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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice OsemanJenny Valentine|title=Radio SilenceUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5

|summary= ''School'' Frances Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a single-minded study machine, with just once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one purpose: day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get into Cambridge. Sheeach other's responsible, studious, and furiously focused on ticking all the boxes needed for a perfect application, boxes with no place for friends and hobbies. And this is contact details at the Frances that pretty much everyone seestime. Only her mum knows there is more to her than meets the eye, from her distinctive But then chance brings them back together, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love for the wonderful podcast show, Universe Citythey are inseparable. When a chance encounter leads to her meeting the creator of University City, Aled Last, she finally Something has a friend with whom she can genuinely be comfortable aroundhappened though, something terrible and celebrate all her weird tragic, and wonderful quirks. Howevernow they must work through their grief, when complications and secrets threaten to shatter this powerful their friendship, Francis finds herself at a crossroads, caught between her old secure path of least resistance, and the much scarier option of putting her true self out there and risking it all to discover what she truly wantstogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian ConaghanMax Boucherat|title=The Bombs That Brought Us TogetherLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Charlie Law is fourteen. He has always lived in Little Town and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to be. ThereWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no drinkingneighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is hard to getlog on to Voxminer, the world-building, which critter-collecting game that is a problem when your mum, like Charliehit in Lori's mum, has trouble breathingworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even breathing is less important than keeping out of more spooky. For the way server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the Rascalsgame has been doctored – well, the Regime's enforcers. And Charlie where is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'Flanagan Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Crystal Run Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Running away from a couple ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of bulliesthe deep, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the strange world of rocks and plundering the Carcassian peoplewrecks. Suspected as a terroristMira, traitor or spylike her mother before her, he's attached is one of the seven who swim out to Kaia survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and sent to join her on any treasure that lies within. But when the 'Crystal Run' – Council Watch lays a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory trap to replace end the precious crystals that power wrecking, they capture the protective Carcassian shieldisland's leader and Mira's father. He really wants Desperate to return to Earth but save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he soon finds himself fighting for survival is secretive and forming with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a close friendship with Kaiafamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her mission and Joefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to find a way stop at nothing to keep save the future of her alivehome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nova Ren SumaHarry Allen|title=The Walls Around UsChildren of the Sun

|summary=Amber Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is an inmate at Aurora Hills, a juvenile detention centre reserved for the most serious young criminalstalented singer. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks Life is hard and food is difficult to us from the past come by, so Seo and she details life at Aurora Hills her friends Nari and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and the guards. One nightMin go foraging every evening, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the girls spend a glorious meagre rations of rice and dangerous night out of their cells. During this night, Amber has a paranormal experience, during which she "meets" Oriannakimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E DurrantAlexia Casale|title=Little Bits of SkySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Olivia - Vee It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and her brother Aidan are trying desperate to get back to Earth after a mystery virus killed everyone, including their parents, on their shiplife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's been a lonely three years and a dangerous onenew (cute!) boy in school, tooher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, as they've tried and just the day to avoid day traumas of all the dangerous and xenophobic Mazonschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But sometimes the Mazons So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be avoided and this is one of them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough able to launch a rescue mission.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterSimon Fox|title=A Seven-Letter WordDeadlock

|summary=Finlay has got more than Late one PROBLEM. He lives alone with night Graham Blake is late back from his father, who chain-smokes in between trips out to do odd jobs for peopleshift on the force, and seems to have reduced his worth to just one recipe since his wifethen suddenly rings Archie, Finlay's motherdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, vanished two years agoand join him on the run. Things are still bitter with him – he says she might as well be dead – They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the issue manifests itself badly with Finlayfather is arrested, and he has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads leaving Archie on the late express to no end of TEASING at school. His one way out, it seemsBrighton, is for toting a change an eight-letter word, SCRABBLE – he can hide tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the mismanagement bearer of words that his speaking implies he has over a set whole heap of tiles and can play a decent gamequestions. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine his love of the word game with his quest for the truth about his mother's ABSENCE?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordLex Croucher|title=When We CollidedGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jonah's father diedWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. His mother has locked herself away in grief In this story, leaving Jonah Gwen and his two older siblings Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to not only run their own lives but also take care of their three younger siblings. It's a lot and Jonah is grievingmutual disgust! Gwen, too. Unsurprisinglyyou see, he has fallen into is in love with Bridget (the fog of depressionkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi and her artist mother are spending when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the summer subterfuge of falling in Jonah's townlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. And Vivi is bright and beautiful and vivid and amazing and But as their impending wedding draws ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonah's life like closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a shower of meteors and changes everything. But Vivi has her own problems...lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Darren ShanNick Brooks|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12)|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!  Go on. Run along|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marisa Reichardt|title=Underwater|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Morgan has a post-it note in her apartment: ''1. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3. You are not dying'' And if you had escaped a school shooting alive, you might need a note like this too, right? People died. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwards, Morgan's school closed for a while. Morgan started attending a new school but it was just too much for her. She retreated to her apartment, enrolled at an online high school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn't crossed the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then she's safe. And a shut-in's life has a rhythm. Morgan's day is predictable: daytime TV, online school, grilled cheese and soup for lunch, visits from her therapist. And Mom and little brother Ben to liven up the evenings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Fallout (Lois Lane)|author=Gwenda BondPromise Boys

