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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Ashley Hickson-Lovence|authortitle=Rob KeeleyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=''Millions of people will die Written in the war, Ellie. And it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easy.'' And if that's not ominousverse, I don't know what this is. ItRonny's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her friendstory, the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her move to do Norwich and live start at a normal, boring, human lifemostly white school. Mum The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is still working worried for the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job wonRonny't last much longer. Money is tight s safety after a tragic event, and Mumso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, as evera new school, is stressed. Dad got compensation for his accident, so he is living the life and keep himself out of Rileytrouble. He's eager listens to help out but Mum won't hear music constantly, and has always dreamed of it. And Ellie has being a romantic interest in Lukerapper. All But now, in allthis new school, things could his teacher encourages him to be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of timelinescreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesJenny Valentine|title=Libby Us in the Middle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sister, Bella. Bella used to be a real confidante to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriend. Now, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries that it will never come back. Libby also has a younger sister, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems to Libby that Grace, as the baby of the family, commands all the parental love and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen Before and Lucy Ivison|title=FreshersAfter

|summary= Away from home. Away from Elk and Mab are best friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, in the hopes of finding or more of the person than that you want to become. Going to university even, their friendship is a monumental transitiononce in a lifetime connection. For some, it They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's an escapecontact details at the time. A But then chance to start anew. A freedom of the sort that you'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you forever. However, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine linebrings them back together, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people and the pressure to make new friendsthey are inseparable. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adults Something has happened though, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messyterrible and tragic, very quickly. Phoebe and Luke went to the same high school, but never really floated in the same circles. But when the two collide in the madness of Fresher's week, little do now they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messymust work through their grief, intense and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forgettheir friendship, together. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneMax Boucherat|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port Last Life of PerilLori Mills

|genre=Fantasy Confident Readers|summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at We meet Lori on the beginning of first evening she's got the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]]house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my penbabysitter poorly, mapping papermother at work, and most importantlyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, diceon her lonesome. For the first time What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a longblanket fort, long timeshe has one main intention, I would not read and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a book for reviewhit in Lori's world. I would play itBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set offFor the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. This is When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the report of that journey game has been doctored – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review., where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophie McKenzieRachel Greenlaw|title= SweetFreakCompass and Blade

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends to a double act as a trapeze act in ''I can hear the travelling circus that forms a backdrop to their lives. Always on song of the move, travelling from one place to another, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever knownsea. The sisters are surrounded by the love call of their family and the close friends who make up the other circus acts. Their lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boy, a special boy named Dean. Their growing friendshipdeep, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sharon Cohen|title=The Starman and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''He wasn't an alien, I was sure of that. It was more like he'd walked in through an ancient door from the past... except he was here, answering beat in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earthheart.''

Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied Rosevear, a tiny human remote and partially forgotten island, survives on a roundabout near luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to his housesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But he wasnwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'ts father. Rorty Thrutch Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as real charming as you or me. But how did Rorty come he is secretive and with only coordinates to be hiding out guide her, she sets off in the middle search of a roundabout family secret that lies buried deep in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that hethe 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 smuggler'll soon s territory, Mira must be ''bad dead''? determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrenceHarry Allen|title=Indigo DonutChildren of the Sun

|summary=''In Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed Ra Eun Seo lives in a hero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti North Korean town and Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth schoola talented singer. Pitt Academy Life is a last chance for Indigo hard and her foster mother Keeley food is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - difficult to come by, so Seo and her reputation friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for kicking off always precedes her. And that's tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the least meagre rations of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her motherrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsAlexia Casale|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Sing if you Can''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And it's a great response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Shvarts|title= Royal Bastardst Dance|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdom. Royal plots, magic, adventure and a rich culture to immerse yourself in. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=No Filter|author=Orlagh Collins|rating=4

