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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stewart Foster Jenny Valentine|title=Bubble Boy |rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary= Eleven year old Joe was born with a rare condition that means he has no immune system and, therefore, no resistance to the germs that surround us Us in our daily lives. The result is he's spent his whole life trapped in a bubble – a small room in the hospital where the air is filtered and temperature Before and air purity is constantly monitored. His only escape is through his dreams of being a superhero and, unless something changes, it looks like he'll never get to see the outside world for himself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145409</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Changers, Book Two: Oryon|author=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperAfter|rating=45

|summary=Ethan Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a Changeronce in a lifetime connection. Changers are an ancient race of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing They meet as children one day on a permanent persona to inhabit for trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the rest of their livestime. Because of this But then chance brings them back together, Changers gain insight into other people's lives and become better people because of itthey are inseparable. They literally walk in another man's shoes Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, if you willtogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyMax Boucherat|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-time favourite books, ''A Gathering Light'', so I was very excited to read her latest novel and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light'', ''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards The Last Life of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Trigger Mortis Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Bond is backWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, this time authored by international bestjust an avidly rule-selling author Anthony Horowitzbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It all begins with What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a seemingly simple mission (at least for Bond). After a few days trainingblanket fort, she has one main intention, James heads and that is to Germany log on to race in Voxminer, the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victory. Howeverworld-building, wecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori're not surprised s world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that Bond soon uncovers a much bigger this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more serious plot: a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) spooky. For the server she and her bestie and SMERSH (a top-secret department of the Russian government) nobody else should be able to undermine the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions enter shows signs of New Yorkers and toppling the Empire State Buildingtampering. As the clock ticks down When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, only Bond and CIA field-agenther safe place in the game has been doctored – well, Jeopardy Lane, can stop it. But are they already too latewhere is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Goldy MoldavskyRachel Greenlaw|title=Kill the Boy BandCompass and Blade|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Rupert Pierpont has put his head above the parapet and taken his juggling act onto a ''Britain's Got Talent''-styled TV show, as you do3. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contesting, and all four got lumped into the same boy band – The Ruperts, as you do. Several massive albums and hugely successful tours later, the four lads are globally known, and have entered the world of true fandom – the realms where girls know to wear incontinence pads and live with it rather than forsake their front-row concert position, and where girl fans (with their own inclusive, tribal nickname, of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to the stars. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform in New York, and is in town at a hipsterish swanky hotel. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fans, and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights – as you do. But this is through no intent of his own – for he has been kidnapped by four of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jeff Zentner|title=The Serpent King|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= I'm hardly the first person to comment on the saturation of the young-adult fiction market in recent years. I've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genre, and here's the thing – I really want to like it, too. I know there's good stuff out there, but it seems like the more I look the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens – maybe even hundreds, who knows – of formulaic, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Paul Bird|title=The Hunt|rating=4

|summary=This is Britain after ''I can hear the Very Big Crash. Life is very different, especially if you live in one song of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himself, is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though she'd like to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsessionsea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|title= The Sword call of the Spirit (Spirits 3)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ''There are truths which must be revealed before deep, the battle may commence. You do not yet know the meaning of the swordanswering beat in my heart.''

Ooh! Events are moving apace in Rob KeeleyRosevear, 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 to 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 island's leader and Mira''Childish Spirits'' series. Let me explains 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>1785892533</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeHarry Allen|title= Whisper to Me|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Cassie lives with her father in a New Jersey beach town. Dad spends most Children of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD and its concomitant anger issues. Frankly, Cassie finds him best avoided. Cassie herself is doing ok, despite a recent tragedy. Until, that is, she finds a dismembered foot on the beach, thought to be from a victim of a serial killer stalking the locality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Moth GirlsSun|rating=45

