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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --><!-- Ahmed -->{{Frontpage[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbagAshley Hickson-21&linkCodeLovence|title=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]]Wild East|rating===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]===4.5 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Lovesummary=Written in verse, Hate and Other Filters tells the this is Ronny's story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move away to attend universityNorwich and start at a mostly white school. However, in Maya The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's case, things are more complicated than usual, safety after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Lovea tragic event, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]<br><br><br> <!-- Holland -->[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]] ===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules and her father live so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in the kingdom of Sempera. In Semperaa new town, everything is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coinsa new school, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years keep himself out of lifetrouble. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do not. In debt and struggling He listens to afford the rentmusic constantly, Jules decides to ignore her father's warnings and take has always dreamed of being a job at Everless, an estate belonging to the Gerling familyrapper. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming upnow, in this new school, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward his teacher encourages him to be part of Sempera's queen, and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everything... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author= Andrew Zurcher|title= Twelve Nights|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay poetry writing workshop group and Eloise's father is working late at his college, as usualslowly, but when Ronny begins to see the two girls connections between rap and their mother arrive to pick him uppoetry, they are told he does not work there. In fact, everyone they meet insists they have never heard of him. It sounds like the beginning of a scary murder-mystery, or a cat-and-mouse chase in the style power of James Bond or Dan Brown, but what actually lies behind this event is far stranger creativity and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks on a quest to rescue both her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not humancrafting your words. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141385545</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linni IngemundsenJenny Valentine|title=The Unpredictability of Being HumanUs in the Before and After

|summary=I came to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age storyElk and Mab are best friends, yet somehowor more than that even, within only their friendship is a matter of pages, I was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is once in a fourteen year old girl, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interactionlifetime connection. It is never stated within the book (They meet as children one day on a fact that I liked) trip out but I suspect that sheunfortunately they don't get each other's somewhere on contact details at the autistic spectrumtime. But that isn't really what the book is aboutthen chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. It's about Malin growing up Something has happened though, struggling at schoolsomething terrible and tragic, having a first dateand now they must work through their grief, and dealing with family difficultiestheir friendship, all at the same timetogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474940633</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew NorrissMax Boucherat|title= MikeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5 |genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Floyd is We 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. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteenblanket fort, she has one main intention, he and that is set to become log on to Voxminer, the youngest ever champion of the national under 18sworld-building, his tennis career critter-collecting game that is written a hit in the starsLori's world. Until Mike shows up. At But firstLori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him aroundand then she finds something even more spooky. Why For the server she and her bestie and nobody else would he should be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on the tennis court her phone screen, and her safe place in the middle of the matchgame has been doctored – well, Floyd can't understand why everyone where is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred a girl to a specialist and together they unpick the mystery of Mike. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788450094</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonRachel Greenlaw|title=Sunflowers in FebruaryCompass and Blade

|summary= When Lily wakes up on ''I can hear the song of the side sea. The call of the roaddeep, she knows immediately that something is wrong. Then she sees her body lying the answering beat in the mudmy heart. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin to describe it' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A disembodied ghostMira, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of like her mother before her own death, as her friends and family struggle is one of the seven who swim out to deal with survey the fallout from the hit-ruins – rescuing any survivors and-run any treasure that killed herlies within. With no idea how But when the Council Watch lays a trap to move onend the wrecking, Lily starts they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to despairsave him from death, until one night she finally manages to make her presence known. She's always had Mira makes a bargain with a strong bond wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her brother Ben - , she sets off in search of a twin thingfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Now that bond allows him With only nine days to see unearth what might save her when no-one else canfather, and gives as her journey takes her from the chance watched streets of foreign islands to return the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the living world. Lily has a lot future of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer payhome and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerHarry Allen|title= RenegadesChildren of the Sun|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once the minority Ra Eun Seo lives in a world of chaos North Korean town and disorder, the Renegades fought for freedom she is a talented singer. Life is hard and justice. Victorious in driving their opponents, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundfood is difficult to come by, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range of abilities are now the lawmakers so Seo and leaders of the future, governing a new peaceful her friends Nari and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up toMin go foraging every evening, the officers people look to looking for justice tree bark and strength. All except edible grasses to supplement the fraction meagre rations of Anarchists that hide in the darkness, plotting rice and planning until they are able to get back what was stolen from themkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vikki WakefieldAlexia Casale|title=Ballad for a Mad GirlSing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5

