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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CallJenny Valentine|authortitle=Peadar o GuilinUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Aes Sidhe Elk and Mab are back. And best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in their quest to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandlifetime connection. Nobody can get in or They meet as children one day on a trip out. North? South? Doesnbut unfortunately they don't matter any more. What does matter is ''The Call'get each other's contact details at the time. At some point during adolescence But then chance brings them back together, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realmand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, that greysomething terrible and tragic, colourless land to which and now they were banished thousands of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then must work through their grief, and their lives are sparedfriendship, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survivetogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GrayMax Boucherat|title=The Otherlife|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Ben has a dark gift: he can see the Otherlife, a world of ancient Norse myths, wildness and danger. It means freedom from exams, warring parents, and everyone's impossible expectations. Then Ben meets Hobie, a charming, ruthless bully. He's a born mischief-maker who always gets away with it. Hobie has everything he could possibly want. Except the Otherlife. And he'll do anything to be a part Last Life of it. Anything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Smith|title=Boy XLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers |summary=When Ash McCarthy wakes up We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in some sort of medical facility he immediately knows something a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is wronga hit in Lori's world. But he first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't suspect just how much until he steps outside find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds himself on a remote tropical islandsomething even more spooky. Then he smells For the blood server she and begins her bestie and nobody else should be able to find the bodiesenter shows signs of tampering. A deadly virus has been released and, to make matters worse When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, it's being taken off the island to be sold as a weapon that could wipe out humanity. The antidote is being taken with it and, unless Ash can stop them within 24 hours, everyone on her safe place in the island who game has been infected (including Ash's mum) will die.doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489042</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katharine Corr and Elizabeth CorrRachel Greenlaw|title=The Witch's KissCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Merry ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is an average teenagerone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. SheBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's also a witch. Sheleader and Mira's trying not father. Desperate to besave him from death, but she Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is. Then Jack comes into secretive and with only coordinates to guide her life and , she can't help falling under his spell. One problem – he's part sets off in search of an evil, centuries-old curse a family secret that Merry now has lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to break. If Merry has lost unearth what might save her heartfather, will she lose as her journey takes her life too? Or can true lovefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's kiss territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the day? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PaverHarry Allen|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods and Warriors Book 5) Children of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Hooray Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle Paver's Gods and Warriors series has arrivedshe is a talented singer. This series Life is set in the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of the mainland (Mycenaean) hard and Crete (Minoan). Our two central characters represent both: Hylas, the boy searching for his sister, food is Mycenaeandifficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and PirraMin go foraging every evening, the daughter of a high priestess, is Minoan. Together, they are trying to defeat the evil Crows who are ravaging lands far looking for tree bark and wide. But edible grasses to do that, they need to retrieve supplement the dagger meagre rations of Kronos from deep inside Crow territory. If they fail, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones will rule all the land rice and all the peoplekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn KurtagichAlexia Casale|title= The Creeper ManSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'The Creeper Man wonre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that't get you if you just stay away from s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon middle of a protector out of Python Wooddance performance that was going to change her life. But with a grinning mouth and without eyesshe comes back fighting, The Creeper Man is not their protector. In 2016 two sistersdesperate to avoid the pity stares, Silla and Noridesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, runaway from London and their cruel father her music A Level performance piece to try to La Baumesort out, and just the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath lives. Away from fear and hurt, day to day traumas of all the girls are finally happy and lovedchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. They So even though she can're finally safe… Until the trees start moving closer.t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz FlanaganSimon Fox|title=Eden SummerDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=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 secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.
