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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseJenny Valentine|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5

|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that her duty even, their friendship is to marry well a once in order to repair the Camperdowne fortunesa lifetime connection. To this end, Eliza is sent from her family home They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to be educated in the ways of noble ladiestime. Here But then chance brings them back together, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still a young girland they are inseparable. And from there Something has happened though, it's on to the Tudor court of Henry VIIIsomething terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, who is currently married to Anne of Clevestogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyMax Boucherat|title= Defender The Last Life of the RealmLori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Alfie does not feel like heWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the right person house to be heir herself – no neighbour to the throne. He's awkward, bullied and always pop in the front page of the news for his latest mishap. His brother Richard, as the papers love to remind himbabysitter poorly, would be much better suited to the part. But when their father the King suddenly diesmother at work, ready or notjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, suitable or noton her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Alfie is no longer the heirshe has one main intention, he is the king and with that defender of the realm. Together with an unlikely ally in is to log on to Voxminer, the antiworld- royalist Hayleybuilding, Alfie learns his true heritage, protecting the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows existcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world... Suddenly all the royal duties he'd been expecting don But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't seem so onerous in comparisonfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Alfie must quickly grow into For the King the country needs, or who knows what will server she and her bestie and nobody else should be left able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the countrygame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenRachel Greenlaw|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling Compass and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voice. His family has been fragmented by the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses to talk about. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living with his dad in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but the road to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Book of LiesBlade

|summary=Parker hasn't spoken a single'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, solitary word for the last five yearsanswering beat in my heart. He hasn't started applying for college yet' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, eithersurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Not Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that helies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish s leader and he spends Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as much time skipping school charming as he does attending class. He has also developed is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a petty theft habit, which he indulges family secret that lies buried deep in well-heeled hotelsthe sea. Oh dearWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parkerher journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's behaviourterritory, there are, but reasons don't help muchMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughHarry Allen|title=13 MinutesChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=If you think about it, you can count several things Ra Eun Seo lives in 13s. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous release, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]North Korean town and she is a talented singer. It probably took me 13 seconds Life is hard and food is difficult to accept come by email the chance to read this title. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes of fame', considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, so Seo and her friends Nari and one of those social media starlets – as far as ''the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha HowlandMin go foraging every evening, was clinically dead looking for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morning. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned with the fight for her tree bark and edible grasses to work out why she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from supplement the point meagre rations of view of a girl on the edge of her circle, Beccarice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimAlexia Casale|title=AfterlightSing if you Can't Dance

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes It's hard enough to make navigate your world fall apart. You might hope teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a new beginning life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a different high school is dance performance that was going to jumpstart your change her life; that a chance . But she comes back fighting, desperate to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teagueavoid the pity stares, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need and desperate to get byback to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But before Sophie gets the chance Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to find sort out, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to be throw at her go-to girlnavigate. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since So even though she died. Eve is a ghost and dealing with the dead who have can''unfinished business'' could t dance anymore, might she be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsSimon Fox|authortitle=Sara BarnardDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Caddy Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Rosie have been best friends for years then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and even going join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to different schools hasn't parted them. And this smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the summer that Rosie intends late express to be different. She'll get Brighton, toting a boyfriendtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, finally. Perhaps even lose her virginity. And experience and the bearer of a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans and all that..whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettLex Croucher|title= Electrigirl|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirl, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of the characters in her brother's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate a massive amount of electricity in seconds, a skill that can, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control it. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides to become her mentor Gwen and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival Art Are Not in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of DemonsLove|rating=34

|summary=Meet Ben Robson. Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? He is haunted by owning a Box of DemonsBut honestly, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says on the tinlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. It contains three demonsIn this story, of different kinds, that Gwen and Arthur have hampered his concentration at schoolbeen betrothed since they were tiny, caused no end of mischief he has had much to take their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the blame for, and may even have had kingdom's only female knight) - something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospitalthat Art discovers from her private diaries. But is that all it contains? The demonsAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in creating the grand scheme subterfuge of thingsfalling in love with each other, and where when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as a result might Ben end uptheir impending wedding draws ever closer, if the forces of good and evil choose now (will they find a wet and stormy February)way in which they can both truly be themselves, and here (North Wales) or are they destined to have it out once and for alllive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboNick Brooks|title=Dreaming the Bear|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's a typical teenager whose natural habitat is the shopping mall and the multiplex. It's, therefore, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible to adjust to living in a snowy wilderness without television, a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that she's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quickly. But it is this very weakness that changes her life when, exhausted, she stumbles into the shelter of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bear. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ross Welford|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterPromise Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Al ChaudhuryWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He livesEach, unknowinglyseemingly, among has a family grudge of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everythingsome description against Principal Moore, and each could tell you what happened on every day have been there at the time of his life, and take himself back with his thoughtsmurder. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldBut who killed him, and is a snapshot of a sun that is remote both in time and space. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time travellerwhy, and is going to speak from beyond if any of the graveboys are innocent, and send Al on a true mission through time, one that will either save his life, or completely ruin all Al's forevers, for, er, for ever.they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Anna and the Swallow ManA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Gavriel SavitKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=ItSolomon Klyne isn's Poland in 1939. t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And Annahow did he learn to crack safes? You's linguistics professor father is about ll have to wait to be rounded up in the Nazi purge of intellectuals. Knowing this is likely get an answer to happen, he leaves her in the care of a friend for the daysecond question because I avoid spoilers. When her father doesnBut I't return to collect her, ll answer the frightened friend loses first one: for his nerve and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous worldgrandmother.. Anna is just seven years old and will never see her father again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Front LinesDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is pushing surprised to find his way geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever furtherlearnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the USA adds its strength football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the Alliance leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and women are allowed out often turns to fight sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in the military for the first timethat regard lie. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the war He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way to keep her family’s heads above water several months now, and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill so has effectively progressed up the man who is murdering Jewsladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. All three go to war And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expectedthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Courtney Summers1800901232|title=All The RageStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a small townfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, where everyone knows everything about everyone elseif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a teenage girl is rapedjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as that Only, Hanh and yet it is so much more complicated toothe other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It touches upon You know those jeans you really wanted: the blame that is laid at ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope legs? The ones with the days artfully-placed rips and weeks and years after such an ordeal; the idea distressed seams that, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you felt so soft when youtouched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonPatrice Lawrence|title=Mind Your HeadNeedle|rating=53