|summary=The first seven weeks of secondary school changed Mandy Crystal's life. It was Ra Eun Seo lives in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong a North Korean town and Tina Pointer. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Streetis a talented singer. That was the last time anyone saw either of them – Petra Life is hard and Tina disappeared, never food is difficult to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' come by the media, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had to live with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen so Seo and her friends. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found it she'd told Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the police where they'd gone sooner? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everythingmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Alexia Casale|title=Lying About Last Summer Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary=SkyeIt's sisterhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Luisa, died in a tragic accident last summer and Skye but that's what Ven is still struggling to come to terms dealing with both after collapsing on stage in the events she witnessed and the loss middle of a dance performance that was going to change her sisterlife. It's But she comes back fighting, thereforedesperate to avoid the pity stares, not surprising and desperate to get back to a life that 's as normal as she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday for bereaved teenscan possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's up for anything that will stop a new (cute!) boy in school, her thinking about music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access day to. Rather than erasing day traumas of all thoughts of the pastchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, Skye finds herself having might she be able to confront sing her worst fears. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice OsemanSimon Fox|title=Radio SilenceDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''School'' Frances Late one night Graham Blake is a single-minded study machine, with just one purpose: get into Cambridge. She's responsible, studious, and furiously focused late back from his shift on ticking all the boxes needed for a perfect applicationforce, boxes with no place for friends and hobbies. And this is the Frances that pretty much everyone sees. Only her mum knows there is more to her than meets the eyethen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from her distinctivea secret place, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love for join him on the wonderful podcast showrun. They get together, Universe City. When a chance encounter leads but barely begin to her meeting smell the creator whiff of University CitySouthern trains when the father is arrested, Aled Lastleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, she finally has toting a friend with whom she can genuinely be comfortable around, and celebrate all her weird and wonderful quirks. However, when complications and secrets threaten tin his father was determined to shatter this powerful friendship, Francis finds herself at a crossroads, caught between her old secure path of least resistancekeep away from his colleagues, and the much scarier option bearer of a whole heap of putting her true self out there and risking it all to discover what she truly wantsquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian ConaghanLex Croucher|title=The Bombs That Brought Us Together|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Law is fourteen. He has always lived in Little Town Gwen and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to be. There's no drinking. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard to get, which is a problem when your mum, like Charlie's mum, has trouble breathing. But even breathing is less important than keeping out of the way of the Rascals, the Regime's enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sheila O'Flanagan |title=The Crystal Run |rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Running away from a couple of bullies, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself Art Are Not in the strange world of the Carcassian people. Suspected as a terrorist, traitor or spy, 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 shield. He really wants to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting for survival and forming a close friendship with Kaia. Now he has another goal – Kaia will die when she completes her mission and Joe's determined to find a way to keep her alive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nova Ren Suma|title=The Walls Around UsLove|rating=54

|summary=Amber is an inmate at Aurora HillsWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a juvenile detention centre reserved for the most serious young criminalsdelightful way. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to us from their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the past and she details life at Aurora Hills and the relationships and hierarchies kingdom's only female knight) - something that exist between the inmates and the guardsArt discovers from her private diaries. One night And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails and creating the girls spend a glorious and dangerous night out subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their cellsown other romantic attachments. During this night But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Amber has will they find a paranormal experienceway in which they can both truly be themselves, during which she "meets" Orianna.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=S E DurrantNick Brooks|title=Little Bits of Sky|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I've put this story together from the diaries I kept when Zac and I were children. I wrote them in the hope that life would get better for the small unloved girl that was me, and my even smaller unloved brother. And if life didn't get better or at least more interesting I was going to make it up - to put witches and castles and rides in fast cars. But I didn't need to. Life got exciting all by itself...''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857633996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophia Bennett|title=Love SongPromise Boys

