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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Clover MoonFrontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps Alley, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory and the heavy work has taken a toll on his health. He likes to drink an ale or two after work, spending money the family can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth to her younger sister, Megs, a wispy, shy child. Father married again - to Mildred, a sharp-tongued woman who is free with a beating, particularly if the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four halfAshley Hickson-siblings and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care of them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLovence|title=Saint Death|author=Marcus SedgwickWild East

|summary=Anapra 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 slum just outside the Mexican city of Juarez, right on the border with the United Statesmostly white school. People scrape The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a living working at one or more of the American factoriestragic event, which pay wages and so low that workers can barely feed themselvesRonny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. This is where people come He listens to try music constantly, and find their own way into the UShas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, or pay people traffickers his teacher encourages him to do it for them. It's also be part of a place where poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the drug cartels run everything connections between rap and poetry, and things don't end well if you get on the wrong side power of the drug cartelscreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Haunt MeJenny Valentine|authortitle=Liz KesslerUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary=Some quite difficult themes of anxietyElk and Mab are best friends, bullying and self-harm or more than that even, their friendship is a once in this beyond the grave love story, which 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 same time creates a positive message about finding a path through . But then chance brings themback together, and they are inseparable. Cute Something has happened though, something terrible and enjoyabletragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer NivenMax Boucherat|title=Holding Up the UniverseThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= High school can be far from We meet Lori on the easiest place to navigate through for a lot of teenagers, but some have a harder job than others. After the sudden death of her mother, Libby started eating and first evening she didn't stop until she almost killed s got the house to herself. Years of doctors– no neighbour to pop in, counsellors and psychologistsbabysitter poorly, combined with determinationmother at work, sweat and tearsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and she is finally ready to return to school after almost five years outon her lonesome. Libby is determined to make up for lost time What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl who can do anythinghas one main intention, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem that is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her way. On the surfacelog on to Voxminer, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high school guy: charming but thoughtlessworld-building, superficial, and far too concerned with fitting in to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm and swagger, Jack critter-collecting game that is a nervous ticking time bomb. Every day is a struggle to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself and the people around himhit in Lori's world. Because Jack But first Lori has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder tiny inkling that means he canthis stormy night doesn't recognise faces, whether it be his find herself entirely on her own, his family's or any of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katharine McGee|title= The Thousandth Floor|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The future's bright, and the future's TALL. In 2118, New York, life centres around The Towerthen she finds something even more spooky. It's 1000 stories tall, takes up most of For the island, server she and her bestie and is now home nobody else should be able to Grand Central station, Central Park, schools, shops, restaurants and gymsenter shows signs of tampering. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live When malevolent eyes spark up on within the tower is a proxy for who you are and how successful you, or at least your parents, have become. Higher floors trump lower floorsher phone screen, and her safe place in the pinnacle is that 1000th floor penthouse, owned by Avery and her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=Word Nerd |rating=5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Ambrose Bukowski is your typical nerd game has been doctored – clever and geeky with no friends and appalling dress sense. However, to add to his problems, he's also got a serious nut allergy and a slightly insane overprotective mother. When the school bullies almost kill him by putting a peanut in his sandwich, Ambrose is pulled out of school and educated at home. Lonely and boredwell, life where is not looking good for Ambrose until he meets his neighbour's grown up son, Cosmos, who has just been released from prison. Outwardly the two have nothing in common other than a love of Scrabble but, as we soon discover, this turns out to be enough girl to form an unlikely friendship that helps them both. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah BiancottiRachel Greenlaw|title=SwarmCompass and Blade

