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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Brian GallagherAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= PawnsWild East|rating= 34.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny'Pawnss mum who is worried for Ronny'' tells the story of Johnnys safety after a tragic event, Stella and Aliceso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, all a new school, and keep himself out of whom are growing up in Ireland during the War of Independencetrouble. He listens to music constantly, and who have somehow become friends in spite has always dreamed of their very different political viewsbeing a rapper. Stella is passionately pro-British But now, in this new school, while Johnny frequently risks his life teacher encourages him to pass information be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the pro-Irish rebelsconnections between rap and poetry, and Alice the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is left stranded a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the middletime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, supporting neither side of the disputeand their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847178936</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zillah BethellMax Boucherat|title=The Extraordinary Colours Last Life of Auden DareLori Mills

|summary=Auden We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has a condition called achromatopsiaone main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, which means critter-collecting game that he canis a hit in Lori't see colourss world. He likes to pretend But first Lori has a tiny inkling that it this stormy night doesn't matter but it doesfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. And For the older Auden gets, the more it seems server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to matterenter shows signs of tampering. Mind you When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, so does everything else...... because Auden lives and her safe place in a near-future Britain in a world where climate change the game has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastlinebeen doctored – well, where is doing better than many countries thanks a girl to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now a quasi-government as the most important and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Auden's father is away fighting.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraRachel Greenlaw|title= They Both Die at the EndCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5

|summary= ''No matter how we choose to liveI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, we both die at the endanswering beat in my heart.'' The year is 2017Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the place is Americawrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, but this is not 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 place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know trap to end the wrecking, they capture the exact date of everyoneisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death , Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and make it their mission with only coordinates to inform Deckers guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that they will be dead within lies buried deep in the next twenty-four hourssea. Many have tried With only nine days to cheat deathunearth 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, all have failedMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseHarry Allen|authortitle=Sarah CrossanChildren of the Sun

|summary=Joe is seventeen Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and he hasn't seen his brother for ten years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed she is on Death Row in Texas, convicted of the murder of a police officertalented singer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum Life is hard and food is long gonedifficult to come by, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes throughso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Joe passes up on his job looking for tree bark and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and treks from New York across the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinkskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreview|title=I am TraitorFrontpage|author=Sif Sigmarsdottir |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order a curfew. After that, he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army to patrol the streets. Not that the army has any answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagers. To where, nobody knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAlexia Casale|title=Charlotte Says|author=Alex BellSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemimare having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that what Ven is why Jemima decides to leave London and take up a job as a teacher dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Isle middle of Skyea dance performance that was going to change her life. But leaving she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the place doesn't mean escaping the memories pity stares, and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on desperate to get back to a life that terrible night's as normal as she can possibly manage. It doesn Meanwhile there't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the s a new (cute!) boy in school, is a strange, forbidding her music A Level performance piece to try to sortout, while and just the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingday to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy AdlingtonSimon Fox|title=The Red RibbonDeadlock