|summary= The Point When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is the ''hottest'' rock band in the worldmurdered, in every sense of three boys find themselves called into the wordpolice station as suspects. While Nina Each, seemingly, has always enjoyed their music, 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 a ''girl'' girl. So when a chance encounter ends up with her being offered the job grudge of assistant to the lead singer's diva fiancéesome description against Principal Moore, touring with the band, she takes it simply as an opportunity to travel and each could have been there at the globe as part time of the entouragehis murder. But who killed him, and inject a little bit of excitement into her life. Little does she realise the craziness that she is getting herself intowhy, as she finds herself unwittingly drawn into the lives and if any of the boys and all are innocent, will they be able to clear their messy drama. names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002720</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1919635017|title=Chasing the StarsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Olivia - Vee - and her brother Aidan are trying to get back to Earth after Solomon Klyne isn't a mystery virus killed everyonebad lad, including their parents, on their ship. It's been so why is he running around London committing a lonely three years and a dangerous one, too, as theyseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You've tried ll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid the dangerous and xenophobic Mazonsspoilers. But sometimes I'll answer the Mazons can't be avoided and this is first one of them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough to launch a rescue missionfor his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=A Seven-Letter WordDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Finlay Ant is in 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 got more than been restructured, so his desk is one PROBLEMof four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. He lives alone with his fatherAs they're all fired up, who chainstraining at the leash only a single-smokes sex school can form, the talk in between trips class and out often turns to do odd jobs sex. Which is confusing for peopleAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, and seems to have reduced where his worth to just achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one recipe since his wife, Finlayfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's motherset in stone, vanished two years agohe can't be sure. Things are still bitter And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with him – he says she might as well .|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be dead – but a fashion designer. Life in the issue manifests itself badly rural village where she lived with Finlayher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and he has grown into suffering quite woman came to the village to offer Hahn a severe STUTTER, which leads job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to no end of TEASING at schoolbe missed. His one way out, it seems, is for a change an eightSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-letter wordbus to Hanoi. Only, SCRABBLE – he can hide away from Hanh and the mismanagement of words that his speaking implies he has over other girls were not going to work in a set of tiles and can play a decent gameshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine his love of You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the word game legs? The ones with his quest for the truth about his motherartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's ABSENCE?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordPatrice Lawrence|title=When We CollidedNeedle|rating=43

|summary=JonahBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's father died. His mother has locked herself away in griefof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, leaving Jonah characters and his two older siblings to not only run their own lives but also take care readers both. Kicked out of their three younger siblings. Itmultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a lot and Jonah is grievingpleasant yoga tutor, too. UnsurprisinglyAnnie, he and has fallen into the fog of depression. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi and taken up residence in her artist mother are spending the summer in Jonahson Blake's old room while he's townat uni. And Vivi Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is bright a wonder knitter, and beautiful and vivid and amazing and ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonahis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's life like allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a shower of meteors store detective, and changes everythingthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But Vivi has her own problemswell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Darren ShanAnn Sei Lin|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12)Rebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If you havenKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't read have any say in the matter, because the first book in this seriesMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!  Go onand she is forced to flee out into the world. Run alongShe 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>0857077961</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marisa ReichardtMarcus Sedgwick|title=UnderwaterWrath