|summary=Lois Lane When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is an army brat with a history ofmurdered, shall we say, oppositional behaviourthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Or at least Each, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injusticeseemingly, that's all. And if something unjust is happeninghas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, she can't let it slideand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But this timewho killed him, and why, her nth time in a new town and a new schoolif any of the boys are innocent, Lois has vowed to herself that things will they be different. She'll be good. She'll keep her mouth shut. She'll fly under the radar. Heck, she might even make a friend or two.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=CrushA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Eve AinsworthKitt Townsend

|summary=AnnaSolomon Klyne isn's mother has left her father - and her brothert a bad lad, and Anna herself. That's how Anna sees it and although her mother wants contact, Anna so why is refusing it. It's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence he running around London committing a series of father and brother either: sherobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's fed up with them, tooll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Her father is always distracted and he isdefinitely favouring little brother Eddie, who, as Anna sees it, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on But I'll answer the fact that all is not right with Anna and has signed her up first one: for counselling sessionshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tania UnsworthDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother Ant is in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house 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, so his desk is full one of antiques four with both his best buddy from the football team, and treasures and hoardings - because Daisytwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's mother does like to hoard re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something out often turns to look at or investigatesex. Which is just confusing for Ant, as wellhe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, because Daisy and so has never gone outside effectively progressed up the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisyladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's mother keeps her secluded - sheset in stone, he can't be sure. And that's terrified of loss mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a family tragedy fashion designer. Life in her own childhood. Despite this, Daisy has a loving relationship with her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: rural village where she lived with her pet ratfamily was happy, if not prosperous, with so when the peacocks smartly-dressed man and rabbits woman came to the 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 gardensmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and also with paintings and topiary and the other creatures of her imaginationgirls were not going to work in a shop, all they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the knowledge ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's being kept safe from The Crazy quite possible that once ran in Hanh and her familyco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RosePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=ElizaBrave. Charlene, the 's family isnheroine't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty of this piece is extremely hard for some people to marry well in order to repair the Camperdowne fortuneslike, characters and readers both. To this end Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Eliza is sent from and has taken up residence in her family home son Blake's old room while he's at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be educated in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the ways creation of noble ladies. Hereone such item is part of the plot here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too as Charlene is still a young girl. And from therewonder knitter, itand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's on allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to the Tudor court of Henry VIIIgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, who what exactly happens is currently married not for me to say, only to Anne of Clevesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyAnn Sei Lin|title= Defender of the RealmRebel Skies

|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir to Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the throne. He's awkwardMidori, bullied and always a massive dining hall floating in the front page sky where soldiers of the news for his latest mishapEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. His brother RichardHowever, as the papers love when a man named Himura arrives to remind tell her that she is a Crafter like him, would be much better suited someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the partEmpire. But when their father the King suddenly diesHe asks her to come with him, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer to leave the heir, he life of dreary servitude that is the king and with that defender of the realmall she has known. Together with an unlikely ally in the anti- royalist Hayley, Alfie learns his true heritageWell, protecting the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows exist... Suddenly all the royal duties he'd been expecting donsoon Kurara won't seem so onerous have any say in comparison. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needsmatter, or who knows what will be left of because the country? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susin Nielsen|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen Midori is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on destroyed by 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 monstrous paper spirit known as 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 Salishshikigami, Henry and she is struggling forced to readjust whilst living with his dad in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come flee out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but into the road to recovery is not straightforwardworld. Luckily he has his journalShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, 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 sky-ship whose express purpose is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddlehunt down shikigami, Cillian's existence is thrown in and a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense world of identity, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernatural. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachMarcus Sedgwick|title=Thanks for the TroubleWrath

