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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a superhero young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully)start at a mostly white school. Batman The move is his favourite superhero. But Calinitiated by Ronny's world outside his daydreams mum who is not particularly superhero-likeworried 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. Because Cal is He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a bit rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a geek poetry writing workshop group and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on slowly, Ronny begins to lazy classmates. Stillsee the connections between rap and poetry, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessJenny Valentine|title= ReleaseUs in the Before and After|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= Adam lives in small-town America Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a deeply religious householdlifetime connection. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacherthe time. Adam is used to a restricted life But then chance brings them back together, and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicionthey are inseparable. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... well Something has happened though, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Spellslinger|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''And when did I volunteer to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter the world of the Jan'Tepsomething terrible and tragic, powerful mages with the ability to draw on the seven magics. Then meet Kellenand now they must work through their grief, who despite being the son of one of the most formidable mages in the clanand their friendship, has no magical ability whatsoevertogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMax Boucherat|authortitle=Karen GregoryThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hedda is 20 weeks pregnantWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It was What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has onemain intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-night standbuilding, so therecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's no father on the sceneworld. She But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's 17t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. She's in For the grip server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of an eating disorder and has been for yearstampering. Her best friend recently died. She's living in a grotty flat because When malevolent eyes spark up on her relationship with phone screen, and her parents safe place in the game has broken down. I think we can all agree that the situation been doctored – well, where is dire.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia to you and me''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, if you please - has just returned to Strathfearnthe answering beat in my heart. It's 1938 ' Rosevear, a remote and her grandfatherpartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Earl of Strathfearnrocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, has recently diedlike her mother before her, leaving a mountain is one of debt behind him. The family's ancestral home has been sold the seven who swim out to meet survey the debt ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the death duties and will soon become Council Watch lays a school. Buttrap to end the wrecking, as they capture the contents of the estate island's leader and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underwayMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, there Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is time for Julie 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 sea. With only nine days to spend unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the summer making their goodbyes - watched streets of foreign islands to home and landscape and to friends, including the McEwans, a family heart of Highlands Travellersthe smuggler's territory, loved by Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the family but hated by future of her home and the authoritiesones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenHarry Allen|authortitle=David OwenChildren of the Sun

|summary=Life is tough on the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope Ra Eun Seo lives in the future. They're already judged by their poverty, their religion, their race. Carving out a prosperous future from this inauspicious place seems like North Korean town and she is a pipe dreamtalented singer. ButLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, in their various waysso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Siobhan, Keisha, Maida looking for tree bark and Morris are all trying - whether that means making plans edible grasses to get out, or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtsupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie ThomasAlexia Casale|title=The Hate U GiveSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all the wrong reasons: poverty, drugs, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that sixteenyou're having to navigate a life-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mavchanging disability too, but that's daughter who works what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the store'middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. Itdesperate to get back to a life that's where as normal as she can be herself possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and not care about what people think or how people expect just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to act - a freedom that isnnavigate. So even though she can't afforded dance anymore, might she be able to sing her at way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the posh suburban high school where she is one of just force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a handful of black students. Howeversecret place, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot in a drive-byand join him on the run. And now They get together, it's but barely begin to smell the place where Starr witnesses whiff of Southern trains when the devastatingfather is arrested, fatal shooting of her unarmed friendleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, Khalil. At the hands of toting a police officer. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her lifetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the lives bearer of a whole heap of everyone around herquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamLex Croucher|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary= It's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago Who knew that Micah Grey what I really needed to read right now was still living the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble familygay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, trapped it lifted my spirits in a gilded cage forever hiding her true selfmost delightful way. Since running away In this story, Micah has managed Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to reinvent himselftheir mutual disgust! Gwen, first as a circus acrobatyou see, and then as a magicianis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's apprenticeonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Along And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the way he's discovered subterfuge of falling in love and friendships that have helped keep him afloatwith each other, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready to strike at every turnwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But there's only so long he as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can keep running. His powers are growingboth truly be themselves, the Chimaera or are returning, and Ellada is about they destined to reach live a violent tipping point. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoyleNick Brooks|title=The Challenge|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|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 the end of term at an elite boarding school in the middle of nowhere. The arrival 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 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 back.'' Ending three lives with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends a simple, impatient text to his best friend. His best friend who is driving and on the way to pick him up at any moment. His best friend who in replying to his text, rams into the back of a truck instantly killing himself and their other two best friends in the car.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Letters to the Lost|author=Brigid KemmererPromise Boys

