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|summary=The people of Fairfold know not to meddle with the faerie folkElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, they wear their socks inside friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and but unfortunately they stay out of don't get each other's contact details at the forest on the full moontime. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far But then chance brings them back together, and wide to see the faerie town and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never to be seen againthey are inseparable. Tourists Something has happened though, the locals saysomething terrible and tragic, the folk don’t interfere with localsand now they must work through their grief, if they doand their friendship, you must be acting like a touristtogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>1471196585

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanMax Boucherat|title=Love Hurts|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereft. Mixed in are enough moments of heartsease (and heart's joy!) to keep you believing in love. And we all want to believe in love, don't we? If you are one of the few who don't, you might as well look away now. The rest Last Life of us are in for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbag, and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows of love as it is experienced by young people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner|title=These Broken StarsLori Mills

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenWe meet Lori on the first evening she't read 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 [[Zomworld-B by Darren Shan|building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first book]] 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 this seriesthe game has been doctored – well, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HereRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Gayle FormanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''I regret to inform you that I have had to take can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my own lifeheart.''

Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by email. A flatRosevear, formala remote and partially forgotten island, emailsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. We follow Mira, like her over the ensuing months as she searches for answers. How could she not have realised that mother before her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongings, Cody finds emails on her laptop is one of the seven who swim out to a boy survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that has broken her heartlies within. Is Ben McAllister But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the cause of Megisland's suicide? But thereleader and Mira's an encrypted filefather. Desperate to save him from death, too. And when Cody finally opens itMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she finds information sets off in search of a family secret that will take lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her on a journey, not only through Megtakes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's lifeterritory, but also Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her own..home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieHarry Allen|title=The Absolutely True Diary Children of a Part-Time Indianthe Sun

|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior as he is known on the Spokane Indian Reservation where he Ra Eun Seo lives, is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challenges. He knows the decision to go to the rich all-white school, in the nearby a North Korean town of Reardan, and she is a necessary onetalented singer. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to a town where he's going to be even more of a target, even more out of place, than he already Life is on the rez. It means risking the wrath of the other Indians, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend hard and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it food is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishmentdifficult to come by, depression so Seo and her friends Nari and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservationMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and it is a path that he must walk for edible grasses to supplement the sake meagre rations of not just his future, but that of his triberice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsAlexia Casale|title=Juvie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=With the title ''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book is going to be about, even before Sing if you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alike, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at a party and finds herself at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgement. The two girls end up at the wrong place at the wrong time, and before they know it they're in court trying to clear their names. Carla has a history and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some time, away from her young daughter in a way that no one wants. There is a way out, though. Sadie is, if not a good girl, then definitely the better sister. If she takes the blame, she'll likely get off with a caution for a first offence, no harm done. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's not ideal, but she can take one for the team. Except things donCan't go to plan, and Sadie gets sent to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for her supposed role in the crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3|author=Andy McNabDance|rating=45

|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce Platoon. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're going having to be an navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in-theatre intelligence gatherer for the British Armymiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, then you need desperate to be ready for anything. And despite his trainingavoid the pity stares, Liam is new and desperate to get back to this gamea life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. He still has a lot to learn and he Meanwhile there's going a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to have try to do it the hard way - in Kenyasort out, where and just the border with Somalia is subject day to incursions from day traumas of all the al-Shabaab militant groupchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen Thompson Walker|title=The Age of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed that, but I did. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen EveFox|title=SienaDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley HighLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, along with her clique demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Starletsrun. Nothing can stand in her way – not even They get together, but barely begin to smell the return whiff of ex-Starlet and her former best friend RomySouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, who spent toting a term in France after a shocking incident one night led tin his father was determined to the headmistress deciding the girl needed to spend some time keep away from their school. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]his colleagues, you know roughly what happens here, but you don't necessarily know why. If you haven’t read it, I'd definitely suggest going for that one first. (There may be spoilers here, although I've tried to avoid anything too specificand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlotteLex Croucher|authortitle=Alex BellGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=When Sophie and Jay play around with a ouija board app Who knew that Jay has downloaded what I really needed to his phoneread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, things go awfully wrongit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Sophie asks In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to speak to Rebeccatheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a cousin boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of hers who died falling in mysterious circumstanceslove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very nightas their impending wedding draws ever closer, Jay drowns will they find a way in the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accident. Or was itwhich they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardNick Brooks|title=Red QueenPromise Boys

