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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond|rating=5|genre=Children's NonAshley Hickson-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craft, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert SwindellsLovence|title=Knife EdgeWild East|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested in there ever being a knife in junior fiction, unless it comes with a lesson. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quick. Knives can be quick to find, are quick to whip out, and quick to get the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or not. Sam is the student of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderly, and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary school. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary G Thompson|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=Six years ago, cousins Amy and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered and no trace of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns home, alone and unable to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to her. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her family, but she's a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivity, and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back to her old life. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old and in the years of her absence, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them in the first place? And where is Dee|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angie Stanton|title=Waking in Time|rating=45
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|summary=Abbi Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has had to move to Norwich and start at a hard yearmostly white school. Her beloved grandmother died The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, andso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, before the grief really had a chance to settlenew school, Abbi has left the safety and security keep himself out of home trouble. He listens to start college in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she music constantly, and has left the two most important people in her life - mother and grandmother - behindalways dreamed of being a rapper. But it's hard now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to forget be part of a poetry writing workshop group and somehow the past keeps hold of Abbi's mind. And then, one morningslowly, she wakes in her dorm room Ronny begins to find herself transported back in time to 1983. And it won't be see the first time-shift she experiences. As Abbi jumps further connections between rap and further back in timepoetry, she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, not backwards and his journey began in 1927the power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>0241645441
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberJenny Valentine|title=CaravalUs in the Before and After
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|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a Caravallifetime connection. These interactive events put They meet as children one day on by magician and entrepreneur Legend are world famous a trip out but very exclusive. Itunfortunately they don't get each other's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive ticketscontact details at the time. These will take But then chance brings them away from their sadistic father back together, and prison-like island home for the first timethey are inseparable. Caraval is never what one expects Something has happened though , something terrible and when Tella is kidnappedtragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of a game in which nothing is what it seemstogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M PeytonMax Boucherat|title=Wild LilyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lily did love Antony. She was 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 14 years an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old and he was 17, but Antony was the son of the big house and Lily was the daughter of one of the estate workerson her lonesome. They laughed What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and played together with all the other teens and children that is to log on to Voxminer, the estate and Antony accepted Lilyworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's adoration and was fond of herworld. He was an odd mixture of But first Lori has a spoiled brat and a neglected child. His mother was long dead and his father mainly absent tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on business her own, and parenting was then she finds something which was bought ineven more spooky. In For the early 1920s cars server she and aeroplanes were in their infancy her bestie and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th...) Antony asked for an aeroplanenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. His father agreed When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Antony went her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to Brooklands and bought a Sopwith.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonRachel Greenlaw|title=All About Mia Compass and Blade|rating=3.5
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|summary= Mia thinks she's being ironic when she has 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the phrase answering beat in my heart.'All About Mia' emblazoned  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her T-shirtmother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Ironic because itBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's NEVER about her. How can it be? Sheleader and Mira's just the mess father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the middle – sandwiched between sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sisterfather, Grace, and as her journey takes her super-talented soon-from the watched streets of foreign islands to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audrey. As far as Miathe heart of the smuggler's concerned she may as well get permanently wasted. She's convinced there's no point trying until a series territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of events coincide to show her just how wrong home and the ones she isholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098910X</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Trenton Lee StewartHarry Allen|title= The Secret Keepers|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Reuben is a small boy growing up with his mum in a big city full of injustice and fear. The family have little money and working two jobs means that Reuben's mum trusts him to be on his own a lot. For a young child Reuben develops a lot Children of independence, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might be valuable and dreams of being able to buy his mum her ideal home. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game of hide and seek as he dares to take on the most powerful and ruthless man in the city|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Goldfish Boy|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Matthew has OCD. Not that he knows that's what it is. He just likes things clean, he really hates germs, or going outside, and he feels safest upstairs in his room and the front bedroom, where he can control the dirt, and where he can watch everything that's going on outside, making notes on his neighbours' activities. When a little boy, Teddy, from next door goes missing one day, it turns out that Matthew was the last person to see him, and with all of his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against his crippling anxieties in order to try and uncover the truth of what happened to Teddy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan|title=We Come ApartSun
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|summary=''We Come Apart'' tells the story of Ra Eun Seo lives in a burgeoning friendship North Korean town and romance between Jess she is a talented singer. Life is hard and Nicu. Both have problems food is difficult to deal with. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up come by, so Seo and her mother. Nicu is a Romanian immigrant friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the UK meagre rations of rice and faces xenophobia in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns kimchi at home. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes more, a lot more...... but is there a future for Jess and Nicu?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Alexia Casale|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Everything seems to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actress, Elektra James. The summerIt's here and she's finally landed the boy of her dreams. Added hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that sheyou's about re having to start filming navigate a blockbuster film with internationally famous colife-stars. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… Nochanging disability too, definitely … especially when said boy of her dreams lands his own starring role in a TV series but that's filming what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in Transylvaniathe middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. And But she comes back fighting, desperate to make matters worseavoid the pity stares, shooting and desperate to get back to a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume life that looks like 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a sacknew (cute!) isnboy 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. So even though she can't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined. dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookSimon Fox|authortitle=Lara AveryDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sam McCoy has her life all planned out. She Late one night Graham Blake is going to win late back from his shift on the national debating competitionforce, go to college in New York and become then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a human rights lawyer. She is so sure of this that it almost feels ordainedsecret place, and join him on the run. And she has worked for it too They get together, sacrificing relationships and friendships in but barely begin to smell the service whiff of ambition. You can imagineSouthern trains when the father is arrested, thenleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, that Sammie views toting a diagnosis tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than a rock in the road. She won't let a pesky health condition stand in her waywhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanLex Croucher|title=TiltGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=To make an author, you first show someone books. To make a reader, you first show them the books they want to, and/or can, read. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes to introduce Simonetta, or Netta, who lives in Pisa late in the thirteenth century. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – it's not for nothing the area will become known as the Field of Miracles, for the Cathedral, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeous. But something is wrong with the latter one – it's definitely leaning, cracks are showing, and over the hundred-plus years it's taken to get this far people have built the floors at odd angles to correct the problem. Netta is intent on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father who's employed to finish it off. But therein lies the problem – it's all well and good showing someone buildings, and making them want to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?
