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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sheila O'Flanagan Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Crystal Run Wild East|rating=34.5

|summary=Running away Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a couple of bulliesmostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, Joe Hunter suddenly and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in the strange world of the Carcassian people. Suspected as a terroristnew town, traitor or spya new school, he's attached to Kaia and sent to join her on the 'Crystal Run' – a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory to replace the precious crystals that power the protective Carcassian shieldkeep himself out of trouble. He really wants listens to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting for survival music constantly, and forming has always dreamed of being a close friendship with Kaiarapper. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes her mission and Joe's determined But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to find be part of a way poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to keep her alivesee the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nova Ren SumaJenny Valentine|title=The Walls Around Usin the Before and After

|summary=Amber Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is an inmate at Aurora Hills, a juvenile detention centre reserved for the most serious young criminalsonce in a lifetime connection. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather They meet as children one day on a trip out but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks to us from the past and she unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details life at Aurora Hills and the relationships time. But then chance brings them back together, and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and the guardsthey are inseparable. One night Something has happened though, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails something terrible and the girls spend a glorious tragic, and dangerous night out of now they must work through their cells. During this nightgrief, Amber has a paranormal experienceand their friendship, during which she "meets" Oriannatogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E DurrantMax Boucherat|title=Little Bits The Last Life of SkyLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''I've put this story together from s got the diaries I kept when Zac and I were childrenhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. I wrote them What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the hope world-building, critter-collecting game that life would get better for the small unloved girl is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that was methis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and my then she finds something even smaller unloved brothermore spooky. And if life didn't get better or at least more interesting I was going For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to make it enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up - on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to put witches turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and castles and rides Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in fast carsmy heart. But I didn't need ' 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 one of the seven who swim out tosurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Life got exciting all by itselfBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea.With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.''|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857633996</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophia BennettHarry Allen|title=Love SongChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary= The Point is the ''hottest'' rock band Ra Eun Seo lives in the world, in every sense of the word. While Nina has always enjoyed their music, a North Korean town and she isn't one of the millions of fan-girls utterly obsessed with the four 19 year-old boys. She prides herself on being more than just is a ''girl'' girltalented singer. So when a chance encounter ends up with her being offered the job of assistant Life is hard and food is difficult to the lead singer's diva fiancée, touring with the band, she takes it simply as an opportunity to travel the globe as part of the entouragecome by, so Seo and inject a little bit of excitement into her life. Little does she realise the craziness that she is getting herself intofriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, as she finds herself unwittingly drawn into looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the lives meagre rations of the boys rice and all their messy dramakimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002720</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanAlexia Casale|title=Chasing the StarsSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Olivia - Vee It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without 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 middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and her brother Aidan are trying desperate to get back to Earth after a mystery virus killed everyone, including their parents, on their shiplife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's been a lonely three years and a dangerous onenew (cute!) boy in school, tooher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, as they've tried and just the day to avoid day traumas of all the dangerous and xenophobic Mazonschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But sometimes the Mazons So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be avoided and this is one of them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough able to launch a rescue mission.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterSimon Fox|title=A Seven-Letter WordDeadlock

|summary=Finlay has got more than Late one PROBLEM. He lives alone with night Graham Blake is late back from his father, who chain-smokes in between trips out to do odd jobs for peopleshift on the force, and seems to have reduced his worth to just one recipe since his wifethen suddenly rings Archie, Finlay's motherdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, vanished two years agoand join him on the run. Things are still bitter with him – he says she might as well be dead – They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the issue manifests itself badly with Finlayfather is arrested, and he has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads leaving Archie on the late express to no end of TEASING at school. His one way out, it seemsBrighton, is for toting a change an eight-letter word, SCRABBLE – he can hide tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the mismanagement bearer of words that his speaking implies he has over a set whole heap of tiles and can play a decent gamequestions. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine his love of the word game with his quest for the truth about his mother's ABSENCE?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordLex Croucher|title=When We CollidedGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Jonah's father diedWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. His mother has locked herself away in grief In this story, leaving Jonah Gwen and his two older siblings Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to not only run their own lives but also take care of their three younger siblings. It's a lot and Jonah is grievingmutual disgust! Gwen, too. Unsurprisinglyyou see, he has fallen into is in love with Bridget (the fog of depressionkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi and her artist mother are spending when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the summer subterfuge of falling in Jonah's townlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. And Vivi is bright and beautiful and vivid and amazing and But as their impending wedding draws ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonah's life like closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a shower of meteors and changes everything. But Vivi has her own problems...lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Darren ShanNick Brooks|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12)|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!  Go on. Run along|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marisa Reichardt|title=Underwater|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Morgan has a post-it note in her apartment: ''1. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3. You are not dying'' And if you had escaped a school shooting alive, you might need a note like this too, right? People died. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwards, Morgan's school closed for a while. Morgan started attending a new school but it was just too much for her. She retreated to her apartment, enrolled at an online high school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn't crossed the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then she's safe. And a shut-in's life has a rhythm. Morgan's day is predictable: daytime TV, online school, grilled cheese and soup for lunch, visits from her therapist. And Mom and little brother Ben to liven up the evenings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Fallout (Lois Lane)|author=Gwenda BondPromise Boys

