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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonLeanne Egan|title=Sunflowers in FebruaryLover Birds|rating=34.5

|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of the road, she knows Liverpool from London Lou immediately that something is wrong. Then she sees feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it. A disembodied ghostmisunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her own death, as her friends and family struggle to deal with the fallout from the hit-and-run that killed 's definitely because Isabel makes her. With no idea how to move onfeel so cross, Lily starts to despairisn't it? Because Lou is straight, until one night isn't she finally manages to make ? Even though none of her presence known. Sherelationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's always never had a strong bond good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see because fighting with her when no-one else canis fun, and gives her the chance to return to the living world. Lily has a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= RenegadesWild East|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes Written in verse, this worldis Ronny's story, therea young black 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's hope that tomorrow might be bettermum who is worried for Ronny''Once the minority in s safety after a world of chaos and disordertragic event, the Renegades fought for freedom and justice. Victorious so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in driving their opponentsa new town, the leaderless Anarchists undergrounda new school, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range and keep himself out of abilities are now the lawmakers trouble. He listens to music constantly, and leaders has always dreamed of the futurebeing a rapper. But now, in this new school, governing his teacher encourages him to be part of a new peaceful poetry writing workshop group and prosperous society. They are , slowly, Ronny begins to see the heroes of society; the role models young children look up toconnections between rap and poetry, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction power of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting creativity and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from themcrafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldJenny Valentine|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5

|summary=In ''Ballad for 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 Mad Girltrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of Hannah Holtand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years agosomething terrible and tragic, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannah's ghost. The more she investigatesand now they must work through their grief, the more she is convinced Hannah's case is in some way linked to her own Mother's deathand their friendship, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years agotogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonMax Boucherat|title= The Extinction TrialsLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Storm and Lincoln live We meet Lori on Earthasiathe first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newbabysitter poorly, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her fatherlonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, so she lives in has one of Earthasia's overcrowded sheltersmain intention, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister that is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to log on to Voxminer, the healthcare world-building, critter-collecting game that could save her. Itis a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a meantiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for then she finds something even more spooky. For the Stipulators' trials for a new mission server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the neighbouring continent enter shows signs of Piloriatampering. The aim When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access girl to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=My Sweet Orange TreeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=''It's just that sometimesI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, Zeze, you're too naughtythe answering beat in my heart.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narrator Rosevear, Zeze – he's a young tykeremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and everyone in his largeplundering the wrecks. Mira, half-Indian family – hecklike her mother before her, everyone is one of the seven who recognises his blonde swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and pale looks in any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the neighbourhood – knows heisland's leader and Mira's skilled at being up father. Desperate to no goodsave him from death, that perhaps he was born Mira makes a bargain with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to read, even when wreck survivor who is as charming as he's is secretive and with only five, the precocious brat is forced coordinates to face something that might be the changing of himguide her, once and for all – school. This time she sets off in search of change is also featuring a move of home, as the family cannot afford secret that lies buried deep in the rent arrears on their current placesea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, although having downsized as her journey takes her from the garden comes watched streets of foreign islands to feature the titular treeheart of the smuggler's territory, which almost works as a confessional cum best friend. Whether either Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the new future of her home or and the school will get to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonHarry Allen|title= Star by StarChildren of the Sun|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up Ra Eun Seo lives in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918, Stella a North Korean town and she is sent to live with her estranged aunt who runs a boarding housetalented singer. This coincides with a time of great change for the country as women are allowed to vote for the first time. Stella Life is hard and food is determined difficult to follow in her mother's footsteps to help make historycome by, so Seo and whilst her age denies her the ability to vote herselffriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she goes looking for tree bark and edible grasses to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker supplement the meagre rations of rice and former childhood friend of her mother is able to cast herskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T SmithAlexia Casale|title= Grave MatterSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that took her you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Sam but that's what Ven is a broken soul. He is lost without dealing with after collapsing on stage in the girl he loves, feeling as though middle of a part of him died dance performance that night toowas going to change her life. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. Howevercomes back fighting, finding his Aunt Marie leads him desperate to discover avoid the Milk Manpity stares, which causes Sam in his grieving state and desperate to get back to make a pact with forces he doesnlife that't understands as normal as she can possibly manage. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam Meanwhile there's life a new (cute!) boy in more ways than he bargained forschool, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body 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>1781126046</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaSimon Fox|title= This Mortal CoilDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= A life threatening virus Late one night Graham Blake is spreading through late back from his shift on the United Statesforce, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanityand then suddenly rings Archie, but it seems demanding he fetch something from a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two yearssecret place, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and taken by force to work in the national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from join him on the State and not to trust them an inchrun. Set in America They get together, but not an America we would recognise, most of barely begin to smell the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting whiff of Southern trains when the Statefather is arrested, remain in hiding leaving Archie on the surfacelate express to Brighton, hoping toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infectedbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingLex Croucher|title= WitchbornGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter the Elizabethan world of 1577it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A world of intrigue In this story, terror Gwen and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Mothertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only person she had ever lovedfemale knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Tried and deemed And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a witchboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at creating the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she can't leave behindsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, Alyce escapes to London but she's not alonewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Endangered and being followed, Alyce is determined to keep her freedom But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will they find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible.  And Alycea way in which they can both truly be themselves, although she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate or are they destined to steal the throne and the other determined to keep it…live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungNick Brooks|title= The Road to Ever AfterPromise Boys|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeurWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, and we watch three boys find themselves called into the police station as she gradually softens towards him and they become friendssuspects. So far Each, so ''Driving Miss Daisy''seemingly, an apt comparison in has a book which references several well-loved classic filmsgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But the obvious similarity ends there. Davywho killed him, hired to take Miss Flint on her final road tripand why, is thirteen years old and has not if any of the foggiest idea how boys are innocent, will they be able to drive a car. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)1919635017|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Meet Tortot. HeSolomon Klyne isn's t a camp chef for an armybad lad, with a cold heart – so why is he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does running around London committing a fish – and a brilliant way series of gauging robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the warfare going on around himsecond question because I avoid spoilers. The book even starts with him crossing But I'll answer the battlefield to start work first one: for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on the winning side once moregrandmother... But now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Daughter of the Burning CityDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Gomorrah, Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a travelling circus as big as a citystandard school, tours the landand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, entertaining so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the crowds with fantastic shows of magicfootball team, illusion and sleight of handtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But As they're all fired up, straining at the proprietor of Gomorrahleash only a single-sex school can form, Villiamthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, believes as he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in the circusthat regard lie. He has political ambition's had a casual relationship, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in the circusstone, Sorina knows he can't be sure. And that she will one day become 's mostly because of who he's been having the Proprietor relationship and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiamthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Delevigne1800901232|title= Mirror, MirrorStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 25|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= If Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the news that Cara Delevigne had written rural village where she lived with her first novel (how did you miss 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? Were you living under a rock?)was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, all about Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a group of teens who go looking for their friend who disappearedshop, makes they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you roll your eyes really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and say ''well, distressed seams that sounds a bit like Paper Towns'', don't worry: felt so soft when you're not alone (seriously, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads). touched them? It's a pretty lazy writequite possible that Hanh and her co-off, though, so I was curious to read this to see what could be said about itworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorPatrice Lawrence|title=The TreatmentNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=When DrewBrave. Charlene, the 's brother heroine' of this piece is once again expelled from schoolextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and sent away to schools, she's fostering with a special reform schoolpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Drew doesnand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he't really cares at uni. She has enough Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of her own troubles to deal with. But then one day she such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is followed home from school by a mysterious doctorwonder knitter, who claims to have and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a sinister message from younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her brotherbelligerence with a store detective, begging Drew and then force people to help him because the give her two days off school , when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not a reform schoolfor me to say, only to remark how sharp and actually all the children there are being brainwashedpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleAnn Sei Lin|title= The Beast is an Animal Rebel Skies

