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|summary=Subhi Written in verse, this is ten years Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old. He boy from Hackney who suddenly has lived his whole life in to move to Norwich and start at a detention centre for refugees in Australiamostly white school. He The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is Rohingya and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting him. They left Subhiworried for Ronny's father behind safety after a tragic event, and are waiting for him so Ronny finds himself trying to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained settle in tokens that wash up from the Great Sea a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of his imaginationtrouble. And these tokens mean a great deal He listens to Subhi because the camp isn't music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a very nice placerapper. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs out on But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a regular basis. There's no school because poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the classroom burned down. And the guards? Wellconnections between rap and poetry, with and the exception power of Harvey, they are not very nice peoplecreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusJenny Valentine|authortitle=Caighlan SmithUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages of ten Elk and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthMab are best friends, find their way through it to Alyssiaor more than that even, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosenfriendship is a once in a lifetime connection. Clara, our girl They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's best friend, is contact details at the most devout of everyonetime. She knows she is destined to become an angel But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Our girl, Something has happened though, does not want to be chosen. In her societysomething terrible and tragic, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silent. Andand now they must work through their grief, along with Claraand their friendship, chosen she istogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyMax Boucherat|title= Nothing Tastes as GoodThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= As warnings against disordered eating 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, on her lonesome. What could possibly gowrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, this she has one main intention, and that is quite interesting. Annabelto log on to Voxminer, you seethe world-building, critter-collecting game that is already dead when we meet a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on herown, and then she finds something even more spooky. She got too thin For the server she and one day that was it, her body ceased bestie and nobody else should be able to functionenter shows signs of tampering. Her mind When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, howeverand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is still sharp.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoRachel Greenlaw|title=BlameCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''A small hand I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in hersmy heart. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant ( Rosevear, a teenaged girl) remote and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in a prison – HMP Londonpartially forgotten island, no less. Since survives on luring ships into the death of rocks and plundering the EU and a hugewrecks. Mira, all-conquering recessionlike her mother before her, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for is one of the seven who swim out to survey the crimes of their parents ruins – rescuing any survivors and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family treasure that might have taken money away from lies within. But when the common good is having their children imprisoned. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due Council Watch lays a trap to their parents' activitiesend the wrecking, theycapture the island've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused s leader and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britain. Surely, then, thereMira's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paul Dowswell|title= Wave|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Wave, set in WW1, tells the story of the battle of the Sommefather. Although the story spans 100 yearsDesperate to save him from death, 1st July 1916 Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and 1st July 2016with only coordinates to guide her, the majority she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7sea.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothers, Charlie and EddieWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as they prepare for her journey takes her from the moment when they are watched streets of foreign islands to go over the top, as heart of the first wavesmuggler's territory, into No Man’s Land. The story is a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history future of her home and the British Armyones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Concentr8Harry Allen|authortitle=William SutcliffeChildren of the Sun

|summary=In Ra Eun Seo lives in a speculative near-future London, there's North Korean town and she is a new wonder drug to treat ADHDtalented singer. Concentr8 Life is cheap hard and effective. So effective that the mayor has instituted a programme food is difficult to identify children for earlycome by, preventative treatment. Almost so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every troublesome teen in London is taking itevening, often before they've actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by the unmedicated teensmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The LeavingAlexia Casale|authortitle=Tara AltebrandoSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Eleven 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 they disappeared collapsing on stage in the traumatic event middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the local community knows pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as The Leavingnormal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, five sixteen-year-olds come home. Where have they been? Who took them? And where is Maxher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? And why challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca SimonFox|title= The Monstrous Child|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Hel is the ultimate gloomy, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly ever around, her mum 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 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 herself. |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, 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 a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa 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 elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan Matson|title= The Unexpected Everything|rating=3|genre= Teens|summary= The Unexpected Everything follows Andie, the daughter of a prominent US politician, 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 they're not. A political scandal implicating her dad causes all her neatly arranged plans to evaporate. So instead, to make sure her summer isn't wasted and there's no gap in her resume, she gets a dog-walking job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146146</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stewart Foster |title=Bubble Boy Deadlock

|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Eleven year old Joe was born with a rare condition that means he has no immune system Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, andthen suddenly rings Archie, thereforedemanding he fetch something from a secret place, no resistance to and join him on the germs that surround us in our daily livesrun. The result is he's spent his whole life trapped in a bubble – a small room in They get together, but barely begin to smell the hospital where whiff of Southern trains when the air is filtered and temperature and air purity is constantly monitored. His only escape father is through his dreams of being a superhero andarrested, unless something changesleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, it looks like he'll never get toting a tin his father was determined to see keep away from his colleagues, and the outside world for himselfbearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471145409</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book Two: OryonLex Croucher|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper Gwen and T CooperArt Are Not in Love

