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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Leigh BardugoJenny Valentine|title= Crooked Kingdom|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=''They don't know who we are. Not really. They don't know what we've done, what we've managed together… so let's show them they picked the wrong damn fight.'' First things first if you haven't read [[Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yet, the first book in the duology, you should read it as soon as possible, buy it or borrow it before anything else and then read Crooked Kingdom. Trust me, because while Six of Crows is unimaginably clever, with diverse characters and a brilliant heist plot, Crooked Kingdom is on a whole other level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Allie Esiri|title= A Poem for Every Night of the Year|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidating, to children and grown-ups. All those school lessons of dissecting poems Us in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend to kill the beauty of a well-written poem. This collection is a year-long tour through a vast history of poetry, Before and gives the reader a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosetti.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ransom Riggs|title= Tales of the Peculiar|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control the currents of the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just a few of the brilliant stories to be found in ''Tales of the Peculiar'', all of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world - a place familiar to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]. The stories in this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative way, and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Smith|title=The Darziods' Stone|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwall. Amelia, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great and, even if it isn't as great as Blackpool, anything is better than being stuck at home, right? Ryan is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded of boys and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-crunchers. But he goes along anyway, even if it is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn't want to be left at home by himself.And it doesn't take long for the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead them to hidden treasure. And it might well do, but the code will also lead them to something much more dangerous...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Hypnotist|author=Laurence AnholtAfter|rating=4.5

|summary=Pip's parents died Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a traffic accident and he has been living in an orphanage ever sincelifetime connection. He has only They meet as children one treasured possession - day on a battered copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, given to him by his schoolteacher mother. Thattrip out but unfortunately they don's how Pip got his name and he has a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling him of his own great expectations. Itt get each other's thanks to his ability to read that Pip finds himself released into contact details at the care - welltime. But then chance brings them back together, soldand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, actually - of old Zacharysomething terrible and tragic, who wants a companion for his bedridden wifeand now they must work through their grief, Lilybelleand their friendship, at Dead River Farm. Lilybelle likes being read totogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonMax Boucherat|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Clover Moon lives We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Cripps Alley, a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works babysitter poorly, mother at the factory and the heavy work has taken a toll on his health. He likes to drink , just an ale or two after workavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, spending money the family can barely affordon her lonesome. Clover's mother died giving birth to her younger sister What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Megsshe has one main intention, a wispyand that is to log on to Voxminer, shy child. Father married again the world- to Mildredbuilding, a sharpcritter-tongued woman who collecting game that is free with a beatinghit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, particularly if and then she finds something even more spooky. For the beating goes server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to Cloverenter shows signs of tampering. Clover When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has another four half-siblings and it's Cloverbeen doctored – well, rather than Mildred, who takes care of them.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Saint DeathRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Anapra is a slum just outside ''I can hear the Mexican city song of Juarez, right on the border with the United Statessea. People scrape a living working at one or more The call of the American factoriesdeep, which pay wages so low that workers can barely feed themselves. This is where people come to try and find their own way into the US, or pay people traffickers to do it for themanswering beat in my heart. It's also a place where the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on the wrong side of the drug cartels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Haunt Me|author=Liz Kessler|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Some quite difficult themes of anxietyRosevear, bullying a remote and self-harm in this beyond the grave love storypartially forgotten island, which at survives on luring ships into the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through them. Cute rocks and enjoyable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Niven|title=Holding Up plundering the Universe|rating=4wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary= High school can be far from the easiest place to navigate through for a lot of teenagersMira, but some have a harder job than others. After the sudden death of like her motherbefore her, Libby started eating and she didn't stop until she almost killed herself. Years is one of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, and she is finally ready to return to school after almost five years the seven who swim out. Libby is determined to make up for lost time, and refuses to be defined by her weight survey the ruins – she wants to be a girl who can do anything, a girl whose confidence rescuing any survivors and self-esteem is immune to anything any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a few idiot high schoolers might throw her way. On trap to end the surfacewrecking, Jack Masselin seems like they capture the archetypal idiot high school guy: charming but thoughtlessisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, superficial, and far too concerned Mira makes a bargain with fitting in to do what a wreck survivor who is as charming as he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm secretive and swaggerwith only coordinates to guide her, Jack is she sets off in search of a nervous ticking time bombfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Every day is a struggle With only nine days to get throughunearth what might save her father, and he is constantly just one mistake away as her journey takes her from embarrassing or hurting himself and the people around him. Because Jack has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faces, whether it be his own, his family's or any watched streets of foreign islands to the hundreds heart of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katharine McGee|title= The Thousandth Floor|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The futurethe smuggler's brightterritory, and Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future's TALL. In 2118, New York, life centres around The Tower. It's 1000 stories tall, takes up most of the island, and is now her home to Grand Central station, Central Park, schools, shops, restaurants and gyms. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live on within the tower is a proxy for who you are and how successful you, or at least your parents, have become. Higher floors trump lower floors, and the pinnacle is that 1000th floor penthouse, owned by Avery and her familyones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susin NielsenHarry Allen|title=Word Nerd Children of the Sun

