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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophie McKenzieAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= SweetFreakWild East|rating=34.5|genre= Teens|summary= Carey 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 Amelia are best friendsstart at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreakRonny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a malicious online accountnew school, begins and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to abuse Amelia. To make matters worsemusic constantly, the police soon find evidence that Carey was the one who sent the messagesand has always dreamed of being a rapper. Soon everyone But now, even Ameliain this new school, is convinced his teacher encourages him to be part of Carey's guilt. Only her sistera poetry writing workshop group and, Poppyslowly, accepts her innocence. When Ronny begins to see the online threats spill over into real lifeconnections between rap and poetry, Carey is determined to discover who is framing herand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk> 1471122239</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HeathfieldJenny Valentine|title= Flight of a StarlingUs in the Before and After

|summary= Rita Elk and Lo Mab are sisters and best friends too, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. Their partnership extends to a double act They meet as children one day on a trapeze act in trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the travelling circus that forms a backdrop to their livestime. Always on the move But then chance brings them back together, travelling from one place to another, never staying in one town for long is all and they have ever knownare inseparable. The sisters are surrounded by the love of their family Something has happened though, something terrible and the close friends who make up the other circus acts. Their lives are happy tragic, and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boynow they must work through their grief, a special boy named Dean. Their growing and their friendship, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon CohenMax Boucherat|title=The Starman and MeLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori'He wasns world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't an alienfind herself entirely on her own, I was sure and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of thattampering. It was more like he'd walked When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in through an ancient door from the pastgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea.. except he was hereThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earthheart.''

Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied Rosevear, a tiny human remote and partially forgotten island, survives on a roundabout near luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to his housesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But he wasnwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'ts father. Rorty Thrutch Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as real charming as you or me. But how did Rorty come he is secretive and with only coordinates to be hiding out guide her, she sets off in the middle search of a roundabout family secret that lies buried deep in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that hethe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler'll soon s territory, Mira must be ''bad dead''? determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrenceHarry Allen|title=Indigo DonutChildren of the Sun

|summary=''In Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed Ra Eun Seo lives in a hero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti North Korean town and Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth schoola talented singer. Pitt Academy Life is a last chance for Indigo hard and her foster mother Keeley food is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - difficult to come by, so Seo and her reputation friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for kicking off always precedes her. And that's tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the least meagre rations of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her motherrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsAlexia Casale|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Sing if you Can''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And it's a great response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Shvarts|title= Royal Bastardst Dance|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdom. Royal plots, magic, adventure and a rich culture to immerse yourself in. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=No Filter|author=Orlagh Collins|rating=4

|summary=Em It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- Emerald - has led changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a pretty privileged dance performance that was going to change her life. Her wealthy parents have sent her But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a posh private school. Shelife that's friends with all the right people, as her social media accounts will attestnormal as she can possibly manage. Everything is sweetness and light in Em Meanwhile there's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the crosshairs day to day traumas of all the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets challenges her body continues to throw at home about to turn from secret her to open crisisnavigate. And when Em So even though she can's mother overdosest dance anymore, the dominoes start might she be able to topple.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hayley LongSimon Fox|title= The Nearest Faraway Place|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthday, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in a road accident. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brother, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clementine Beauvais|title=PiglettesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The results are in – and for Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in schoolforce, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathyand then suddenly rings Archie, Mireille is at first too hard-hearted to give demanding he fetch something from a damnsecret place, for angry self-defence is her default modeand join him on the run. But soon all three medallists in the unwanted competition form a trioThey get together, and all three see a reason but barely begin to go and gatecrash smell the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored for a major military honour in favour whiff of his ex-superiorSouthern trains when the father is arrested, who should instead be getting hauled over leaving Archie on the coals and not applauded; and for Mireillelate express to Brighton, the reason is that the President's husband is her natural birth toting a tin his fatherwas determined to keep away from his colleagues, and has never acknowledged her…the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchLex Croucher|title= Love & Gelato|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' in hope of a light-hearted summery read, with an added draw being that the action takes place in Italy, a favourite country of mine, Gwen and that's exactly what I got. The novel tells the story of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother's wish by spending a summer Art Are Not in Tuscany, conveniently staying just outside of Florence, getting to know the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest by a journal her Mom left her, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years ago, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Ethan I Was Before|author=Ali StandishLove

