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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Julia Gray|title= Otherlife|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Ben has a dark gift: he can see the Otherlife, a world of ancient Norse myths, wildness and danger. It means freedom from exams, warring parents, and everyone's impossible expectations. Then Ben meets Hobie, a charming, ruthless bully. He's a born mischiefAshley Hickson-maker who always gets away with it. Hobie has everything he could possibly want. Except the Otherlife. And he'll do anything to be a part of it. Anything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444223</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan SmithLovence|title=Boy XWild East

|genre=Confident Readers Teens|summary=When Ash McCarthy wakes up Written in some sort of medical facility he immediately knows something verse, this is wrongRonny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. But he doesn The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny't suspect just how much until he steps outside s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself on trying to settle in a new town, a remote tropical islandnew school, and keep himself out of trouble. Then he smells the blood He listens to music constantly, and begins to find the bodieshas always dreamed of being a rapper. A deadly virus has been released and But now, to make matters worsein this new school, it's being taken off the island his teacher encourages him to be sold as part of a weapon that could wipe out humanity. The antidote is being taken with it poetry writing workshop group and, unless Ash can stop them within 24 hoursslowly, everyone on Ronny begins to see the island who has been infected (including Ash's mum) will dieconnections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489042</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katharine Corr and Elizabeth CorrJenny Valentine|title=The Witch's KissUs in the Before and After|rating= 45

|summary= Merry Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is an average teenagera once in a lifetime connection. She's also They meet as children one day on a witch. She's trying not to be, trip out but she is. Then Jack comes into her life and she canunfortunately they don't help falling under his spell. One problem – heget each other's part of an evilcontact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, centuries-old curse that Merry now has to breakand they are inseparable. If Merry Something has lost her hearthappened though, something terrible and tragic, will she lose her life too? Or can true love's kiss save the day? Being a witch is dangerous – but being in love is even worse… and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008182981</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PaverMax Boucherat|title=Warrior Bronze (Gods and Warriors Book 5) The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Hooray and boohoo! The final instalment of Michelle PaverWe meet Lori on the first evening she's Gods and Warriors series has arrived. This series is set got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the Bronze Age amid the Greek civilisations of the mainland (Mycenaean) and Crete (Minoan). Our two central characters represent both: Hylas, the boy searching for his sisterbabysitter poorly, is Mycenaeanmother at work, and Pirrajust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, the daughter of on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a high priestessblanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is Minoan. Togetherto log on to Voxminer, they are trying to defeat the evil Crows who are ravaging lands far and wideworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But to do first Lori has a tiny inkling thatthis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, they need and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to retrieve the dagger enter shows signs of Kronos from deep inside Crow territorytampering. If they fail When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, the evil gods known as the Angry Ones will rule all the land and all her safe place in the people.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339357</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Dawn KurtagichRachel Greenlaw|title= The Creeper ManCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The Creeper Man won't get you if you just stay away from call of the deep, the woodsanswering beat in my heart.''

In 1980 three little girls summon Rosevear, a protector 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 of Python Woodto survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But with when the Council Watch lays a grinning mouth trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and without eyesMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, The Creeper Man Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is not their protector. In 2016 two sisters, Silla secretive and Nori, runaway from London and their cruel father with only coordinates to La Baumeguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the country house in which their crazy Aunt Cath livessea. Away With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from fear and hurtthe watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the girls are finally happy future of her home and loved. They're finally safe… Until the trees start moving closerones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510101683</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz FlanaganHarry Allen|title=Eden SummerChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary= Best friends for longer than they can remember, Jess Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Eden have always been there for each other, through the good and the bad, though there's been she is a lot more of the latter over the last year. They've needed each other for support more than evertalented singer. But now, Eden Life is missing. The police are on the case, but Jess hard and food is wracked with worry. Overwhelmed difficult to come by grief, Eden hasn't been herself all summer, her behaviour erratic so Seo and often veering towards the dangerous. Desperate to find Eden, Jess takes the search into her own hands. As she makes her way through the West Yorkshire countryside, she finds herself retracing the summer she friends Nari and Eden spent togetherMin go foraging every evening, digging up buried memories looking for tree bark and secrets in edible grasses to supplement the hope that they might yield some insight into where her friend might bemeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191098907X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rose in the BlitzAlexia Casale|authortitle=Rebecca StevensSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=RoseIt's father died hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a while back. She still misses himlife-changing disability too, even though life goes but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on and stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her mother is remarrying tomorrowlife. Rose knows deep down that Sal is a nice guy but But she comes back fighting, butdesperate to avoid the pity stares, but... and desperate to get back to a wedding? Itlife that's sent her into a spinas normal as she can possibly manage. Sal doesn Meanwhile there't smell rights a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. His woolly jumpers are embarrassing. His beard is weird. Rose isn So even though she can't looking forward dance anymore, might she be able to the wedding.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655546</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattSimon Fox|title=UnboxedDeadlock

