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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperJenny Valentine|title=A Dark Trade|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house Us in central London. There were seven members of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with that, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions of one of the young men of the family. She'd already heard the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself Before and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Evans |title=More of Me After

|summary=At schoolElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normaltheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. But at home Teva They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's life is about as far from normal as itcontact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they 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 Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's possible got the house to herself – no neighbour to get. Locked away pop in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house are , babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven other Tevasyear old, all different ageson her lonesome. Why What could possibly go wrong? Because every year Teva separates Snuggled in two with a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the new Teva going out world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in the Lori's world while . But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the previous Teva is kept insideserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, trapped as and her younger self.safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper Compass and T CooperBlade|rating=43.5

|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next to. Others worry about who they'll wake up as.I can hear the song of the sea.The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

EthanRosevear, who is 14a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is just hoping one of the seven who swim out to wake up in time to begin his high school career in a brand new townsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Imagine his shock But when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that EthanCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, now Drewthey capture the island's leader and Mira'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 Changerfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, one as her journey takes her from the watched streets of an ancient race foreign islands to the heart of humankind, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one for each year of his time at high school. Drewthe smuggler's parents are overjoyed territory, Mira must be determined to stop at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at allnothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisHarry Allen|authortitle=Helen DennisChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=''Some people believe that when you drown, your whole life flashes before you. The boy Ra Eun Seo lives in the river saw only bottles, driftwood a North Korean town and the dented licence plate of she is a foreign cartalented singer. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowning.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on the banks of the Thames, something propels him Life is hard and food is difficult to St Paul's Cathedralcome by, where Reverend Solomon finds himso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed looking for tree bark and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable edible grasses to find his voicesupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively draws?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Alexia Casale|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Despite the nameIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, there but that's what Ven is nothing masculine about dealing with after collapsing on stage in the island middle of Menos at alla dance performance that was going to change her life. Apart from a few male farm animals and birdsBut she comes back fighting, everything is feminine – desperate to avoid the island is a rugged mountain landpity stares, home and desperate to get back to only one abbey where everyone is female, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of lifethat's as normal as she can possibly manage. The novices Meanwhile there are on the cusp's a new (cute!) boy in school, in several ways – of girls turning her music A Level performance piece to women, of students turning try to Sisterssort out, of people learning what and just the religion means for them starting to practise it with a duty day to others. And, day traumas of course, they are on all the border between the past that took them challenges her body continues to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famine, and the inability throw at her to support themselvesnavigate. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropesSo even though she can't dance anymore, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might she be more blackened by darkness is for you able to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilSimon Fox|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlDeadlock

|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide Who knew that what I really needed to do with the rest of their lives. Move to the cityread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? Enrol at university? Get But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a job most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and make a life in Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to 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 if it ismutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? Itin love with Bridget (the kingdom's a frightening choiceonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Is she good enough? And in any casethen when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because subterfuge of falling in love with each member of it has the same choice before themother, 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>1847156835</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Nick Brooks|title=Dangerous Lies Promise Boys

|summary=Whisked When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the witness protection programmepolice station as suspects. Each, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside downseemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend But who killed him, and forced to abandon both her friends why, and her identity. Leaving city life behind herif any of the boys are innocent, she's convinced there is no way she will they be able to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraska. But, then, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next door. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary D Schmidt1919635017|title=Orbiting JupiterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph Solomon Klyne isn't like most fourteen year-olds. He's troubled: the rumour a bad lad, so why is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teacher. And there's something else about Joseph, too: he has running around London committing a daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear series of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that robberies? And how did he's chosen learn to share with us a few of his wise words. crack safes? You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who ll have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered wait to get an answer to the secret of happinesssecond question because I avoid spoilers. PoohBut I's take on life is very simple and none ll answer the worse first one: for thathis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen Patrick Ness and Lucy Ivison Tea Bendix|title=Never EversDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Two English schoolsAnt 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, six 14 year-so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip muckers – in fact they all go back to Franceprimary school days together. Add As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a 15 yearsingle-old French popstar shooting 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 latest video achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and you have 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 perfect recipe for a light-hearted relationship and funny teen romancethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Candy Harper1800901232|title=Keep The FaithStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= The basics of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the plot here are that Faith is going on village to offer Hahn a French exchange, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to join her be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was onthe mini-bus to Hanoi. Meanwhile there's more boy trouble Only, while she's also trying to juggle revising for exams Hanh and applying the other girls were not going to become work in a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the minds of certain teachers!) legs? The plot is never really ones with the main point of a Faith book though artfully- instead itplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a welcome way to catch up with one of the best friendship groups in recent YA fictionquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsPatrice Lawrence|title=Lucerin: IdentityNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Aiden Chase seemsBrave. Charlene, on the face 'heroine' of it, this piece is extremely hard for some people to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bullies, homework characters and girlsreaders both. He Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has no idea that taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he has Lucerin blood; 's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and 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 creation of one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman such item is head part of the plot here, as Charlene is a group wonder knitter, and is making something full of powerful Lucerin who love for her younger sister – a younger sister she'pull the strings' behind the world sceness allowed contact with no more. Initially We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for peaceme to say, the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have the power only to change all of that remark how sharp and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiAnn Sei Lin|title= I Am MalalaRebel Skies