|summary=Juliet When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has always written letters to her mother. The award-winning photojournalist wasn't a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at home much and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skypethe time of his murder. And Juliet is still writing those letters even though her mother died in a hit- But who killed him, and-run accidentwhy, rushing home to surprise her daughter by arriving earlier than expected. Juliet leaves them at her graveside, overwhelmed with grief and guilt. If her mother hadn't come home early for her daughterif any of the boys are innocent, she would still will they be alive today.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Stargazing for BeginnersA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jenny McLachlanKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Meg loves space. And when we say Meg loves space, this doesnSolomon Klyne isn't quite explain a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how much Meg loves space. Meg loves all things space did he learn to the exclusion of almost everything else. She has a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs crack safes? You'll have to a stargazing club with her grandfather. She is determined wait to become get an astronaut answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one day: for his grandmother.. And she dreams of winning a competition that will earn her a place on a trip to NASA in Houston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kiran Millwood HargravePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Island at the End of EverythingDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary= Set Ant is in the Philippines Year Eleven at the beginning 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, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the last centuryfootball team, Ami lives with her mother on Culion Islandand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It As they's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a beautiful place covered single-sex school can form, the talk in lush forests class and surrounded by a blue sea out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that matches the skyregard lie. It He's Ami's home had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and the only place she so has ever known. But Culion is an island for people with leprosy who are sent there to live on effectively progressed up the edge of the world away from civilisationladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Ami And that's mother is among the infected but Ami herself remains untouched, so when government official Mr Zamora arrives to transport the islanders mostly because of who are free from the sickness to another island, Amihe's world is torn apart. Banished across been having the sea to an orphanage, Ami is determined to get back home relationship and crosses great lengths to return to her sick mother once more, on the island at the end of everythingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Clare1800901232|title= Lady MidnightStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Cassandra Clare is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the City of Angels rural village where she grew up. She recallslived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, "I so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an imaginative teenager, always seeing supernatural creatures opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and potential magic around every corner"Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Her novel is imbued with her love of film noir Only, classical texts Hanh and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poeother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. These influences charge her urban crime fantasy You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with mystery intricate embroidery and imagination. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially to teenage fans of 'beading on the legs? The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy to rejoin ones with the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma artfully-placed rips and Julian last seen battling for their lives at the age of 12 during the Dark Wars in 'The City of Heavenly Firedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It' s quite possible that Hanh and now facing painful decisionsher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben Davis and Mike LoweryPatrice Lawrence|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta NerdsvilleNeedle

|summary=A lot has happened in Brave. Charlene, the life 'heroine' of our hero Joe since we [[The Private Blog of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis|first met him]]this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. A lot must have happened in the third book in the series tooKicked out of multiple homes and schools, as we start here she's fostering with him a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in a very new situation. Heher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in Londonneed of a comfort blanket, not you might perhaps think, and the Midlands town creation of his upbringingone such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and three is making something full of his flat-mates 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 buddies are a band about then force people to be signed by a major labelgive her two days off school, with him when she shouts someone down as their ostensible managerexpletively ignorant. And he's got a newthen... well, cosmopolitan girlfriend. But this what exactly happens is a teen diary book full of the comedy of embarrassmentnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and nothing pointy those knitting needles can ever be expected to go his way…...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Ann Sei Lin|title=See How They Lie Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Fifteen year-old Mae Kurara has only vague memories of spent her entire life before her dadas a servant on the Midori, an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creek. To Mae a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the strict timetable, stringent exercise routine Empire come to drink and perfectly balanced organic diet are normalmake merry between their conquests. The Creek's patients 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 – teens a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with psychological problems – might find it unnerving him, to be trapped in leave the middle life of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's lucky. Or t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she does until a chance incident reveals her parents have been lying about her mum's family. Mae starts is forced to wonder what else they might have lied aboutflee out into the world. Soon Mae She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is questioning everything she's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerousto hunt down shikigami, and potentially deadly, consequences.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelMarcus Sedgwick|title=Every Hiddden ThingWrath

|summary=Three things stir Samuel's teenaged heartMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Duty to his father Lockdown is oneonly just over, and another is admiration for the man's career as a dinosaur hunter he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and aspiration with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to follow in his tracksbest friend, Cassie. Dad has never been They were half of a professor as suchdesultory school band, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a pioneer in subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the field end of finding fossils. And the third thingworld is already a done deal? Rachel. Not conventionally beautiful, Samuel still finds enough in her to arouse things. But thatIs it some spooky new kind of music she's where dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the trouble liestruth? Well, for Rachelnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's father and his are confirmed enemies and rivalst.. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanTori Bovalino|title=The Space BetweenDevil Makes Three

