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|summary= After two years of pain following his mum's death, Stewart is pleased his dad has found someone else Elk and he's 89.9% excited that he and his dad Mab are moving in with Ashley and her mom. Ashleybest friends, howeveror more than that even, their friendship is 110% horrified at the prospect of a new 'blended' familyonce in a lifetime connection. She They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's still dealing with her parentt get each other's breakup contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and the revelation that her dad is gaythey are inseparable. She's simply not prepared for a new step-dad Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and his geekynow they must work through their grief, socially cluelessand their friendship, sontogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisMax Boucherat|title=The Power Last Life of DarkLori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Something is brewing in ''I can hear the coastal town song of Whitbythe sea. To best friends Lil 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 Verneplundering the wrecks. Mira, it just seems like a particularly bad stormher mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But Cherry Cherisewhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the last of the townisland's guardian witches, fears that ancient forces are work, reviving the curse of a long-lost magical artefact leader and a feud that has survived beyond death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jesse Ball|title=How Mira's father. Desperate to Set save him from death, Mira makes a Fire and Why|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Lucia Stanton is bargain with a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit wreck survivor who lives is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her elderly Aunt Lucy , she sets off in search of a garage they rent family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from an evil landlord at the bottom watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of his large garden. She never comes right out and explains why shethe smuggler's thereterritory, but if you read between Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save 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 future of'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes home and mostly lives off of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade breadthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bone SparrowHarry Allen|authortitle=Zana FraillonChildren of the Sun

|summary=Subhi Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is ten years old. He has lived his whole life in a detention centre for refugees in Australiatalented singer. He Life is Rohingya hard and his mother food is difficult to come by, so Seo and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting him. They left Subhi's father behind her friends Nari and are waiting Min go foraging every evening, looking for him tree bark and edible grasses to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained in tokens that wash up from supplement the Great Sea meagre rations of his imagination. And these tokens mean a great deal to Subhi because the camp isn't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs out on a regular basis. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And the guards? Well, with the exception of Harvey, they are not very nice peoplerice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusAlexia Casale|authortitle=Caighlan SmithSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=DaedalumIt's children have one collective ambition. They pray hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to be chosen as Icarii navigate a life- honoured ones between changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the ages middle of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrintha dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, find their way through it desperate to Alyssiaavoid the pity stares, and become angels. Every child yearns desperate to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child get back to be chosena life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Clara, our girl Meanwhile there's best frienda new (cute!) boy in school, is her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the most devout day to day traumas of everyone. She knows she is destined all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to become an angelnavigate. Our girl, So even thoughshe can't dance anymore, does not want might she be able to be chosen. In sing her society, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silent. And, along with Clara, chosen she is.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessySimon Fox|title= Nothing Tastes as GoodDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= As warnings against disordered eating go, this Late one night Graham Blake is quite interestinglate 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. Annabel, you see They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is already dead when we meet her. She got too thin and one day that was itarrested, her body ceased leaving Archie on the late express to function. Her mindBrighton, howevertoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, is still sharpand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoLex Croucher|title=BlameGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our faultWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a prison – HMP London, no lessmost delightful way. Since the death of the EU In this story, Gwen and a hugeArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, all-conquering recessionmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, people are being imprisoned leftyou see, right and centre for the crimes of their parents and their parents is in turn, meaning anyone love with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that might have taken money away Art discovers from the common good is having their children imprisonedher private diaries. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due to their parents' activities, then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they've since been adopted by people who have find themselves been accused and imprisonedbecoming reluctant allies, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as creating the worst criminal family subterfuge of falling in Britainlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. SurelyBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, thenwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, there's no hopeor are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellNick Brooks|title= WavePromise Boys|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Wave, set in WW1, tells the story of the battle of the Somme. Although the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare for the moment when they are to go over the top, as the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story is a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Concentr8|author=William Sutcliffe|rating=54

|summary=In a speculative near-future LondonWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, there's a new wonder drug to treat ADHDthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Concentr8 is cheap and effective. So effective that the mayor Each, seemingly, has instituted a programme to identify children for earlygrudge of some description against Principal Moore, preventative treatmentand each could have been there at the time of his murder. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking it But who killed him, and why, often before they've actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees and if any of the program cut abruptly. Riots break outboys are innocent, led by the unmedicated teens.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The LeavingA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Tara AltebrandoKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared in the traumatic event the local community knows as The LeavingSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, five sixteen-year-olds come home. Where have they been? Who took themso why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And where is Max, the sixth child? Why has how did he not come home toolearn to crack safes? And why can You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca SimonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Monstrous ChildDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Hel Ant is the ultimate gloomyin Year Eleven at quite a standard school, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever aroundlearnt) has been restructured, her mum so his desk is at one of four with both his best indifferent to herbuddy from the football team, and her brothers are evil little beaststwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She lives As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in a land of sleet class and noise and iceout often turns to sex. But Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in thatregard lie. He's not the worst of it. She has beenhad a casual relationship, a secret one, since birthfor several months now, half human and half corpseso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', with all the accompanying odours but whether that produces's set in stone, and - wait for it – therehe can'll never t be an end to her misery sure. And that's mostly because sheof who he's eternalbeen having the relationship and the sex with. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alison Umminger1800901232|title= My Favourite Manson GirlStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 45|genre= General FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary= Fifteen Twelve-year -old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and Hanh wanted to be a new schoolfashion designer. So Life in the rural village where she ''borrows'' lived with her family's credit cardwas happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and runs away woman came to the village to LA offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to crash with her sisterbe missed. But Hollywood isn't Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the escape she needsmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped the other girls were not going to work in a town full of lost souls shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and wannabes, beading on the legs? The ones with no friends, no cash the artfully-placed rips and no return ticket. When her sisterdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It'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 possible that Hanh and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herselfco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LanePatrice Lawrence|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongNeedle

