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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnFrontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house is full of antiques and treasures and hoardings - because Daisy's mother does like to hoard - and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something to look at or investigate. Which is just as well, because Daisy has never gone outside the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded Ashley Hickson- she's terrified of loss because of a family tragedy in her own childhood. Despite this, Daisy has a loving relationship with her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: with her pet rat, with the peacocks and rabbits in the gardens, and also with paintings and topiary and other creatures of her imagination, all in the knowledge that she's being kept safe from The Crazy that once ran in her family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLovence|title=Eliza Rose|author=Lucy WorsleyWild East

|summary=ElizaWritten in verse, this is Ronny's family isn't as wealthy as it once wasstory, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. And she The move is well aware that her duty initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to marry well settle in order a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to repair the Camperdowne fortunesmusic constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. To But now, in this end, Eliza is sent from her family home at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hallnew school, his teacher encourages him to be educated in the ways part of noble ladies. Herea poetry writing workshop group and, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still a young girl. And from thereslowly, it's on Ronny begins to see the Tudor court of Henry VIIIconnections between rap and poetry, who is currently married to Anne and the power of Clevescreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyJenny Valentine|title= Defender of the Realm|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir to the throne. He's awkward, bullied and always Us in the front page of the news for his latest mishap. His brother Richard, as the papers love to remind him, would be much better suited to the part. But when their father the King suddenly dies, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer the heir, he is the king Before and with that defender of the realm. Together with an unlikely ally in the anti- royalist Hayley, Alfie learns his true heritage, protecting the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows exist... Suddenly all the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparison. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needs, or who knows what will be left of the country? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Susin Nielsen|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K LarsenAfter|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voice. His family has been fragmented by the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses to talk about. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living with his dad in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but the road to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 35

|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenagerElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. He knows he's They meet as children one day on a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory, trip out but Cillian doesnunfortunately they don't realise quite how above average he is until heget each other's contact details at the sole survivor of a train explosiontime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. With his father is dead Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and his last words to Cillian a riddletheir friendship, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new lighttogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryMax Boucherat|title=Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense of identity, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernatural. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities Last Life of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=Thanks for the TroubleLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Parker hasnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't spoken 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 singleblanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, solitary word for the last five yearsworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. He hasn But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't started applying for college yetfind herself entirely on her own, eitherand then she finds something even more spooky. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish For the server she and her bestie and he spends as much time skipping school as he does attending classnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. He has also developed a petty theft habit When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, which he indulges and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, there are, but reasons don't help much.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughRachel Greenlaw|title=13 MinutesCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=If you think about it, you ''I can count several things in 13shear the song of the sea. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous releaseThe call of the deep, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email the chance to read this titleanswering beat in my heart. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes of fame' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, considering that survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than everwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, and is one of those social media starlets the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – as far as ''rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the hiveisland's leader and Mira' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howlands father. Desperate to save him from death, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of Mira makes a bargain with a frozen river one pre-dawn January morning. This utterly dramatic teen read wreck survivor who is as charming as he is concerned secretive and with the fight for only coordinates to guide her to work out why , she was sets off in search of a family secret that riverlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, although it's mostly taken as her journey takes her from the point watched streets of view foreign islands to the heart of a girl on the edge smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her circle, Beccahome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimHarry Allen|title=AfterlightChildren of the Sun

|summary=Caddy Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Rosie have been best friends for years she is a talented singer. Life is hard and even going to different schools hasn't parted them. And this food is the summer that Rosie intends difficult to be different. She'll get a boyfriendcome by, finally. Perhaps even lose so Seo and her virginity. And experience a Significant Life Event. But friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the best laid plans meagre rations of rice and all that..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy BrettAlexia Casale|title= Electrigirl|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirl, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of the characters in her brotherSing if you Can's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate a massive amount of electricity in seconds, a skill that can, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control it. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides to become her mentor and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of Demonst Dance|rating=35

|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a Box of Demons, which like those TVlife-advertised DIY liquidschanging disability too, does exactly but that's what it says Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the tinmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. It contains three demons, of different kinds, that have hampered his concentration at schoolBut she comes back fighting, caused no end of mischief he has had desperate to take avoid the blame forpity stares, and may even have had something desperate to get back to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospital. But is life that all it contains? The demons, 's as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, and where normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now new (a wet and stormy Februarycute!)boy in school, and here (North Wales) her music A Level performance piece to try to have it sort out once , and for just the day to day traumas of allthe challenges 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>1447273737</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboSimon Fox|title=Dreaming the BearDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's a typical teenager whose natural habitat Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the shopping mall force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the multiplexrun. It's They get together, thereforebut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible to adjust leaving Archie on the late express to living in a snowy wilderness without televisionBrighton, toting a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that she's also recovering tin his father was determined to keep away from pneumonia his colleagues, and tires quickly. But it is this very weakness that changes her life when, exhausted, she stumbles into the shelter bearer of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordLex Croucher|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=It's Poland in 1939. And Anna's linguistics professor father is about Who knew that what I really needed to be rounded up read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the Nazi purge of intellectualsa most delightful way. Knowing In this is likely story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to happentheir mutual disgust! Gwen, he leaves her you see, is in love with Bridget (the care of kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a friend for boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the daysubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. When her father doesn't return to collect her But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna or are they destined to live a new and dangerous world. Anna is just seven years old and will never see her father again.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantNick Brooks|title= Front LinesPromise Boys|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength to the Alliance and women are allowed to fight in the military for the first time. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the war, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill the man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Courtney Summers|title=All The Rage|rating=54

