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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The NestWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Steven can narrate Written in verse, this book to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brother. Thatis Ronny's not down story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attacksmostly white school. ItThe move is initiated by Ronny's because theremum who is worried for Ronny's something wrong with the new addition safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying for settle in a new child so late in lifetown, but whatever the reason there is something demanding a lot new school, and keep himself out of medical care and attention, even if the child can more or less live in the family hometrouble. But hope seems He listens to be shining a light into Steven from the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him in his dreams, from within a pleasantmusic constantly, light-filled haven, with full knowledge of the family's troubles and an offer has always dreamed of being a way outrapper. ObviouslyBut now, in this new school, worried for the happiness his teacher encourages him to be part of his familya poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and knowing this is just a dreampoetry, Steven will only say yes to and the offer power of help…creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Women Us in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World|author=Rachel IgnotofskyBefore and After

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=''Women Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in Sciencea lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievements. There are women from s contact details at the ancient world and women working todaytime. Each of But then chance brings them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait back together, and infoboxes with factoids on one side they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and a page of text with a brief biography tragic, and outline of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for now they must work through their work grief, and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americafriendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria AveyardMax Boucherat|title= King's CageThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''He caught me s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in a prince's trap, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. And now I'm What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a Kingblanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's cageworld. But I'm not leaving first Lori has a tiny inkling that this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.stormy night doesn'' The third instalment in the Red Queen seriest find herself entirely on her own, picks up right after the final events of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone and powerless without her lightningthen she finds something even more spooky. At For the mercy of the boy who wears the crown, Mare is haunted by the consequences of server she and her past decisions. Tortured bestie and weak, Mare has a front seat nobody else should be able to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold and destroy all that she believes inenter shows signs of tampering. Being broken When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and beaten, Mare will never be the same again after her captivity but can she escape safe place in the Palace with her life game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to fight another dayturn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardRachel Greenlaw|title= The Pavee Compass and the Buffer GirlBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because I can hear the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against song of the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teacherssea. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim The call of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threatsthe deep, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gemma Fowler|title= Moondust|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''Lunar Inc. is lying to us. It's been lying to us from the moment lumite power was discoveredanswering beat in my heart.''

After the dark days of future EarthRosevear, where an energy crisis has led to chaosa remote and partially forgotten island, lumite power has become survives on luring ships into the only solution for peacerocks and plundering the wrecks. Yet that peace Mira, like her mother before her, is fragile. The memory one of the reactor explosion at Andrianne, ten years ago, is still fresh in seven who swim out to survey the public's mindruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. FALL, But when the First Anti-Lumite League, continues Council Watch lays a trap to campaign fiercely against end the United Government and wrecking, they capture the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Inc. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Daykin|title=Fish Boy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Billy is struggling at school. Heisland's being picked on by the school bully leader and heMira's starting father. Desperate to feel very alone. His mum is sicksave him from death, although nobody seems to know what's wrong Mira makes a bargain with her. She has been sick for a long time meaning that she can't work, so Billy's dad wreck survivor who is as charming as he is working extra hours to try to keep the family afloat secretive and Billy is frequently left with only coordinates to fend for himself. His only escape is in watching his favouriteguide her, David Attenborough, or she sets off in swimming search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. One day, howeverWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to him! This, combined with the entrance heart of a new boy the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at school, starts nothing to change Billy's life in some rather unexpected wayssave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack ChengHarry Allen|title=See You in Children of the CosmosSun

|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. He's just eleven, but Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is sure he has the responsibility age of a thirteen year oldtalented singer. He'll prove this Life is hard and food is difficult to come by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' , so Seo and his dog Carl Sagan on an Amtrak train to the desert to a launch festival for hobbyist rocket-makers – her friends Nari and all without the help of the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato motherMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the father he was told died when Alex was three years old. This book is a transcript meagre rations of verbal essays rice and conversations he has made to put in his rocket to send to the stars, so aliens can learn about life on earth in 2017kimchi at home. The fact that we're able to find out what's on it does seem to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3'', but as for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyAlexia Casale|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and BeyondSing if you Can't Dance

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Teens|summary=I take it as read It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you know some of 're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the history middle of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it alla dance performance that was going to change her life. So I won't go into But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craftpity stares, and the processes we needed desperate to get back to be expert in before we could launch anythinga life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that weMeanwhile there're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet wass a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, 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 just the history day to day traumas of books conveying all this the challenges her body continues to a young audiencethrow at her to navigate. 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 arenSo even though she can't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boringdance anymore, plain white page. Until now…might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsSimon Fox|title=Knife EdgeDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|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 Late 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 night Graham Blake is the student of that lesson here – late back from his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby shift on the pupils do odd jobs for local elderlyforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he finds fetch something from a perfect knife he thinks will defend secret place, and join him from on the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary schoolrun. As for They get together, but barely begin to smell 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 whiff of them was ever found - that Southern trains when the father is until Amy suddenly returns homearrested, alone and unable to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to her. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope leaving Archie on the late express to her familyBrighton, but she's toting a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivitytin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, 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 bearer of her absence, she became Chelsea and Dee became Staciea whole heap of questions. But why has she come back now? Who took them in the first place? And where is Dee|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie StantonLex Croucher|title=Waking Gwen and Art Are Not in TimeLove

