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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Amanda FoodyLeanne Egan|title= Daughter of the Burning CityLover Birds|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours the land, entertaining the crowds with fantastic shows of magic, illusion and sleight of hand. But the proprietor of Gomorrah, Villiam, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising the acts in the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in the circus, Sorina knows that she will one day become the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiam.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848455445</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cara Delevigne|title= Mirror, Mirror|rating= 25

|summary= If the news that Cara Delevigne had written her first novel (how did you miss it? Were you living under a rock?)When new girl, Isabel, all about a group moves to Lou's hometown of teens who go looking Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for their friend who disappearedeverything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, makes you roll your eyes and say that''wells definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, that sounds a bit like Paper Towns'isn't it? Because Lou is straight, donisn't worry: you're not alone (seriouslyshe? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, spend thirty seconds on Goodreads). Itand she's never had a pretty lazy write-offgood kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, thoughand she definitely just hates Isabel, so I was curious to read this to see what could be said about it.doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409172740</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C L TaylorAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The TreatmentWild East

|summary=When DrewWritten in verse, this is Ronny's brother is once again expelled story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and sent away so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a special reform new school, Drew doesn't really careand keep himself out of trouble. She He listens to music constantly, and has enough always dreamed of her own troubles to deal withbeing a rapper. But then one day she is followed home from now, in this new school by a mysterious doctor, who claims his teacher encourages him to have be part of a sinister message from her brotherpoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, begging Drew Ronny begins to help him because see the school is not a reform schoolconnections between rap and poetry, and actually all the children there are being brainwashedpower of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleJenny Valentine|title= The Beast is an Animal Us in the Before and After|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=The Beast is an AnimalElk and Mab are best friends, but what does or more than that make Alys? Alys was only seven when her village was set upon by the Soul Eaterseven, she was the only their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one to see them. Alys and the other orphans are sent to the neighbouring village day on a trip out but this place is not like home. In the strange village of Defaid people are pious, unfortunately they say that Alysdon't get each other's village must have been in league with contact details at the Beast, that they drew the Soul Eaters intime. People in Defaid are suspicious But then chance brings them back together, and they are particularly suspicious of Alysinseparable. Something has happened though, though she never tells a soul what she has seen. Despite it's piety something terrible and it devotion to the ways of the Shepherdtragic, Defaid feels the Soul Eaters creeping ever closerand now they must work through their grief, luring them with and their singing. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong therefriendship, Alys knows the danger of the Soul Eaters but she is drawn to themtogether. As she grows older and the danger grows greater, the dark question grows larger in Alys's mind, is she bad like them? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julie BertagnaMax Boucherat|title= ExodusThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Exodus is a book whichWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, though fifteen years oldbabysitter poorly, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live in right mother at this moment. Set in a world ravaged by global warming and melting ice-capswork, this is the story of the last inhabitants of just an island called Wingavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, who set sail on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in search of a new life once Wing is sunk under the rising tide. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thingblanket fort, and she has one which dredges up so many interesting questions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon P Clark|title=Not Yet Dark|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Philippa main intention, and Danny have been friends since they were tiny. But nowthat is to log on to Voxminer, at fifteen and into the unforgiving world of adolescence-building, there are stresses and pressures. Danny has some new friends critter-collecting game that is a hit in the rugby team and they are full of the obnoxious, somewhat sexist, bravado of the jock Lori's world. They make jokes about Philippa and she But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't like it. She gets angry when Danny doesn't shut them down. Andfind herself entirely on her own, if and then she's truthful, she's a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with themfinds something even more spooky. For his part, Danny feels a bit suffocated by this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy Reed|title=The Nowhere Girls|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' is another timely novel that aims to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at the moment. It sees Grace, Erin server she and her bestie and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite to create a movement, known as The Nowhere Girls, which will challenge the sexist culture at their school. In the process, they hope to get justice for Lucy, a local girl who was forced nobody else should be able to leave town as a result enter shows signs of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rapetampering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Perkins|title= There's Someone Inside Your House|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young is still adjusting to When malevolent eyes spark up on her new life with phone screen, and her grandmother safe place in landlocked Nebraska after her parents send her away from her beloved Hawaiian home. She's made friends and the game has even had a hint of romancebeen doctored – well, yet her old life where is hard a girl to forget. But things in her new quiet little Nebraskan town take a strange turn when one by one, her classmates are violently murdered. No one knows who is next on the killer's list or why they are being targeted, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with her.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerRachel Greenlaw|title=My Side of the DiamondCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''You have to accept that if two people jump from I can hear the dome song of St Paul's they would be bound to landthe sea. They'd be dead but they would landThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Except Rosevear, in this most unusual booka remote and partially forgotten island, they didn'tsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Two people were seen leaving the outside Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the London Cathedral's dome, but were never found at seven who swim out to survey the foot of it ruins – rescuing any survivors and someone has been in prison ever since for pushing them offany treasure that lies within. ItBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's a most peculiar scenario, leader and our narrator Jaz is struggling Mira's father. Desperate to tell her mysterious interrogatorsave him from death, Mr Jones, all about it – Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and all about her relationship with only coordinates to guide her best friend. Now Becky, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the friendsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, was a child prodigy sci-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else as her journey takes her from life. Rushing around the watched streets of foreign islands to investigate the case heart of the fallerssmuggler's territory, she seems Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to have found that, in save the shape future of a hot-blooded romance. But what is Jaz doing starting her testimony with talk of inquests, evidence home and hatred?the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis de BernieresHarry Allen|title=Blue Dog|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death and Mick was sent to live in in the outback with Granpa. On the face of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyone, with all the heat and the dust. But they've all got to make the best Children of the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=SatelliteSun