|summary=Mare When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a Red - a race kept in lives grudge of poverty some description against Principal Moore, and servitude by each could have been there at the Silverstime of his murder. But who killed him, and why, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives if any of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitboys are innocent, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves will they be able to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Jekyll's MirrorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=William HusseyKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Sam Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is doing his best but he feels the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to death, wouldncrack safes? You't you? He tries ll have to wait to concentrate on schoolwork and his art and keep that anger locked away deep down inside, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does her best get an answer to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustful, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasnsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't fallen far from (ll answer the first one: for his father's) treegrandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EvePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=StellaDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=What do you get when you mix up Cecily Von Ziegesar's delightfully trashy ''Gossip Girl'' series with Dickens's classic ''Great Expectations''Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and throw in a splash of ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story is surprised to find his geography class (within which has surprising depth and it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one I've been thinking about a lot since originally reading it towards the start of four with both his best buddy from the yearfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. I read Stella for the first time after getting it out of the libraryAs they're all fired up, and straining at the time I was extremely impressed by leash only a single-sex school can form, the voices of lead characters Stella talk in class and Caitlinout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, but as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had issues with it. On rereadinga casual relationship, a secret one, to prepare myself for upcoming prequel several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'Siena, but whether that's set in stone, he can', I think itt be sure. And that's one mostly because of who he's been having the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time around, although those issues haven't vanished completelyrelationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Williamson1800901232|title=The Art of Being NormalStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=FourteenTwelve-year-old David has always known that he is Hanh wanted to be a transgender girlfashion designer. (Note: As David uses male pronouns Life in his internal dialogue I have continued the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to do so offer Hahn a job in my reviewHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed.) However David has chosen a new girl's name Some money changed hands and collects feminine clothes Hanh was on the mini-bus to express that inner selfHanoi. This is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie Only, Hanh and Felix. When Leo Denton, who also has the other girls were not going to work in a secretshop, moves they were to David's school Eden Park from work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the rougher Cloverdale, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the worlds of legs? The ones with the two collideartfully-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>1910200328</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildPatrice Lawrence|title=The Vanishing MomentNeedle|rating=43

|summary=This book appealed Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to me on various groundslike, characters and readers both. It is teen fiction ( Kicked out of multiple homes andschools, joy 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 joysa comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, devoid and the creation of werewolves one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and dystopia), it is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves)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 it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what-ifs). I was intrigued exactly happens is not for me to see if the author could live up say, only to my expectationsremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah BenwellAnn Sei Lin|title=The Last Leaves FallingRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close to Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a plot summary massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of something I really love - this will probably the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the maximum possible impact if you go power to form paper into itwhatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as I dida shikigami, knowing barely anything about itand she is forced to flee out into the world. If you trust my recommendations enough She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to buy on one sentencehunt down shikigami, stop reading now and pre-order - this is a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely be one whole world of the best books, YA or otherwise, published in 2015.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909531227</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Rachel Cohn and David Levithan|title=Dash and Lily's Book of Dares|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Just before Christmas, sixteen-year-old Lily leaves a notebook on the shelf of her favourite bookshop, in an effort to find the kind of love that has made her brother so happy. Dash finds it and follows the instructions, setting off a chain of passing the book back and forth trading their hopes and dreams. Could the two be just as right for each other in person as they are in writing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848451725</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephanie Perkins (Editor)|title=My True Love Gave to Me|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle]] that there was a real lack of festive YA around – at the time, I think the choice seemed to be pretty much limited to that or ''Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares'' by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn. Both fantastic books, but a thin spread compared to the amount out there for adults and for younger children. (If I’m missing obvious ones, by the way, please let me know!) Thankfully, a dozen authors, with Stephanie Perkins as the editor, have got together to produce a perfect Christmas present here with twelve short stories set around the holidays.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144727279X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth KiemMarcus Sedgwick|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret KeeperWrath

|summary=I was caught up by this novel from the first pages and read it with absorption in Meet Fitz, a single sittingyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The young heroineLockdown is only just over, Lana Dukovskayaand he should be free to do what he wants, is a third generation ballerina to go where he wants and with the Bolshoi Ballet whom he wants, but the experiences he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lost. Her grandmother's namea desultory school band, we discover, has been erased but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the records and earth. Is this connected with one of her mother eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges the conventional notion done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of a ballerina: music she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes and most 's dreaming of all ? Is she wants to experiment with just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the repertoiretruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallTori Bovalino|title=This is ShynessThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''This s library is Shyness'' is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers who meet in a pub in the town of Shyness. The teenagers are drawn together, each adopting last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a different identity so request for the night they can be anyone but themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy|title=Moone Boy: the Blunder Years|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Martin Moone, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazy, he decides over a hundred books that she has to get himself an imaginary frienddeliver herself. He enlists What makes it worse is the help of his friend man who already has an imaginary friend, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when requested the imaginary friend you imagine isnbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school't any good at being your imaginary friends headmaster, and who you'd really like to be your imaginary friend is the customer services representative who comes to try and help you out?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Magorian|title=Impossible!|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Josie is twelve, and would much rather be a boyman Tess hates. She attends As a stage school and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress petty act of revenge for having had making her hair cut short, in the hope of playing a boy’s part in a show. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=The Last of the Spirits|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Teenage Sam find and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, a man who looks at them with deliver such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to himlarge request, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself Tess sticks post-it notes on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences each of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Zoe Sugg|title=Girl Online|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=I've been intrigued by the idea of Girl Online since I first heard about it - I love books about blogging and the internet, and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had scribbled with the experience of becoming well known online herself. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number ugliest insults she can think of people who've completely dismissed this as a bad book while admitting they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it with an open mind - IThey've re never watched any of her YouTube videos and at the time of readingmeant to reach him, hadn't read her blog, although I've just checked out a couple of her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by themcourse. I think that people who do the same thing will enjoy it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Misdirected|author=Ali Berman|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitan, multi-faith Boston Her plan is to a small town in America's Bible Beltget her anger out like this, much to Ben's disgust. He's not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high school and it doesn't then take more than a few days them all off before all his fears are realised. Open about his atheism, Ben meets shock and disgust from teachers and pupils alike. When he meets a girl, Tess, her parents forbid the relationship: as a non-believer Ben, to delivering them, is a dangerous and pernicious influence. With his brother on a tour of Iraq with the militaryNo harm done… Or it would be, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who wonif someone hadn't talk to him, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong..delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael MorpurgoPhilip Reeve|title=Listen to Utterly Dark and the Face of the MoonDeep