|summary=''The Space Between'' tells the story of Beth, over the course of a year. We see Beth dealing with her mental illness, locked away Working all summer in her own, personal 'safe' world where she feels she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolated. Mouse the dog, however, 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 Bethboarding school'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 in Cornwall and library is the army seems powerless last thing Tess Matheson wants to do anything about it. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise — especially when they realise she gets a request for over a hundred books that thanks she has to an ancient relative, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earthdeliver herself. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head of What makes it worse is the man who requested the round table, no lessbooks: King ArthurMr Birch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= StanlyThe boarding school's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynicalheadmaster, solitary Stanly Bird used to be and a man Tess hates. As a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the superpowers. And books, scribbled with the super powered alliesugliest insults she can think of. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now heThey's not sure what he isre never meant to reach him, of course. Or where he Her plan isto get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isnit would be, if someone hadn't finisheddelivered them for her. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenPhilip Reeve|title=The NestUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Steven can narrate In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this book to usstory set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but he can hardly ever mention way west, beyond the name of his newborn baby brotherScillies. That's not down to a fault with StevenThere are troll people on it, although there are many of those – obsessive handand sea-washingwitches, nightmares, anxiety attacks. It's because there's something wrong with and legends of the new addition Dark family that has to the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying keep watch for a new child so late in lifemagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but whatever where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the reason there is something demanding a lot of medical care and attentionWatcher, Andrewe, even if the child can more or less live in the family home. But hope seems who has to be shining a light into Steven keep notes of activity from the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his dreamshead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, from within a pleasantand Andrewe's foundling daughter, light-filled haven, with full knowledge who washed up out of the family's troubles and an offer of a way outsea one day eleven years ago. ObviouslyBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, worried for the happiness of both his family, sullen brother and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes to his curious ward are thrust into the offer world of help…protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and celebrates their achievements. There are women cat from the ancient world and women working todayfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Each Here be Vikings, that kind of them Scottish island. Dad is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and a page of text with a brief biography and outline of going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her achievementscareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work And Julia, well, she will be homesick 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 Americaalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria AveyardJonathan Stroud|title= King's CageThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5

|summary=''He caught me in a prince's trap. And now I'm in 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 seriesScarlett McCain is an outlaw, picks up right after rejecting the final events draconian conformity of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone the Surviving Towns and powerless without her lightning. At Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the mercy Seven Kingdoms of the Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy who wears the crownwith dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Mare is haunted by they plan to flee to the consequences mythical Free Isles of her past decisionsthe London Lagoon. Tortured and weakTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, Mare has a front seat to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold the cannibalistic Tainted and destroy all that she believes in. Being broken and beatenthe horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, Mare but will never they be any more accepted there than they are in the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with her life to fight another dayrest of Britain? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardMercedes Helnwein|title= The Pavee and the Buffer GirlSlingshot|rating= 53|genre= Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When Jim's Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy she is used to attend. Jim doesnnot being a priority in people't like schools lives. He doesn't like Buffers. And you knowBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion her simple existence is mutualchanged for good. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first dayNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worsethat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>152905818X

After the dark days of future Earth, where an energy crisis has led to chaos, lumite power has become the only solution for peace. Yet that peace is fragile. The memory of the reactor explosion at Andrianne, ten years ago, is still fresh in the public's mind. FALL, the First Anti-Lumite League, continues to campaign fiercely against the United Government and 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. He's being picked on by the school bully and he's starting to feel very alone. His mum is sick, although nobody seems to know what's wrong with her. She has been sick for a long time meaning that she can't work, so Billy's dad is working extra hours to try to keep the family afloat and Billy is frequently left to fend for himself. His only escape is in watching his favourite, David Attenborough, or in swimming in the sea. One day, however, things take a magical turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks to him! This, combined with the entrance of a new boy at school, starts to change Billy's life in some rather unexpected ways.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jack Cheng|title=See You in the Cosmos|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. He's just eleven, but 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 to a launch festival for hobbyist rocket-makers – and all without the help of the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato mother, and the father he was told died when Alex was three years old. This book is a transcript of verbal essays and conversations he has made to put in his rocket to send to the stars, so aliens can learn about life Move on earth in 2017. 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-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 Swindells|title=Knife Edge|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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]