|summary=Ethan is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a Changermost delightful way. Changers are an ancient race of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to inhabit for their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the rest of their liveskingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Because And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of thisfalling in love with each other, Changers gain insight into when really they are enabling their own other people's lives and become better people because of itromantic attachments. They literally walk But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in another man's shoeswhich they can both truly be themselves, if you will.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyNick Brooks|title=These Shallow GravesPromise Boys|rating=3.54|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one When the principal (headmaster) of my all-time favourite booksUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, ''A Gathering Light''has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it comparedeach could have been there at the time of his murder. Like ''A Gathering Light'' But who killed him, and why, ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards if any of the day. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz 1919635017|title=Trigger Mortis A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= Bond Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is back, this time authored by international best-selling he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author Anthony Horowitz=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4. It all begins with 5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a seemingly simple mission standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (at least for Bondwithin which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt)has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. After As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a few days trainingsingle-sex school can form, James heads to Germany to race the talk in the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans class and out often turns to stop the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victorysex. However Which is confusing for Ant, weas he doesn're not surprised t know what his score is, where his achievements in that Bond soon uncovers regard lie. He's had a much bigger and more serious plot: a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) and SMERSH (casual relationship, a top-secret department of the Russian government) to undermine the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions of New Yorkers one, for several months now, and toppling so has effectively progressed up the Empire State Buildingladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. As And that's mostly because of who he's been having the clock ticks down, only Bond relationship and CIA field-agent, Jeopardy Lane, can stop itthe sex with. But are they already too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky1800901232|title=Kill the Boy BandStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Rupert Pierpont has put his head above the parapet and taken his juggling act onto Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a ''Britain's Got Talent''-styled TV show, as you dofashion designer. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contestingLife in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and all four got lumped into woman came to the same boy band – The Ruperts, as you dovillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Several massive albums Some money changed hands and hugely successful tours later, Hanh was on the four lads are globally knownmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and have entered the world of true fandom – the realms where other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know to wear incontinence pads and live those jeans you really wanted: the ones with it rather than forsake their front-row concert position, intricate embroidery and where girl fans (with their own inclusive, tribal nickname, of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to beading on the stars. legs? The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform in New York, ones with the artfully-placed rips and is in town at a hipsterish swanky hotel. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fans, It's quite possible that Hanh and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights – as you doher co-workers made them. But this is through no intent of his own – for he has been kidnapped by four of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff ZentnerPatrice Lawrence|title=The Serpent KingNeedle|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment 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 genre, and here's the thing – I really want to like it, too. I know there's good stuff out there, but it seems like the more I look the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundreds, who knows – of formulaic, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Bird|title=The Hunt|rating=43

|summary=This is Britain after Brave. Charlene, the Very Big Crash. Life 'heroine' of this piece is very differentextremely hard for some people to like, especially if you live in one characters and readers both. Kicked out of the lower suburbs under the Local Governmentmultiple homes and schools, she's authority. Cush lives fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in one such suburbher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. He works as Such a detective tempestuous personality may be in the floating Krawczyk building andneed of a comfort blanket, though he thinks it himselfyou might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't workpart of the plot here, even though she'd like toas Charlene is a wonder knitter, and spends is making something full of love for her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: booksyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a video game called The Hunt. Cush store detective, and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches then force people to Nim's obsessiongive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|title= The Sword of the Spirit (Spirits 3)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ''There are truths which must be revealed before the battle may commenceAnd then. You do not yet know the meaning of the sword.'' Ooh! Events are moving apace in Rob Keeley's ''Childish Spirits'' series. Let well, what exactly happens is not for me explainto say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892533</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeAnn Sei Lin|title= Whisper to MeRebel Skies

|summary= Cassie lives with Kurara has spent her father entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in a New Jersey beach town. Dad spends most the sky where soldiers of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD the Empire come to drink and its concomitant anger issuesmake merry between their conquests. FranklyHowever, Cassie finds when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him best avoided. Cassie herself is doing ok, despite someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a recent tragedypower sought after all across the Empire. UntilHe asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that isall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she finds a dismembered foot on is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the beachOrihime, thought a sky-ship whose express purpose is to be from hunt down shikigami, and a victim whole world of a serial killer stalking the locality.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyMarcus Sedgwick|title=Moth GirlsWrath|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The first seven weeks of secondary school changed Mandy Crystal's life. It was in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong and Tina Pointer. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Street. That was the last time anyone saw either of them – Petra and Tina disappeared, never to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' by the media, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had 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 sooner? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Wallman |title=Lying About Last Summer |rating=5

