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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= The Pavee and the Buffer GirlWild East|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When JimWritten in verse, this is Ronny's family halt at Dundraystory, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to attendmove to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. Jim doesn The move is initiated by Ronny't like s mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He doesn't like Bufferslistens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. And you know But now, you couldn't really blame in this new school, his teacher encourages him because the distrust to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's slowly, Ronny begins to stares and muttered insults from see the pupils connections between rap and condescension from the teachers. Within dayspoetry, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim the power of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying creativity and worsecrafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Gemma FowlerJenny Valentine|title= MoondustUs in the Before and After|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary=''Lunar Inc. Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is lying to usa once in a lifetime connection. It They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's been lying to us from contact details at the moment lumite power was discoveredtime.'' After the dark days of future Earth But then chance brings them back together, where an energy crisis and they are inseparable. Something has led to chaoshappened though, lumite power has become the only solution for peace. Yet that peace is fragile. The memory of the reactor explosion at Andriannesomething terrible and tragic, ten years agoand now they must work through their grief, is still fresh in the public's mind. FALLand their friendship, the First Anti-Lumite League, continues to campaign fiercely against the United Government and the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Inctogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe DaykinMax Boucherat|title=Fish BoyThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Billy is struggling at school. He's being picked We meet Lori on by the school bully and hefirst evening she's starting got the house to herself – no neighbour to feel very alonepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. His mum What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is sickto log on to Voxminer, the world-building, although nobody seems to know whatcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's wrong with herworld. She But first Lori has been sick for a long time meaning tiny inkling that she canthis stormy night doesn't workfind herself entirely on her own, so Billy's dad is working extra hours to try to keep and then she finds something even more spooky. For the family afloat server she and Billy is frequently left her bestie and nobody else should be able to fend for himselfenter shows signs of tampering. His only escape is in watching his favouriteWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, David Attenborough, or in swimming and her safe place in the sea. One daygame has been doctored – well, however, things take where is a magical girl to turn as whilst swimming Billy meets a mackerel who speaks to him! This, combined with the entrance of a new boy at school, starts to change Billy's life in some rather unexpected ways.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571328229</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack ChengRachel Greenlaw|title=See You in the CosmosCompass and Blade|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Meet Alex. He's just eleven, but is sure he has the responsibility age of a thirteen year old. He'll prove this by taking his rocket ''Voyager 3'' and his dog Carl Sagan on an Amtrak train to the desert to a launch festival for hobbyist rocket-makers – and all without the help of the adult brother he only knows now from phone calls, his seemingly comatose couch potato mother, and the father he was told died when Alex was three years old. This book is a transcript of verbal essays and conversations he has made to put in his rocket to send to the stars, so aliens can learn about life on earth in 2017. The fact that we're able to find out what's on it does seem to suggest a failure with ''Voyager 3'', but as for finding out about life – we can only suppose the lad is a bit more successful…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141365609</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Jenkins and Stephen Biesty|title=Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction |summary=I take it as read that you know some of the history of space exploration, even if the young person you buy books for doesn't know it all. So I won't go into the extremes reached by the ''Voyager'' space craft, and the processes we needed to be expert in before we could launch anything. You probably have some inkling of how we learnt that we're not the centre of everything – the gradual discovery of how curved the planet was, and how other things orbited other things in turn proving we are not that around which everything revolves. What you might not be so genned up on is the history of books conveying all this to a young audience. When I was a nipper they were stately texts, with a few accurate diagrams – if you were lucky. For a long time now, however, they've been anything but stately, and often aren't worried about accuracy as such in their visual design. They certainly long ago shod the boring, plain white page. Until now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406360082</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Robert Swindells|title=Knife Edge|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=I'm just not interested. I'm not interested in there ever being a knife in junior fiction, unless it comes with a lesson. And I'm just not interested unless that lesson tells you one thing – that they're quick. Knives can be quick to find, are quick to whip out, and quick to get the bearer into trouble, whether they actually meet flesh or not. Sam is the student of that lesson here – his school has a Citizenship campaign whereby the pupils do odd jobs for local elderly, and he finds a perfect knife