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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeJenny Valentine|title=The Lie TreeUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerieElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, unreal atmosphere of her bookstheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. Mysteries lurk in They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the shadowstime. But then chance brings them back together, perplexing and sometimes menacing her charactersthey are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and the strange tragic, and the banal jostle each other for space on the page. A world both familiar now they must work through their grief, and outlandish is offered to ustheir friendship, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turntogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael ByrneMax Boucherat|title=Lottery Boy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve year old Bully and his mongrel dog, Jack, have been living rough for almost six months – ever since Bully's mum died. The future holds no hope until, quite by accident, he finds the lottery ticket he purchased for his mum hidden inside the last birthday card she gave him. He checks the numbers and discovers he's won the jackpot. But there's only days left before the ticket expires and Bully's not old enough to claim the money. To make matters worse, word Last Life of his winning ticket has got out and every unsavoury character on the streets is now after him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358290</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Panther|author=David OwenLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Things have gone woefully wrong for Derrick. HeWe meet Lori on the first evening she's binge eating 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 his weight has spiralled. Hethat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's fallen out with his best friendworld. The girl he likes But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't like him. He's in trouble at school. And if it weren't for his sister Charlottefind herself entirely on her own, none of this shiznit would be happeningand then she finds something even more spooky. If Charlotte wasn't depressed, if For the server she hadn't tried and her bestie and nobody else should be able toenter shows signs of tampering... When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, you know... everything would be fine, just like it used where is a girl to be.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116429</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy BirchallRachel Greenlaw|title=The It GirlCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Anna ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is an awkward 14-year-old one of the seven who is trying swim out to fit in with people at her new school survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and convince them any treasure that she wasn’t actually trying lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to set her popular classmate’s hair on fireend the wrecking, it just happenedthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Her dad is Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a well-known journalist who’s just written bargain with a bookwreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and they get on well - until he falls for she sets off in search of a famous actressfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the paparazzi buzzing over watched streets of foreign islands to the news heart of the engagementsmuggler's territory, Anna becomes a new target for them – but can this shy, nerdy girl cope with Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the sudden attention?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Taran Matharu|title=The Novice|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The Novice'', Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received a staggering five million reads. This book doesn’t just survive future of her home and the hype; it deserves itones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathy Reichs and Brendan ReichsHarry Allen|title= Exposure (Virals 4)Children of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= In the fourth book of this electrifying sci-fi crime thriller series Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the resourceful teen Virals pit their wits against a cunning villain when two meagre rations of their classmates go missing. An exciting adventure with a shocking twistrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099567245</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia SysonAlexia Casale|title=LibertySing if you Can's Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paris in the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting for this tense, dramatic novel. ''Liberty's Fire'' is Lydia Syson's third work of fiction and certainly ensures that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical period. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Persistt Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Accident alternates between three characters telling their story beforeIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, just but that's what Ven is dealing with after and much later than collapsing on stage in the day middle of the accident which connects thema dance performance that was going to change her life. Before the car crash But she comes back fighting, Eliat is a teenage mum knowing she needs desperate to be an adult whilst never feeling more like a kid. Just after avoid the car crashpity stares, Will is struggling and desperate to hold his dysfunctional family together when his oldest sister moves get back home. Later, Sarah is struggling to move on with her a life with the injuries and grief the accident has left her withthat's as normal as she can possibly manage. It’s Meanwhile there's a story aboutnew (cute!) boy in school, whether we realise it or nother music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, how we’re and just the day to day traumas of all connected by split-second decisions and we can’t control the impact they havechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921922850</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jandy NelsonSimon Fox|title=I'll Give You The SunDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Life Late one night Graham Blake is changing very fast for Ben Carrington. He is at the opening of a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – the chap is hardly cold in back from his grave when Ben's mum and shift on the lad have to prove how adept they are at her old jobforce, of mountain rescue. She feels like setting up a new rescue agency with her nous and the family fortunes, but someone who can just amble into the opening/memorial ceremony is Jason Trubythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a monumentally rich Internet magnate, who actually has a modern-day ''Thunderbirds'' entity alreadysecret place, and join him on the top secret Gemini Forcerun. Truby starts to They get close together, but barely begin to smell the family whiff of twoSouthern trains when the father is arrested, but leaving Archie on the school-aged Ben isn't going late express to be allowed Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to learn just what dramatic escapades keep away from his colleagues, and the agency has to cover – is he?bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy CannonLex Croucher|title=Secrets, Schemes Gwen and Sewing MachinesArt Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Grace is looking forward Who knew that what I really needed to being the star read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the upcoming school production of Much Ado About Nothinga most delightful way. In this story, but after missing the auditionGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, she's relegated much to understudy and making costumes in sewing club. