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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When FinWe meet Lori on the first evening she's guardiangot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Judge Harlequin Brown is murderedjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, life as he knows it becomes on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a whole lot more exciting blanket fort, she has one main intention, and dangerous. In that is to log on to Voxminer, the course of one lifeworld-changing daybuilding, he learns critter-collecting game that there is a pathway between his London hit in Lori'Somewheres world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and an alternate London 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 a parallel world called 'Nowhere'tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and that her safe place in the fates of both worlds are now under threat from game has been doctored – well, where is a group of rogue Knights, who have the ability girl to travel between these worlds using their double edged swords.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerRachel Greenlaw|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of MidnightCompass and Blade|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Like the first four novellas in the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two 'bind-up' editions - this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisteria, Maryland and trying to find closure on past events3. In this case, Anna is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return to the place where her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their family, but by the time she returns her uncle is dead, his body found in the boot of a burnt out car. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct is to get out as quickly as possible, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said to be psychic, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards a solution - but also further into danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisi Harrison|title=Monster High|rating=5

|summary=I don't know about everyone else, but 'I'm getting a bit fed up can hear the song of the sea. The call of all the vampiresdeep, werewolves and other creepies that seem to have popped up since the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]answering beat in my heart. So, when this book landed on my doorstep, I can't say I held much hope for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Clare Chambers|title=Burning Secrets|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=DanielRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, his like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and his sister Louie are escaping any treasure that lies within. But when the city Council Watch lays a trap to spend six months on end the wrecking, they capture the isolated island of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniels leader and Mira's mother father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie as charming as he is prone secretive and with only coordinates to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after guide her, she sets off in search of a conviction for fire-setting resulting family secret that lies buried deep in the death 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 an old itinerant. Therethe smuggler's plenty territory, Mira must be determined to leave behindstop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelHarry Allen|title=Half BrotherChildren of the Sun

|summary=Ben's thirteen Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and an only child. You'd think he was entirely used to being the centre of attention, then, wouldn't you? But this isn't really the case. Ben's parents are academics. His father she is a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as her husband's research assistanttalented singer. Ben Life is used to coming second to the advance of science. He can cope with that. Usually. But then his parents up sticks hard and move him all the way across Canada. Why? Because his father's new university food is prepared difficult to underwrite his new project - raising a chimpanzee as human and trying to teach it American Sign Language. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|title=Sigrun's Secret|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It must have seemed to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in Icelandcome by, breaking so Seo and training the colts on the family farm or helping her mother, Thora, who was a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her father's ship returned home friends Nari and the family was together again. It was not to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding a dreadful secret and when it caught up with themMin go foraging every evening, Sigrun, her father looking for tree bark and Asgrim, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik for three years. She was completely unused edible grasses to supplement the busy city life meagre rations of rice and disliked the violence and cruelty she found around her. But – kimchi at the same time – her own skills as a healer and midwife began to blossom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)|rating=4home.5|genre=Teens|summary=Larten Crepsley leads a hard, hard life. One child amongst many, born during an industrial revolution, he works horrendously long and dangerous hours in a silk factory even though he's yet to see his teens. If the family is to eat, there is little choice. The foreman is a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, and nobody dares challenge him and if it wasn't for his orphan cousin, Vur, Larten's life would be grim indeed. But things never seem quite so dark when you have a true friend, do they? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beate Teresa HanikaAlexia Casale|title=Learning to ScreamSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Malvina is thirteen It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years oldwithout suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the youngest middle of three children in a dysfunctional familydance performance that was going to change her life. Her father is a very grumpy teacherBut she comes back fighting, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems desperate to suffer permanently from migraine. She has a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united in their dislike of the 'boys from avoid the estate'. Her grandmother died last yearpity stares, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job desperate to get back to go and visit him and take him his meals. The family think this is a great arrangement because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visits. Therelife that's a problem thoughas normal as she can possibly manage. Malvina doesnMeanwhile there't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Bracegirdle|title=The Joy of Spooking: Unearthly Asylum|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The district of Spooking is still a problem for the evil diplomats from Darlington, the city that surrounds it. It was in the way of their waterpark [[The Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P J Bracegirdle|last time]], and now puts a stop to s a new sewage plant. Actually, chiefly (cute!) boy in the way last time was Joyschool, who still calls it home. her music A coldLevel performance piece to try to sort out, decrepit, run-down and gothic home in her instance, but home nevertheless. But just the evil diplomats are still making their plans day to redevelop day traumas of all the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige for it with challenges her beloved author E A Peugeot as a son of Spooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leila Rasheed|title=The World Turned Upside Down|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Stratford upon Avon 1642 – The English Civil War has come body continues to the town. Mary is a young Catholic throw at a time when her religion was regarded with deep suspicionto navigate. She is drawn to Jack, So even though he is a Roundhead soldier with no moneyshe can't dance anymore, land or status, and he is from an inferior background might she be able to sing her.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956506402</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceySimon Fox|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the WendigoDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop has spent Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his life tracking down dark and mysterious creatures, shift on the existence of some of these fiends is too much for him to believe. In fact, there's a split between Warthrop, his former close friend John Chanlerforce, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampiresthen suddenly rings Archie, werewolvesdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predatorrun. Warthrop scoffs at the other men's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why it's impossible for it to exist - but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when he disappears searching for it. It's not just friendship that drives him to look for his colleague though, as he's asked by Chanler's wife Muriel - who is Warthrop's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes the monstrumologist and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wilderness They get together, but when they return barely begin to New York they bring back someone - or something - that can endanger their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After spending smell the entire whiff of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], Southern trains when the excellent second book in this series, looking for itfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can shelate express to Brighton, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince toting a tin his father was determined to make peace with keep away from his fathercolleagues, or is their quest to end in bloodshed and failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=Out For Blood|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academy. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one bearer of the most infamous vampire hunters a whole heap of his generation. He believes in staking all vampires, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brenna YovanoffLex Croucher|title=The ReplacementGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Mackie lives Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet townmost delightful way. People are good and kind and the trials In this story, Gwen and tribulations of other places Arthur have traditionally been absent betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from Gentryher private diaries. Recently And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, howevercreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, things have felt less secure. People when really they are getting nervous and it just won't stop rainingenabling their own other romantic attachments. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning they destined to fail. It's getting more and more difficult to avoid the truth... ... because Mackie is different. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannNick Brooks|title=GonePromise Boys

