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<!{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-- Benway -->Lovence|title=Wild East*[[image:Benway_Far|rating=4.jpg5|leftgenre=Teens|linksummary=http://wwwWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school.amazon The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble.co He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper.uk/gp/product/1471164330/ref But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=as_li_tl?ieUs in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=UTF8&camp1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=1634&creativeMax Boucherat|title=6738&creativeASINThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=1471164330&linkCode4.5|genre=as2&tagConfident Readers|summary=thebookbagWe 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 blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-21&linkIdcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. 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 her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=d129b8c6602fd95ec697963926337ba6]]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.''
===[[Far from Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Tree by Robin Benway]]=== [[image:4wrecks.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Having just given up Mira, like her mother before her new-born baby for adoption, 16-year-old Grace is desperate one of the seven who swim out to look for survey the one person who could truly understand how she feelsruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The birth mother that gave her up for adoption But when she was the Council Watch lays a baby. What Grace doesn't expect, is trap to discover that she has siblings. A confidentend the wrecking, loud-mouthed younger sister, Maya, adopted by a wealthy family living just twenty minutes away. And Joaquin, their stoic older brother, hardened by seventeen years in and out of foster care. [[Far from the Tree by Robin Benway|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Miranda -->*[[image:Miranda_Fragments.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0399556729?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0399556729]] ===[[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jessa Whitworth has lost they capture the only boy she has ever loved. Jessa Whitworth has lost her friends. Jessa Whitworth has lost ''herself''. Many months have passed since Jessaisland's ex-boyfriend, Caleb, died but she still cannot find the strength to move on with her life. So when Calebleader and Mira's mother asks Jessa to clean out his room, things go from bad to worsefather. [[Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda|Full Review]]<br> <br> <!-- Shaw -->*[[image:Shaw_Outwalkers.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450000?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450000]] ===[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Newly orphaned Jake is determined Desperate to escape save him from his Home Academy and to find death, Mira makes a new home bargain with his dog, Jet. He thinks his biggest challenge a wreck survivor who is going to be getting out and over the wall but, when as charming as he does, he finds this is the least of his worries. The governing 'Coalition' is able secretive and with only coordinates to track everyone guide her, she sets off in the country via the 'hub chip' in their neck and search of a family secret that lies buried deep in no time 'the hubbers' (police) are on his trailsea. All seems lost until Jake stumbles into a gang of ''outwalker'' kids. After proving his worthWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, he is permitted to join their gang and together they set out on a perilous as her journey north towards takes her from the heavily guarded border with Scotland.[[Outwalkers by Fiona Shaw|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Khan -->*[[image:Khan Thunder.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1509874054?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1509874054]] ===[[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Adhering watched streets of foreign islands to the recent trend for politicised YA novelsheart of the smuggler's territory, ''I am Thunder'' explores several controversial topics relating Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to being a Muslim in modern Britain. It tells save the story future of Muzna, a shy teenager who is flattered when Arif, a fellow Muslim, chooses to ask her out despite interest from several other girls at school. However, her delight wavers when home and the ones she discovers how Arif, influenced by his manipulative brother Jameel, has become angered by Western cultureholds most dear. [[I am Thunder by Muhammad Khan|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ahmed -->*[[image:Ahmed_Love.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1471407144?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1471407144]] ===[[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed]]==isbn=0008664730}}[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]Frontpage Love, Hate and Other Filters tells the story of Maya, a Muslim of Indian heritage. Like many other American teenagers, she is struggling to convince her parents to allow her to move away to attend university. However, in Maya's case, things are more complicated than usual, after instances of Islamophobia make her parents extra protective. [[Love, Hate and Other Filters by Samira Ahmed|Full Review]]author=Harry Allen<br><br><br> <!-- Holland -->*[[image:Holland Everless.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1408349159?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1408349159]]Children of the Sun|rating===[[Everless by Sara Holland]]===5 [[image:4star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jules summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and her father live in the kingdom of Sempera. In Sempera, everything she is reckoned in terms of time. Wages come in the form of blood-coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for a long time and the poor do nottalented singer. In debt Life is hard and struggling food is difficult to afford the rentcome by, Jules decides to ignore so Seo and her father's warnings friends Nari and take a job at EverlessMin go foraging every evening, an estate belonging looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for a reason: there is a royal wedding coming up, between Lord Roan Gerling and a ward meagre rations of Sempera's queen, rice and secrets long concealed that, if revealed, would change everythingkimchi at home... [[Everless by Sara Holland|Full Review]]isbn=1805140493<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Zurcher -->|author=Alexia Casale*[[image:Zurcher 12.jpg|left|linktitle=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141385545?