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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerLeanne Egan|title= RenegadesLover Birds|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel'So long as there are heroes in this worlds disdain for everything around her. 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, thereand that's hope that tomorrow might be betterdefinitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn'Once the minority in a world t she? Even though none of chaos and disorderher relationships with boys have gone very well so far, the Renegades fought for freedom and justice. Victorious in driving their opponents, the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted she's never had a good kiss with an extraordinary range any of abilities are now the lawmakers and leaders of the futurethem? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up wanting tohang out with her because fighting with her is fun, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction of Anarchists that hide in the darknessshe definitely just hates Isabel, plotting and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from them.doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlWild East|rating=34.5

|summary=In ''Ballad for a Mad Girl'Written in verse, this is Ronny', Grace becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of Hannah Holts story, a local girl young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced she suddenly has encountered Hannah's ghostto move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The more she investigates, the more she move is convinced Hannahinitiated by Ronny's case mum who is in some way linked to her own Motherworried for Ronny's deathsafety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a former classmate new school, and keep himself out of Hannah's who died trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a strange accident two years agopoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonJenny Valentine|title= The Extinction TrialsUs in the Before and After|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy Elk and food Mab are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for newbest friends, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her fatheror more than that even, so she lives their friendship is a once in one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day per week and wrestles hay bales for on a job. Lincolntrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to contact details at the healthcare that could save hertime. It's a mean But then chance brings them back together, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloriainseparable. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space now they must work through their grief, and abundant food sources Piloria offers..their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Max Boucherat|title=My Sweet Orange TreeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=''ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just that sometimesan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Zeze, you're too naughtyon her lonesome.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narratorWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Zeze – he's a young tykeshe has one main intention, and everyone in his largethat is to log on to Voxminer, halfthe world-Indian family – heckbuilding, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks critter-collecting game that is a hit in the neighbourhood – knows heLori's skilled at being up to no good, that perhaps he was born with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should resideworld. Instantly adept at being able to readBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even when he's only five, more spooky. For the precocious brat is forced server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to face something that might be the changing enter shows signs of him, once and for all – schooltampering. This time of change is also featuring a move of homeWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current and her safe place, although having downsized in the garden comes to feature the titular treegame has been doctored – well, which almost works as where is a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get girl to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior read.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonRachel Greenlaw|title= Star by StarCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in Ireland by my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her suffragette mother. When before her mother dies from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918, Stella is sent one of the seven who swim out to live with her estranged aunt who runs survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a boarding housetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. This coincides Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a time of great change for the country wreck survivor who is as charming as women are allowed he is secretive and with only coordinates to vote for guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the first timesea. Stella is determined With only nine days to follow in unearth what might save her mother's footsteps to help make historyfather, and whilst as her age denies journey takes her from the ability watched streets of foreign islands to vote herselfthe heart of the smuggler's territory, she goes Mira must be determined to great lengths stop at nothing to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood friend save the future of her mother is able to cast hershome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T SmithHarry Allen|title= Grave MatterChildren of the Sun|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is Ra Eun Seo lives in a broken soul. He North Korean town and she is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night tootalented singer. But he Life is desperate hard and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her peculiar healing powers friends Nari and wonders if she might be able to help him. HoweverMin go foraging every evening, finding his Aunt Marie leads him looking for tree bark and edible grasses to discover supplement the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained formeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaAlexia Casale|title= This Mortal CoilSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary= A It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life threatening virus -changing disability too, but that's what Ven is spreading through dealing with after collapsing on stage in the United States, an already broken country with middle of a Government dance performance that many do not trustwas going to change her life. The top scientists are frantically trying But she comes back fighting, desperate to produce a vaccine avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time life that's as normal as the virus mutates into she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and (cute!) boy in hiding for the past two yearsschool, since her brilliant father was rounded up by music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the State and taken by force day to work in day traumas of all the national laboratories. His last message challenges her body continues to throw at her was to hide from the State and not to trust them an inchnavigate. Set in America So even though she can't dance anymore, but not an America we would recognise, most of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of the State, remain in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingSimon Fox|title= WitchbornDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries within, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the Elizabethan world of 1577. A world of intrigueforce, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a young girl forced to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Mothersecret place, and join him on the only person she had ever lovedrun. Tried and deemed a witch They get together, her Mother was sentenced but barely begin to being burnt at smell the stake by whiff of Southern trains when the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent father is arrested, leaving Archie on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she can't leave behind, Alyce escapes late express to London but she's not alone. Endangered and being followedBrighton, Alyce is toting a tin his father was determined to keep her freedomaway from his colleagues, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible.  And Alyce, although she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal the throne and the other determined to keep it…bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Moira YoungLex Croucher|title= The Road to Ever After|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeur, Gwen and we watch as she gradually softens towards him and they become friends. So far, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'', an apt comparison Art Are Not in a book which references several well-loved classic films. But the obvious similarity ends there. Davy, hired to take Miss Flint on her final road trip, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive a car. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartLove|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet TortotWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. He's a camp chef for an armyIn this story, with a cold heart – he sheds no tearsGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, or at least as much as does a fish – and a brilliant way of gauging to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the warfare going on around himkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. The book even starts with him crossing the battlefield to start work for the enemy the night before And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they turn find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the tables on his previous employers and defeat themsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, leaving Tortot on the winning side once morewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistantas their impending wedding draws ever closer, who lives will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyNick Brooks|title= Daughter of the Burning CityPromise Boys|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours the land, entertaining the crowds with fantastic shows of magic, illusion and sleight of hand. But the proprietor of Gomorrah, Villiam, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts in the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in the circus, Sorina knows that she will one day become the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cara Delevigne|title= Mirror, Mirror|rating= 2