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When they were thirteen there had been five of them: AlixLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Benand then suddenly rings Archie, Deandemanding he fetch something from a secret place, Millie and Zarajoin him on the run. They get together, and they had made a promise to return but barely begin to smell the school where they had hidden a memory box five years later. Only five years later there are only four whiff of them: Millie had died of stomach cancer. The remaining four are nervous about what they might find in Southern trains when the boxfather is arrested, worried about what their thirteen-year-old selves might reveal about who they are nowleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, but most toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of all they're missing Milliequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125856</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E K JohnstonLex Croucher|title= A Thousand NightsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=E. K Johnston describes ''1000 Nights'' as Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a work fashioned around the creation of beautiful crafts charged with magicmost delightful way. She confesses that her setting is not historically accurate In this story, explainingGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, ''I cheated a bitmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, because the usual date for the stories ranges from Middle Persian literature to the Caliphate Erayou see, and I set is in love with Bridget (the book about two thousand years before kingdom's only female knight) - something that.'' Her locations are beautifully evoked and based on Art discovers from her sensory experiences as an archaeologist in Jordanprivate diaries. A Turkish bath in Amman And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Umayyad palace on top subterfuge of the Amman Citadel and the swirling sands at Wadi Rum falling in love with each other, when really they are just enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a few sources she has used way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to recreate the spirit of Lo Melkhiin's dangerous ''qasr'' [Middle Eastern palace] juxtaposed with the mercurial nature of his wife's desert home.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447290372</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Keren DavidNick Brooks|title= CuckooPromise Boys|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jake is a household name thanks to his role on the UK's most popular soap opera. But his character went upstairs to his bedroom six months ago and never came down again, and now Jake is facing an uncertain future. Add to that his dad's anger issues, the family's precarious finances and the demands of a severely autistic brother; Jake's home feels like a powder keg waiting to explode. It's easier to spend nights on friends' sofas and futons, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002355</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Paige Toon|title= All About The Hype|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Jessie Jefferson, daughter of rockstar Johnny Jefferson whom I first got to know in the excellent [[Johnny be Good by Paige Toon]] has left the UK behind to move to the City of Angels and be with her long-lost, recently-rediscovered father. As the third book in the ''Jessie'' offshoot, there's a bit of back story to be had but long story short, she grew up not knowing about him, but then her mother died in horrible circumstances and one thing led to another and it all came out in the wash. Now, a year later, Jessie is living with Johnny, her step mum Meg and her two half-brothers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146103</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Geraldine Mills|title= Gold|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Twins Starn and Esper are growing up in a world made dark and silent by massive volcanic explosions. Ash now covers the planet and every aspect of life is controlled by the government, policed by the strict, heavy-handed Sagittars. They long for sunshine, fresh air and the freedom of a life only vaguely remembered by a few. But a game of dares leads them to discover an ancient book written by their great-great aunt, filled with strange writing and a treasure map. This propels them headlong into a journey across the darkened skies in a hand-built glider, in search of the gold that will vastly improve their lives. What they find there is a hidden world; one left behind when the volcanoes exploded. The revelation of the gold is not at all what they thought it would be, and is a discovery that could expose the governments' lies and save a dying planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411558</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Susin Nielsen|title=We Are All Made of Molecules |rating=54