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't the plantheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, but it may leave her is in a position to step into love with Bridget (the lead role if needed - and therekingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a compensation in boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the form subterfuge of new boy Connorfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, who's stage managing and after initially appearing or are they destined to dislike Grace starts to warm to her. Will Grace get the part and the boylive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersNick Brooks|title=The Grindle Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirring...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father is a pathologist and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's body. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out the most savage attack anyone has ever seen. And Jack, who has just moved to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happens. How wrong could he have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Smale|title=Geek Girl: All That GlittersPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you're a bright, enthusiastic teen but not top When the principal (headmaster) of the popularity polls at Urban Promise Prep school then this series of books by Holly Smale is absolutely made for youmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Harriet Manners is Each, seemingly, according to your point has a grudge of viewsome description against Principal Moore, either beautiful enough to travel and each could have been there at the world modelling fabulous clothestime of his murder. But who killed him, or a girl with a very ordinary face who got veryand why, very lucky. She's clumsy and accident-proneif any of the boys are innocent, her dress sense leaves a lot to will they be desired, and she's far more inclined able to research the fine art of making friends in a book (or ten) than go out there and have a go.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574584</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michelle Falkoff1919635017|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 A Thief to fit into Catch 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>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Lance Rubin|title=Denton Little's DeathdateKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''Tomorrow t a bad lad, so why is the day Ihe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'm going ll have to die. I don't mean wait to get all dramatic about it. I've known that tomorrow is an answer to the day second question because I will die since I was born.. Just like almost everyone else in the world knows their deathdateavoid spoilers. 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 ll answer the day they will die. Rituals and conventions spring upfirst one: for his grandmother. 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=We All Looked UpDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=PeterAnt 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, Elizaso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, Andy and Anita are two other old muckers – in fact they all about go back to graduate high primary schooldays together. They As they're all have plans fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about out often turns to be thrown into disarraysex. An asteroid Which is approaching Earth and thereconfusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just casual relationship, a few weeks before a possiblesecret one, no a likelyfor several months now, end of and so has effectively progressed up the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can'dot be sure. And that's mostly because of who he'?s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner1800901232|title=This Shattered WorldStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=StoneTwelve-faced Captain Jubilee Chase is year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the best soldier on Avonrural 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 offer Hahn a planet job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the midst of mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a rebellionshop, where they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the terraforming won’t take, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the mysterious Fury infects soldiers legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and turns distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them into mindless killers. Only Lee is immune, ? It's quite possible that Hanh and she doesn’t understand whyher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinPatrice Lawrence|title=Black Dove, White RavenNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=The essential role Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of aviators this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, 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's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the success or failure creation of modern war one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a givenwonder knitter, and fiction is making something full of the derring-do 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 dog-fight exploits of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as they land their frail and battered craft at a friendly airstripexpletively ignorant. And then... But well, what if the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundreds, if exactly happens is not thousandsfor me to say, only to remark how sharp and you, the pilot, are barely out of your childhood?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271361</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamAnn Sei Lin|title=GiftedRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is Kurara has spent her entire life as a forensic sorcererservant on the Midori, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes a massive dining hall floating in a world the sky where adults get soldiers of the blur Empire come to drink and lose make merry between their eyesight conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever 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 their mid-twentiesa monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and only she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the young have enough sorcerous power Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to summon demons hunt down shikigami, and angels.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana SweeneyMarcus Sedgwick|title=The MinnowWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at Young Adults that features death, grief, abuse, fear and lonelinesshimself. