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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie PerkinsLeanne Egan|title= There's Someone Inside Your HouseLover Birds|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young is still adjusting When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her new life pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska after , and that's definitely because Isabel makes her parents send feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her away from her beloved Hawaiian home. Sherelationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's made friends and has even never had a hint good kiss with any of romancethem? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, yet her old life is hard and wanting to forget. But things in hang out with her new quiet little Nebraskan town take a strange turn when one by one, because fighting with her classmates are violently murdered. No one knows who is next on the killerfun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn's list or why they are being targeted, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with her.t she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=My Side of the DiamondWild East|rating=4.5

|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny''You have s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to accept that if two people jump from the dome of St Paul's they would be bound move to landNorwich and start at a mostly white school. They'd be dead but they would land.'' Except, in this most unusual book, they didn't. Two people were seen leaving the outside of the London CathedralThe move is initiated by Ronny's dome, but were never found at the foot of it – and someone has been in prison ever since mum who is worried for pushing them off. ItRonny's safety after a most peculiar scenariotragic event, and our narrator Jaz is struggling so Ronny finds himself trying to tell her mysterious interrogatorsettle in a new town, Mr Jonesa new school, all about it – and all about her relationship with her best friend. Now Becky, the friend, was a child prodigy sci-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else from lifekeep himself out of trouble. Rushing around He listens to investigate the case of the fallersmusic constantly, she seems to have found that, in the shape and has always dreamed of being a hot-blooded romancerapper. But what is Jaz doing starting her testimony with talk of inquestsnow, in this new school, evidence and hatred?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Louis de Bernieres|title=Blue Dog|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death and Mick was sent teacher encourages him to live in in the outback with Granpa. On the face be part of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boypoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, with no school Ronny begins to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyonesee the connections between rap and poetry, with all the heat and the dust. But they've all got to make the best power of the situationcreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeJenny Valentine|title=SatelliteUs in the Before and After

|summary=Born Elk and raisedMab are best friends, along with twins Orion and Libraor more than that even, on the space station Moon 2, Leo has never set foot on Earth. And yet, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits about 250 miles above Earththeir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. It travels at 17,500 miles an hour, making They meet as children one full orbit every ninety minutes. If you ever look day on a trip out of but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the porthole beneathtime. But then chance brings them back together, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean for real? Leo and the twins may soon be able to do that now that they are teenagers and the scientists below think they are strong enough to come homeinseparable. Each Something has their own idea of what it will be like happened though, something terrible and tragic, and what now they would like to do. Orion wants to go to a concert. Libra wants to dig her hands in soil. Leo wants to throw a ball must work through their grief, and observe its arc. Everyone wants to see a bird in flighttheir friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Dollmaker Last Life of Krakow|author=R M RomeroLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Karolina is a refugee from We meet Lori on the Land of first evening she's got the Dolls. Her homeland has been ravaged by rats and Karolina was blown by a magical wind into Krakowhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Polandbabysitter poorly, mother at the height of WWIIwork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. She finds herself What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a workshop belonging blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to CyrylVoxminer, known as the Dollmaker of Krakow. Lonelyworld-building, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement critter-collecting game that is a strong friendship which helps Cyryl hit in his life outside the workshopLori's world. But it's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under first Lori has a vicious enemy: ittiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's Polandt find herself entirely on her own, tooand then she finds something even more spooky. Together, Karolina For the server she and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours her bestie and determine nobody else should be able to do whatever enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the can game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to save from the monstrous Nazi regime...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonRachel Greenlaw|title=ScarecrowCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work and blows 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the whistledeep, he makes some very powerful and dangerous enemiesthe answering beat in my heart. He '' Rosevear, a remote and Jack are forced to go partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into hiding in a remote cottage in the Scottish highlandsrocks and plundering the wrecks. Miles from anywhere and anyoneMira, like her mother before her, they hope they will be alone is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and safeany treasure that lies within. But it quickly transpires that when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they are neither. Dadcapture the island's leader and Mira's enemies already know where they are heading father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive andwith only coordinates to guide her, even before they move she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep inthe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Jack starts as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to have doubts whether they are actually alone. Did he really see the scarecrow next heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to their cottage move?save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ColeHarry Allen|title=Senseless|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks his every dream has come true when he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo to the swankiest of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it is. Within hours, events start to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touch, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in and out. And he's not on his own. It's happening to the other contestants too, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phill Featherstone|title= Paradise Girl|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheep. The kind of farm that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now that the grandparents are old and the father is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-hands, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs Children of the rest of it. Already, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=We See Everything|author=William SutcliffeSun

