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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroJenny Valentine|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to other areas of the place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived Us in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places Before and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Annabel Pitcher|title=Silence is GoldfishAfter|rating=45

|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers she's a Pluto Elk and her parents wanted a Mercury Mab are best friends, or Venusmore than that even, at least.'' When Tess their friendship is a once in her father's study, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a devastating family secret. Suddenly, for Tess, everything has changed. She decides to run away trip out but chickens out unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the last minutetime. As her life falls apart But then chance brings them back together, Tess retreats into selective mutism and her only conversations they are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torchinseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C J SkuseMax Boucherat|title=MonsterThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=More than anything elseWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, sixteen just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old Nash wants to be Head Girl of Bathory School, on her lonesome. Indeed What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she's willing has one main intention, and that is to put up with almost anything log on to get Voxminer, the top jobworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Butfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, just when and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she's poised to and her bestie and nobody else should be awarded the role, everything starts able to unravelenter shows signs of tampering. Nash When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and a group of school misfits have to stay at school over her safe place in the Christmas holidays and, trapped by the worst weather in decadesgame has been doctored – well, suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives. Not everyone where is going a girl to survive.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggRachel Greenlaw|title=Username: EvieCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girl, nobody at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bus. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house – after all, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish to live there, with nobody else around, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for her, the E-Scape, which is close to the perfect world. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friends, and make the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)|rating= 4

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

If you havenRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't read s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriessea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah MussiHarry Allen|title= Breakdown|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= From the start of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand and doesn’t let go. She uses short, sharp, savage sentences to urge them to follow her protagonist Melissa on a terrifying odyssey into a relentlessly brutal world where only the meanest, smartest and toughest survive. It is a horrific vision Children of a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fear, poverty, corrupt militarisation and anarchy. Ravenous dogs roam the streets and the stench of violence and sexual slavery is never far away. Melissa is blessed with beauty which some might consider a curse. Will she emerge into the light or be trapped in Hades forever?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=(By the way there are spoilers ahead – this Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is definitely a series talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to be read in order, starting from [[Tesla 1 come by Mark Lingane|Tesla 1]] ). Alone again now that Melanie has been killed, Sebastian makes it to North America. Far from it being the land of promise it used to be, the country is now an apocalyptic ruinso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, full of people scavenging looking for their survival tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Infected forging a path meagre rations of worse-than-death rice and destructionkimchi at home. Sebastian needs to focus on his ultimate challenge as foreseen in a rather scary way but there's a small matter distracting him: who's firing rockets at him?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1515000796</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaAlexia Casale|title=Fans of the Impossible Life|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary= Jeremy, Mira and Sebby are very different people, each with their own complex and difficult issues, who find themselves inexplicably drawn together. Jeremy is an artist, painfully shy and still struggling to get over the horrible incident that ruined his last year of school. Mira is cool and fashionable, but suffers from depression, constantly fighting against a sleep that threatens to overpower her for days on end. Then there's Sebby, flamboyant, irreverent and charming, but with hurt and troubles simmering behind his façade, and no family or support network to lean on. The powerful friendship and love that forms between them could save them from their broken selves, but it could just as easily drag them all down together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Courtney Sheinmel|title= Edgewater|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Lorrie may run with the big dogs, but right now she's more of a mutt. Her mother is AWOL and her aunt is becoming more eccentric by the day. She's politely asked to leave her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arrive, and so she sets off home to sort it all out. Again. It's becoming something of a habit this need to act the grown up while the real grown ups fail to make the grade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosemary Hayes|title= The Mark|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Sing if you Can'She's his mark'. Rachel's on the run. Naïve, homeless and emotional, she's easy prey. But for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Miriam Moss |title=Girl on a Planet Dance