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141385545]]Sing if you Can't Dance|rating===[[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher]]===5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This story opens on a terrifying note. Kay and Eloisesummary=It's father is working late at his college, as usual, but when the two girls and their mother arrive hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to pick him up, 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 navigate a scary murderlife-mystery, or a cat-and-mouse chase in the style of James Bond or Dan Brownchanging disability too, but that's what actually lies behind this event Ven is far stranger and more confusing. Later that night Kay hears voices at her window and embarks dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a quest dance performance that was going to rescue both change her father and her younger sister from ruthless beings who are decidedly not humanlife. [[Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ingemundsen -->*[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474940633?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474940633]] ===[[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] I came But she comes back fighting, desperate to this book expecting only a typical teenage coming of age story, yet somehow, within only a matter of pages, I was utterly engrossed by avoid the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girlpity stares, who is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (desperate to get back to a fact life that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrumas normal as she can possibly manage. But that isn't really what the book is about. It Meanwhile there's about Malin growing up, struggling at a new (cute!) boy in school, having a first dateher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and dealing with family difficulties, just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at the same timeher to navigate. [[The Unpredictability of Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|Full Review]]isbn=0571373801<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Norris -->|author=Simon Fox*[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|lefttitle=Deadlock|linkrating=https://www4.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]]5|genre===[[Mike by Andrew Norriss]]===Confident Readers[[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Floyd Late one night Graham Blake is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become the youngest ever champion of late back from his shift on the national under 18sforce, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At firstand then suddenly rings Archie, Floyd thinks Mike is just demanding he fetch something from a weird kid following secret place, and join him around. Why else would he be at tennis practice in the school so early? But when he appears on the tennis court in run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the middle whiff of Southern trains when the matchfather is arrested, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is leaving Archie on the only one who can see him. Floyd is referred late express to Brighton, toting a specialist tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and together they unpick the mystery bearer of Mikea whole heap of questions. [[Mike by Andrew Norriss|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1839944420}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phyllida ShrimptonLex Croucher|title=Sunflowers Gwen and Art Are Not in FebruaryLove|rating=3.54
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|summary= When Lily wakes up on the side of the road, she knows immediately Who knew that something is wrong. Then she sees her body lying in the mud. Her dead body. Wrong doesn't even begin what I really needed to describe read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. A disembodied ghost In this story, Lily finds herself helplessly spectating the horrid aftermath of her own deathGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, as her friends and family struggle much to deal their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the fallout from the hitkingdom's only female knight) -and-run something that killed Art discovers from herprivate diaries. With no idea how to move on And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Lily starts to despaircreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, until one night she finally manages to make her presence knownwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's always had But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a strong bond with her brother Ben - a twin thing. Now that bond allows him to see her when no-one else way in which they canboth truly be themselves, and gives her the chance to return or are they destined to the living world. Lily has live a lot of unfinished business. And top on that list is making her killer pay. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406881</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerNick Brooks|title= RenegadesPromise Boys|rating= 3.54|genre= Teens|summary= ''So long as there are heroes in this world, there's hope that tomorrow might be better''Once When the minority in a world principal (headmaster) of chaos and disorderUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Renegades fought for freedom and justicepolice station as suspects. Victorious in driving their opponents Each, the leaderless Anarchists undergroundseemingly, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range has a grudge of abilities are now some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the lawmakers and leaders time of the futurehis murder. But who killed him, governing a new peaceful and prosperous society. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up towhy, the officers people look to for justice and strength. All except the fraction if any of Anarchists that hide in the darknessboys are innocent, plotting and planning until will they are be able to get back what was stolen from them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509876448</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Vikki Wakefield1919635017|title=Ballad for A Thief to Catch a Mad GirlKiller|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
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|summary=In Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'Ballad ll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a Mad Girl''standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Grace becomes obsessed so his desk is one of four with solving both his best buddy from the mystery of Hannah Holtfootball team, and 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 local girl who disappeared twentysingle-three years agosex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, after becoming convinced she has encountered Hannahas he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's ghost. The more she investigateshad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the more she is convinced Hannahladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's case is set in some way linked to her own Motherstone, he can't be sure. And that's death, a former classmate mostly because of Hannahwho he's who died in a strange accident two years agobeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=<amazonuk>1925355292</amazonuk>Stitched Up|author=Steve 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.