|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now she's graduated from high When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, has a guaranteed job with three boys find themselves called into the local police after collegestation as suspects. Each, and a boyfriend who loves her like crazy. Her future should be brightseemingly, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - has to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fightinggrudge of some description against Principal Moore, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll be blind and crippledeach could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Downham1919635017|title=You Against MeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of man, you seek revenge, rightrobberies? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says And how did he didn't do it, you defend him, don't youlearn to crack safes?You'' It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother's ll have to wait to get an alcoholic and Mikey has answer to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the house - getting food on the table, getting first one: for his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social servicesgrandmother.. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=RevolutionDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Meet AndiAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, a New York girl on a trip and is surprised to 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 football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to Parisprimary school days together. SheAs they's a talented musician re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for exceptional studentsAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. SheHe's had a casual relationship, a wisecrackingsecret one, for several months now, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. Sheand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's a brilliant people watcherset in stone, and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smilehe can't be sure. SheAnd that's also seriously depressed mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Lynn Barnes1800901232|title=Raised by WolvesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Bryn has Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed with her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Pack, but Humanwas happy, if not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine it – to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true self. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms and Europe's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacy, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard a gift for Sultan Mehmed Vprosperous, Lord of the Horizons and ruler of the Ottoman Empire. But so when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan smartly-dressed man and Alek, the heir woman came to the throne of Austria-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secrets, but not everyone wants village to spark offer Hahn a deadly war...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Stroud|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Barty is back! Well, he isn't actually back. But we do get job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to revisit himbe missed. Which is good. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don't, Bartimaeus is a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the star of a wonderful and bestmini-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied bus to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies of world history, particularly that of LondonHanoi. In fact Only, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who has. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. He's a rude, sarcastic egomaniac Hanh and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible one liner. And he usually comes through in the end. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=Furnace: Fugitives|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It has taken three books for Alex other girls were not going to get out of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murderwork in a shop, and he would have found it a better experience they were it a regular prisonto work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But no. Over You know those three books we have seen just what lives and works in jeans you really wanted: the completely subterranean nightmare - The Warden, Mr Furnace, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the evil creatures they are both making, breeding and employing down there. legs? But The ones with the whole experience has come at a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too much, artfully-placed rips and they are changing him too - making him one of their tools. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's only now, on the outside for the first time, quite possible that Alex gets a clearer picture of just how many tools there are Hanh and her co- and just how much evil has been spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carl Hiaasen|title=Scat|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Nick and his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for trouble, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimples, then trouble can't be far away. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blame. But the evidence doesn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to workers made them to discover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerPatrice Lawrence|title=Blade: Risking AllNeedle|rating=53

