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|summary=Em - Emerald - Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents have sent her to move to Norwich and start at a posh private mostly white school. She The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's friends with all the right peoplesafety after a tragic event, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness and light so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in Em's worlda new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying He listens to music constantly, and has put Em always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in the crosshairs of the this new school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about , his teacher encourages him to turn from secret be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to open crisis. And when Em's mother overdosessee the connections between rap and poetry, and the dominoes start to topplepower of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hayley LongJenny Valentine|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceUs in the Before and After|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthdayElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family friendship is caught up a once in a road accidentlifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from s contact details at the point of view of his brothertime. But then chance brings them back together, Dylanand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, as and now they both try to come to terms with the end of must work through their grief, and their world as they know itfriendship, together. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clementine BeauvaisMax Boucherat|title=PiglettesThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=The results are in – and for the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in school, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathy, Mireille is at first too hard-hearted to give a damn, for angry self-defence is her default mode. But soon all three medallists in the unwanted competition form a trio, and all three see a reason to go and gatecrash the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored for a major military honour in favour of his ex-superior, who should instead be getting hauled over the coals and not applauded; and for Mireille, the reason is that the President's husband is her natural birth father, and has never acknowledged her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenna Evans Welch|title= Love & Gelato|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= 'I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' in hope can hear the song of a light-hearted summery read, with an added draw being that the action takes place in Italy, a favourite country of mine, and that's exactly what I gotsea. The novel tells the story call of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother's wish by spending a summer in Tuscany, conveniently staying just outside of Florence, getting to know the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest by a journal her Mom left herdeep, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Callie Bates|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe answering beat in the old stories. In the power of the landmy heart.''

It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell throughRosevear, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head remote and took her hostage. Raised by the Kingpartially forgotten island, Elanna grows survives on luring ships into adulthood suppressing her magic the rocks and resenting plundering the parents she once lovedwrecks. Now twentyMira, Elanna prepares for either study or marriagelike her mother before her, until King Antoine dies is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and she's condemned any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to death for treason. On end the runwrecking, Elanna encounters her fatherthey capture the island's men, leader and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to anotherMira's father. Her father it seems, wants Desperate to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years agosave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he wants is secretive and with only coordinates to unite the people guide her, she sets off in creating search of a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be family secret that lies buried deep in the face of the rebellionsea. He wants With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her to be journey takes her from the Steward watched streets of foreign islands to the Land capable heart of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to decide which side she'll align with save the future of her home and how the ones she will shape her destinyholds most dear. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ethan I Was BeforeHarry Allen|authortitle=Ali StandishChildren of the Sun|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Ethan and his family are moving to Ra Eun Seo lives in a little North Korean town in Georgia from the big city of Boston in and she is a last ditch attempt to help Ethan get over the loss of best friend Kaceytalented singer. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else Life is hard and food is difficult to think about. There's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. There's a new school with a new pecking order to navigate. There's a new friend in CoraleeMin go foraging every evening, who has a great line in tall stories looking for tree bark and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But it's hard edible grasses to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does..supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonya HartnettAlexia Casale|title=SurrenderSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- vicious corporal punishment for a minor infraction changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a constant threat - and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity dance performance that was going to belittle change her young son and express her disappointment in himlife. Anwell is not popular at school But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and his desperate to get back to a life at home is severely proscribedthat's as normal as she can possibly manage. So Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, when Finnigan appearsher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Anwell is grateful for a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild and full just the day to day traumas of a dark freedomall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. He doesn So even though she can't even go dance anymore, might she be able to school.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareSimon Fox|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)Deadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=After Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the cataclysmic events of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight'force, and then suddenly rings Archie, Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequeldemanding he fetch something from a secret place, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for join him on the Blackthorn family and their friendsrun. Their troubles are by no means over as they face They get together, but barely begin to smell the aftermath whiff of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and Southern trains when the malicious machinations of father is arrested, leaving Archie on the cohort [late express to Brighton, toting a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants tin his father was determined to keep away from his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma colleagues, and the reappearance bearer of Annabel threatens to tear them aparta whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyLex Croucher|title=ResurrectionGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs helpWho 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. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together In this story, Gwen and Arthur have plans been betrothed since they were tiny, much to use their unique set of skills to wage war on mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the mortal worldkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a scheme that should guarantee their success: boy they're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powersfind themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, Skulduggery can't defeat them alone. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hourswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will she stay when the time runs out? Will they find a way in which they can both truly be able themselves, or are they destined to save the worldlive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyNick Brooks|title= Like Other GirlsPromise Boys|rating= 4.5

