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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie ThomasAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The Hate U Givemove is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After

|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all the wrong reasons: povertyElk and Mab are best friends, drugs, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place or more than that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in the store'even, Garden Heights their friendship is where she was born and raiseda once in a lifetime connection. It's where she can be herself and not care about what people think or how people expect her to act - They meet as children one day on a freedom that isntrip out but unfortunately they don't afforded to her get each other's contact details at the posh suburban high school where she is one of just a handful of black studentstime. However But then chance brings them back together, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot in a drive-byand they are inseparable. And now Something has happened though, it's the place where Starr witnesses the devastatingsomething terrible and tragic, fatal shooting of her unarmed friendand now they must work through their grief, Khalil. At the hands of a police officer. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her lifeand their friendship, and the lives of everyone around hertogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamMax Boucherat|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living got the life of Iphigenia Laurushouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, daughter of a noble familyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, trapped on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running awayblanket fort, Micah she has managed one main intention, and that is to reinvent himselflog on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first as Lori has a circus acrobattiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then as a magician's apprenticeshe finds something even more spooky. Along For the way he's discovered love server she and friendships that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal her bestie and tragedy seem ready nobody else should be able to strike at every turnenter shows signs of tampering. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the Chimaera are returninggame has been doctored – well, and Ellada where is about a girl to reach a violent tipping point. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoyleRachel Greenlaw|title=The ChallengeCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5

|summary= One ordinary afternoon, Ben's best friend Will goes missing. Soon after, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school and take an interest in him. It turns out both twins have an obsession with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in their strange game. But with every new challenge they set him, he starts to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cat Clarke|title= Girlhood|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Girlhood'' focuses on a group of friends; Harper, Rowan, Lily and Ama, who are fast approaching I can hear the end song of term at an elite boarding school in the middle of nowheresea. The arrival call of Kirsty causes a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group and Harper soon finds herself caught between her old friends and the mysterious new girl who seems to have so much deep, the answering beat in common with her. But is Kirsty who she claims to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Zentner|title=Goodbye Days|rating= 4.5 |genre= Teens|summary= ''Where are you guys? Text me backmy heart.''

Ending three lives with Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven words becomes Carver's reality who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when he sends the Council Watch lays a simpletrap to end the wrecking, impatient text they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to his best friend. His best friend save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is driving as charming as he is secretive and on with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. 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 way smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to pick him up stop at any moment. His best friend who in replying nothing to his text, rams into save the back future of a truck instantly killing himself her home and their other two best friends in the carones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Letters to the LostHarry Allen|authortitle=Brigid KemmererChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=Juliet has always written letters to her mother. The award-winning photojournalist wasn't at home much Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skypeshe is a talented singer. And Juliet Life is still writing those letters even though her mother died in a hit-hard and-run accident, rushing home food is difficult to surprise her daughter come by arriving earlier than expected. Juliet leaves them at , so Seo and her gravesidefriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, overwhelmed with grief looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and guilt. If her mother hadn't come kimchi at home early for her daughter, she would still be alive today.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stargazing for BeginnersAlexia Casale|authortitle=Jenny McLachlanSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Meg loves space. And when we say Meg loves spaceIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, this doesnbut that't quite explain how much Meg loves spaces what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. Meg loves all things space But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the exclusion of almost everything elsepity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. She has Meanwhile there's a space mural new (cute!) boy in school, her bedroom. She belongs music A Level performance piece to try to a stargazing club with her grandfather. She is determined sort out, and just the day to become an astronaut one day. And she dreams traumas of winning a competition that will earn all the challenges her body continues to throw at her a place on a trip to NASA in Houstonnavigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kiran Millwood HargraveSimon Fox|title= The Island at the End of EverythingDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the Philippines at the beginning of the last centuryforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, Ami lives with her mother on Culion Island. It's demanding he fetch something from a beautiful secret place covered in lush forests , and surrounded by a blue sea that matches join him on the skyrun. It's Ami's home and the only place she has ever known. But Culion is an island for people with leprosy who are sent there They get together, but barely begin to live on smell the edge whiff of Southern trains when the world away from civilisation. Ami's mother father is among the infected but Ami herself remains untouchedarrested, so when government official Mr Zamora arrives to transport the islanders who are free from leaving Archie on the sickness late express to another islandBrighton, Ami's world is torn apart. Banished across the sea toting a tin his father was determined to an orphanagekeep away from his colleagues, Ami is determined to get back home and crosses great lengths to return to her sick mother once more, on the island at the end bearer of a whole heap of everythingquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareLex Croucher|title= Lady Midnight|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Cassandra Clare is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set in the City of Angels where she grew up. She recalls, "I was an imaginative teenager, always seeing supernatural creatures and potential magic around every corner". Her novel is imbued with her love of film noir, classical texts and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe. These influences charge her urban crime fantasy with mystery and imagination. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially to teenage fans of 'The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy to rejoin the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma Gwen and Julian last seen battling for their lives at the age of 12 during the Dark Wars Art Are Not in 'The City of Heavenly Fire' and now facing painful decisions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Davis and Mike Lowery|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta NerdsvilleLove|rating=34