|summary=In It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Ballad for re having to navigate a Mad Girllife-changing disability too, but that'', Grace becomes obsessed s what Ven is dealing with solving after collapsing on stage in the mystery middle of Hannah Holt, a local girl who disappeared twenty-three years ago, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannah's ghostdance performance that was going to change her life. The more But she investigatescomes back fighting, desperate to avoid the more pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she is convinced Hannahcan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's case is a new (cute!) boy in some way linked school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her own Motherto navigate. So even though she can's deatht dance anymore, a former classmate of Hannah's who died in a strange accident two years ago.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= SM WilsonSimon Fox|title= The Extinction TrialsDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Storm and Lincoln live on Earthasia, a continent ruined by overpopulation. Space is scarce and energy and food are rationed. Education is minimal and mostly focused around searching for new, efficient food sources. Storm's mother has died and she never knew her father, so she lives in Late one of Earthasia's overcrowded shelters, goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister night Graham Blake is dying late back from his shift on the blistering disease force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's fetch something from a meansecret place, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for join him on the Stipulators' trials for a new mission run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the neighbouring continent whiff of Piloria. The aim Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that Brighton, toting a virus tin his father was determined to kill them can be engineered keep away from his colleagues, and the citizens bearer of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers..a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474927343</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Lex Croucher|title=My Sweet Orange TreeGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=34|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=''It's just Who knew that sometimeswhat I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Zeze, you're too naughtyit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narratorIn this story, Zeze – he's a young tykeGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, and everyone in his largemuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, half-Indian family – heckyou see, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks is in love with Bridget (the neighbourhood – knows hekingdom's skilled at being up to no good, only female knight) - something that perhaps he was born with a little of the devil in him where Jesus should resideArt discovers from her private diaries. Instantly adept at being able to read, even And then when he's only fiveGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the precocious brat is forced to face something that might be the changing subterfuge of himfalling in love with each other, once and for all – schoolwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. This time of change is also featuring a move of home, But as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current placeimpending wedding draws ever closer, although having downsized the garden comes to feature the titular treewill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, which almost works as a confessional cum best friend. Whether either the new home or the school will get are they destined to change Zeze, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior read.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonNick Brooks|title= Star by StarPromise Boys|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up in Ireland by her suffragette mother. When her mother dies from the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe in November 1918principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Stella is sent to live with her estranged aunt who runs a boarding house. This coincides with a time of great change for three boys find themselves called into the country police station as women are allowed to vote for the first timesuspects. Stella is determined to follow in her mother's footsteps to help make historyEach, and whilst her age denies her the ability to vote herselfseemingly, she goes to great lengths to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker and former childhood friend has a grudge of her mother is able to cast hers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Juno Dawson some description against Principal Moore, and Alex T Smith|title= Grave Matter|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Since Eliza died, since each could have been there at the night time of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night toohis murder. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help who killed him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126046</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emily Suvada|title= This Mortal Coil|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= A life threatening virus is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two yearswhy, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and taken by force to work in the national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from the State and not to trust them an inch. Set in America, but not an America we would recognise, most if any of the citizens boys are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Othersinnocent, less trusting of the State, remain in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nicholas Bowling|title= Witchborn|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries within, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter the Elizabethan world of 1577. A world of intrigue, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Mother, the only person she had ever loved. Tried and deemed a witch, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alyce.Haunted by the past she can't leave behind, Alyce escapes to London but she's not alone. Endangered and being followed, Alyce is determined to keep her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible.  And Alyce, although she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal the throne and the other determined they be able to keep it…clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Moira Young1919635017|title= The Road to Ever After|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeur, and we watch as she gradually softens towards him and they become friends. So far, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'', an apt comparison in a book which references several well-loved classic films. But the obvious similarity ends there. Davy, hired Thief to take Miss Flint on her final road trip, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive Catch a car. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartKitt Townsend