he thinks will defend him from the local gang – a gang whose leader he constantly rattled in primary school. As for the rest – I'll leave his personable first-person narrative to teach you…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126860</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mary G Thompson|title= Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=Six years ago, cousins Amy and Dee were abducted. They were never recovered and no trace of them was ever found - that is until Amy suddenly returns home, alone and unable to tell anyone where Dee is or what happened to her. Amy's unexpected homecoming gives hope to her family, but she's a different person after spending most of her teen years in captivity, and she's not sure if she can ever fully go back to her old life. Amy is someone she left behind when she was 10 years old and in the years of her absence, she became Chelsea and Dee became Stacie. But why has she come back now? Who took them in the first place? And where is Dee|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655813</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angie Stanton|title=Waking in Time|rating=4

|summary=Abbi has had a hard year''I can hear the song of the sea. Her beloved grandmother died andThe call of the deep, before the grief really had answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a chance to settleremote and partially forgotten island, Abbi has left survives on luring ships into the safety rocks and security plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of home the seven who swim out to start college in Wisconsin. And it really does feel as though she has left survey the two most important people in her life - mother ruins – rescuing any survivors and grandmother - behindany treasure that lies within. But itwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's hard to forget leader and somehow the past keeps hold of AbbiMira's mindfather. And thenDesperate to save him from death, one morningMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she wakes sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her dorm room from the watched streets of foreign islands to find herself transported back in time to 1983. And it wonthe heart of the smuggler't s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the first time-shift she experiences. As Abbi jumps further future of her home and further back in time, the ones she meets Will. Time is pushing Will forwards, not backwards and his journey began in 1927holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782025936</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie GarberHarry Allen|title=CaravalChildren of the Sun

|summary=Lily did love Antony. She was just 14 years old and he was 17, but Antony was the son of the big house and Lily was the daughter of one of the estate workers. They laughed and played together with all the other teens and children on the estate and Antony accepted Lily's adoration and was fond of her. He was an odd mixture of Ra Eun Seo lives in a spoiled brat North Korean town and she is a neglected childtalented singer. His mother was long dead Life is hard and his father mainly absent on business food is difficult to come by, so Seo and parenting was something which was bought in. In the early 1920s cars her friends Nari and aeroplanes were in their infancy and for his 17th birthday (his father thought it was his 12th...) Antony asked Min go foraging every evening, looking for an aeroplane. His father agreed tree bark and Antony went edible grasses to Brooklands supplement the meagre rations of rice and bought a Sopwithkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989282</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa WilliamsonAlexia Casale|title=All About Mia Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Mia thinks sheIt's being ironic when she has the phrase hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'All About Mia' emblazoned on her Tre having to navigate a life-shirt. Ironic because itchanging disability too, but that's NEVER about her. How can it be? She's just the mess what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle – sandwiched between of a dance performance that was going to change her oh-so-perfect straight A grade sisterlife. But she comes back fighting, Gracedesperate to avoid the pity stares, and her super-talented soon-desperate to get back to-be Olympic swimmer sister, Audrey. As far as Miaa life that's concerned as normal as she may as well get permanently wastedcan possibly manage. She's convinced Meanwhile there's no point trying until a series new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of events coincide all the challenges her body continues to show throw at her just how wrong to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she is. be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098910X</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Trenton Lee StewartSimon Fox|title= The Secret KeepersDeadlock|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Reuben is a small boy growing up with his mum in a big city full of injustice and fear4. The family have little money and working two jobs means that Reuben's mum trusts him to be on his own a lot. For a young child Reuben develops a lot of independence, which really helps him when he finds an unusual and precious object and decides to try to uncover its secret. He hopes it might be valuable and dreams of being able to buy his mum her ideal home. Unfortunately there is someone else also looking for the object and Reuben enters into a dangerous game of hide and seek as he dares to take on the most powerful and ruthless man in the city|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911077287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Goldfish Boy|rating=5

