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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Children of IcarusFrontpage|author=Caighlan Smith|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii Ashley Hickson- honoured ones between the ages of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clara, our girl's best friend, is the most devout of everyone. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl, though, does not want to be chosen. In her society, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silent. And, along with Clara, chosen she is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire HennessyLovence|title= Nothing Tastes as GoodWild East|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= As warnings against disordered eating go, this one is quite interesting. Annabel, you see, is already dead when we meet her. She got too thin and one day that was it, her body ceased to function. Her mind, however, is still sharp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon Mayo|title=Blame|rating=45

|summary=''A small hand Written in hers. verse, this is Ronny'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothings story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny' These tender words show the situation. Ant (s safety after a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a prison – HMP Londonnew town, no less. Since the death of the EU and a hugenew school, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for the crimes keep himself out of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisonedtrouble. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due He listens to their parents' activitiesmusic constantly, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britainhas always dreamed of being a rapper. SurelyBut now, then, there's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Dowswell|title= Wave|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Wave, set in WW1this new school, tells the story his teacher encourages him to be part of the battle of the Somme. Although the story spans 100 yearsa poetry writing workshop group and, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016slowly, Ronny begins to see the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes connections between 7am rap and 7.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brotherspoetry, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare for the moment when they are to go over the top, as the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story is a poignant, reflective power of creativity and brutally honest account of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Armycrafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Concentr8Jenny Valentine|authortitle=William SutcliffeUs in the Before and After

|summary=In a speculative near-future London, there's a new wonder drug to treat ADHD. Concentr8 is cheap Elk and effective. So effective that the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking it, often before they've actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees the program cut abruptly. Riots break outMab are best friends, led by the unmedicated teens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Leaving|author=Tara Altebrando|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared in the traumatic event the local community knows as The Leaving, five sixteen-year-olds come home. Where have they been? Who took them? And where is Max, the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? And why can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francesca Simon|title= The Monstrous Child|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Hel is the ultimate gloomy, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly ever aroundmore than that even, her mum their friendship is at best indifferent to her, and her brothers are evil little beasts. She lives in a land of sleet and noise and ice. But that's not the worst of it. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpse, with all the accompanying odours that produces, and - wait for it – there'll never be an end to her misery because she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit card, and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped once in a town full of lost souls and wannabes, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herselflifetime connection. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, They meet as children one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. I would say this was day on a return to her side, trip out but have we had that pleasure yet – isnunfortunately they don't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa get each other's contact details at the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhereBut then chance brings them back together, but can certainly frustrate as usualand they are inseparable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan Matson|title= The Unexpected Everything|rating=3|genre= Teens|summary= The Unexpected Everything follows Andie Something has happened though, the daughter of a prominent US politiciansomething terrible and tragic, who has led a careful life as a result. Incredibly organised, her plans of attending the John Hopkins medical program all summer long are set. Until and now they're not. A political scandal implicating her dad causes all her neatly arranged plans to evaporate. So insteadmust work through their grief, to make sure her summer isn't wasted and there's no gap in her resumetheir friendship, she gets a dog-walking jobtogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471146146</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stewart Foster Max Boucherat|title=Bubble Boy The Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Eleven We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old Joe was born with , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a rare condition that means he blanket fort, she has no immune system one main intention, andthat is to log on to Voxminer, thereforethe world-building, no resistance to the germs critter-collecting game that surround us is a hit in our daily lives. The result is heLori's spent his whole life trapped in world. But first Lori has a bubble – a small room in the hospital where tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the air is filtered server she and temperature her bestie and air purity is constantly monitorednobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. His only escape When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is through his dreams of being a superhero and, unless something changes, it looks like he'll never get girl to see the outside world for himself. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145409</amazonuk>0008666482

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

|summary=Ethan is ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a Changerremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Changers are an ancient race Mira, like her mother before her, is one of humans the seven who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a permanent persona trap to inhabit for end the rest of their lives. Because of thiswrecking, Changers gain insight into other peoplethey capture the island's leader and Mira's lives father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and become better people because with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of ita family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. They literally walk in another manWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's shoesterritory, if you willMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyHarry Allen|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards Children of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Trigger Mortis Sun|rating=4.5