|genre= AutobiographyTeens|summary= ''She's Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a phenomenon'' is my OH's response massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to any mention of Malaladrink and make merry between their conquests. I can't disagree on some levelHowever, but what this book proves is when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that on another she is just a girlCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. One voice among many. It's just He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she decided to speak louder than mosthas known. We know about Malala Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she got luckyis forced to flee out into the world. She got lucky because when she got shot by joins Himura aboard the Taliban there were people nearbyOrihime, doctors who got her a sky-ship whose express purpose is to a hospitalhunt down shikigami, 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.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMarcus Sedgwick|title=Anything That Isn't ThisWrath

|summary=Frank Palp lives in Meet Fitz, a dull, dystopian world, where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect young Scottish lad full of life, from the food to the architecturefrustration at himself. So insidious are these changesLockdown is only just over, that no-one seems and he should be free to have noticed themdo what he wants, apart from Frank. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem to be completely oblivious to the sinister nature of the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quo. The all-powerful ''Ministry'' has a stranglehold on everything go where he wants and everyone, with each household having its own assigned student, who records everything and reports suspicious activity to the mysterious Mr Vertex. Frank thinks whom he is the only person who hates this oppressive worldwants, but one day he finds a message cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a bottle with a wish for ''anything that isn't thisdesultory school band,'' and goes on but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a desperate search for subhuman hum coming from the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mateearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E R Murray|title= The Book Is this connected with one of Learning|rating= 4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony Smart's eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she didn't know existed, Ebony soon discovers that her new home, 23 Mercury Lane, is full s dreaming of secrets. Discovering that ? Is she is part of an ancient order of people who have just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the power to reincarnatetruth? Well, Ebony is soon under threat from a terrible evil that threatens to destroy their existencenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonTori Bovalino|title=Boy 23The Devil Makes Three

|summary=''Boy 23 isn't Working all summer in My Place any more. He canher boarding school't see The Screen, he can't hear The Voices library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Boy 23 What makes it worse is alonethe man who requested the books: Mr Birch.The boarding school'' Before being dumped alone in the forest by The Voices headmaster, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in and a room entirely by himselfman Tess hates. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience As a petty act of the world has been through revenge for making her find and deliver such a few short video clipslarge request, shown to him Tess sticks post-it notes on his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Noweach of the books, he finds himself alone scribbled with only a bag full the ugliest insults she can think of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life is in danger, people have been sent . They're never meant to kill reach him, he must head north west of course. Her plan is to the Low Countriesget her anger out like this, The Voice will meet him there and explain everythingthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinPhilip Reeve|title=Wolf by Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= It's 1956. And a very different world from the one you'd expect. Germany won World War II and the Nazi project is in full flow. Lebensraum is expanding. The extermination project has spread to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant and the United States is pursuing an isolationist policy, hoping Nazism never makes it to the Americas. The main Axis powers of Germany Utterly Dark and Japan have pretty much divided territory between them. To commemorate a victorious war, the two powers host the annual Axis Tour, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for the first time 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's been driving the car his grandfather bought him before he's even old enough to take the driving test. And been caught. Still worse, he's suspected Face of a hit-and-run and the police don't look as though they believe him when he insists he - 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 school. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Natasha Carthew|title=The Light That Gets LostDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At just seven years of ageIn a word, Trey witnesses the murder rich. There is certainly an abundance of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brother. He escapes the attack by hiding riches in this story set on a wardrobe. After thatpeculiar island called Wildsea, he is taken into care. We meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. He's on his British but way to Camp Kernowwest, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Trey, this is beyond the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes that the man who murdered his parents works at the camp and he intends to find him and kill himScillies. In Trey's mind, things There 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 a Place|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb troll people on every ''Artemis Fowl'' bookit, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-andsea-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of itwitches, and legends of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems Dark family that has to me, is more full than usual of people, things keep watch for magical islands and ideastheir monster approaching from even further west, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to themwhere no ship dare sail. The places might not be current Darks are the famous onesWatcher, but they can be the source of prideAndrewe, and who has to keep notes of storiesactivity from the Hidden Lands, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes his brother Will who lives in, London with the authors invited too much science in his head to select their chosen place worry about such local yokel superstitions, and write about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Munson|title= The November Criminals|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Addison Schacht is a high school senior (thatAndrewe's sixth form if you're British) in Washington DC and a bit foundling daughter, who washed up out of a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgil's Aeineid - he owns three copies and reads from the sea one of them every single dayeleven years ago. He has applied to the University of ChicagoBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, where he wants to study classics.So far, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant both his sullen brother and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peers. Hmm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Mulligan|title= Liquidator|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief as you enter curious ward are thrust into the crazy, exciting and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulligan. You will encounter ruthless villainsprotecting their island, non-stop danger, at least one near-death experience and a rather jolly lorry driver. Where does all this happen, you ask? In the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere way, way more dangerous. Work experiencelike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Winter PlaceJulia and the Shark

