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|summary= Merry Written in verse, this is an average teenager. SheRonny's also story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a witchmostly white school. She The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying not to besettle in a new town, a new school, but she isand keep himself out of trouble. Then Jack comes into her life He listens to music constantly, and she can't help falling under has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his spell. One problem – he's teacher encourages him to be part of an evila poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, centuries-old curse that Merry now has Ronny begins to break. If Merry has lost her heartsee the connections between rap and poetry, will she lose her life too? Or can true love's kiss save and the day? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PaverJenny Valentine|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods Us in the Before and Warriors Book 5) After

|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle PaverWe meet Lori on the first evening she's Gods and Warriors series has arrived. This series is set got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of the mainland (Mycenaean) and Crete (Minoan). Our two central characters represent both: Hylas, the boy searching for his sisterbabysitter poorly, is Mycenaeanmother at work, and Pirrajust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, the daughter of on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a high priestessblanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is Minoan. Togetherto log on to Voxminer, they are trying to defeat the evil Crows who are ravaging lands far and wideworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But to do first Lori has a tiny inkling thatthis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, they need and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to retrieve the dagger enter shows signs of Kronos from deep inside Crow territorytampering. If they fail When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones will rule all the land and all her safe place in the people.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn KurtagichRachel Greenlaw|title= The Creeper ManCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary=''The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from I can hear the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon a protector out song of Python Woodthe sea. But with a grinning mouth and without eyesThe call of the deep, The Creeper Man is not their protectorthe answering beat in my heart.''

In 2016 two sistersRosevear, Silla a remote and Noripartially forgotten island, runaway from London survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and their cruel father any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to La Baumeend the wrecking, they capture the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath livesisland's leader and Mira's father. Away Desperate to save him from fear death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and hurtwith only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the girls are finally happy and lovedsea. TheyWith 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're finally safe… Until s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the trees start moving closerones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz FlanaganHarry Allen|title=Eden SummerChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary= Best friends for longer than they can remember, Jess Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Eden have always been there for each other, through the good and the bad, though there's been she is a lot more of the latter over the last year. They've needed each other for support more than evertalented singer. But now, Eden Life is missing. The police are on the case, but Jess hard and food is wracked with worry. Overwhelmed difficult to come by grief, Eden hasn't been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic so Seo and often veering towards the dangerous. Desperate to find Eden, Jess takes the search into her own hands. As she makes her way through the West Yorkshire countryside, she finds herself retracing the summer she friends Nari and Eden spent togetherMin go foraging every evening, digging up buried memories looking for tree bark and secrets in edible grasses to supplement the hope that they might yield some insight into where her friend might bemeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rose in the BlitzAlexia Casale|authortitle=Rebecca StevensSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=RoseIt's father died hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a while back. She still misses himlife-changing disability too, even though life goes but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on and stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her mother is remarrying tomorrowlife. Rose knows deep down that Sal is a nice guy but But she comes back fighting, butdesperate to avoid the pity stares, but... and desperate to get back to a wedding? Itlife that's sent her into a spinas normal as she can possibly manage. Sal doesn Meanwhile there't smell rights a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. His woolly jumpers are embarrassing. His beard is weird. Rose isn So even though she can't looking forward dance anymore, might she be able to the wedding.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655546</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattSimon Fox|title=UnboxedDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Benand then suddenly rings Archie, Deandemanding he fetch something from a secret place, Millie and Zara, and they had made a promise to return to join him on the school where they had hidden a memory box five years later. Only five years later there are only four of them: Millie had died of stomach cancerrun. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in the box, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are nowThey get together, but most barely begin to smell the whiff of all they're missing Millie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E K Johnston|title= A Thousand Nights|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=E. K Johnston describes ''1000 Nights'' as a work fashioned around Southern trains when the creation of beautiful crafts charged with magic. She confesses that her setting father is not historically accuratearrested, explainingleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, ''I cheated toting a bit, because the usual date for the stories ranges tin his father was determined to keep away from Middle Persian literature to the Caliphate Erahis colleagues, and I set the book about two thousand years before that.'' Her locations are beautifully evoked and based on her sensory experiences as an archaeologist in Jordan. A Turkish bath in Amman, the Umayyad palace on top bearer of the Amman Citadel and the swirling sands at Wadi Rum are just a few sources she has used to recreate the spirit of Lo Melkhiin's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed with the mercurial nature whole heap of his wife's desert homequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290372</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keren DavidLex Croucher|title= Cuckoo|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jake is a household name thanks to his role on the UK's most popular soap opera. But his character went upstairs to his bedroom six months ago and never came down again, Gwen and now Jake is facing an uncertain future. Add to that his dad's anger issues, the family's precarious finances and the demands of a severely autistic brother; Jake's home feels like a powder keg waiting to explode. It's easier to spend nights on friends' sofas and futons, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paige Toon|title= All About The Hype|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jessie Jefferson, daughter of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I first got to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] has left the UK behind to move to the City of Angels and be with her long-lost, recently-rediscovered father. As the third book in the ''Jessie'' offshoot, there's a bit of back story to be had but long story short, she grew up not knowing about him, but then her mother died in horrible circumstances and one thing led to another and it all came out in the wash. Now, a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two half-brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraldine Mills|title= Gold|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Twins Starn and Esper are growing up in a world made dark and silent by massive volcanic explosions. Ash now covers the planet and every aspect of life is controlled by the government, policed by the strict, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long for sunshine, fresh air and the freedom of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game of dares leads them to discover an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across the darkened skies in a hand-built glider, in search of the gold that will vastly improve their lives. What they find there is a hidden world; one left behind when the volcanoes exploded. The revelation of the gold is not at all what they thought it would be, and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=We Art Are All Made of Molecules |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= After two years of pain following his mum's death, Stewart is pleased his dad has found someone else and he's 89.9% excited that he and his dad are moving in with Ashley and her mom. Ashley, however, is 110% horrified at the prospect of a new 'blended' family. She's still dealing with her parent's breakup and the revelation that her dad is gay. She's simply not prepared for a new step-dad and his geeky, socially clueless, son. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robin Jarvis|title=The Power of Dark|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Something is brewing Not in the coastal town of Whitby. To best friends Lil and Verne, it just seems like a particularly bad storm. But Cherry Cherise, the last of the town's guardian witches, fears that ancient forces are work, reviving the curse of a long-lost magical artefact and a feud that has survived beyond death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jesse Ball|title=How to Set a Fire and WhyLove