|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment for Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a minor infraction is gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a constant threat - most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to belittle her young son and express her disappointment in him. Anwell is not popular at school and his life at home is severely proscribed. Sotheir mutual disgust! Gwen, when Finnigan appearsyou see, Anwell is grateful for a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild and full of a dark freedom. He doesnin love with Bridget (the kingdom't even go to school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Clare|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2s only female knight)|rating= 4- something that Art discovers from her private diaries.5|genre= Teens|summary=After And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the cataclysmic events subterfuge of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight'falling in love with each other, Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and when really they are enabling their friendsown other romantic attachments. Their troubles are by no means over But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [find a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyNick Brooks|title=ResurrectionPromise Boys

|summary=Like Other Girls is a story about a girl called Lauren. She is not like other girls, though she does sometimes like other girls. For one, her mum is When the headmistress principal (headmaster) of her Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, for two, she doesn't fit in to a cliquethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and for threeseemingly, her boyfriend thinks she's mad. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by a revelation grudge of someone close to her and when something enormous happens to Lauren, she has no one she can turn tosome description against Principal Moore, or so she believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue each could have been there at the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop time of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is scepticalhis murder. And in any case, Nicky has other things to worry about But who killed him, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequencewhy, troubles were dogging Kenny and if any of the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about innocent, will they be able to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way throughclear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stewart Foster1919635017|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try A Thief to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be Catch a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersKitt Townsend

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itSolomon Klyne isn's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxt a bad lad, but Alena's family so why is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions in he running around London, triggered by committing a series of bombings, threaten robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to spill over and shatter the stability of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the only family Alena has ever knownfirst one: for his grandmother.. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into the past, at the life of activism that her mother led, a life that her brother has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Honor GirlDifferent for Boys

|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is four with both his best buddy from the key football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to this autobiographical graphic novelprimary school days together. Why is Maggie not happy As they're all fired up, straining at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being leash only a sleepsingle-walkersex school can form, and ignore the fact she's from a different state to every other girl around, talk in class and practically only there out often turns to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all of a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle range, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performancesex. But those arenWhich is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summerknow what his score is, and anyway they do come with their own problemswhere his achievements in that regard lie. NoHe's had a casual relationship, the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems to be falling in love with a secret one of the counsellor campers, there to look after for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narrator. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Karen M McManus|title= One of Us Is Lying|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary=ladder headed by 'The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?experienced' Sign me up, please. But this YA mystery is more like a teenage Agatha Christie: itbut whether that's twistyset in stone, complex, and at several points I began to wonder if the final reveal would he can't be sure. And that everyone was the murderer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Shannon Hale and Dean Hale|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California to New Jersey and, quite by accident, embarks on a journey to become a hero. A fantastic origin tale for 's mostly because of who he's been having the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engaging, fast-paced, hip relationship and extremely cool. What would a person be like if they had the proportional strength and agility of a squirrel? Wonder no moresex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ron Butlin|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summaryisbn= Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kind. But this isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1800901232|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Stitched Up|author=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's not a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in the first few pages of ''Contagion''. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented on, and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal form. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tanya Landman|title=Passing for WhiteSteve Cole

|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slavefashion designer. He Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was a talented carpenter toohappy, if not prosperous, but on November so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the 19th he was unnerved: village to offer Hahn a white woman job in Hanoi it was looking at him, smiling and being politean opportunity not to be missed. What Some money changed hands and Hanh was going on? the mini-bus to Hanoi. He wasn't just unnervedOnly, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at Hanh and the white womanother girls were not going to work in a shop, looking ''her'' they were to work in virtual slavery in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than thatan illegal garment factory. Only this wasn't a white womanYou know those jeans you really wanted: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? She could pass for white, but she too was a slave. The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop RosaIt's master from taking sexual advantage of quite possible that Hanh and her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Bali RaiNeedle|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Cal loves comic booksBrave. He also dreams Charlene, the 'heroine' of being this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a superhero pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and saving the day has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while simultaneously winning he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the heart creation of one such item is part of the girl (Freya being the girlplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, hopefully). Batman and is his favourite superhero. But Calmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-likeallowed contact with no more. Because Cal is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a bit of a geek store detective, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuthen force people to give her two days off school, who makes him complete homework assignments which when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then sells on to lazy classmates. Still.. well, it's what exactly happens is not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overturespointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessAnn Sei Lin|title= ReleaseRebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious household. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacher. Adam is used to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Spellslinger|rating= 4