|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=''HelloBrave. Charlene, sweetie.the 'heroine' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Songthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, one of modern TV's more infuriating charactersand readers both. Now Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's likeable enoughfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made Annie, and has taken up residence in her hard to live withson Blake's old room while he's at uni. I would say this was Such a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it tempestuous personality may be in our futureneed of a comfort blanket, which is her pastyou might perhaps think, and vice versa at the samecreation of one such item is part of the plot here, eras Charlene is a wonder knitter, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection and is making something full of love for her escapades to younger sister – a YA audienceyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as seen elsewhereexpletively ignorant. And then... well, but what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can certainly frustrate as usualbe...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Morgan MatsonAnn Sei Lin|title= The Unexpected EverythingRebel Skies|rating=35

|summary= The Unexpected Everything follows AndieKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the daughter sky where soldiers of a prominent US politicianthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, who has led when a careful life as man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a result. Incredibly organisedCrafter like him, her plans of attending someone with the John Hopkins medical program power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all summer long are set. Until they're notacross the Empire. A political scandal implicating He asks her dad causes to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all her neatly arranged plans to evaporateshe has known. So insteadWell, to make sure her summer isnsoon Kurara won't wasted and there's no gap have any say in her resumethe matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she gets is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a dogsky-walking job.ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471146146</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stewart Foster Marcus Sedgwick|title=Bubble Boy Wrath

|summary=Ethan Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a Changeronly just over, and 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 it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Changers are an ancient race They were half of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona to inhabit for desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the rest of their livesearth. Because Is this connected with one of this, Changers gain insight into other people's lives and become better people because her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it. They literally walk in another mansome spooky new kind of music she's shoesdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, if you willnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyTori Bovalino|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Trigger Mortis The Devil Makes Three