|summary=A lot has happened in the life of our hero Joe since we [[The Private Blog of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis|first met him]]. Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? A lot must have happened in the third book in the series tooBut honestly, as we start here with him it lifted my spirits in a very new situationmost delightful way. He's in LondonIn this story, not the Midlands town of his upbringingGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, and three of his flat-mates and buddies are a band about much to be signed by a major labeltheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with him as their ostensible managerBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And he's got then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a newboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, cosmopolitan girlfriendcreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But this is as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a teen diary book full of the comedy of embarrassment, and nothing way in which they can ever both truly be expected themselves, or are they destined to go his way…live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Nick Brooks|title=See How They Lie Promise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Fifteen year-old Mae has only vague memories When the principal (headmaster) of life before her dadUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creek. To Mae the strict timetable, stringent exercise routine and perfectly balanced organic diet are normal. The Creek's patients – teens with psychological problems – might three boys find it unnerving to be trapped in themselves called into the middle of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks she's luckypolice station as suspects. Or she does until Each, seemingly, has a chance incident reveals her parents grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been lying about her mum's familythere at the time of his murder. Mae starts to wonder what else they might have lied about. Soon Mae is questioning everything she's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerous But who killed him, and why, and potentially deadlyif any of the boys are innocent, consequences.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth Oppel1919635017|title=Every Hiddden ThingA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Three things stir SamuelSolomon Klyne isn's teenaged heart. Duty to his father is onet a bad lad, and another so why is admiration for the man's career as a dinosaur hunter and aspiration to follow in his tracks. Dad has never been a professor as such, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite he running around London committing a pioneer in the field series of finding fossils. robberies? And the third thinghow did he learn to crack safes? Rachel. Not conventionally beautiful, Samuel still finds enough in her You'll have to wait to get an answer to arouse thingsthe second question because I avoid spoilers. But thatI's where ll answer the trouble lies, first one: for Rachel's father and his are confirmed enemies and rivalsgrandmother.. And as luck would have it, they're all four headed to the same remote, outlawish region in search of notable remains. How can they be loyal to the science, and to their families, ''and'' to their hearts?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Space BetweenDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=''The Space Between'' tells the story of BethAnt is in Year 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, over the course so his desk is one of a year. We see Beth dealing four with her mental illnessboth his best buddy from the football team, locked away and two other old muckers – in her own, personal 'safe' world where she feels she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolatedfact they all go back to primary school days together. Mouse As they're all fired up, straining at the dog, howeverleash only a single-sex school can form, has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comes, also, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light and love to Beth's world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen Pendragon|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children talk in Cornwall class and the army seems powerless out often turns to do anything about itsex. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless Which is confusing for Ant, as they watch friends and neighbours disappearhe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to an ancient relativeHe's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earth. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head of so has effectively progressed up the round tableladder headed by 'experienced', no less: King Arthur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= Stanlybut whether that's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynicalset in stone, solitary Stanly Bird used to he can't be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowerssure. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now that's mostly because of who he's not sure what he is. Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving been having the relationship and the worldsex with. All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kenneth Oppel and Jon Klassen1800901232|title=The NestStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Steven can narrate this book Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brotherbe a fashion designer. That's Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not down prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attacksjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. It's because there's something wrong with Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the new addition mini-bus to the familyHanoi. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying for a new child so late in lifeOnly, but whatever Hanh and the reason there is something demanding other girls were not going to work in a lot of medical care and attentionshop, even if the child can more or less live they were to work in virtual slavery in the family homean illegal garment factory. But hope seems to be shining a light into Steven from You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him in his dreams, from within a pleasant, light-filled haven, legs? The ones with full knowledge of the familyartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's troubles quite possible that Hanh and an offer of a way outher co-workers made them. Obviously, worried for the happiness of his family, and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes to the offer of help…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyNeedle|rating=53|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and celebrates their achievementsreaders both. There are women from the ancient world and women working today. Each Kicked out of them is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait multiple homes and infoboxes schools, she's fostering with factoids on one side and a page of text with a brief biography pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and outline of has taken up residence in her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work 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 America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Victoria Aveyard|title= Kingson Blake's Cage|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''He caught me in a princeold room while he's trapat uni. And now I'm Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a King's cage. But I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.'' The third instalment in the Red Queen seriescomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, picks up right after and the final events creation of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone and powerless without her lightning. At the mercy one such item is part of the boy who wears the crownplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, Mare and is haunted by the consequences making something full of love for her past decisions. Tortured and weak, Mare has younger sister – a front seat to watch Mavenyounger sister she's clever tactics unfold allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and destroy all that then force people to give her two days off school, when she believes inshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Being broken well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and beaten, Mare will never pointy those knitting needles can be the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with her life to fight another day? ...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardAnn Sei Lin|title= The Pavee and the Buffer GirlRebel Skies