|isbn=1839944420
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Best friends for longer than they can rememberWho 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. In this story, Jess Gwen and Eden Arthur have always been there for each otherbetrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, through the good and is in love with Bridget (the bad, though therekingdom's been only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a lot more boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of the latter over the last year. They've needed falling in love with each other for support more than ever. But now, Eden is missing. The police when really they are on the case, but Jess is wracked with worryenabling their own other romantic attachments. Overwhelmed by grief But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Eden hasn't been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic and often veering towards the dangerous. Desperate to will they find Eden, Jess takes the search into her own hands. As she makes her a way through the West Yorkshire countryside, she finds herself retracing the summer she and Eden spent together, digging up buried memories and secrets in the hope that which they might yield some insight into where her friend might can both truly be. themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rose in the BlitzNick Brooks|authortitle=Rebecca StevensPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rose's father died When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a while backgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. She still misses But who killed him, even though life goes on and her mother is remarrying tomorrow. Rose knows deep down that Sal is a nice guy butwhy, butand if any of the boys are innocent, but... a weddingwill they be able to clear their names? It's sent her into a spin. Sal doesn't smell right. His woolly jumpers are embarrassing. His beard is weird. Rose isn't looking forward to the wedding.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655546</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Non Pratt1919635017|title=UnboxedA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: Alix, Ben, Dean, Millie and Zara, and they had made a promise to return to the school where they had hidden a memory box five years later. Only five years later there are only four of them: Millie had died of stomach cancer. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in the box, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are now, but most of all they're missing Millie.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= E K Johnston
|title= A Thousand Nights
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary=E. K Johnston describes ''1000 Nights'' as a work fashioned around the creation of beautiful crafts charged with magic. She confesses that her setting is not historically accurate, explaining, ''I cheated a bit, because the usual date for the stories ranges from Middle Persian literature to the Caliphate Era, and I set the book about two thousand years before that.'' Her locations are beautifully evoked and based on her sensory experiences as an archaeologist in Jordan. A Turkish bath in Amman, the Umayyad palace on top of the Amman Citadel and the swirling sands at Wadi Rum are just a few sources she has used to recreate the spirit of Lo Melkhiin's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed with the mercurial nature of his wife's desert home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290372</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Keren David
|title= Cuckoo
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Jake is a household name thanks to his role on the UK's most popular soap opera. But his character went upstairs to his bedroom six months ago and never came down again, and now Jake is facing an uncertain future. Add to that his dad's anger issues, the family's precarious finances and the demands of a severely autistic brother; Jake's home feels like a powder keg waiting to explode. It's easier to spend nights on friends' sofas and futons, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Paige Toon
|title= All About The Hype
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Jessie Jefferson, daughter of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I first got to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] has left the UK behind to move to the City of Angels and be with her long-lost, recently-rediscovered father. As the third book in the ''Jessie'' offshoot, there's a bit of back story to be had but long story short, she grew up not knowing about him, but then her mother died in horrible circumstances and one thing led to another and it all came out in the wash. Now, a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two half-brothers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Geraldine Mills
|title= Gold
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary=Twins Starn and Esper are growing up in a world made dark and silent by massive volcanic explosions. Ash now covers the planet and every aspect of life is controlled by the government, policed by the strict, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long for sunshine, fresh air and the freedom of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game of dares leads them to discover an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across the darkened skies in a hand-built glider, in search of the gold that will vastly improve their lives. What they find there is a hidden world; one left behind when the volcanoes exploded. The revelation of the gold is not at all what they thought it would be, and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susin Nielsen
|title=We Are All Made of Molecules
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= After two years of pain following his mumSolomon Klyne isn's deatht a bad lad, Stewart so why is pleased his dad has found someone else and herunning around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's 89.9% excited that he and his dad are moving in with Ashley and her mom. Ashley, however, is 110% horrified at ll have to wait to get an answer to the prospect of a new 'blended' familysecond question because I avoid spoilers. SheBut I's still dealing with her parent's breakup and ll answer the revelation that her dad is gay. She's simply not prepared first one: for a new step-dad and his geeky, socially clueless, songrandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Power of DarkDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Something Ant is brewing in the coastal town Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of Whitby. To four with both his best friends Lil buddy from the football team, and Vernetwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, it just seems like straining at the leash only a particularly bad stormsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. But Cherry Cherise Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the last of the townladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's guardian witchesset in stone, fears he can't be sure. And that ancient forces are work, reviving 's mostly because of who he's been having the curse of a long-lost magical artefact relationship and a feud that has survived beyond death…the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse Ball|titleisbn=How to Set a Fire and Why|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Lucia Stanton is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who lives with her elderly Aunt Lucy in a garage they rent from an evil landlord at the bottom of his large garden. She never comes right out and explains why she's there, but if you read between the lines you work out that her father is dead and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified and principled – ''Don't do things you aren't proud of'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes and mostly lives off of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade bread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1800901232|title=The Bone SparrowStitched Up|author=Zana FraillonSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Subhi is ten years Twelve-year-oldHanh wanted to be a fashion designer. He has Life in the rural village where she lived his whole life in with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a detention centre for refugees job in AustraliaHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. He is Rohingya Some money changed hands and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother Hanh was expecting himon the mini-bus to Hanoi. They left Subhi's father behind Only, Hanh and are waiting for him the other girls were not going to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained work in tokens that wash up from the Great Sea of his imagination. And these tokens mean a great deal shop, they were to Subhi because work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the camp isn't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs out ones with intricate embroidery and beading on a regular basis. