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|summary=Dana Scully can be added Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key yearsNorwich and start at a mostly white school. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from a nunThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's Catholic school safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a regularnew town, secular a new school elsewhere, but echoes and keep himself out of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new hometrouble. But it's inside that the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana is seeing visions that could be claimed He listens to be precognitivemusic constantly, and dreams possibly peopled by has always dreamed of being a satanic angel figurerapper. That would all be troubling enoughBut now, but in this new school children are dying in allegedly drug-fuelled car wrecks that nobody can really believe in, so straight-edged are the victims – his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and Dana is having even more troubling experiences as a result. Working out , slowly, Ronny begins to see the cause connections between rap and effect here could fill an X-Filepoetry, but and the power of course we're in the years long before those exist. Dana might well be on her own in her investigations..creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami GarciaJenny Valentine|title=The X-Files Origins: Agent of ChaosUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary=Give a person a book and you might change their day. Give the right person the right book Elk and you might change their life. That is the philosophy of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has to a Mab are best schoolmate. He may well appear to be a wacky – some could even go as far as saying Spooky – conspiracy nutfriends, with some novel manner in home security, but he certainly swears or more than that the truth to his wife's death, and so much moreeven, their friendship is either out there, or a once in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novellifetime connection. ItThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself in, for he is eternally frustrated contact details at the lack of effort he sees in the search for his own baby sistertime. But before he can settle then chance brings them back with his new readtogether, and before The Major can really prove himself formativethey are inseparable. Something has happened though, Fox gets rapt in newsomething terrible and tragic, local cases of child kidnapand now they must work through their grief, that even though he and his father moved state recentlytheir friendship, have a galling familiarity…together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Max Boucherat|title=Mind The Gap Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary= When MikeyWe meet Lori on the first evening she's dad diesgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, he stops caring about anythingmother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Indeed What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, he becomes so desperate and that is to feel something that he deliberately provokes the one person log on to Voxminer, the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for him. Mikeyworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's best mate also ends up in a pool of bloodworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't matter because his friend has already lost find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more importantspooky. He lost Mikey when his dad died For the server she and he's determined her bestie and nobody else should be able to find a way to bring his best friend backenter shows signs of tampering. That's why he sets off When malevolent eyes spark up on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movieher phone screen, a radio extractand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, or where is a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend girl to remember his dad's voice. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it beturn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren David Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Liar's Handbook Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Everyone tells River that he's a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill in I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the gaps answering beat in what he knowsmy heart. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriend' Rosevear, Jasona remote and partially forgotten island, tellssurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Jason Mira, like her mother before her, is a total fake one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and River is on any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a crusade trap to expose him. Howeverend the wrecking, Riverthey capture the island's investigation doesnleader and Mira't work out s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as plannedhe is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological With 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 territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the police) but will anyone believe him?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanHarry Allen|title=CharismaChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Charismatic Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is exactly what Aislyn was nota talented singer. She was shy, Life is hard and food is difficult to the extent that she panicked when she was in large crowds. This shyness clearly affected hercome by, so Seo and at the beginning of the book it showed how much of an impact it would have on her future had it been left untreated. Her best friendfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Evie, knows just how bad it is looking for tree bark and has tried multiple ways edible grasses to help her, but to no avail. So, naturally, when Aislyn is offered Charisma, an underground drug with a guarantee to bring her out supplement the meagre rations of her shell, she accepts itrice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyAlexia Casale|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's family. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxic,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanket. So for now, it's James and Juniper against the world. Well, it would be, Sing if James hadnyou Can't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Johanna Handley|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Dance|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Juniper and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's family. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxic,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanket. So for now, it's James and Juniper against the world. Well, it would be, if James hadn't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=No Virgin|rating=4

