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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidJenny Valentine|title=This is not a Love Story|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This is a perfect holiday read – but that doesn't mean you need to be on holiday to read it. ''This Is Not A Love Story'' will waft you away from your bed or your fireside or your tube train seat Us in the Before and relocate you to Amsterdam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001405</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Frances Hardinge|title=The Lie TreeAfter
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her books. Mysteries lurk in the shadowsElk and Mab are best friends, perplexing and sometimes menacing her charactersor more than that even, and the strange and the banal jostle each other for space on the page. A world both familiar and outlandish their friendship is offered to us, where a once again in a fallible lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten to overwhelm her at every turn.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Byrne|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 Bullyunfortunately they don'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 het get each other's won contact details at the jackpottime. But there's only days left before the ticket expires then chance brings them back together, and Bully's not old enough to claim the moneythey are inseparable. To make matters worse Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, word of his winning ticket has got out and every unsavoury character on the streets is now after himthey must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358290</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PantherMax Boucherat|authortitle=David OwenThe Last Life of Lori 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 future of her home and the sudden attention?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Taran MatharuHarry Allen|title=The NoviceChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''The Novice'', Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a staggering five million readstalented singer. This book doesn’t just survive 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 hype; it deserves itmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathy Reichs and Brendan ReichsAlexia Casale|title= Exposure (Virals 4)Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= In 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 fourth book middle of this electrifying sci-fi crime thriller series a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the resourceful teen Virals pit their wits against pity stares, and desperate to get back to a cunning villain when two of their classmates go missinglife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. An exciting adventure with Meanwhile there's a shocking twistnew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges 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>0099567245</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lydia SysonSimon Fox|title=Liberty's FireDeadlock
|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.
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{{newreview
|author=Melvin Burgess
|title=Persist
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confused. People keep coming and looking at her, but they don't seem to see ''her''. She wonders if she's something shiny, such as a mirror. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been in a coma for so long that even her mother is beginning to doubt that she can surface from wherever she is. The doctors are sure that there's no hope for the girl and they're talking about switching off the machines which are keeping her alive, allowing her to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthday.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Dowswell
|title=Bomber
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Harry Friedman is only 17. But WWII is raging all across Europe and Harry felt the call to serve his country and the Allied cause. And that's how he became a gunner on the ''Macey May'', an American Flying Fortress stationed in East Anglia, far away from Harry's New York home.
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{{newreview
|author=Ben Davis
|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the Geek
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Joe Cowley has got it bad. Whatever ''it'' is, he's got it bad. The hots for his girlfriend, Natalie? Bad. Living arrangements with his ex-school-bullying-nemesis-turned-step-brother? Very bad. Some greasy swazz trying to take his girlfriend from him, at the same time as sucking up to her father who is also his business mentor? Pretty awful. An attitude that means a devil-may-care voice in his head leads him to support his oddball friends through a dance music competition just to get one over on the swazz? You can guess, what with that being the main thrust of the plot here, that that too is B A D bad.
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{{newreview
|author=Nicole Burstein
|title=Othergirl
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Imagine a world where superheroes are real and very much awesome. Imagine a teenage girl who discovers she has amazing powers, that she can fly and toss fire. And then imagine that you aren’t this girl, but rather her very normal best friend. The one who patches up her friend's costume and covers for her at school, who worries and frets about her GCSEs while simultaneously planning how to get her friend noticed by the worldwide network of heroes, the Vigils. This isn't the story of Erica the superhero, but rather the story of Louise, loyal friend and sidekick.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440619</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Curtis Jobling
|title=Haunt: Dead Wrong
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Will and Dougie have been friends for ages. They each understand how the other thinks (well, most of the time) and they stick together through thick and thin. Literally, 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 endless.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115798</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Hendrick
|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 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>
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{{newreview
|author=Jandy Nelson
|title=I'll Give You The Sun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Twins Noah and Jude used to be inseparable until tragedy tore them apart. Now Noah's changed utterly from the boy he used to be, and Jude is reduced to spying on him through his friend as she struggles with her own issues at the exclusive art school Noah was always supposed to go to, but Jude ended up at instead.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406326496</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=M G Harris
|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black Horizon
|rating=3.5
|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 Raven|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The essential role of aviators in the success or failure of modern war is a given, and fiction is full of the derring-do and dog-fight exploits of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves as they land their frail and battered craft at a friendly airstrip. But what if the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundreds, if not thousands, and you, the pilot, are barely out of your childhood?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Donald Hounam|title=GiftedNeedle|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 Minnow|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The MinnowBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features deathextremely hard for some people to like, grief, abuse, fear characters and lonelinessreaders both. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavement Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, and trying to come to terms she's fostering with lossa pleasant yoga tutor, bubbles just under the surfaceAnnie, constantlyand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. But don't Such a tempestuous personality may be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and elicit grave pity or understanding from the reader. What rescues it from mawkishness creation of one such item is the beautiful voice part of the narratorplot here, Tom (or Hollyas Charlene is a wonder knitter, if you prefer and is making something full of love for her real name)younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Tom doesn't fall prey We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to self-pity. She simply describes give her world two days off school, when she shouts someone down as she sees it, matter-of-factexpletively ignorant. And the fact that her view then... well, what exactly happens is rather unusual (she talks not for me to fishsay, dead people only to remark how sharp and her unborn child - and they talk back) doesn't really matterpointy those knitting needles can be. 