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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= Paradise GirlWild East|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a few sheepmostly white school. The kind of farm that might have been profitable in the 1950s but move is initiated by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weightRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, now that the grandparents are old and the father is deadso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, would not be met with exasperated indulgenceand keep himself out of trouble. There are no stock-handsHe listens to music constantly, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs and has always dreamed of the rest of itbeing a rapper. Already But now, in settingthis new school, it's feeling his teacher encourages him to be part of a little unrealpoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingJenny Valentine|authortitle=William SutcliffeUs in the Before and After

|summary=Lex lives in what used to be London. TodayElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, it their friendship is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes once in and nobody can go out. Drones are a constant presence overheadlifetime connection. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent They meet as children one day on a gamer got him the job of drone pilot. He hasntrip out but unfortunately they don't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alanget each other's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in contact details at the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622time. But Lex calls him Dadthen chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Lex Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways..friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeMax Boucherat|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors The Last Life of ParadiseLori Mills

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''I'm thirteen years OLDs got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, not youngon her lonesome.'' And it's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a good job tooblanket fort, she has one main intention, for her grandma and godfather have taken Bea that is to log on an extended holiday to IndonesiaVoxminer, where the wild dinosaurs live. Yesworld-building, this critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world where they never went extinct. But 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. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and have her safe place in the game has been used for riding for leisure or as pack animals ever since mankind domesticated themdoctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. But wild '' Rosevear, a remote and dangerous ones still existpartially forgotten island, such as survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Raptors wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Paradisethe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. BeaBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's older guardians have another reason father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to go thereguide her, though – they are she sets off in search of clues a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might lead them save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to at last discover the fate heart of Beathe smuggler's birth parentsterritory, who disappeared a decade ago. She's unaware of this being Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the final grasp at one last clue – and all future of them are ignorant of how the real danger her home and mystique on the island may actually come not from the fabulous beasts, but from other humans…ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786968002</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisHarry Allen|title= Time Children of Bloodthe Sun|rating= 45

|summary= Travel back over Ra Eun Seo lives in a hundred years into Whitby's past to see two witches battle an ancient evilNorth Korean town and she is a talented singer. Follow young Lil as she tries Life is hard and food is difficult to avoid spoilers come by, so Seo and find her best friendfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian GallagherAlexia Casale|title= PawnsSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Pawnsre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'' tells s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the story middle of Johnnya dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, Stella and Alice, all of whom are growing up in Ireland during desperate to avoid the War of Independencepity stares, and who have somehow become friends desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in spite of their very different political views. Stella is passionately pro-Britishschool, while Johnny frequently risks his life her music A Level performance piece to pass information try to the pro-Irish rebelssort out, and Alice is left stranded in just the middle, supporting neither side day to day traumas of all the disputechallenges 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>1847178936</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zillah BethellSimon Fox|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareDeadlock

|summary=Auden has Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a condition called achromatopsiasecret place, which means that he can't see coloursand join him on the run. He likes They get together, but barely begin to pretend that it doesn't matter but it does. And smell the whiff of Southern trains when the older Auden getsfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the more it seems late express to matter. Mind youBrighton, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in toting a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastlinetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now bearer of a quasi-government as the most important and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Auden's father is away fightingwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraLex Croucher|title= They Both Die at the EndGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4

|summary= ''No matter how we choose Who knew that what I really needed to liveread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, we both die at the end''much to their mutual disgust! The year is 2017Gwen, the place is Americayou see, but this is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know in love with Bridget (the exact date of everyonekingdom's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they will be dead within find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat deathsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, all have failedwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseNick Brooks|authortitle=Sarah CrossanPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=Joe When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearsmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texas Each, seemingly, convicted has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder of a police officer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe But who killed him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes throughand why, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across if any of the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined boys are innocent, will they be able to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=I am TraitorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Sif Sigmarsdottir Kitt Townsend