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{{newreview
|author=Linda Newbery
|title=Until We Win
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=The best journeys are made with little steps. Lizzy is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job in an office in the nearest proper town – and by saving to buy, and teaching herself to ride, a bicycle. All that's under the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns to knuckle down with the housework on behalf of the men, and an older brother working at the village hunt. At the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand and typing classes, but she gets diverted. A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for women.
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{{newreview
|title=The One Memory of Flora Banks
|author=Emily Barr
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesia. This means Who knew that she hasn't laid down any new memories since she what I really needed to read right now was ten years old and had a brain tumour removedgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She's now seventeen In this story, Gwen and can remember life before Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the tumour but cankingdom't hold on to anything s only female knight) - something that happened after that for more than an hour or twoArt discovers from her private diaries. She gets by with And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the help subterfuge of her very protective parents and her best friend Paige, and from the endless notes she writes to herself that tell her who she is, what's wrong falling in love with hereach other, and what's been happening in her lifewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Flora has But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''way in which they can both truly be brave''.themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Life in a FishbowlNick Brooks|authortitle=Len VlahosPromise Boys
|rating=4
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|summary=Jared Stone has been diagnosed with a brain tumourWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. It's inoperable and he Each, seemingly, has only a few months left to live. Desperate to ensure financial security for his family after he's gonegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Jared decides to auction himself - and each could have been there at the rest time of his lifemurder. But who killed him, his deathand why, everything - on eBay for a reserve price and if any of one million dollars. Unsurprisinglythe boys are innocent, eBay cancels the auction as against will they be able to clear their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come to the attention of a reality TV producer...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Laird1919635017|title=Welcome to Nowhere|rating=5|genre= Teens|summary= Omar is a twelve-year-old boy living in Bosra, Syria. He works two small jobs before and after school. He prefers the jobs to school. Omar dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur with a network of businesses to rule over. He's already developing a successful sales patter. Omar has a clever sister who wants A Thief to be a teacher, and a clever brother who few realise is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people can't see past his speech impediment. He has a father who works for the government, a mother who worries too much, Catch a hypercritical granny and a couple of annoying younger siblings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Sara Barnard|title= A Quiet Kind of ThunderKitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Steffi has just started a) sixth form and b) medication for her anxiety. It's all rather tricky, as you can imagine, particularly as Tem, Steffi's best - well, only - friend has enrolled at the local FE college to do an NVQ and so Steffi is all by herself. On the first day, a teacher introduces Steffi to Rhys, a new boy to the school and also just starting sixth form. Rhys is deaf and Steffi knows a little bit of sign language, hence the introduction. Both kids have communication barriers - Rhys can't hear and Steffi, who suffers from selective mutism and severe anxiety, often can't talk.And they fall into friendship, attraction, and love. But it's a rocky road...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509810986</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=The X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Dana Scully can be added to the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key years. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic school to a regular, secular school elsewhere, but echoes of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new home. But it's inside that the strongest taste of faith is residing – Dana is seeing visions that could be claimed to be precognitive, and dreams possibly peopled by a satanic angel figure. That would all be troubling enough, but school children are dying in allegedly drug-fuelled car wrecks that nobody can really believe in, so straight-edged are the victims – and Dana is having even more troubling experiences as a result. Working out the cause and effect here could fill an X-File, but of course we're in the years long before those exist. Dana might well be on her own in her investigations...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kami Garcia|title=The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos|rating=4
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|summary=Give Solomon Klyne isn't a person bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a book and you might change their day. Give the right person the right book and you might change their life. That is the philosophy series of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to a best schoolmate. He may well appear wait to be a wacky – some could even go as far as saying Spooky – conspiracy nut, with some novel manner in home security, but he certainly swears that the truth get an answer to his wife's death, and so much more, is either out there, or in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novelsecond question because I avoid spoilers. ItBut I's a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself in, for he is eternally frustrated at the lack of effort he sees in ll answer the search first one: for his own baby sistergrandmother... But before he can settle back with his new read, and before The Major can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt in new, local cases of child kidnap, that even though he and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil Earle Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Mind The Gap Different for Boys
