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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy MulliganJenny Valentine|title= LiquidatorUs in the Before and After|rating= 5

|summary= Ladies Elk and gentlemenMab are best friends, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as you enter children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the crazytime. But then chance brings them back together, exciting and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulliganthey are inseparable. You will encounter ruthless villains Something has happened though, non-stop dangersomething terrible and tragic, at least one near-death experience and a rather jolly lorry driver. Where does all this happennow they must work through their grief, you ask? In the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere wayand their friendship, way more dangerous. Work experiencetogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesMax Boucherat|title=The Winter PlaceLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Axel and Tess live We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. They have What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a knight for a father! This eccentricity blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is both entertaining and a good thing to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter- because Sam collecting game that is the only parental figure a hit in their lives. Axel and TessLori's mother died when Axel was bornworld. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescence But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. She For the server she and Sam enjoy sparring over the care her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Axeltampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, who and her safe place in the game has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late mother. Axel is, been doctored – well, an individual child, currently haunted by where is a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhere.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadRachel Greenlaw|title=Goodbye StrangerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary= ''I can hear the song of the sea. The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamiancall of the deep, who woke up the answering beat in hospital following my heart.'' Rosevear, a horrific remote and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and New York trafficplundering the wrecks. Bridget Mira, like her mother before her, is told by a nurse that she is lucky one of the seven who swim out to be alive survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that she must have survived lies within. But when the accident for Council Watch lays a reason. Bridgettrap to end the wrecking, who has no real memory of they capture the accidentisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, has to miss Mira makes a bargain with a year of school wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and on with only coordinates to guide her return, tells everyone she now wants sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to be known as Bridgeunearth what might save her father, asher journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiHarry Allen|title=Here Be Dragons Children of the Sun

|summary=Few people would be happy living Ra Eun Seo lives in a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way to charge your phone, no telly North Korean town and no Christmas dinnershe is a talented singer. But when you’re sixteen, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearable. All Ellie wants Life is hard and food is a regular ‘four-difficult to come by-four life’ with four walls around , so Seo and her friends Nari and four wheels under herMin go foraging every evening, all designed to keep her safe. But safe is one thing that Ellie’s not destined looking for tree bark and edible grasses to be … not from the moment she glimpses the strange boy through supplement the mist meagre rations of rice and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) he iskimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneAlexia Casale|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Pierrot. As It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a very young child life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in 1930s Paris he is the middle of a dance performance that was going to have a very awkward journey through his young change her life. His father is a violent drunkBut she comes back fighting, reacting badly desperate to what he saw in WWIavoid the pity stares, and although married desperate to get back to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. That womanMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, Emilie, is going her music A Level performance piece to try to diesort out, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where he is bullied. But from just the reaches day to day traumas of Europe and from all the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kind, challenges her body continues to throw at a most unusual mountaintop buildingher to navigate. ItSo even though she can's not her home – t dance anymore, might she just works there and had be able to ask special permission from someone special. The placesing her way through instead? The Berghof.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonSimon Fox|title=DreamlandDeadlock

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several townsLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the friend wouldn't talk to herrun. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time They get together, but barely begin to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe smell the whiff of Southern trains when she's doing this but when Connor moves in to the neighbourhood father is arrested, leaving Archie on the rules become far less important late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonLex Croucher|authortitle=Rob KeeleyGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=EllieWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Charlie Gwen and Mum Arthur have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home to Londonbeen betrothed since they were tiny, where Mum's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century house, 47 Foster Square. But it's not quite ''home'' to London. They're not returning much to their old house but to another tinymutual disgust! Gwen, cramped flat. When asked whyyou see, all Mum will say is, "Ask your father."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero|title=The 50 States: Explore in love with Bridget (the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Childrenkingdom's Nononly female knight) -Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nationsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other areas of the place , when really they call homeare enabling their own other romantic attachments. But while as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they get little sympathy from me when find a way in which they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would both truly be much harder for them if themselves, or are they actually lived in destined to live a large country, such as the USA. 50 lie their whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabel PitcherNick Brooks|title=Silence is GoldfishPromise Boys

|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers she's a Pluto and her parents wanted a Mercury or Venus, at least.'' When Tess the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is in her father's studymurdered, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secretthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Suddenly Each, for Tessseemingly, everything has changed. She decides to run away but chickens out a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the last minutetime of his murder. As her life falls apart But who killed him, and why, Tess retreats into selective mutism and her only conversations if any of the boys are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torch.innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Skuse1919635017|title=MonsterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=More than anything elseSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, sixteen year-old Nash wants so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to be Head Girl of Bathory School. Indeed shecrack safes? You's willing ll have to put up with almost anything wait to get an answer to the top jobsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But, just when sheI's poised to be awarded ll answer the role, everything starts to unravelfirst one: for his grandmother. Nash and a group of school misfits have to stay at school over the Christmas holidays and, trapped by the worst weather in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives. Not everyone is going to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Username: EvieDifferent for Boys