|summary=Axel Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Tess live their cat from the family home in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have a knight SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining and a good thing - because Sam is summer, in the far NE of the only parental figure in their livesScottish islands. Axel and Tess's mother died when Axel was born Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Tess Dad is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over going to be automating the care of Axellantern, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from which is his late motherspecialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Axel is And Julia, well, an individual child, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhereshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadJonathan Stroud|title=Goodbye StrangerThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= The book opens with a prologue about Scarlett McCain is an eight year old Bridget Barsamianoutlaw, who woke up in hospital following a horrific rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and New York trafficshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Bridget is told by But then she meets Albert Browne, a nurse that she is lucky to be alive dark boy with dark powers and that she must have survived the accident for a reasondarker past. BridgetWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, who has no real memory they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the accidentLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, has the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to miss a year of school and on her returnreach the Free Isles, tells everyone she now wants to but will they be known as Bridge, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''.any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiMercedes Helnwein|title=Here Be Dragons Slingshot|rating=53

|summary=Few people would be happy living in Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon"real" family, especially when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way she is used to charge your phone, no telly and no Christmas dinnernot being a priority in people's lives. But when you’re sixteen, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearable. All Ellie wants is she defends a regular ‘four-by-four life’ random boy in her class with four walls around her and four wheels under slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend hertime writing novels in solitude, all designed to keep for her safe. But safe is one thing life now has a boy in it that Ellie’s not destined to be … not from the moment she glimpses the strange boy through the mist and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) he isnever asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneT L Huchu|title=The Boy at the Top Library of the MountainDead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child in 1930s Paris he Ropa Moyo is going to have a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is a violent drunk, reacting badly to what he saw in WWIghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly German. That woman, Emilie, is going bit of Scottish pragmatism) to die, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where he is bullied. But take messages from the reaches dead of Europe and from the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of a kindschool, at a most unusual mountaintop building. Itshe's not her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghof.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert L Anderson|title=Dreamland|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=17 year old Dea has been using it to several schools in several townssupport not only herself, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then the rumours would start about how she and but her mum were crazy younger sister and the friend wouldn't talk to heraging grandmother. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she has a cure: walking through peopleHowever, there's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves in to the neighbourhood an evil stalking the rules become far less important and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Spirit ruined streets of London|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=EllieEdinburgh, Charlie and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home to London, where Mumtargeting the city's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century house, 47 Foster Square. But it's not quite ''home'' to London. They're not returning to their old house but to another tiny, cramped flatchildren. When asked whySoon, all Mum will say Ropa is, "Ask your father."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero|title=The 50 States: Explore pulled into the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted search for a missing boy at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance the request of geography about their nationhis dead mother. 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 She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states world of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places magic is far bigger and their own noted people – more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – missing children and bring an end to this evil, or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>1529039452