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|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'Some teenagers worry about who s contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they'll wake up next toare inseparable. Others worry about who Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they'll wake up as.must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.''5|genre=Confident ReadersEthan|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, who is 14babysitter poorly, mother at work, is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school career in a brand new town. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRLan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What the whatcould possibly go wrong? How can this happen? It turns out Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that Ethanis to log on to Voxminer, now Drewthe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a Changerhit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, one and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of an ancient race of humankindtampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and he will undergo not oneher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, but THREE more such changes - one for each year of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew where is not happy at all.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Helen DennisCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''Some people believe that when you drown, your whole life flashes before youI can hear the song of the sea. The boy in call of the river saw only bottlesdeep, driftwood and the dented licence plate of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowninganswering beat in my heart.''

But River Boy doesn't drownRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. He holds onMira, 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. And But when he washes up on the banks of Council Watch lays a trap to end the Thameswrecking, something propels him to St Paulthey capture the island's leader and Mira's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds father. Desperate to save himfrom death, drenchedMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordlessshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. After several With only nine days in hospitalto 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, River Boy remains unable Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in save the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are future of her home and the strange signs he obsessively draws?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Harry Allen|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Children of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Despite the name, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from Ra Eun Seo lives in a few male farm animals North Korean town and birds, everything is feminine – the island she is a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone talented singer. Life is female, hard and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of life. The novices there are on the cusp, in several ways – of girls turning food is difficult to women, of students turning to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means for them starting to practise it with a duty to others. And, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famineby, so Seo and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropesfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is looking for you tree bark and edible grasses to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasysupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilAlexia Casale|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide what to do with the rest of their lives. Move to the city? Enrol at university? Get a job and make a life in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career in art and comic books is possible. And Sing if it is, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? Ityou Can's a frightening choice. Is she good enough? And in any case, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member of it has the same choice before them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick |title=Dangerous Lies t Dance|rating=45

|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programme, 17 year old EstellaIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life is turned upside down. She-changing disability too, but that's torn away from what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her long-term boyfriend life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and forced desperate to get back to abandon both her friends and her identity. Leaving city a life behind her, that's as normal as shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's convinced there is no way she will be able a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to adapt try to Thunder Basinsort out, Nebraskaand just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But, then, So even though she hadncan't expected dance anymore, might she be able to fall for the boy next door. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtSimon Fox|title=Orbiting JupiterDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Twelve year-old Jack Late one night Graham Blake is informed that late back from his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Josephshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen year-olds. He's troubled: They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the rumour father is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to kill keep away from his teacher. And there's something else about Josephcolleagues, too: he has and the bearer of a daughterwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardLex Croucher|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Two English schoolsWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, six 14 year-old friends and it lifted my spirits in a ski / snowboarding trip to Francemost delightful way. Add a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you have see, is in love with Bridget (the perfect recipe for kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a light-hearted and funny teen romanceboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling 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, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy HarperNick Brooks|title=Keep The FaithPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary= The basics When the principal (headmaster) of the plot here are that Faith Urban Promise Prep school is going on a French exchangemurdered, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant to join her onthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Meanwhile there's more boy trouble Each, seemingly, while she's also trying to juggle revising for exams and applying to become a prefect (despite perhaps being has a less than obvious choice in the minds grudge of certain teachers!) The plot is never really some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the main point time of a Faith book though - instead it's a welcome way to catch up with one his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the best friendship groups in recent YA fiction.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan Corns|title=Lucerin: Identity|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aiden Chase seems, on the face of it, to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bullies, homework and girls. He has no idea that he has Lucerin blood; the key to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time and even materialising solid items from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable to one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head of a group of powerful Lucerin who 'pull the strings' behind the world scenes. Initially a force for peace, the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have the power to change all of that and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Malala Yousafzai1919635017|title= I Am Malala|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' is my OH's response to any mention of Malala. I can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girl. One voice among many. It's just that she decided to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her A Thief to Catch a hospital, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to the UK for treatment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Chris Priestley|title=Anything That Isn't ThisKitt Townsend