|summary=''And when did I volunteer to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the world sky where soldiers of the Jan'TepEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, powerful mages someone with the ability power to draw on form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the seven magicsEmpire. Then meet KellenHe asks her to come with him, who despite being to leave the son of one life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the most formidable mages in matter, because the clanMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, has no magical ability whatsoeverand she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Karen GregoryWrath

|summary=Hedda Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is 20 weeks pregnantonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with oneof her eco-night stand, so there's no father on warrior parents saying the end of the scene. Sheworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's 17. She's in dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the grip of an eating disorder and truth? Well, not when Cassie has been for yearsgone missing he can't. Her best friend recently died. She's living in a grotty flat because her relationship with her parents has broken down. I think we can all agree that the situation is dire.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefTori Bovalino|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to you and me, if you please - do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has just returned to Strathfearndeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's 1938 headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her grandfatherfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Earl of Strathfearnbooks, has recently died, leaving a mountain scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of debt behind him. The familyThey's ancestral home has been sold re never meant to meet the debt and the death duties and will soon become a schoolreach him, of course. ButHer plan is to get her anger out like this, as the contents of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underwaythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, there is time if someone hadn't delivered them for Julie and her family to spend the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape and to friends, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenPhilip Reeve|authortitle=David OwenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Life In a word, rich. There is tough certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Midwich EstateScillies. Kids living there don't have much hope in There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the futureDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. They're already judged by their povertyThe current Darks are the Watcher, their religionAndrewe, their race. Carving out a prosperous future who has to keep notes of activity from this inauspicious place seems like a pipe dream. Butthe Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in their various wayshis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, Siobhanand Andrewe's foundling daughter, Keishawho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Maida both his sullen brother and Morris his curious ward are all trying - whether that means making plans to get outthrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtnot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie ThomasKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Hate U GiveJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all the wrong reasons: povertyJulia, drugsour pre-teen heroine, shootings, it ticks all has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls family home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the store', Garden Heights is where she was born and raisedScottish islands. It's where she can Here be herself and not care about what people think or how people expect her to act - a freedom Vikings, that isn't afforded kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to her at be automating the posh suburban high school where she lantern, which is one of just a handful of black students. Howeverhis specialist thing, Garden Heights is also where while mum will be leaving her childhood friend was shot career in a drive-byalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And nowJulia, it's the place where Starr witnesses the devastatingwell, fatal shooting of her unarmed friend, Khalil. At the hands of a police officer. It's an event whose repercussions she will irrevocably change her life, be homesick and the lives of everyone around heralone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamJonathan Stroud|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= It's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the life draconian conformity of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of a noble familyBritain, trapped in a gilded cage forever hiding her true selfrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Since running awayBut then she meets Albert Browne, Micah has managed to reinvent himself, first as a circus acrobat, dark boy with dark powers and then as a magician's apprenticedarker past. Along the way he's discovered love and friendships that have helped keep him afloatWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready they plan to flee to strike at every turnthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growingTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the Chimaera are returning, cannibalistic Tainted and Ellada is about all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach a violent tipping point. the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Tom HoyleMercedes Helnwein|title=The ChallengeSlingshot|rating= 3.5

|summary= One ordinary afternoon, Ben's best friend Will goes missingGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Soon afterAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, twins Sam and Jack move she is used to Bennot being a priority in people's school and take an interest lives. But when she defends a random boy in himher class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. It turns out both twins have an obsession with enacting challenges they set each otherNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and for her life now has a boy in it doesn't take long that she never asked for Ben to get involved in their strange game: Wade Scholfield. But with every new challenge they set him, he starts to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>152905818X