|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The Zeroes have found a new homecall of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. If you didn't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld' Rosevear, Margo Lanagan a remote and Deborah Biancotti|last time]]partially forgotten island, they are six super-powered teens, with a guru amongst them survives on luring ships into the rocks and generally a skill that works best when concerning crowds of peopleplundering the wrecks. Their home Mira, like her mother before her, is a night-club – one can imbue of the simple act of handing seven who swim out flyers to it with survey the magic of his inner voice ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that tells everyone what lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they want most capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to hearsave him from death, the lighting gal Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is so in tune secretive and with technological signals only coordinates to guide her, she is practically part sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her rigfather, and as her journey takes her from the DJ herself can feed off and feed back watched streets of foreign islands to the emotions heart of the revellers. But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – is an ideal place for them smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to experiment, stop at nothing to enhance their powers and learn every nuance save the future of using them her home and what that means, they are inviting regular humans to come alongthe ones she holds most dear. That is, of course, until two brand new Zeroes slip the net – and prove to be quite talented, and more than a little malicious…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124916</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinHarry Allen|title=Blood for Blood|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Second and final book in sequence set in a world where Germany won WW2 and Nazi experiments on Jewish children has produced shapeshifting humans. Can Yael defeat Children of the Wehrmacht? Interesting, moving and absorbing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kendare Blake|title= Three Dark CrownsSun|rating= 5

|summary= ''Three Dark Crowns'' is a high class fantasy novel following Ra Eun Seo lives in a set of triplets: Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella, who are each gifted with specific magic North Korean town and are equal heirs to the crown. Katharine she is a poisoner with the ability to ingest the deadliest poisons, a girl who cannot dietalented singer. Meanwhile, Arsinoe Life is a naturalist, who has the power to bloom flowers hard and control the fiercest animals. Finally, Mirabella food is an elementaldifficult to come by, one gifted with the ability to create fire so Seo and her friends Nari and incredible storms powerful enough to topple buildings. On the island of Fennbirn, as is traditionMin go foraging every evening, the queens are separated at the age of nine looking for tree bark and fostered by families who share their magic. From that point onwards, they are each trained edible grasses to use their magic as a weapon in supplement the fight to the death against the other sisters. On the night meagre rations of the sisters'sixteenth birthday, they will each begin their quest to secure the throne rice and become the rightful Queen. While the crown awaits the victor, death awaits the two weaker queenskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I'll Be Home For ChristmasAlexia Casale|authortitle=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Ire having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of the most popular writers s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by the theme middle of homea dance performance that was going to change her life. What does home mean But she comes back fighting, desperate to you? Is it your houseavoid the pity stares, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things and desperate to get back to different people, a life that's as normal as she canpossibly manage. Meanwhile there't it? The book opens with s a powerful poem by Bookbag favouritenew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Benjamin Zephaniah. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales of hardship and fear, some warming just the cockles day to day traumas of your heartall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But all of them are about So even though she can''home''.t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry DrewerySimon Fox|title= Cell 7Deadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Tired of ''Big Brother'' Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and ''I'm a Celebrity..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something more 'real?' Welcome to the evolution of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives youfrom a secret place, and join him on the viewer, the power of life and deathrun. Listen to the evidence They get together, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent and then simply text DIE or LIVE but barely begin to 7997 (Calls cost £5). Since smell the abolition whiff of Southern trains when the court system a few years agofather is arrested, leaving Archie on the power of jury has been given late express to the people. Those accused of murder have seven days in seven cellsBrighton, each with their own particular method of psychological torture. On the last day, the accused is led toting a tin his father was determined to Cell 7keep away from his colleagues, dominated by and the imposing electric chair in the centre. As the public votes pour in, viewers wait with eager anticipation to see if there will be bearer of a live execution that evening..whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentLex Croucher|title=The CatchersGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54

|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert is wandering along perfectly happily in his very normal twelve-year-old lifeWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, when a sprite suddenly appears it lifted my spirits in his bedroom. The sprite is followed by a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also in his bedroommost delightful way. There's a knock at the door In this story, so Jamie takes the sprite Gwen and opens it. Down a passageArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Jamie finds an old man wearing a pointy hat who introduces himselfmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, grandlyyou see, as is in love with Bridget (the kingdom''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhichs only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, of creating the Magic and Mythical creature catchers department, subterfuge of the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branch''. Jamie is falling in Magictasiumlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. After But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a brief magical interlude with Colin and Trixieway in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a teenage witch, Colin returns home...lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born ScaredNick Brooks|authortitle=Kevin BrooksPromise Boys

