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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneMax Boucherat|title= Paradise GirlThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives We meet Lori on a Yorkshire farm the first evening she's got the house to herself – a somewhat idealised one that survives no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on a few hens and two or three cows and a few sheepher lonesome. The kind of farm that might have been profitable What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl a blanket fort, she has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weightone main intention, now and that is to log on to Voxminer, the grandparents are old and the father world-building, critter-collecting game that is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgencea hit in Lori's world. There are no stock-handsBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax returnand then she finds something even more spooky. Maybe For the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs of the rest server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of ittampering. Already When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in settingthe game has been doctored – well, it's feeling where is a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=William SutcliffeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it is a closed-off, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in and nobody I can go out. Drones are a constant presence overheadhear the song of the sea. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him call of the job of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorismdeep, after allthe answering beat in my heart. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad.

Lex Rosevear, a remote and Alan will never meetpartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But their lives will collide when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in devastating ways.the 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's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeHarry Allen|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors Children of Paradisethe Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=''I'm thirteen years OLD, not young.'' And it's Ra Eun Seo lives in a good job too, for her grandma North Korean town and godfather have taken Bea on an extended holiday to Indonesia, where the wild dinosaurs liveshe is a talented singer. Yes, this Life is hard and food is a world where they never went extinctdifficult to come by, so Seo and have been used for riding for leisure or as pack animals ever since mankind domesticated them. But wild her friends Nari and dangerous ones still exist, such as the Raptors of Paradise. Bea's older guardians have another reason to Min go thereforaging every evening, though – they are in search of clues that might lead them looking for tree bark and edible grasses to at last discover supplement the fate meagre rations of Bea's birth parents, who disappeared a decade agorice and kimchi at home. She's unaware of this being the final grasp at one last clue – and all of them are ignorant of how the real danger and mystique on the island may actually come not from the fabulous beasts, but from other humans…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786968002</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisAlexia Casale|title= Time of BloodSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 45

|summary= Travel back over It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a hundred years into Whitbylife-changing disability too, but that's past what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to see two witches battle an ancient evilchange her life. Follow young Lil as But she tries comes back fighting, desperate to avoid spoilers the pity stares, and find her best frienddesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brian Gallagher|title= Pawns|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Meanwhile there''Pawns'' tells the story of Johnny, Stella and Alice, all of whom are growing up s a new (cute!) boy in Ireland during the War of Independenceschool, and who have somehow become friends in spite of their very different political views. Stella is passionately pro-British, while Johnny frequently risks his life her music A Level performance piece to pass information try to the pro-Irish rebelssort out, and Alice is left stranded in just the middle, supporting neither side day to day traumas of all the disputechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zillah BethellSimon Fox|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareDeadlock

|summary=Auden has Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a condition called achromatopsiasecret place, which means that he can't see coloursand join him on the run. He likes They get together, but barely begin to pretend that it doesn't matter but it does. And smell the whiff of Southern trains when the older Auden getsfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the more it seems late express to matter. Mind youBrighton, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in toting a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastlinetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now bearer of a quasi-government as the most important and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Auden's father is away fightingwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraLex Croucher|title= They Both Die at the EndGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4

|summary= ''No matter how we choose Who knew that what I really needed to liveread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, we both die at the end''much to their mutual disgust! The year is 2017Gwen, the place is Americayou see, but this is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know in love with Bridget (the exact date of everyonekingdom's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they will be dead within find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat deathsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, all have failedwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreview|title=MoonriseFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texas, convicted of the murder of a police officer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNick Brooks|title=I am Traitor|author=Sif Sigmarsdottir Promise Boys|rating=4.5

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the skies above Londonpolice station as suspects. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and order a curfeweach could have been there at the time of his murder. After that But who killed him, he went AWOL and took all reliable information with himwhy, leaving the army to patrol the streets. Not that the army has and if any answer to of the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagers. To whereboys are innocent, nobody knows.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Charlotte SaysA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Alex BellKitt Townsend