|summary=Lex Ra Eun Seo lives in what used to be Londona North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Today, it Life is hard and food is a closed-offdifficult to come by, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in so Seo and her friends Nari and nobody can Min go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the job meagre rations of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan'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 rice and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeAlexia Casale|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=''I'm thirteen years OLD, not young.'' And it's a good job too, for her grandma and godfather have taken Bea on an extended holiday to Indonesia, where the wild dinosaurs live. Yes, this is a world where they never went extinct, and have been used for riding for leisure or as pack animals ever since mankind domesticated them. But wild and dangerous ones still exist, such as the Raptors of Paradise. Bea's older guardians have another reason to go there, though – they are in search of clues that might lead them to at last discover the fate of Bea's birth parents, who disappeared a decade ago. She's unaware of this being the final grasp at one last clue – and all of them are ignorant of how the real danger and mystique on the island may actually come not from the fabulous beasts, but from other humans…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786968002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robin Jarvis|title= Time of Blood|rating= 4

|summary= Travel back over It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a hundred years into Whitbylife-changing disability too, but that's past what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to see two witches battle an ancient evilchange her life. Follow young Lil But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she tries can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to avoid spoilers try to sort out, and find just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her best friendbody continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian GallagherSimon Fox|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 Bethell|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareDeadlock

|summary=Auden has Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a condition called achromatopsiasecret place, which means that he can't see coloursand join him on the run. He likes They get together, but barely begin to pretend that it doesn't matter but it does. And smell the whiff of Southern trains when the older Auden getsfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the more it seems late express to matter. Mind youBrighton, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in toting a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastlinetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now bearer of 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 fightingwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraLex Croucher|title= They Both Die at the EndGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4

|summary= ''No matter how we choose Who knew that what I really needed to liveread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, we both die at the end''much to their mutual disgust! The year is 2017Gwen, the place is Americayou see, but this is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know in love with Bridget (the exact date of everyonekingdom's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they will be dead within find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat deathsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, all have failedwhen 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>1471166201</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseNick Brooks|authortitle=Sarah CrossanPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=Joe When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearsmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texas Each, seemingly, convicted has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder of a police officer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe But who killed him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes throughand why, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across if any of the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined boys are innocent, will they be able to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=I am TraitorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Sif Sigmarsdottir Kitt Townsend

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order committing a curfew. After that, series of robberies? And how did he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to patrol the streetssecond question because I avoid spoilers. Not that the army has any But I'll answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagersfirst one: for his grandmother.. To where, nobody knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Alex BellDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died Ant is in an awful fire not long ago Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and that is why Jemima decides surprised to leave London 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 take 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 job as a teacher on single-sex school can form, the Isle of Skyetalk in class and out often turns to sex. But leaving the place Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima know what his score is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on , where his achievements in that terrible nightregard lie. It doesn He't help that Miss Graysons had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the mistress at the schoolladder headed by 'experienced', is a strangebut whether that's set in stone, forbidding sort, while he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Adlington1800901232|title=The Red RibbonStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Ella is rushing Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to her audition for be a job in fashion, as are several other young womendesigner. Thrown Life in at the deep end in rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the highsmartly-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a dress from scratch for job in Hanoi it was an important client before four pm that dayopportunity not to be missed. But she manages it, even working through Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the nonmini-existent lunch break, bus to design a silk wonder worthy of any environmentHanoi. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design houseOnly, Hanh and this is no normal environment for the recipient other girls were not going to be wearing 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 frock. legs? This is Birchwood – or AuschwitzThe ones with the artfully-Birkenau to placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and Iher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartPatrice Lawrence|title= Genuine FraudNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary= IBrave. Charlene, the 'm going to straight up say that Iheroine'm not going of this piece is extremely hard for some people to mention the plot in this reviewlike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, because I canshe't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistings fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, turningAnnie, great suspense of a noveland has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching Such a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on the side tempestuous personality may be in need of a bus any time sooncomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and if that happensthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, then it will 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 as Charlene is a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells the story of three teenage girlswonder knitter, all and is making something full of whom are fighting love for womenher younger sister – a younger sister she's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgroundsallowed contact with no more. There's Evelyn, an upper-class girl expected to marry at a young age, May, We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a middle-class girl with an opinionated Motherstore detective, and Nellthen force people to give her two days off school, a working-class girl who does what when she can to help her large family scrape byshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... The novel chronicles both their contributions well, what exactly happens is not for me to the fight for suffragesay, only to remark how sharp and the way their lives change when World War One beginspointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinAnn Sei Lin|title= InvictusRebel Skies|rating= 4.5