|summary=Subhi is ten years old. He has lived his whole life Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a detention centre for refugees in Australiamost delightful way. He In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is Rohingya and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting him. They left Subhilove with Bridget (the kingdom's father behind and are waiting for him to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained in tokens only female knight) - something that wash up Art discovers from the Great Sea of his imaginationher private diaries. And these tokens mean then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a great deal to Subhi because the camp isn't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs out on a regular basis. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And the guards? Wellboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, with creating the exception subterfuge of Harveyfalling in love with each other, when really they are not very nice peopleenabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusNick Brooks|authortitle=Caighlan SmithPromise Boys

|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between When the ages principal (headmaster) of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find their way through it to Alyssiathemselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and become angels. Every child yearns to be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Claraseemingly, our girl's best friendhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, is and each could have been there at the most devout time of everyonehis murder. She knows she is destined to become an angel. Our girl But who killed him, thoughand why, does not want to be chosen. In her society, this is such a badge and if any of shame that she keeps silent. Andthe boys are innocent, along with Clara, chosen she is.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire Hennessy1919635017|title= Nothing Tastes as Good|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 A Thief to function. Her mind, however, is still sharp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewCatch a Killer|author=Simon Mayo|title=BlameKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''A small hand in hers. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (t a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in a prison – HMP bad lad, so why is he running around London, no less. Since the death of the EU and committing a huge, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for the crimes series 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 imprisoned. robberies? And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in there, due how did he learn to their parents' activities, theycrack safes? You've since been adopted by people who ll have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as to wait to get an answer to the worst criminal family in Britainsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Surely, then, thereBut I's no hope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= WaveDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary= WaveAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, set in WW1and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, tells the story so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the battle of the Sommefootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Although As they're all fired up, straining at the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016leash only a single-sex school can form, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am talk in class and 7.30am on 1st July 1916out often turns to sex. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare Which is confusing for the moment when they are to go over the topAnt, as the first wavehe doesn't know what his score is, into No Man’s Landwhere his achievements in that regard lie. The story is He's had a poignantcasual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, reflective and brutally honest account of so has effectively progressed up the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the history of relationship and the British Armysex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Concentr8Stitched Up|author=William SutcliffeSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a speculative nearfashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-future London, there's dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a new wonder drug job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to treat ADHDbe missed. Concentr8 is cheap Some money changed hands and effectiveHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. So effective that Only, Hanh and the mayor has instituted a programme other girls were not going to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen work in London is taking ita shop, often before they've actually become troublesomewere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But then an austerity drive sees You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by legs? The ones with the unmedicated teensartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The LeavingPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Tara AltebrandoNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the traumatic event creation of one such item is part of the local community knows plot here, as The LeavingCharlene is a wonder knitter, five sixteen-year-olds come homeand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Where have they been? Who took them? And where then... well, what exactly happens is Maxnot for me to say, the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? And why only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca SimonAnn Sei Lin|title= The Monstrous ChildRebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary= Hel is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the ultimate gloomyMidori, angst-ridden teena massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Her dad's hardly ever aroundHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her mum that she is at best indifferent a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks herto come with him, and her brothers are evil little beaststo leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. She lives Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a land of sleet monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and noise and ice. But that's not she is forced to flee out into the worst of itworld. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpse, with all joins Himura aboard the accompanying odours that producesOrihime, and a sky- wait for it – there'll never be an end ship whose express purpose is to her misery because she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Alison UmmingerMarcus Sedgwick|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 Wrath