|summary=Born Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and raisedshe is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, along with twins Orion so Seo and her friends Nari and Libra, on the space station Moon 2, Leo has never set foot on Earth. And yet, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits about 250 miles above Earth. It travels at 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit Min go foraging every ninety minutes. If you ever look out of the porthole beneathevening, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean looking for real? Leo tree bark and the twins may soon be able edible grasses to do that now that they are teenagers and supplement the scientists below think they are strong enough to come home. Each has their own idea meagre rations of what it will be like rice and what they would like to do. Orion wants to go to a concert. Libra wants to dig her hands in soil. Leo wants to throw a ball and observe its arc. Everyone wants to see a bird in flightkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreview|title=The Dollmaker of KrakowFrontpage|author=R M RomeroAlexia Casale|ratingtitle=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Karolina is a refugee from the Land of the Dolls. Her homeland has been ravaged by rats and Karolina was blown by a magical wind into Krakow, Poland, at the height of WWII. She finds herself in a workshop belonging to Cyryl, known as the Dollmaker of Krakow. Lonely, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement a strong friendship which helps Cyryl in his life outside the workshop. But itSing if you Can's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under a vicious enemy: it's Poland, too. Together, Karolina and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours and determine to do whatever the can to save from the monstrous Nazi regime...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Danny Weston|title=Scarecrowt Dance

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= When JackIt's dad discovers illegal activity at work and blows the whistle, he makes some very powerful and dangerous enemies. He and Jack are forced hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to go into hiding in navigate a remote cottage life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Scottish highlandsmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. Miles from anywhere and anyone But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, they hope they will be alone and safe. But it quickly transpires desperate to get back to a life that they are neither's as normal as she can possibly manage. Dad Meanwhile there's enemies already know where they are heading anda new (cute!) boy in school, even before they move inher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Jack starts and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to have doubts whether they are actually alonenavigate. Did he really see the scarecrow next So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to their cottage movesing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve ColeSimon Fox|title=SenselessDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=16 year old Kenzie MitchellLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, otherwise known as K-Boyand then suddenly rings Archie, thinks his every dream has come true when demanding he's wins the chance to attend fetch something from a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ secret place, and join him on a remote tropical islandthe run. The contestants are flown in on their own private jet and transferred by limo They get together, but barely begin to smell the swankiest whiff of hotels. It all seems too good to be true – which of course it Southern trains when the father is. Within hoursarrested, events start leaving Archie on the late express to take Brighton, toting a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in the night unable tin his father was determined to see and one by one keep away from his other senses – touch, hearingcolleagues, smell and taste – flicker in and out. And he's not on his own. It's happening to the other contestants too, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isn't really happening. He wants to believe it's just bearer of a really good virtual reality game. But with Sensia in control, the line between realities has almost entirely disappearedwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Phill FeatherstoneLex Croucher|title= Paradise GirlGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 34|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on a Yorkshire farm – a somewhat idealised one Who knew that survives on what I really needed to read right now was a few hens and two or three cows and gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a few sheepmost delightful way. The kind of farm that might In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been profitable betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been struggling. A teenage boy not pulling his weight, now kingdom's only female knight) - something that the grandparents are old and the father is dead, would not be met with exasperated indulgenceArt discovers from her private diaries. There are no stock-handsAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers the costs of creating the rest subterfuge of it. Already, falling in settinglove with each other, it's feeling a little unrealwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But maybe we as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can forgive that… both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingNick Brooks|authortitle=William SutcliffePromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=Lex lives in what used to be London. Today, it When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a closed-offmurdered, bombed-out area known three boys find themselves called into the police station as ''The Strip''suspects. Nobody comes in and nobody can go out. Drones are Each, seemingly, has a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him the job grudge of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorismsome description against Principal Moore, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in and each could have been there at the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622time of his murder. But Lex calls who killed him Dad. Lex , and why, and Alan if any of the boys are innocent, will never meet. But they be able to clear their lives will collide in devastating ways...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jay Jay Burridge1919635017|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= Travel back over Solomon Klyne isn't a hundred years into Whitbybad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's past ll have to see two witches battle wait to get an ancient evil. Follow young Lil as she tries answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers and find her best friend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian GallagherPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= PawnsDifferent for Boys|rating= 34.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary=''Pawns'' tells the story of JohnnyAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Stella and Aliceis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, all so his desk is one of whom are growing up in Ireland during four with both his best buddy from the War of Independencefootball team, and who have somehow become friends two other old muckers – in spite of their very different political viewsfact they all go back to primary school days together. Stella is passionately pro-British As they're all fired up, while Johnny frequently risks his life to pass information to straining at the proleash only a single-Irish rebelssex school can form, the talk in class and Alice out often turns to sex. Which is left stranded confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the middleladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, supporting neither side he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the disputesex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Zillah Bethell1800901232|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Auden has Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a condition called achromatopsiafashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, which means that he can't see colours. He likes so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to pretend that offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it doesn't matter but it doeswas an opportunity not to be missed. And Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the older Auden getsmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the more it seems other girls were not going to matter. Mind youwork in a shop, so does everything else...... because Auden lives they were to work in a near-future Britain virtual slavery in a world where climate change has taken rootan illegal garment factory. It never rains any more. Britain, an island You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with plenty of coastline, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the Water Authority Board is now a quasiartfully-government as the most important placed rips and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Audendistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's father is away fightingquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraPatrice Lawrence|title= They Both Die at the EndNeedle|rating= 43

