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|summary=Rose's father died a while back. She still misses himElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even though life goes on and her mother , their friendship is remarrying tomorrowa once in a lifetime connection. Rose knows deep down that Sal is They meet as children one day on a nice guy trip out but, but, but... a wedding? Itunfortunately they don't get each other's sent her into a spincontact details at the time. Sal doesn't smell right. His woolly jumpers But then chance brings them back together, and they are embarrassinginseparable. His beard is weird. Rose isn't looking forward to the wedding Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655546 </amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattMax Boucherat|title=UnboxedThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Benjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Deanon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Millie and Zarashe has one main intention, and they had made a promise that is to return log on to Voxminer, the school where they had hidden world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a memory box five years latertiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Only five years later there are only four For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of them: Millie had died of stomach cancertampering. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the boxgame has been doctored – well, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are now, but most of all they're missing Millie.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E K JohnstonRachel Greenlaw|title= A Thousand NightsCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary=E. K Johnston describes ''1000 Nights'' as a work fashioned around I can hear the creation song of beautiful crafts charged with magicthe sea. She confesses that her setting is not historically accurate, explainingThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''I cheated  Rosevear, a bitremote and partially forgotten island, because survives on luring ships into the usual date for rocks and plundering the stories ranges from Middle Persian literature wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the Caliphate Era, ruins – rescuing any survivors and I set the book about two thousand years before any treasure thatlies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira' Her locations are beautifully evoked s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and based on with only coordinates to guide her sensory experiences as an archaeologist , she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in Jordanthe sea. A Turkish bath in AmmanWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the Umayyad palace on top watched streets of the Amman Citadel and the swirling sands at Wadi Rum are just a few sources she has used foreign islands to recreate the spirit heart of Lo Melkhiinthe smuggler's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed with territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the mercurial nature future of his wife's desert her homeand the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290372</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keren DavidHarry Allen|title= CuckooChildren of the Sun|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jake is Ra Eun Seo lives in 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 North Korean town and never came down again, and now Jake she 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 explodetalented singer. It's easier to spend nights on friends' sofas Life is hard and futons, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>}}{{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 food is difficult to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good come 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 so Seo and her two half-brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>}}{{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 friends Nari and Min go foraging every aspect of life is controlled by the government, policed by the strictevening, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long looking for sunshine, fresh air tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the freedom of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game meagre rations of dares leads them to discover an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing rice 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 kimchi at all what they thought it would be, and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planethome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenAlexia Casale|title=We Are All Made of Molecules Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= After two It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years of pain following his mumwithout suddenly finding that you's deathre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Stewart is pleased his dad has found someone else and hebut that's 89.9% excited what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that he and his dad are moving in with Ashley and was going to change her momlife. Ashley But she comes back fighting, howeverdesperate to avoid the pity stares, is 110% horrified at the prospect of and desperate to get back to a new life that'blended' familys as normal as she can possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's still dealing with a new (cute!) boy in school, her parent's breakup music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the revelation that day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her dad is gayto navigate. She So even though she can's simply not prepared for a new step-dad and his geekyt dance anymore, socially clueless, son. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisSimon Fox|title=The Power of DarkDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Something Late one night Graham Blake is brewing in late back from his shift on the coastal town of Whitby. To best friends Lil force, and Vernethen suddenly rings Archie, it just seems like demanding he fetch something from a particularly bad stormsecret place, and join him on the run. But Cherry Cherise They get together, but barely begin to smell the last whiff of Southern trains when the town's guardian witchesfather is arrested, fears that ancient forces are workleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, reviving and the curse bearer of a long-lost magical artefact and a feud that has survived beyond death…whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BallLex Croucher|title=How to Set a Fire Gwen and WhyArt Are Not in Love

|summary=Subhi is ten years old. He has lived his whole life Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a detention centre for refugees in Australiamost delightful way. He In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is Rohingya and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting him. They left Subhilove with Bridget (the kingdom's father behind and are waiting for him to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained in tokens only female knight) - something that wash up Art discovers from the Great Sea of his imaginationher private diaries. And these tokens mean then when Gwen then catches Art kissing 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? Wellboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, with creating the exception subterfuge of Harveyfalling in love with each other, when really they are not very nice peopleenabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusNick Brooks|authortitle=Caighlan SmithPromise Boys