|summary= Bond Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is back, this time authored by international best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. It all begins with a seemingly simple mission (at least for Bond)talented singer. After a few days training, James heads Life is hard and food is difficult to Germany to race in the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victory. Howevercome by, we're not surprised that Bond soon uncovers a much bigger so Seo and her friends Nari and more serious plot: a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and SMERSH (a top-secret department of the Russian government) edible grasses to undermine supplement the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions meagre rations of New Yorkers rice and toppling the Empire State Building. As the clock ticks down, only Bond and CIA field-agent, Jeopardy Lane, can stop itkimchi at home. But are they already too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Goldy MoldavskyAlexia Casale|title=Kill the Boy BandSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Rupert Pierpont has put his head above the parapet and taken his juggling act onto a ''BritainIt's Got Talent'hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-styled TV showchanging disability too, as you dobut 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. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contestingBut she comes back fighting, and all four got lumped into desperate to avoid the same boy band – The Rupertspity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as you doshe can possibly manage. Several massive albums and hugely successful tours laterMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, the four lads are globally knownher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and have entered the world of true fandom – just the realms where girls know day to wear incontinence pads and live with it rather than forsake their front-row concert position, and where girl fans (with their own inclusive, tribal nickname, day traumas of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to all the stars. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special challenges her body continues to perform in New York, and is in town throw at a hipsterish swanky hotelher to navigate. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fansSo even though she can't dance anymore, and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights – as you do. But this is might she be able to sing her way through no intent of his own – for he has been kidnapped by four of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff ZentnerSimon Fox|title=The Serpent KingDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the saturation of the young-adult fiction market in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genreforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and here's join him on the thing – I really want to like it, toorun. I know there's good stuff out there They get together, but it seems like barely begin to smell the more I look whiff of Southern trains when the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundredsfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, who knows – of formulaictoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any the bearer of that passion in mea whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BirdLex Croucher|title=The HuntGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=This is Britain after the Very Big Crash. Life is very differentWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, especially if you live it lifted my spirits in one of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authoritya most delightful way. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in the floating Krawczyk building In this story, Gwen andArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, though he thinks it himselfmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't workyou see, even though she'd like to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed in love with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to NimBridget (the kingdom's obsession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|title= The Sword of the Spirit (Spirits 3only female knight)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ''There are truths which must be revealed before the battle may commence- something that Art discovers from her private diaries. You do not yet know And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the meaning subterfuge of the sword.'' Ooh! Events are moving apace falling in Rob Keeley's ''Childish Spirits'' series. Let me explain...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892533</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title= Whisper to Me|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Cassie lives love with her father in a New Jersey beach town. Dad spends most of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD and its concomitant anger issues. Franklyeach other, Cassie finds him best avoidedwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Cassie herself is doing ok But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, despite will they find a recent tragedy. Untilway in which they can both truly be themselves, that is, she finds a dismembered foot on the beach, thought or are they destined to be from live a victim of a serial killer stalking the locality.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyNick Brooks|title=Moth GirlsPromise Boys

|summary=The first seven weeks When the principal (headmaster) of secondary Urban Promise Prep school changed Mandy Crystal's lifeis murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. It was in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and Tina Pointer. And it was each could have been there at the end time of those seven weeks that she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Streethis murder. That was the last time anyone saw either of them – Petra But who killed him, and Tina disappearedwhy, never to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' by and if any of the mediaboys are innocent, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had will they be able to live with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen her friends. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found it she'd told the police where they'd gone soonerclear their names? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everything.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sue Wallman 1919635017|title=Lying About Last Summer A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=SkyeSolomon Klyne isn's sistert a bad lad, Luisa, died in so why is he running around London committing a tragic accident last summer and Skye is still struggling series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to come get an answer to terms with both the events she witnessed and the loss of her sistersecond question because I avoid spoilers. ItBut I's, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes ll answer the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday first one: for bereaved teenshis grandmother. She's up for anything that will stop her thinking about the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access to. Rather than erasing all thoughts of the past, Skye finds herself having to confront her worst fears. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice OsemanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Radio SilenceDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= ''School'' Frances Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a single-minded study machinestandard 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 one of four with just one purpose: get into Cambridgeboth his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She As they's responsiblere all fired up, studious, and furiously focused on ticking all straining at the boxes needed for leash only a perfect applicationsingle-sex school can form, boxes with no place for friends the talk in class and hobbiesout often turns to sex. And this Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is the Frances , where his achievements in that pretty much everyone seesregard lie. Only her mum knows there is more to her than meets the eye He's had a casual relationship, from her distinctivea secret one, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love for the wonderful podcast showseveral months now, Universe City. When a chance encounter leads to her meeting and so has effectively progressed up the creator of University Cityladder headed by 'experienced', Aled Lastbut whether that's set in stone, she finally has a friend with whom she he can genuinely 't be comfortable around, and celebrate all her weird and wonderful quirkssure. However, when complications and secrets threaten to shatter this powerful friendship, Francis finds herself at a crossroads, caught between her old secure path And that's mostly because of least resistance, who he's been having the relationship and the much scarier option of putting her true self out there and risking it all to discover what she truly wantssex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian Conaghan1800901232|title=The Bombs That Brought Us TogetherStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Charlie Law is fourteenTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. He has always Life in the rural village where she lived in Little Town with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and he has seen its descent into woman came to the village to offer Hahn a difficult place job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to bemissed. There's no drinking Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to get, which is work in a problem when your mumshop, like Charlie's mum, has trouble breathingthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But even breathing is less important than keeping out of You know those jeans you really wanted: the way of ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the Rascals, legs? The ones with the Regimeartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat quite possible that Hanh and he never, never breaks her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'Flanagan Patrice Lawrence|title=The Crystal Run Needle