|summary= It's September 1970 and 15 year old Anna 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 her way back to boarding school stage in England. Friends the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her family joke about the recent hijackings but Anna is far more concerned about leaving her home in Bahrain and their mongrel dog, Woofalife. These worries are But she comes back fighting, howeverdesperate to avoid the pity stares, wiped from her mind when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas and diverted desperate to get back to a disused airstrip life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in the Jordanian desert. Here they are forced school, her music A Level performance piece to wait for days with almost no food and very little water while their captors issue their demands try to the British government. If these demands are not met within three dayssort out, they will blow up and just the plane killing day to day traumas of all the hostageschallenges 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>1783443316</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire McFallSimon Fox|title= Black Cairn PointDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Heather agrees to 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 camping holiday with Dougie secret place, and his friends because she's desperate to join him on the run. They get closer together, but barely begin to him. But smell the whiff of Southern trains when they disturb a pagan burial site above the beachfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, Heather becomes certain that they have woken toting a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in the pitch-black darktin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and it is planning deadly revengethe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OneLex Croucher|authortitle=Sarah CrossanGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=It's always been Tippi-and-Grace. Never Tippi and GraceWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. These twins can't be separated - and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physically In this story, too. Because Tippi Gwen and Grace are conjoined twins. They Arthur have two headsbeen betrothed since they were tiny, two heartsmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, two sets of lungsyou see, two pairs of armsis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But at And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the waistsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they come togetherare enabling their own other romantic attachments. Life hasn't been easy - But as their father has lost his job as impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a college professor and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at the bank to keep up the health insurance payments. Medical bills are crippling and money is tightway in which they can both truly be themselves, so tight that the twins or are going they destined to have stop being homeschooled and enroll in live a "normal" school for the first time.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethNick Brooks|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and Feeling|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet the brain. We all have one. We all use it (and by 'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of the day. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body language. It's such a vital part of the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age. But in this varied and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=The Astrologer's Daughter|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Horary Astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology in which an astrologer attempts to answer a question asked at an exact time by the construction of a horoscope around it. Clear as mud? Yes, me too. Suffice to say, an horary astrologer would have to be a very gifted individual indeed and Avicenna Crowe's mother, Joanne, is such an astrologer. In fact, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers and maniacally obsessed clients at the bad end of the scale to, well, worse. Sometimes ''much'' worse…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=Demon RoadPromise Boys

|summary= Amber Lamont was a relatively ordinary 16-year-old, living a pretty quiet, uneventful life; she went to When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, had a part-time job, and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over three boys find themselves called into the course of just one day everything goes completely to hellpolice station as suspects. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon Each, seemingly, has a genuinegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip a human to shreds. Her demon side is each could have been there at the least time of her problems, howeverhis murder. For Amber's parents are also demons But who killed him, and now that her powers have manifestedwhy, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on if any of the runboys are innocent, travelling the Demon Road across America in a desperate attempt will they be able to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his own. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Downham1919635017|title=UnbecomingA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Three women. Three sets Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of secrets about robberies? And how did he learn to be laid bare.Katie lives with her learning-disable brother Chris and her rather controlling mother. Theycrack safes? You've recently moved ll have to wait to get an answer to her mother's childhood town after Katie's father got a girlfriend and a new babythe second question because I avoid spoilers. Katie, a hardworking and dutiful girl, is halfway through her AS levels when everything - and But I mean everything - goes wrong. First up, Katie kisses her best friend Esme. Esme rejects her and, worse still, tells all 'll answer the mean girls at school what happened. They miss no opportunity to mock and name call. And then a phone call first one night brings Mary into their lives: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200646</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Red ShoeDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=They may Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be quite far apart, but three houses in a row fashion designer. Life in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people. In onevillage where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, a solitary old so when the smartly-dressed man of very few words, shuffling and woman came to the end of his days, but brandishing village to offer Hahn a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and with a gun in Hanh was on the corner of his loungemini-bus to Hanoi. In Only, Hanh and the middle, other girls were not going to work in a family of fiveshop, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due they were to the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the isolated time ones with intricate embroidery and location, and their three daughters – one of whom has given up beading on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radio. legs? The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of ones with the blue in luxury cars, artfully-placed rips and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Libba Bray|title= Lair of Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people's secrets, she's a media darling. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It seems like everyone's in love with New York City's latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'. But while Evie is enjoying the high life, quite possible that Hanh and her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois and Ling Chan will fight to keep their powers secretco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhitePatrice Lawrence|title=Butterfly ShellNeedle|rating=53

|summary=One of Brave. Charlene, the worst kind 'heroine' of nerve-wracking days has arrived: that first day this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of Secondary School. As we all remembermultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, thatand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's part scaryat uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part exciting for any girl (or boy tooof the plot here, of courseas Charlene is a wonder knitter, but this and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a girlsyounger sister she' school)s allowed contact with no more. It's an age when you're anxious about making new friends We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and fitting in anyway, but at ''then force people to give her'' new two days off school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim , when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to a group of bulliesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Six.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzAnn Sei Lin|title= The Young WorldRebel Skies|rating= 3.5

