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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WhelanJenny Valentine|title=The Box of DemonsUs in the Before and After|rating=35

|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is haunted by owning a Box of Demons, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says on the tinonce in a lifetime connection. It contains three demons, of different kinds, that have hampered his concentration They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at school, caused no end of mischief he has had to take the blame for, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospitaltime. But is that all it contains? The demonsthen chance brings them back together, as naughty as and they might be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of thingsare inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and where as a result might Ben end uptragic, if the forces of good and evil choose now (a wet they must work through their grief, and stormy February)their friendship, and here (North Wales) to have it out once and for all?together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboMax Boucherat|title=Dreaming the Bear|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's a typical teenager whose natural habitat is the shopping mall and the multiplex. It's, therefore, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible to adjust to living in a snowy wilderness without television, a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that she's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quickly. But it is this very weakness that changes her life when, exhausted, she stumbles into the shelter The Last Life of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bear. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ross Welford|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He livesWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, unknowinglyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, among a family of time travellerson her lonesome. His grandfather What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everythingone main intention, and could tell you what happened that is to log on every day of his lifeto Voxminer, and take himself back with his thoughts. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldworld-building, and critter-collecting game that is a snapshot of a sun that is remote both hit in time and spaceLori's world. But even harder to fathom is first Lori has a tiny inkling that Althis stormy night doesn's father is a real time travellert find herself entirely on her own, and is going to speak from beyond then she finds something even more spooky. For the grave, server she and her bestie and send Al nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on a true mission through timeher phone screen, one that will either save his lifeand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, or completely ruin all Al's forevers, for, er, for ever.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Anna and the Swallow ManRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Gavriel SavitCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=It's Poland 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in 1939my heart. And Anna's linguistics professor father ' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is about one of the seven who swim out to be rounded up in survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the Nazi purge of intellectualsisland's leader and Mira's father. Knowing this is likely Desperate to happensave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he leaves is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in the care search of a friend for family secret that lies buried deep in the daysea. When With only nine days to unearth what might save her father doesn, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't return s territory, Mira must be determined to collect stop at nothing to save the future of her, home and the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous world. Anna is just seven years old and will never see her father againones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantHarry Allen|title= Front Lines|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength to Children of the Alliance and women are allowed to fight in the military for the first time. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the war, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill the man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Courtney Summers|title=All The RageSun

|summary=In Ra Eun Seo lives in a small North Korean town, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, and she is a teenage girl is rapedtalented singer. ''All The Rage'' Life is as simple as that, hard and yet it food is difficult to come by, so much more complicated too. It touches upon the blame that is laid at the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope with the days Seo and her friends Nari and weeks Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and years after such an ordeal; edible grasses to supplement the idea that, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you youmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonAlexia Casale|title=Mind Your HeadSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing yearIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasnchanging disability too, but that't achieved parity s what Ven is dealing with physical health after collapsing on stage in terms the middle of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards dance performance that was going to mental ill healthchange her life. It covers the various types of illness But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the treatments availablepity stares, how and desperate to get back to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. Shelife that's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alyssa Sheinmel|title=Faceless|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Maisie is a as normal high school studentas she can possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's the star of the a new (cute!) boy in school running team, has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend and she's all set her music A Level performance piece to go try to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedysort out, Maisie finds herself in hospital in and just the serious burns unit and without most day to day traumas of all the challenges her face. When a donor appears, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplantbody continues to throw at her to navigate. Her doctors, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky So even though she is... But Maisie doesncan't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarringdance anymore, might she has no idea who she is anymore. be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreview|title=How not to Disappear|author=Clare Furniss|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie is having rather a miserable summer. Both her best friends, Reuben and Nat, are away, living it up in the south of France and Edinburgh respectively. Hattie, meanwhile, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at a burger joint. It's hardly glamorous and it's very dispiriting to be the one waiting at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceSimon Fox|title=Queen of the Silver ArrowDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=King Metabus had not been a good king and his escape Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached shift on the river he had to make a decision force, and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her to his javelinthen suddenly rings Archie, which demanding he threw across the torrentfetch something from a secret place, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with her father and ran wild in join him on the forestrun. In nearby LaurentumThey get together, Acca had grown up hearing but barely begin to smell the story whiff of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in Southern trains when the ground and dreamed of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camilla's fatheris arrested, when leaving Archie on the girls became firm friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=A Dark Trade|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina Friday, known late express to everyone as GinaBrighton, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be toting a servant is a big house in central London. There were seven members of the family and twelve servants - and Gina tin his father was the one at the bottom who had determined to run about after everyone keep away from his colleagues, and who was the butt bearer of practical jokes. She could cope with that, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions a whole heap of one of the young men of the family. She'd already heard the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Evans |title=More of Me |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=At school, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normal. But at home Teva's life is about as far from normal as it's possible to get. Locked away in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house are eleven other Tevas, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with the new Teva going out in the world while the previous Teva is kept inside, trapped as her younger selfquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewLex Croucher|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper Gwen and T CooperArt Are Not in Love