|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 's the final chapter. Thereheroine's nothing let now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left of this piece is extremely hard for some people to lose like, characters and at last revenge is in sightreaders both. Under pressure from the porkers Kicked out of multiple homes and the gangsschools, and she's fostering with his private empire crumblinga pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Hawk and has retreated to his remote hideouttaken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Blade Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is therepart of the plot here, waiting. But Hawk as Charlene is surrounded by a private army wonder knitter, and is making something full of securitylove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Dozens of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and getting past them isn't going then force people to be easygive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But Blade has his instinct back and nothing well, what exactly happens is going not for me to stand in his waysay, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Losing is not an option. But can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemption? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019275601X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert MuchamoreAnn Sei Lin|title=Shadow Wave (CHERUB)Rebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=A shadow wave is Kurara has spent her entire life as a tidal flow that happens after servant on the Midori, a tsunami, and it can be deadly because it travels massive dining hall floating in the opposite direction sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and is often unexpectedmake merry between their conquests. Robert Muchamore's latest book in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenonHowever, and tells what happens when a bunch of young CHERUB secret agents and their teachers get caught up in man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the chaos in Malaysia which follows power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the 2004 earthquake and tsunamiEmpire. They rescue impoverished villagers and help them begin rebuilding their homesHe asks her to come with him, only to see leave the life of dreary servitude that is all their hard work she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by government officials who use the disaster a monstrous paper spirit known as an excuse a shikigami, and she is forced to take away flee out into the fishermen's land and use it world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to build hotels for rich foreigners. Muchamore pulls no punches as he shows how greed hunt down shikigami, and corruption win out over people's right to keep to their traditional lifestyles.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034095647X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersMarcus Sedgwick|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood AlchemyWrath

|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on Meet Fitz, a prison planet, young Scottish lad full of frustration at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopershimself. Chess Lockdown is only just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee over, and languishes in a safe house, itching to he should be free. None of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess to do what he wants , to find out who she really is go where he wants and then to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box whom he wants to get back to Chess and help protect her. And Splinter, well, but he's got ideas of cannot stop himself from putting his own and they certainly don't include an agonising death at the hands of foot in it when he talks to his captorsbest friend, Cassie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nadia Aguiar|title=Secrets They were half of Tamarind|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The Island of Tamarind is once again under threata desultory school band, from the evils of the Red Coral. Once more Simon and his sisters Maya and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save Cassie was also one hundred per cent the island that only they can reach, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Triangle. For enigmatic – saying she could hear a second book running they must breach the barriers, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helix's legacy, and subhuman hum coming from the native magical element ophalla, and put the island to rightsearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas E Sniegoski|title=The Fallen: Fallen and Leviathan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thousands of years ago, a bunch of angels fell in love Is this connected with human women. For their sins, they were cast out one of Heaven. Their children are her eco-warrior parents saying the Nephilim. They are hunted by Verchiel, leader end of the Powers, hell-bent (excuse the pun!) on destroying them, especially the leader who prophecy says will lead them. On his 18th birthday, Aaron Corbet has world is already a strange dream done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of weapons clanging and angels descending on a battlefield... and wakes up able to speak and understand any language, including that music she's dreaming of his dog Gabriel. We ? Is she just bonkers? And can see where this is goingFitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't we?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071211</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyTori Bovalino|title=The Dead of WinterDevil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's not enough library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to find out you're do — especially when she gets a request for over a clone and hundred books that she has to have both a renegade scientist deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill youman Tess hates. Oh no. Because when MI5 As a petty act of revenge for making her find and the FBI relocate youdeliver such a large request, they condemn you to living thousands Tess sticks post-it notes on each of miles away from the only other person in books, scribbled with the world that might understand what youugliest insults she can think of. They've been throughre never meant to reach him, of course. ItHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's safer that way, apparentlyt delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanPhilip Reeve|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Mark and Lily have left Agora and they have no idea what to expect from the land beyond the city wallsIn a word, rich. They have been brought up within a rigid system based There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on barter in a city where everything can be traded: goodspeculiar island called Wildsea, servicesBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll peopleon it, and sea-witches, even emotions are up for sale. They have also been taught that outside and legends of the city walls is a wilderness, with no civilised life. Do bear in mind here Dark family that their idea of civilisation is Agora…They are ill equipped has to survive, keep watch for magical islands and immediately make things worse by arguing with one another. Mark is furious with Lily for her part in their banishment and his actions lead to Lily being placed in great dangermonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rook Hastings|title=Immortal Remains (Weirdsville)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Welcome back to WeirdsvilleThe current Darks are the Watcher, sorry WoodsvilleAndrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the town set in a truly creepy hollowHidden Lands, whose forest contains the greatest concentration of ghosts you'll find anywhere his brother Will who lives in England. Fresh from vanquishing a ghost army and enabling Emily to pass on to the other side and be reunited London with her mother, our four reluctant ghosthunters have a new mystery too much science in his head to solve. Freak accidents have killed four worry about such local girls in the last four monthsyokel superstitions, and Charlotte is convinced she will be next. SheAndrewe's the only one left alive from a seance she and her friends took part infoundling daughter, and she is certain that death is stalking her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Mulligan|title=Trash|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Raphael lives in Behala, a slum that's grown who washed up around a landfill site in an unnamed South American country. He's a dumpsite boy - this means he and his family scrape a living by combing through the detritus out of richer people's lives. Behala replaced Smoky Mountain, another slum that got so dangerous that landslides killed dozens of people and the authorities closed itsea one day eleven years ago. What a homeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, eh? But Raphael has a smile that lights up both his whole face sullen brother and lifts his curious ward are thrust into the spirits world of all those upon whom he bestows protecting their island, like it. And he has good things in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secretor not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619014</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sara StarbuckKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Dread Pirate Fleur Julia and the Hangman's NooseShark