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order committing a curfew. After that, series of robberies? And how did he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to patrol the streetssecond question because I avoid spoilers. Not that the army has any But I'll answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagersfirst one: for his grandmother.. To where, nobody knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Alex BellDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died Ant is in an awful fire not long ago Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and that is why Jemima decides surprised to leave London 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 football team, and take two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up , straining at the leash only a job as a teacher on single-sex school can form, the Isle of Skyetalk in class and out often turns to sex. But leaving the place Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima know what his score is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on , where his achievements in that terrible nightregard lie. It doesn He't help that Miss Graysons had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the mistress at the schoolladder headed by 'experienced', is a strangebut whether that's set in stone, forbidding sort, while he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Adlington1800901232|title=The Red RibbonStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Ella is rushing Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to her audition for be a job in fashion, as are several other young womendesigner. Thrown Life in at the deep end in rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the highsmartly-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a dress from scratch for job in Hanoi it was an important client before four pm that dayopportunity not to be missed. But she manages it, even working through Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the nonmini-existent lunch break, bus to design a silk wonder worthy of any environmentHanoi. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design houseOnly, Hanh and this is no normal environment for the recipient other girls were not going to be wearing 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 frock. legs? This is Birchwood – or AuschwitzThe ones with the artfully-Birkenau to placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and Iher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartPatrice Lawrence|title= Genuine FraudNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary= Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. IKicked out of multiple homes and schools, she'm going to straight s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up say that Iresidence in her son Blake'm not going to mention the plot in this review, because I cans old room while he't without inevitably spoiling something s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in this twistingneed of a comfort blanket, turningyou might perhaps think, great suspense and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a novel. All I will say wonder knitter, and is that I felt like I was watching making something full of love for her younger sister – a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see this advertised as Charlene prove her belligerence with a film on the side of a bus any time soonstore detective, and if that then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happensis not for me to say, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backsideonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsAnn Sei Lin|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoRebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary=''Things Kurara has spent her entire life as a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells servant on the story of three teenage girlsMidori, all a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgroundsthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. There's EvelynHowever, an upper-class girl expected when a man named Himura arrives to marry at tell her that she is a young age, MayCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a middle-class girl power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with an opinionated Motherhim, and Nellto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a working-class girl who does what shikigami, and she can is forced to help her large family scrape byflee out into the world. The novel chronicles both their contributions She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to the fight for suffragehunt down shikigami, and the way their lives change when World War One begins.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinMarcus Sedgwick|title= InvictusWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= It's the 24th century and human beings have cracked the secret of time travel. Farway Gaius McCarthy is 17 and dreams of following in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined to track down Empra, who disappeared on a mission when her son was just 7. But Farway tanks his final exam and his ambitions seem crushed. He's given another chance by Lux, a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder the past of its artifacts - artifacts that fetch fortunes in credits in the Central Time world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M A Bennett|title= S.T.A.G.S|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''One weekend. Three deadly activities''. Greer MacDonald is a new student at the prestigious St Aidan the Great Boarding School, known to its exclusive pupils as S.T.A.G.S. It is a school where technology is absent, the teachers are replaced by friars, and a group of elite students –known as the Medievals – run the school. When Greer inexplicably receives an invitation from the Medievals to spend a weekend at the stately home of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular boy at school, she is too curious decline such an invitation. But little does Greer realise that there is more to the weekend than she initially understands. Ultimately she and the other two students who have been invited must come together to uncover the truth about the infamous Medievals, and the blood sports they have been chosen to take part in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ruth Lauren|title=Prisoner of Ice and Snow|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Valor is under arrest for the attempted assassination of Anatol, Demidova's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - a brutal prison constructed of stone and ice...... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is it? But the thing is, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and she's even prepared to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve it. Because Valor's sister Sasha is already in Tyur'ma - accused of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing a peace treaty between Demidova and a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced of her sister's innocence and intends to break her out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Ling|title=The Glow of Fallen Stars|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''The Glow of Fallen Stars'' is the second book in Kate Ling's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review of the first instalment [[The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]. Seren and Dom, together with Ezra and Mariana, have escaped the Ventura, the spaceship on which they have spent their whole lives, and crash landed on the planet Huxley 3. At last, they are away from the stifling authoritarianism of life on board the ship and free to pursue their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real land.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Seager|title=Editing Emma|rating=4

