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|summary=If you think about itWritten in verse, you can count several things in 13s. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this authoris Ronny's previous releasestory, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to accept by email the chance move to read this titleNorwich and start at a mostly white school. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to The move is initiated by Ronny'13 minutes of fames mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster and so Ronny finds himself trying to achieve than eversettle in a new town, a new school, and one keep himself out of those social media starlets – as far as ''the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howlandtrouble. He listens to music constantly, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out and has always dreamed of being a frozen river one pre-dawn January morningrapper. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned with the fight for her to work out why she was But now, in that riverthis new school, although it's mostly taken from the point of view his teacher encourages him to be part of a girl on poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the edge connections between rap and poetry, and the power of her circle, Beccacreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimJenny Valentine|title=AfterlightUs in the Before and After

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= A freak motorbike accident Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that claims the life of your parents even, their friendship is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning once in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to trip out but unfortunately they don't get byeach other's contact details at the time. But before Sophie gets the then chance to find outbrings them back together, she is visited by Eveand they are inseparable. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful Something has happened though, something terrible and mesmerizing tragic, and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girl. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost now they must work through their grief, and dealing with the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s lifetheir friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsMax Boucherat|authortitle=Sara BarnardThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|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 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 Rage|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, a teenage girl is raped. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as that, and yet it is so much more complicated too. It touches upon Children of the blame that is laid at the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope with the days and weeks and years after such an ordeal; the idea that, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Juno Dawson|title=Mind Your HeadSun

|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health Ra Eun Seo lives in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments available, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises North Korean town and she is written in a chatty but serious waytalented singer. Juno Dawson Life is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. She'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 hard and food is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure difficult to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alyssa Sheinmel|title=Faceless|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Maisie is a normal high school student. She's the star of the school running teamcome by, has a wonderful boyfriendso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, a great best friend looking for tree bark and she's all set to go edible grasses to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedy, Maisie finds herself in hospital in supplement the serious burns unit and without most meagre rations of her face. When a donor appears, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctors, parents and her annoyingly beautiful rice and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarring, she has no idea who she is anymorekimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How not to DisappearAlexia Casale|authortitle=Clare FurnissSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Hattie is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having rather to navigate a miserable summer. Both her best friendslife-changing disability too, Reuben and Nat, are away, living it up but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the south middle of France and Edinburgh respectivelya dance performance that was going to change her life. Hattie But she comes back fighting, meanwhiledesperate to avoid the pity stares, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at desperate to get back to a burger jointlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's hardly glamorous a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and it's very dispiriting just the day to be day traumas of all the one waiting challenges her body continues to throw at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho humher to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>0571373801

{{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 and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms force, 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 Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed of meeting herlate express to Brighton, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camilla's toting a tin his fatherwas determined to keep away from his colleagues, when and the girls became firm friendsbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperLex Croucher|title=A Dark TradeGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=At schoolWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. But at home Teva In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's life is about as far only female knight) - something that Art discovers from normal as it's possible to gether private diaries. Locked away And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house love with each other, when really they are eleven enabling their own other Tevasromantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates will they find a way in two with the new Teva going out in the world while the previous Teva is kept insidewhich they can both truly be themselves, trapped as her younger self.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewNick Brooks|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperPromise Boys

|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next to. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' Ethan, who When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is 14murdered, is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school career in a brand new townthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan Each, now Drewseemingly, is has a Changer, one of an ancient race grudge of humankindsome description against Principal Moore, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one for each year could have been there at the time of his time at high schoolmurder. Drew's parents But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are overjoyed at innocent, will they be able to clear their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=River of Ink 1: GenesisA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Helen DennisKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''Some people believe that when you drownt a bad lad, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in the river saw only bottles, driftwood and the dented licence plate so why is he running around London committing a series of a foreign car. Not his life. But robberies? And how did he knew for certain that he was drowninglearn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers.'' But River Boy doesnI't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on ll answer the banks of the Thames, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordlessfirst one: for his grandmother. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable 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 draws?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff Patrick Ness and Annie Prime (translator)Tea Bendix|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Different for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Despite the nameAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, there and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing masculine about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the island of Menos at football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they allgo back to primary school days together. Apart from As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a few male farm animals single-sex school can form, the talk in class and birdsout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, everything is feminine – the island as he doesn't know what his score is , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a rugged mountain landcasual relationship, home to only a secret one abbey where everyone is female, for several months now, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in three ages stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of lifewho he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. The novices there are on Life in the cusprural village where she lived with her family was happy, in several ways – of girls turning to womenif not prosperous, of students turning so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means for them starting village to practise offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it with a duty was an opportunity not to othersbe missed. And, of course, they are Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the border between the past that took them mini-bus to the abbey and what could come if they ever leaveHanoi. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famineOnly, Hanh and the inability other girls were not going to support themselveswork in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. New girl Jai, who has latched You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading 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 legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you to discover, in this trilogytouched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-opening fantasyworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilPatrice Lawrence|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high schoolBrave. Now they must decide what to do with Charlene, the rest 'heroine' of their livesthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Move to the city? Enrol at university? Get Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a job pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and make has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a life tempestuous personality may be in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not need of a career in art comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and comic books is possible. And if it the creation of one such item ispart of the plot here, as Charlene is it worth leaving a happy life wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a friendship group for? Ityounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a frightening choicestore detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Is she good enough? And in any casethen... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decidesonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Because each member of it has the same choice before them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Ann Sei Lin|title=Dangerous Lies Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Whisked into Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the witness protection programmeMidori, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside down. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend and forced a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to abandon both her friends drink and her identitymake merry between their conquests. Leaving city life behind However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her, that she's convinced there is no way a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she will be able desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to adapt come with him, to Thunder Basinleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, Nebraska. Butsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, thenbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she hadn't expected is forced to fall for flee out into the boy next doorworld. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtMarcus Sedgwick|title=Orbiting JupiterWrath