|summary=Everything scares ElliottWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And by everything Each, we really mean ''everything''. Elliott is not afraid of his mumseemingly, his aunt and his doctor. And that's it. Imagine that. Being frightened has a grudge of your room. Of colours. Of noises. Of most things around yousome description against Principal Moore, no matter how everyday and mundane they are. This is each could have been there at the natural state time of things for Elliotthis murder. And it's been that way since he was born prematurely But who killed him, and his twinwhy, Ellamayand if any of the boys are innocent, died. will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Very Good ChanceThief to Catch a Killer|author=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldKitt Townsend

|summary=Minty Solomon Klyne isn't having a great time at home. It's quite clear, from the hissing conversations in other rooms and the looming silencesbad lad, that her parents' marriage is in trouble. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that to Minty. School so why is he running around London committing a bit series of a bore, unless itrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralungall have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Minty needs an escapeBut I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014781</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Double Down (Lois Lane) Frontpage|author=Gwenda Bond|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lois Lane is doing pretty well in Metropolis. The oppositional, trouble-seeking army brat we first met in [[Fallout (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond|Fallout]] has made some friends, got a job as a cub reporter on ''The Daily Scoop'' and even exposed a scandal at her school. Her online relationship with the mysterious Smallville Guy is also going pretty well. But her army general father Patrick Ness and her school principal are both still keeping a weather eye on Lois. And newspaper editor Perry White is putting her under pressure for a new story...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782023690</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Natasha FarrantTea Bendix|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and PrejudiceDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5

|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen Ant is in 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 receivedbeen restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, amongst and two other giftsold muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a diary from her bookish older sister Marysingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. She Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after allt know what his score is, writing where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a diary every day seems such casual relationship, a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in Merytonstone, Lydia decides that there just might he can't be something exciting to write about after all.sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess Vallance1800901232|title= The Yellow RoomStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= SixteenTwelve-year-old Anna lives an ordinary, uneventful life with her workaholic mother after her father left them both years before without Hanh wanted to be a single word sincefashion designer. However Anna's simple life is suddenly changed when Life in the rural village where she receives a letter from Edielived with her family was happy, her father's girlfriendif not prosperous, telling her that he has died so when the smartly-dressed man and she would like for them woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to meetbe missed. Anna isn't sure how to feel at first – she Some money changed hands and Hanh was estranged from her father but on the news has still come as a shockmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and so Anna agrees the other girls were not going to meet Edie and work in a shop, they start up were to work in virtual slavery in an unlikely friendshipillegal garment factory. Edie is eccentric You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and warm and offers Anna beading on the companionship she lacks legs? The ones with her own unemotional mother, so much the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Anna manages to gather up the courage to tell Edie about the troublesome secret she has been carrying deep inside Hanh and herco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Peadar o GuilinNeedle|rating=53

|summary=The Aes Sidhe are backBrave. And in their quest Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to win back Ireland from humankindlike, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandcharacters and readers both. Nobody can get in or Kicked out. North? South? Doesnof multiple homes and schools, she't matter any more. What does matter is ''The Calls fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. At some point during adolescenceSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, every teenager and the creation of one such item is transported to part of the Sidhe realmplot here, that greyas Charlene is a wonder knitter, colourless land to which they were banished thousands and is making something full of years beforelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a full day (just three minutes in the human world) store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then their lives are spared... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Fewer than one in ten children survive.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GrayAnn Sei Lin|title=The OtherlifeRebel Skies

|summary= Ben Kurara has spent her entire life as a dark gift: he can see servant on the OtherlifeMidori, a world massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of ancient Norse myths, wildness the Empire come to drink and dangermake merry between their conquests. It means freedom from examsHowever, warring parents, and everyone's impossible expectations. Then Ben meets Hobiewhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a charming, ruthless bullypower sought after all across the Empire. He's a born mischief-maker who always gets away asks her to come with it. Hobie him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has everything he could possibly wantknown. Except Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Otherlifeworld. And he'll do anything She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to be hunt down shikigami, and a part whole world of it. Anything.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SmithMarcus Sedgwick|title=Boy XWrath