|summary= After Kurara has spent her entire life as a mysterious sickness wipes out servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the rest sky where soldiers of the populationEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the young survivors band together in small tribespower to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, desperately trying to rebuild their society leave the life of olddreary servitude that is all she has known. In New York CityWell, Jeffersonsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, reluctant leader of because the tribe from Washington Square, hears of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a potential cure for The Sickness. Soshikigami, he and a squad of heavily armed teens set she is forced to flee out across New York in search of this cureinto the world. Along She joins Himura aboard the way they must avoid gangs and cultsOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and brave the perils a whole world of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankind's future. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn BennettMarcus Sedgwick|title=Night OwlsWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Beatrix Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a serious girl; small only just over, and slighthe should be free to do what he wants, considered to go where he wants and studious with a quiet determination whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to follow her dream his best friend, Cassie. They were half of becoming a medical illustrator. Pretty and petite, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipstersdesultory school band, Beatrix knows that Jack is all but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the kinds of boys enigmatic – saying she should avoidcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. LooseIs this connected with one of her eco-limbed and slim with warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a slash done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled and ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has cheekbones you gone missing he can hang from and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transit, her world is turned upside downt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisTori Bovalino|title=All Sorts of PossibleThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''When s library is the sinkhole opened, there was no time last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to break or turn deliver herself. What makes it worse is the wheelman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rima man Tess hates.'' SomehowAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Daniel makes Tess sticks post-it out notes on each of the sinkhole and emerges to safety books, scribbled with just a few scratches and bruisesthe ugliest insults she can think of. But his father isnThey't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due re never meant to a severe brain injuryreach him, Daniel is released into the care of his aunt, a woman he has never metcourse. There had been a family falling Her plan is to get her anger out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a babylike this, and since then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult to trust t delivered them for her or open up to her... ... and there's a lot to open up about.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian JohnstonePhilip Reeve|title= The Mirror Chronicles: Circles Utterly Dark and the Face of Stonethe Deep|rating= 45|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Sylas Tate has been through In a lotword, considering he wasn't yet in his teens when his journeys beganrich. His mother There is lost, leaving him to the less than tender mercies certainly an abundance of his uncle, and after a strange incident riches in book one of this series he found himself travelling to another world. Even more bizarre, while he was there he encountered Naeo, his other half – not some jokey reference to story set on a future wifepeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the true second part of his soulScillies. The two worlds (ours, based There are troll people on scienceit, and the Other, based on magic) were once onesea-witches, and it is the dearest wish legends of the down-trodden inhabitants Sylas meets Dark family that has to unite them againkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katie Everson|title= Drop|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novelThe current Darks are the Watcher, ‘DropAndrewe,’ is a tale who has to keep notes of grief and healingactivity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A-studentAndrewe's foundling daughter, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined to change her predictable lifewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. When her absentee mother is offered a job in LondonBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Carla transfers to yet another school both his sullen brother and this time she is desperate to his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not be overlooked. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Louis SacharJulia and the Shark

|summary=Tamaya isn't allowed to walk home from school on her own. And Tamaya doesn't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking a "shortcut" through the woods one dayJulia, she goes with himour pre-teen heroine, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst to Tamaya, Marshall has chosen been packed off with her parents and their cat from the route family home in order SW England to avoid school bully Chadbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who has threatened him with a reckoningin the far NE of the Scottish islands. A reckoning for nothing at all - but you know Here be Vikings, that's how school bullies workkind of Scottish island. But lying Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the woods is an even greater threat than Chad.elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinJonathan Stroud|title=The Walled CityOutlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= In Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the walled city draconian conformity of Hak Namthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, there are three rules; run fast, trust no onerobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and always carry your knifea darker past. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lordsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisonedLondon Lagoon. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothelsTogether, evading the roaming streetthey must brave man-gangs as she goes. Mei Yeeeating wildlife, trapped in a brothel in the city cannibalistic Tainted and forced into sexual relations with all the twohorrors of post-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days apocalyptic society to accomplish thisreach the Free Isles, as but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents rest of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Self-Esteem TeamMercedes Helnwein|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!Slingshot|rating= 43

|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a lack of body confidence? Shockingman with a "real" family, isnshe is used to not being a priority in people't s lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it?that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>152905818X

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