|summary= ''Three Dark Crowns'' is a high class fantasy novel following Ra Eun Seo lives in a set of triplets: Katharine, Arsinoe and Mirabella, who are each gifted with specific magic North Korean town and are equal heirs to the crown. Katharine she is a poisoner with the ability to ingest the deadliest poisons, a girl who cannot dietalented singer. Meanwhile, Arsinoe Life is a naturalist, who has the power to bloom flowers hard and control the fiercest animals. Finally, Mirabella food is an elementaldifficult to come by, one gifted with the ability to create fire so Seo and her friends Nari and incredible storms powerful enough to topple buildings. On the island of Fennbirn, as is traditionMin go foraging every evening, the queens are separated at the age of nine looking for tree bark and fostered by families who share their magic. From that point onwards, they are each trained edible grasses to use their magic as a weapon in supplement the fight to the death against the other sisters. On the night meagre rations of the sisters'sixteenth birthday, they will each begin their quest to secure the throne rice and become the rightful Queen. While the crown awaits the victor, death awaits the two weaker queenskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I'll Be Home For ChristmasAlexia Casale|authortitle=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Ire having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of the most popular writers s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by the theme middle of homea dance performance that was going to change her life. What does home mean But she comes back fighting, desperate to you? Is it your houseavoid the pity stares, the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things and desperate to get back to different people, a life that's as normal as she canpossibly manage. Meanwhile there't it? The book opens with s a powerful poem by Bookbag favouritenew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Benjamin Zephaniah. The following stories are disparate - some telling tales of hardship and fear, some warming just the cockles day to day traumas of your heartall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But all of them are about So even though she can''home''.t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry DrewerySimon Fox|title= Cell 7Deadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Tired of ''Big Brother'' Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and ''I'm a Celebrity..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something more 'real?' Welcome to the evolution of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives youfrom a secret place, and join him on the viewer, the power of life and deathrun. Listen to the evidence They get together, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent and then simply text DIE or LIVE but barely begin to 7997 (Calls cost £5). Since smell the abolition whiff of Southern trains when the court system a few years agofather is arrested, leaving Archie on the power of jury has been given late express to the people. Those accused of murder have seven days in seven cellsBrighton, each with their own particular method of psychological torture. On the last day, the accused is led toting a tin his father was determined to Cell 7keep away from his colleagues, dominated by and the imposing electric chair in the centre. As the public votes pour in, viewers wait with eager anticipation to see if there will be bearer of a live execution that evening..whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stuart KentLex Croucher|title=The CatchersGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54

|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert is wandering along perfectly happily in his very normal twelve-year-old lifeWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, when a sprite suddenly appears it lifted my spirits in his bedroom. The sprite is followed by a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also in his bedroommost delightful way. There's a knock at the door In this story, so Jamie takes the sprite Gwen and opens it. Down a passageArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Jamie finds an old man wearing a pointy hat who introduces himselfmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, grandlyyou see, as is in love with Bridget (the kingdom''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhichs only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, of creating the Magic and Mythical creature catchers department, subterfuge of the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branch''. Jamie is falling in Magictasiumlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. After But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a brief magical interlude with Colin and Trixieway in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a teenage witch, Colin returns home...lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born ScaredNick Brooks|authortitle=Kevin BrooksPromise Boys