|summary=Abbi has had Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a hard yearmost delightful way. Her beloved grandmother died In this story, Gwen andArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, before the grief really had a chance much to settletheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Abbi has left the safety and security of home to start college you see, is in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she has left love with Bridget (the two most important people in her life - mother and grandmother - behind. But itkingdom's hard to forget and somehow the past keeps hold of Abbi's mindonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And thenwhen Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, one morning, she wakes in her dorm room to find herself transported back in time to 1983. And it won't be creating the first time-shift she experiences. As Abbi jumps further and further back subterfuge of falling in timelove with each other, she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, not backwards and his journey began in 1927.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephanie Garber|title=Caraval|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Scarlett Dragna has had one desire all her life: to visit a Caraval. These interactive events put on by magician and entrepreneur Legend when really they are world famous but very exclusiveenabling their own other romantic attachments. It's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive tickets. These will take them away from But as their sadistic father and prison-like island home for the first time. Caraval is never what one expects though and when Tella is kidnappedimpending wedding draws ever closer, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of will they find a game way in which nothing is what it seems.they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M PeytonNick Brooks|title=Wild LilyPromise Boys

|summary=Lily did love AntonyWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She was just 14 years old and he was 17Each, seemingly, but Antony was the son has a grudge of the big house some description against Principal Moore, and Lily was each could have been there at the daughter time of one of the estate workershis murder. They laughed But who killed him, and played together with all the other teens why, and children on the estate and Antony accepted Lily's adoration and was fond if any of her. He was an odd mixture of a spoiled brat and a neglected child. His mother was long dead and his father mainly absent on business and parenting was something which was bought in. In the early 1920s cars and aeroplanes were in boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their infancy and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th...) Antony asked for an aeroplane. His father agreed and Antony went to Brooklands and bought a Sopwith.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Williamson1919635017|title=All About Mia A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary= Mia thinks sheSolomon Klyne isn's being ironic when she has t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the phrase 'All About Mia' emblazoned on her T-shirt. Ironic second question because it's NEVER about herI avoid spoilers. How can it be? SheBut I's just ll answer the mess in the middle – sandwiched between her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sister, Grace, and her super-talented soon-to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audreyfirst one: for his grandmother. As far as Mia's concerned she may as well get permanently wasted. She's convinced there's no point trying until a series of events coincide to show her just how wrong she is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191098910X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Trenton Lee StewartPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Secret KeepersDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Reuben Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a small boy growing up standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his mum best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a big city full of injustice single-sex school can form, the talk in class and fearout often turns to sex. The family have little money and working two jobs means Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that Reubenregard lie. He's mum trusts him to be on his own had a lot. For casual relationship, a young child Reuben develops a lot of independencesecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might can't be valuable and dreams of being able to buy his mum her ideal homesure. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game And that's mostly because of hide and seek as who he dares to take on 's been having the most powerful relationship and ruthless man in the citysex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1800901232|title=The Goldfish BoyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Matthew has OCDTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Not that he knows that's what Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it iswas an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. He just likes things cleanOnly, he really hates germs, or Hanh and the other girls were not going outsideto work in a shop, and he feels safest upstairs they were to work in virtual slavery in his room an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the front bedroom, where he can control legs? The ones with the dirt, artfully-placed rips and where he can watch everything distressed seams thatfelt so soft when you touched them? It'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 quite possible that Matthew was the last person to see him, Hanh 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 Teddyher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanPatrice Lawrence|title=We Come ApartNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'We Come Apart'' tells the story of a burgeoning friendship this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and romance between Jess readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Nicu. Both have problems to deal schools, she's fostering with. Jess a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has an abusive stepfather who beats taken up residence in her motherson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Nicu is Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a Romanian immigrant to comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the UK and faces xenophobia in creation of one such item is part of the UK plot here, as well 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 give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns homeexpletively ignorant. And then.. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship they strike up well, what exactly happens is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes morenot for me to say, a lot moreonly 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 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 make 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. but Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is there forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a future for Jess sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Nicu?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Marcus Sedgwick|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Wrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Everything seems to be slotting into place for 15 year-old wannabe actressMeet Fitz, Elektra Jamesa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The summer's here Lockdown is only just over, and she's finally landed the boy of her dreams. Added he should be free to that she's about do what he wants, to start filming a blockbuster film go where he wants and with internationally famous co-starswhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… NoThey were half of a desultory school band, definitely … especially when said boy 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 dreams lands his own starring role in eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a TV series thatdone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's filming in Transylvania. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? Andcan Fitz find out the truth? Well, to make matters worse, shooting a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume that looks like a sack) isnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Memory BookTori Bovalino|authortitle=Lara AveryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Sam McCoy has Working all summer in her life all planned out. She boarding school's library is going to win the national debating competition, go last thing Tess Matheson wants to college in New York and become do — especially when she gets a request for over a human rights lawyer. She is so sure of this hundred books that it almost feels ordained. And she has worked for to deliver herself. What makes it too, sacrificing relationships and friendships in worse is the man who requested the service of ambitionbooks: Mr Birch. You can imagineThe boarding school's headmaster, then, that Sammie views a diagnosis of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than and a rock in the roadman Tess hates. She won't let As a pesky health condition stand in petty act of revenge for making her way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman|title=Tilt|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=To make an author, you first show someone books. To make find and deliver such a readerlarge request, you first show them Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books they want to, and/or scribbled with the ugliest insults she can, readthink of. To make a builder, you first show someone buildings. I use those platitudes They're never meant to introduce Simonettareach him, 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 gorgeouscourse. But something Her plan is wrong with the latter one – it's definitely leaning, cracks are showing, and over the hundred-plus years it's taken to get her anger out like 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 and then take them all offbefore delivering them. But therein lies the problem – No harm done… Or it's all well and good showing someone buildings, and making them want to would be an architect, but if theysomeone hadn're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda NewberyPhilip Reeve|title=Until We WinUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly Confident Readers|summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsIn a word, rich. Lizzy There is slowly leaving her boring village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at her lessons, and getting a job in certainly an office abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the nearest proper town – Scillies. There are troll people on it, and by saving to buysea-witches, and teaching herself legends of the Dark family that has to ridekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, a bicyclewhere no ship dare sail. All that's under The current Darks are the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns Watcher, Andrewe, who has to knuckle down with the housework on behalf keep notes of activity from the menHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and an older brother working at Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the village huntsea one day eleven years ago. At the officeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, however, further steps both his sullen brother and his curious ward 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 Suffragettethrust into the world of protecting their island, concerned only with making demands for votes for womenlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreview|title=The One Memory of Flora BanksFrontpage|author=Emily BarrKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|rating=5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesia. This means that she hasn't laid down any new memories since she was ten years old and had a brain tumour removed. She's now seventeen Julia and can remember life before the tumour but can't hold on to anything that happened after that for more than an hour or two. She gets by with the help 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 with her, and what's been happening in her life. Flora has a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''be brave''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Life in a Fishbowl|author=Len VlahosShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jared Stone Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been diagnosed packed off with a brain tumour. It's inoperable her parents and he has only a few months left to live. Desperate their cat from the family home in SW England to ensure financial security be lighthousekeepers for his family after he's gonea summer, Jared decides to auction himself - in the rest far NE of his lifethe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, his death, everything - on eBay for a reserve price that kind of one million dollarsScottish island. Unsurprisingly Dad is going to be automating the lantern, eBay cancels the auction as against their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the attention of a reality TV producer.elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdJonathan Stroud|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 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, a hypercritical granny The Outlaws Scarlett and a couple of annoying younger siblings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sara Barnard|title= A Quiet Kind of ThunderBrowne|rating= 4.5