|summary=''Lunar Inc. is lying 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 usdrink and make merry between their conquests. It's been lying However, when a man named Himura arrives to us from tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the moment lumite power was discoveredto form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire.'' After the dark days of future EarthHe asks her to come with him, where an energy crisis has led to chaos, lumite power has become leave the only solution for peace. Yet life of dreary servitude that peace is fragileall she has known. The memory of Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the reactor explosion at Andriannematter, ten years agobecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is still fresh in forced to flee out into the public's mindworld. FALLShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, the First Antia sky-Lumite Leagueship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, continues to campaign fiercely against the United Government and the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Inc. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe DaykinMarcus Sedgwick|title=Fish BoyWrath

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Billy is struggling Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at schoolhimself. He's being picked on by the school bully Lockdown is only just over, and he's starting should be free to feel very alone. His mum is sickdo what he wants, although nobody seems to know what's wrong go where he wants and with her. She has been sick for a long time meaning that she can't workwhom he wants, so Billy's dad is working extra hours to try to keep the family afloat and Billy is frequently left to fend for but he cannot stop himself. His only escape is from putting his foot in watching it when he talks to his favouritebest friend, David AttenboroughCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, or in swimming in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the seaearth. One day, however, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks to him! This, combined Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the entrance end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new boy at schoolkind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, starts to change Billynot when Cassie has gone missing he can's life in some rather unexpected wayst...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack ChengTori Bovalino|title=See You in the CosmosThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. HeWorking all summer in her boarding school's just eleven, but library is sure he has the responsibility age of a thirteen year old. He'll prove this by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' and his dog Carl Sagan on an Amtrak train to the desert last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a launch festival request for hobbyist rocket-makers – and all without over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the help of man who requested the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato motherbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and the father he was told died when Alex was three years olda man Tess hates. This book is As a transcript petty act of verbal essays revenge for making her find and conversations he has made to put in his rocket to send to deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the starsbooks, so aliens scribbled with the ugliest insults she can learn about life on earth in 2017think of. The fact that weThey're able never meant to find reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out what's on like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it does seem to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3'would be, if someone hadn', but as t delivered them for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen BiestyPhilip Reeve|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to Utterly Dark and the Face of the Mars Rover and BeyondDeep

