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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff Zentner|title=The Serpent King|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation of the youngAshley Hickson-adult fiction market in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genre, and here's the thing – I really want to like it, too. I know there's good stuff out there, but it seems like the more I look the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundreds, who knows – of formulaic, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul BirdLovence|title=The HuntWild East|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This is Britain after the Very Big Crash. Life is very different, especially if you live in one of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himself, is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though she'd like to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsession.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|title= The Sword of the Spirit (Spirits 3)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ''There are truths which must be revealed before the battle may commence. You do not yet know the meaning of the sword.'' Ooh! Events are moving apace in Rob Keeley's ''Childish Spirits'' series. Let me explain...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785892533</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title= Whisper to Me|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Cassie lives with her father in a New Jersey beach town. Dad spends most of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD and its concomitant anger issues. Frankly, Cassie finds him best avoided. Cassie herself is doing ok, despite a recent tragedy. Until, that is, she finds a dismembered foot on the beach, thought to be from a victim of a serial killer stalking the locality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Moth Girls|rating=4

|summary=Written 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. The first seven weeks of secondary school changed Mandy Crystalmove is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's life. It was safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong a new town, a new school, and Tina Pointerkeep himself out of trouble. And it was at the end He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of those seven weeks that she refused being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Street. That was the last time anyone saw either be part of them – Petra a poetry writing workshop group and Tina disappeared, never slowly, Ronny begins to be seen again. Labelled see the 'Moth Girls' by the mediaconnections between rap and poetry, and the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had to live with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen her friends. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found it she'd told the police where they'd gone sooner? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everythingpower of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Jenny Valentine|title=Lying About Last Summer Us in the Before and After

|summary=Skye's sisterElk and Mab are best friends, Luisaor more than that even, died their friendship is a once in a tragic accident last summer and Skye is still struggling to come to terms with both the events she witnessed and the loss of her sisterlifetime connection. It's, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is They meet as children one day on a holiday for bereaved teens. Shetrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's up for anything that will stop her thinking about contact details at the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access totime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Rather than erasing all thoughts of the past Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, Skye finds herself having to confront her worst fearstogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice OsemanMax Boucherat|title=Radio SilenceThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= We meet Lori on the first evening she''School'' Frances is a single-minded study machines got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, with just one purpose: get into Cambridge. She's responsible, studiousan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and furiously focused on ticking all the boxes needed for her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a perfect applicationblanket fort, she has one main intention, boxes with no place for friends and hobbies. And this is the Frances that pretty much everyone sees. Only her mum knows there is more to her than meets the eyelog on to Voxminer, from her distinctive, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love for the wonderful podcast showworld-building, Universe Citycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. When But first Lori has a chance encounter leads to tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her meeting the creator of University City, Aled Lastown, and then she finally has a friend with whom finds something even more spooky. For the server she can genuinely be comfortable around, and celebrate all her weird bestie and wonderful quirksnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. However When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, when complications and secrets threaten to shatter this powerful friendshipher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, Francis finds herself at where is a crossroads, caught between her old secure path of least resistance, and the much scarier option of putting her true self out there and risking it all girl to discover what she truly wants. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian ConaghanRachel Greenlaw|title=The Bombs That Brought Us TogetherCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Charlie Law is fourteen''I can hear the song of the sea. He has always lived The call of the deep, the answering beat in Little Town and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to bemy heart. There's no drinking. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard to get' Rosevear, which is a problem when your mumremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like Charlie's mumher mother before her, has trouble breathingis one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But even breathing is less important than keeping out of when the way of Council Watch lays a trap to end the Rascalswrecking, they capture the Regimeisland's enforcersleader and Mira's father. And Charlie 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 guide her, she sets off in search of a sensible boyfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He has With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the rules watched streets of Little Town down pat foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and he never, never breaks themthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'Flanagan Harry Allen|title=The Crystal Run |rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Running away from a couple of bullies, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself in the strange world Children of the Carcassian people. Suspected as a terrorist, traitor or spy, he's attached to Kaia and sent to join her on the 'Crystal Run' – a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory to replace the precious crystals that power the protective Carcassian shield. He really wants to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting for survival and forming a close friendship with Kaia. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes her mission and Joe's determined to find a way to keep her alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nova Ren Suma|title=The Walls Around UsSun

|summary=Amber Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is an inmate at Aurora Hills, a juvenile detention centre reserved for the most serious young criminalstalented singer. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks Life is hard and food is difficult to us from the past come by, so Seo and she details life at Aurora Hills her friends Nari and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and the guards. One nightMin go foraging every evening, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the girls spend a glorious meagre rations of rice and dangerous night out of their cells. During this night, Amber has a paranormal experience, during which she "meets" Oriannakimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E DurrantAlexia Casale|title=Little Bits of SkySing if you Can't Dance

