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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ColeLeanne Egan|title=SenselessLover Birds

|summary=Lex lives in what used When new girl, Isabel, moves to be Lou's hometown of Liverpool from LondonLou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. Today A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it ? Because Lou is a closed-offstraight, bombed-out area known as isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she'The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are s never had a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up Isabel, and wanting to do it. It's hang out with her because fighting terrorismwith her is fun, after all. Alanand she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. Lex and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways...t she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseWild East

|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny''I'm thirteen years OLDs story, not a youngblack fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny'' And its mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a good job tootragic event, for her grandma and godfather have taken Bea on an extended holiday so Ronny finds himself trying to Indonesiasettle in a new town, where the wild dinosaurs live. Yes, this is a world where they never went extinctnew school, and have been used for riding for leisure or as pack animals ever since mankind domesticated themkeep himself out of trouble. But wild He listens to music constantly, and dangerous ones still exist, such as the Raptors has always dreamed of Paradisebeing a rapper. Bea's older guardians have another reason to go thereBut now, though – they are in search this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of clues that might lead them a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to at last discover see the fate of Bea's birth parentsconnections between rap and poetry, who disappeared a decade ago. She's unaware of this being and the final grasp at one last clue – and all power of them are ignorant of how the real danger creativity and mystique on the island may actually come not from the fabulous beasts, but from other humans…crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786968002</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisJenny Valentine|title= Time of BloodUs in the Before and After|rating= 45

|summary= Travel back over Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a hundred years into Whitbytrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's past to see two witches battle an ancient evilcontact details at the time. Follow young Lil as she tries to avoid spoilers But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and find her best friendtheir friendship, together. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian Gallagher|title= Pawns|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=''Pawns'' tells the story of Johnny, Stella and Alice, all of whom are growing up in Ireland during the War of Independence, and who have somehow become friends in spite of their very different political views. Stella is passionately pro-British, while Johnny frequently risks his life to pass information to the pro-Irish rebels, and Alice is left stranded in the middle, supporting neither side of the dispute.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Zillah BethellMax Boucherat|title=The Extraordinary Colours Last Life of Auden DareLori Mills

|summary=Auden We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has a condition called achromatopsiaone main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, which means critter-collecting game that he canis a hit in Lori't see colourss world. He likes to pretend But first Lori has a tiny inkling that it this stormy night doesn't matter but it doesfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. And For the older Auden gets, the more it seems server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to matterenter shows signs of tampering. Mind you When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, so does everything else...... because Auden lives and her safe place in a near-future Britain in a world where climate change the game has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastlinebeen doctored – well, where is doing better than many countries thanks a girl to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now a quasi-government as the most important and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Auden's father is away fighting.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraRachel Greenlaw|title= They Both Die at the EndCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5

|summary= ''No matter how we choose to liveI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, we both die at the endanswering beat in my heart.'' The year is 2017Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the place is Americawrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, but this is not one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know trap to end the wrecking, they capture the exact date of everyoneisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death , Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and make it their mission with only coordinates to inform Deckers guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that they will be dead within lies buried deep in the next twenty-four hourssea. Many have tried With only nine days to cheat deathunearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, all have failedMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseHarry Allen|authortitle=Sarah CrossanChildren of the Sun

|summary=Joe is seventeen Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and he hasn't seen his brother for ten years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed she is on Death Row in Texas, convicted of the murder of a police officertalented singer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum Life is hard and food is long gonedifficult to come by, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes throughso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Joe passes up on his job looking for tree bark and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and treks from New York across the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinkskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I am TraitorAlexia Casale|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Alien ships have arrived 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 skies above Londonmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. The Prime Minister appeared on TV But she comes back fighting, desperate to announce this ominous visitation avoid the pity stares, and order desperate to get back to a curfewlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. After that Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, he went AWOL and took just the day to day traumas of all reliable information with him, leaving the army challenges her body continues to patrol the streets. Not that the army has any answer throw at her to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagersnavigate. To where So even though she can't dance anymore, nobody knows.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreview|title=Charlotte Says|author=Alex Bell|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that is why Jemima decides to leave London and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skye. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on that terrible night. It doesn't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the school, is a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old building.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy AdlingtonSimon Fox|title=The Red RibbonDeadlock