|summary=Twelve year-old Jack Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is informed that his parents will only just over, and he should be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen year-olds. He's troubled: the rumour is that free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he spent time cannot stop himself from putting his foot in juvenile incarceration for trying it when he talks to kill his teacherbest friend, Cassie. And there's something else about JosephThey were half of a desultory school band, too: he has but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a daughtersubhuman hum coming from the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=A A Milne and E H Shepard|title=WinnieIs this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear end of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of sense and we should be honoured that hemusic she's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the timetruth? Well, if wenot when Cassie has gone missing he can're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered the secret of happinesst.. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison Tori Bovalino|title=Never EversThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Two English schoolsWorking all summer in her boarding school's 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. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, six 14 year-old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip to Franceman Tess hates. Add As a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video petty act of revenge for making her find and you have the perfect recipe for deliver such a lightlarge request, Tess sticks post-hearted it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and funny teen romancethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy HarperPhilip Reeve|title=Keep The FaithUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= The basics In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the plot here Scillies. There are that Faith is going troll people on a French exchangeit, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant to join her on. Meanwhile there's more boy troubleand sea-witches, while she's also trying and legends of the Dark family that has to juggle revising keep watch for exams magical islands and applying their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to become a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice in the minds keep notes of certain teachers!) The plot is never really activity from the main point of a Faith book though - instead itHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's a welcome way to catch foundling daughter, who washed up with out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of the best friendship groups in recent YA fictionprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Lucerin: IdentityJulia and the Shark|rating=3.54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Aiden Chase seems, on the face of itJulia, to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing realour pre-world issues like bulliesteen heroine, homework and girls. He has no idea that he has Lucerin blood; the key to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time been packed off with her parents and even materialising solid items their cat from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable the family home in SW England to one person be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head of a group the far NE of powerful Lucerin who 'pull the strings' behind the world scenesScottish islands. Initially a force for peace Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the last few yearselusive Greenland shark. Could a boy like Aiden have the power to change all of that And Julia, well, she will be homesick and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiJonathan Stroud|title= I Am MalalaThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 54|genre= AutobiographyTeens|summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' Scarlett McCain is my OH's response an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to any mention wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of MalalaBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. I can't disagree on some levelBut then she meets Albert Browne, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girldark boy with dark powers and a darker past. One voice among many. It's just that she decided With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to speak louder than mostthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by the Taliban there were people nearbyTogether, doctors who got her to a hospitalthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and then luckier still because when her condition worsenedall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, nearby but will they be any more accepted there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to than they are in the UK for treatment.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMercedes Helnwein|title=Anything That Isn't ThisSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Frank Palp lives in a dull, dystopian world, where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect of life, from the food Gracie Welles has resigned herself to the architecturebeing lonely. So insidious are these changes, that no-one seems to have noticed them, apart from Frank. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem to be completely oblivious to the sinister nature As a secret illegitimate daughter of the world around them and seem strangely content a man with the status quo. The all-powerful ''Ministry'' has a stranglehold on everything and everyone"real" family, with each household having its own assigned student, who records everything and reports suspicious activity she is used to the mysterious Mr Vertex. Frank thinks he is the only person who hates this oppressive world, but one day he finds not being a message priority in a bottle with a wish for people''anything that isn't this,'' and goes on s lives. But when she defends a desperate search for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E R Murray|title= The Book of Learning|rating= 4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= An orphan random boy in her class with only her beloved grandpa for companyslingshot, Ebony Smart's world her simple existence is turned upside down when he dieschanged for good. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt No longer can she didn't know existedspend her time writing novels in solitude, Ebony soon discovers that for her new home, 23 Mercury Lane, is full of secrets. Discovering life now has a boy in it that she is part of an ancient order of people who have the power to reincarnate, Ebony is soon under threat from a terrible evil that threatens to destroy their existencenever asked for: Wade Scholfield. With just her pet rat Winston, and a mysterious book to help her, she must figure out why her people are disappearing and how to save their souls, and her own, before time runs out…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>152905818X

Before being dumped alone in the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in a room entirely by himself. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clips, shown to him Move on his Screen by The Voice in My Place. Now, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life is in danger, people have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to the Low Countries, The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]