|summary=Frank Palp lives in Solomon Klyne isn't a dullbad lad, dystopian world, where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect so why is he running around London committing a series of life, from the food robberies? And how did he learn to the architecture. So insidious are these changes, that no-one seems crack safes? You'll have to have noticed them, apart from Frank. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem wait to be completely oblivious get an answer to the sinister nature of the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quosecond question because I avoid spoilers. The all-powerful ''Ministry'But I' has a stranglehold on everything and everyone, with each household having its own assigned student, who records everything and reports suspicious activity to ll answer the mysterious Mr Vertex. Frank thinks he is the only person who hates this oppressive world, but first one day he finds a message in a bottle with a wish for ''anything that isn't this,'' and goes on a desperate search : for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mategrandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E R MurrayPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Book of Learning|rating= 4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa Different for company, Ebony Smart's world is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt she didn't know existed, Ebony soon discovers that her new home, 23 Mercury Lane, is full of secrets. Discovering that she is part of an ancient order of people who have the power to reincarnate, Ebony is soon under threat from a terrible evil that threatens to destroy their existence. With just her pet rat Winston, and a mysterious book to help her, she must figure out why her people are disappearing and how to save their souls, and her own, before time runs out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=''Boy 23 isn't Ant is in My Place any more. He can't see The ScreenYear Eleven at quite a standard school, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is alone.'' Before being dumped alone in the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - ever learnt) has lived in a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clipsrestructured, shown to him on so his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Now, he finds himself alone desk is one of four with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words both his best buddy from The Voice: his life is in danger, people have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to the Low Countriesfootball team, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan Graudin|title=Wolf by Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= It As they's 1956. And re all fired up, straining at the leash only a very different world from single-sex school can form, the one you'd expect. Germany won World War II talk in class and the Nazi project is in full flow. Lebensraum is expanding. The extermination project has spread out often turns to Slavssex. Defeated Britain Which is irrelevant and the United States confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is pursuing an isolationist policy, hoping Nazism never makes it to the Americaswhere his achievements in that regard lie. The main Axis powers of Germany and Japan have pretty much divided territory between them. To commemorate He's had a victorious war, the two powers host the annual Axis Tourcasual relationship, a continental motorcycle race. The previous yearsecret one, it was won for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the first time ladder headed by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J Ryan|title=Missing Dad: Wanted|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is in big trouble. He'experienced', but whether that's been driving the car his grandfather bought him before set in stone, hecan's even old enough to take the driving testt be sure. And been caught. Still worse, that's mostly because of who he's suspected of a hit-and-run and been having the police don't look as though they believe him when he insists he - relationship and his car - were nowhere near the scene. Mum is unimpressed but also worried and Joe feels horribly guilty. As if things couldn't be worse, Joe is also suspended from schoolsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Carthew1800901232|title=The Light That Gets LostStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=At just seven years of age, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brotherTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. He escapes Life in the attack by hiding in a wardrobe. After thatrural village where she lived with her family was happy, he is taken into care. We meet Trey again years laterif not prosperous, as an adolescent. He's on his way to Camp Kernow, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Trey, this is so when the realisation of a longstanding plan smartly- he believes that the dressed man who murdered his parents works at the camp and he intends woman came to find him and kill him. In Trey's mind, things are simple: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever after.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|title=Once Upon village to offer Hahn a Place|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had job in Hanoi it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of was an up-and-coming author opportunity not to be recognisable; rather, it was pridemissed. Pride in Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the difference of it, of the Irishness of itmini-bus to Hanoi. IrelandOnly, it seems Hanh and the other girls were not going to mework in a shop, is more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve they were to have pride attached to themwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. The places might not be You know those jeans you really wanted: the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, with intricate embroidery and of stories, which is where this compilation of short works for beading on the young comes in, legs? The ones with the authors invited to select their chosen place artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and write about ither co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam MunsonPatrice Lawrence|title= The November CriminalsNeedle|rating= 4.53

|summary=Addison Schacht Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of 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 high school senior (thatpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's sixth form if youold room while he're British) s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in Washington DC need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a bit wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgilyounger sister she's Aeineid - he owns three copies allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and reads from one of them every single day. He has applied then force people to the University of Chicagogive her two days off school, where he wants to study classicswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then...So farwell, so model pupil, right?The thing what exactly happens isnot for me to say, Addison is also a consistent truant only to remark how sharp and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peerspointy those knitting needles can be... Hmm!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy MulliganAnn Sei Lin|title= LiquidatorRebel Skies