|summary=Matthew has OCD. Not that he knows that's what it Late one night Graham Blake is. He just likes things clean, he really hates germs, or going outsidelate back from his shift on the force, and he feels safest upstairs in his room and the front bedroomthen suddenly rings Archie, where demanding he can control the dirtfetch something from a secret place, and where he can watch everything that's going join him on outside, making notes on his neighbours' activitiesthe run. When a little boyThey get together, Teddybut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, from next door goes missing one day, it turns out that Matthew was leaving Archie on the last person late express to see himBrighton, and with all of toting a tin his neighbours as suspects Matthew struggles against father was determined to keep away from his crippling anxieties in order to try colleagues, and uncover the truth bearer of a whole heap of what happened to Teddyquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407170996</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan and Brian ConaghanLex Croucher|title=We Come ApartGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=''We Come Apart'' tells the Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story of a burgeoning friendship and romance between Jess , Gwen and Nicu. Both Arthur have problems been betrothed since they were tiny, much to deal their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her motherprivate diaries. Nicu is And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a Romanian immigrant to boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the UK and faces xenophobia subterfuge of falling in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage love with each other, when he returns homereally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). The friendship way in which they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes morecan both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lot more...... but is there a future for Jess and Niculie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408878852</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Perdita Cargill and Honor Cargill Nick Brooks|title=Waiting for Callback: Take Two Promise Boys|rating=54

|summary= Everything seems to be slotting When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into place for 15 year-old wannabe actress, Elektra James. The summer's here and she's finally landed the boy of her dreamspolice station as suspects. Added to that she's about to start filming Each, seemingly, has a blockbuster film with internationally famous co-stars. Could life get any better? Ur… maybe… Nogrudge of some description against Principal Moore, definitely … especially when said boy and each could have been there at the time of her dreams lands his own starring role in a TV series that's filming in Transylvaniamurder. And But who killed him, to make matters worseand why, shooting a blockbuster film (while dressed in a costume that looks like a sack) isn't quite as smooth and glamorous as Elektra imagined. if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471144852</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Memory BookA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Lara AveryKitt Townsend

|summary=Sam McCoy has her life all planned out. She Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is going to win the national debating competition, go to college in New York and become he running around London committing a human rights lawyer. She is so sure series of this that it almost feels ordained. robberies? And she has worked for it too, sacrificing relationships and friendships in how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the service of ambitionsecond question because I avoid spoilers. You can imagine, then, that Sammie views a diagnosis of Niemann–Pick type C as little more than a rock in But I'll answer the roadfirst one: for his grandmother.. She won't let a pesky health condition stand in her way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784299243</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=TiltDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=To make an authorAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, you first show someone books. To make a readerand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, you first show them so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the books football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they want all go back to, and/or can, readprimary school days together. To make As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a buildersingle-sex school can form, you first show someone buildingsthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. I use those platitudes to introduce SimonettaWhich is confusing for Ant, or Nettaas he doesn't know what his score is, who lives in Pisa late where his achievements in the thirteenth centurythat regard lie. She is surrounded by fabulous buildings – itHe's not for nothing the area will become known as the Field of Miracleshad a casual relationship, a secret one, for the Cathedralseveral months now, Baptistry and bell tower look gorgeous. But something is wrong with so has effectively progressed up the latter one – itladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's definitely leaningset in stone, cracks are showing, and over the hundred-plus years ithe can's taken to get this far people have built the floors at odd angles to correct the problemt be sure. Netta is intent on being the person who can solve it, alongside her father And that's mostly because of whohe's employed to finish it off. But therein lies been having the problem – it's all well relationship and good showing someone buildings, and making them want to be an architect, but if they're the wrong gender then all hope is lost… or is it?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125651</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Linda Newbery1800901232|title=Until We WinStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Dyslexia Friendly |summary=The best journeys are made with little stepsTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Lizzy is slowly leaving her boring Life in the rural village behind – by being cheeky yet clever at where she lived with her lessonsfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and getting woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an office in opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the nearest proper town – and by saving mini-bus to buyHanoi. Only, Hanh and teaching herself the other girls were not going to ridework in a shop, a bicyclethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. All that's under You know those jeans you really wanted: the watchful eye of a mother insistent she learns to knuckle down ones with the housework intricate embroidery and beading on behalf of the men, and an older brother working at the village hunt. legs? At The ones with the office, however, further steps are suggested to her – shorthand artfully-placed rips and typing classes, but she gets diverted. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? A chance encounter in a tea rooms puts more stepping stones in It's quite possible that Hanh and her way – en route to becoming a fully committed Suffragette, concerned only with making demands for votes for womenco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125791</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The One Memory of Flora BanksPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Emily BarrNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Flora Banks has anterograde amnesiaBrave. This means that she hasnCharlene, the 'heroine't laid down any new memories since she was ten years old of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and had a brain tumour removedreaders both. She Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's now seventeen fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and can remember life before the tumour but canhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he't hold on to anything that happened after that for more than an hour or twos at uni. She gets by with Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the help creation of one such item is part of her very protective parents and her best friend Paigethe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and from the endless notes she writes to herself that tell is making something full of love for her who younger sister – a younger sister she is, what's wrong allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove herbelligerence with a store detective, and what's been happening in then force people to give her lifetwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Flora has a tattoo on her arm. It simply says ''well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be brave''...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141368519</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreview|title=Life in a Fishbowl|author=Len Vlahos|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jared Stone has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. It's inoperable and he has only a few months left to live. Desperate to ensure financial security for his family after he's gone, Jared decides to auction himself - the rest of his life, his death, everything - on eBay for a reserve price of one million dollars. Unsurprisingly, eBay cancels the auction as against their terms and conditions but that's okay because Jared has come to the attention of a reality TV producer...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408870630</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth LairdAnn Sei Lin|title=Welcome to NowhereRebel Skies|rating=5

|summary= Omar 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 to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a twelve-year-old boy living in BosraCrafter like him, Syria. He works two small jobs before and someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after schoolall across the Empire. He prefers the jobs asks her to school. Omar dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur come with a network him, to leave the life of businesses to rule overdreary servitude that is all she has known. HeWell, soon Kurara won's already developing a successful sales patter. Omar has t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a clever sister who wants to be monstrous paper spirit known as a teachershikigami, and a clever brother who few realise she is clever because he has cerebral palsy and people can't see past his speech impedimentforced to flee out into the world. He has a father who works for She joins Himura aboard the governmentOrihime, a mother who worries too muchsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, a hypercritical granny and a couple whole world of annoying younger siblings.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509853448</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara BarnardMarcus Sedgwick|title= A Quiet Kind of ThunderWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Steffi has just started a) sixth form and b) medication for her anxiety. It's all rather tricky, as you can imagine, particularly as Tem, Steffi's best - well, only - friend has enrolled at the local FE college to do an NVQ and so Steffi is all by herself. On the first day, a teacher introduces Steffi to Rhys, a new boy to the school and also just starting sixth form. Rhys is deaf and Steffi knows a little bit of sign language, hence the introduction. Both kids have communication barriers - Rhys can't hear and Steffi, who suffers from selective mutism and severe anxiety, often can't talk.And they fall into friendship, attraction, and love. But it's a rocky road...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509810986</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=The X-Files Origins: Devil's Advocate|rating=3.5

|summary=Dana Scully can Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be added free to do what he wants, to the list of teenaged people upset by their family moving home go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in those key yearsit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Her naval father being relocated has meant she has been uprooted from a nun's Catholic school to They were half of a regular, secular desultory school elsewhereband, but echoes of religion are still everywhere – not least a no-longer-used church opposite their new home. But it's inside that Cassie was also one hundred per cent the strongest taste of faith is residing enigmatic – Dana is seeing visions that saying she could be claimed to be precognitive, and dreams possibly peopled by hear a satanic angel figuresubhuman hum coming from the earth. That would all be troubling enough, but school children are dying in allegedly drugIs this connected with one of her eco-fuelled car wrecks that nobody can really believe in, so straight-edged are warrior parents saying the end of the victims – and Dana world is having even more troubling experiences as already a result. Working done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the cause and effect here could fill an X-Filetruth? Well, but of course wenot when Cassie has gone missing he can're in the years long before those exist. Dana might well be on her own in her investigationst...