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens |summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school – for a trendy , and attractive girl, nobody at all is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems to have any time for herabsolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, apart so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bus. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house football team, and two other old muckers – after in fact they all, she must be a witch go back to live thereprimary school days together. ItAs they's not that she would wish to live therere all fired up, with nobody else aroundstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the memory of her deceased motherout often turns to sex. But luckily someone Which is choosing a place confusing for her –her father Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is able to put all , where his work into achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a cyber-world secret one, for herseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the E-Scapeladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, which is close to the perfect worldhe can't be sure. All And that remains is to programme 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the humans sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her friendsfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and make woman came to the connection Evie has with them and them with her village to offer Hahn a job in return Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be of mutualmissed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, confirmingHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, happy benefitthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But someone else has entered You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the Eartfully-Scape, placed rips and their influence seems all distressed seams that much more powerful than Eviefelt so soft when you touched them? It's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanPatrice Lawrence|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Needle|rating= 43

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of 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 pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you havenmight perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriess allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah MussiAnn Sei Lin|title= BreakdownRebel Skies

|summary= From Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the start sky where soldiers of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand Empire come to drink and doesn’t let gomake merry between their conquests. She uses shortHowever, sharp, savage sentences to urge them when a man named Himura arrives to follow tell her protagonist Melissa on that she is a terrifying odyssey Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a relentlessly brutal world where only power sought after all across the meanestEmpire. He asks her to come with him, smartest and toughest surviveto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. It Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a horrific vision of monstrous paper spirit known as a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fearshikigami, poverty, corrupt militarisation and anarchyshe is forced to flee out into the world. Ravenous dogs roam She joins Himura aboard the streets Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and the stench a whole world of violence and sexual slavery is never far away. Melissa is blessed with beauty which some might consider a curse. Will she emerge into the light or be trapped in Hades forever?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMarcus Sedgwick|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Wrath

|summary=(By the way there are spoilers ahead – this Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is definitely a series only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to be read in ordergo where he wants and with whom he wants, starting but he cannot stop himself from [[Tesla 1 by Mark Lingane|Tesla 1]] ). Alone again now that Melanie has been killed, Sebastian makes putting his foot in it when he talks to North Americahis best friend, Cassie. Far 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 it being the land earth. Is this connected with one of promise it used to be, her eco-warrior parents saying the country is now an apocalyptic ruin, full end of people scavenging for their survival and the Infected forging world is already a path done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of worse-than-death and destruction. Sebastian needs to focus on his ultimate challenge as foreseen in a rather scary way but theremusic she's a small matter distracting him: whodreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's firing rockets at him?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1515000796</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaTori Bovalino|title=Fans of the Impossible LifeThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5