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And the guardslegs? Well, The ones with the exception of Harvey, they are not very nice peopleartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Caighlan SmithNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=DaedalumBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's children have one collective ambitionof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages Kicked out of ten multiple homes and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthschools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, find their way through it to AlyssiaAnnie, and become angelshas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Every child yearns to Such a tempestuous personality may be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clarain need of a comfort blanket, our girl's best friendyou might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the most devout plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of everyone. She knows love for her younger sister – a younger sister she is destined to become an angel's allowed contact with no more. Our girlWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, though, does not want and then force people to be chosen. In give her societytwo days off school, this is such a badge of shame that when she keeps silentshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Andthen... well, along with Clarawhat exactly happens is not for me to say, chosen she isonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyAnn Sei Lin|title= Nothing Tastes as GoodRebel Skies|rating= 45
|genre= Teens
|summary= As warnings against disordered eating goKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, this one is quite interestinga massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. AnnabelHowever, you see, is already dead when we meet a man named Himura arrives to tell her. She got too thin and one day that was itshe is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her body ceased to functioncome with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Her mindWell, howeversoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is still sharpdestroyed 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>1471405745</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoMarcus Sedgwick|title=BlameWrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''A small hand in hersMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (a teenaged girl) Lockdown is only just over, and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in a prison – HMP Londonit when he talks to his best friend, no lessCassie. Since the death They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the EU and enigmatic – saying she could hear a huge, allsubhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for warrior parents saying the crimes end of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good world is having their children imprisoned. already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in therecan Fitz find out the truth? Well, due to their parentsnot when Cassie has gone missing he can' activities, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britaint... Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellTori Bovalino|title= WaveThe Devil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Wave, set Working all summer in WW1, tells her boarding school's library is the story of last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the battle of man who requested the Sommebooks: Mr Birch. Although the story spans 100 yearsThe boarding school's headmaster, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, the majority Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddiebooks, as they prepare for scribbled with the moment when they are ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to go over the topreach him, as the first wave, into No Man’s Landof course. The story Her plan is a poignantto get her anger out like this, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Armythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Concentr8Philip Reeve|authortitle=William SutcliffeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In a speculative near-future Londonword, there's rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a new wonder drug to treat ADHDpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Concentr8 is cheap There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and effective. So effective legends of the Dark family that the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children keep watch for earlymagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, preventative treatmentwhere no ship dare sail. Almost every troublesome teen The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London is taking itwith too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, often before theyand Andrewe've actually become troublesomes foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But then an austerity drive sees when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the program cut abruptly. Riots break outworld of protecting their island, led by the unmedicated teenslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The LeavingKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Tara AltebrandoJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the traumatic event far NE of the local community knows as The LeavingScottish islands. Here be Vikings, five sixteen-year-olds come homethat kind of Scottish island. Where have they been? Who took them? And where Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is Maxhis specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? elusive Greenland shark. And why can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca SimonJonathan Stroud|title= The Monstrous ChildOutlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= Hel Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the ultimate gloomy, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly ever around, her mum is at best indifferent Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to herwander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and her brothers are evil little beastsshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She lives in But then she meets Albert Browne, a land of sleet dark boy with dark powers and noise and icea darker past. But that's not With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the worst mythical Free Isles of itthe London Lagoon. She has beenTogether, since birththey must brave man-eating wildlife, half human the cannibalistic Tainted and half corpse, with all the accompanying odours that produceshorrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, and - wait for it – but will they be any more accepted there'll never be an end to her misery because she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have to take than they are in the occasional examrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison UmmingerMercedes Helnwein|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit card, and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in a town full of lost souls and wannabes, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongSlingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=''Hello, sweetieGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely.'' And As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with those words we know where we are – a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in the company of River Song, one of modern TVpeople's more infuriating characterslives. Now But when she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made defends a random boy in her hard to live class with. I would say this was a return to her sideslingshot, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her past, and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either waywriting novels in solitude, five tales here bring a selection of for her escapades to life now has a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usualboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan MatsonT L Huchu|title= The Unexpected EverythingLibrary of the Dead|rating=34.5
|genre= Teens
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