|summary=The Beast is an Animal, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when Kurara has spent her village was set upon by entire life as a servant on the Soul EatersMidori, she was a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the only one Empire come to see themdrink and make merry between their conquests. Alys and the other orphans are sent However, when a man named Himura arrives to the neighbouring village but this place tell her that she is not a Crafter like home. In the strange village of Defaid people are pioushim, they say that Alys's village must have been in league someone with the Beast, that they drew power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Soul Eaters inEmpire. People in Defaid are suspiciousHe asks her to come with him, and they are particularly suspicious to leave the life of Alys, though she never tells a soul what dreary servitude that is all she has seenknown. Despite itWell, soon Kurara won's piety and it devotion to the ways of t have any say in the Shepherdmatter, Defaid feels because the Soul Eaters creeping ever closerMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, luring them with their singing. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong there, Alys knows the danger of the Soul Eaters but she is drawn forced to themflee out into the world. As she grows older and She joins Himura aboard the danger grows greaterOrihime, the dark question grows larger in Alys's minda sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, is she bad like them? and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julie BertagnaMarcus Sedgwick|title= ExodusWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Exodus Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a book whichonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, though fifteen years oldto go where he wants and with whom he wants, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in right at this momentit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Set in They were half of a world ravaged by global warming and melting ice-capsdesultory 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 is connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the story end of the last inhabitants world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of an island called Wing, who set sail in search music she's dreaming of a new life once Wing is sunk under ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the rising tidetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thing, and one which dredges up so many interesting questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon P Clark|title=Not Yet Dark|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Philippa and Danny have been friends since they were tiny. But now, at fifteen and into the unforgiving world of adolescence, there are stresses and pressures. Danny has some new friends in the rugby team and they are full of the obnoxious, somewhat sexist, bravado of the jock world. They make jokes about Philippa and she doesn't like it. She gets angry when Danny doesn't shut them down. And, if she's truthful, she's a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with them. For his part, Danny feels a bit suffocated by this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy ReedTori Bovalino|title=The Nowhere GirlsDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' is another timely novel that aims to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at the moment. It sees Grace, Erin and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite to create a movement, known as The Nowhere Girls, which will challenge the sexist culture at their school. In the process, they hope to get justice for Lucy, a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Perkins|title= There's Someone Inside Your House|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young is still adjusting to her new life with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska after her parents send her away from her beloved Hawaiian home. She's made friends and has even had a hint of romance, yet her old life is hard to forget. But things in her new quiet little Nebraskan town take a strange turn when one by one, her classmates are violently murdered. No one knows who is next on the killer's list or why they are being targeted, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=My Side of the Diamond|rating=4