|summary=It's MayIn a word, 1915rich. World War I There is underway and certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillionians have already seen lossesScillies. Like the rest of BritainThere are troll people on it, they are beginning to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one daysea-witches, they hear a child's cries. On one and legends of the archipelago's uninhabited Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islandsand their monster approaching from even further west, they find a half-starved little girl, abandoned and in a terrible statewhere no ship dare sail. She can only speak one word: Lucy. Who is this foundling? Is she a ghost? A mermaid? OrThe current Darks are the Watcher, more worryinglyAndrewe, could she be a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on who has to keep notes of activity from the label of her blanketHidden Lands, after all. And why does she gaze at the moon his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such longing in her eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betsy Tobin|title=Things We Couldnlocal yokel superstitions, and Andrewe't Explain|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jerichos foundling daughter, Ohio - 1979who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Annemarie is a cleverBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, funny both his sullen brother and spirited girl. Born with sight, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates for her disability. Living amongst his curious ward are thrust into the small-town folk world of Jerichoprotecting their island, she has a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many in the town - especially her charming neighbour Ethan.  All is calm, until one day Annemarie finds herself pregnantlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K A S QuinnKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of Julia and the Tempus)Shark

|summary=Katie is backJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and once more she's back their cat from the family home in Victorian SW England. This timeto be lighthousekeepers for a summer, however, she isn't quite sure who called her back in time or for what purpose and, unfortunately, something went wrong as she came and she brought someone else along with her! In the final episode far NE of the Chronicles Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's lifelantern, which is his specialist thing, trying while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to prevent Britain messing up hunt the outcome of the American Civil Warelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusJonathan Stroud|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life Scarlett McCain is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to someone who works at wander the wildlands between the local carnival Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and even heard that from someone elseshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Life is just rubbish But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and needs ending totallya darker past. This is something he almost manages With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to accomplish as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming flee to terms with the fact he's still alivemythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, he hears that Slaine McAuleythey must brave man-eating wildlife, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herself. The only thing is that Aidan knows she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen to her the cannibalistic Tainted and why does she choose all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to tell himreach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of all peopleBritain? Aidan is on a mission: he ''will'' find out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonMercedes Helnwein|title=The PiperSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of World War Two a man with a "real" family, she is used to The Grange at Romney Marshnot being a priority in people's lives. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing But when she defends a random boy in the garden and strange music that plays at nighther class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. When Peter realises that Daisy might be No longer can she spend her time writing novels in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mothersolitude, keep his sister safefor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Murdstone TrilogyT L Huchu|authortitle=Mal PeetThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Philip Murdstone Ropa Moyo is becoming a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of a has-beenScottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awards, dontchaknow. Literary. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In fact, his agent can't even sell his latest. And Minerva FinchEver since she dropped out of school, said agent, is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for been using it, she tells Philipto support not only herself, but a foray into fantasy. He's going to have to write a sword-her younger sister and-sorcery epicher aging grandmother. SheHowever, there's even got an A4 blueprint evil stalking the ruined streets of whatEdinburgh, targeting the city's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swordschildren. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and all realise that the rest world of itmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Fantasy, you see, is selling by Will she find the ''bucketloadsmissing children and bring an end to this evil, containerloads, downloads''.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Shoot to Kill'' may be the sixth Young Bond in the series, but it is the first to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over the reins from the highly capable Charlie Higson. Like the adult Bond books, the character has seen many people write about him since Ian Fleming’s death, so there is no reason to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes Move on board. In fact, Cole is able to inject a little more energy into a series that was starting to flag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]