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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnUs in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact 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=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother in We meet Lori on the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house is full of antiques and treasures and hoardings - because Daisyfirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother does like to hoard 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 one main intention, and Daisy that is rarely at a loss for something to look at or investigate. Which is just as welllog on to Voxminer, because Daisy has never gone outside the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded world-building, critter- shecollecting game that is a hit in Lori's terrified of loss because of a family tragedy in her own childhoodworld. Despite this, Daisy But first Lori has a loving relationship with tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: with her pet ratown, with the peacocks and rabbits in then she finds something even more spooky. For the gardens, server she and also with paintings her bestie and topiary and other creatures nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her imaginationphone screen, all and her safe place in the knowledge that she's being kept safe from The Crazy that once ran in her family.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once wasI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. And she is well aware that Mira, like her mother before her duty , is one of the seven who swim out to marry well in order survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to repair end the wrecking, they capture the Camperdowne fortunesisland's leader and Mira's father. To this endDesperate to save him from death, Eliza Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is sent from as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in search of a family home at Stoneton Castle secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to Trumpton Hallunearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to be educated in the ways heart of noble ladies. Here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still a young girl. And from there, itsmuggler's on territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Tudor court future of Henry VIII, who is currently married to Anne of Clevesher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyHarry Allen|title= Defender Children of the RealmSun|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to the throne. He's awkwardcome by, bullied so Seo and her friends Nari and always in the front page of the news Min go foraging every evening, looking for his latest mishap. His brother Richard, as the papers love to remind him, would be much better suited tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the part. But when their father the King suddenly dies, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer the heir, he is the king meagre rations of rice and with that defender of the realm. Together with an unlikely ally in the anti- royalist Hayley, Alfie learns his true heritage, protecting the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows exist... Suddenly all the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparisonkimchi at home. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needs, or who knows what will be left of the country? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenAlexia Casale|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how Sing if you shouldnCan'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 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= MaladaptedDance|rating= 35

|summary=Cillian isnIt't an average teenager. He knows hes hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's re having to navigate a mathematical geniuslife-changing disability too, hebut that's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he what Ven is until he's dealing with after collapsing on stage in the sole survivor middle of a train explosiondance performance that was going to change her life. With his father is dead But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and his last words desperate to get back to Cillian a riddle, Cillianlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's existence is thrown in a whole new light(cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerrySimon Fox|title=Book of LiesDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalConfident Readers|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the usual themes -- confused sense of identityforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, relationship troublesdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, difficult family backgroundsand join him on the run... But it also has another element: They get together, but barely begin to smell the supernatural. The story starts whiff of Southern trains when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagersfather is arrested, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal leaving Archie on the complexities of their shared familylate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints the bearer of witchcraft, hounds a whole heap of death and family cursesquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachLex Croucher|title=Thanks for the TroubleGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Parker hasn't spoken Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a singlegay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, solitary word for the last five yearsit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. He hasn't started applying for college yet In this story, either. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish Gwen and he spends as Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much time skipping school as he does attending classto their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. He has also developed And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a petty theft habitboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, which he indulges creating the subterfuge of falling in well-heeled hotels. Oh dearlove with each other, I hear you sayingwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. It's not But as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviourtheir impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, there or are, but reasons don't help much.they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughNick Brooks|title=13 MinutesPromise Boys

|summary=If you think about it, you can count several things 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]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email When the chance to read this title. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes principal (headmaster) of fame'Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, considering that three boys find themselves called into the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, and one of those social media starlets – police station as far as ''the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howland, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morningsuspects. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned with the fight for her to work out why she was in that riverEach, seemingly, although it's mostly taken from the point of view of has a girl on the edge grudge of her circlesome description against Principal Moore, Becca.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=Afterlight|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims and each could have been there at the life time of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get byhis murder. But before Sophie gets the chance to find outwho killed him, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing why, and Eve needs Sophie to if any of the boys are innocent, will they be her go-able to girl. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost and dealing with the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Beautiful Broken ThingsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Sara BarnardKitt Townsend

|summary=Caddy and Rosie have been best friends for years and even going to different schools hasnSolomon Klyne isn't parted them. a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And this is the summer that Rosie intends how did he learn to be different. Shecrack safes? You'll have to wait to get a boyfriend, finally. Perhaps even lose her virginity. And experience a Significant Life Eventan answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the best laid plans and all thatfirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill Patrick Ness and Cathy BrettTea Bendix|title= ElectrigirlDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary= Holly Sparkes Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirlsurprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, until she so his desk is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of four with both his best buddy from the characters in her brother's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate a massive amount of electricity in secondsfootball team, a skill that can, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control it. Her brother Joe, an expert and two other old muckers – in these things, decides fact they all go back to become her mentor and primary school days together . As they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get re all fired up, straining at the opportunity sooner than they expect with leash only a single-sex school can form, the arrival talk in their town of the company CyberSky class and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of Demons|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Ben Robsonout often turns to sex. He Which is haunted by owning a Box of Demonsconfusing for Ant, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquidsas he doesn't know what his score is, does exactly what it says on the tinwhere his achievements in that regard lie. It contains three demonsHe's had a casual relationship, of different kindsa secret one, that have hampered his concentration at schoolfor several months now, caused no end of mischief he and so has had to take effectively progressed up the blame forladder headed by 'experienced', and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated but whether that's set in a special hospitalstone, he can't be sure. But is And that all it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in 's mostly because of who he's been having the grand scheme of things, relationship and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and for all?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mimi Thebo1800901232|title=Dreaming the BearStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident Readers Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Darcy's Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a typical teenager whose natural habitat is 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 shopping mall village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the multiplexmini-bus to Hanoi. It's, therefore Only, Hanh and the other girls were not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible to adjust going to living work in a snowy wilderness without televisionshop, a phone signal or wifithey 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 legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It doesn't help s quite possible that she's also recovering from pneumonia Hanh 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 bearco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordPatrice Lawrence|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterNeedle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He lives, unknowingly, among a family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everything, and could tell you what happened on every day of his life, and take himself back with his thoughts. His father knows the starlight at night is years old, 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 traveller, and is going to speak from beyond the grave, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Anna and the Swallow Man|author=Gavriel Savit|rating=53