|summary=This book, although rather short, managed It's hard enough to put its message across clearly. I was interested navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to read thisnavigate a life-changing disability too, as it but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a theme dance performance that I had not read before in a bookwas going to change her life. I found it very difficult But she comes back fighting, desperate to read at timesavoid the pity stares, but I always found myself turning the next page and desperate to get back to a minute after the lastlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. I was quite nervous Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to read thissort out, but after I had finished, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it - it showed me and just the mind-set day to day traumas of all the main character after challenges her body continues to throw at her experience. I found this an interesting and unique bookto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405788</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Song from Somewhere ElseSimon Fox|authortitle=A F Harrold and Levi PinfoldDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=If you were being stalked by Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the school bully force, and his two sidekicksthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and if a kindly soul rescued you from them in join him on the parkrun. They get together, you'd be grateful, right? Or would you? Frank knows she should be grateful but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when Nick rescues her from Neil Noble and his acolytes Rob and Roy. But she also knows that Nick - laughed at for being flea-ridden and smelly at school - the father is not arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a person you'd want tin his father was determined to be associated with. So Frank intends to say thanks keep away from his colleagues, and get the heck out bearer of Nick's house as quickly as she can..a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853361</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarLex Croucher|authortitle=Nicola YoonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Natasha is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a rationalist. She thinks life is all about observable facts: data and the effective analysis of gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In factthis story, she wants to become a data analyst Gwen and help make the world a better place through the evidence-based policies that will flow from it. But this ambition is looking less likely now. Because Natasha is an undocumented immigrant to New YorkArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, the authorities have found out about it thanks much to her reckless fathertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, and unless there's a miracleyou see, Natasha will be deported back to Jamaica is in just twelve hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Leigh Bardugo|title= Crooked Kingdom|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=love with Bridget (the kingdom''They don't know who we ares only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Not really. They don't know what we've done And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, what we've managed together… so let's show them they picked creating the wrong damn fight.'' First things first if you haven't read [[Six subterfuge of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yet, the first book falling in the duologylove with each other, you should read it as soon when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as possibletheir impending wedding draws ever closer, buy it or borrow it before anything else and then read Crooked Kingdom. Trust me, because while Six of Crows is unimaginably clever, with diverse characters and will they find a brilliant heist plotway in which they can both truly be themselves, Crooked Kingdom is on or are they destined to live a lie their whole other level.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriNick Brooks|title= A Poem for Every Night of the Year|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidating, to children and grown-ups. All those school lessons of dissecting poems in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend to kill the beauty of a well-written poem. This collection is a year-long tour through a vast history of poetry, and gives the reader a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosetti.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ransom Riggs|title= Tales of the Peculiar|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control the currents of the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just a few of the brilliant stories to be found in ''Tales of the Peculiar'', all of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world - a place familiar to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]. The stories in this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative way, and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Smith|title=The Darziods' StonePromise Boys

|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelledis murdered, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwallthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Amelia Each, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great andseemingly, even if it isn't as great as Blackpoolhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, anything is better than being stuck and each could have been there at home, right? Ryan is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded time of boys and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-crunchershis murder. But he goes along anywaywho killed him, even and why, and if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn't want to be left at home by himself.And it doesn't take long for any of the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead them to hidden treasure. And it might well doboys are innocent, but the code will also lead them they be able to something much more dangerous...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The HypnotistA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Laurence AnholtKitt Townsend

|summary=PipSolomon Klyne isn's parents died in t a traffic accident and bad lad, so why is he has been living in an orphanage ever since. He has only one treasured possession - running around London committing a battered copy series of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, given to him by his schoolteacher mother. That's robberies? And how Pip got his name and did he has a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling him of his own great expectations. Itlearn to crack safes? You's thanks ll have to his ability wait to get an answer to read that Pip finds himself released into the care - well, sold, actually - of old Zachary, who wants a companion second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, at Dead River Farmgrandmother.. Lilybelle likes being read to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Clover Moon lives Ant is in Cripps AlleyYear Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, a slum street so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in Victorian Englandfact they all go back to primary school days together. Her father works As they're all fired up, straining at the factory leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the heavy work has taken a toll on out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his healthachievements in that regard lie. He likes to drink an ale or two after work's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, spending money and so has effectively progressed up the family ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can barely afford't be sure. Clover And that's mother died giving birth mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her younger sisterfamily was happy, Megsif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a wispy, shy childjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Father married again Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini- bus to MildredHanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a sharpshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-tongued woman who workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title=Needle|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is free extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a beatingpleasant 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, particularly if you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the beating goes plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and 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 Clovergive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Clover And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has another four half-siblings spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and itmake merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is 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 her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's Clovert have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, rather than Mildreda sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, who takes care and a whole world of them.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreview|title=Saint DeathFrontpage