|summary=Skye's sisterMeet Fitz, Luisaa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, died in a tragic accident last summer and Skye is still struggling he should be free to come do what he wants, to terms go where he wants and with both whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the events enigmatic – saying she witnessed and could hear a subhuman hum coming from the loss earth. Is this connected with one of her sister. It's, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes eco-warrior parents saying the end of the opportunity to escape – even if it world is on already a holiday for bereaved teens. She's up for anything that will stop her thinking about the past so done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's totally unprepared when dreaming of? Is she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access to. Rather than erasing all thoughts of just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the pasttruth? Well, Skye finds herself having to confront her worst fearsnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice OsemanTori Bovalino|title=Radio SilenceThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school''School'' Frances s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a single-minded study machine, with just one purposerequest for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: get into CambridgeMr Birch. SheThe boarding school's responsible, studiousheadmaster, and furiously focused on ticking all the boxes needed for a perfect application, boxes with no place man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for friends and hobbies. And this is the Frances that pretty much everyone sees. Only making her mum knows there is more to her than meets the eye, from her distinctive, geeky fashion sense find and serious artistic talentdeliver such a large request, to her fangirl love for Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the wonderful podcast showbooks, Universe City. When a chance encounter leads to her meeting scribbled with the creator of University City, Aled Last, she finally has a friend with whom ugliest insults she can genuinely be comfortable around, and celebrate all her weird and wonderful quirksthink of. However, when complications and secrets threaten They're never meant to shatter this powerful friendshipreach him, Francis finds herself at a crossroads, caught between her old secure path of least resistance, and the much scarier option of putting course. Her plan is to get her true self anger out there like this, and risking then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it all to discover what she truly wantswould be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian ConaghanPhilip Reeve|title=The Bombs That Brought Us TogetherUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Charlie Law In a word, rich. There is fourteencertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. He has always lived in Little Town There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and he legends of the Dark family that has seen its descent into a difficult place to be. There's keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no drinkingship dare sail. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to getkeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, which is a problem when your mumhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, like Charlieand Andrewe's mumfoundling daughter, has trouble breathing. But even breathing is less important than keeping who washed up out of the way of the Rascalssea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the Regime's enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules world of Little Town down pat and he neverprotecting their island, never breaks themlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'Flanagan |title=The Crystal Run |rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Running away from a couple of bullies, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself in the strange world of the Carcassian people. Suspected as a terrorist, traitor or spy, he's attached to Kaia and sent to join her on the 'Crystal Run' – a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory to replace the precious crystals that power the protective Carcassian shield. He really wants to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting for survival and forming a close friendship with Kaia. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes her mission Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Joe's determined to find a way to keep her alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nova Ren SumaTom de Freston|title=The Walls Around Us|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amber is an inmate at Aurora Hills, a juvenile detention centre reserved for the most serious young criminals. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks to us from the past and she details life at Aurora Hills and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates Julia and the guards. One night, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails and the girls spend a glorious and dangerous night out of their cells. During this night, Amber has a paranormal experience, during which she "meets" Orianna.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S E Durrant|title=Little Bits of SkyShark|rating=54

|summary=''I've put this story together Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the diaries I kept when Zac and I were children. I wrote them family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the hope that life would get better for far NE of the small unloved girl Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that was me, and my even smaller unloved brotherkind of Scottish island. And if life didn't get better or at least more interesting I was Dad is going to make it up - to put witches and castles and rides be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in fast cars. But I didn't need algae behind tohunt the elusive Greenland shark. Life got exciting all by itself.. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857633996</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophia BennettJonathan Stroud|title=Love SongThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= The Point Scarlett McCain is the ''hottest'' rock band in the worldan outlaw, in every sense of rejecting the word. While Nina has always enjoyed their music, she isn't one draconian conformity of the millions of fan-girls utterly obsessed with Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the four 19 year-old boys. She prides herself on being more than just a ''girl'' girl. So when a chance encounter ends up with her being offered wildlands between the job Seven Kingdoms of assistant Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to the lead singer's diva fiancéekeep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, touring a dark boy with the banddark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she takes it simply as an opportunity they plan to flee to travel the globe as part mythical Free Isles of the entourageLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and inject a little bit all the horrors of excitement into her life. Little does she realise post-apocalyptic society to reach the craziness that she is getting herself intoFree Isles, as she finds herself unwittingly drawn into but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the lives rest of the boys and all their messy drama. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002720</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanMercedes Helnwein|title=Chasing the StarsSlingshot|rating=4.53

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