|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's Poland fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in 1939. And Annaher son Blake's old room while he's linguistics professor father is about to at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be rounded up in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the Nazi purge creation of intellectuals. Knowing this one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is likely to happena wonder knitter, he leaves her in the care and is making something full of a friend love for the day. When her father doesnyounger sister – a younger sister she't return to collect s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove herbelligerence with a store detective, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna then force people to a new and dangerous worldgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Anna well, what exactly happens is just seven years old not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and will never see her father againpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantAnn Sei Lin|title= Front LinesRebel Skies

|summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever furtherKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the USA adds its strength Empire come to the Alliance drink and women are allowed make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to fight in tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the military for power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the first timeEmpire. Rio Richlin’s sister He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has already died known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the warmatter, Frangie Marr because the Midori is desperate for destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a way to keep her family’s heads above water shikigami, and Rainy Schulterman wants she is forced to kill flee out into the man who world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is murdering Jews. All three go to war hunt down shikigami, 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 expected.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney SummersMarcus Sedgwick|title=All The RageWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=In a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone elseMeet Fitz, a teenage girl is rapedyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. ''All The Rage'' Lockdown is as simple as thatonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and yet with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is so much more complicated toowhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It touches upon They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the blame that is laid at enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the days and weeks and years after such an ordeal; end of the idea that, while world is already a done deal? Is it changes yousome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, it cannot fully erase what makes you younot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonTori Bovalino|title=Mind Your Head|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments available, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alyssa Sheinmel|title=FacelessDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Maisie is a normal high school student. She's the star of the school running team, has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend and she's all set to go to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedy, Maisie finds herself in hospital in the serious burns unit and without most of her face. When a donor appears, 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 scarring, she has no idea who she is anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=How not to Disappear|author=Clare Furniss|rating=5

|summary=Hattie is having rather a miserable Working all 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. Itboarding school's hardly glamorous and it's very dispiriting library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to be the one waiting at home do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the odd text or email from friends man who are having requested the times of their livesbooks: Mr Birch. Ho hum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=Queen of the Silver Arrow|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=King Metabus had not been The boarding school's headmaster, and a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursuedman Tess hates. When he reached the river he had to make As a decision and he thought first petty act of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms revenge for making her find and tied her to his javelindeliver such a large request, which he threw across Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the torrentbooks, pledging as he did so that he would serve scribbled with the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead ugliest insults she lived in a cave with her father and ran wild in the forestcan think of. In nearby LaurentumThey're never meant to reach him, Acca had grown up hearing the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and dreamed of meeting herthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, but this didnif someone hadn't happen until after the death of Camilla's father, when the girls became firm friendsdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperPhilip Reeve|title=A Utterly 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 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 Face 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 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 Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At schoolIn a word, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalrich. But at home Teva's life There is about as far from normal as certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it's possible , and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to getkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Locked away in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house The current Darks are eleven other Tevasthe Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates his brother Will who lives in two London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the new Teva going out in sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world while the previous Teva is kept insideof protecting their island, trapped as her younger selflike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper Julia and T Cooperthe Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England tobe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Others worry about who they'll wake up as Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island...'' Ethan, who Dad is 14going to be automating the lantern, which is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in a brand new town. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRLalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan And Julia, now Drew, is a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankindwell, she will be homesick and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - alone – until she suddenly finds company 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 allnight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Helen DennisThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Some people believe that when you drownScarlett McCain is an outlaw, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in rejecting the draconian conformity of the river saw only bottles, driftwood Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the dented licence plate wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of a foreign car. Not his lifeBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But he knew for certain that he was drowningthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the banks mythical Free Isles of the ThamesLondon Lagoon. Together, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedralthey must brave man-eating wildlife, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wildthe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable apocalyptic society to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in reach the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the strange signs he obsessively drawsrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Mercedes Helnwein|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Slingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Despite the name, there is nothing masculine about the island Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birdsman with a "real" family, everything is feminine – the island she is a rugged mountain land, home used to only one abbey where everyone is female, and worshipping not being a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess priority in three ages of lifepeople's lives. The novices there are on the cusp, But when she defends a random boy in several ways – of girls turning to womenher class with her slingshot, of students turning to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means her simple existence is changed for them starting to practise it with a duty to othersgood. AndNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famine, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like for her shadow to learn the ropes, life now has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is boy in it that she never asked for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>152905818X

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