|summary= After two years When the principal (headmaster) of pain following his mum's deathUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, Stewart is pleased his dad has found someone else and he's 89three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects.9% excited that he and his dad are moving in with Ashley and her mom. Ashley Each, seemingly, howeverhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, is 110% horrified and each could have been there at the prospect time of a new 'blended' familyhis murder. She's still dealing with her parent's breakup But who killed him, and why, and if any of the revelation that her dad is gay. She's simply not prepared for a new step-dad and his geeky, socially cluelessboys are innocent, son. will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443766</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robin Jarvis1919635017|title=The Power of DarkA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5

|summary= Something is brewing in the coastal town of Whitby. To best friends Lil and Verne, it just seems like Solomon Klyne isn't a particularly bad storm. But Cherry Cheriselad, the last so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the townsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I's guardian witches, fears that ancient forces are work, reviving ll answer the curse of a long-lost magical artefact and a feud that has survived beyond death…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280239</amazonuk>first one: for his grandmother...

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse BallPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=How to Set a Fire and WhyDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionTeens |summary=Lucia Stanton Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a sarcastic 14-year-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 one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old misfit who lives with her elderly Aunt Lucy muckers – in a garage fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they rent from an evil landlord 're all fired up, straining at the bottom of his large garden. She never comes right out and explains why she's thereleash only a single-sex school can form, but if you read between the lines you work talk in class and out that her father often turns to sex. Which is dead and her mother confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a mental hospital – presumably casual relationship, a secret one, for his murder. Aunt Lucy is dignified several months now, and principled – so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'Don, but whether that't do things you arens set in stone, he can't proud ofbe sure. And that'' is her motto – even though they are undeniably poor: Lucia only has one set of clothes and s mostly lives off because of liquorice and Aunt Lucywho he's terrible homemade breadbeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925355470</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The Bone SparrowStitched Up|author=Zana FraillonSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Subhi is ten years Twelve-year-oldHanh wanted to be a fashion designer. He has Life in the rural village where she lived his whole life in with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a detention centre for refugees job in AustraliaHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. He is Rohingya Some money changed hands and his mother and sister fled persecution in their native Burma while his mother Hanh was expecting himon the mini-bus to Hanoi. They left Subhi's father behind Only, Hanh and are waiting for him the other girls were not going to join them. Subhi believes that his father is sending him secret messages contained work in tokens that wash up from the Great Sea of his imagination. And these tokens mean a great deal shop, they were to Subhi because work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the camp isn't a very nice place. His tent sleeps fifty people. The food is inedible. Water runs out ones with intricate embroidery and beading on a regular basis. There's no school because the classroom burned down. And the guardslegs? Well, The ones with the exception of Harvey, they are not very nice peopleartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510101543</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Children of IcarusPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Caighlan SmithNeedle|rating=43