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002983</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami GarciaTori Bovalino|title=The X-Files Origins: Agent of ChaosDevil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Give a person a book and you might change their day. Give the right person the right book and you might change their life. That Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the philosophy of The Major, the father of the nearest last thing Fox Mulder has Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a best schoolmate. He may well appear to be request for over a wacky – some could even go as far as saying Spooky – conspiracy nut, with some novel manner in home security, but he certainly swears hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the truth to his wifeman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's deathheadmaster, and so much more, is either out there, or in the pages of a Michael Moorcock fantasy novelman Tess hates. It's As a situation not petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a million miles away from that which Fox finds himself inlarge request, for he is eternally frustrated at the lack Tess sticks post-it notes on each of effort he sees in the search for his own baby sister. But before he can settle back books, scribbled with his new read, and before The Major the ugliest insults she can really prove himself formative, Fox gets rapt in new, local cases think of child kidnap, that even though he and his father moved state recently, have a galling familiarity…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002967</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Earle |title=Mind The Gap |rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary= When MikeyThey's dad dies, he stops caring about anything. Indeed, he becomes so desperate re never meant to feel something that he deliberately provokes the one person on the estate who no one messes with. Not surprisingly it ends badly and not just for reach him. Mikey's best mate also ends up in a pool , of bloodcourse. But that doesn't matter because his friend has already lost something more important. He lost Mikey when his dad died Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and he's determined to find a way to bring his best friend back. That's why he sets then take them all off on a one boy crusade to find a way to help Mikey remember his dadbefore delivering them. He just needs to find a movieNo harm done… Or it would be, a radio extract, or a YouTube clip – something that will allow his friend to remember his dadif someone hadn's voicet delivered them for her. Mikey's dad was an actor, so how difficult can it be? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125899</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren David Philip Reeve|title=The Liar's Handbook Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Everyone tells River that he's In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a liar peculiar island called Wildsea, British but he doesn't see way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it , and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff has to fill in the gaps in what he knowskeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. His lies The current Darks are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendWatcher, Andrewe, Jasonwho has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, tells. Jason is a total fake and River is on a crusade his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to expose him. Howeverworry about such local yokel superstitions, Riverand Andrewe's investigation doesn't work foundling daughter, who washed up out as plannedof the sea one day eleven years ago. He does uncover a serious deception (involving But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his biological father sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the police) but will anyone believe him?world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=CharismaJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Charismatic is exactly what Aislyn was not. She was shyJulia, our pre-teen heroine, to has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the extent that she panicked when she was family home in large crowds. This shyness clearly affected herSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, and at in the beginning far NE of the book it showed how much Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of an impact it would have on her future had it been left untreatedScottish island. Her best friend Dad is going to be automating the lantern, Eviewhich is his specialist thing, knows just how bad it is and has tried multiple ways to help while mum will be leaving her, but career in algae behind to no availhunt the elusive Greenland shark. So And Julia, naturally, when Aislyn is offered Charisma, an underground drug with a guarantee to bring her out of her shellwell, she accepts itwill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471163938</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johanna HandleyJonathan Stroud|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54

|summary=Juniper Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and James are best friendsFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's familyrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxicBut then she meets Albert Browne,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her dark boy with dark powers and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanketa darker past. So for nowWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, it's James and Juniper against they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the worldLondon Lagoon. WellTogether, it would bethey must brave man-eating wildlife, if James hadn't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive cannibalistic Tainted and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposedthe horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, with nobody to shield her from but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the scary outside world.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191095716X</amazonuk>1406394815