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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsLeanne Egan|title= Things A Bright Girl Can Do|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''Things a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells the story of three teenage girls, all of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgrounds. There's Evelyn, an upper-class girl expected to marry at a young age, May, a middle-class girl with an opinionated Mother, and Nell, a working-class girl who does what she can to help her large family scrape by. The novel chronicles both their contributions to the fight for suffrage, and the way their lives change when World War One begins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title= InvictusLover Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= It's the 24th century and human beings have cracked the secret of time travel. Farway Gaius McCarthy is 17 and dreams of following in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined to track down Empra, who disappeared on a mission when her son was just 7. But Farway tanks his final exam and his ambitions seem crushed. He's given another chance by Lux, a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder the past of its artifacts - artifacts that fetch fortunes in credits in the Central Time world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M A Bennett|title= S.T.A.G.S|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''One weekend. Three deadly activities''. Greer MacDonald is a new student at the prestigious St Aidan the Great Boarding School, known to its exclusive pupils as S.T.A.G.S. It is a school where technology is absent, the teachers are replaced by friars, and a group of elite students –known as the Medievals – run the school. When Greer inexplicably receives an invitation from the Medievals to spend a weekend at the stately home of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular boy at school, she is too curious decline such an invitation. But little does Greer realise that there is more to the weekend than she initially understands. Ultimately she and the other two students who have been invited must come together to uncover the truth about the infamous Medievals, and the blood sports they have been chosen to take part in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ruth Lauren|title=Prisoner of Ice and Snow|rating=4

|summary= Valor is under arrest for the attempted assassination of AnatolWhen new girl, Isabel, Demidovamoves to Lou's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - a brutal prison constructed hometown of stone and ice...... itLiverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's not sounding too great disdain for Valoreverything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, is it? But the thing isbut Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and shethat's even prepared to risk definitely because Isabel makes her parentsfeel so cross, isn' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve t it. ? Because Valor's sister Sasha Lou is already in Tyurstraight, isn'ma - accused t she? Even though none of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing a peace treaty between Demidova her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced good kiss with any of her sister's innocence them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and intends wanting to break hang out with her out.because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LingAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Glow of Fallen StarsWild East|rating=4.5

|summary='Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The Glow of Fallen Stars'move is initiated by Ronny' s mum who is the second book in Kate Lingworried for Ronny's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of the first instalment [[The Loneliness trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]being a rapper. Seren and Dom But now, in this new school, together with Ezra his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and Mariana, have escaped the Venturaslowly, Ronny begins to see the spaceship on which they have spent their whole livesconnections between rap and poetry, and crash landed on the planet Huxley 3. At last, they are away from the stifling authoritarianism power of life on board the ship creativity and free to pursue their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real landcrafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe SeagerJenny Valentine|title=Editing EmmaUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary=Emma Nash Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions that come with this ageonce in a lifetime connection. When the love of her life ''ghosts'' her (i.e. breaks up with her by acting They meet as if she doesnchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't exist), she spends get each other's contact details at the summer moping in her pyjamastime. However But then chance brings them back together, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form and a resolution to make some important ''edits'' to her lifethey are inseparable. This includes e-tweaking herself with disastrous Something has happened though, something terrible and often hilarioustragic, consequences. The whole experiment is recorded in Emma's private blog: a blog that she might just regret ever writingand now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vicki GrantMax Boucherat|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About YouThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''Two random strangers. Thirty-six questions guaranteed s got the house to herself – no neighbour to make them fall pop in love, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What's not to likecould possibly go wrong?'' Based Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on a psychological theoryto Voxminer, Grant's novel explores the concept world-building, critter-collecting game that love can be engineered by using thirty-six is a hit in Lori''simple'' questionss world. Questions such as ''What would constitute But first Lori has a perfect day?tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'' or ''When did you last sing to yourself? To someone t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else?'' are designed should be able to reveal the souls and characters enter shows signs of both participantstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, enabling them to form a deep connection with a stranger. In a modern world dominated by technologyand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, this face to face interaction where is performed a girl to test whether genuine human interaction can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reservedturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattRachel Greenlaw|title= Truth or DareCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary= After an accident leaves his brother, Kam, with severe neurodisability, it's obvious that 'I can hear the lives song of Sef and his family will never be the same againsea. Plagued by feelings The call of guilt and struggling to cope, Sef turns all his attention to the only way that he might be able to help - money. In an attempt to raise funds for his brother's care, he enlists the help of Claire. As a volunteer at the facility looking after Kam, she's the only person from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation is, and how important it is to get the funding that he needs. Aided by Claire's equipment and YouTube know-howdeep, the two create a channel where their alter-egos, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their cause. However, £60,000 is no small amount, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy feat. Just how far are they willing to go for their cause? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=High Spirits (Spirits 4)|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Millions of people will die answering beat in the war, Ellie. And it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easymy heart.''