|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next Who knew that what I really needed toread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Others worry about who In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they'll wake up as...'' Ethanwere tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, who is 14you see, is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school career in a brand new townlove with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Imagine his shock And then when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan, now Drew, is Gwen then catches Art kissing a Changerboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, one creating the subterfuge of an ancient race of humankindfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and he will undergo not onethey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, but THREE more such changes - one for each year of his time at high school. Drew's parents or are overjoyed at they destined to live a lie their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=River of Ink 1: GenesisNick Brooks|authortitle=Helen DennisPromise Boys

|summary=''Some people believe that when you drownWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, your whole life flashes before youthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. The boy in the river saw only bottles Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, driftwood and each could have been there at the dented licence plate time of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowningmurder.''  But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on the banks of the Thames, something propels who killed him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenchedand why, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospitalif any of the boys are innocent, River Boy remains unable will they be able to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively drawsclear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)1919635017|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Despite the name, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birds, everything is feminine – the island is Solomon Klyne isn't a rugged mountain landbad lad, home to only one abbey where everyone so why is female, and worshipping he running around London committing a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages series of life. The novices there are on the cusp, in several ways – of girls turning robberies? And how did he learn to women, of students turning to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means for them starting crack safes? You'll have to practise it with a duty wait to others. And, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them get an answer to the abbey and what could come if they ever leavesecond question because I avoid spoilers. Maresi comes from a family that lost But I'll answer the first one daughter through famine, and the inability to support themselves: for his grandmother.. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Alba Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide what is surprised to do find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the rest of their livesfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Move to As they're all fired up, straining at the city? Enrol at university? Get leash only a job and make a life in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career -sex school can form, the talk in art class and comic books is possibleout often turns to sex. And if it Which isconfusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is it worth leaving , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a happy life and casual relationship, a friendship group secret one, for? Itseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's a frightening choice. Is she good enough? And set in any casestone, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decideshe can't be sure. Because each member And that's mostly because of it has who he's been having the relationship and the same choice before themsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Becca Fitzpatrick 1800901232|title=Dangerous Lies Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programme, 17 Twelve-year -old Estella's life is turned upside downHanh wanted to be a fashion designer. She's torn away from Life in the rural village where she lived with her longfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-term boyfriend dressed man and forced woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to abandon both her friends be missed. Some money changed hands and her identityHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Leaving city life behind her Only, she's convinced there is no way she will be able Hanh and the other girls were not going to adapt work in a shop, they were to Thunder Basin, Nebraskawork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But, then, she hadn 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't expected to fall for the boy next doors quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtPatrice Lawrence|title=Orbiting JupiterNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old JosephBrave. But Joseph isnCharlene, the 't heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like most fourteen year-olds, characters and readers both. He 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 troubled: old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the rumour creation of one such item is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for trying 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 kill his teachergive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And there's something else about Josephthen... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, too: he has a daughteronly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardAnn Sei Lin|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of WisdomRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=For Kurara has spent her entire life as a Bear servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense Empire come to drink and we should be honoured make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that he's chosen she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to share with us form paper into whatever she desires – a few of his wise wordspower sought after all across the Empire. You seeHe asks her to come with him, occasionally (well, an awful lot to leave the life of the timedreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, if wesoon Kurara won're honest) we look for wisdom t have any say in the wrong places matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and forget about those who have a very simple approach she is forced to life and who may well have discovered flee out into the secret of happinessworld. Pooh's take on life She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is very simple to hunt down shikigami, and none the worse for that.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison Marcus Sedgwick|title=Never EversWrath