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|genre=Teens |summary= When Mikey's dad diesAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, he stops caring and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about anything. Indeedgeography is ever learnt) has been restructured, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes the his desk is one person on of four with both his best buddy from the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly football team, and not just for himtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Mikey As they's best mate also ends re all fired up , straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in a pool of bloodclass and out often turns to sex. But that Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't matter because know what his score is, where his friend has already lost something more importantachievements in that regard lie. He lost Mikey when his dad died and he's determined to find had a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on casual relationship, a secret one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extractfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', or a YouTube clip – something but whether that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voiceset in stone, he can't be sure. Mikey And that's mostly because of who he's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keren David 1800901232|title=The Liar's Handbook Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Everyone tells River that he's Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a liar but he doesn't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill fashion designer. Life in the gaps in what he knows. His lies are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendrural village where she lived with her family was happy, Jasonif not prosperous, tellsso when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Jason is a total fake Some money changed hands and River is Hanh was on a crusade the mini-bus to expose himHanoi. However Only, River's investigation doesn't Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work out as plannedin virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the police) but will anyone believe himlegs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk> 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-workers made them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanPatrice Lawrence|title=CharismaNeedle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Charismatic Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is exactly what Aislyn was notextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. She was shy Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, to the extent that she panicked when she was 's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in large crowdsher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. This shyness clearly affected herSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and at the beginning creation of one such item is part of the book it showed how much plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of an impact it would have on love for her future had it been left untreatedyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Her best friend, EvieWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, knows just how bad it is and has tried multiple ways then force people to help give hertwo days off school, but to no availwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Sowell, naturally, when Aislyn what exactly happens is offered Charismanot for me to say, an underground drug with a guarantee only to bring her out of her shell, she accepts itremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyAnn Sei Lin|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Rebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary=Juniper Kurara has 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 James are best friends, but make merry between their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's familyconquests. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxicHowever,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having when a close friend who can make decisions for man named Himura arrives to tell her and speak in her behalf 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 comfort blanket. So for nowto come with him, it's James and Juniper against to leave the worldlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, it would be, if James hadnsoon Kurara won't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guiltyhave 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 was joins Himura aboard the last person Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to see James alive hunt down shikigami, and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside whole world.of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyMarcus Sedgwick|title=No VirginWrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in 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 enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book, although rather short, managed Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to put its message across clearly. I was interested to read this, as it is do — especially when she gets a request for over a theme hundred books that I had not read before in a bookshe has to deliver herself. I found What makes it very difficult to read at times, but I always found myself turning worse is the next page a minute after man who requested the lastbooks: Mr Birch. I was quite nervous to read thisThe boarding school's headmaster, but after I had finishedand a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it Tess sticks post- it showed me notes on each of the books, scribbled with the mind-set ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of the main character after course. Her plan is to get her experience. I found anger out like this an interesting , and unique bookthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405788</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Song from Somewhere ElsePhilip Reeve|authortitle=A F Harrold Utterly Dark and Levi Pinfoldthe Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you were being stalked by 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 school bully Scillies. There are troll people on it, and his two sidekickssea-witches, and if a kindly soul rescued you legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from them in even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the parkWatcher, you'd be gratefulAndrewe, right? Or would you? Frank knows she should be grateful when Nick rescues her who has to keep notes of activity from Neil Noble and the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his acolytes Rob head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and RoyAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But she also knows that Nick - laughed at for being flea-ridden when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and smelly at school - is not a person you'd want to be associated with. So Frank intends to say thanks and get his curious ward are thrust into the heck out world of Nick's house as quickly as she can..protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853361</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Nicola YoonJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.
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{{Frontpage
|author= Jonathan Stroud
|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?
|isbn=1406394815
}}
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|author=Mercedes Helnwein
|title=Slingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Natasha is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a rationalist. She thinks life is all about observable facts: data and the effective analysis secret illegitimate daughter of it. In facta man with a "real" family, she wants is used to become not being a data analyst and help make the world a better place through the evidence-based policies that will flow from itpriority in people's lives. But this ambition when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is looking less likely nowchanged for good. Because Natasha is an undocumented immigrant to New YorkNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the authorities have found out about it thanks to for her reckless father, and unless there's life now has a miracle, Natasha will be deported back to Jamaica boy in just twelve hoursit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>152905818X
}}
 
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