|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between When the ages principal (headmaster) of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find their way through it to Alyssiathemselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Claraseemingly, our girl's best friendhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, is and each could have been there at the most devout time of everyonehis murder. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl But who killed him, thoughand why, does not want to be chosen. In her society, this is such a badge and if any of shame that she keeps silent. Andthe boys are innocent, along with Clara, chosen she is.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire Hennessy1919635017|title= Nothing Tastes as Good|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= As warnings against disordered eating go, this one is quite interesting. Annabel, you see, is already dead when we meet her. She got too thin and one day that was it, her body ceased A Thief to function. Her mind, however, is still sharp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCatch a Killer|author=Simon Mayo|title=BlameKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (t a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in a prison – HMP bad lad, so why is he running around London, no less. Since the death of the EU and committing a huge, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for the crimes series 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 is having their children imprisoned. robberies? And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due how did he learn to their parents' activities, theycrack safes? You've since been adopted by people who ll have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as to wait to get an answer to the worst criminal family in Britainsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Surely, then, thereBut I's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= WaveDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary= WaveAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, set in WW1and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, tells the story so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the battle of the Sommefootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Although As they're all fired up, straining at the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016leash only a single-sex school can form, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am talk in class and 7.30am on 1st July 1916out often turns to sex. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare Which is confusing for the moment when they are to go over the topAnt, as the first wavehe doesn't know what his score is, into No Man’s Landwhere his achievements in that regard lie. The story is He's had a poignantcasual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, reflective and brutally honest account of so has effectively progressed up the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the history of relationship and the British Armysex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Concentr8Stitched Up|author=William SutcliffeSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a speculative nearfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-future London, there's dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a new wonder drug job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to treat ADHDbe missed. Concentr8 is cheap Some money changed hands and effectiveHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. So effective that Only, Hanh and the mayor has instituted a programme other girls were not going to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen work in London is taking ita shop, often before they've actually become troublesomewere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But then an austerity drive sees You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by legs? The ones with the unmedicated teensartfully-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>1408866242</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The LeavingPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Tara AltebrandoNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has 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 traumatic event creation of one such item is part of the local community knows plot here, as The LeavingCharlene is a wonder knitter, five sixteen-year-olds come homeand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. 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 expletively ignorant. Where have they been? Who took them? And where then... well, what exactly happens is Maxnot for me to say, the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? And why only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca SimonAnn Sei Lin|title= The Monstrous ChildRebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary= Hel is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the ultimate gloomyMidori, angst-ridden teena massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Her dad's hardly ever aroundHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her mum that she is at best indifferent to her, and her brothers are evil little beasts. She lives in a land of sleet and noise and ice. But that's not the worst of it. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpseCrafter like him, someone with all the accompanying odours that produces, and - wait for it – there'll never be an end power to her misery because form paper into whatever she's eternaldesires – a power sought after all across the Empire. And you feel hard done by because you have He asks her to take the occasional exam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off come with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit cardhim, and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't leave the escape life of dreary servitude that is all she needshas known. Well, and it soon dawns on her: sheKurara won's trapped t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a town full of lost souls and wannabesshikigami, 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 forced to flee out into the summer Anna had in mind; but world. She joins Himura aboard the more she learns about the girls and her fateOrihime, the more she comes a sky-ship whose express purpose is to understand her family – hunt down shikigami, and herself. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneMarcus Sedgwick|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. I would say this was a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan Matson|title= The Unexpected Everything|rating=3|genre= Teens|summary= The Unexpected Everything follows Andie, the daughter of a prominent US politician, who has led a careful life as a result. Incredibly organised, her plans of attending the John Hopkins medical program all summer long are set. Until they're not. A political scandal implicating her dad causes all her neatly arranged plans to evaporate. So instead, to make sure her summer isn't wasted and there's no gap in her resume, she gets a dog-walking job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146146</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stewart Foster |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, and all four got lumped into British but way west, 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 inclusiveno ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, tribal nicknameAndrewe, who has to keep notes of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to activity from the stars. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in New York, and is London with too much science in town at a hipsterish swanky hotel. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fanshis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and hardly seeing anything other than girlsAndrewe' tights – as you dos foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But this is through no intent of when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his own – for he has been kidnapped by four curious ward are thrust into the world of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff ZentnerKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Serpent King|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation of the young-adult fiction market in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genre, Julia and here's the thing – I really want to like it, too. I know there's good stuff out there, but it seems like the more I look the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundreds, who knows – of formulaic, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Bird|title=The HuntShark

|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 Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD Britain, robbing banks and its concomitant anger issuesshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. FranklyBut then she meets Albert Browne, Cassie finds him best avoideda dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Cassie herself is doing okWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, despite a recent tragedythey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. UntilTogether, that isthey must brave man-eating wildlife, she finds a dismembered foot on the beachcannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, thought to but will they be from a victim any more accepted there than they are in the rest of a serial killer stalking the locality.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyMercedes Helnwein|title=Moth GirlsSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=The first seven weeks Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of secondary school changed Mandy Crystala man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lifelives. It was But when she defends a random boy in those seven weeks that she became friends her class with Petra Armstrong and Tina Pointerher slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that No longer can she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Street. That was the last spend her time anyone saw either of them – Petra and Tina disappearedwriting novels in solitude, never to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' by the media, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had to live with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen her friends. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found life now has a boy in it that she'd told the police where they'd gone sooner? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everythingnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>152905818X