|summary=When a mysterious young girl in a barrel is fished Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the sea and rescued by the pirate ship belonging family home in SW England to Fleur's uncle William, it seems bad news might be on the way. The girl turns out to have psychic abilities - and they're just about to hit landfall at Salemlighthousekeepers for a summer, right in time for the witch-huntsfar NE of the Scottish islands. But worse is to come. William gets captured thereHere be Vikings, and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board insteadthat kind of Scottish island. Fleur then has Dad is going to skipper be automating the craft herselflantern, on a rescue missionwhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in a very tense domestic situationalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. That's hard enough when you're a mere teenaged girlAnd Julia, against ruffians and pirateswell, but when the ship has secrets of her own to she will be revealed..homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken HowardJonathan Stroud|title=The Young ChieftainOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=One minute, Jamie Doran Scarlett McCain is playing basketball with his friends in downtown LAan outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the next he's en route Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the island Seven Kingdoms of Doran in Scotland Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to bury his fatherkeep herself alive. James DoranBut then she meets Albert Browne, you see, had been Doran's clan chieftain. The island proves a culture shock for cosmpolitan Jamiedark boy with dark powers and a darker past. It's remote and dilapidatedWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, there's no internet or mobile phone access, and they plan to flee to the only TV is in mythical Free Isles of the community centreLondon Lagoon. Jamie's grandmother isn't welcoming either Together, they must brave man- in facteating wildlife, she barely bothers the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to hide her distate for her black daughter-reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in-law and mixed race grandson. the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848530331</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantMercedes Helnwein|title=Lies (Gone)Slingshot|rating=43

|summary=Sam is tired of Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being heroiclonely. Tired As a secret illegitimate daughter of being relied upon. But he resents being sidelined by his own girlfriend. Astrid's Town Council a man with a "real" family, she is busy bringing bureaucracy and officialdom used to the FAYZ, but will it ever do anything other than procrastinate? Sam doesn't think so and henot being a priority in people's painfully aware that danger lurks around every cornerlives. Zil's band of freak-haters are gearing up to cause some damageBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Caine her simple existence is down but not outchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and food is still for her life now has a boy in short supply. Tensions are growing and the Town Council isn't up to the job. And what's worse is it that Sam doesn't think he is, either..she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405254297</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=T L J SmithHuchu|title=The Night Library of the SolsticeDead|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Claudia knew Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she wasn't really supposed s been using it to follow the fox - support not on only herself, but her ownyounger sister and her aging grandmother. However, to there's an evil stalking the oldruined streets of Edinburgh, forbidden house on targeting the hillcity's children. But she didSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. And it She will change everything. The fox is end up discovering an occult library and realise that the familiar world of Morgana Shee, powerful sorceress magic is far bigger and only guardian of more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the passageway to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing children and she must be found before the solstice, for then the gateway will be open bring an end to all, including Cadal Forge, an this evil magician dedicated to conquering Earth. Claudia, and her siblings, Charles, Jane and leader Alys, must find or will it claim her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in the balance on the night of the Winter Solstice.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070509</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyKristen O'Neal|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box GirlsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Cherry Costello told her teachers that she was leaving Glasgow and moving to live in a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another of her tall tales. But this one was true. Not only was Cherry moving to Somerset the Costellos, father and daughter, were going to live with his girlfriend and her four daughters. From it just being the two of them there would be seven altogether. How will Cherry cope? And how will the Tanberry family cope with two new members?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelly McKain|title=Half a Sister|rating=4

|summary=When Hannah's parents begin Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to have whispered, but obviously heated discussions about something terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her immediate thought is that theylife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones're splitting up. There's quite , an online support group where she talks to a bit bunch of that at school other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and Hannah would hate it help each other out, while also providing an escape to happen to her. But when it all comes out the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has a fifteen year old daughter living in Paris joke and that mess around. When Brigid—one of her mother has been in closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a serious car accidentwhile, Priya becomes concerned. Sam sees no alternative but She decides to bring Ellie steal her parents' car and drive to live with them, but Charlotte is worried about how this will affect their daughter. When itBrigid's put house to Hannah check up on her. But what she has visions of long girly chats and swopping clothes and makeup and agrees without further thought. To begin with itdoesn's everything she hoped it would be but then t expect to find there is a darker side of Ellie emerges werewolf in the basement – and life turns into a nightmare for Hannahthat werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>1683692349