|summary=Meet Tortot. HeSolomon Klyne isn's t a camp chef for an armybad lad, with a cold heart – so why is he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does running around London committing a fish – and a brilliant way series of gauging robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the warfare going on around himsecond question because I avoid spoilers. The book even starts with him crossing But I'll answer the battlefield to start work first one: for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on the winning side once moregrandmother... But now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Daughter of the Burning CityDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Gomorrah, Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a travelling circus as big as a citystandard school, tours the landand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, entertaining so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the crowds with fantastic shows of magicfootball team, illusion and sleight of handtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But As they're all fired up, straining at the proprietor of Gomorrahleash only a single-sex school can form, Villiamthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, believes as he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in the circusthat regard lie. He has political ambition's had a casual relationship, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in the circusstone, Sorina knows he can't be sure. And that she will one day become 's mostly because of who he's been having the Proprietor relationship and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiamthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cara Delevigne1800901232|title= Mirror, MirrorStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 25|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= If Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the news that Cara Delevigne had written rural village where she lived with her first novel (how did you miss 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? Were you living under a rock?)was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, all about Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a group of teens who go looking for their friend who disappearedshop, makes they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you roll your eyes really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and say ''well, distressed seams that sounds a bit like Paper Towns'', don't worry: felt so soft when you're not alone (seriously, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads). touched them? It's a pretty lazy writequite possible that Hanh and her co-off, though, so I was curious to read this to see what could be said about itworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorPatrice Lawrence|title=The TreatmentNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=When DrewBrave. Charlene, the 's brother heroine' of this piece is once again expelled from schoolextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and sent away to schools, she's fostering with a special reform schoolpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Drew doesnand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he't really cares at uni. She has enough Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of her own troubles to deal with. But then one day she such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is followed home from school by a mysterious doctorwonder knitter, who claims to have and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a sinister message from younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her brotherbelligerence with a store detective, begging Drew and then force people to help him because the give her two days off school , when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not a reform schoolfor me to say, only to remark how sharp and actually all the children there are being brainwashedpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleAnn Sei Lin|title= The Beast is an Animal Rebel Skies

|summary=The Beast is an Animal, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when Kurara has spent her village was set upon by entire life as a servant on the Soul EatersMidori, she was a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the only one Empire come to see themdrink and make merry between their conquests. Alys and the other orphans are sent However, when a man named Himura arrives to the neighbouring village but this place tell her that she is not a Crafter like home. In the strange village of Defaid people are pioushim, they say that Alys's village must have been in league someone with the Beast, that they drew power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Soul Eaters inEmpire. People in Defaid are suspiciousHe asks her to come with him, and they are particularly suspicious to leave the life of Alys, though she never tells a soul what dreary servitude that is all she has seenknown. Despite itWell, soon Kurara won's piety and it devotion to the ways of t have any say in the Shepherdmatter, Defaid feels because the Soul Eaters creeping ever closerMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, luring them with their singing. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong there, Alys knows the danger of the Soul Eaters but she is drawn forced to themflee out into the world. As she grows older and She joins Himura aboard the danger grows greaterOrihime, the dark question grows larger in Alys's minda sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, is she bad like them? and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julie BertagnaMarcus Sedgwick|title= ExodusWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Exodus Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a book whichonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, though fifteen years oldto go where he wants and with whom he wants, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in right at this momentit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Set in They were half of a world ravaged by global warming and melting ice-capsdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this is connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the story end of the last inhabitants world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of an island called Wing, who set sail in search music she's dreaming of a new life once Wing is sunk under ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the rising tidetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thing, and one which dredges up so many interesting questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon P Clark|title=Not Yet Dark|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Philippa and Danny have been friends since they were tiny. But now, at fifteen and into the unforgiving world of adolescence, there are stresses and pressures. Danny has some new friends in the rugby team and they are full of the obnoxious, somewhat sexist, bravado of the jock world. They make jokes about Philippa and she doesn't like it. She gets angry when Danny doesn't shut them down. And, if she's truthful, she's a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with them. For his part, Danny feels a bit suffocated by this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy ReedTori Bovalino|title=The Nowhere GirlsDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' is another timely novel that aims to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at the moment. It sees Grace, Erin and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite to create a movement, known as The Nowhere Girls, which will challenge the sexist culture at their school. In the process, they hope to get justice for Lucy, a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Perkins|title= There's Someone Inside Your House|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young is still adjusting to her new life with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska after her parents send her away from her beloved Hawaiian home. She's made friends and has even had a hint of romance, yet her old life is hard to forget. But things in her new quiet little Nebraskan town take a strange turn when one by one, her classmates are violently murdered. No one knows who is next on the killer's list or why they are being targeted, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=My Side of the Diamond|rating=4

