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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingJenny Valentine|title=Haunt: Dead WrongUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5

|summary= Will Elk and Dougie have been Mab are best friends for ages, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each understand how the other thinks (well, most of 's contact details at the time) . But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they stick together must work through thick their grief, and thin. Literallytheir friendship, in fact: Will's dead but somehow he's not only unable to move on to whatever comes next, he actually can't stray more than a few feet away from his best friend. The possibilities for embarrassment are endlesstogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115798</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HendrickMax Boucherat|title=The Accident|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Accident alternates between three characters telling their story before, just after and much later than the day Last Life of the accident which connects them. Before the car crash, Eliat is a teenage mum knowing she needs to be an adult whilst never feeling more like a kid. Just after the car crash, Will is struggling to hold his dysfunctional family together when his oldest sister moves back home. Later, Sarah is struggling to move on with her life with the injuries and grief the accident has left her with. It’s a story about, whether we realise it or not, how we’re all connected by split-second decisions and we can’t control the impact they have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921922850</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jandy Nelson|title=I'll Give You The SunLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Twins Noah and Jude used to be inseparable until tragedy tore them apart. Now NoahWe meet Lori on the first evening she's changed utterly from got the boy he used house to herself – no neighbour to bepop 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 Jude that is reduced to spying log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on him through his friend as she struggles with her own issues at , and then she finds something even more spooky. For the exclusive art school Noah was always supposed server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to go enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to, but Jude ended up at instead.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406326496</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G HarrisRachel Greenlaw|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black HorizonCompass and Blade

|summary=Grace is looking forward to being the star in ''I can hear the upcoming school production song of Much Ado About Nothing, but after missing the audition, she's relegated to understudy and making costumes in sewing clubsea. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't the plan, but it may leave her in a position to step into the lead role if needed - and there's a compensation in The call of the form of new boy Connordeep, who's stage managing and after initially appearing to dislike Grace starts to warm to her. Will Grace get the part and the boy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin J Myers|title=The Grindle Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Deep answering beat in the woods something evil is stirring..my heart.''

You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father is Rosevear, a pathologist remote and neither he nor partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's body. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out rocks and plundering the most savage attack anyone has ever seenwrecks. And JackMira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who has just moved swim out to survey the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it a boring ruins – rescuing any survivors and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happensany treasure that lies within. How wrong could he have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Smale|title=Geek Girl: All That Glitters|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you're But when the Council Watch lays a brighttrap to end the wrecking, enthusiastic teen but not top of they capture the popularity polls at school then this series of books by Holly Smale is absolutely made for youisland's leader and Mira's father. Harriet Manners is, according Desperate to your point of view, either beautiful enough to travel the world modelling fabulous clothessave him from death, or Mira makes a girl bargain with a very ordinary face wreck survivor who got veryis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, very luckyshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. She's clumsy and accident-proneWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her dress sense leaves a lot from the watched streets of foreign islands to be desired, and shethe heart of the smuggler's far more inclined territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to research save the fine art future of making friends in a book (or ten) than go out there her home and have a gothe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574584</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle FalkoffHarry Allen|title=Playlist For The Dead|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=This book markets itself as a mystery with a bit of a love story thrown in but it is more than that. It is about loss, anger, confusion, the pain caused by bullying and the desire to fit into a social group by connecting with other people. It addresses how people can change after a tragedy, the dangers of isolating oneself and how teens focus on pursuits such as gaming, science fiction, graphic novels, art, music and popular culture to express themselves and try to make sense of their world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008110662</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lance Rubin|title=Denton Little's Deathdate|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Tomorrow is the day I'm going to die. I don't mean to get all dramatic about it. I've known that tomorrow is the day I will die since I was born.. Just like almost everyone else in the world knows their deathdate. But do I need to get movie-preview-voice-over-guy intense about it? Probably not.'' Oh! I think I would want to get intense about impending death. Don't you think you would, too? But imagine what it's like to live in a world where everyone knows the day they will die. Rituals and conventions spring up. You get to go to your own funeral. You could even get to make the most of your life if you know when it ends. You won't pass up so many opportunities, perhaps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124231</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|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=GiftedDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a forensic sorcerersecret place, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes in a world where adults join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the blur and lose their eyesight by their mid-twentiesfather is arrested, and only leaving Archie on the young have enough sorcerous power late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to summon demons keep away from his colleagues, and angelsthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana SweeneyLex Croucher|title=The MinnowGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults Who knew that features deathwhat I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, griefit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, abuse, fear Gwen and loneliness. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavementArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, and trying to come much to terms with losstheir mutual disgust! Gwen, bubbles just under the surfaceyou see, constantly. But don't be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding from the reader. What rescues it from mawkishness is in love with Bridget (the beautiful voice of the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer her real namekingdom's only female knight). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pity. She simply describes something that Art discovers from her world as she sees it, matter-of-factprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the fact that her view is rather unusual (she talks to fishsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, dead people and her unborn child - and when really they talk back) doesn't really matterare enabling their own other romantic attachments. Nothing But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can detract from the sheer lyricism of her voice. As a readerboth truly be themselves, you just have or are they destined to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnNick Brooks|title=The GloryPromise Boys|rating=4.5