|summary=Two English schoolsMeet Fitz, six 14 year-old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip to France. Add a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video and you have the perfect recipe for a light-hearted and funny teen romanceyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Candy Harper|title=Keep The Faith|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= The basics of the plot here are that Faith Lockdown is going on a French exchangeonly just over, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant and he should be free to join her on. Meanwhile there's more boy troubledo what he wants, while she's also trying to juggle revising for exams go where he wants and applying to become a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the minds of certain teachers!) The plot is never really the main point of a Faith book though - instead it's a welcome way when he talks to catch up with one of the his best friendship groups in recent YA fictionfriend, Cassie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Corns|title=Lucerin: Identity|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aiden Chase seems, on the face They were half of it, to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bulliesdesultory school band, homework and girls. He has no idea that he has Lucerin blood; but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the key to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time and even materialising solid items enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from thin airthe earth. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable to Is this connected with one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head of a group her eco-warrior parents saying the end of powerful Lucerin who 'pull the strings' behind the world scenes. Initially is already a force for peace, the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have the power to change all done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of that and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malala Yousafzai|title= I Am Malala|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' is my OHmusic she's response to any mention dreaming of Malala. I ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girl. One voice among many. It's just that she decided to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got her to a hospital, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to the UK for treatment.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyTori Bovalino|title=Anything That Isn't ThisThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Frank Palp lives Working all summer in a dull, dystopian world, where her boarding school''The Grey'' pervades every aspect of life, from s library is the food last thing Tess Matheson wants to the architecture. So insidious are these changes, do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that no-one seems she has to have noticed them, apart from Frankdeliver herself. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem to be completely oblivious to What makes it worse is the sinister nature of man who requested the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quobooks: Mr Birch. The all-powerful boarding school''Ministry'' has s headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a stranglehold on everything petty act of revenge for making her find and everyonedeliver such a large request, with Tess sticks post-it notes on each household having its own assigned studentof the books, who records everything and reports suspicious activity scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to the mysterious Mr Vertexreach him, of course. Frank thinks he Her plan is the only person who hates to get her anger out like this oppressive world, but one day he finds a message in a bottle with a wish for ''anything that isnand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't this,'' and goes on a desperate search delivered them for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mateher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E R MurrayPhilip Reeve|title= The Book Utterly Dark and the Face of Learningthe Deep|rating= 45

|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for companyIn a word, Ebony Smart's world rich. There is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with certainly an Aunt she didn't know existedabundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, Ebony soon discovers that her new homeBritish but way west, 23 Mercury Lane, is full of secretsbeyond the Scillies. Discovering that she is part of an ancient order of There are troll people who have the power to reincarnateon it, Ebony is soon under threat from a terrible evil that threatens to destroy their existence. With just her pet rat Winstonand sea-witches, and a mysterious book legends of the Dark family that has to help her, she must figure out why her people are disappearing keep watch for magical islands and how to save their souls, and her ownmonster approaching from even further west, before time runs out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23|rating=4where no ship dare sail.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Boy 23 isn't in My Place any more. He can't see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alone.'' Before being dumped alone in current Darks are the forest by The VoiceWatcher, Boy 23 - or JesperAndrewe, as we shall call him - who has lived in a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience to keep notes of activity from the world has been through a few short video clipsHidden Lands, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice brother Will who lives in My Place. Now, he finds himself alone London with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: too much science in his life is in dangerhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, people have been sent to kill himand Andrewe's foundling daughter, he must head north west to who washed up out of the Low Countriessea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, The Voice will meet him there both his sullen brother and explain everythinghis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Wolf by WolfJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's 1956. And Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a very different world from summer, in the far NE of the one you'd expectScottish islands. Germany won World War II and the Nazi project is in full flow Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Lebensraum Dad is expanding. The extermination project has spread going to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant and be automating the United States lantern, which is pursuing an isolationist policyhis specialist thing, hoping Nazism never makes it while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Americaselusive Greenland shark. The main Axis powers of Germany and Japan have pretty much divided territory between them. To commemorate a victorious war And Julia, the two powers host the annual Axis Tourwell, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felixshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J RyanJonathan Stroud|title=Missing Dad: WantedThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe Scarlett McCain is in big trouble. He's been driving an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the car his grandfather bought him before he's even old enough Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to take wander the driving testwildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. And been caughtBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Still worseWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, he's suspected they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of a hit-and-run and the police don't look as though London Lagoon. Together, they believe him when he insists he must brave man- eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and his car all the horrors of post- were nowhere near apocalyptic society to reach the scene. Mum is unimpressed Free Isles, but also worried and Joe feels horribly guilty. As if things couldn't will they be worse, Joe is also suspended from school. any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha CarthewMercedes Helnwein|title=The Light That Gets LostSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=At just seven years Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of age, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brother. He escapes the attack by hiding in a wardrobe. After thatman with a "real" family, he she is taken into care. We meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. Heused to not being a priority in people's on his way to Camp Kernowlives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, a work camp her simple existence is changed for recalcitrant teensgood. For TreyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, this is the realisation of for her life now has a longstanding plan - he believes boy in it that the man who murdered his parents works at the camp and he intends to find him and kill him. In Trey's mind, things are simpleshe never asked for: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever afterWade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)T L Huchu|title=Once Upon a PlaceThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=You know the Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she' book, where Eoin Colfer had s been using it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rathersupport not only herself, it was pridebut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Pride in However, there's an evil stalking the difference ruined streets of itEdinburgh, of targeting the Irishness of itcity's children. Ireland, it seems to meSoon, Ropa is more full than usual pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of people, things and ideas, his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and places realise that are different by dint the world of their singular nationality – magic is far bigger and so many deserve to have pride attached to themmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. The places might not be Will she find the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, missing children and of stories, which is where bring an end to this compilation of short works for the young comes inevil, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about or will it.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>1529039452