|summary= It's Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the 24th century and human beings have cracked Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the secret sky where soldiers of time travelthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Farway Gaius McCarthy However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is 17 and dreams of following in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for Crafter like him, someone with the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined power to track down Empra, who disappeared on form paper into whatever she desires – a mission when her son was just 7. But Farway tanks his final exam and his ambitions seem crushedpower sought after all across the Empire. He's given another chance by Luxasks her to come with him, a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder leave the past life of its artifacts - artifacts dreary servitude that fetch fortunes in credits is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the Central Time matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M A BennettMarcus Sedgwick|title= S.T.A.G.SWrath|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 AnatolMeet Fitz, Demidova's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - a brutal prison constructed young Scottish lad full of stone and ice..frustration at himself.... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is it? But the thing Lockdown isonly just over, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and she's even prepared he should be free to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court do what he wants, to achieve go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in itwhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Because Valor's sister Sasha is already in Tyur'ma - accused They were half of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a peace treaty between Demidova and a neighbouring nationsubhuman hum coming from the earth. Valor Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is convinced already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of her sistermusic she's innocence and intends to break her dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find outthe truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LingTori Bovalino|title=The Glow of Fallen Stars|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''The Glow of Fallen Stars'' is the second book in Kate Ling's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review of the first instalment [[The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Seager|title=Editing Emma|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emma Nash is a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions that come with this age. When the love of her life ''ghosts'' her (i.e. breaks up with her by acting as if she doesn't exist), she spends the summer moping in her pyjamas. However, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form and a resolution to make some important ''edits'' to her life. This includes e-tweaking herself with disastrous, and often hilarious, consequences. The whole experiment is recorded in Emma's private blog: a blog that she might just regret ever writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vicki Grant|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=''Two random strangers. Thirty-six questions guaranteed to make them fall in love. What's not to like?'' Based on a psychological theory, Grant's novel explores the concept that love can be engineered by using thirty-six ''simple'' questions. Questions such as ''What would constitute a perfect day?'' or ''When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?'' are designed to reveal the souls and characters of both participants, enabling them to form a deep connection with a stranger. In a modern world dominated by technology, this face to face interaction is performed to test whether genuine human interaction can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reserved?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Non Pratt|title= Truth or DareDevil 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=FreshersThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing upScarlett McCain is an outlaw, in rejecting the hopes of finding more draconian conformity of the person that you want Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to become. Going to university is a monumental transition. For somewander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, it's an escape. A chance to start anew. A freedom of the sort that you'll rarely have at any robbing banks and shooting other point in life. An opportunity outlaws to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you foreverkeep herself alive. HoweverBut then she meets Albert Browne, student life can also be a double-edged sworddark boy with dark powers and a darker past. There's a fine lineWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, after all, between the opportunity they plan to meet new people and the pressure flee to make new friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands mythical Free Isles of new young adults, just leaving the nestLondon Lagoon. Together, it's something that can get very messythey must brave man-eating wildlife, very quickly. Phoebe the cannibalistic Tainted and Luke went all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the same high schoolFree Isles, but never really floated will they be any more accepted there than they are in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness rest of Fresher's week, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messy, intense and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forget. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>1406394815