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|summary=Alina Chase lives Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a future America obsessed by soulprintinglifetime connection. Scientific advances have enabled They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the tracking of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidtime. Reincarnation is now an established fact But then chance brings them back together, and the government maintains a database of all past livesthey are inseparable. People without heirs can even make wills leaving Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their worldly goods to the person in whom grief, and their soul is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>1471196585

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasmine WargaMax Boucherat|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesThe Last Life of Lori 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=JuvieSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=With the title It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Juviere having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'' it’s clear s what this book Ven is going to be about, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure dealing with after collapsing on stage in the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alike, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at middle of a party and finds herself at a situation, Sadie helps dance performance that was going to change her outlife. But she comes back fighting, against her better judgement. The two girls end up at the wrong place at desperate to avoid the wrong timepity stares, and before they know it theydesperate to get back to a life that're in court trying to clear their namess as normal as she can possibly manage. Carla has Meanwhile there's a history and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some timenew (cute!) boy in school, away from her young daughter in a way that no one wants. There is a way music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, though. Sadie is, if not a good girl, then definitely and just the better sister. If she takes day to day traumas of all the blame, she'll likely get off with a caution for a first offence, no harm donechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's not ideal, but So even though she can take one for the team. Except things don't go to plandance anymore, and Sadie gets sent might she be able to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for sing her supposed role in the crime.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3Frontpage|author=Andy McNab|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce Platoon. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if you're going to be an in-theatre intelligence gatherer for the British Army, then you need to be ready for anything. And despite his training, Liam is new to this game. He still has a lot to learn and he's going to have to do it the hard way - in Kenya, where the border with Somalia is subject to incursions from the al-Shabaab militant group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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, as he doesn't know what his score is, but 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 ''Sienaseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', I think itbut whether that's one of the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time aroundset in stone, although those issues havenhe can't vanished completelybe sure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Williamson|title=The Art of Being Normal|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old David has always known And that he is a transgender girl. (Note: As David uses male pronouns in his internal dialogue I have continued to do so in my review.) However David has chosen a new girl's name and collects feminine clothes to express that inner self. This is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie and Felix. When Leo Denton, mostly because of who also has a secret, moves to Davidhe's school Eden Park from been having the rougher Cloverdale, relationship and the worlds of the two collidesex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Wild1800901232|title=The Vanishing MomentStitched Up|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book appealed to me on various grounds. It is teen fiction (and, joy of joys, devoid of werewolves and dystopia), it is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves), and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs). I was intrigued to see if the author could live up to my expectations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Benwell|title=The Last Leaves FallingSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a plot summary of something I really love - this will probably make fashion designer. Life in the maximum possible impact rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if you go into itnot prosperous, as I did, knowing barely anything about so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi itwas an opportunity not to be missed. If you trust my recommendations enough Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to buy on one sentenceHanoi. Only, stop reading now Hanh and pre-order - this is the other girls were not going to work in a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely be one of the best booksshop, YA or otherwise, published they were to work in virtual slavery in 2015an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-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>1909531227</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Cohn and David LevithanPatrice Lawrence|title=Dash and Lily's Book of DaresNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Just before ChristmasBrave. Charlene, sixteen-year-old Lily leaves a notebook on the shelf 'heroine' of her favourite bookshopthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, in an effort to find the kind characters and readers both. Kicked out of love that multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has made taken up residence in her brother so happyson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Dash finds it Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and follows the instructionscreation of one such item is part of the plot here, setting off as Charlene is a chain wonder knitter, and is making something full of passing the book back 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 forth trading their hopes and dreams. Could the then force people to give her two be just days off school, when she shouts someone down as right expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for each other in person as they are in writing?me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848451725</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie Perkins (Editor)Ann Sei Lin|title=My True Love Gave to MeRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John GreenKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle]] that there was a real lack massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of festive YA around – at the time, I think the choice seemed to be pretty much limited Empire come to that or ''Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares'' by David Levithan drink and Rachel Cohnmake merry between their conquests. Both fantastic booksHowever, but when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a thin spread compared Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the amount out there for adults and for younger childrenEmpire. (If I’m missing obvious onesHe asks her to come with him, by to leave the waylife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, please let me know!) Thankfullysoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a dozen authorsshikigami, with Stephanie Perkins as and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the editorOrihime, have got together a sky-ship whose express purpose is to produce hunt down shikigami, and a perfect Christmas present here with twelve short stories set around the holidays.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144727279X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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'' the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers the man who meet in a pub in requested the town of Shynessbooks: Mr Birch. The teenagers are drawn togetherboarding school's headmaster, each adopting and a man Tess hates. As a different identity so petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the night they ugliest insults she can be anyone but themselvesthink of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris OThey'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 re never meant to reach him crazy, he decides of course. Her plan is to get himself an imaginary friendher anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. He enlists the help of his friend who already has an imaginary friendNo harm done… Or it would be, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isnif someone hadn't any good at being your imaginary friend, and who you'd really like to be your imaginary friend is the customer services representative who comes to try and help you out?!delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle MagorianPhilip Reeve|title=Impossible!Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Josie In a word, rich. There is twelvecertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and would much rather be a boy. She attends a stage school sea-witches, and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for having had her hair cut shortmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the hope sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of playing a boy’s part in a showprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Last of Julia and the SpiritsShark|rating=54