|summary=Everything scares ElliottWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And by everything Each, we really mean ''everything''. Elliott is not afraid of his mumseemingly, his aunt and his doctor. And that's it. Imagine that. Being frightened has a grudge of your room. Of colours. Of noises. Of most things around yousome description against Principal Moore, no matter how everyday and mundane they are. This is each could have been there at the natural state time of things for Elliotthis murder. And it's been that way since he was born prematurely But who killed him, and his twinwhy, Ellamayand if any of the boys are innocent, died. will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=A Very Good ChanceThief to Catch a Killer|author=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldKitt Townsend

|summary=Minty Solomon Klyne isn't having a great time at home. It's quite clear, from the hissing conversations in other rooms and the looming silencesbad lad, that her parents' marriage is in trouble. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that to Minty. School so why is he running around London committing a bit series of a bore, unless itrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralungall have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Minty needs an escapeBut I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014781</amazonuk>

{{newreview|title=Double Down (Lois Lane) Frontpage|author=Gwenda Bond|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lois Lane is doing pretty well 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'' and even exposed a scandal at her school. Her online relationship with the mysterious Smallville Guy is also going pretty well. But her army general father Patrick Ness and her school principal are both still keeping a weather eye on Lois. And newspaper editor Perry White is putting her under pressure for a new story...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782023690</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Natasha FarrantTea Bendix|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl of Pride and PrejudiceDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5

|summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has receivedbeen restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, amongst and two other giftsold muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a diary from her bookish older sister Marysingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. She Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after allt know what his score is, writing where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a diary every day seems such casual relationship, a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in Merytonstone, Lydia decides that there just might he can't be something exciting to write about after all.sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jess Vallance1800901232|title= The Yellow RoomStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= SixteenTwelve-year-old Anna lives an ordinary, uneventful life with her workaholic mother after her father left them both years before without Hanh wanted to be a single word sincefashion designer. However Anna's simple life is suddenly changed when Life in the rural village where she receives a letter from Edielived with her family was happy, her father's girlfriendif not prosperous, telling her that he has died so when the smartly-dressed man and she would like for them woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to meetbe missed. Anna isn't sure how to feel at first – she Some money changed hands and Hanh was estranged from her father but on the news has still come as a shockmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and so Anna agrees the other girls were not going to meet Edie and work in a shop, they start up were to work in virtual slavery in an unlikely friendshipillegal garment factory. Edie is eccentric You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and warm and offers Anna beading on the companionship she lacks legs? The ones with her own unemotional mother, so much the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Anna manages to gather up the courage to tell Edie about the troublesome secret she has been carrying deep inside Hanh and herco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405818</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The CallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Peadar o GuilinNeedle|rating=53

|summary=The Aes Sidhe are backBrave. And in their quest Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to win back Ireland from humankindlike, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandcharacters and readers both. Nobody can get in or Kicked out. North? South? Doesnof multiple homes and schools, she't matter any more. What does matter is ''The Calls fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. At some point during adolescenceSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, every teenager and the creation of one such item is transported to part of the Sidhe realmplot here, that greyas Charlene is a wonder knitter, colourless land to which they were banished thousands and is making something full of years beforelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a full day (just three minutes in the human world) store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then their lives are spared... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Fewer than one in ten children survive.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>133804561X</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia GrayAnn Sei Lin|title=The OtherlifeRebel Skies