|summary= The Point is the It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'hottestre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'' rock band s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the world, in every sense middle of the worda dance performance that was going to change her life. While Nina has always enjoyed their music But she comes back fighting, she isn't one of desperate to avoid the millions of fan-girls utterly obsessed with the four 19 year-old boys. She prides herself on being more than just pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there'girl'' girl. So when s a chance encounter ends up with new (cute!) boy in school, her being offered the job of assistant music A Level performance piece to try to the lead singer's diva fiancéesort out, touring with and just the band, she takes it simply as an opportunity day to travel the globe as part day traumas of all the entourage, and inject a little bit of excitement into challenges her body continues to throw at her lifeto navigate. Little does So even though she realise the craziness that she is getting herself intocan't dance anymore, as might she finds herself unwittingly drawn into the lives of the boys and all their messy drama. be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002720</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanSimon Fox|title=Chasing the Stars|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Olivia - Vee - and her brother Aidan are trying to get back to Earth after a mystery virus killed everyone, including their parents, on their ship. It's been a lonely three years and a dangerous one, too, as they've tried to avoid the dangerous and xenophobic Mazons. But sometimes the Mazons can't be avoided and this is one of them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough to launch a rescue mission.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kim Slater|title=A Seven-Letter WordDeadlock

|summary=Finlay has got more than Late one PROBLEM. He lives alone with night Graham Blake is late back from his father, who chain-smokes in between trips out to do odd jobs for peopleshift on the force, and seems to have reduced his worth to just one recipe since his wifethen suddenly rings Archie, Finlay's motherdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, vanished two years agoand join him on the run. Things are still bitter with him – he says she might as well be dead – They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the issue manifests itself badly with Finlayfather is arrested, and he has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads leaving Archie on the late express to no end of TEASING at school. His one way out, it seemsBrighton, is for toting a change an eight-letter word, SCRABBLE – he can hide tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the mismanagement bearer of words that his speaking implies he has over a set whole heap of tiles and can play a decent gamequestions. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine his love of the word game with his quest for the truth about his mother's ABSENCE?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordLex Croucher|title=When We CollidedGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jonah's father diedWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. His mother has locked herself away in grief In this story, leaving Jonah Gwen and his two older siblings Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to not only run their own lives but also take care of their three younger siblings. It's a lot and Jonah is grievingmutual disgust! Gwen, too. Unsurprisinglyyou see, he has fallen into the fog of depression. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi and her artist mother are spending is in love with Bridget (the summer in Jonahkingdom's town. And Vivi is bright and beautiful and vivid and amazing and ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonah's life like a shower of meteors and changes everything. But Vivi has her own problems...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Darren Shan|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12only female knight)|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!  Go on. Run along|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marisa Reichardt|title=Underwater|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Morgan has a post-it note in something that Art discovers from her apartment: ''1. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3private diaries. You are not dying''  And if you had escaped then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a school shooting aliveboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, you might need a note like this toocreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, right? People diedwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwards, Morgan's school closed for a while. Morgan started attending a new school but it was just too much for her. She retreated to her apartment But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, enrolled at an online high school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn't crossed the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then she's safe. And will they find a shut-way in's life has a rhythm. Morgan's day is predictable: daytime TVwhich they can both truly be themselves, online school, grilled cheese and soup for lunch, visits from her therapist. And Mom and little brother Ben or are they destined to liven up the evenings. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fallout (Lois Lane)Nick Brooks|authortitle=Gwenda BondPromise Boys

|summary=Lois Lane When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is an army brat with a history ofmurdered, shall we say, oppositional behaviourthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Or at least Each, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injusticeseemingly, that's all. And if something unjust is happeninghas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, she can't let it slideand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But this timewho killed him, and why, her nth time in a new town and a new schoolif any of the boys are innocent, Lois has vowed to herself that things will they be different. She'll be good. She'll keep her mouth shut. She'll fly under the radar. Heck, she might even make a friend or two.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=CrushA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Eve AinsworthKitt Townsend

