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|summary=Everything scares Elliott. And by everythingElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, we really mean ''everything''. Elliott their friendship is not afraid of his mum, his aunt and his doctora once in a lifetime connection. And that They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's it. Imagine that. Being frightened of your room. Of colours. Of noisescontact details at the time. Of most things around you But then chance brings them back together, no matter how everyday and mundane they areinseparable. This is the natural state of things for Elliott. And it's been that way since he was born prematurely Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and his twinnow they must work through their grief, Ellamayand their friendship, diedtogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Very Good ChanceMax Boucherat|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Minty isn't having a great time at home'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. It's quite clear' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, from survives on luring ships into the hissing conversations in other rooms rocks and plundering the looming silenceswrecks. Mira, that like her mother before her parents' marriage , is in troubleone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Mintyend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. School Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is a bit secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a borefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, unless itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralunga. Minty needs an escape..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>1444014781</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Double Down (Lois Lane) Harry Allen|authortitle=Gwenda BondChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=Lois Lane is doing pretty well Ra Eun Seo lives in Metropolis. The oppositional, trouble-seeking army brat we first met in [[Fallout (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond|Fallout]] has made some friends, got a job as a cub reporter on ''The Daily Scoop'' North Korean town and even exposed she is a scandal at her schooltalented singer. Her online relationship with the mysterious Smallville Guy Life is also going pretty well. But her army general father hard and her school principal are both still keeping a weather eye on Lois. And newspaper editor Perry White food is putting difficult to come by, so Seo and her under pressure for a new story...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782023690</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Natasha Farrant|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and Prejudice|rating= 5|genre=Teens |summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen friends Nari and has received, amongst other gifts, a diary from her bookish older sister Mary. She'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after all, writing in a diary Min go foraging every day seems such a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives in Merytonevening, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting looking for tree bark and edible grasses to write about after all..supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jess VallanceAlexia Casale|title= The Yellow Room|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Sixteen-year-old Anna lives an ordinary, uneventful life with her workaholic mother after her father left them both years before without a single word since. However Anna's simple life is suddenly changed when she receives a letter from Edie, her father's girlfriend, telling her that he has died and she would like for them to meet. Anna isnSing if you Can't sure how to feel at first – she was estranged from her father but the news has still come as a shock, and so Anna agrees to meet Edie and they start up an unlikely friendship. Edie is eccentric and warm and offers Anna the companionship she lacks with her own unemotional mother, so much so that Anna manages to gather up the courage to tell Edie about the troublesome secret she has been carrying deep inside her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405818</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Call|author=Peadar o GuilinDance

|summary=The Aes Sidhe are back. And It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in their quest the middle of a dance performance that was going to win change her life. But she comes back Ireland from humankindfighting, they have placed a magical seal around desperate to avoid the entire island. Nobody can pity stares, and desperate to get in or out. North? South? Doesnback to a life that't matter any mores as normal as she can possibly manage. What does matter is Meanwhile there''The Call''. At some point during adolescences a new (cute!) boy in school, every teenager is transported her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the Sidhe realm, that grey, colourless land day to which they were banished thousands day traumas of years beforeall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. If they So even though she can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then their lives are spared't dance anymore, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survive.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GraySimon Fox|title=The Otherlife|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Ben has a dark gift: he can see the Otherlife, a world of ancient Norse myths, wildness and danger. It means freedom from exams, warring parents, and everyone's impossible expectations. Then Ben meets Hobie, a charming, ruthless bully. He's a born mischief-maker who always gets away with it. Hobie has everything he could possibly want. Except the Otherlife. And he'll do anything to be a part of it. Anything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Smith|title=Boy XDeadlock

