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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonJenny Valentine|title=Mind Your HeadUs in the Before and After

|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank Elk and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illnessMab are best friends, the treatments availableor more than that even, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and their friendship is written a once in a chatty but serious waylifetime connection. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before They meet as James Dawson. Shechildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help hercontact details at the time. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyssa SheinmelMax Boucherat|title=FacelessThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Maisie is a normal high school student. SheWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the star of the school running teamhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has a wonderful boyfriendone main intention, a great best friend and she's all set that is to go log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a good collegehit in Lori's world. But when an early morning run ends in tragedyfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, Maisie and then she finds herself in hospital in something even more spooky. For the serious burns unit server she and her bestie and without most nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of her facetampering. When a donor appearsmalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctors, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarringsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, she has no idea who she where is anymore. a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How not to DisappearRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Clare FurnissCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Hattie is having rather a miserable summer. Both her best friends, Reuben and Nat, are away, living it up in the south of France and Edinburgh respectively. Hattie, meanwhile, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at a burger joint. It's hardly glamorous and it's very dispiriting to be I can hear the one waiting at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having song of the times of their lives. Ho humsea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=Queen The call of the Silver Arrow|rating=4deep, the answering beat in my heart.5''|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=King Metabus had not been Rosevear, a good king remote and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the river he had to make a decision rocks and he thought first of plundering the safety wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her seven who swim out to his javelin, which he threw across survey the torrent, pledging as he did so ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that he would serve lies within. But when the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as Council Watch lays a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with her father and ran wild in trap to end the forest. In nearby Laurentumwrecking, Acca had grown up hearing they capture the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground island's leader and dreamed of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after the death of CamillaMira's father, when the girls became firm friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=A Dark Trade|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina FridayDesperate to save him from death, known Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to everyone as Ginaguide her, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house sets off in central London. There were seven members search of the a family and twelve servants - and Gina was secret that lies buried deep in the one at the bottom who had sea. With only nine days to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with thatunearth what might save her father, but what she couldn't cope with was as her journey takes her from the attentions of one watched streets of foreign islands to the young men heart of the family. Shesmuggler'd already heard s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the stories future of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and her baby - home and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run awaythe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn Evans Harry Allen|title=More Children of Me the Sun

|summary=At school, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normal. But at home Teva's life is about as far from normal as it's possible to get. Locked away Ra Eun Seo lives in what everyone outside thinks a North Korean town and she is a haunted house are eleven other Tevas, all different agestalented singer. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with the new Teva going out in the world while the previous Teva Life is hard and food is kept insidedifficult to come by, trapped as so Seo and her younger selffriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewAlexia Casale|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Some teenagers worry about who theyre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'll wake up next s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going tochange her life. Others worry about who they But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that'll wake up s as normal asshe can possibly manage... Meanwhile there'' Ethans a new (cute!) boy in school, who is 14, is just hoping her music A Level performance piece to wake up in time try to begin his high school career in a brand new town. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns sort out that Ethan, now Drew, is a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankind, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one for each year just the day to day traumas of his time all the challenges her body continues to throw at high schoolher to navigate. Drew So even though she can's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreview|title=River of Ink 1: Genesis|author=Helen Dennis|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Some people believe that when you drown, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in the river saw only bottles, driftwood and the dented licence plate of a foreign car. 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 to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable to find his voice. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Simon Fox|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Despite Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the nameforce, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birdsthen suddenly rings Archie, everything is feminine – the island is demanding he fetch something from a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone is femalesecret place, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of lifejoin him on the run. The novices there are on the cuspThey get together, in several ways – of girls turning but barely begin to women, smell the whiff of students turning to SistersSouthern trains when the father is arrested, of people learning what leaving Archie on the religion means for them starting late express to practise it with Brighton, toting a duty tin his father was determined 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 keep away from a family that lost one daughter through faminehis colleagues, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from bearer of a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasywhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilLex Croucher|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|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-oldsa bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. HeBut I's troubledll answer the first one: the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teachergrandmother.. And there's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne Patrick Ness and E H ShepardTea Bendix|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. 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 have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered the secret of happiness. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none the worse Different for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison |title=Never EversBoys

|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 Voice. Boy 23 s library is alone.'' Before being dumped alone in the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a room entirely by himself. He hundred books that she has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clips, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice in My Placedeliver herself. Now, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life What makes it worse is in danger, people have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to the Low Countries, man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan Graudin|title=Wolf by Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Itboarding school's 1956headmaster, and a man Tess hates. And As a very different world from the one you'd expect. Germany won World War II petty act of revenge for making her find 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 policydeliver such a large request, hoping Nazism never makes Tess sticks post-it to the Americas. The main Axis powers notes on each of Germany and Japan have pretty much divided territory between them. To commemorate a victorious war, the two powers host the annual Axis Tourbooks, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for scribbled with the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felixugliest insults she can think of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J Ryan|title=Missing Dad: Wanted|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is in big trouble. HeThey's been driving the car his grandfather bought re never meant to reach him before he's even old enough to take the driving test. And been caught. Still worse, he's suspected 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 scenecourse. Mum Her plan is unimpressed but also worried to get her anger out like this, and Joe feels horribly guiltythen take them all off before delivering them. As No harm done… Or it would be, if things couldnsomeone hadn't be worse, Joe is also suspended from schooldelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha CarthewPhilip Reeve|title=The Light That Gets LostUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|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 laterBritish but way west, as an adolescentbeyond the Scillies. He's There are troll people on his way to Camp Kernowit, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Treyand sea-witches, this is and legends of the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes Dark family that the man who murdered his parents works at the camp and he intends has to find him keep watch for magical islands and kill himtheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. In Trey's mind, things The current Darks are simple: find the manWatcher, kill himAndrewe, escapewho has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, rescue his brother from the care homeWill who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, 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 on every and Andrewe''Artemis Fowl'' books foundling daughter, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an who washed up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, out of the Irishness of itsea one day eleven years ago. IrelandBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, it seems to me, is more full than usual of people, things both his sullen brother and ideas, and places that his curious ward are different by dint thrust into the world of protecting their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, and of storiesisland, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about like itor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam Munson|title= The November Criminals|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Addison Schacht is a high school senior (that's sixth form if you're British) in Washington DC Kiran Millwood Hargrave and a bit of a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgil's Aeineid - he owns three copies and reads from one of them every single day. He has applied to the University of Chicago, where he wants to study classics.So far, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peers. Hmm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy MulliganTom de Freston|title= Liquidator|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief as you enter the crazy, exciting and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulligan. You will encounter ruthless villains, non-stop danger, at least one near-death experience Julia 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 experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Yates|title=The Winter PlaceShark

|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 a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to a French woman, is still staunchly Germantake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. That womanEver since she dropped out of school, Emilie, is going she's been using it to diesupport not only herself, but her younger sister and leave Pierrot her aging grandmother. However, there's an orphanevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, which will leave him in a home where he Ropa is bullied. But from pulled into the reaches of Europe and from search for a missing boy at the black corners request of his family comes dead mother. She will end up discovering an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, occult library and realise that the world of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop buildingmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. It's not her home – Will she just works there find the missing children and had bring an end to ask special permission from someone special. The placethis evil, or will it claim her too? The Berghof.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1529039452