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''You have s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to accept do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that if two people jump from the dome of St Paul's they would be bound she has to landdeliver herself. They'd be dead but they would land.'' Except, in this most unusual book, they didn't. Two people were seen leaving What makes it worse is the outside of man who requested the London Cathedralbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's domeheadmaster, but were never found at the foot of it – and someone has been in prison ever since for pushing them offa man Tess hates. It's As a most peculiar scenario, and our narrator Jaz is struggling to tell petty act of revenge for making her mysterious interrogator, Mr Jones, all about it – find and all about her relationship with her best friend. Now Becky, the frienddeliver such a large request, was a child prodigy sciTess sticks post-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else from life. Rushing around to investigate the case it notes on each of the fallersbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she seems can think of. They're never meant to have found thatreach him, in the shape of a hot-blooded romancecourse. But what Her plan is Jaz doing starting to get her testimony with talk of inquestsanger out like this, evidence and hatred?then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresPhilip Reeve|title=Blue Dog|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death and Mick was sent to live in in the outback with Granpa. On the face of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyone, with all the heat Utterly Dark and the dust. But they've all got to make the best Face of the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=SatelliteDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Born In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and raisedsea-witches, along with twins Orion and Libralegends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, on where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the space station Moon 2Watcher, Leo Andrewe, who has never set foot on Earth. And yetto keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about 250 miles above Earth. It travels at 17such local yokel superstitions,500 miles an hourand Andrewe's foundling daughter, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. If you ever look who washed up out of the porthole beneathsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean for real? Leo both his sullen brother and the twins may soon be able to do that now that they his curious ward are teenagers and thrust into the scientists below think they are strong enough to come home. Each has world of protecting their own idea of what island, like it will be like and what they would like to do. Orion wants to go to a concert. Libra wants to dig her hands in soil. Leo wants to throw a ball and observe its arc. Everyone wants to see a bird in flightor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dollmaker of KrakowKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=R M RomeroJulia and the Shark

|summary=Karolina is a refugee from the Land of the Dolls. Her homeland Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been ravaged by rats packed off with her parents and Karolina was blown by their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a magical wind into Krakowsummer, Poland, at in the height far NE of WWIIthe Scottish islands. She finds herself in a workshop belonging to Cyryl Here be Vikings, known as the Dollmaker that kind of KrakowScottish island. Lonely Dad is going to be automating the lantern, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement a strong friendship which helps Cyryl is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in his life outside algae behind to hunt the workshopelusive Greenland shark. But it's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under a vicious enemy: it's Poland And Julia, too. Togetherwell, Karolina she will be homesick and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours and determine to do whatever the can to save from the monstrous Nazi regime..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonJonathan Stroud|title=ScarecrowThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and blows Faith Houses to wander the whistlewildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, he makes some very powerful robbing banks and dangerous enemiesshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. He But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and Jack are forced to go into hiding in a remote cottage in the Scottish highlandsdarker past. Miles from anywhere and anyoneWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they hope they will be alone and safeplan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But it quickly transpires that Together, they are neither. Dad's enemies already know where they are heading must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted andall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, even before but will they move in, Jack starts to have doubts whether be any more accepted there than they are actually alone. Did he really see in the scarecrow next to their cottage moverest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ColeMercedes Helnwein|title=SenselessSlingshot|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-Boy, thinks his every dream Gracie Welles has come true when he's wins the chance resigned herself to attend being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on man with a remote tropical island. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo to the swankiest of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it "real" family, she is. Within hours, events start used to take not being a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes priority in the night unable to see and one by one his other senses – touch, hearing, smell and taste – flicker in and out. And hepeople's not on his ownlives. It's happening to the other contestants tooBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just a really her simple existence is changed for good virtual reality game. But with Sensia No longer can she spend her time writing novels in controlsolitude, the line between realities for her life now has almost entirely disappeareda boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>152905818X