And if that's not ominousRosevear, I don't know what is. It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her frienda remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do rocks and live a normal, boring, human life. Mum is still working for plundering the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longerwrecks. Money is tight and MumMira, as everlike her mother before her, is stressed. Dad got compensation for his accident, so he is living one of the life of Riley. He's eager seven who swim out to help out but Mum won't hear of itsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. And Ellie has But when the Council Watch lays a romantic interest in Luke. All in alltrap to end the wrecking, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting of timelines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gwyneth Rees|title=Libby in capture the Middle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sister, Bellaisland's leader and Mira's father. Bella used Desperate to be save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a real confidante wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to Libby but things have changed since guide her, she got sets off in search of a boyfriend. Now, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries family secret that it will never come backlies buried deep in the sea. Libby also has a younger sister, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems With only nine days to Libby that Graceunearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the baby watched streets of foreign islands to the familyheart of the smuggler's territory, commands all Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the parental love future of her home and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her ownones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonHarry Allen|title=FreshersChildren of the Sun

|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, Ra Eun Seo lives in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want to become. Going to university a North Korean town and she is a monumental transitiontalented singer. For some, it's an escape. A chance Life is hard and food is difficult to start anew. A freedom of the sort that you'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you forever. Howevercome by, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people so Seo and the pressure to make new her friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adultsNari and Min go foraging every evening, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, very quickly. Phoebe looking for tree bark and Luke went edible grasses to supplement the same high school, but never really floated in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness meagre rations of Fresher's week, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messy, intense rice and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forget. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Livingstone|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of Peril|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back kimchi at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book reviewhome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophie McKenzieAlexia Casale|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Carey and Amelia are best friends, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreak, a malicious online account, begins to abuse Amelia. To make matters worse, the police soon find evidence that Carey was the one who sent the messages. Soon everyone, even Amelia, is convinced of CareySing if you Can's guilt. Only her sister, Poppy, accepts her innocence. When the online threats spill over into real life, Carey is determined to discover who is framing her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Heathfield|title= Flight of a Starlingt Dance

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a double act as a trapeze act life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the travelling circus middle of a dance performance that forms a backdrop was going to their liveschange her life. Always on But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the movepity stares, travelling from one place and desperate to get back to another, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever knowna life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. The sisters are surrounded by Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the love day to day traumas of their family and all the close friends who make up the other circus actschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Their lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boy So even though she can't dance anymore, a special boy named Dean. Their growing friendship, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon CohenSimon Fox|title=The Starman and MeDeadlock

|summary=''He wasn't an alienLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, I was sure of that. It was more like demanding he'd walked in through an ancient door fetch something from the past... except he was herea secret place, in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real join him on Planet Earththe run.'' Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when he spied a tiny human the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a roundabout near tin his father was determined to keep away from his house. But he wasn't. Rorty Thrutch is as real as you or me. But how did Rorty come to be hiding out in colleagues, and the middle bearer of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that he'll soon be ''bad dead''? whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrenceLex Croucher|title=Indigo DonutGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=''In Bailey's opinionWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Indigo didn't look like she needed it lifted my spirits in a heromost delightful way. One by one In this story, she looked MonaGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Saskiamuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, Betti and Kay you see, is in love with Bridget (the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' Thatkingdom's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious only female knight) - something that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes Art discovers from herprivate diaries. And that's then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the least subterfuge of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her motherfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsNick Brooks|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= ''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And it's a great response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Shvarts|title= Royal Bastards|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdom. Royal plots, magic, adventure and a rich culture to immerse yourself in. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=No Filter|author=Orlagh CollinsPromise Boys

|summary=Em - Emerald - When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have sent her to a posh private schoolbeen there at the time of his murder. She's friends with all the right people But who killed him, and why, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness and light in Em's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in the crosshairs if any of the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There boys are secrets at home about to turn from secret to open crisis. And when Em's mother overdosesinnocent, the dominoes start will they be able to topple.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Hayley Long1919635017|title= The Nearest Faraway Place|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthday, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in A Thief to Catch a road accident. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brother, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Clementine Beauvais|title=PiglettesKitt Townsend