|summary=Teenage Sam Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and his little sister Lizzie are starving on their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the streets far NE of London, which is gripped by terrible coldthe Scottish islands. Asking an old businessman for money Here be Vikings, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hatekind of Scottish island. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob Dad is going to be automating the old manlantern, not caring whether which is his victim specialist thing, while mum will live or diebe leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. But before he can do so And Julia, a strange spirit appears to himwell, she will be homesick and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpointalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zoe SuggJonathan Stroud|title=Girl OnlineThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=I've been intrigued by Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the idea draconian conformity of Girl Online since I first heard about it - I love books about blogging the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the internetSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had the experience of becoming well known online shooting other outlaws to keep herselfalive. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number of people who've completely dismissed this as But then she meets Albert Browne, a bad book while admitting they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it dark boy with an open mind - I've never watched any of her YouTube videos dark powers and at a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the time mythical Free Isles of readingthe London Lagoon. Together, hadn't read her blogthey must brave man-eating wildlife, although I've just checked out a couple the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by them. I think that people who do post-apocalyptic society to reach the same thing Free Isles, but will enjoy it.they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MisdirectedMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Ali BermanSlingshot|rating=43

|summary= Ben's Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family are moving from cosmopolitan, multi-faith Boston she is used to not being a small town priority in Americapeople's Bible Belt, much to Ben's disgustlives. He's not looking forward to attending But when she defends a conservative Christian high school and it doesn't take more than a few days 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, Tessrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her parents forbid the relationship: as a non-believer Ben, to them, simple existence is a dangerous and pernicious influencechanged for good. With his brother on a tour of Iraq with the militaryNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who won't talk to him, Ben for her life now has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even boy in it that goes wrong..she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael MorpurgoT L Huchu|title=Listen to The Library of the MoonDead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's MayRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, 1915. World War I is underway using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Scillionians have already seen lossesdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Like the rest Ever since she dropped out of Britainschool, they are beginning she's been using it to realise that this war won't be over any time soonsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one dayHowever, they hear a childthere's cries. On one an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the archipelagocity's uninhabited islandschildren. Soon, they find Ropa is pulled into the search for a half-starved little girl, abandoned and in a terrible statemissing boy at the request of his dead mother. She can only speak one word: Lucy. Who will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is this foundling? Is far bigger and more dangerous than she a ghost? A mermaid? Or, more worryingly, ever could 've imagined. Will she be a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on find the label of her blanketmissing children and bring an end to this evil, after all. And why does she gaze at the moon with such longing in or will it claim her eyestoo?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreview|author=Betsy Tobin|title=Things We Couldn't Explain|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jericho, Ohio - 1979. Annemarie is a clever, funny and spirited girl. Born with sight, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates for her disability. Living amongst the small-town folk of Jericho, 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 pregnant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K A S Quinn|title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Katie is back, and once more she's back in Victorian England. This time, 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 of the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's life, trying to prevent Britain messing up the outcome of the American Civil War, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darragh McManus|title=Shiver the Whole Night Through|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend to someone who works at the local carnival and even heard that from someone else. Life is just rubbish and needs ending totally. This is something he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact he's still alive, he hears that Slaine McAuley, 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 and why does she choose to tell him, of all people? Aidan is Move on a mission: he ''will'' find out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=The Piper|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on the eve of World War Two to The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from the moment they get there: there are children dancing in the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]