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=When Ash McCarthy wakes up in some sort of medical facility Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he immediately knows fetch something is wrong. But he doesn't suspect just how much until he steps outside from a secret place, and finds himself join him on a remote tropical island. Then he smells the blood and begins to find the bodiesrun. A deadly virus has been released and They get together, but barely begin to make matters worsesmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, it's being taken off leaving Archie on the island late express to be sold as Brighton, toting a weapon that could wipe out humanity. The antidote is being taken with it tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and, unless Ash can stop them within 24 hours, everyone on the island who has been infected (including Ash's mum) will diebearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489042</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katharine Corr and Elizabeth CorrLex Croucher|title=The Witch's KissGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4

|summary= Merry is an average teenager. She's also Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a witchmost delightful way. She's trying not In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to betheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, but she is. Then Jack comes into in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her life and she can't help falling under his spellprivate diaries. One problem – he's part And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of an evilfalling in love with each other, centuries-old curse that Merry now has to breakwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. If Merry has lost her heart But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will she lose her life too? Or they find a way in which they can true love's kiss save the dayboth truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PaverNick Brooks|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods and Warriors Book 5) Promise Boys|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment When the principal (headmaster) of Michelle Paver's Gods and Warriors series has arrived. This series Urban Promise Prep school is set in murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of the mainland (Mycenaean) and Crete (Minoan)police station as suspects. Our two central characters represent both: Hylas Each, the boy searching for his sisterseemingly, is Mycenaeanhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and Pirra, each could have been there at the daughter time of a high priestesshis murder. But who killed him, is Minoan. Togetherand why, they are trying to defeat and if any of the evil Crows who boys are ravaging lands far and wide. But to do thatinnocent, will they need be able to retrieve the dagger of Kronos from deep inside Crow territory. If they fail, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones will rule all the land and all the people.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dawn Kurtagich1919635017|title= The Creeper Man|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon a protector out of Python Wood. But with A Thief to Catch a grinning mouth and without eyes, The Creeper Man is not their protector. In 2016 two sisters, Silla and Nori, runaway from London and their cruel father to La Baume, the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath lives. Away from fear and hurt, the girls are finally happy and loved. They're finally safe… Until the trees start moving closer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Liz Flanagan|title=Eden SummerKitt Townsend

|summary= Best friends for longer than they can remember, Jess and Eden have always been there for each other, through the good and the Solomon Klyne isn't a badlad, though there's been so why is he running around London committing a lot more series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the latter over the last year. They've needed each other for support more than eversecond question because I avoid spoilers. But now, Eden is missing. The police are on the case, but Jess is wracked with worry. Overwhelmed by grief, Eden hasnI't been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic and often veering towards ll answer the dangerousfirst one: for his grandmother. Desperate to find Eden, Jess takes the search into her own hands. As she makes her way through the West Yorkshire countryside, she finds herself retracing the summer she and Eden spent together, digging up buried memories and secrets in the hope that they might yield some insight into where her friend might be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rose in the BlitzPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Rebecca StevensDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rose's father died Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a while back. She still misses himstandard school, even though life goes on and her mother is remarrying tomorrow. Rose knows deep down that Sal surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is a nice guy butever learnt) has been restructured, butso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, but.and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together.. a wedding? It As they's sent her into re all fired up, straining at the leash only a spinsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Sal Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't smell right. His woolly jumpers are embarrassing. His beard know what his score is weird, where his achievements in that regard lie. Rose isn He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't looking forward to be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the weddingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655546</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Non Pratt1800901232|title=UnboxedStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5

|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, Benif not prosperous, Dean, Millie so when the smartly-dressed man and Zara, and they had made woman came to the village to offer Hahn a promise job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to return be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the school where other girls were not going to work in a shop, they had hidden a memory box five years laterwere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Only five years later there are only four of themYou know those jeans you really wanted: Millie had died of stomach cancer. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in ones with the box, worried about what their thirteenartfully-yearplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-old selves might reveal about who they are now, but most of all they're missing Millieworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E K JohnstonPatrice Lawrence|title= A Thousand NightsNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary=EBrave. K Johnston describes 'Charlene, the '1000 Nightsheroine'' as a work fashioned around the creation of beautiful crafts charged with magic. She confesses that her setting this piece is not historically accurateextremely hard for some people to like, explainingcharacters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she''I cheated s fostering with a bitpleasant yoga tutor, because the usual date for the stories ranges from Middle Persian literature to the Caliphate EraAnnie, and I set the book about two thousand years before that.has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' Her locations are beautifully evoked and based on her sensory experiences as an archaeologist in Jordans at uni. A Turkish bath Such a tempestuous personality may be in Ammanneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the Umayyad palace on top creation of one such item is part of the Amman Citadel plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and the swirling sands at Wadi Rum are just is making something full of love for her younger sister – a few sources younger sister she has used to recreate the spirit of Lo Melkhiin's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with the mercurial nature of his wife's desert homea 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>1447290372</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keren DavidAnn Sei Lin|title= CuckooRebel Skies