|summary= Steffi has just started a) sixth form and b) medication for her anxiety. It's all rather trickyScarlett McCain is an outlaw, as you can imagine, particularly as Tem, Steffi's best - well, only - friend has enrolled at rejecting the draconian conformity of the local FE college Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to do an NVQ wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and so Steffi is all by shooting other outlaws to keep herselfalive. On the first dayBut then she meets Albert Browne, a teacher introduces Steffi dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to Rhys, a new boy flee to the school and also just starting sixth form. Rhys is deaf and Steffi knows a little bit mythical Free Isles of sign language, hence the introductionLondon Lagoon. Both kids have communication barriers Together, they must brave man- Rhys can't hear and Steffieating wildlife, who suffers from selective mutism the cannibalistic Tainted and severe anxietyall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, often can't talk.And but will they be any more accepted there than they fall into friendship, attraction, and love. But it's a rocky road...are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509810986</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryMercedes Helnwein|title=The X-Files Origins: Devil's AdvocateSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=Dana Scully can be added Gracie Welles has resigned herself to the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home in those key yearsbeing lonely. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from As a nun's Catholic school to a regular, secular school elsewhere, but echoes secret illegitimate daughter 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 man with a satanic angel figure. That would all be troubling enough"real" family, 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 she 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|genre=Teens|summary=Give a person 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 of The Major, the father of the nearest thing Fox Mulder has used to not being a best schoolmate. He may well appear to be a wacky – some could even go as far as saying Spooky – conspiracy nut, with some novel manner priority in home security, but he certainly swears that the truth to his wifepeople's death, and so much more, is either out there, or in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novellives. It's But when she defends a situation not a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself random boy inher class with her slingshot, for he her simple existence is eternally frustrated at the lack of effort he sees in the search changed for his own baby sistergood. But before he No longer can settle back with his new read, and before The Major can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt she spend her time writing novels in new, local cases of child kidnapsolitude, that even though he and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Earle |title=Mind The Gap |rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary= When Mikey's dad dies, he stops caring about anything. Indeed, he becomes so desperate to feel something that he deliberately provokes the one person on the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for him. Mikey's best mate also ends up in a pool of blood. But that doesn't matter because his friend her life now has already lost something more important. He lost Mikey when his dad died and he's determined to find a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets off on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dad. He just needs to find a movie, a radio extract, or a YouTube clip – something in it that will allow his friend to remember his dad's voiceshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>152905818X