|summary= If When the news that Cara Delevigne had written her first novel principal (how did you miss it? Were you living under a rock?headmaster)of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, all about three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a group grudge of teens who go looking for their friend some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who disappearedkilled him, makes you roll your eyes and say ''wellwhy, that sounds a bit like Paper Towns''and if any of the boys are innocent, don't worry: you're not alone (seriously, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads). It's a pretty lazy write-off, though, so I was curious will they be able to read this to see what could be said about it.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C L Taylor1919635017|title=The TreatmentA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=When DrewSolomon Klyne isn's brother is once again expelled from school, and sent away to t a special reform schoolbad lad, Drew doesn't really care. She has enough of her own troubles to deal with. But then one day she so why is followed home from school by he running around London committing a mysterious doctor, who claims series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have a sinister message from her brother, begging Drew to help him wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the school is not a reform school, and actually all the children there are being brainwashedfirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdalePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Beast is an Animal Different for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=The Beast 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 an Animalever learnt) has been restructured, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when her village was set upon by so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the Soul Eatersfootball team, she was the only one to see them. Alys and the two other orphans are sent old muckers – in fact they all go back to the neighbouring village but this place is not like homeprimary school days together. In the strange village of Defaid people are pious, As they say that Alys's village must have been in league with re all fired up, straining at the Beastleash only a single-sex school can form, that they drew the Soul Eaters talk inclass and out often turns to sex. People in Defaid are suspicious Which is confusing for Ant, and they are particularly suspicious of Alysas he doesn't know what his score is, though she never tells a soul what she has seenwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Despite it He's piety had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and it devotion to so has effectively progressed up the ways of the Shepherdladder headed by 'experienced', Defaid feels the Soul Eaters creeping ever closerbut whether that's set in stone, luring them with their singinghe can't be sure. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong there, Alys knows the danger And that's mostly because of who he's been having the Soul Eaters but she is drawn to them. As she grows older relationship and the danger grows greater, the dark question grows larger in Alys's mind, is she bad like them? sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Julie Bertagna1800901232|title= ExodusStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 45|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Exodus is a book whichLife in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, though fifteen years oldif not prosperous, strikes some horrifying truths about so when the world we live smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in right at this momentHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Set in a world ravaged by global warming Some money changed hands and melting iceHanh was on the mini-capsbus to Hanoi. Only, this is Hanh and the story of the last inhabitants of an island called Wingother girls were not going to work in a shop, who set sail they were to work in virtual slavery in search of a new life once Wing is sunk under 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 rising tide. artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thing, s quite possible that Hanh and one which dredges up so many interesting questionsher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon P ClarkPatrice Lawrence|title=Not Yet DarkNeedle|rating= 4.53|genre= Teens|summary= Philippa and Danny have been friends since they were tinyBrave. But nowCharlene, at fifteen and into the unforgiving world 'heroine' of adolescencethis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, there are stresses characters and pressuresreaders both. Danny Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has some new friends taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the rugby team and they are full creation of one such item is part of the obnoxiousplot here, somewhat sexistas Charlene is a wonder knitter, bravado and is making something full of the jock world. They make jokes about Philippa and love for her younger sister – a younger sister she doesn't like its allowed contact with no more. She gets angry We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when Danny doesn't shut them she shouts someone downas expletively ignorant. Andthen... well, if she's truthfulwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, she's a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with themonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. For his part, Danny feels a bit suffocated by this.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amy ReedAnn Sei Lin|title=The Nowhere GirlsRebel Skies|rating= 4.5

|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' 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 merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is another timely novel that aims a Crafter like him, someone with the power to educate young women about feminism- form paper into whatever she desires – a very hot political topic at power sought after all across the momentEmpire. It sees GraceHe asks her to come with him, Erin and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite to create leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a movement, monstrous paper spirit known as The Nowhere Girlsa shikigami, which will challenge and she is forced to flee out into the sexist culture at their schoolworld. In She joins Himura aboard the processOrihime, they hope a sky-ship whose express purpose is to get justice for Lucyhunt down shikigami, and a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result whole world of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rape.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephanie PerkinsMarcus Sedgwick|title= There's Someone Inside Your HouseWrath|rating= 34.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is still adjusting only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to her new life go where he wants and with her grandmother whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in landlocked Nebraska after her parents send her away from her beloved Hawaiian homeit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. She's made friends and has even had They were half of a hint of romancedesultory school band, yet her old life is hard to forgetbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. But things in her new quiet little Nebraskan town take a strange turn when Is this connected with one by one, of her classmates are violently murdered. No one knows who eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is next on the killeralready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's list or why they are being targeteddreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with hernot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerTori Bovalino|title=My Side of the DiamondThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|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 Becky, the frienddeliver such a large request, 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?then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresPhilip Reeve|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 Granpa. On the face of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyone, with all the heat Utterly Dark and the dust. But they've all got to make the best Face of the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=SatelliteDeep

|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>}}{{newreview|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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]