|summary= Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'No matter how we choose of this piece is extremely hard for some people to livelike, we characters and readers both die at the end. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he' The year is 2017s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the place creation of one such item is Americapart of the plot here, but this as Charlene is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know the exact date wonder knitter, and is making something full of everyonelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's death allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and make it their mission then force people to inform Deckers that they will be dead within the next twenty-four hoursgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Many have tried well, what exactly happens is not for me to cheat deathsay, all have failedonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Sarah CrossanRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is seventeen 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 he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearsmake merry between their conquests. And the reason for However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texasa Crafter like him, convicted of someone with the murder of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a police officerpower sought after all across the Empire. Ed says he's innocentHe asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Aunt Karen doesnWell, soon Kurara won't believe him. And Mum is long gonehave any say in the matter, no-one knows where. When because the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job and Midori is destroyed by a spot on monstrous paper spirit known as a summer athletics scholarship shikigami, and treks from New York across she is forced to flee out into the country so that Ed is not aloneworld. He She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I am TraitorMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Wrath

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above LondonMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The Prime Minister appeared on TV Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to announce this ominous visitation and order a curfew. After thatdo what he wants, to go where he went AWOL wants and took all reliable information with himwhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, leaving Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the army to patrol enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the streetsearth. Not that Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the army has any answer to end of the long pipes that snake down from world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the ships and gobble up teenagerstruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. To where, nobody knows.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysTori Bovalino|authortitle=Alex BellThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''Charlotte sayss library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself... don't open What makes it worse is the man who requested the doorbooks: Mr Birch.'' JemimaThe boarding school's mother died in an awful fire not long ago headmaster, and that is why Jemima decides to leave London a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and take up deliver such a job as a teacher large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on the Isle each of Skye. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping books, scribbled with the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on that terrible nightugliest insults she can think of. It doesnThey't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the schoolre never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is a strangeto get her anger out like this, forbidding sortand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy AdlingtonPhilip Reeve|title=The Red RibbonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=Ella is rushing to her audition for In a job in fashionword, as are several other young womenrich. Thrown There is certainly an abundance of riches in at this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the deep end in the highScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-pressure workplacewitches, she is tasked with creating a dress and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from scratch for an important client before four pm that dayeven further west, where no ship dare sail. But she manages itThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, even working through who has to keep notes of activity from the non-existent lunch breakHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to design a silk wonder worthy worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of any environmentthe sea one day eleven years ago. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design housewhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and this is no normal environment for his curious ward are thrust into the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – world of protecting their island, like it or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Inot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= Genuine FraudJulia and the Shark|rating= 4|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= I'm going to straight up say that I'm not going to mention Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the plot family home in this reviewSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistingthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, turning, great suspense that kind of a novelScottish island. All I will say Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie his specialist thing, while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the side of a bus any time soonelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, and if that happenswell, then it she will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backsidebe homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsJonathan Stroud|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

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