|summary= Bond Working all summer in her boarding school's library is back, this time authored by international best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. It all begins with the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a seemingly simple mission (at least request for Bond). After over a few days training, James heads hundred books that she has to Germany to race in deliver herself. What makes it worse is the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop man who requested the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victorybooks: Mr Birch. HoweverThe boarding school's headmaster, we're not surprised that Bond soon uncovers and a much bigger and more serious plot: man Tess hates. As a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) petty act of revenge for making her find and SMERSH (deliver such a toplarge request, Tess sticks post-secret department it notes on each of the Russian government) books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to undermine the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions reach him, of New Yorkers and toppling the Empire State Buildingcourse. As the clock ticks downHer plan is to get her anger out like this, only Bond and CIA field-agentthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, Jeopardy Lane, can stop itif someone hadn't delivered them for her. But are they already too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Goldy MoldavskyPhilip Reeve|title=Kill Utterly Dark and the Boy BandFace of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rupert Pierpont has put his head above the parapet and taken his juggling act onto In a ''Britain's Got Talent''-styled TV showword, as you dorich. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contestingThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, and all four got lumped into beyond the same boy band – The RupertsScillies. There are troll people on it, as you do. Several massive albums and hugely successful tours later, the four lads are globally knownsea-witches, and have entered the world legends of true fandom – the realms where girls know Dark family that has to wear incontinence pads keep watch for magical islands and live with it rather than forsake their front-row concert positionmonster approaching from even further west, and where girl fans (with their own inclusive, tribal nickname, of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to the starsno ship dare sail. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform in New Yorkcurrent Darks are the Watcher, and is in town at a hipsterish swanky hotel. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fansAndrewe, and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights – as you do. But this is through no intent of his own – for he who has been kidnapped by four of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeff Zentner|title=The Serpent King|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation keep notes of activity from the young-adult fiction market Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so London with too much they seem science in his head to exclusively read this genreworry about such local yokel superstitions, and hereAndrewe's the thing – I really want to like itfoundling daughter, too. I know there's good stuff who washed up out there, but it seems like of the more I look the less I findsea one day eleven years ago. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundredsBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, who knows – both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of formulaicprotecting their island, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in melike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BirdKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The HuntJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This is Britain after Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the Very Big Crash. Life is very differentfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, especially if you live in one the far NE of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authorityScottish islands. Cush lives in one such suburb Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. He works as a detective in Dad is going to be automating the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himselflantern, which is pretty good at his jobspecialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. His wife Samir doesn't work And Julia, well, even though she'd like to, will be homesick and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsessionalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob KeeleyJonathan Stroud|title= The Sword of the Spirit (Spirits 3)Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= Cassie lives with her father in a New Jersey beach town. Dad spends most of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's Scarlett McCain is an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD and its concomitant anger issues. Frankly, Cassie finds him best avoided. Cassie herself is doing ok, despite a recent tragedy. Until, that isoutlaw, she finds a dismembered foot on rejecting the beach, thought to be from a victim draconian conformity of a serial killer stalking the locality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Moth Girls|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The first seven weeks of secondary school changed Mandy Crystal's life. It was in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong Surviving Towns and Tina Pointer. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that she refused Faith Houses to join them when they impulsively decided to explore wander the house on Princess Street. That was wildlands between the last time anyone saw either Seven Kingdoms of them – Petra Britain, robbing banks and Tina disappeared, never shooting other outlaws to be seen againkeep herself alive. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' by the mediaBut then she meets Albert Browne, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had to live a dark boy with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen her friendsdark powers and a darker past. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found it she'd told the police where they'd gone sooner? When the house is knocked With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Wallman |title=Lying About Last Summer |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Skye's sister, Luisa, died in a tragic accident last summer and Skye is still struggling they plan to come flee to terms with both the events she witnessed and the loss mythical Free Isles of her sister. It's, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday for bereaved teensLondon Lagoon. She's up for anything that will stop her thinking about the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access to. Rather than erasing all thoughts of the pastTogether, Skye finds herself having to confront her worst fears. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alice Oseman|title=Radio Silence|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= ''School'' Frances is a singlethey must brave man-minded study machine, with just one purpose: get into Cambridge. She's responsible, studiouseating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and furiously focused on ticking all the boxes needed for a perfect application, boxes with no place for friends and hobbies. And this is the Frances that pretty much everyone sees. Only her mum knows there is more horrors of post-apocalyptic society to her than meets reach the eyeFree Isles, from her distinctive, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love for the wonderful podcast show, Universe City. When a chance encounter leads to her meeting the creator of University City, Aled Last, she finally has a friend with whom she can genuinely but will they be comfortable around, and celebrate all her weird and wonderful quirks. However, when complications and secrets threaten to shatter this powerful friendship, Francis finds herself at a crossroads, caught between her old secure path of least resistance, and the much scarier option of putting her true self out any more accepted there and risking it all to discover what she truly wants. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Brian Conaghan|title=The Bombs That Brought Us Together|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Law is fourteen. He has always lived than they are in Little Town and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to be. There's no drinking. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard to get, which is a problem when your mum, like Charlie's mum, has trouble breathing. But even breathing is less important than keeping out of the way rest of the Rascals, the Regime's enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'Flanagan Mercedes Helnwein|title=The Crystal Run Slingshot

|summary=Running away from Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a couple secret illegitimate daughter of bulliesa man with a "real" family, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself she is used to not being a priority in the strange world of the Carcassian people's lives. Suspected as But when she defends a terrorist, traitor or spyrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, he's attached to Kaia and sent to join her on the 'Crystal Run' – a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory to replace the precious crystals that power the protective Carcassian shield. He really wants to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting simple existence is changed for survival and forming a close friendship with Kaiagood. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when No longer can she completes spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her mission and Joe's determined to find life now has a way to keep her aliveboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nova Ren SumaT L Huchu|title=The Walls Around UsLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Amber Ropa Moyo is an inmate at Aurora Hillsa ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a juvenile detention centre reserved bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for the most serious young criminalstheir living relatives. She was convicted Ever since she dropped out of murdering her stepfather school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks to us from the past younger sister and she details life at Aurora Hills and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and the guardsher aging grandmother. One nightHowever, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails and an evil stalking the girls spend a glorious and dangerous night out ruined streets of their cells. During this nightEdinburgh, Amber has a paranormal experience, during which she "meets" Orianna.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S E Durrant|title=Little Bits of Sky|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=targeting the city''I've put this story together from the diaries I kept when Zac and I were s children. I wrote them in Soon, Ropa is pulled into the hope that life would get better search for a missing boy at the small unloved girl that was me, and my even smaller unloved brotherrequest of his dead mother. And if life didn't get better or at least more interesting I was going to make it She will end up - to put witches discovering an occult library and castles realise that the world of magic is far bigger and rides in fast carsmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. But I didn't need Will she find the missing children and bring an end to. Life got exciting all by itself...''this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857633996</amazonuk>1529039452