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 <!-- Wilson -->*[[image:Wilson_Extinction.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1474927343?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1474927343]] ===[[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 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 one of Earthasia's overcrowded ''shelters'', goes to school for one day per week and wrestles hay bales for a job. Lincoln's sister is dying from the blistering disease and he has no access to the healthcare that could save her. It's a mean, desperate existence for them both and so they are first to volunteer for the Stipulators' trials for a new mission to the neighbouring continent of Piloria. The aim is to retrieve dinosaur eggs so that a virus to kill them can be engineered and the citizens of Earthasia will have access to the space and abundant food sources Piloria offers... [[The Extinction Trials by SM Wilson|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos and Alison Entrekin (translator)Patrice Lawrence|title=My Sweet Orange TreeNeedle
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|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'It's just that sometimesof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Zeze, you're too naughtycharacters and readers both.'' And that's almost the entire truth about our narratorKicked out of multiple homes and schools, Zeze – heshe's fostering with a young tykepleasant yoga tutor, and everyone in his largeAnnie, half-Indian family – heck, everyone who recognises his blonde and pale looks has taken up residence in the neighbourhood – knows her son Blake's old room while he's skilled at being up to no gooduni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, that you might perhaps he was born with a little think, and the creation of one such item is part of the devil in him where Jesus should reside. Instantly adept at being able to readplot here, even when he's only fiveas Charlene is a wonder knitter, the precocious brat and is forced to face making something that might be the changing full of him, once and love for all her younger sister schoola younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. This time of change is also featuring We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a move of homestore detective, as the family cannot afford the rent arrears on their current place, although having downsized the garden comes and then force people to feature the titular treegive her two days off school, which almost works when she shouts someone down as a confessional cum best friendexpletively ignorant. And then... Whether either the new home or the school will get well, what exactly happens is not for me to change Zezesay, or neither, is the plot of this vintage Brazilian junior readonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691537</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sheena WilkinsonAnn Sei Lin|title= Star by StarRebel Skies|rating= 3.5
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|summary=15 year old Stella was brought up Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in Ireland by the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her suffragette motherthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. When He asks her mother dies from to come with him, to leave the flu pandemic sweeping across Europe life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in November 1918the matter, Stella because the Midori is sent destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to live flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with her estranged aunt who runs whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a boarding housesubhuman hum coming from the earth. This coincides Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a time done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of great change for music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=1800900899}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the country as women are allowed last thing Tess Matheson wants to vote do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the first timeman who requested the books: Mr Birch. Stella is determined to follow in her motherThe boarding school's footsteps to help make historyheadmaster, and whilst her age denies a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the ability to vote herselfbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she goes can think of. They're never meant to great lengths reach him, of course. Her plan is to ensure that former suffragette hunger-striker get her anger out like this, and former childhood friend of then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her mother is able to cast hers.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411531</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{Frontpage<!-- Dawson -->*[[image:Dawson_Grave.jpg|left|linkauthor=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1781126046?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1781126046]]Philip Reeve =|title==[[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson Utterly Dark and Alex T Smith]]=the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] Since Eliza diedIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, since beyond the night Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the car crash Dark family that took her lifehas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Sam is a broken soulwhere no ship dare sail. He is lost without The current Darks are the girl he lovesWatcher, Andrewe, feeling as though a part who has to keep notes of him died that night activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with toomuch science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But he is desperate when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and he cannot live without Elizahis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie |isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her peculiar healing powers parents and wonders if she might their cat from the family home in SW England to be able to help himlighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. However Here be Vikings, finding his Aunt Marie leads him that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to discover be automating the Milk Manlantern, which causes Sam is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in his grieving state algae behind to make a pact with forces he doesn't understandhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. [[Grave Matter by Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|Full Review]]<br>isbn=1510107789}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emily SuvadaJonathan Stroud|title= This Mortal CoilThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
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|summary= A life threatening virus Scarlett McCain is spreading through an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the United StatesSeven Kingdoms of Britain, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trustrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanityBut then she meets Albert Browne, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new dark boy with dark powers and stronger strains at a frightening pacedarker past. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two yearsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the State and taken by force they plan to flee to work in the national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from mythical Free Isles of the State and not to trust them an inchLondon Lagoon. Set in AmericaTogether, but not an America we would recognisethey must brave man-eating wildlife, most of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors cannibalistic Tainted and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the StateFree Isles, remain but will they be any more accepted there than they are in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nicholas BowlingMercedes Helnwein|title= WitchbornSlingshot|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 to keep it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077252</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Moira Young|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 to take Miss Flint on her final road trip, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive a car. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509832564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His Heart|rating=4.53
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|summary=Meet TortotGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. He's As a secret illegitimate daughter of a camp chef for an army, man with a cold heart – he sheds no tears"real" family, or at least as much as does she is used to not being a fish – and priority in people's lives. But when she defends a brilliant way of gauging the warfare going on around him. The book even starts random boy in her class with him crossing the battlefield to start work her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat themgood. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, leaving Tortot on the winning side once more. But for her life now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives a boy in a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691545</amazonuk>152905818X
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