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''You have s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to accept do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that if two people jump from the dome of St Paul's they would be bound she has to landdeliver herself. They'd be dead but they would land.'' Except, in this most unusual book, they didn't. Two people were seen leaving What makes it worse is the outside of man who requested the London Cathedralbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's domeheadmaster, but were never found at the foot of it – and someone has been in prison ever since for pushing them offa man Tess hates. It's As a most peculiar scenario, and our narrator Jaz is struggling to tell petty act of revenge for making her mysterious interrogator, Mr Jones, all about it – find and all about her relationship with her best friend. Now Beckydeliver such a large request, the friend, was a child prodigy sciTess sticks post-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else from life. Rushing around to investigate the case it notes on each of the fallersbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she seems can think of. They're never meant to have found thatreach him, in the shape of a hot-blooded romancecourse. But what Her plan is Jaz doing starting to get her testimony with talk of inquestsanger out like this, 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 to live in in the outback with Granpathen take them all off before delivering them. On the face of No harm done… Or it you'd think that it was going to would be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpaif someone hadn's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal t delivered them for anyone, with all the heat and the dust. But they've all got to make the best of the situationher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakePhilip Reeve|title=SatelliteUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Born In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and raisedsea-witches, along with twins Orion and Libralegends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, on where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the space station Moon 2Watcher, Leo Andrewe, who has never set foot on Earth. And yetto keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about 250 miles above Earth. It travels at 17such local yokel superstitions,500 miles an hourand Andrewe's foundling daughter, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. If you ever look who washed up out of the porthole beneathsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean for real? Leo both his sullen brother and the twins may soon be able to do that now that they his curious ward are teenagers and thrust into the scientists below think they are strong enough to come home. Each has world of protecting their own idea of what island, like it will be like and what 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 and observe its arc. Everyone wants to see a bird in flightor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dollmaker of KrakowKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=R M RomeroJulia and the Shark

|summary=Karolina is a refugee from the Land of the Dolls. Her homeland Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been ravaged by rats packed off with her parents and Karolina was blown by their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a magical wind into Krakowsummer, Poland, at in the height far NE of WWIIthe Scottish islands. She finds herself in a workshop belonging to Cyryl Here be Vikings, known as the Dollmaker that kind of KrakowScottish island. Lonely Dad is going to be automating the lantern, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement a strong friendship which helps Cyryl is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in his life outside algae behind to hunt the workshopelusive Greenland shark. But it's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under a vicious enemy: it's Poland And Julia, too. Togetherwell, Karolina she will be homesick and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours and determine to do whatever the can to save from the monstrous Nazi regime..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonJonathan Stroud|title=Scarecrow|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work and blows the whistle, he makes some very powerful and dangerous enemies. He The Outlaws Scarlett and Jack are forced to go into hiding in a remote cottage in the Scottish highlands. Miles from anywhere and anyone, they hope they will be alone and safe. But it quickly transpires that they are neither. Dad's enemies already know where they are heading and, even before they move in, Jack starts to have doubts whether they are actually alone. Did he really see the scarecrow next to their cottage move?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Cole|title=SenselessBrowne|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=16 year old Kenzie MitchellScarlett McCain is an outlaw, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks his every dream has come true when he's wins rejecting the draconian conformity of 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 Surviving Towns and transferred by limo Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the swankiest Seven Kingdoms of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it is. Within hoursBritain, events start to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable to see robbing banks and one by one his shooting 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 outlaws to believe it's just a really good virtual reality gamekeep herself alive. But with Sensia in controlthen she meets Albert Browne, 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 dark boy with dark powers and a few sheepdarker past. The kind With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of farm that might have been profitable in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been strugglingLondon Lagoon. A teenage boy not pulling his weightTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, now that the grandparents are old cannibalistic Tainted and all the father is deadhorrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, would not but will they be met with exasperated indulgence. There any more accepted there than they 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 of in the rest of it. Already, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>1406394815

Lex and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jay Jay Burridge|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of Paradise|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 Move 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|genre=Teens|summary= Travel back over a hundred years into Whitby's past to see two witches battle an ancient evil. Follow young Lil as she tries to avoid spoilers and find her best friend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]