|summary=Ethan Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a Changeronly 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 it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Changers are an ancient race They were half of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona to inhabit for desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the rest of their livesearth. Because Is this connected with one of this, Changers gain insight into other people's lives and become better people because her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it. They literally walk in another mansome spooky new kind of music she's shoesdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, if you willnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyTori Bovalino|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 of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Trigger Mortis The Devil Makes Three

|summary= Bond Working all summer in her boarding school's library is back, this time authored by international best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. It all begins with the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a seemingly simple mission (at least request for Bond). After over a few days training, James heads hundred books that she has to Germany to race in deliver herself. What makes it worse is the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop man who requested the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victorybooks: Mr Birch. HoweverThe boarding school's headmaster, we're not surprised that Bond soon uncovers and a much bigger and more serious plot: man Tess hates. As a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) petty act of revenge for making her find and SMERSH (deliver such a toplarge request, Tess sticks post-secret department it notes on each of the Russian government) books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to undermine the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions reach him, of New Yorkers and toppling the Empire State Buildingcourse. As the clock ticks downHer plan is to get her anger out like this, only Bond and CIA field-agentthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, Jeopardy Lane, can stop itif someone hadn't delivered them for her. But are they already too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Goldy MoldavskyPhilip Reeve|title=Kill Utterly Dark and the Boy BandFace of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rupert Pierpont In 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. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has put to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head above the parapet to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and taken his juggling act onto a ''BritainAndrewe's Got Talent''-styled TV showfoundling daughter, as you dowho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contestingBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and all four got lumped his curious ward are thrust into the same boy band – The Rupertsworld of protecting their island, as you dolike it or not. Several massive albums |isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and hugely successful tours later, the four lads are globally knownShark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, and have entered the world of true fandom – the realms where girls know to wear incontinence pads and live with it rather than forsake their frontour pre-row concert positionteen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and where girl fans (with their own inclusivecat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, tribal nicknamein the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to the starsScottish island. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special Dad is going to perform in New Yorkbe automating the lantern, and which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in town at a hipsterish swanky hotelalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fansJulia, well, she will be homesick and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights alone – as you dountil she suddenly finds company one night. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff ZentnerJonathan Stroud|title=The Serpent KingOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the first person Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to comment on wander the saturation wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of the young-adult fiction market in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genreBritain, robbing banks and here's the thing – I really want shooting other outlaws to like itkeep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, tooa dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. I know there's good stuff out thereWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, but it seems like they plan to flee to the more I look mythical Free Isles of the less I findLondon Lagoon. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundredsTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who knows – the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of formulaicpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of that passion in me.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BirdMercedes Helnwein|title=The HuntSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=This is Britain after the Very Big CrashGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Life As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is very different, especially if you live used to not being a priority in one of the lower suburbs under the Local Governmentpeople's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as But when she defends a detective random boy in the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himselfher class with her slingshot, her simple existence is pretty changed for good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though No longer can she'd like tospend her time writing novels in solitude, and spends for her days at home reading those most antiquated of thingslife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsessionWade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>152905818X