|summary= Jeremy, Mira and Sebby are very different people, each with their own complex and difficult issues, who find themselves inexplicably drawn together. Jeremy Working all summer in her boarding school's library is an artist, painfully shy and still struggling the last thing Tess Matheson wants to get do — especially when she gets a request for over the horrible incident a hundred books that ruined his last year of schoolshe has to deliver herself. Mira What makes it worse is cool and fashionable, but suffers from depression, constantly fighting against a sleep that threatens to overpower her for days on endthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Then thereThe boarding school's Sebby, flamboyantheadmaster, irreverent and charming, but with hurt a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and troubles simmering behind his façadedeliver such a large request, and no family or support network to lean Tess sticks post-it notes on. The powerful friendship and love that forms between them could save them from their broken selveseach of the books, but it could just as easily drag them all down together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Courtney Sheinmel|title= Edgewater|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Lorrie may run scribbled with the big dogs, but right now ugliest insults shecan think of. They's more re never meant to reach him, of a muttcourse. Her mother plan is AWOL and her aunt is becoming more eccentric by the day. She's politely asked to leave get her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arriveanger out like this, and so she sets then take them all off home to sort before delivering them. No harm done… Or it all out. Again. It's becoming something of a habit this need to act the grown up while the real grown ups fail to make the grade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosemary Hayes|title= The Mark|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary='She's his mark'. Rachel's on the run. Naïvewould be, homeless and emotional, sheif someone hadn's easy preyt delivered them for her. But for whom?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miriam Moss Philip Reeve|title=Girl on a PlaneUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's September 1970 and 15 year old Anna In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on her a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way back to boarding school in England. Friends of her family joke about west, beyond the recent hijackings but Anna is far more concerned about leaving her home in Bahrain and their mongrel dog, WoofaScillies. These worries There aretroll people on it, howeverand sea-witches, wiped from her mind when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas and diverted to a disused airstrip in legends of the Jordanian desert. Here they are forced Dark family that has to wait keep watch for days with almost no food magical islands and very little water while their captors issue their demands to the British governmentmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. If these demands The current Darks are not met within three daysthe Watcher, Andrewe, they will blow up who has to keep notes of activity from the plane killing all the hostages. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443316</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Claire McFall|title= Black Cairn Point|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Heather agrees to a camping holiday Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with Dougie and too much science in his friends because she's desperate head to get closer to him. But when they disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, Heather becomes certain that they have woken a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in the pitch-black darkworry about such local yokel superstitions, and it is planning deadly revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=One|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=ItAndrewe's always been Tippi-and-Grace. Never Tippi and Grace. These twins can't be separated - and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physicallyfoundling daughter, too. Because Tippi and Grace are conjoined twins. They have two heads, two hearts, two sets who washed up out of lungs, two pairs of armsthe sea one day eleven years ago. But at the waistwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, they come together. Life hasn't been easy - their father has lost both his job as a college professor sullen brother and so his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their mother works ridiculously long hours at the bank to keep up the health insurance payments. Medical bills are crippling and money is tightisland, so tight that the twins are going to have stop being homeschooled and enroll in a "normal" school for the first timelike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Professor Anil SethTom de Freston|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking Julia and Feeling|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet the brain. We all have one. We all use it (and by 'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of the day. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body language. It's such a vital part of the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age. But in this varied and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=The Astrologer's Daughter|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Horary Astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology in which an astrologer attempts to answer a question asked at an exact time by the construction of a horoscope around it. Clear as mud? Yes, me too. Suffice to say, an horary astrologer would have to be a very gifted individual indeed and Avicenna Crowe's mother, Joanne, is such an astrologer. In fact, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers and maniacally obsessed clients at the bad end of the scale to, well, worse. Sometimes ''much'' worse…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=Demon RoadShark

|summary=They may be quite far apartJulia, our pre-teen heroine, but three houses has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a row summer, in the rural suburbs far NE of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual peoplethe Scottish islands. In oneHere be Vikings, a solitary old man that kind of very few words, shuffling Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the end of lantern, which is his daysspecialist thing, but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, and with a gun while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the corner of his loungeelusive Greenland shark. In the middleAnd Julia, a family of fivewell, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due to the same war, a mother feeling friendless she will be homesick and alone in the isolated time and location, and their three daughters – until she suddenly finds company one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radionight. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Libba BrayJonathan Stroud|title= Lair of DreamsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5

|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killerScarlett 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, Evie O'Neill has outed robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself as a Divineralive. With her uncanny ability to read people's secretsBut then she meets Albert Browne, she's a media darling. It seems like everyone's in love dark boy with New York City's latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'dark powers and a darker past. But while Evie is enjoying With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the high lifeLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois the cannibalistic Tainted and Ling Chan all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will fight to keep their powers secret.they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhiteMercedes Helnwein|title=Butterfly ShellSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=One of the worst kind of nerve-wracking days Gracie Welles has arrived: that first day of Secondary Schoolresigned herself to being lonely. As we all remembera secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, thatshe is used to not being a priority in people's part scary, part exciting for any girl (or lives. But when she defends a random boy tooin her class with her slingshot, of course, but this her simple existence is a girls' school)changed for good. It's an age when you're anxious about making new friends and fitting No longer can she spend her time writing novels in anywaysolitude, but at ''for her'' new school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim to life now has a group of bullies. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Sixboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzT L Huchu|title= The Young WorldLibrary of the Dead|rating= 34.5

|summary= After Ropa Moyo is a mysterious sickness wipes ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out the rest of the populationschool, the young survivors band together in small tribesshe's been using it to support not only herself, desperately trying to rebuild their society of oldbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. In New York CityHowever, Jeffersonthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, reluctant leader of targeting the tribe from Washington Squarecity's children. Soon, hears of a potential cure Ropa is pulled into the search for The Sickness. So, he and a squad missing boy at the request of heavily armed teens set out across New York in search of this curehis dead mother. Along the way they must avoid gangs and cults, She will end up discovering an occult library and brave realise that the perils world of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankindmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's futureve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>1529039452