|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief Kurara has spent her entire life as you enter a servant on the crazyMidori, exciting and thoroughly silly world a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the new book by the fantabulous Andy MulliganEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. You will encounter ruthless villainsHowever, non-stop dangerwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, at least one near-death experience and someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a rather jolly lorry driverpower sought after all across the Empire. Where does He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all this happenshe has known. Well, you ask? In soon Kurara won't have any say in the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In matter, because the secret laboratory of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere wayshikigami, way more dangerous. Work experienceand she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Winter Place|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Axel and Tess live in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have a knight for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining and a good thing - because Sam is the only parental figure in their lives. Axel and Tess's mother died when Axel was born. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over the care of Axel, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late mother. Axel is, well, an individual child, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Stead|title=Goodbye StrangerWrath

|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget BarsamianMeet Fitz, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Bridget Lockdown is told by a nurse that she is lucky only just over, and he should be free to be alive and that she must have survived the accident for a reason. Bridgetdo what he wants, who has no real memory of the accident, has to miss a year of school go where he wants and on her return, tells everyone she now with whom he wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Here Be Dragons |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Few people would be happy living but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially it when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way he talks to charge your phonehis best friend, no telly and no Christmas dinnerCassie. But when you’re sixteenThey were half of a desultory school band, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearablebut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. All Ellie wants is a regular ‘four-by-four life’ Is this connected with four walls around one of her and four wheels under her, all designed to keep her safe. But safe eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is one thing that Ellie’s not destined to be … not from the moment already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she glimpses just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the strange boy through the mist and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he iscan't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneTori Bovalino|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDevil Makes Three

|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child Working all summer in 1930s Paris he her boarding school's library is going the last thing Tess Matheson wants to have do — especially when she gets a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is request for over a violent drunk, reacting badly hundred books that she has to what he saw in WWI, and although married to a French woman, deliver herself. What makes it worse is still staunchly Germanthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. That woman, Emilie, is going to dieThe boarding school's headmaster, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where he is bulliedman Tess hates. But from the reaches As a petty act of Europe revenge for making her find and from deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the black corners ugliest insults she can think of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give . They're never meant to reach him a home, of a kindcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, at a most unusual mountaintop buildingand then take them all off before delivering them. ItNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's not t delivered them for her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghof.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonPhilip Reeve|title=DreamlandUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in several townsthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always British but way west, beyond the sameScillies. She'd make a friend There are troll people on it, and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy sea-witches, and legends of the friend wouldn't talk Dark family that has to her. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from time to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreamseven further west, where no ship dare sail. There The current Darks are rules that the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important worry about such local yokel superstitions, and thatAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousAndrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rob KeeleyJulia and the Shark

|summary=EllieJulia, Charlie our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to Londonbe automating the lantern, where Mum's latest ''Journeyback'' project which is renovating an old 18th century househis specialist thing, 47 Foster Square. But it's not quite ''home'' while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to Londonhunt the elusive Greenland shark. They're not returning to their old house but to another tiny And Julia, cramped flat. When asked whywell, all Mum she will say is, "Ask your fatherbe homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night."|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroJonathan Stroud|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=2.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of geography about their nationthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. People just don't seem With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to have learnt about or been flee to other areas the mythical Free Isles of the place they call homeLondon Lagoon. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prizeTogether, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large countrymust brave man-eating wildlife, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, cannibalistic Tainted and all with a rich history the horrors of their ownpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, their own famous places and their own noted people – but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot rest of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabel PitcherMercedes Helnwein|title=Silence is GoldfishSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers she's Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a Pluto and her parents wanted man with a Mercury or Venus"real" family, at least.'' When Tess she is used to not being a priority in her fatherpeople's study, lives. But when she discovers defends a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secret. Suddenlyrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for Tess, everything has changedgood. She decides to run away but chickens out at the last minute. As No longer can she spend her life falls aparttime writing novels in solitude, Tess retreats into selective mutism and for her only conversations are with an imaginary friendlife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: a talking goldfish torchWade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C J SkuseT L Huchu|title=MonsterThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=More than anything elseRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, sixteen year-old Nash wants using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to be Head Girl take messages from the dead of Bathory SchoolEdinburgh for their living relatives. Indeed Ever since she dropped out of school, she's willing been using it to put up with almost anything to get the top jobsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. ButHowever, just when shethere's poised to be awarded an evil stalking the roleruined streets of Edinburgh, everything starts to unraveltargeting the city's children. Nash and Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a group of school misfits have to stay missing boy at school over the Christmas holidays request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and, trapped by realise that the worst weather in decades, suddenly world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find themselves fighting for their lives. Not everyone is going the missing children and bring an end to survive.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>1529039452