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|genre=Fantasy Teens|summary=As I promised I would when I looked back Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at the beginning of the 35 year history of a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny'Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson s safety after a tragic event, and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took so Ronny finds himself trying to the brand-settle in a new-for-2017 volume with my pentown, mapping papera new school, and most importantlykeep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, diceand has always dreamed of being a rapper. For the first time But now, in a longthis new school, long time, I would not read his teacher encourages him to be part of a book for review. I would play it. And sopoetry writing workshop group and, armed with healthy staminaslowly, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skillRonny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, I set off. This is and the report power of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book reviewcreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sophie McKenzieJenny Valentine|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Carey Us in the Before and Amelia are best friends, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreak, a malicious online account, begins to abuse Amelia. To make matters worse, the police soon find evidence that Carey was the one who sent the messages. Soon everyone, even Amelia, is convinced of Carey's guilt. Only her sister, Poppy, accepts her innocence. When the online threats spill over into real life, Carey is determined to discover who is framing her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lisa Heathfield|title= Flight of a StarlingAfter

|summary= Rita Elk and Lo Mab are sisters and best friends too, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. Their partnership extends to a double act They meet as children one day on a trapeze act in trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the travelling circus that forms a backdrop to their livestime. Always on the move But then chance brings them back together, travelling from one place to another, never staying in one town for long is all and they have ever knownare inseparable. The sisters are surrounded by the love of their family Something has happened though, something terrible and the close friends who make up the other circus acts. Their lives are happy tragic, and secure. Until one day Lo meets a boynow they must work through their grief, a special boy named Dean. Their growing and their friendship, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon CohenMax Boucherat|title=The Starman and MeLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori'He wasns world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't an alienfind herself entirely on her own, I was sure and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of thattampering. It was more like he'd walked When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in through an ancient door from the pastgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea.. except he was hereThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Earthheart.''

Twelve-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied Rosevear, a tiny human remote and partially forgotten island, survives on a roundabout near luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to his housesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But he wasnwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'ts father. Rorty Thrutch Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as real charming as you or me. But how did Rorty come he is secretive and with only coordinates to be hiding out guide her, she sets off in the middle search of a roundabout family secret that lies buried deep in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that hethe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler'll soon s territory, Mira must be ''bad dead''? determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrenceHarry Allen|title=Indigo DonutChildren of the Sun

|summary=''In Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed Ra Eun Seo lives in a hero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti North Korean town and Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth schoola talented singer. Pitt Academy Life is a last chance for Indigo hard and her foster mother Keeley food is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not easy for Indigo - difficult to come by, so Seo and her reputation friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for kicking off always precedes her. And that's tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the least meagre rations of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her motherrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsAlexia Casale|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Sing if you Can''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And it's a great response.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Shvarts|title= Royal Bastardst Dance|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdom. Royal plots, magic, adventure and a rich culture to immerse yourself in. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=No Filter|author=Orlagh Collins|rating=4

|summary=Em It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- Emerald - has led changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a pretty privileged dance performance that was going to change her life. Her wealthy parents have sent her But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a posh private school. Shelife that's friends with all the right people, as her social media accounts will attestnormal as she can possibly manage. Everything is sweetness and light in Em Meanwhile there's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the crosshairs day to day traumas of all the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets challenges her body continues to throw at home about to turn from secret her to open crisisnavigate. And when Em So even though she can's mother overdosest dance anymore, the dominoes start might she be able to topple.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hayley LongSimon Fox|title= The Nearest Faraway Place|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthday, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in a road accident. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brother, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clementine Beauvais|title=PiglettesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The results are in – and for Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in schoolforce, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathyand then suddenly rings Archie, Mireille is at first too hard-hearted to give demanding he fetch something from a damnsecret place, for angry self-defence is her default modeand join him on the run. But soon all three medallists in the unwanted competition form a trioThey get together, and all three see a reason but barely begin to go and gatecrash smell the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored for a major military honour in favour whiff of his ex-superiorSouthern trains when the father is arrested, who should instead be getting hauled over leaving Archie on the coals and not applauded; and for Mireillelate express to Brighton, the reason is that the President's husband is her natural birth toting a tin his fatherwas determined to keep away from his colleagues, and has never acknowledged her…the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchLex Croucher|title= Love & Gelato|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' in hope of a light-hearted summery read, with an added draw being that the action takes place in Italy, a favourite country of mine, Gwen and that's exactly what I got. The novel tells the story of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother's wish by spending a summer Art Are Not in Tuscany, conveniently staying just outside of Florence, getting to know the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest by a journal her Mom left her, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years ago, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Ethan I Was Before|author=Ali StandishLove

|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment for Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a minor infraction is gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a constant threat - most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to belittle her young son and express her disappointment in him. Anwell is not popular at school and his life at home is severely proscribed. Sotheir mutual disgust! Gwen, when Finnigan appearsyou see, Anwell is grateful for a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild and full of a dark freedom. He doesnin love with Bridget (the kingdom't even go to school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Clare|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2s only female knight)|rating= 4- something that Art discovers from her private diaries.5|genre= Teens|summary=After And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the cataclysmic events subterfuge of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight'falling in love with each other, Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and when really they are enabling their friendsown other romantic attachments. Their troubles are by no means over But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [find a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyNick Brooks|title=ResurrectionPromise Boys