|summary= Ben Kurara has spent her entire life as a dark gift: he can see servant on the OtherlifeMidori, a world massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of ancient Norse myths, wildness the Empire come to drink and dangermake merry between their conquests. It means freedom from examsHowever, warring parents, and everyone's impossible expectations. Then Ben meets Hobiewhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a charming, ruthless bullypower sought after all across the Empire. He's a born mischief-maker who always gets away asks her to come with it. Hobie him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has everything he could possibly wantknown. Except Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Otherlifeworld. And he'll do anything She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to be hunt down shikigami, and a part whole world of it. Anything.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SmithMarcus Sedgwick|title=Boy XWrath

|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=When Ash McCarthy wakes up in some sort Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of medical facility he immediately knows something frustration at himself. Lockdown is wrong. But he doesn't suspect only just how much until he steps outside over, and finds himself on a remote tropical island. Then he smells the blood and begins should be free to find the bodies. A deadly virus has been released anddo what he wants, to make matters worsego where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it's being taken off the island when he talks to be sold as his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a weapon that desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could wipe out humanityhear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. The antidote Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is being taken with already a done deal? Is it and, unless Ash some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can stop them within 24 hoursFitz find out the truth? Well, everyone on the island who not when Cassie has been infected (including Ashgone missing he can's mum) will diet...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489042</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katharine Corr and Elizabeth CorrTori Bovalino|title=The Witch's KissDevil Makes Three|rating= 4.5

|summary= Merry is an average teenager. SheWorking all summer in her boarding school's also library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a witchhundred books that she has to deliver herself. SheWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's trying not to beheadmaster, but she isand a man Tess hates. Then Jack comes into As a petty act of revenge for making her life find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can't help falling under his spellthink of. One problem – heThey's part re never meant to reach him, of an evil, centuries-old curse that Merry now has course. Her plan is to break. If Merry has lost get her heartanger out like this, will she lose her life too? and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or can true loveit would be, if someone hadn's kiss save the day? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PaverPhilip Reeve|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods Utterly Dark and Warriors Book 5) the Face of the Deep

|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle Paver's Gods and Warriors series has arrivedIn a word, rich. This series There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set in on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the mainland (Mycenaean) Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and Crete (Minoan)their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Our two central characters represent both: HylasThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the boy searching for Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his sisterhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, is Mycenaeanand Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and Pirra, his curious ward are thrust into the daughter world of a high priestessprotecting their island, is Minoanlike it or not. Together|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, they are trying has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to defeat be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the evil Crows who are ravaging lands far and wideNE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. But Dad is going to do thatbe automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, they need while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to retrieve hunt the dagger of Kronos from deep inside Crow territoryelusive Greenland shark. If they fail And Julia, well, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones she will rule all the land be homesick and all the peoplealone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn KurtagichJonathan Stroud|title= The Creeper ManOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5

|summary=''The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the woods'' In 1980 three little girls summon a protector out Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Python WoodBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a grinning mouth and without eyesdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, The Creeper Man is not their protectorthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. In 2016 two sistersTogether, Silla and Norithey must brave man-eating wildlife, runaway from London the cannibalistic Tainted and their cruel father all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to La Baume, reach the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath lives. Away from fear and hurtFree Isles, the girls but will they be any more accepted there than they are finally happy and loved. They're finally safe… Until in the trees start moving closer.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz FlanaganMercedes Helnwein|title=Eden SummerSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= Best friends Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer than they can remembershe spend her time writing novels in solitude, Jess and Eden have always been there for each otherher life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, through the good using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the baddead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, though thereshe's been a lot more of the latter over the last year. They've needed each other for using it to support more than ever. But now, Eden is missing. The police are on the casenot only herself, but Jess is wracked with worryher younger sister and her aging grandmother. Overwhelmed by griefHowever, Eden hasnthere't been herself all summers an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, her behaviour erratic and often veering towards targeting the dangerouscity's children. Desperate to find EdenSoon, Jess takes Ropa is pulled into the search into her own handsfor a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. As She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she makes her way through the West Yorkshire countryside, ever could've imagined. Will she finds herself retracing find the summer she missing children and Eden spent togetherbring an end to this evil, digging up buried memories and secrets in the hope that they might yield some insight into where or will it claim her friend might be. too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>1529039452