|summary=Ella Late one night Graham Blake is rushing to her audition for late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a job in fashionsecret place, as are several other young womenand join him on the run. Thrown in at They get together, but barely begin to smell the deep end in whiff of Southern trains when the high-pressure workplace, she father is tasked with creating a dress from scratch for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages itarrested, even working through leaving Archie on the non-existent lunch breaklate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to design a silk wonder worthy of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design housekeep away from his colleagues, and this is no normal environment for the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Ibearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartLex Croucher|title= Genuine FraudGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I'm going to straight up say Who knew that what I'm not going really needed to mention the plot in this reviewread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something it lifted my spirits in this twisting, turning, great suspense of a novelmost delightful way. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see In this advertised as a film on the side of a bus any time soonstory, Gwen and if that happens, then it will Arthur have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sally Nicholls|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 Evelynbeen betrothed since they were tiny, an upper-class girl expected much to marry at a young agetheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Mayyou see, a middle-class girl is in love with an opinionated Mother, and Nell, a workingBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -class girl who does what she can to help something that Art discovers from her large family scrape byprivate diaries. The novel chronicles both their contributions to the fight for suffrage And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and the way their lives change when World War One begins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title= Invictus|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= It's the 24th century and human beings have cracked creating the secret of time travel. Farway Gaius McCarthy is 17 and dreams subterfuge of following falling in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined to track down Empralove with each other, who disappeared on a mission when her son was just 7really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But Farway tanks his final exam and his ambitions seem crushed. He's given another chance by Luxas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder the past of its artifacts - artifacts that fetch fortunes way 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 absentwhich they can both truly be themselves, the teachers or 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 they destined to spend live 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.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth LaurenNick Brooks|title=Prisoner of Ice and SnowPromise Boys

|summary= Valor is under arrest for When the attempted assassination principal (headmaster) of AnatolUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, Demidova's Crown Princethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - Each, seemingly, has a brutal prison constructed grudge of stone some description against Principal Moore, and ice..each could have been there at the time of his murder.... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is it? But the thing iswho killed him, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and she's even prepared to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve it. Because Valor's sister Sasha is already in Tyur'ma - accused of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing a peace treaty between Demidova why, and a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced if any of her sister's innocence and intends the boys are innocent, will they be able to break her out.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Ling1919635017|title=The Glow of Fallen StarsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''The Glow t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of Fallen Starsrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'' is ll have to wait to get an answer to the second book in Kate Lingquestion because I avoid spoilers. But I's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review of ll answer the first instalment [[The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]one: for his grandmother. Seren and Dom, together with Ezra and Mariana, have escaped the Ventura, the spaceship on which they have spent their whole lives, and crash landed on the planet Huxley 3. At last, they are away from the stifling authoritarianism of life on board the ship and free to pursue their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real land.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe SeagerPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Editing EmmaDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |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 they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he 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, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's 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 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 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 mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an 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-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=3

|summary=Emma Nash is a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions that come with this ageBrave. When Charlene, the love of her life 'heroine'ghosts'' her (iof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both.e. breaks up with her by acting as if Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she doesn't exist)s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, she spends the summer moping and has taken up residence in her pyjamasson Blake's old room while he's at uni. HoweverSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, September arrives all too soon bringing with it you might perhaps think, and the start creation of one such item is part of Sixth Form the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a resolution to make some important younger sister she''edits'' to s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her life. This includes e-tweaking herself belligerence with disastrousa store detective, and often hilariousthen force people to give her two days off school, consequenceswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... The whole experiment well, what exactly happens is recorded in Emma's private blog: a blog that she might just regret ever writingnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vicki GrantAnn Sei Lin|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About YouRebel Skies|rating= 3.5

