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|summary=This book markets itself as Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a mystery with once in a bit of lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a love story thrown in trip out but it is more than thatunfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. It is about loss But then chance brings them back together, anger, confusion, the pain caused by bullying and the desire to fit into a social group by connecting with other peoplethey are inseparable. It addresses how people can change after a tragedy Something has happened though, the dangers of isolating oneself something terrible and how teens focus on pursuits such as gamingtragic, science fictionand now they must work through their grief, graphic novels, art, music and popular culture to express themselves and try to make sense of their worldfriendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008110662</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lance RubinMax Boucherat|title=Denton Little's DeathdateThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=''Tomorrow is I can hear the day I'm going to diesong of the sea. I don't mean to get all dramatic about it. I've known that tomorrow is The call of the deep, the day I will die since I was born.. Just like almost everyone else answering beat in the world knows their deathdate. But do I need to get movie-preview-voice-over-guy intense about it? Probably notmy heart.''

Oh! I think I would want to get intense about impending deathRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Don't you think you wouldMira, too? But imagine what it's like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to live in survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a world where everyone knows trap to end the day wrecking, they will die. Rituals capture the island's leader and conventions spring upMira's father. You get Desperate to go save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to your own funeralguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. You could even get With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to make the most heart of your life if you know when it ends. You wonthe smuggler't pass up so many opportunitiess territory, perhaps?Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124231</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachHarry Allen|title=We All Looked Up|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about to graduate high school. They all have plans and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid is approaching Earth and there's a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just a few weeks before a possible, no a likely, end Children of the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ''do''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner|title=This Shattered WorldSun

|summary=Stone-faced Captain Jubilee Chase Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is the best soldier on Avon, a planet in the midst of a rebelliontalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, where the terraforming won’t takeso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the mysterious Fury infects soldiers meagre rations of rice and turns them into mindless killers. Only Lee is immune, and she doesn’t understand whykimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinAlexia Casale|title=Black Dove, White RavenSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=The essential role of aviators It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the success or failure middle of modern war is a givendance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, and fiction is full of desperate to avoid the derring-do pity stares, and dog-fight exploits of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as they land their frail and battered craft at she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a friendly airstrip. But what if the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundredsnew (cute!) boy in school, if not thousandsher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and you, just the day to day traumas of all the pilotchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, are barely out of your childhoodmight she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271361</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamSimon Fox|title=Gifted|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is a forensic sorcerer, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight by their mid-twenties, and only the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons and angels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Diana Sweeney|title=The MinnowDeadlock

|summary=''Your city Late one night Graham Blake is lost. Your city is not yours. Your city is mine.'' That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddess, freed late back from thousands of years imprisonmenthis shift on the force, has unleashed her magic. Time has stopped. All the humans are frozen in suspended animation. All the humans exceptand then suddenly rings Archie, that isdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, brother and sister Will and Jo, who are protected by join him on the scarab bracelets they wearrun. And now They get together, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the Spits (good statues) and has sent father is arrested, leaving Archie on the bad statues (Taints) late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to find keep away from his colleagues, and the two children who are threatening her plansbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyLex Croucher|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 Gwen and Art Are Not 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 GamesLove

|summary=Luna is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a Refuser. In her worldgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector and a Ludditemost delightful way. In this post WW3 Britainstory, almost everyone has a brain implant which Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they use were tiny, much to spend most of their lives 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 virtual environment. People don't just play in boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the vast array subterfuge of games: falling in love with each other, when really they workare enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they learn, find a way in which they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt out, like Lunacan both truly be themselves, or are shut out of the best careers and viewed with suspicion.they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ElsonNick Brooks|title=How to Fly with Broken Wings|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Megan Miranda|title=SoulprintPromise Boys