|summary=The results are in – and for the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in school, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathySolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Mireille so why is at first too hard-hearted he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to give a damn, for angry self-defence is her default modethe second question because I avoid spoilers. But soon all three medallists in I'll answer the unwanted competition form a trio, and all three see a reason to go and gatecrash the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – first one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored : for a major military honour in favour of his ex-superior, who should instead be getting hauled over the coals and not applauded; and for Mireille, the reason is that the President's husband is her natural birth father, and has never acknowledged her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Love & GelatoDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' Ant is in hope of Year Eleven at quite a light-hearted summery readstandard 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 an added draw being that both his best buddy from the action takes place football team, and two other old muckers – in Italyfact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a favourite country of minesingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and thatout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn's exactly t know what I gothis score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. The novel tells the story of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother He's wish by spending had a casual relationship, a summer in Tuscanysecret one, conveniently staying just outside of Florencefor several months now, getting to know and so has effectively progressed up the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest ladder headed by a journal her Mom left her'experienced', documenting the year she met Linabut whether that's father whilst studying photography set in Florencestone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summaryisbn=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years ago, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1800901232|title=The Ethan I Was BeforeStitched Up|author=Ali Standish|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ethan and his family are moving to a little town in Georgia from the big city of Boston in a last ditch attempt to help Ethan get over the loss of best friend Kacey. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else to think about. There's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. There's a new school with a new pecking order to navigate. There's a new friend in Coralee, who has a great line in tall stories and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But it's hard to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sonya Hartnett|title=SurrenderSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father Twelve-year- vicious corporal punishment for old Hanh wanted to be a minor infraction is a constant threat fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and his mentally abusive mother who loses no woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to belittle her young son and express her disappointment in himbe missed. Anwell is not popular at school Some money changed hands and his life at home is severely proscribedHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. So Only, when Finnigan appearsHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, Anwell is grateful for a friendthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Finnigan is strange You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and wild beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and full of a dark freedom. He doesndistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't even go to schools quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClarePatrice Lawrence|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)Needle|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=After the cataclysmic events of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight', Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and their friends. Their troubles are by no means over as they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=Resurrection|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs help. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together and have plans to use their unique set of skills to wage war on the mortal world. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have a scheme that should guarantee their success: they're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powers, Skulduggery can't defeat them alone. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will she stay when the time runs out? Will they be able to save the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire Hennessy|title= Like Other Girls|rating= 4.53

|summary=Like Other Girls is a story about a girl called LaurenBrave. She Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is not extremely hard for some people to like other girls, though she does sometimes like other girlscharacters and readers both. For one, her mum is the headmistress Kicked out of her school, for twomultiple homes and schools, she doesn't fit in to s fostering with a cliquepleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and for three, has taken up residence in her boyfriend thinks sheson Blake's mad. Laurenold room while he's world has been turned upside down by at uni. Such a revelation tempestuous personality may be in need of someone close to her a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and when something enormous happens to Lauren, she has no the creation of one she can turn tosuch item is part of the plot here, or so she believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by as Charlene is a sparrowhawkwonder knitter, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop making something full of love and affection is all thatfor her younger sister – a younger sister she's needed allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to keep the bird alive but Nicky is scepticalgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And in any casethen... well, Nicky has other things what exactly happens is not for me to worry aboutsay, like avoiding the bully at school only to remark how sharp and finding a way to talk to the girl he likespointy those knitting needles can be. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stewart FosterAnn Sei Lin|title= All The Things That Could Go WrongRebel Skies

|summary=Alex Kurara has OCDspent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and as if make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that wasn't awful enoughshe is a Crafter like him, he's getting badly bullied at schoolsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Dan's the guy who's bullying He asks her to come with him, but he's not really sure why he to leave the life of dreary servitude that is apart from the fact Sophie says he shouldall she has known. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brotherWell, Ben. soon Kurara won''All t have any say in the matter, because the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Dan's stories as they just try she is forced to make it through flee out into the daysworld. While Alex fights his OCD and his bulliesShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems to have inside him now. You might think this a sky-ship whose express purpose is going to be hunt down shikigami, and a cut and dried story whole world of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BarterMarcus Sedgwick|title=TroublemakersWrath

|summary=Ever since Alena can rememberMeet Fitz, it's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after hera young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Her mother died when she was Lockdown is only just three years old. It might over, and he should be small free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and unorthodoxwith whom he wants, but Alena's family is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in Londonit when he talks to his best friend, triggered by Cassie. They were half of a series of bombingsdesultory school band, threaten to spill over and shatter but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the stability of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the only family Alena has ever knownearth. Faced Is this connected with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into one of her eco-warrior parents saying the past, at end of the life world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of activism that her mother led? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, a life that her brother not when Cassie has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answersgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashTori Bovalino|title=Honor GirlThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=Teens |summary=''ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's camplibrary is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's supposed to be funheadmaster, and a man Tess hates.''<br>''Well excuse me As a petty act of revenge for not having making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the time ugliest insults she can think of my life.They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage |author=Philip ReeveThat simple piece |title=Utterly Dark and the Face of dialogue is the key to this autobiographical graphic novelDeep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. Why There is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the way she's isolated by being a sleepScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-walkerwitches, and ignore legends of the fact she's Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from a different state the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to every other girl aroundworry about such local yokel superstitions, and practically only there to obey her motherAndrewe's family tradition – she's all foundling daughter, who washed up out of a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle rangesea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and can boss his curious ward are thrust into the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performanceworld of protecting their island, like it or not. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled |isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and like she's enjoying the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, and anyway they do come with their own problemsin the far NE of the Scottish islands. NoHere be Vikings, the bigger problem that kind of Scottish island. Dad is something else – the fact that she seems going to be falling in love with one of automating the counsellor camperslantern, which is his specialist thing, there while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to look after hunt the welfare of the younger inmates elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratoruntil she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen M McManusJonathan Stroud|title= One of Us Is LyingThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54|genre=Teens|summary='The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?' Sign me upScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, pleaserobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But this YA mystery is more like then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a teenage Agatha Christie: it's twistydarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, complexthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and at several points I began all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to wonder if reach the final reveal would Free Isles, but will they be that everyone was any more accepted there than they are in the murderer.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1406394815