|summary=''Two random strangers. Thirty-six questions guaranteed Kurara has spent 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 make them fall in lovemerry between their conquests. What's not However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like?'' Based on him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a psychological theorypower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, Grantsoon Kurara won's novel explores t have any say in the matter, because the concept that love can be engineered Midori is destroyed by using thirty-six ''simple'' questions. Questions such a monstrous paper spirit known as ''What would constitute a perfect day?'' or ''When did you last sing shikigami, and she is forced to yourself? To someone else?'' are designed flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to reveal the souls hunt down shikigami, and characters a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of both participantsfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, enabling them and he should be free to form a deep connection do what he wants, to go where he wants and with a strangerwhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. In They were half of a modern world dominated by technologydesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this face to face interaction connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is performed to test whether genuine human interaction can give love already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can'push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reserved?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattTori Bovalino|title= Truth or DareThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= After an accident leaves his brother, Kam, with severe neurodisability, itWorking all summer in her boarding school's obvious that library is the lives of Sef and his family will never be the same again. Plagued by feelings of guilt and struggling last thing Tess Matheson wants to cope, Sef turns all his attention 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 only way that he might be able to help - moneybooks: Mr Birch. In an attempt to raise funds for his brotherThe boarding school's careheadmaster, he enlists the help of Claireand a man Tess hates. As a volunteer at the facility looking after Kampetty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, she's Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the only person from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation isbooks, and how important it is to get scribbled with the funding that he needsugliest insults she can think of. Aided by ClaireThey's equipment and YouTube know-how, the two create a channel where their alter-egosre never meant to reach him, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their causecourse. However, £60,000 Her plan is no small amountto get her anger out like this, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy featthen take them all off before delivering them. Just how far are they willing to go No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for their cause? her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Philip Reeve|authortitle=Rob KeeleyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45

|summary=''Millions In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of people will die riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the war, EllieScillies. And There are troll people on it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easy.'' And if that's not ominous, I don't know what is. It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her friendand sea-witches, and legends of the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She Dark family that has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do keep watch for magical islands and live a normal, boringtheir monster approaching from even further west, human lifewhere no ship dare sail. Mum is still working for The current Darks are the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longer. Money is tight and MumWatcher, as everAndrewe, is stressed. Dad got compensation for who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his accidenthead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, so he is living the life of Riley. Heand Andrewe's eager to help foundling daughter, who washed up out but Mum won't hear of itthe sea one day eleven years ago. And Ellie has a romantic interest in Luke. All in allBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of timelinesprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Libby in Julia and the MiddleShark

|summary=TwelveJulia, our pre-year-old Libby teen heroine, has an older sister, Bella. Bella used been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a real confidante to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriendsummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Now Here be Vikings, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries that it will never come back. Libby also has a younger sister, Gracekind of Scottish island. Grace Dad is lovely but it seems going to Libby that Gracebe automating the lantern, as the baby of the familywhich is his specialist thing, commands all while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the parental love and attentionelusive Greenland shark. Libby is And Julia, well , she will be homesick and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her ownalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonJonathan Stroud|title=Freshers|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want to become. Going to university is a monumental transition. For some, it's an escape. A chance 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. However, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people and the pressure to make new friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adults, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, very quickly. Phoebe and Luke went to the same high school, but never really floated in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness of Fresher's week, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messy, intense The Outlaws Scarlett and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forget. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Livingstone|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilBrowne|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back 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 review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophie McKenzie|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5

|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 worseScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the police soon find evidence that Carey was the one who sent the messages. Soon everyone, even Amelia, is convinced draconian conformity of Carey'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 Starling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Rita Surviving Towns and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends Faith Houses to a double act as a trapeze act in wander the travelling circus that forms a backdrop to their lives. Always on wildlands between the moveSeven Kingdoms of Britain, travelling from one place to another, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever known. The sisters are surrounded by the love of their family robbing banks and the close friends who make up the shooting other circus actsoutlaws to keep herself alive. Their lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo But then she meets a boyAlbert Browne, a special dark boy named Dean. Their growing friendship, together with dark powers and a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sharon Cohen|title=The Starman and Me|rating=4darker past.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''He wasn't an alienWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, I was sure they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of that. It was more like he'd walked in through an ancient door from the pastLondon Lagoon... except he was hereTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, in my bedroom the cannibalistic Tainted and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earth.'' Twelveall the horrors of post-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied a tiny human on a roundabout near to his house. But he wasn't. Rorty Thrutch is as real as you or me. But how did Rorty come apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be hiding out any more accepted there than they are in the middle rest of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that he'll soon be ''bad dead''Britain? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>1406394815

That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And Move on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And that's the least 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 mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]