|summary=Em - Emerald - has led It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents have sent her to a posh private school. She's friends with all the right people-changing disability too, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness and light in Embut that's world. Or what Ven is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em dealing with after collapsing on stage in the crosshairs middle of the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about a dance performance that was going to turn from secret to open crisischange her life. And when Em's mother overdoses But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the dominoes start pity stares, and desperate to topple.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Hayley Long|title= The Nearest Faraway Place|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griffget back to a life that's thirteenth birthday, he and his brotheras normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up a new (cute!) boy in a road accident. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brotherschool, Dylan, as they both her music A Level performance piece to try to come sort out, and just the day to terms with day traumas of all the end of their world as they know itchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clementine BeauvaisSimon Fox|title=PiglettesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The results are in – and for the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in school, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathy, Mireille Late one night Graham Blake is at first too hard-hearted to give a damn, for angry self-defence is her default mode. But soon all three medallists in late back from his shift on the unwanted competition form a trioforce, and all three see a reason to go and gatecrash the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored for a major military honour in favour of his ex-superiorthen suddenly rings Archie, who should instead be getting hauled over the coals and not applauded; and for Mireille, the reason is that the President's husband is her natural birth father, and has never acknowledged her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenna Evans Welch|title= Love & Gelato|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' in hope of demanding he fetch something from a light-hearted summery read, with an added draw being that the action takes secret place in Italy, a favourite country of mine, and that's exactly what I got. The novel tells the story of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother's wish by spending a summer in Tuscany, conveniently staying just outside of Florence, getting to know the father she has never known. She is aided join him on this quest by a journal her Mom left her, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florencerun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary='' They need something to believe inget together, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need but barely begin to believe in the old stories. In smell the power whiff of Southern trains when the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell throughis arrested, and at leaving Archie on the tender age of fivelate express to Brighton, King Antoine held toting a pistol tin his father was determined to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving keep away from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years agohis colleagues, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face bearer of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable a whole heap of powerful magic to make the very Earth movequestions. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ethan I Was BeforeLex Croucher|authortitle=Ali StandishGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment for Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a minor infraction is gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a constant threat - most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to belittle her young son and express her disappointment in him. Anwell is not popular at school and his life at home is severely proscribed. Sotheir mutual disgust! Gwen, when Finnigan appearsyou see, Anwell is grateful for a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild and full of a dark freedom. He doesnin love with Bridget (the kingdom't even go to school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Clare|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2s only female knight)|rating= 4- something that Art discovers from her private diaries.5|genre= Teens|summary=After And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the cataclysmic events subterfuge of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight'falling in love with each other, Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and when really they are enabling their friendsown other romantic attachments. Their troubles are by no means over But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [find a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyNick Brooks|title=ResurrectionPromise Boys

|summary=Like Other Girls When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a story about a girl murdered, three boys find themselves called Laureninto the police station as suspects. She is not like other girls Each, seemingly, though she does sometimes like other girls. For onehas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, her mum is and each could have been there at the headmistress time of her schoolhis murder. But who killed him, for two, she doesn't fit in to a cliqueand why, and for three, her boyfriend thinks she's mad. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by a revelation if any of someone close to her and when something enormous happens to Laurenthe boys are innocent, she has no one she can turn will they be able to, or so she believes.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is sceptical. And in any case, Nicky has other things to worry about, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Stewart Foster1919635017|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems A Thief to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be Catch a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersKitt Townsend

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itSolomon Klyne isn's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxt a bad lad, but Alena's family so why is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions in he running around London, triggered by committing a series of bombings, threaten robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to spill over and shatter the stability of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the only family Alena has ever knownfirst one: for his grandmother.. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into the past, at the life of activism that her mother led, a life that her brother has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Honor GirlDifferent for Boys

|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is four with both his best buddy from the key football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to this autobiographical graphic novelprimary school days together. Why is Maggie not happy As they're all fired up, straining at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being leash only a sleepsingle-walkersex school can form, the talk in class and ignore the fact she's from a different state out often turns to every other girl aroundsex. Which is confusing for Ant, and practically only there to obey her motheras he doesn's family tradition – shet know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's all of had a casual relationship, a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle rangesecret one, for several months now, and can boss so has effectively progressed up the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those arenladder headed by 'experienced't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she, but whether that's enjoying her summerset in stone, and anyway they do come with their own problemshe can't be sure. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact And that she seems to be falling in love with one 's mostly because of who he's been having the counsellor campers, there to look after relationship and the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author= Karen M McManusSteve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her 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 was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title= One of Us Is LyingNeedle|rating= 53