|summary=DaedalumBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's children have one collective ambitionof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. They pray to be chosen as Icarii - honoured ones between the ages Kicked out of ten multiple homes and sixteen who will enter the labyrinthschools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, find their way through it to AlyssiaAnnie, and become angelshas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Every child yearns to Such a tempestuous personality may be chosen. Every parent yearns for their child to be chosen. Clarain need of a comfort blanket, our girl's best friendyou might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the most devout plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of everyone. She knows love for her younger sister – a younger sister she is destined to become an angel's allowed contact with no more. Our girlWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, though, does not want and then force people to be chosen. In give her societytwo days off school, this is such a badge of shame that when she keeps silentshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Andthen... well, along with Clarawhat exactly happens is not for me to say, chosen she isonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782024921</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyAnn Sei Lin|title= Nothing Tastes as GoodRebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary= As warnings against disordered eating goKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, this one is quite interestinga massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. AnnabelHowever, you see, is already dead when we meet a man named Himura arrives to tell her. She got too thin and one day that was itshe 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 body ceased to functioncome with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Her mindWell, howeversoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is still sharpdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world.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>1471405745</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoMarcus Sedgwick|title=BlameWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=''A small hand in hersMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. 'Is it our fault?' Abi said nothing.'' These tender words show the situation. Ant (a teenaged girl) Lockdown is only just over, and Mattie (her younger brother) are innocent he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in a prison – HMP Londonit when he talks to his best friend, no lessCassie. Since the death They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the EU and enigmatic – saying she could hear a huge, allsubhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-conquering recession, people are being imprisoned left, right and centre for warrior parents saying the crimes end of their parents and their parents in turn, meaning anyone with any slightly dodgy firm or habit in their family that might have taken money away from the common good world is having their children imprisoned. already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And even though Ant and Mattie are ''legitimately'' in therecan Fitz find out the truth? Well, due to their parentsnot when Cassie has gone missing he can' activities, they've since been adopted by people who have themselves been accused and imprisoned, thus making them real tabloid-fodder as the worst criminal family in Britaint... Surely, then, there's no hope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569070</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Paul DowswellTori Bovalino|title= WaveThe Devil Makes Three|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary= Wave, set Working all summer in WW1, tells her boarding school's library is the story of 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 battle of man who requested the Sommebooks: Mr Birch. Although the story spans 100 yearsThe boarding school's headmaster, 1st July 1916 and 1st July 2016a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, the majority Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the action takes place during 30minutes between 7am and 7.30am on 1st July 1916. It follows two brothers, Charlie and Eddiebooks, as they prepare for scribbled with the moment when they are ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to go over the topreach him, as the first wave, into No Man’s Landof course. The story Her plan is a poignantto get her anger out like this, reflective and brutally honest account of the events which lead to the biggest casualty rate in one day in the history of the British Armythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125627</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Concentr8Philip Reeve|authortitle=William SutcliffeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In a speculative near-future Londonword, there's rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a new wonder drug to treat ADHDpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Concentr8 is cheap There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and effective. So effective legends of the Dark family that the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children keep watch for earlymagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, preventative treatmentwhere no ship dare sail. Almost every troublesome teen The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London is taking itwith too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, often before theyand Andrewe've actually become troublesomes foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But then an austerity drive sees when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the program cut abruptly. Riots break outworld of protecting their island, led by the unmedicated teenslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The LeavingKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Tara AltebrandoJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the traumatic event far NE of the local community knows as The LeavingScottish islands. Here be Vikings, five sixteen-year-olds come homethat kind of Scottish island. Where have they been? Who took them? And where Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is Maxhis specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? elusive Greenland shark. And why can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Francesca SimonJonathan Stroud|title= The Monstrous ChildOutlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= Hel Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the ultimate gloomy, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly ever around, her mum is at best indifferent to her, and her brothers are evil little beasts. She lives in a land draconian conformity of sleet the Surviving Towns and noise and ice. But that's not Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the worst Seven Kingdoms of it. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpse, with all the accompanying odours that producesBritain, robbing banks and - wait for it – there'll never be an end shooting other outlaws to her misery because keep herself alive. But then she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating yearmeets Albert Browne, topped off a dark boy with new stepparents dark powers and a new schooldarker past. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit cardWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and runs away they plan to LA flee to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in a town full mythical Free Isles of lost souls and wannabesthe London Lagoon. Together, with no friendsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, no cash the cannibalistic Tainted and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the murderous Manson girls for his next indie filmFree Isles, she accepts – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the will they be any more she learns about accepted there than they are in the girls and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herself. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew LaneMercedes Helnwein|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River SongSlingshot

|summary=Ethan is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a Changer. Changers are an ancient race secret illegitimate daughter of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona man with a "real" family, she is used to inhabit for the rest of their lives. Because of this, Changers gain insight into other not being a priority in people's lives and become better people because of it. They literally walk But when she defends a random boy in another man's shoes, if you will.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|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 class with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Trigger Mortis |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Bond is backher slingshot, this time authored by international best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. It all begins with a seemingly her simple mission (at least existence is changed for Bond)good. After a few days training, James heads to Germany to race No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victory. Howeversolitude, we're not surprised that Bond soon uncovers a much bigger and more serious plot: a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) and SMERSH (a top-secret department of the Russian government) to undermine the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions of New Yorkers and toppling the Empire State Building. As the clock ticks down, only Bond and CIA field-agent, Jeopardy Lane, can stop it. But are they already too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=Kill the Boy Band|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Rupert Pierpont for her life now has put his head above the parapet and taken his juggling act onto a ''Britain's Got Talent''-styled TV show, as you do. 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 in 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 starsthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>152905818X