|summary=''Charlotte says... donSolomon Klyne isn't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that a bad lad, so why is why Jemima decides to leave he running around London and take up a job as committing a teacher on the Isle series of Skye. But leaving the place doesnrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't mean escaping ll have to wait to get an answer to the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on that terrible nightquestion because I avoid spoilers. It doesnBut I't help that Miss Grayson, ll answer the mistress at the school, is a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingfirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy AdlingtonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Red RibbonDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Ella Ant is rushing to her audition for in Year Eleven at quite a job in fashionstandard school, as are several other young women. Thrown in at the deep end in the high-pressure workplaceand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, she so his desk is tasked one of four with creating a dress both his best buddy from scratch for an important client before four pm that daythe football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But she manages itAs they're all fired up, even working through straining at the nonleash only a single-existent lunch breaksex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to design a silk wonder worthy of any environmentsex. But this Which is no typical make-or-break-confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He'em fashion design houses had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and this is no normal environment for so has effectively progressed up the recipient to ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be wearing the frocksure. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and Ithe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= E Lockhart1800901232|title= Genuine FraudStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 45|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. I'm going to straight up say that I'm Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not going prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to mention the plot village to offer Hahn a job in this review, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twisting, turning, great suspense of a novelHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. All I will say is that I felt like I Some money changed hands and Hanh was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on the side of a mini-bus any time soonto Hanoi. Only, Hanh and if that happensthe other girls were not going to work in a shop, then it will have they were to work in virtual slavery in an excellent female lead illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that kicks some serious backsidefelt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsPatrice Lawrence|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Things a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells the story of three teenage girlsthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, all characters and readers both. Kicked out of whom are fighting for womenmultiple homes and schools, she's suffragefostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, despite coming from very different backgrounds. ThereAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's Evelyn, an upper-class girl expected to marry at uni. Such a young agetempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, Mayand the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a middle-class girl with an opinionated Motherwonder knitter, and Nell, is making something full of love for her younger sister – a working-class girl who does what younger sister she can 's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to help give her large family scrape bytwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. The novel chronicles both their contributions And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to the fight for suffragesay, only to remark how sharp and the way their lives change when World War One beginspointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinAnn Sei Lin|title= InvictusRebel Skies|rating= 4.5

|summary= It's Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the 24th century and human beings have cracked Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the secret sky where soldiers of time travelthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Farway Gaius McCarthy However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is 17 and dreams of following in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for Crafter like him, someone with the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined power to track down Empra, who disappeared on form paper into whatever she desires – a mission when her son was just 7. But Farway tanks his final exam and his ambitions seem crushedpower sought after all across the Empire. He's given another chance by Luxasks her to come with him, a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder leave the past life of its artifacts - artifacts dreary servitude that fetch fortunes in credits is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the Central Time matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and 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>1510102868</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M A BennettMarcus Sedgwick|title= S.T.A.G.SWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''One weekend. Three deadly activities''. Greer MacDonald is a new student at the prestigious St Aidan the Great Boarding School, known to its exclusive pupils as S.T.A.G.S. It is a school where technology is absent, the teachers are replaced by friars, and a group of elite students –known as the Medievals – run the school. When Greer inexplicably receives an invitation from the Medievals to spend a weekend at the stately home of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular boy at school, she is too curious decline such an invitation. But little does Greer realise that there is more to the weekend than she initially understands. Ultimately she and the other two students who have been invited must come together to uncover the truth about the infamous Medievals, and the blood sports they have been chosen to take part in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ruth Lauren|title=Prisoner of Ice and Snow|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Valor is under arrest for the attempted assassination of Anatol, Demidova's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - a brutal prison constructed of stone and ice...... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is it? But the thing is, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and she's even prepared to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve it. Because Valor's sister Sasha is already in Tyur'ma - accused of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing a peace treaty between Demidova and a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced of her sister's innocence and intends to break her out.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kate Ling|title=The Glow of Fallen Stars|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''The Glow of Fallen Stars'' is the second book in Kate Ling's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review of the first instalment [[The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]. Seren and Dom, together with Ezra and Mariana, have escaped the Ventura, the spaceship on which they have spent their whole lives, and crash landed on the planet Huxley 3. At last, they are away from the stifling authoritarianism of life on board the ship and free to pursue their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real land.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Chloe Seager|title=Editing Emma|rating=4

|summary=Emma Nash is Meet Fitz, a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions that come with this age. When the love young Scottish lad full of her life ''ghosts'' her (ifrustration at himself.e. breaks up with her by acting as if she doesn't exist), she spends the summer moping in her pyjamas. HoweverLockdown is only just over, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form and a resolution he should be free to make some important ''edits'' do what he wants, to her life. This includes e-tweaking herself go where he wants and with disastrouswhom he wants, and often hilariousbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, consequencesCassie. The whole experiment is recorded in Emma's private blog: They were half of a blog that desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she might just regret ever writingcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vicki Grant|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=''Two random strangers. ThirtyIs this connected with one of her eco-six questions guaranteed to make them fall in love. What's not to like?'' Based on a psychological theory, Grant's novel explores warrior parents saying the end of the concept that love can be engineered by using thirty-six ''simple'' questions. Questions such as ''What would constitute world is already a perfect daydone deal?Is it some spooky new kind of music she'' or ''When did you last sing to yourselfs dreaming of? To someone elseIs she just bonkers?'' are designed to reveal And can Fitz find out the souls and characters of both participantstruth? Well, enabling them to form a deep connection with a stranger. In a modern world dominated by technology, this face to face interaction is performed to test whether genuine human interaction not when Cassie has gone missing he can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reserved?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattTori Bovalino|title= Truth or DareThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= After an accident leaves his brother, Kam, with severe neurodisability, itWorking all summer in her boarding school's obvious that library is the lives of Sef and his family will never be the same again. Plagued by feelings of guilt and struggling last thing Tess Matheson wants to cope, Sef turns all his attention do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the only way that he might be able to help - moneybooks: Mr Birch. In an attempt to raise funds for his brotherThe boarding school's careheadmaster, he enlists the help of Claireand a man Tess hates. As a volunteer at the facility looking after Kampetty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, she's Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the only person from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation isbooks, and how important it is to get scribbled with the funding that he needsugliest insults she can think of. Aided by ClaireThey's equipment and YouTube know-how, the two create a channel where their alter-egosre never meant to reach him, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their causecourse. However, £60,000 Her plan is no small amountto get her anger out like this, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy featthen take them all off before delivering them. Just how far are they willing to go No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for their cause? her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Philip Reeve|authortitle=Rob KeeleyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45