|summary=AnnaSolomon Klyne isn's mother has left her father - and her brothert a bad lad, and Anna herself. That's how Anna sees it and although her mother wants contact, Anna so why is refusing it. It's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence he running around London committing a series of father and brother either: sherobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's fed up with them, tooll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Her father is always distracted and he isdefinitely favouring little brother Eddie, who, as Anna sees it, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on But I'll answer the fact that all is not right with Anna and has signed her up first one: for counselling sessionshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tania UnsworthDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother Ant is in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is full one of antiques four with both his best buddy from the football team, and treasures and hoardings - because Daisytwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's mother does like to hoard re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something out often turns to look at or investigatesex. Which is just confusing for Ant, as wellhe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, because Daisy and so has never gone outside effectively progressed up the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisyladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's mother keeps her secluded - sheset in stone, he can't be sure. And that's terrified of loss mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a family tragedy fashion designer. Life in her own childhood. Despite this, Daisy has a loving relationship with her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: rural village where she lived with her pet ratfamily was happy, if not prosperous, with so when the peacocks smartly-dressed man and rabbits 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 gardensmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and also with paintings and topiary and the other creatures of her imaginationgirls were not going to work in a shop, all they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the knowledge ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's being kept safe from The Crazy quite possible that once ran in Hanh and her familyco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RosePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=ElizaBrave. Charlene, the 's family isnheroine't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty of this piece is extremely hard for some people to marry well in order to repair the Camperdowne fortuneslike, characters and readers both. To this end Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Eliza is sent from and has taken up residence in her family home son Blake's old room while he's at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be educated in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the ways creation of noble ladies. Hereone such item is part of the plot here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too as Charlene is still a young girl. And from therewonder knitter, itand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's on allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to the Tudor court of Henry VIIIgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, who what exactly happens is currently married not for me to say, only to Anne of Clevesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyAnn Sei Lin|title= Defender of the RealmRebel Skies

|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir to Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the throne. He's awkwardMidori, bullied and always a massive dining hall floating in the front page sky where soldiers of the news for his latest mishapEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. His brother RichardHowever, as the papers love when a man named Himura arrives to remind tell her that she is a Crafter like him, would be much better suited someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the partEmpire. But when their father the King suddenly diesHe asks her to come with him, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer to leave the heir, he life of dreary servitude that is the king and with that defender of the realmall she has known. Together with an unlikely ally Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the anti- royalist Hayleymatter, Alfie learns his true heritagebecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, protecting and she is forced to flee out into the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows existworld... Suddenly all She joins Himura aboard the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparison. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needsOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, or who knows what will be left and a whole world of the country? adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K LarsenWrath|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voice. His family has been fragmented by the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses to talk about. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living with his dad in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but the road to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 35

|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenagerMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He knows Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he's a mathematical geniuswants, to go where he wants and with whom he's already at university studying advanced theorywants, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he's talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the sole survivor of enigmatic – saying she could hear a train explosionsubhuman hum coming from the earth. With his father Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is dead and his last words to Cillian already a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole done deal? Is it some spooky new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Book kind of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction music she''Book s dreaming of Lies'' has all ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the usual themes -- confused sense of identitytruth? Well, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also not when Cassie has another element: the supernaturalgone missing he can't. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachTori Bovalino|title=Thanks for the TroubleThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Parker hasnWorking all summer in her boarding school't spoken s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a single, solitary word request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the last five yearsman who requested the books: Mr Birch. He hasnThe boarding school't started applying for college yets headmaster, either. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish and he spends as much time skipping school as he does attending classa man Tess hates. He has also developed As a petty theft habitact of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, which he indulges in wellTess sticks post-heeled hotelsit notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Oh dearThey're never meant to reach him, I hear you sayingof course. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviourHer plan is to get her anger out like this, there areand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, but reasons donif someone hadn't help muchdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughPhilip Reeve|title=13 Minutes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you think about it, you can count several things in 13s. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous release, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email the chance to read this title. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes of fame', considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, Utterly Dark and one of those social media starlets – as far as ''the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howland, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out Face of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morning. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned with the fight for her to work out why she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from the point of view of a girl on the edge of her circle, Becca.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=AfterlightDeep

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning riches in this story set on a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that a chance has to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teaguekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, rather than Sophie-where no ship dare sail. The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to get by. But before Sophie gets keep notes of activity from the chance Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to find outworry about such local yokel superstitions, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girlAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and dealing with his curious ward are thrust into the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge world of Sophie’s lifeprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Sara BarnardJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Caddy and Rosie have Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been best friends for years packed off with her parents and even going their cat from the family home in SW England to different schools hasn't parted thembe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. And this Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is the summer that Rosie intends going to be different. She'll get a boyfriendautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, finally. Perhaps even lose while mum will be leaving her virginitycareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And experience a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans Julia, well, she will be homesick and all that..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettJonathan Stroud|title= ElectrigirlThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary= Holly Sparkes Scarlett McCain is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirloutlaw, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of lightning Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of the characters in her brother's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate meets Albert Browne, a massive amount of electricity in seconds, dark boy with dark powers and a skill that candarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn they plan to flee to control itthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Her brother JoeTogether, an expert in these thingsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, decides to become her mentor the cannibalistic Tainted and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to good effect. They get reach the opportunity sooner Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they expect with are in the arrival in their town rest of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WhelanMercedes Helnwein|title=The Box of DemonsSlingshot

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