|summary=The number Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of young this piece is extremely hard for some people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk aboutlike, characters and readers both. And mental health still hasn Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she't achieved parity s fostering with physical health a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in terms need of services a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This the creation of one such item is a frank and accessible overview part of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illnessplot here, the treatments availableas Charlene is a wonder knitter, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in making something full of love for her younger sister – a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. Sheyounger sister she's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to help give hertwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dournessthen... Because Mind Your Head well, what exactly happens is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure not for me to say, only to readremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyssa SheinmelAnn Sei Lin|title=FacelessRebel Skies|rating= 4.5

|summary=Maisie is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a normal high school student. She's massive dining hall floating in the star sky where soldiers of the school running teamEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, has when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a wonderful boyfriendCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a great best friend and she's power sought after all set across the Empire. He asks her to go come with him, to a good collegeleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. But when an early morning run ends in tragedyWell, Maisie finds herself in hospital soon Kurara won't have any say in the serious burns unit and without most of her face. When a donor appearsmatter, Maisie because the Midori is given destroyed by a miraculous face transplant. Her doctorsmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she isforced to flee out into the world... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new faceShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, with its heavy scarringa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, she has no idea who she is anymore. and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreview|title=How not to Disappear|author=Clare Furniss|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 the one waiting at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceMarcus Sedgwick|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowWrath

|summary=At schoolMeet Fitz, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normala young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. But at home Teva's life Lockdown is about as far only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from normal as putting his foot in it's possible when he talks to gethis best friend, Cassie. Locked away in what everyone outside thinks is They were half of a haunted house are eleven other Tevasdesultory school band, all different agesbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new Teva going kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out in the world while the previous Teva is kept insidetruth? Well, trapped as her younger selfnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreview|title=Changers, Book One: Drew|author=Allison Glock-Cooper and T Cooper|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next to. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' Ethan, who is 14, 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 GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns 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 of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>}}{{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)Tori Bovalino|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Devil Makes Three

|summary=Despite the name, there Working all summer in her boarding school's library is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a few male farm animals and birds, everything is feminine – the island is request for over a rugged mountain land, home hundred books that she has to only one abbey where everyone deliver herself. What makes it worse is femalethe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of lifeman Tess hates. The novices there are on the cusp, in several ways – As a petty act of girls turning to womenrevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of students turning to Sistersthe books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of people learning what the religion means for them starting . They're never meant to practise it with a duty to others. Andreach him, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them . Her plan is to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famineget her anger out like this, and the inability to support themselvesthen take them all off before delivering them. New girl JaiNo harm done… Or it would be, who has latched on to Maresi like if someone hadn't delivered them for her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilPhilip Reeve|title=The Incredible Adventures Utterly Dark and the Face of Cinnamon Girlthe Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high schoolIn a word, rich. Now they must decide what to do with There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the rest Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their livesmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Move The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the city? Enrol at university? Get a job and make a life Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career London with too much science in art and comic books is possible. And if it ishis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? ItAndrewe's a frightening choicefoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Is she good enough? And in any caseBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member world of protecting their island, like it has the same choice before themor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Dangerous Lies Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programmeJulia, our pre-teen heroine, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside down. She's torn away from has been packed off with her long-term boyfriend parents and forced their cat from the family home in SW England to abandon both her friends and her identitybe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Leaving city life behind her Dad is going to be automating the lantern, she's convinced there which is no way she his specialist thing, while mum will be able leaving her career in algae behind to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraskahunt the elusive Greenland shark. But And Julia, thenwell, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next doorwill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtJonathan Stroud|title=Orbiting JupiterThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve year-old Jack Scarlett McCain is informed that his parents will be fostering another an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the 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 – fourteen year-old Josephwith dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen yearTogether, they must brave man-olds. He's troubled: eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying horrors of post-apocalyptic society to kill his teacher. And reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughter.than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardMercedes Helnwein|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomSlingshot|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 for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison |title=Never Evers|rating=4.53

|summary=Two English schoolsGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, six 14 year-old friends and she is used to not being a ski / snowboarding trip to Francepriority in people's lives. Add But when she defends a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video and you have the perfect recipe random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a light-hearted and funny teen romanceboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy HarperT L Huchu|title=Keep The FaithLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= The basics Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the plot here are that Faith is going on a French exchangedead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant she's been using it to join support not only herself, but her younger sister and her onaging grandmother. Meanwhile However, there's more boy troublean evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, while shetargeting the city's also trying to juggle revising children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for exams and applying to become a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice in missing boy at the minds request of certain teachers!) The plot is never really his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the main point world of a Faith book though - instead itmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's a welcome way ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to catch up with one of the best friendship groups in recent YA fiction.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>1529039452