|summary=''Millions In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of people will die riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the war, EllieScillies. And There are troll people on it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easy.'' And if that's not ominous, I don't know what is. It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in the spirit world or talked to her friendand sea-witches, and legends of the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She Dark family that has tried to do what Viewpoint asked her to do keep watch for magical islands and live a normal, boringtheir monster approaching from even further west, human lifewhere no ship dare sail. Mum is still working for The current Darks are the Journeyback historical re-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longer. Money is tight and MumWatcher, as everAndrewe, is stressed. Dad got compensation for who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his accidenthead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, so he is living the life of Riley. Heand Andrewe's eager to help foundling daughter, who washed up out but Mum won't hear of itthe sea one day eleven years ago. And Ellie has a romantic interest in Luke. All in allBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, things could be better but they could also be worse. No more spirits. No more corrupting both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of timelinesprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1788036158</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Libby in Julia and the MiddleShark

|summary=TwelveJulia, our pre-year-old Libby teen heroine, has an older sisterbeen packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, Bellathat kind of Scottish island. Bella used Dad is going to be a real confidante automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriendhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Now And Julia, Bella makes Libby feel childishwell, foolish she will be homesick and unwantedalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The close friendship they had shared has gone Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and Libby worries that it will never come backshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Libby also has But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a younger sisterdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems they plan to flee to Libby that Grace, as the baby mythical Free Isles of the familyLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, commands the cannibalistic Tainted and all the parental love and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the middle, without a role rest of her own.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonMercedes Helnwein|title=FreshersSlingshot|rating=53

|summary= Away from home. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing up, in the hopes of finding more of the person that you want Gracie Welles has resigned herself to becomebeing lonely. Going to university is As a monumental transition. For some, it's an escape. A chance to start anew. A freedom secret illegitimate daughter of the sort that you'll rarely have at any other point in life. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay a man with you forever. However, student life can also be a double-edged sword. There's a fine line"real" family, after all, between the opportunity she is used to meet new not being a priority in people and the pressure to make new friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In the hands of new young adults, just leaving the nest, it's something that can get very messy, very quicklylives. Phoebe and Luke went to the same high schoolBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, but never really floated in the same circlesher simple existence is changed for good. But when the two collide No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the madness of Fresher's weeksolitude, little do they realise that they're about to get pulled into each other's worlds for her life now has a messy, intense and hilarious term boy in it that neither of them will ever forgetshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneT L Huchu|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port Library of Perilthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophie McKenzie|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5

|summary= Carey Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Amelia are best friends, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreak, a malicious online accountbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, begins she's been using it to abuse Ameliasupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. To make matters worseHowever, there's an evil stalking the police soon find evidence that Carey was ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the one who sent the messagescity's children. Soon everyone, even Amelia, Ropa is convinced pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of Careymagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's guiltve imagined. Only her sister, Poppy, accepts her innocence. When Will she find the online threats spill over into real lifemissing children and bring an end to this evil, Carey is determined to discover who is framing or will it claim her.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HeathfieldKristen O'Neal|title= Flight of a StarlingLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary= Rita and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to a double act as a trapeze act in terms with the travelling circus fact that forms a backdrop to their lives. Always on the move, travelling from one place to another, never staying she may be in one town constant pain for long is all they have ever known. The sisters are surrounded by the love rest of their family and the close friends who make up the other circus actsher life. Their lives are happy and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boyShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a special boy named Deanbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Their growing friendshipThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sharon Cohen|title=The Starman while also providing an escape to just joke and Me|rating=4mess around.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''He wasnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't an alienrespond to the chat for a while, I was sure of thatPriya becomes concerned. It was more like heShe decides to steal her parents'd walked in through an ancient door from the past... except he was here, in my bedroom car and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earth.drive to Brigid'' Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied a tiny human s house to check up on a roundabout near to his househer. But he wasnwhat she doesn't. Rorty Thrutch expect to find there is as real as you or me. But how did Rorty come to be hiding out a werewolf in the middle of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent basement – and for that he'll soon werewolf to be ''bad dead''? the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>1683692349

That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And Move on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And that's the least 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 mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Various Authors|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= ''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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]