|summary=In a small townWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, where everyone knows everything about everyone elseseemingly, has a teenage girl is raped. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as thatgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and yet it is so much more complicated too. It touches upon the blame that is laid each could have been there at the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope with the days time of his murder. But who killed him, and weeks why, and years after such an ordeal; if any of the idea thatboys are innocent, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you you.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Juno Dawson1919635017|title=Mind Your HeadA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasnSolomon Klyne isn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a frank and accessible overview series of the issues facing young people with regards robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments available, how get an answer to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawsonsecond question because I avoid spoilers. SheBut I's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help herll answer the first one: for his grandmother. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyssa SheinmelPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=FacelessDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Maisie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a normal high standard school student. She's the star , and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the school running football team, has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend and she's two other old muckers – in fact they all set to go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedysingle-sex school can form, Maisie finds herself in hospital the talk in the serious burns unit class and without most of her faceout often turns to sex. When a donor appears, Maisie Which is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctorsconfusing for Ant, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie as he doesn't feel luckyknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Under this new face He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, with its heavy scarringfor several months now, she and so has no idea effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who she is anymorehe's been having the relationship and the sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=How not to DisappearStitched Up|author=Clare FurnissSteve Cole

|summary=King Metabus had not been Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a good king and his escape from his kingdom fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was hurried happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and pursued. When he reached woman came to the river he had village to make offer Hahn a decision job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and he thought first of Hanh was on the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her mini-bus to his javelinHanoi. Only, which he threw across Hanh and the torrentother girls were not going to work in a shop, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived they were to work in a cave with her father and ran wild virtual slavery in the forestan illegal garment factory. In nearby Laurentum, Acca had grown up hearing You know those jeans you really wanted: the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the javelin embedded in legs? The ones with the ground artfully-placed rips and dreamed of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camilladistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's father, when the girls became firm friendsquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperPatrice Lawrence|title=A Dark TradeNeedle|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house in central London. There were seven members of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with that, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions of one of the young men of the family. She'd already heard the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Evans |title=More of Me |rating=53

|summary=At schoolBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalcharacters and readers both. But at home Teva 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 life is about as far from normal as itold room while he's possible to getat uni. Locked away Such a tempestuous personality may be in what everyone outside thinks is need of a haunted house are eleven other Tevascomfort blanket, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with you might perhaps think, and the new Teva going out in creation of one such item is part of the world while the previous Teva plot here, as Charlene is kept insidea wonder knitter, trapped as and is making something full of love for her younger selfsister – a younger sister she's 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, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come todrink and make merry between their conquests. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' EthanHowever, who when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is 14a Crafter like him, is just hoping someone with the power to wake up in time to begin his high school career in form paper into whatever she desires – a brand new townpower sought after all across the Empire. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What He asks her to come with him, to leave the what? How can this happen? It turns out life of dreary servitude that Ethanis all she has known. Well, now Drewsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankindmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and he will undergo not oneshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, but THREE more such changes a sky- one for each year ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Helen DennisWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=''Some people believe that when you drownMeet Fitz, your whole life flashes before youa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The boy in the river saw Lockdown is only bottlesjust over, driftwood and the dented licence plate of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowning.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when should be free to do what he washes up on the banks of the Thameswants, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, go where Reverend Solomon finds himhe wants and with whom he wants, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in hospital, River Boy remains unable it when he talks to find his voicebest friend, Cassie. Or his memoryThey 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. Who Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is this boyalready a done deal? Why was he in the ThamesIs it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Will anyone claim himIs she just bonkers? What are And can Fitz find out the strange signs truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he obsessively draws?can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Tori Bovalino|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Devil Makes Three

|summary=Despite the name, there Working all summer in her boarding school's library is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a few male farm animals and birds, everything is feminine – the island is request for over a rugged mountain land, home hundred books that she has to only one abbey where everyone deliver herself. What makes it worse is femalethe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of lifeman Tess hates. The novices there are on the cusp, in several ways – As a petty act of girls turning to womenrevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of students turning to Sistersthe books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of people learning what the religion means for them starting . They're never meant to practise it with a duty to others. Andreach him, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them . Her plan is to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famineget her anger out like this, and the inability to support themselvesthen take them all off before delivering them. New girl JaiNo harm done… Or it would be, who has latched on to Maresi like if someone hadn't delivered them for her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilPhilip Reeve|title=The Incredible Adventures Utterly Dark and the Face of Cinnamon Girlthe Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high schoolIn a word, rich. Now they must decide what to do with There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the rest Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their livesmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Move The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the city? Enrol at university? Get a job and make a life Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career London with too much science in art and comic books is possible. And if it ishis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? ItAndrewe's a frightening choicefoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Is she good enough? And in any caseBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member world of protecting their island, like it has the same choice before themor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Dangerous Lies Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programmeJulia, our pre-teen heroine, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside down. She's torn away from has been packed off with her long-term boyfriend parents and forced their cat from the family home in SW England to abandon both her friends and her identitybe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Leaving city life behind her Dad is going to be automating the lantern, she's convinced there which is no way she his specialist thing, while mum will be able leaving her career in algae behind to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraskahunt the elusive Greenland shark. But And Julia, thenwell, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next doorwill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtJonathan Stroud|title=Orbiting JupiterThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve year-old Jack Scarlett McCain is informed that his parents will be fostering another 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 shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy – fourteen year-old Josephwith dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen yearTogether, they must brave man-olds. He's troubled: eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying horrors of post-apocalyptic society to kill his teacher. And reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughter.than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardMercedes Helnwein|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomSlingshot|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered the secret of happiness. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison |title=Never Evers|rating=4.53

|summary=Two English schoolsGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, six 14 year-old friends and she is used to not being a ski / snowboarding trip to Francepriority in people's lives. Add But when she defends a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video and you have the perfect recipe random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a light-hearted and funny teen romanceboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>152905818X