not only herself, a phone signal or wifibut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. It doesnHowever, there't help that shes an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quicklychildren. But it Soon, Ropa is this very weakness pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that changes her life when, exhausted, she stumbles into the shelter world of a cave magic is far bigger and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross Welford|title=Time Travelling with a Hamster|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He lives, unknowingly, among a family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everything, and could tell you what happened on every day of his life, and take himself back with his thoughts. His father knows the starlight at night is years old, 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 traveller, and is going to speak from beyond the grave, and send Al on a true mission through time, one that will either save his life, or completely ruin all AlKristen O's forevers, for, er, for ever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNeal|title=Anna Lycanthropy and the Swallow Man|author=Gavriel SavitOther Chronic Illnesses

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