|summary=Running away from a couple of bulliesBrave. Charlene, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself in the strange world 'heroine' of the Carcassian this piece is extremely hard for some peopleto like, characters and readers both. Suspected as Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a terroristpleasant yoga tutor, traitor or spyAnnie, he's attached to Kaia and sent to join has taken up residence in her on the son Blake'Crystal Runs old room while he' – s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory to replace comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the precious crystals that power creation of one such item is part of the protective Carcassian shield. He really wants to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for survival and forming her younger sister – a close friendship younger sister she's allowed contact with Kaiano more. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she completes her mission and Joe's determined shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to find a way say, only to keep her aliveremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nova Ren SumaAnn Sei Lin|title=The Walls Around UsRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amber is an inmate at Aurora HillsKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a juvenile detention centre reserved for massive dining hall floating in the most serious young criminals. She was convicted sky where soldiers of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocencethe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Amber speaks However, when a man named Himura arrives to us from tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the past and power to form paper into whatever she details life at Aurora Hills and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and desires – a power sought after all across the guardsEmpire. One nightHe asks her to come with him, there to leave the life of dreary servitude that is a stormall she has known. The prisonWell, soon Kurara won's electrical system fails and t have any say in the matter, because the girls spend Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a glorious shikigami, and dangerous night she is forced to flee out of their cellsinto the world. During this nightShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Amber has a paranormal experiencesky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, during which she "meets" Orianna.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E DurrantMarcus Sedgwick|title=Little Bits of SkyWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I've put this story together from the diaries I kept when Zac and I were children. I wrote them in the hope that life would get better for the small unloved girl that was me, and my even smaller unloved brother. And if life didn't get better or at least more interesting I was going to make it up - to put witches and castles and rides in fast cars. But I didn't need to. Life got exciting all by itself...''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857633996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophia Bennett|title=Love Song|rating=4

|summary= The Point Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is the ''hottest'' rock band 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 putting his foot in the worldit when he talks to his best friend, in every sense Cassie. They were half of the word. While Nina has always enjoyed their musica desultory school band, she isn't but Cassie was also one of hundred per cent the millions of fan-girls utterly obsessed with enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the four 19 year-old boys. She prides herself on being more than just a ''girl'' girlearth. So when a chance encounter ends up Is this connected with one of her being offered eco-warrior parents saying the job end of assistant to the lead singerworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's diva fiancée, touring with the band, dreaming of? Is she takes it simply as an opportunity to travel the globe as part of just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the entouragetruth? Well, and inject a little bit of excitement into her lifenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Little does she realise the craziness that she is getting herself into, as she finds herself unwittingly drawn into the lives of the boys and all their messy drama. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002720</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanTori Bovalino|title=Chasing the StarsThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Olivia - Vee - and Working all summer in her brother Aidan are trying boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to get back do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to Earth after a mystery virus killed everyone, including their parents, on their shipdeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's been headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a lonely three years petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a dangerous onelarge request, tooTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, as theyscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They've tried re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to avoid the dangerous get her anger out like this, and xenophobic Mazonsthen take them all off before delivering them. But sometimes the Mazons canNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't be avoided and this is one of delivered them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough to launch a rescue missionfor her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterPhilip Reeve|title=A Seven-Letter WordUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=Finlay has got more than one PROBLEMIn a 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 Scillies. He lives alone with his fatherThere are troll people on it, who chainand sea-smokes in between trips out witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to do odd jobs keep watch for people, magical islands and seems to have reduced his worth to just one recipe since his wifetheir monster approaching from even further west, Finlay's mother, vanished two years agowhere no ship dare sail. Things The current Darks are still bitter with him – he says she might as well be dead – but the issue manifests itself badly with FinlayWatcher, Andrewe, and he who has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads to no end keep notes of TEASING at school. His one way outactivity from the Hidden Lands, it seemshis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, is for a change an eight-letter wordand Andrewe's foundling daughter, SCRABBLE – he can hide away from who washed up out of the mismanagement of words that his speaking implies he has over a set of tiles and can play a decent gamesea one day eleven years ago. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his love of the word game with sullen brother and his quest for curious ward are thrust into the truth about his mother's ABSENCE?world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=When We CollidedJulia and the Shark

|summary=Jonah's father died. His mother Gracie Welles has locked resigned herself away in griefto being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, leaving Jonah and his two older siblings she is used to not only run their own being a priority in people's lives but also take care of their three younger siblings. It's But when she defends a lot and Jonah random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is grieving, toochanged for good. UnsurprisinglyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, he has fallen into the fog of depression. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi and for her artist mother are spending the summer in Jonah's town. And Vivi is bright and beautiful and vivid and amazing and ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonah's life like now has a shower of meteors and changes everything. But Vivi has her own problems..boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>152905818X