|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=When Ash McCarthy wakes up in some sort Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of medical facility he immediately knows something frustration at himself. Lockdown is wrong. But he doesn't suspect only just how much until he steps outside over, and finds himself on a remote tropical island. Then he smells the blood and begins should be free to find the bodies. A deadly virus has been released anddo what he wants, to make matters worsego where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it's being taken off the island when he talks to be sold as his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a weapon that desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could wipe out humanityhear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. The antidote Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is being taken with already a done deal? Is it and, unless Ash some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can stop them within 24 hoursFitz find out the truth? Well, everyone on the island who not when Cassie has been infected (including Ashgone missing he can's mum) will diet...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489042</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katharine Corr and Elizabeth CorrTori Bovalino|title=The Witch's KissDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5

|summary= Merry is an average teenager. SheWorking all summer in her boarding school's also library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a witchhundred books that she has to deliver herself. SheWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's trying not to beheadmaster, but she isand a man Tess hates. Then Jack comes into As a petty act of revenge for making her life find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can't help falling under his spellthink of. One problem – heThey's part re never meant to reach him, of an evil, centuries-old curse that Merry now has course. Her plan is to break. If Merry has lost get her heartanger out like this, will she lose her life too? and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or can true loveit would be, if someone hadn's kiss save the day? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PaverPhilip Reeve|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods Utterly Dark and Warriors Book 5) the Face of the Deep