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?heroine' Sign me up, please. But of this YA mystery piece is more extremely hard for some people to like , characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a teenage Agatha Christie: itpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's twistyat uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, complexyou might perhaps think, and at several points I began the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to wonder if the final reveal would remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be that everyone was the murderer...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleAnn Sei Lin|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldRebel Skies

|summary= Doreen Green moves from California 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 New Jersey drink andmake merry between their conquests. However, quite by accidentwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, embarks on a journey someone with the power to become form paper into whatever she desires – a heropower sought after all across the Empire. A fantastic origin tale for He asks her to come with him, to leave the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story life of dreary servitude that is engagingall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, fast-pacedbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, hip and extremely coolshe is forced to flee out into the world. What would She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a person be like if they had the proportional strength sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and agility a whole world of a squirrel? Wonder no more.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ron ButlinMarcus Sedgwick|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the WorldWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teensMeet Fitz, our heroes are the victims a young Scottish lad full of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kindfrustration at himself. But this isn't some worthy self-helpLockdown is only just over, tell-an-adult bookand he should be free to do what he wants, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (to go where he wants andwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the light it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of later eventsa desultory school band, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the sunset, to take enigmatic – saying she could hear a break subhuman hum coming from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of all adults. In their defence, the world is already a done deal? Is it seems a sensible move at some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the timetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's not library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a spoiler if I tell you hundred books that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the first few pages of ''Contagion'books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than As a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking petty act of revenge for making herfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, hopeful that scribbled with the ugliest insults she will be found alive and wellcan think of. But Callie isnThey't alive and wellre never meant to reach him, of course. She's been taken Her plan is to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented onget her anger out like this, and then burned to deathtake them all off before delivering them. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya LandmanPhilip Reeve|title=Passing for WhiteUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=In 1847a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Maconthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, GeorgiaBritish but way west, Benjamin was a slavebeyond the Scillies. He was a talented carpenter tooThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, but on November and legends of the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at himDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, smiling and being politewhere no ship dare sail. What was going on? He wasn't just unnervedThe current Darks are the Watcher, but nervous: you seeAndrewe, Benjamin was looking at who has to keep notes of activity from the white womanHidden Lands, looking ''her'' his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the eye his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasnAndrewe't a white woman: this was Rosas foundling daughter, who was mixed racewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. She could pass for whiteBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but she too was a slave. Rosa both his sullen brother and Benjamin eventually marriedhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, but like it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Bali RaiJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girlJulia, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superheroour pre-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmates. Stillteen heroine, it's not all bad. Cal's has been packed off with her parents are lovely and their cat from the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Ness|title= Release|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives family home in small-town America SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in a deeply religious householdthe far NE of the Scottish islands. His father is an evangelical preacher Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. His brother Dad is at a Christian college training going to be an evangelical preacher. Adam automating the lantern, which is used his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gayhunt the elusive Greenland shark. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... Julia, well, best not to think about thatshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sebastien de CastellJonathan Stroud|title= SpellslingerThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary=''And when did I volunteer Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter wander the wildlands between the world Seven Kingdoms of the Jan'TepBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, powerful mages a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the ability to draw on mythical Free Isles of the seven magicsLondon Lagoon. Then meet KellenTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who despite being the son of one cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the most formidable mages Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the clan, has no magical ability whatsoever. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Karen GregorySlingshot|rating=4.53

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