|summary=Lois Lane When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is an army brat with a history ofmurdered, shall we say, oppositional behaviourthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Or at least Each, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injusticeseemingly, that's all. And if something unjust is happeninghas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, she can't let it slideand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But this timewho killed him, and why, her nth time in a new town and a new schoolif any of the boys are innocent, Lois has vowed to herself that things will they be different. She'll be good. She'll keep her mouth shut. She'll fly under the radar. Heck, she might even make a friend or two.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=CrushA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Eve AinsworthKitt Townsend

|summary=AnnaSolomon Klyne isn's mother has left her father - and her brothert a bad lad, and Anna herself. That's how Anna sees it and although her mother wants contact, Anna so why is refusing it. It's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence he running around London committing a series of father and brother either: sherobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's fed up with them, tooll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Her father is always distracted and he isdefinitely favouring little brother Eddie, who, as Anna sees it, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on But I'll answer the fact that all is not right with Anna and has signed her up first one: for counselling sessionshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tania UnsworthDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother Ant is in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house Year Eleven at quite a standard school, 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 full one of antiques four with both his best buddy from the football team, and treasures and hoardings - because Daisytwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's mother does like to hoard re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something out often turns to look at or investigatesex. Which is just confusing for Ant, as wellhe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, because Daisy and so has never gone outside effectively progressed up the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisyladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's mother keeps her secluded - sheset in stone, he can't be sure. And that's terrified of loss mostly because of who 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 family tragedy fashion designer. Life in her own childhood. Despite this, Daisy has a loving relationship with her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: rural village where she lived with her pet ratfamily was happy, if not prosperous, with so when the peacocks smartly-dressed man and rabbits woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the gardensmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and also with paintings and topiary and the other creatures of her imaginationgirls were not going to work in a shop, all they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the knowledge ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's being kept safe from The Crazy quite possible that once ran in Hanh and her familyco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RosePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=ElizaBrave. Charlene, the 's family isnheroine't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty of this piece is extremely hard for some people to marry well in order to repair the Camperdowne fortuneslike, characters and readers both. To this end Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Eliza is sent from and has taken up residence in her family home son Blake's old room while he's at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be educated in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the ways creation of noble ladies. Hereone such item is part of the plot here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too as Charlene is still a young girl. And from therewonder knitter, itand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's on allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to the Tudor court of Henry VIIIgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, who what exactly happens is currently married not for me to say, only to Anne of Clevesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyAnn Sei Lin|title= Defender of the RealmRebel Skies

|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir to Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the throne. He's awkwardMidori, bullied and always a massive dining hall floating in the front page sky where soldiers of the news for his latest mishapEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. His brother RichardHowever, as the papers love when a man named Himura arrives to remind tell her that she is a Crafter like him, would be much better suited someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the partEmpire. But when their father the King suddenly diesHe asks her to come with him, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer to leave the heir, he life of dreary servitude that is the king and with that defender of the realmall she has known. Together with an unlikely ally Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the anti- royalist Hayleymatter, Alfie learns his true heritagebecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, protecting and she is forced to flee out into the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows existworld... Suddenly all She joins Himura aboard the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparison. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needsOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, or who knows what will be left and a whole world of the country? adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voice. His family has been fragmented by the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses to talk about. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living with his dad in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but the road to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense of identity, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernatural. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=Thanks for the TroubleWrath