|summary=Like Other Girls When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a story about a girl murdered, three boys find themselves called Laureninto the police station as suspects. She is not like other girls Each, seemingly, though she does sometimes like other girls. For onehas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, her mum is and each could have been there at the headmistress time of her schoolhis murder. But who killed him, for two, she doesn't fit in to a cliqueand why, and for three, her boyfriend thinks she's mad. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by a revelation if any of someone close to her and when something enormous happens to Laurenthe boys are innocent, she has no one she can turn will they be able to, or so she believes.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is sceptical. And in any case, Nicky has other things to worry about, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Stewart Foster1919635017|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems A Thief to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be Catch a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersKitt Townsend

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itSolomon Klyne isn's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxt a bad lad, but Alena's family so why is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions in he running around London, triggered by committing a series of bombings, threaten robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to spill over and shatter the stability of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the only family Alena has ever knownfirst one: for his grandmother.. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into the past, at the life of activism that her mother led, a life that her brother has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Honor GirlDifferent for Boys

|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is four with both his best buddy from the key football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to this autobiographical graphic novelprimary school days together. Why is Maggie not happy As they're all fired up, straining at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being leash only a sleepsingle-walkersex school can form, the talk in class and ignore the fact she's from a different state out often turns to every other girl aroundsex. Which is confusing for Ant, and practically only there to obey her motheras he doesn's family tradition – shet know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's all of had a casual relationship, a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle rangesecret one, for several months now, and can boss so has effectively progressed up the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those arenladder headed by 'experienced't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she, but whether that's enjoying her summerset in stone, and anyway they do come with their own problemshe can't be sure. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact And that she seems to be falling in love with one 's mostly because of who he's been having the counsellor campers, there to look after relationship and the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Karen M McManus1800901232|title= One of Us Is Lying|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary='The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?' Sign me up, please. But this YA mystery is more like a teenage Agatha Christie: it's twisty, complex, and at several points I began to wonder if the final reveal would be that everyone was the murderer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author= Shannon Hale and Dean Hale|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets World|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California to New Jersey and, quite by accident, embarks on a journey to become a hero. A fantastic origin tale for the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engaging, fast-paced, hip and extremely cool. What would a person be like if they had the proportional strength and agility of a squirrel? Wonder no more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ron Butlin|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kind. But this isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)|author=Teri Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's not a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in the first few pages of ''Contagion''. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking for her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and well. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented on, and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal form. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tanya Landman|title=Passing for WhiteCole

|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slavefashion designer. He Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was a talented carpenter toohappy, if not prosperous, but on November so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the 19th he was unnerved: village to offer Hahn a white woman job in Hanoi it was looking at him, smiling and being politean opportunity not to be missed. What Some money changed hands and Hanh was going on? the mini-bus to Hanoi. He wasn't just unnervedOnly, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at Hanh and the white womanother girls were not going to work in a shop, looking ''her'' they were to work in virtual slavery in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than thatan illegal garment factory. Only this wasn't a white womanYou know those jeans you really wanted: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? She could pass for white, but she too was a slave. The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop RosaIt's master from taking sexual advantage of quite possible that Hanh and her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Bali RaiNeedle|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Cal loves comic booksBrave. He also dreams Charlene, the 'heroine' of being this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a superhero pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and saving the day has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while simultaneously winning he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the heart creation of one such item is part of the girl (Freya being the girlplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, hopefully). Batman and is his favourite superhero. But Calmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-likeallowed contact with no more. Because Cal is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a bit of a geek store detective, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuthen force people to give her two days off school, who makes him complete homework assignments which when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then sells on to lazy classmates. Still.. well, it's what exactly happens is not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overturespointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessAnn Sei Lin|title= ReleaseRebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious household. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacher. Adam is used to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Spellslinger|rating= 4