|summary=Anapra is Meet Fitz, a slum just outside the Mexican city young Scottish lad full of Juarez, right on the border with the United States. People scrape a living working frustration at one or more of the American factories, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselveshimself. This Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where people come to try he wants and find their own way into the USwith whom he wants, or pay people traffickers but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to do it for themhis best friend, Cassie. It's They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a place where subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on of the wrong side world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the drug cartels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Haunt Me|author=Liz Kessler|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Some quite difficult themes music she's dreaming of anxiety, bullying and self-harm in this beyond ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the grave love storytruth? Well, which at the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through themnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Cute and enjoyable.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer NivenTori Bovalino|title=Holding Up the UniverseThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= High Working all summer in her boarding school can be far from 's library is the easiest place last thing Tess Matheson wants to navigate through do — especially when she gets a request for over a lot of teenagers, but some have a harder job than others. After the sudden death of her mother, Libby started eating and hundred books that she didn't stop until she almost killed has to deliver herself. Years of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, and she What makes it worse is finally ready to return to school after almost five years out. Libby is determined to make up for lost time, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl the man who can do anything, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her wayrequested the books: Mr Birch. On the surface, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high The boarding school guy: charming but thoughtless, superficial's headmaster, and far too concerned with fitting in to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm and swagger, Jack is a nervous ticking time bombman Tess hates. Every day is As a struggle to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself petty act of revenge for making her find and the people around him. Because Jack has prosopagnosia, deliver such a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faceslarge request, whether Tess sticks post-it be his own, his family's or any notes on each of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katharine McGee|title= The Thousandth Floor|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The future's brightbooks, and scribbled with the future's TALL. In 2118, New York, life centres around The Towerugliest insults she can think of. ItThey's 1000 stories tallre never meant to reach him, takes up most of the island, and course. Her plan is now home to Grand Central station, Central Park, schools, shopsget her anger out like this, restaurants and gymsthen take them all off before delivering them. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live on within the tower is a proxy No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for who you are and how successful you, or at least your parents, have become. Higher floors trump lower floors, and the pinnacle is that 1000th floor penthouse, owned by Avery and her family.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenPhilip Reeve|title=Word Nerd Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ambrose Bukowski is your typical nerd – clever and geeky with no friends and appalling dress sense. However, to add to his problemsIn a word, he's also got a serious nut allergy and a slightly insane overprotective motherrich. When the school bullies almost kill him by putting a peanut in his sandwich, Ambrose There is pulled out certainly an abundance of school and educated at home. Lonely and bored, life is not looking good for Ambrose until he meets his neighbour's grown up son, Cosmos, who has just been released from prison. Outwardly the two have nothing riches in common other than this story set on a love of Scrabble peculiar island called Wildsea, British butway west, as we soon discover, this turns out to be enough to form an unlikely friendship that helps them bothbeyond the Scillies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Scott WesterfeldThere are troll people on it, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti|title=Swarm|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Zeroes have found a new home. If you didn't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti|last time]], they are six supersea-powered teenswitches, with a guru amongst them and generally a skill legends of the Dark family that works best when concerning crowds of peoplehas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Their home is a night-club – one can imbue The current Darks are the simple act Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of handing out flyers to it with activity from the magic of Hidden Lands, his inner voice that tells everyone what they want most to hear, the lighting gal is so brother Will who lives in tune London with technological signals she is practically part of her rigtoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and the DJ herself can feed off and feed back to the emotions Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the revellerssea one day eleven years ago. But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – is an ideal place for them to experimentwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, to enhance their powers both his sullen brother and learn every nuance his curious ward are thrust into the world of using them and what that meansprotecting their island, they are inviting regular humans to come alonglike it or not. That is, of course, until two brand new Zeroes slip the net – and prove to be quite talented, and more than a little malicious…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124916</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Blood for BloodJulia and the Shark

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Second Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and final book their cat from the family home in sequence set SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in a world where Germany won WW2 and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humansthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Can Yael defeat Dad is going to be automating the Wehrmacht? Interestinglantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, moving she will be homesick and absorbingalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kendare BlakeJonathan Stroud|title= Three Dark Crowns|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= ''Three Dark Crowns'' is a high class fantasy novel following a set of triplets: Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella, who are each gifted with specific magic and are equal heirs to the crown. Katharine is a poisoner with the ability to ingest the deadliest poisons, a girl who cannot die. Meanwhile, Arsinoe is a naturalist, who has the power to bloom flowers and control the fiercest animals. Finally, Mirabella is an elemental, one gifted with the ability to create fire and incredible storms powerful enough to topple buildings. On the island of Fennbirn, as is tradition, the queens are separated at the age of nine and fostered by families who share their magic. From that point onwards, they are each trained to use their magic as a weapon in the fight to the death against the other sisters. On the night of the sisters'sixteenth birthday, they will each begin their quest to secure the throne and become the rightful Queen. While the crown awaits the victor, death awaits the two weaker queens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I'll Be Home For Christmas|author=Benjamin Zephaniah and Others|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced ''I'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of the most popular writers on the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by the theme of home. What does home mean to you? Is it your house, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things to different people, can't it? The book opens with a powerful poem by Bookbag favourite, Benjamin Zephaniah. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales of hardship Outlaws Scarlett and fear, some warming the cockles of your heart. But all of them are about ''home''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kerry Drewery|title= Cell 7Browne

|summary=Tired of ''Big Brother'' and ''I'm a Celebrity..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittyScarlett McCain is an outlaw, something more 'real?' Welcome to rejecting the evolution draconian conformity of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives you, the viewer, the power of life Surviving Towns and death. Listen Faith Houses to wander the evidencewildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent robbing banks and then simply text DIE or LIVE shooting other outlaws to 7997 (Calls cost £5)keep herself alive. Since the abolition of the court system But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a few years agodarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the power mythical Free Isles of jury has been given to the peopleLondon Lagoon. Those accused of murder have seven days in seven cellsTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, each with their own particular method of psychological torture. On the last day, cannibalistic Tainted and all the accused is led horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Cell 7, dominated by the imposing electric chair in the centre. As reach the public votes pour inFree Isles, viewers wait with eager anticipation to see if there but will they be a live execution that evening...any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentMercedes Helnwein|title=The CatchersSlingshot|rating=3.5

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