|summary= Jake is Kurara has spent her entire life as a household name thanks to his role servant on the UK's most popular soap opera. But his character went upstairs Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to his bedroom six months ago drink and never came down againmake merry between their conquests. However, and now Jake when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is facing an uncertain futurea Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Add He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that his dadis all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's anger issuest have any say in the matter, because the family's precarious finances and the demands of Midori is destroyed by a severely autistic brother; Jake's home feels like monstrous paper spirit known as a powder keg waiting shikigami, and she is forced to explodeflee out into the world. It's easier She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to spend nights on friends' sofas hunt down shikigami, and futons, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest?whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paige ToonMarcus Sedgwick|title= All About The HypeWrath|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jessie Jefferson, daughter of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I first got to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] has left the UK behind to move to the City of Angels and be with her long-lost, recently-rediscovered father. As the third book in the ''Jessie'' offshoot, there's a bit of back story to be had but long story short, she grew up not knowing about him, but then her mother died in horrible circumstances and one thing led to another and it all came out in the wash. Now, a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two half-brothers4. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraldine Mills|title= Gold|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Twins Starn and Esper are growing up in a world made dark and silent by massive volcanic explosions. Ash now covers the planet and every aspect of life is controlled by the government, policed by the strict, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long for sunshine, fresh air and the freedom of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game of dares leads them to discover an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across the darkened skies in a hand-built glider, in search of the gold that will vastly improve their lives. What they find there is a hidden world; one left behind when the volcanoes exploded. The revelation of the gold is not at all what they thought it would be, and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=We Are All Made of Molecules |rating=5

|summary= After two years Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of pain following his mum's deathfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, Stewart is pleased his dad has found someone else and he's 89.9% excited that should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his dad are moving foot in with Ashley and her momit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Ashley, howeverThey were half of a desultory school band, is 110% horrified at but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the prospect of enigmatic – saying she could hear a new 'blended' familysubhuman hum coming from the earth. She's still dealing Is this connected with one of her parent's breakup and eco-warrior parents saying the end of the revelation that her dad world is gay. Shealready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's simply dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not prepared for a new step-dad and his geeky, socially clueless, sonwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Robin JarvisTori Bovalino|title=The Power of DarkDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5