|summary=Alex When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is what you might call a disruptive teenager. She's always getting murdered, three boys find themselves called into trouble but the latest trouble is the worst yet and her mum and step-dad have had enoughpolice station as suspects. Even her father Each, far away in Australia with his new familyseemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, thinks something must be done. So Alex is sent all and each could have been there at the way out to the States to a teenage boot camptime of his murder. But even naughty teenagers have their plus pointswho killed him, and why, and Alex's is her love if any of horses. She'll do anything the boys are innocent, will they be able to save the mustang scout from the slaughterhouse.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012754</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Teresa Toten1919635017|title=The Unlikely Hero of Room 13BA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Fifteen year old Adam has Solomon Klyne isn't a list. He needs bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get better, grow taller and marry an answer to the love of his life, Robynsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But while Adam develops a metaphorical tunnel vision so that he can focus only on winning Robyn’s love, everything he is ignoring in I'll answer the periphery is unravellingfirst one: for his grandmother... How can Adam help his own overwhelming OCD when he’s so focussed on fixing everyone around him? When is it ok to hang up your own superhero cloak and admit that you might need saving?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406362999</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Game ChangerDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Mikey Ant is afraid 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 open spaces. He would much rather hide in four with both his room - best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in his wardrobefact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, actually straining at the leash only a single- than face sex school can form, the world outsidetalk in class and out often turns to sex. But Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his familyscore is, where his achievements in particular his sister Meggie, are very supportivethat regard lie. And with Meggie He's helphad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', Mikey is gradually beginning to face but whether that world outside. But then something goes horribly's set in stone, horribly wrong. Mikey sees something he shouldncan't have seenbe sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the gang knows what he saw. The gang knows where he lives. And relationship and the gang wants to talk to him..sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794159</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Pinborough1800901232|title=The Death HouseStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Toby would appear Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be lucky, having the run of an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast of Britainfashion designer. But no. His domain only exists at nightLife in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, and only then because he sleeps in so when the day smartly-dressed man and refuses woman came to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an eveningopportunity not to be missed. He is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, Some money changed hands and being Hanh was on the cause of the nightmini-time lift ride on the one way route bus to the top floor SanatoriumHanoi. But Toby has it good as these things goOnly, Hanh and the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children other girls were not going to work in his Dorma shop, the only one not they were to have suffered a loss of lifework in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up You know those jeans you really wanted: the numbers, ones with intricate embroidery and one of them, Clara, is beading on the legs? The ones with the agent of artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that change. felt so soft when you touched them? For when she stumbles on TobyIt's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie FletcherPatrice Lawrence|title=Dragon Shield: 02: The London PrideNeedle|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 in freezing some of the Spits (good statues) 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=43

|summary=Luna is a RefuserBrave. In her worldCharlene, a Refuser the 'heroine' of this piece is a kind extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of cross between a conscientious objector multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a Luddite. In this post WW3 Britainpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, almost everyone and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a brain implant which they use to spend most tempestuous personality may be in need of their lives in a virtual environment. People don't just play in comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the vast array creation of games: they workone such item is part of the plot here, they learnas Charlene is a wonder knitter, they dateand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Even hacking is encouragedWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And those who opt outthen... well, like Lunawhat exactly happens is not for me to say, are shut out of the best careers only to remark how sharp and viewed with suspicionpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ElsonAnn Sei Lin|title=How to Fly with Broken WingsRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challengingKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert has given However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him an assignment he's going , someone with the power to find difficultform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He must make two friends asks her to come with him, to leave the life of his own agedreary servitude that is all she has known. That's tricky when you're on the autistic spectrum and you donWell, soon Kurara won't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join have any say in with Finn when he bullies you the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and makes you jump from increasingly high places. Sasha she is tornforced to flee out into the world. She loves Finn joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to pieces but she can't bear bullying hunt down shikigami, and she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has a secret whole world of his own that's driving his rotten behaviour.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaMarcus Sedgwick|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''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jasmine Warga|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesWrath

|summary=Aysel lives in the middle Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of nowherefrustration at himself. She’s smart Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but not popularhe cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, so high school’s not much funCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, and but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her parteco-time job, cold calling warrior parents saying the town’s residents on behalf end of various customers, the world is far from satisfying. It’s understandable that she’s not already a very happy girl. She’s not the preppy cheerleader or done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the honour roll student who sidelines as class president. She’s nobodytruth? Well, reallynot when Cassie has gone missing he can't. But she’s nobody with a dark secret. She wants to take her own life, and she’s making plans to make this happen.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|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>}}{{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The Darkest Part of the Forest|author=Holly BlackDevil Makes Three

|summary=The people of Fairfold know not Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to meddle with deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the faerie folkbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, they wear their socks inside outand a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the forest on books, scribbled with the full moonugliest insults she can think of. Tourists don’t know these thingsThey're never meant to reach him, of course. People travel far and wide Her plan is to see the faerie town get her anger out like this, and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never to then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be seen again. Tourists, the locals say, the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a touristsomeone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanPhilip Reeve|title=Love HurtsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''Love Hurts'' In a word, rich. There is all about heartache certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but it doesn't leave you bereftway west, beyond the Scillies. Mixed in There are enough moments troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of heartsease (and heart's joy!) the Dark family that has to keep you believing in lovewatch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. And we all want The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to believe in love, don't we? If you are one keep notes of activity from the few Hidden Lands, his brother Will who don'tlives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, you might as well look away now. The rest of us are in for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Childrenand Andrewe's Laureate Malorie Blackmanfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbagday eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about his curious ward are thrust into the highs and lows world of love as protecting their island, like it is experienced by young peopleor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amie Kaufman Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Meagan SpoonerTom de Freston|title=These Broken Stars|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 Julia and 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)Shark

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in this seriesalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HereJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Gayle FormanThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''I regret Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to inform you that I have had wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to take my own lifekeep herself alive.'' Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by email. A flat, formal, email. We follow her over the ensuing months as she searches for answers. How could But then she not have realised that her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongingsmeets Albert Browne, Cody finds emails on her laptop to a dark boy that has broken her heartwith dark powers and a darker past. Is Ben McAllister With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the cause mythical Free Isles of Meg's suicide? But there's an encrypted file, toothe London Lagoon. And when Cody finally opens itTogether, she finds information that will take her on a journeythey must brave man-eating wildlife, not only through Meg's lifethe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but also her own...will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieMercedes Helnwein|title=The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior as he is known on the Spokane Indian Reservation where he lives, is about Gracie Welles has resigned herself to face the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challengesbeing lonely. He knows the decision to go to the rich all-white school, in the nearby town As a secret illegitimate daughter of Reardana man with a "real" family, she is a necessary one. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day used to not being a town where hepriority in people's going to be even more of a target, even more out of place, than he already is on the rezlives. It means risking the wrath of the other Indians, who will see him as a traitor, But when she defends a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend and partner random boy in crimeher class with her slingshot, Rowdyher simple existence is changed for good. However, it is the only way he No longer can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishmentshe spend her time writing novels in solitude, depression and rampant alcoholism that for her life now has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservation, and a boy in it is a path that he must walk she never asked for the sake of not just his future, but that of his tribe: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsT L Huchu|title=JuvieThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=With the title ''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book Ropa Moyo is going to be abouta ghostalker, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alike, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at a party using Zimbabwean magic (and finds herself at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgement. The two girls end up at the wrong place at the wrong time, and before they know it they're in court trying bit of Scottish pragmatism) to clear their names. Carla has a history and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some time, away take messages from her young daughter in a way that no one wants. There is a way out, though. Sadie is, if not a good girl, then definitely the better sisterdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. If Ever since she takes the blamedropped out of school, she'll likely get off with a caution for a first offence, no harm done. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's been using it to support not idealonly herself, but she can take one for the team. Except things don't go to plan, her younger sister and Sadie gets sent to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for her supposed role in the crimeaging grandmother.|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 youHowever, there're going to be s an in-theatre intelligence gatherer for evil stalking the British Armyruined streets of Edinburgh, then you need to be ready for anythingtargeting the city's children. And despite his trainingSoon, Liam Ropa is new to this game. He still has pulled into the search for a lot to learn and he's going to have to do it missing boy at 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 request 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 aroundhis dead mother. 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 She will end up my alley discovering an occult library and not realise that the sort world of thing Imagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could'd usually missve imagined. 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 Eve|title=Siena|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley High, along with her clique the Starlets. Nothing can stand in her way – not even Will she find the return of ex-Starlet missing children and her former best friend Romy, who spent a term in France after a shocking incident one night led bring an end to the headmistress deciding the girl needed to spend some time away from their school. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]this evil, you know roughly what happens here, but you don't necessarily know why. If you haven’t read or will it, I'd definitely suggest going for that one first. (There may be spoilers here, although I've tried to avoid anything claim her too specific.)?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1529039452