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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie FletcherJenny Valentine|title=Dragon Shield: 02: The London Pride|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Your city is lost. Your city is not yours. Your city is mine.'' That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddess, freed from thousands of years imprisonment, has unleashed her magic. Time has stopped. All the humans are frozen in suspended animation. All the humans except, that is, brother and sister Will and Jo, who are protected by the scarab bracelets they wear. And now, Bast has even succeeded Us in freezing some of the Spits (good statues) Before and has sent the bad statues (Taints) to find the two children who are threatening her plans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melinda Salisbury|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged to the prince. But this is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemies. Can she survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Mind Games|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Luna is a Refuser. In her world, a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector and a Luddite. In this post WW3 Britain, almost everyone has a brain implant which they use to spend most of their lives in a virtual environment. People don't just play in the vast array of games: they work, they learn, they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt out, like Luna, are shut out of the best careers and viewed with suspicion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jane Elson|title=How to Fly with Broken WingsAfter
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert has given him an assignment he's going to find difficult. He must make two friends of his own age. That's tricky when you're on the autistic spectrum and you don't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join in with Finn when he bullies you and makes you jump from increasingly high places. Sasha is torn. She loves Finn to pieces but she can't bear bullying and she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has a secret of his own that's driving his rotten behaviour.
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{{newreview
|author=Megan Miranda
|title=Soulprint
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled the tracking of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluid. Reincarnation is now an established fact and the government maintains a database of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to the person in whom their soul is reincarnated. But the discovery has led to problems and the problems have led to Alina's ''containment''.
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{{newreview
|author=Jasmine Warga
|title=My Heart and Other Black Holes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhere. She’s smart but not popular, so high school’s not much fun, and her part-time job, cold calling the town’s residents on behalf of various customers, is far from satisfying. It’s understandable that she’s not a very happy girl. She’s not the preppy cheerleader or the honour roll student who sidelines as class president. She’s nobody, really. But she’s nobody with a dark secret. She wants to take her own life, and she’s making plans to make this happen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Victoria Aveyard
|title=Red Queen
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mare is a Red - a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude by the Silvers, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabit, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Darkest Part of the Forest
|author=Holly Black
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The people of Fairfold know not to meddle with the faerie folk, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out of the forest on the full moon. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far 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 again. Tourists, the locals say, the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Malorie Blackman
|title=Love Hurts
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Love Hurts'' Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is all about heartache a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but it doesnunfortunately they don't leave you bereft. Mixed in are enough moments of heartsease (and heartget each other's joy!) to keep you believing in lovecontact details at the time. And we all want to believe in love But then chance brings them back together, don't we? If you are one of the few who don't, you might as well look away now. The rest of us and they are in for a treatinseparable. This anthology Something has been gathered together by Children's Laureate Malorie Blackmanhappened though, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbagsomething terrible and tragic, and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs now they must work through their grief, and lows of love as it is experienced by young peopletheir friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerMax Boucherat|title=These Broken StarsThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lilac is the untouchable LaRoux princess, daughter of the richest man in the Universe. Tarver is a decorated war hero, allowed to mingle outside his social circles because the upper classes love to celebrate his heroism. After chance meeting aboard the Icarus - the most luxurious ship space travel has to offer - neither Lilac nor Tarver can deny the attraction blossoming. But Tarver knows he isn't good enough for Lilac, and Lilac knows that her father has very strong ideals about who she spends time with. It's over before it's even begun.
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{{newreview
|author=Darren Shan
|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HereRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Gayle FormanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieHarry Allen|title=The Absolutely True Diary Children of a Part-Time Indianthe Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsAlexia Casale|title=JuvieSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{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
|rating=4.5
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlotteLex Croucher|authortitle=Alex BellGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardNick Brooks|title=Red QueenPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Jekyll's MirrorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=William HusseyKitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|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>
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Williamson1800901232|title=The Art of Being NormalStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildPatrice Lawrence|title=The Vanishing MomentNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|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
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{{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
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Cohn and David LevithanMarcus Sedgwick|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 MeWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John GreenMeet Fitz, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle]] that there was a real lack young Scottish lad full of festive YA around – frustration at the timehimself. Lockdown is only just over, I think the choice seemed and he should be free to be pretty much limited do what he wants, to that or ''Dash go where he wants and Lily’s Book of Dares'' by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn. Both fantastic bookswith whom he wants, but a thin spread compared he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to the amount out there for adults and for younger childrenhis best friend, Cassie. (If I’m missing obvious onesThey were half of a desultory school band, by but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the way, please let me know!) Thankfully, enigmatic – saying she could hear a dozen authors, subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with Stephanie Perkins as one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the editor, have got together to produce world is already a perfect Christmas present here with twelve short stories set around done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the holidaystruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144727279X</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth KiemTori Bovalino|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret KeeperThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I was caught up by this novel from Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the first pages and read it with absorption in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a single sittinghundred books that she has to deliver herself. The young heroine, Lana Dukovskaya, What makes it worse is a third generation ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet but man who requested the experiences of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lostbooks: Mr Birch. Her grandmotherThe boarding school's nameheadmaster, we discover, has been erased from the records and her mother is a troubled secretive figureman Tess hates. Lana challenges the conventional notion As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a ballerina: large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she has close cropped haircan think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, loves high speed motor bikes and most of then take them all she wants to experiment with the repertoireoff before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallPhilip Reeve|title=This is ShynessUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''This is Shyness'' In a word, rich. There is certainly an unusual 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 sea-witches, and brilliant story about Wolfboy legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and Wildgirltheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, two strangers who meet has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in a pub 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 town of Shynesssea one day eleven years ago. The teenagers But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are drawn togetherthrust into the world of protecting their island, each adopting a different identity so for the night they can be anyone but themselveslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris O'Dowd Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Nick Vincent MurphyTom de Freston|title=Moone Boy: Julia and the Blunder YearsShark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Poor Martin MooneJulia, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazyour pre-teen heroine, he decides has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to get himself an imaginary friendbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. He enlists Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the help of lantern, which is his friend who already has an imaginary friendspecialist thing, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the imaginary friend you imagine isn't any good at being your imaginary friendelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, and who you'd really like to she will be your imaginary friend is the customer services representative who comes to try homesick and help you out?!alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle MagorianJonathan Stroud|title=Impossible!The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Josie Scarlett McCain is twelvean outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and would much rather be shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boywith dark powers and a darker past. She attends a stage school With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress for having had her hair cut shortall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the hope rest of playing a boy’s part in a show. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMercedes Helnwein|title=The Last of the SpiritsSlingshot|rating=53|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Londona man with a "real" family, which she is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, used to not being a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sampriority in people'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 dielives. But before he can do so, when she defends a strange spirit appears to himrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent acther simple existence is changed for good. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his actionNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from for her life now has a new viewpointboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zoe SuggT L Huchu|title=Girl OnlineThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|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 internetRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the experience dead of becoming well known online herselfEdinburgh for their living relatives. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number Ever since she dropped out of people whoschool, she've completely dismissed this as a bad book while admitting they haven't read s been using it seems surprisingly highto support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. I approached it with However, there's an open mind - I've never watched any of her YouTube videos and at evil stalking the time ruined streets of readingEdinburgh, hadntargeting the city't read her blogs children. Soon, although I've just checked out Ropa is pulled into the search for a couple missing boy at the request of her personal posts his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and Imore dangerous than she ever could'm quite impressed by themve imagined. I think that people who do Will she find the same thing missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will enjoy it.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>1529039452
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