|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled When the tracking principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidpolice station as suspects. Reincarnation is now an established fact Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the government maintains a database time of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to the person in whom their soul is reincarnatedhis murder. But the discovery has led to problems who killed him, and why, and if any of the problems have led boys are innocent, will they be able to Alina's ''containment''.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jasmine Warga1919635017|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhere. She’s smart but not popularSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so high school’s not much fun, and her part-time job, cold calling the town’s residents on behalf of various customers, why is far from satisfying. It’s understandable that she’s not he running around London committing 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 series of robberies? And how did he learn to take her own life, and she’s making plans crack safes? You'll have to make this happen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>}}{{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 wait to live lives of luxury. Learning get an answer to survive amongst the slum like conditions that second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the Reds inhabit, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - first one that proves to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Darkest Part of the ForestPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Holly BlackDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=The people Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of Fairfold know not to meddle four with both his best buddy from the faerie folkfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they wear their socks inside outall go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, fill their pockets with oatmeal the talk in class and they stay out of the forest on the full moonoften turns to sex. Tourists don’t Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know these thingswhat his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. People travel far He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and wide to see so has effectively progressed up the faerie town and the sleeping boy ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in the glass coffin but one or two always go missingstone, never to he can't be seen againsure. Tourists, And that's mostly because of who he's been having the locals say, relationship and the folk don’t interfere sex with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1800901232|title=Love HurtsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereftTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Mixed Life in are enough moments of heartsease (the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and heart's joy!) woman came to the village to keep you believing offer Hahn a job in loveHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. And we all want Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to believe Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in lovea shop, don't wethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? If you are one of The ones with the few who don't, artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you might as well look away now. The rest of us are in for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Childrentouched them? It's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbag, quite possible that Hanh and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows of love as it is experienced by young peopleher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerPatrice Lawrence|title=These Broken StarsNeedle|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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171020</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I Was Here|author=Gayle Forman|rating=43

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'I regret of this piece is extremely hard for some people to inform you that I have had to take my own lifelike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by emails at uni. A flatSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, formalyou might perhaps think, email. We follow her over and the creation of one such item is part of the ensuing months plot here, as she searches Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for answers. How could her younger sister – a younger sister she not have realised that her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongingsallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, Cody finds emails on her laptop and then force people to a boy that has broken give her heart. Is Ben McAllister the cause of Meg's suicide? But there's an encrypted filetwo days off school, toowhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And when Cody finally opens itthen... well, she finds information that will take her on a journeywhat exactly happens is not for me to say, not only through Meg's life, but also her ownto remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieAnn Sei Lin|title=The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior Kurara has spent her entire life as he is known a servant on the Spokane Indian Reservation Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where he livessoldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is about a Crafter like him, someone with the power to face form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challengesEmpire. He knows the decision asks her to go come with him, to leave the rich life of dreary servitude that is all-white schoolshe has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the nearby town of Reardanmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a necessary one. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to monstrous paper spirit known as a town where he's going shikigami, and she is forced to be even more of a target, even more flee out of place, than he already is on into the rezworld. It means risking the wrath of She joins Himura aboard the other IndiansOrihime, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it sky-ship whose express purpose is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishment, depression and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservationto hunt down shikigami, and it is a path that he must walk for the sake of not just his future, but that whole world of his tribe.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsMarcus Sedgwick|title=JuvieWrath

