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|summary=Rupert Pierpont has put his head above the parapet and taken his juggling act onto a ''BritainWritten in verse, this is Ronny's Got Talent''-styled TV showstory, as you do. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contesting, and all four got lumped into the same a young black fourteen year old boy band – The Ruperts, as you do. Several massive albums and hugely successful tours later, the four lads are globally known, and have entered the world of true fandom – the realms where girls know from Hackney who suddenly has to move to wear incontinence pads Norwich and live with it rather than forsake their front-row concert position, and where girl fans (with their own inclusive, tribal nickname, of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to the starsstart at a mostly white school. The band has got move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform in New Yorktragic event, and is so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town at , a hipsterish swanky hotelnew school, and keep himself out of trouble. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fansHe listens to music constantly, and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights – as you dohas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this is through no intent of new school, his own – for he has been kidnapped by four teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the very same fans he soon attests to hate…connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff ZentnerJenny Valentine|title=The Serpent King|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation of the young-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 Bird|title=The Hunt|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 Us in the floating Krawczyk building Before 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|genre=Teens|summary=The first seven weeks of secondary school changed Mandy Crystal's life. It was in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong and Tina Pointer. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Street. That was the last time anyone saw either of them – Petra and Tina disappeared, never to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' by the media, 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 everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sue Wallman |title=Lying About Last Summer 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. He has always lived in Little Town and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to be. There's no drinking. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard to get, which is a problem when your mum, like Charlie's mum, has trouble breathing. But even breathing is less important than keeping out I can hear the song of the way sea. The call of the Rascalsdeep, the Regimeanswering beat in my heart.'s enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sheila O'Flanagan |title=The Crystal Run |rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Running away from Rosevear, a couple of bulliesremote and partially forgotten island, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself in survives on luring ships into the strange world of rocks and plundering the Carcassian peoplewrecks. Suspected as a terroristMira, traitor or spylike her mother before her, he's attached is one of the seven who swim out to Kaia survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and sent to join her on any treasure that lies within. But when the 'Crystal Run' – Council Watch lays a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory trap to replace end the precious crystals that power wrecking, they capture the protective Carcassian shieldisland's leader and Mira's father. He really wants Desperate to return to Earth but save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he soon finds himself fighting for survival is secretive and forming with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a close friendship with Kaiafamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her mission and Joefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to find a way stop at nothing to keep save the future of her alivehome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nova Ren SumaHarry Allen|title=The Walls Around UsChildren of the Sun

|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=Olivia - Vee It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and her brother Aidan are trying desperate to get back to Earth after a mystery virus killed everyone, including their parents, on their shiplife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's been a lonely three years and a dangerous onenew (cute!) boy in school, tooher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, as they've tried and just the day to avoid day traumas of all the dangerous and xenophobic Mazonschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But sometimes the Mazons So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be avoided and this is one of them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough able to launch a rescue mission.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterSimon Fox|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 request for over a singlehundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, solitary word and 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 last five yearsbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. He hasnNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't started applying delivered them for college yether.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, eitherrich. Not that he'd likely get There is certainly an abundance of riches in: his grades this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are rubbish troll people on it, and he spends as much time skipping school as he does attending classsea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. He The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has also developed a petty theft habitto keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, which he indulges his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in well-heeled hotels. Oh dearhis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, I hear you saying. Itand Andrewe's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviourfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, there both his sullen brother and his curious ward arethrust into the world of protecting their island, but reasons don't help muchlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=13 MinutesJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=If you think about itJulia, you can count several things our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in 13s. It probably took me 13 months SW England to find be lighthousekeepers for a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous releasesummer, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email in the far NE of the chance to read this titleScottish islands. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes of fame'Here be Vikings, considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, 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 kind of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morningScottish island. This utterly dramatic teen read Dad is concerned with going to be automating the fight for lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to work out why she was in that riverhunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, although it's mostly taken from the point of view of a girl on the edge of her circlewell, Beccashe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimJonathan Stroud|title=AfterlightThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the life draconian conformity of your parents is really all it takes the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to make your world fall apartkeep herself alive. You might hope that But then she meets Albert Browne, a new beginning in dark boy with dark powers and a different high school is going darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to jumpstart your life; that a chance flee to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teaguethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, rather than Sophiethey must brave man-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets the chance to find out, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her gohorrors of post-apocalyptic society to girl. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost and dealing with reach the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the biggest challenge rest of Sophie’s life.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Sara BarnardSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Caddy and Rosie have been best friends for years and even going Gracie Welles has resigned herself to different schools hasn't parted thembeing lonely. And this As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is the summer that Rosie intends used to be differentnot being a priority in people's lives. She'll get But when she defends a boyfriendrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, finallyher simple existence is changed for good. Perhaps even lose No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her virginity. And experience life now has a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans and all boy in it that..she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>152905818X