|summary= Something Working all summer in her boarding school's library is brewing in the coastal town last thing Tess Matheson wants to 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 books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of Whitby. To best friends Lil revenge for making her find and Vernedeliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it just seems like a particularly bad storm. But Cherry Cherisenotes on each of the books, scribbled with the last ugliest insults she can think of the town. They's guardian witchesre never meant to reach him, fears that ancient forces are workof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, reviving the curse of a long-lost magical artefact and a feud that has survived beyond death…then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BallPhilip Reeve|title=How to Set a Fire Utterly Dark and Why|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Lucia Stanton is a sarcastic 14-year-old misfit who lives with her elderly Aunt Lucy in a garage they rent from an evil landlord at the bottom Face of his large garden. She never comes right out and explains why she's there, but if you read between the lines you work out that her father is dead and her mother is in a mental hospital – presumably for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified and principled – ''Don't do things you aren't proud of'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes and mostly lives off of liquorice and Aunt Lucy's terrible homemade bread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Bone Sparrow|author=Zana FraillonDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Subhi In a word, rich. There is ten years old. He has lived his whole life certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a detention centre for refugees in Australiapeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. He is Rohingya There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and his mother legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother was expecting himmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. They left Subhi's father behind and The current Darks are waiting for him the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to join them. Subhi believes that keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his father is sending him secret messages contained brother Will who lives in London with too much science in tokens that wash up from the Great Sea of his imagination. And these tokens mean a great deal head to Subhi because the camp isnworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs s foundling daughter, who washed up out on a regular basis. There's no school because of the classroom burned downsea one day eleven years ago. And the guards? WellBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, with both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the exception world of Harveyprotecting their island, they are like it or not very nice people.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Caighlan SmithJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Daedalum's children have one collective ambition. They pray Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the ages far NE of ten and sixteen who will enter the labyrinth, find their way through it to Alyssia, and become angelsScottish islands. Every child yearns to Here be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. ClaraVikings, our girl's best friend, is the most devout that kind of everyoneScottish island. She knows she Dad is destined going to become an angel. Our girlbe automating the lantern, thoughwhich is his specialist thing, does not want to while mum will be chosen. In leaving her society, this is such a badge of shame that she keeps silentcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. AndJulia, along with Clarawell, chosen she iswill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyJonathan Stroud|title= Nothing Tastes as GoodThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= As warnings against disordered eating go, this one Scarlett McCain is quite interesting. Annabelan outlaw, you seerejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, is already dead when we meet herrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She got too thin But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and one day that was ita darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, her body ceased they plan to flee to functionthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Her mindTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, howeverthe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, is still sharp.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405745</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoMercedes Helnwein|title=BlameSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''A small hand in hersGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (As a secret illegitimate daughter of a teenaged girl) and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent and in man with a prison – HMP London"real" family, no lessshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. Since the death of the EU and But when she defends a hugerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, all-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre her simple existence is changed for the crimes of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good is having their children imprisoned. And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' No longer can she spend her time writing novels in theresolitude, due to their parents' activities, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family for her life now has a boy in Britainit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellT L Huchu|title= Wave|rating= 5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly|summary= Wave, set in WW1, tells the story of the battle of the Somme. Although the story spans 100 years, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016, the majority of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddie, as they prepare for the moment when they are to go over the top, as the first wave, into No Man’s Land. The story is a poignant, reflective and brutally honest account Library of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Army.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Concentr8|author=William Sutcliffe|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a speculative near-future London, there's a new wonder drug to treat ADHD. Concentr8 is cheap and effective. So effective that the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking it, often before they've actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by the unmedicated teens.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Leaving|author=Tara AltebrandoDead|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared in the traumatic event the local community knows as The Leaving, five sixteen-year-olds come home. Where have they been? Who took them? And where is Max, the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? And why can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Francesca Simon|title= The Monstrous Child|rating= 45

|summary= Hel Ropa Moyo is the ultimate gloomy, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly ever around, her mum is at best indifferent to hera ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and her brothers are evil little beasts. She lives in a land bit of sleet and noise and ice. But that's not Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the worst dead of itEdinburgh for their living relatives. She has been, Ever since birth, half human and half corpse, with all the accompanying odours that producesshe dropped out of school, and - wait for it – there'll never be an end to her misery because she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have been using it to take the occasional exam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating yearsupport not only herself, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' but her family's credit card, younger sister and runs away to LA to crash with her sisteraging grandmother. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needsHowever, and it soon dawns on her: shethere's trapped in a town full an evil stalking the ruined streets of lost souls and wannabesEdinburgh, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sistertargeting the city's obsessive ex offers her children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a job researching missing boy at the murderous Manson girls for request of his next indie film, she accepts – albeit reluctantlydead mother. This She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls far bigger and her fate, the more dangerous than she comes to understand her family – and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TVever could's more infuriating charactersve imagined. Now Will she's likeable enough, it was just find the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard missing children and bring an end to live with. I would say this was a return to her sideevil, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't or will it in our future, which is claim her past, and vice versa at the same, er, timetoo? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>1529039452