|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle Paver's Gods and Warriors series has arrivedIn a word, rich. This series There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set in the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the mainland (Mycenaean) and Crete (Minoan)Scillies. Our two central characters represent both: HylasThere are troll people on it, the boy searching for his sister, is Mycenaeanand sea-witches, and Pirra, the daughter legends of a high priestess, is Minoan. Together, they are trying to defeat the evil Crows who are ravaging lands far and wide. But to do Dark family that, they need has to retrieve the dagger of Kronos keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from deep inside Crow territory. If they faileven further west, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones will rule all the land and all the peoplewhere no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dawn Kurtagich|title= The Creeper Man|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from current Darks are the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon a protector out of Python Wood. But with a grinning mouth and without eyesWatcher, The Creeper Man is not their protector. In 2016 two sistersAndrewe, Silla and Nori, runaway from London and their cruel father who has to La Baume, the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath lives. Away keep notes of activity from fear and hurt, the girls are finally happy and loved. They're finally safe… Until the trees start moving closer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Liz Flanagan|title=Eden Summer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Best friends for longer than they can rememberHidden Lands, Jess and Eden have always been there for each otherhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, through the good and the bad, though thereAndrewe's been a lot more foundling daughter, who washed up out of the latter over the last year. They've needed each other for support more than eversea one day eleven years ago. But nowwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Eden is missing. The police both his sullen brother and his curious ward are on the case, but Jess is wracked with worry. Overwhelmed by grief, Eden hasn't been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic and often veering towards the dangerous. Desperate to find Eden, Jess takes the search thrust into her own hands. As she makes her way through the West Yorkshire countrysideworld of protecting their island, she finds herself retracing the summer she and Eden spent together, digging up buried memories and secrets in the hope that they might yield some insight into where her friend might belike it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rose in the BlitzKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rebecca StevensJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rose's father died a while back. She still misses himJulia, our pre-teen heroine, even though life goes on has been packed off with her parents and her mother is remarrying tomorrow. Rose knows deep down that Sal is their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a nice guy butsummer, butin the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, butthat kind of Scottish island... a wedding? It's sent her into a spin. Sal doesn't smell right. His woolly jumpers are embarrassing. His beard Dad is weird. Rose isn't looking forward going to be automating the wedding.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655546</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Non Pratt|title=Unboxed|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: Alixlantern, Benwhich is his specialist thing, Dean, Millie and Zara, and they had made a promise to return while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the school where they had hidden a memory box five years later. Only five years later there are only four of them: Millie had died of stomach cancerelusive Greenland shark. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in the boxAnd Julia, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are nowwell, but most of all they're missing Millieshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E K JohnstonJonathan Stroud|title= A Thousand NightsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary=E. K Johnston describes ''1000 Nights'' as a work fashioned around the creation of beautiful crafts charged with magic. She confesses that her setting Scarlett McCain is not historically accurate, explaining, ''I cheated a bit, because the usual date for the stories ranges from Middle Persian literature to the Caliphate Era, and I set the book about two thousand years before that.'' Her locations are beautifully evoked and based on her sensory experiences as an archaeologist in Jordan. A Turkish bath in Ammanoutlaw, rejecting the Umayyad palace on top draconian conformity of the Amman Citadel Surviving Towns and the swirling sands at Wadi Rum are just a few sources she has used Faith Houses to recreate wander the spirit of Lo Melkhiin's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed with wildlands between the mercurial nature Seven Kingdoms of his wife's desert home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290372</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Keren David|title= Cuckoo|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jake is a household name thanks Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to his role on the UK's most popular soap operakeep herself alive. But his character went upstairs to his bedroom six months ago and never came down againthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and now Jake is facing an uncertain future. Add to that his dad's anger issues, the family's precarious finances and the demands of a severely autistic brother; Jake's home feels like a powder keg waiting to explodedarker past. It's easier to spend nights on friends' sofas and futonsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paige Toon|title= All About The Hype|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jessie Jefferson, daughter of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I first got to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] has left the UK behind they plan to move flee to the City of Angels and be with her long-lost, recently-rediscovered father. As the third book in the ''Jessie'' offshoot, there's a bit mythical Free Isles of back story to be had but long story short, she grew up not knowing about him, but then her mother died in horrible circumstances and one thing led to another and it all came out in the washLondon Lagoon. NowTogether, a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two halfthey must brave man-brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraldine Mills|title= Gold|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Twins Starn and Esper are growing up in a world made dark and silent by massive volcanic explosions. Ash now covers the planet and every aspect of life is controlled by the governmenteating wildlife, policed by the strict, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long for sunshine, fresh air cannibalistic Tainted and all the freedom horrors of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game of dares leads them post-apocalyptic society to discover an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across reach the darkened skies in a hand-built gliderFree Isles, in search of the gold that but will vastly improve their lives. What they find be any more accepted there is a hidden world; one left behind when than they are in the volcanoes exploded. The revelation rest of the gold is not at all what they thought it would be, and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planet.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenMercedes Helnwein|title=We Are All Made of Molecules Slingshot|rating=53

|summary= After two years Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of pain following his mum's deatha man with a "real" family, Stewart she is pleased his dad has found someone else and heused to not being a priority in people's 89lives.9% excited that he and his dad are moving But when she defends a random boy in her class with Ashley and her mom. Ashleyslingshot, however, is 110% horrified at the prospect of a new 'blended' family. She's still dealing with her parent's breakup and the revelation that her dad simple existence is gay. She's simply not prepared changed for a new step-dad and his geeky, socially clueless, songood. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robin Jarvis|title=The Power of Dark|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Something is brewing No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the coastal town of Whitby. To best friends Lil and Vernesolitude, it just seems like a particularly bad storm. But Cherry Cherise, the last of the town's guardian witches, fears that ancient forces are work, reviving the curse of a long-lost magical artefact and a feud that for her life now has survived beyond death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jesse Ball|title=How to Set a Fire and Why|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Lucia Stanton is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who lives with her elderly Aunt Lucy boy in a garage they rent from an evil landlord at the bottom of his large garden. She it that she never comes right out and explains why she's there, but if you read between the lines you work out that her father is dead and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably asked for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified and principled – ''Don't do things you aren't proud of'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes and mostly lives off of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade breadWade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>152905818X