|summary=Parker hasn't spoken Meet Fitz, a singleyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, solitary word for the last five years. He hasn't started applying for college yetand he should be free to do what he wants, either. Not that to go where he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish wants and with whom he spends as much time skipping school as he does attending class. He has also developed a petty theft habitwants, which but he indulges cannot stop himself from putting his foot in well-heeled hotelsit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Oh dearThey were half of a desultory school band, I but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear you a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying. Itthe end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not as though there arenwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't reasons for Parker's behaviour, there are, but reasons don't help much...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughTori Bovalino|title=13 Minutes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you think about it, you can count several things in 13s. It probably took me 13 months to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous release, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email the chance to read this title. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes of fame', considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, and one of those social media starlets – as far as ''the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howland, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morning. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned with the fight for her to work out why she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from the point of view of a girl on the edge of her circle, Becca.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=Afterlight|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets the chance to find out, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing 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 and dealing with the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Beautiful Broken Things|author=Sara BarnardDevil Makes Three

|summary=Caddy and Rosie have been best friends for years and even going to different schools hasnWorking all summer in her boarding school't parted them. And this s library is the summer that Rosie intends last thing Tess Matheson wants to be different. She'll get do — especially when she gets a boyfriend, finally. Perhaps even lose her virginity. And experience request for over a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans and all hundred books thatshe has to deliver herself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy Brett|title= Electrigirl|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes What makes it worse is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirl, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of the characters in her brotherman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowersheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. Holly can generate As a massive amount petty act of electricity in seconds, a skill that can, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control it. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides to become revenge for making her mentor find and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of Demons|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning deliver such a Box of Demonslarge request, which like those TVTess sticks post-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says notes on each of the tin. It contains three demonsbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of different kinds. They're never meant to reach him, that have hampered his concentration at school, caused no end of mischief he has had course. Her plan is to take the blame forget her anger out like this, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospitalthen take them all off before delivering them. But is that all No harm done… Or it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might would be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and someone hadn't delivered them for all?her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboPhilip Reeve|title=Dreaming Utterly Dark and the BearFace of the Deep

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's In a typical teenager whose natural habitat 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 shopping mall Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the multiplexDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. It'sThe current Darks are the Watcher, thereforeAndrewe, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible who has to adjust keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to living in a snowy wilderness without televisionworry about such local yokel superstitions, a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that sheand Andrewe's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quicklyfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But it is this very weakness that changes her life whenAndrewe Dark drowns himself, exhausted, she stumbles both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the shelter world of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterJulia and the Shark

|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He livesJulia, unknowinglyour pre-teen heroine, among a has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a mind palace to store anything and everythingsummer, and could tell you what happened on every day in the far NE of his life, and take himself back with his thoughtsthe Scottish islands. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldHere be Vikings, and is a snapshot that kind of a sun that is remote both in time and spaceScottish island. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time traveller, and Dad is going to speak from beyond be automating the gravelantern, and send Al on a true mission through timewhich is his specialist thing, one that while mum will either save his lifebe leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, or completely ruin all Al's foreverswell, for, er, for evershe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreview|title=Anna and the Swallow ManFrontpage|author=Gavriel SavitJonathan Stroud|rating=5|genretitle=Teens|summary=It's Poland in 1939. And Anna's linguistics professor father is about to be rounded up in the Nazi purge of intellectuals. Knowing this is likely to happen, he leaves her in the care of a friend for the day. When her father doesn't return to collect her, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous world. Anna is just seven years old The Outlaws Scarlett and will never see her father again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Grant|title= Front LinesBrowne|rating= 54

|summary=1942: Hitler Scarlett McCain is pushing his way ever furtheran outlaw, rejecting the USA adds its strength to draconian conformity of the Alliance Surviving Towns and women are allowed Faith Houses to fight in wander the military for wildlands between the first timeSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the warBut then she meets Albert Browne, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants flee to kill the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war -eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start togetherthe horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, their paths intersect as but will they all take on roles that leave be any more scars accepted there than expected.they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney SummersMercedes Helnwein|title=All The RageSlingshot|rating=53

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