|summary=With the title ''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book is going to be about, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alikeMeet Fitz, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at a party and finds herself young Scottish lad full of frustration at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgementhimself. The two girls end up at the wrong place at the wrong timeLockdown is only just over, and before they know it they're in court trying he should be free to do what he wants, to clear their names. Carla has a history go where he wants and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some timewith whom he wants, away but he cannot stop himself from her young daughter putting his foot in a way that no one wants. There is a way outit when he talks to his best friend, thoughCassie. Sadie is, if not They were half of a good girldesultory school band, then definitely but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the better sister. If enigmatic – saying she takes could hear a subhuman hum coming from the blame, she'll likely get off earth. Is this connected 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 don't go to plan, and Sadie gets sent to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for of her supposed role in eco-warrior parents saying the crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3|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 end of the British Army, then you need to be ready for anything. And despite his training, Liam world is new to this game. He still has already a lot to learn and he's going to have to do done deal? Is 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 some spooky new kind of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=music she''The Age s dreaming of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the time to read on its first go around. I'm truth? Well, 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 when Cassie has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing Igone missing he can'd usually misst.. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveTori Bovalino|title=SienaThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley High, along with her clique the Starlets. Nothing can stand Working all summer in her way – not even boarding school's library is the return of ex-Starlet and her former best friend Romy, who spent last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a term in France after request for over a shocking incident one night led hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the headmistress deciding man who requested the girl needed to spend some time away from their books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, you know roughly what happens hereTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, but you donscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They't necessarily know whyre never meant to reach him, of course. If you haven’t read itHer plan is to get her anger out like this, I'd definitely suggest going for that one firstand then take them all off before delivering them. (There may No harm done… Or it would be spoilers here, although Iif someone hadn've tried to avoid anything too specifict delivered them for her.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlottePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Alex BellUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When Sophie In a word, rich. There is certainly 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 Jay play around with a ouija board app sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that Jay has downloaded to his phonekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, things go awfully wrongwhere no ship dare sail. Sophie asks The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to speak keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to Rebeccaworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, a cousin who washed up out of hers who died in mysterious circumstancesthe sea one day eleven years ago. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very nightwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Jay drowns in both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accidentworld of protecting their island, like it or not. Or was it?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Red QueenJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Mare is a Red Julia, our pre- a race kept in lives of poverty and servitude by the Silversteen heroine, a race has been packed off with wealth her parents and mutant powers that allow them their cat from the family home in SW England to live lives of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, Mare is swiftly thrown into in the world far NE of the Silvers - one that proves to Scottish islands. Here be more dangerous than she had ever imaginedVikings, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every cornerthat kind of Scottish island.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Jekyll's Mirror|author=William Hussey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam Dad is doing his best but he feels going to be automating the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother to deathlantern, wouldn't you? He tries to concentrate on schoolwork and which is his art and keep that anger locked away deep down insidespecialist thing, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does while mum will be leaving her best career in algae behind to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustfulhunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasn't fallen far from (his father's) treeshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveJonathan Stroud|title=StellaThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|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''Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, and throw in a splash of ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story which has surprising depth and has been one I've been thinking about a lot since originally reading it towards rejecting the start draconian conformity of the year. I read Stella for the first time after getting it out of the library, Surviving Towns and at Faith Houses to wander the time I was extremely impressed by wildlands between the voices Seven Kingdoms of lead characters Stella Britain, robbing banks and Caitlinshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, but had issues a dark boy with itdark powers and a darker past. On rereadingWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to prepare myself for upcoming prequel ''Siena''flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, I think it's one they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time aroundFree Isles, although those issues haven't vanished completely.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonMercedes Helnwein|title=The Art of Being NormalSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Fourteen-year-old David Gracie Welles has always known that he is a transgender girlresigned herself to being lonely. (Note: As David uses male pronouns in his internal dialogue I have continued a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to do so not being a priority in my review.) However David has chosen a new girlpeople's name and collects feminine clothes to express that inner selflives. This But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie and Felixchanged for good. When Leo DentonNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, who also for her life now has a secret, moves to David's school Eden Park from the rougher Cloverdale, the worlds of the two collideboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margaret WildT L Huchu|title=The Vanishing MomentLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This book appealed Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to me on various groundstake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. It is teen fiction (Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister andher aging grandmother. However, joy there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of joysEdinburgh, devoid targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of werewolves his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and dystopia), it realise that the world of magic is by an Australian author (under-represented on UK shelves), far bigger and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs)more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. I was intrigued to see if Will she find the author could live up missing children and bring an end to my expectations.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>1529039452