|summary=''And when did I volunteer to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the world sky where soldiers of the Jan'TepEmpire 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, powerful mages someone with the ability power to draw on form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the seven magicsEmpire. Then meet KellenHe asks her to come with him, who despite being to leave the son of one life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the most formidable mages in matter, because the clanMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, has no magical ability whatsoeverand 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>1785761315</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Karen GregoryWrath

|summary=Hedda Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is 20 weeks pregnantonly just over, and 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 it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with oneof her eco-night stand, so there's no father on warrior parents saying the end of the scene. Sheworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's 17. She's in dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the grip of an eating disorder and truth? Well, not when Cassie has been for yearsgone missing he can't. Her best friend recently died. She's living in a grotty flat because her relationship with her parents has broken down. I think we can all agree that the situation is dire.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefTori Bovalino|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to you and me, if you please - do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has just returned to Strathfearndeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's 1938 headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her grandfatherfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Earl of Strathfearnbooks, has recently died, leaving a mountain scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of debt behind him. The familyThey's ancestral home has been sold re never meant to meet the debt and the death duties and will soon become a schoolreach him, of course. ButHer plan is to get her anger out like this, as the contents of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underwaythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, there is time if someone hadn't delivered them for Julie and her family to spend the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape and to friends, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenPhilip Reeve|authortitle=David OwenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Life In a word, rich. There is tough certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Midwich EstateScillies. Kids living there don't have much hope in There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the futureDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. They're already judged by their povertyThe current Darks are the Watcher, their religionAndrewe, their race. Carving out a prosperous future who has to keep notes of activity from this inauspicious place seems like a pipe dream. Butthe Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in their various wayshis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, Siobhanand Andrewe's foundling daughter, Keishawho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Maida both his sullen brother and Morris his curious ward are all trying - whether that means making plans to get outthrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtnot.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie ThomasKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Hate U Give|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all the wrong reasons: poverty, drugs, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in the store', Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. It's where she can be herself Julia and not care about what people think or how people expect her to act - a freedom that isn't afforded to her at the posh suburban high school where she is one of just a handful of black students. However, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot in a drive-by. And now, it's the place where Starr witnesses the devastating, fatal shooting of her unarmed friend, Khalil. At the hands of a police officer. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Laura Lam|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living packed off with her parents and their cat from the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble family, trapped home in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running away, Micah has managed SW England to reinvent himself, first as be lighthousekeepers for a circus acrobatsummer, and then as a magician's apprenticein the far NE of the Scottish islands. Along the way he's discovered love and friendships Here be Vikings, that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing, be automating the Chimaera are returninglantern, and Ellada which is about his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to reach a violent tipping pointhunt the elusive Greenland shark. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Hoyle|title=The Challenge|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary= One ordinary afternoon And Julia, Ben's best friend Will goes missing. Soon afterwell, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school she will be homesick and take an interest in himalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. It turns out both twins have an obsession with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in their strange game. But with every new challenge they set him, he starts to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cat ClarkeJonathan Stroud|title= GirlhoodThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= ''Where are you guys? Text me backScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.'' Ending three lives But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends dark powers and a simpledarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, impatient text they plan to flee to his best friendthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. His best friend who is driving Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and on all the way horrors of post-apocalyptic society to pick him up at reach the Free Isles, but will they be any moment. His best friend who more accepted there than they are in replying to his text, rams into the back rest of a truck instantly killing himself and their other two best friends in the car.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Letters to the LostMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Brigid KemmererSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Juliet Gracie Welles has always written letters resigned herself to her motherbeing lonely. The award-winning photojournalist wasnAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people't at home much and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skypes lives. And Juliet is still writing those letters even though But when she defends a random boy in her class with her mother died in a hit-and-run accidentslingshot, rushing home to surprise her daughter by arriving earlier than expectedsimple existence is changed for good. Juliet leaves them at No longer can she spend her gravesidetime writing novels in solitude, overwhelmed with grief and guilt. If her mother hadn't come home early for her daughter, life now has a boy in it that she would still be alive todaynever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>152905818X