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>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnAnn Sei Lin|title=The GloryRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alex is what you might call Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a disruptive teenager. She's always getting into trouble but massive dining hall floating in the latest trouble is sky where soldiers of the worst yet Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her mum and step-dad have had enoughthat 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. Even He asks her father, far away in Australia to come with his new familyhim, thinks something must be done. So Alex to leave the life of dreary servitude that is sent all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the way out to matter, because the States to Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a teenage boot camp. But even naughty teenagers have their plus pointsshikigami, and Alex's she is her love of horsesforced to flee out into the world. She'll do anything joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to save the mustang scout from the slaughterhouse.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012754</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa TotenMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Unlikely Hero of Room 13BWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fifteen year old Adam has Meet Fitz, a listyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He needs Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to get betterdo what he wants, grow taller to go where he wants and marry the love of with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his lifebest friend, RobynCassie. But while Adam develops They were half of a metaphorical tunnel vision so that he can focus only on winning Robyn’s lovedesultory school band, everything he is ignoring in 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 eco-warrior parents saying the end of the periphery world is unravelling. How can Adam help his own overwhelming OCD when he’s so focussed on fixing everyone around himalready a done deal? When is Is it ok to hang up your own superhero cloak and admit that you might need savingsome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406362999</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerTori Bovalino|title=Game ChangerThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mikey is afraid of open spaces. He would much rather hide Working all summer 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 Meggieher boarding school's help, Mikey library is gradually beginning the last thing Tess Matheson wants to face do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that world outsideshe has to deliver herself. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrongWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Mikey sees something he shouldnThe boarding school't have seens headmaster, and a man Tess hates. And As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the gang knows what he sawbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. The gang knows where he lives. And the gang wants to talk They're never meant to reach him, of course.Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them.No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794159</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughPhilip Reeve|title=The Death HouseUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Toby would appear to be luckyIn a word, having the run rich. There is certainly an abundance of an isolated country mansion riches in this story set on a small peculiar island off called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the coast of BritainScillies. But no. His domain only exists at nightThere are troll people on it, and only then because he sleeps in the day sea-witches, and refuses to take legends of the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He is a captive of a mansion Dark family that works as a place of exile has to keep watch for teenagers with magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead toWatcher, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite illAndrewe, and being the cause who has to keep notes of activity from the night-time lift ride on the one way route Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things goworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, the teenaged head boy almost who washed up out of the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only sea one not to have suffered a loss of lifeday eleven years ago. But things when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up thrust into the numbers, and one world of themprotecting their island, Clara, is the agent of that changelike it or not. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie FletcherKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Dragon Shield: 02: The London PrideJulia and the Shark
|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 goddessJulia, freed from thousands of years imprisonmentour pre-teen heroine, has unleashed been packed off with her magic. Time has stopped. All parents and their cat from the humans are frozen family home in suspended animationSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. All the humans except Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad isgoing to be automating the lantern, brother and sister Will and Jowhich is his specialist thing, who are protected by while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the scarab bracelets they wearelusive Greenland shark. And nowJulia, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some of the Spits (good statues) well, she will be homesick and has sent the bad statues (Taints) to find the two children who are threatening her plansalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyJonathan Stroud|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=In a land Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of fantasy, Twylla lives in the courtSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, engaged robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to the princekeep herself alive. But this is no fairytale – he is one of the only people then she can touchmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, made immune they plan to flee to the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment mythical Free Isles of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of herLondon Lagoon. Until new guard Lief arrivesTogether, who could see her as a friendthey must brave man-eating wildlife, or even romantically. The question the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of whether post-apocalyptic society to reach the two could have a future together is an intriguing oneFree Isles, but before long, it’s will they be any more accepted there than they are in the least rest of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemies. Can she surviveBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryMercedes Helnwein|title=Mind GamesSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Luna is a RefuserGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. In her world, As a Refuser is a kind secret illegitimate daughter of cross between a conscientious objector and man with a Luddite. In this post WW3 Britain"real" family, almost everyone has she is used to not being a brain implant which they use to spend most of their priority in people's lives in . But when she defends a virtual environment. People don't just play random boy in the vast array of games: they workher class with her slingshot, they learn, they date. Even hacking her simple existence is encouragedchanged for good. And those who opt outNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, like Luna, are shut out of the best careers and viewed with suspicionfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane ElsonT L Huchu|title=How to Fly with Broken WingsThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert has given him an assignment he's going Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to find difficulttake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. He must make two friends Ever since she dropped out of his own age. Thatschool, she'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 been using it to pieces support not only herself, but she can't bear bullying her younger sister and she hates herself for not standing up for Willemher aging grandmother. And Finn has a secret of his own thatHowever, there's driving his rotten behaviour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Megan Miranda|title=Soulprint|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled an evil stalking the tracking ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidcity's children. Reincarnation Soon, Ropa is now an established fact and pulled into the government maintains search for a database of all past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods to missing boy at 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 Holes|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aysel lives in the middle request of nowherehis dead mother. She’s smart but not popular, so high school’s not much fun, She will end up discovering an occult library and her part-time job, cold calling realise that the town’s residents on behalf world of various customers, magic is far from satisfyingbigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. It’s understandable that she’s not a very happy girl. She’s not the preppy cheerleader or Will she find the honour roll student who sidelines as class president. She’s nobody, really. But she’s nobody with a dark secret. She wants to take her own life, missing children and she’s making plans bring an end to make this happen.evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>1529039452
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