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavementLockdown is only just over, and trying he should be free to come do what he wants, to terms go where he wants and with losswhom he wants, bubbles just under the surfacebut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, constantlyCassie. But don't be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the readerearth. What rescues it from mawkishness is Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the beautiful voice end of the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pity. She simply describes her world as is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she sees it, matter-'s dreaming of-fact. ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the fact that her view is rather unusual (she talks to fishtruth? Well, dead people and her unborn child - and they talk back) doesnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism of her voice. As a reader, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnTori Bovalino|title=The GloryDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alex Working all summer in her boarding school's library is what you might call the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a disruptive teenagerrequest for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. SheWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's always getting into trouble but the latest trouble is the worst yet headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her mum find and stepdeliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-dad have had enough. Even her fatherit notes on each of the books, far away in Australia scribbled with his new familythe ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, thinks something must be doneof course. So Alex Her plan is sent to get her anger out like this, and then take them all the way out to the States to a teenage boot campoff before delivering them. But even naughty teenagers have their plus pointsNo harm done… Or it would be, and Alexif someone hadn's is t delivered them for her love of horses. She'll do anything to save the mustang scout from the slaughterhouse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012754</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa TotenPhilip Reeve|title=The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen year old Adam has a list. He needs to get better, grow taller Utterly Dark and marry the love of his life, Robyn. But while Adam develops a metaphorical tunnel vision so that he can focus only on winning Robyn’s love, everything he is ignoring in the periphery is unravelling. 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>}}{{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Game Changer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mikey is afraid Face of open spaces. He would much rather hide in his room - in his wardrobe, actually - than face the world outside. But his family, in particular his sister Meggie, are very supportive. And with Meggie's help, Mikey is gradually beginning to face that world outside. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Mikey sees something he shouldn't have seen. And the gang knows what he saw. The gang knows where he lives. And the gang wants to talk to him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794159</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=The Death HouseDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Your city is lostIn a word, rich. Your city There is not yourscertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Your city is mine.'' That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddessThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, freed and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from thousands of years imprisonmenteven further west, has unleashed her magicwhere no ship dare sail. Time has stopped. All the humans The current Darks are frozen in suspended animation. All the humans exceptWatcher, that isAndrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother and sister Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and JoAndrewe's foundling daughter, who are protected by washed up out of the scarab bracelets they wearsea one day eleven years ago. And nowBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some of the Spits (good statues) both his sullen brother and has sent his curious ward are thrust into the bad statues (Taints) to find the two children who are threatening her plansworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|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 Julia and 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 GamesShark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has given him an assignment he's going been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to find difficultbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. He must make two friends Here be Vikings, that kind of his own ageScottish island. That's tricky when you're on Dad is going to be automating the autistic spectrum and you don't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in with Finn when he bullies you and makes you jump from increasingly high placesalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Sasha is torn. She loves Finn to pieces but And Julia, well, she can't bear bullying will be homesick and alone – until she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has a secret of his own that's driving his rotten behavioursuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaJonathan Stroud|title=SoulprintThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the tracking draconian conformity of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Reincarnation is now an established fact But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and the government maintains a database of all darker past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the person in whom their soul is reincarnatedmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the discovery has led to problems cannibalistic Tainted and all the problems have led horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Alina's ''containment''.reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasmine WargaMercedes Helnwein|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhereGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. 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 As a secret illegitimate daughter of various customersa man with a "real" family, she is far from satisfying. It’s understandable that she’s used to not being a very happy girlpriority in people's lives. She’s not the preppy cheerleader or the honour roll student who sidelines as But when she defends a random boy in her class presidentwith her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. She’s nobodyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, really. But she’s nobody with a dark secret. She wants to take for her own life, and she’s making plans to make this happennow has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardT L Huchu|title=Red QueenThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mare Ropa Moyo is a Red - ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a race kept in lives bit of poverty and servitude by Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Silversdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, a race with wealth but her younger sister and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxuryher aging grandmother. Learning to survive amongst However, there's an evil stalking the slum like conditions that ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Reds inhabitcity's children. Soon, Mare Ropa is swiftly thrown pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she had ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1529039452
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