|summary=Like Other Girls is a story about a girl called Lauren. She is not like other girls, though she does sometimes like other girls. For one, her mum is When the headmistress principal (headmaster) of her Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, for two, she doesn't fit in to a cliquethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, and for threeseemingly, her boyfriend thinks she's mad. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by a revelation grudge of someone close to her and when something enormous happens to Lauren, she has no one she can turn tosome description against Principal Moore, or so she believes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue each could have been there at the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop time of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is scepticalhis murder. And in any case, Nicky has other things to worry about But who killed him, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequencewhy, troubles were dogging Kenny and if any of the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about innocent, will they be able to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way throughclear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stewart Foster1919635017|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try A Thief to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be Catch a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersKitt Townsend

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itSolomon Klyne isn's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxt a bad lad, but Alena's family so why is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions in he running around London, triggered by committing a series of bombings, threaten robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to spill over and shatter the stability of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the only family Alena has ever knownfirst one: for his grandmother.. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into the past, at the life of activism that her mother led, a life that her brother has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Honor GirlDifferent for Boys

|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is four with both his best buddy from the key football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to this autobiographical graphic novelprimary school days together. Why is Maggie not happy As they're all fired up, straining at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being leash only a sleepsingle-walkersex school can form, the talk in class and ignore the fact she's from a different state out often turns to every other girl aroundsex. Which is confusing for Ant, and practically only there to obey her motheras he doesn's family tradition – shet know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's all of had a casual relationship, a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle rangesecret one, for several months now, and can boss so has effectively progressed up the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those arenladder headed by 'experienced't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she, but whether that's enjoying her summerset in stone, and anyway they do come with their own problemshe can't be sure. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact And that she seems to be falling in love with one 's mostly because of who he's been having the counsellor campers, there to look after relationship and the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author= Karen M McManusSteve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title= One of Us Is LyingNeedle|rating= 53

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?heroine' Sign me up, please. But of this YA mystery piece is more extremely hard for some people to like , characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a teenage Agatha Christie: itpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's twistyat uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, complexyou might perhaps think, and at several points I began the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to wonder if the final reveal would remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be that everyone was the murderer...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleAnn Sei Lin|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldRebel Skies

|summary= Doreen Green moves from California 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 New Jersey drink andmake merry between their conquests. However, quite by accidentwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, embarks on a journey someone with the power to become form paper into whatever she desires – a heropower sought after all across the Empire. A fantastic origin tale for He asks her to come with him, to leave the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story life of dreary servitude that is engagingall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, fast-pacedbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, hip and extremely coolshe is forced to flee out into the world. What would She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a person be like if they had the proportional strength sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and agility a whole world of a squirrel? Wonder no more.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ron ButlinMarcus Sedgwick|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the WorldWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teensMeet Fitz, our heroes are the victims a young Scottish lad full of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kindfrustration at himself. But this isn't some worthy self-helpLockdown is only just over, tell-an-adult bookand he should be free to do what he wants, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (to go where he wants andwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the light it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of later eventsa desultory school band, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the sunset, to take enigmatic – saying she could hear a break subhuman hum coming from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of all adults. In their defence, the world is already a done deal? Is it seems a sensible move at some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the timetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's not library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a spoiler if I tell you hundred books that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the first few pages of ''Contagion'books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than As a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking petty act of revenge for making herfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, hopeful that scribbled with the ugliest insults she will be found alive and wellcan think of. But Callie isnThey't alive and wellre never meant to reach him, of course. She's been taken Her plan is to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented onget her anger out like this, and then burned to deathtake them all off before delivering them. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya LandmanPhilip Reeve|title=Passing for WhiteUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=In 1847a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Maconthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, GeorgiaBritish but way west, Benjamin was a slavebeyond the Scillies. He was a talented carpenter tooThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, but on November and legends of the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at himDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, smiling and being politewhere no ship dare sail. What was going on? He wasn't just unnervedThe current Darks are the Watcher, but nervous: you seeAndrewe, Benjamin was looking at who has to keep notes of activity from the white womanHidden Lands, looking ''her'' his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the eye his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasnAndrewe't a white woman: this was Rosas foundling daughter, who was mixed racewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. She could pass for whiteBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but she too was a slave. Rosa both his sullen brother and Benjamin eventually marriedhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, but like it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Bali RaiJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and saving their cat from the day while simultaneously winning family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the heart far NE of the girl (Freya being Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the girllantern, hopefully). Batman which is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuspecialist thing, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to lazy classmateshunt the elusive Greenland shark. Still And Julia, well, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely she will be homesick and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessJonathan Stroud|title= Release|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious household. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacher. Adam is used to a restricted life The Outlaws Scarlett and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= SpellslingerBrowne

|summary=''And when did I volunteer Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter wander the wildlands between the world Seven Kingdoms of the Jan'TepBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, powerful mages a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the ability to draw on mythical Free Isles of the seven magicsLondon Lagoon. Then meet KellenTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who despite being the son of one cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the most formidable mages Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the clan, has no magical ability whatsoever. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Karen GregorySlingshot|rating=4.53

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