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=I take it as read that you know some In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of the history of space explorationriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, even if beyond the young person you buy books for doesn't know Scillies. There are troll people on it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craft, and sea-witches, and legends of the processes we needed Dark family that has to be expert in before we could launch anythingkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not The current Darks are the centre Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of everything – activity from the gradual discovery Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of how curved the planet wassea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we his curious ward are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is thrust into the history world 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 protecting their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boringisland, plain white pagelike it or not. Until now…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert SwindellsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Knife EdgeJulia and the Shark

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in there ever being SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a knife summer, in junior fiction, unless it comes with a lessonthe far NE of the Scottish islands. And I'm just not interested unless Here be Vikings, that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quickkind of Scottish island. Knives can Dad is going to be quick to findautomating the lantern, are quick to whip outwhich is his specialist thing, and quick while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to get hunt the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or notelusive Greenland shark. Sam is the student of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderlyAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and he alone – until she suddenly finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary schoolcompany one night. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Mary G ThompsonJonathan Stroud|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie DeeThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary=Six years agoScarlett McCain is an outlaw, cousins Amy rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered and no trace Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns homeBritain, alone robbing banks and unable shooting other outlaws to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to herkeep herself alive. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her familyBut then she meets Albert Browne, but she's a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivitydark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back they plan to flee to her old lifethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and in all the years horrors of her absencepost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the first placerest of Britain? And where is Dee|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie StantonMercedes Helnwein|title=Waking in TimeSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Abbi Gracie Welles has had a hard year. Her beloved grandmother died and, before the grief really had a chance to settle, Abbi has left the safety and security of home to start college in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she has left the two most important people in her life - mother and grandmother - behind. But it's hard to forget and somehow the past keeps hold of Abbi's mind. And then, one morning, she wakes in her dorm room to find resigned herself transported back in time to 1983. And it won't be the first time-shift she experiencesbeing lonely. As Abbi jumps further and further back in timea secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, used to not backwards and his journey began being a priority 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 are world famous but very exclusive. Itpeople's therefore a huge surprise when Scarlett and her sister Tella receive ticketslives. These will take them away from their sadistic father and prison-like island home for the first time. Caraval is never what one expects though and But when Tella is kidnapped, Scarlett experiences the sinister side of she defends a game random boy in which nothing is what it seems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473629144</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=K M Peyton|title=Wild Lily|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lily did love Antony. She was just 14 years old and he was 17her class with her slingshot, but Antony was the son of the big house and Lily was the daughter of one of the estate workers. They laughed and played together with all the other teens and children on the estate and Antony accepted Lily's adoration and was fond 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 their infancy and simple existence is changed for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12thgood...) Antony asked for an aeroplane. His father agreed and Antony went to Brooklands and bought a Sopwith.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Williamson|title=All About Mia |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Mia thinks No longer can she's being ironic when she has the phrase 'All About Mia' emblazoned on spend her T-shirt. Ironic because it's NEVER about her. How can it be? She's just the mess time writing novels in the middle – sandwiched between her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sistersolitude, Grace, and for her super-talented soon-to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audrey. As far as Mia's concerned she may as well get permanently wasted. She's convinced there's no point trying until life now has a series of events coincide to show her just how wrong boy in it that she isnever asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098910X</amazonuk>152905818X