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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz FlanaganJenny Valentine|title=Eden Summer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Best friends for longer than they can remember, Jess and Eden have always been there for each other, through the good and the bad, though there's been a lot more of the latter over the last year. They've needed each other for support more than ever. But now, Eden is missing. The police are on the case, but Jess is wracked with worry. Overwhelmed by grief, Eden hasn't been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic and often veering towards the dangerous. Desperate to find Eden, Jess takes the search into her own hands. As she makes her way through Us in the West Yorkshire countryside, she finds herself retracing the summer she and Eden spent together, digging up buried memories Before and secrets in the hope that they might yield some insight into where her friend might be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Rose in the Blitz|author=Rebecca StevensAfter|rating=45

|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 Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a household name thanks to his role on the UK's most popular soap operatalented singer. But his character went upstairs Life is hard and food is difficult to his bedroom six months ago come by, so Seo and never came down againher friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and now Jake is facing an uncertain future. Add edible grasses to that his dad's anger issues, supplement the family's precarious finances meagre rations of rice and the demands of a severely autistic brother; Jake's kimchi at 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonAlexia Casale|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 ''JessieSing if you Can'' 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>}}{{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>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=We Are All Made of Molecules 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 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 herto come with him, and her brothers are evil little beaststo leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. She lives Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a land of sleet monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and noise and ice. But that's not she is forced to flee out into the worst of itworld. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpse, with all joins Himura aboard the accompanying odours that producesOrihime, and a sky- wait for it – there'll never be an end ship whose express purpose is to her misery because she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison UmmingerMarcus Sedgwick|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 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 is Meet Fitz, a Changeryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Changers are an ancient race of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to inhabit for the rest of their lives. Because of thisdo what he wants, Changers gain insight into other people's lives to go where he wants and become better people because of with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in itwhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They literally walk in another man's shoeswere half of a desultory school band, if you willbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote Is this connected with one of my allher eco-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the dayt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz Tori Bovalino|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

|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= ''There are truths which must be revealed before Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the battle may commenceSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. You do not yet know But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the meaning mythical Free Isles of the swordLondon Lagoon.''Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=TeensOoh! Events are moving apace |summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in Rob Keeleypeople's ''Childish Spirits'' series. Let me explainlives.But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good.No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892533</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeT L Huchu|title= Whisper to MeThe Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5

|summary= Cassie lives with her father in Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a New Jersey beach townbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Dad spends most Ever since she dropped out of his time closeted away with his insect collectionschool, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. HeHowever, there's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD and its concomitant anger issuesevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. FranklySoon, Cassie finds him best avoided. Cassie herself Ropa is doing ok, despite pulled into the search for a recent tragedymissing boy at the request of his dead mother. Until, She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is, far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she finds a dismembered foot on find the beachmissing children and bring an end to this evil, thought to be from a victim of a serial killer stalking the locality.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>1529039452