|summary=Parker hasn't spoken Meet Fitz, a single, solitary word for the last five yearsyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He hasn't started applying for college yetLockdown is only just over, either. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish and he spends as much time skipping school as should be free to do what he does attending class. He has also developed a petty theft habitwants, which to go where he indulges in well-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, there arewants and with whom he wants, but reasons don't help much.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=13 Minutes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you think about he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it, you can count several things in 13s. It probably took me 13 months when he talks to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous releasehis best friend, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]Cassie. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email the chance to read this title. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes They were half of fame'a desultory school band, considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, and but Cassie was also one of those social media starlets – as far as ''hundred per cent the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned enigmatic – Natasha Howland, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before saying she was fished out of could hear a frozen river one pre-dawn January morningsubhuman hum coming from the earth. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned Is this connected with the fight for one of her to work out why she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from eco-warrior parents saying the point end of view of a girl on the edge of her circle, Becca.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=Afterlight|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents world is really all already a done deal? Is it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a some spooky new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets the chance to bonkers? And can Fitz find outthe truth? Well, she is visited by Evenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsTori Bovalino|authortitle=Sara BarnardThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Caddy and Rosie have been best friends for years and even going to different schools hasnWorking all summer in her boarding school't parted them. And this s library is the summer that Rosie intends last thing Tess Matheson wants to be different. She'll get do — especially when she gets a boyfriend, finally. Perhaps even lose her virginity. And experience request for over a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans and all hundred books thatshe has to deliver herself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy Brett|title= Electrigirl|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes What makes it worse 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 brotherman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowersheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. Holly can generate As a massive amount petty act of electricity in seconds, revenge for making her find and deliver such a skill that canlarge request, as Holly discoversTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, cause mayhem unless scribbled with the ugliest insults she can learn think of. They're never meant to control itreach him, of course. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides plan is to become get her mentor anger out like this, and together they resolve to use Hollythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavityt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WhelanPhilip Reeve|title=The Box of Demons|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning a Box of Demons, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says on the tin. It contains three demons, of different kinds, that have hampered his concentration at school, caused no end of mischief he has had to take the blame for, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospital. But is that all it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, Utterly Dark and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces Face of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and for all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mimi Thebo|title=Dreaming the BearDeep

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's In a typical teenager whose natural habitat word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the shopping mall Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the multiplexDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. It'sThe current Darks are the Watcher, thereforeAndrewe, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible who has to adjust keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to living in a snowy wilderness without televisionworry about such local yokel superstitions, a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that sheand Andrewe's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quicklyfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But it is this very weakness that changes her life whenAndrewe Dark drowns himself, exhausted, she stumbles both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the shelter world of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterJulia and the Shark

|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He livesJulia, unknowinglyour pre-teen heroine, among a has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a mind palace to store anything and everythingsummer, and could tell you what happened on every day in the far NE of his life, and take himself back with his thoughtsthe Scottish islands. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldHere be Vikings, and is a snapshot that kind of a sun that is remote both in time and spaceScottish island. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time traveller, and Dad is going to speak from beyond be automating the gravelantern, and send Al on a true mission through timewhich is his specialist thing, one that while mum will either save his lifebe leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, or completely ruin all Al's foreverswell, for, er, for evershe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreview|title=Anna and the Swallow ManFrontpage|author=Gavriel SavitJonathan Stroud|rating=5|genretitle=Teens|summary=It's Poland in 1939. And Anna's linguistics professor father is about to be rounded up in the Nazi purge of intellectuals. Knowing this is likely to happen, he leaves her in the care of a friend for the day. When her father doesn't return to collect her, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous world. Anna is just seven years old The Outlaws Scarlett and will never see her father again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Grant|title= Front LinesBrowne|rating= 54

|summary=1942: Hitler Scarlett McCain is pushing his way ever furtheran outlaw, rejecting the USA adds its strength to draconian conformity of the Alliance Surviving Towns and women are allowed Faith Houses to fight in wander the military for wildlands between the first timeSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the warBut then she meets Albert Browne, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants flee to kill the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war -eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start togetherthe horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, their paths intersect as but will they all take on roles that leave be any more scars accepted there than expected.they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney SummersMercedes Helnwein|title=All The RageSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=In Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, man with a teenage girl is raped. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as that"real" family, and yet it she is so much more complicated too. It touches upon the blame that is laid at the victimused to not being a priority in people's feet; the ways lives. But when she defends a random boy in which survivors cope her class with the days and weeks and years after such an ordeal; the idea thather slingshot, while it changes youher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it cannot fully erase what makes you youthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonT L Huchu|title=Mind Your HeadThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The number Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of young people suffering Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from mental ill health is increasing year-on-yearthe dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Yet we still find Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it difficult to talk aboutsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. And mental health still hasnHowever, there'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 s an evil stalking the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types ruined streets of illnessEdinburgh, targeting the treatments availablecity's children. Soon, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and Ropa is written in pulled into the search for a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is missing boy at the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawsonrequest of his dead mother. Shewill end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help herve imagined. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is Will she find the missing children and bring an absolute pleasure end to read.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>1529039452