|summary=Emma Nash is Meet Fitz, a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions that come with this age. When the love young Scottish lad full of her life ''ghosts'' her (ifrustration at himself.e. breaks up with her by acting as if she doesn't exist), she spends the summer moping in her pyjamas. HoweverLockdown is only just over, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form and a resolution he should be free to make some important ''edits'' do what he wants, to her life. This includes e-tweaking herself go where he wants and with disastrouswhom he wants, and often hilariousbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, consequencesCassie. The whole experiment is recorded in Emma's private blog: They were half of a blog that desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she might just regret ever writingcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vicki Grant|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=''Two random strangers. ThirtyIs this connected with one of her eco-six questions guaranteed to make them fall in love. What's not to like?'' Based on a psychological theory, Grant's novel explores warrior parents saying the end of the concept that love can be engineered by using thirty-six ''simple'' questions. Questions such as ''What would constitute world is already a perfect daydone deal?Is it some spooky new kind of music she'' or ''When did you last sing to yourselfs dreaming of? To someone elseIs she just bonkers?'' are designed to reveal And can Fitz find out the souls and characters of both participantstruth? Well, enabling them to form a deep connection with a stranger. In a modern world dominated by technology, this face to face interaction is performed to test whether genuine human interaction not when Cassie has gone missing he can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reserved?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattTori Bovalino|title= Truth or DareThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= After an accident leaves his brother, Kam, with severe neurodisability, itWorking all summer in her boarding school's obvious that library is the lives of Sef and his family will never be the same again. Plagued by feelings of guilt and struggling last thing Tess Matheson wants to cope, Sef turns all his attention do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the only way that he might be able to help - moneybooks: Mr Birch. In an attempt to raise funds for his brotherThe boarding school's careheadmaster, he enlists the help of Claireand a man Tess hates. As a volunteer at the facility looking after Kampetty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, she's Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the only person from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation isbooks, and how important it is to get scribbled with the funding that he needsugliest insults she can think of. Aided by ClaireThey's equipment and YouTube know-how, the two create a channel where their alter-egosre never meant to reach him, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their causecourse. However, £60,000 Her plan is no small amountto get her anger out like this, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy featthen take them all off before delivering them. Just how far are they willing to go No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for their cause? her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Philip Reeve|authortitle=Rob KeeleyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45

|summary=''Millions In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of people will die riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the war, EllieScillies. And There are troll people on it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easy.'' And if that's not ominous, I don't know what is. It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her friendand sea-witches, and legends of the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She Dark family that has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do keep watch for magical islands and live a normal, boringtheir monster approaching from even further west, human lifewhere no ship dare sail. Mum is still working for The current Darks are the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longer. Money is tight and MumWatcher, as everAndrewe, is stressed. Dad got compensation for who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his accidenthead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, so he is living the life of Riley. Heand Andrewe's eager to help foundling daughter, who washed up out but Mum won't hear of itthe sea one day eleven years ago. And Ellie has a romantic interest in Luke. All in allBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of timelinesprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Libby in Julia and the MiddleShark

|summary=TwelveJulia, our pre-year-old Libby teen heroine, has an older sister, Bella. Bella used been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a real confidante to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriendsummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Now Here be Vikings, 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, Gracekind of Scottish island. Grace Dad is lovely but it seems going to Libby that Gracebe automating the lantern, as the baby of the familywhich is his specialist thing, commands all while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the parental love and attentionelusive Greenland shark. Libby is And Julia, well , she will be homesick and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her ownalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonJonathan Stroud|title=Freshers|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want to become. Going to university is a monumental transition. For some, it's an escape. A 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 line, after all, between the opportunity to meet new people and the pressure to make new friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adults, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, 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 they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messy, intense The Outlaws Scarlett and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forget. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Livingstone|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilBrowne|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophie McKenzie|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5

|summary= Carey Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Amelia are best friendsFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreakrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a malicious online accountdark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, begins they plan to flee to abuse Amelia. To make matters worse, the police soon find evidence that Carey was mythical Free Isles of the one who sent the messagesLondon Lagoon. Soon everyoneTogether, even Ameliathey must brave man-eating wildlife, is convinced the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of Carey's guilt. Only her sisterpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, Poppy, accepts her innocence. When but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the online threats spill over into real life, Carey is determined to discover who is framing her.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HeathfieldMercedes Helnwein|title= Flight of a StarlingSlingshot|rating=53

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends tooGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Their partnership extends to As a double act as secret illegitimate daughter of a trapeze act in the travelling circus that forms man with a backdrop to their lives. Always on the move"real" family, travelling from one place she is used to another, never staying not being a priority in one town for long is all they have ever known. The sisters are surrounded by the love of their family and the close friends who make up the other circus acts. Their people's lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo meets But when she defends a random boy, a special boy named Dean. Their growing friendship, together in her class with a secret that Lo discoversher slingshot, will change things her simple existence is changed for ever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sharon Cohen|title=The Starman and Me|rating=4good.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''He wasn't an alien, I was sure of that. It was more like he'd walked No longer can she spend her time writing novels in through an ancient door from the past... except he was heresolitude, in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earth.'' Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied for her life now has a tiny human on a roundabout near to his house. But he wasn't. Rorty Thrutch is as real as you or me. But how did Rorty come to be hiding out boy in the middle of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent it that he'll soon be ''bad dead''? she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>152905818X

That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And Move on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And that's the least 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 mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Various Authors|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= ''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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]