|summary=Morgan has Meet Fitz, a post-it note in her apartment: ''1young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3. You are not dying'' And if you had escaped a school shooting aliveLockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, you might need a note like this tooto go where he wants and with whom he wants, right? People died. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwardsbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Morgan's school closed for a whileCassie. Morgan started attending They were half of a new desultory school band, but it Cassie was just too much for heralso one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. She retreated to Is this connected with one of her apartment, enrolled at an online high school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn't crossed eco-warrior parents saying the end of the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's safe. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And a shut-incan Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's life has a rhythmt. 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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreview|title=Fallout (Lois Lane)Frontpage|author=Gwenda Bond|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lois Lane is an army brat with a history of, shall we say, oppositional behaviour. Or at least, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injustice, that's all. And if something unjust is happening, she can't let it slide. But this time, her nth time in a new town and a new school, Lois has vowed to herself that things will 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=Crush|author=Eve AinsworthThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=AnnaWorking all summer in her boarding school's mother library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has left her father - and her brother, and Anna to deliver herself. ThatWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's how Anna sees it headmaster, and although a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her mother wants contactfind and deliver such a large request, Anna is refusing Tess sticks post-it. It's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence notes on each of father and brother either: the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's fed up with themre never meant to reach him, tooof course. Her father plan is always distracted to get her anger out like this, and he isdefinitely favouring little brother Eddie, who, as Anna sees then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on the fact that all is not right with Anna and has signed if someone hadn't delivered them for her up for counselling sessions...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Tania UnsworthUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother 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 crumbling but grand Brightwood HallScillies. The house is full of antiques There are troll people on it, and treasures sea-witches, and hoardings - because Daisy's mother does like legends of the Dark family that has to hoard - keep watch for magical islands and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something to look at or investigatetheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Which is just as wellThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, because Daisy who has never gone outside to keep notes of activity from the house Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and its grounds. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded - sheAndrewe's terrified of loss because of a family tragedy in her own childhood. Despite thisfoundling daughter, Daisy has a loving relationship with her mum and makes who washed up for out of the isolation by developing friendships: with her pet ratsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, with the peacocks both his sullen brother and rabbits in his curious ward are thrust into the gardens, and also with paintings and topiary and other creatures world of her imaginationprotecting their island, all in the knowledge that she's being kept safe from The Crazy that once ran in her familylike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her duty is to marry well in order to repair parents and their cat from the Camperdowne fortunes. To this end, Eliza is sent from her family home at Stoneton Castle in SW England to Trumpton Hallbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, to be educated in the ways far NE of noble ladiesthe Scottish islands. Herebe Vikings, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still a young girlthat kind of Scottish island. And from there, it's on to the Tudor court of Henry VIII, who Dad is currently married to Anne of Cleves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nick Ostler and Mark Huckerby|title= Defender of the Realm|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person going to be heir to automating the throne. He's awkwardlantern, bullied and always in the front page of the news for which is his latest mishap. His brother Richardspecialist thing, as the papers love to remind him, would while mum will be much better suited leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the partelusive Greenland shark. But when their father the King suddenly dies And Julia, ready or notwell, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer the heir, he is the king she will be homesick and with that defender of the realm. Together with an unlikely ally in the anti- royalist Hayley, Alfie learns his true heritage, protecting the kingdom from all the monsters no alone – until she suddenly finds company one knows exist... Suddenly all the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparisonnight. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needs, or who knows what will be left of the country? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenJonathan Stroud|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K LarsenOutlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= Susin Nielsen Scarlett McCain is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks 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 shooting other outlaws to talk aboutkeep herself alive. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port SalishBut then she meets Albert Browne, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living a dark boy with his dad in dark powers and a cramped apartment in Kitsilanodarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts they plan to flee to come out the mythical Free Isles of his shell as he discovers new friends the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and interests but all the road horrors of post-apocalyptic society to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he has his journalreach the Free Isles, albeit reluctantly. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Richard KurtiMercedes Helnwein|title= MaladaptedSlingshot|rating= 3

|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenagerGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. He knows he's As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory"real" family, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he she is until heused to not being a priority in people's the sole survivor of a train explosionlives. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian But when she defends a riddlerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, Cillian's her simple existence is thrown changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a whole new lightboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryT L Huchu|title=Book The Library of Liesthe Dead|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalTeens|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book 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 Liesschool, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there' has all s an evil stalking the usual themes -- confused sense ruined streets of identity, relationship troublesEdinburgh, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: targeting the supernaturalcity's children. The story starts when identical twin girls (Soon, Ropa is pulled into the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated search for a missing boy at birththe request of his dead mother. We follow their journey as they discover each other She will end up discovering an occult library and reveal realise that the complexities world of their shared family, their terrifying dreams magic is far bigger and sinister non-human abilitiesmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. As with all good supernatural storiesWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1529039452