|summary=Ella Late one night Graham Blake is rushing to her audition for a job in fashion, as are several other young women. Thrown in at the deep end in the high-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating a dress late back from scratch for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages it, even working through his shift on the non-existent lunch break, to design a silk wonder worthy of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design houseforce, and this is no normal environment for the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and I.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E Lockhart|title= Genuine Fraud|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I'm going to straight up say that I'm not going to mention the plot in this reviewthen suddenly rings Archie, because I can't without inevitably spoiling demanding he fetch something in this twisting, turning, great suspense of from a novel. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on the side of a bus any time soonsecret place, and if that happens, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sally Nicholls|title= Things A Bright Girl Can Do|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''Things a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells join him on the story of three teenage girls, all of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgroundsrun. There's Evelyn They get together, an upper-class girl expected to marry at a young age, May, a middle-class girl with an opinionated Mother, and Nell, a working-class girl who does what she can to help her large family scrape by. The novel chronicles both their contributions but barely begin to smell the fight for suffrage, and the way their lives change whiff of Southern trains when World War One begins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ryan Graudin|title= Invictus|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= It's the 24th century and human beings have cracked the secret of time travel. Farway Gaius McCarthy father is 17 and dreams of following in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for arrested, leaving Archie on the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeeds, he is determined late express to track down EmpraBrighton, who disappeared on toting a mission when her son tin his father was just 7. But Farway tanks determined to keep away from his final exam colleagues, and his ambitions seem crushed. He's given another chance by Lux, a black marketeer who employs teams of rogue time travellers to plunder the past of its artifacts - artifacts that fetch fortunes in credits in the Central Time world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= M A Bennett|title= S.T.A.G.S|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=''One weekend. Three deadly activities''. Greer MacDonald is a new student at the prestigious St Aidan the Great Boarding School, known to its exclusive pupils as S.T.A.G.S. It is a school where technology is absent, the teachers are replaced by friars, and a group bearer of elite students –known as the Medievals – run the school. When Greer inexplicably receives an invitation from the Medievals to spend a weekend at the stately home whole heap of Henry de Warlencourt, the most popular boy at school, she is too curious decline such an invitation. But little does Greer realise that there is more to the weekend than she initially understands. Ultimately she and the other two students who have been invited must come together to uncover the truth about the infamous Medievals, and the blood sports they have been chosen to take part inquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth LaurenLex Croucher|title=Prisoner of Ice Gwen and SnowArt Are Not in Love

|summary= Valor is under arrest for the attempted assassination of Anatol, Demidova's Crown Prince. Queen Ana is furious and sentences Valor Who knew that what I really needed to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - read right now was a brutal prison constructed of stone and ice...... it's not sounding too great for Valor, is itgay Arthurian RomCom? But the thing ishonestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this is exactly what she had story, Gwen and Arthur have been hoping for and she's even prepared betrothed since they were tiny, much to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve it. Because Valor's sister Sasha their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is already in Tyurlove with Bridget (the kingdom'ma s only female knight) - accused something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of stealing falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a national treasure vital way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to cementing live a peace treaty between Demidova and a neighbouring nation. Valor is convinced of her sister's innocence and intends to break her out.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LingNick Brooks|title=The Glow of Fallen StarsPromise Boys

|summary=''The Glow When the principal (headmaster) of Fallen Stars'' Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the second book in Kate Ling's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the first instalment [[The Loneliness time of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]his murder. Seren and Dom But who killed him, together with Ezra and Mariana, have escaped the Ventura, the spaceship on which they have spent their whole liveswhy, and crash landed on if any of the planet Huxley 3. At lastboys are innocent, will they are away from the stifling authoritarianism of life on board the ship and free be able to pursue clear their own lives underneath a real sky, walking on real land.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Seager1919635017|title=Editing EmmaA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Emma Nash is a typical 16 year old with all the insecurities and obsessions that come with this age. When the love of her life ''ghosts'' her (i.e. breaks up with her by acting as if she doesnSolomon Klyne isn't exist), she spends the summer moping in her pyjamas. However, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start of Sixth Form and a resolution to make some important ''edits'' to her life. This includes e-tweaking herself with disastrousbad lad, and often hilarious, consequences. The whole experiment so why is recorded in Emma's private blog: he running around London committing a blog that she might just regret ever writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Vicki Grant|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary=''Two random strangers. Thirty-six questions guaranteed ll have to wait to make them fall in love. What's not get an answer to like?'' Based on a psychological theory, Grant's novel explores the concept that love can be engineered by using thirty-six ''simple'' questionssecond question because I avoid spoilers. Questions such as ''What would constitute a perfect day?'' or ''When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?'But I' are designed to reveal ll answer the souls and characters of both participants, enabling them to form a deep connection with a strangerfirst one: for his grandmother... In a modern world dominated by technology, this face to face interaction is performed to test whether genuine human interaction can give love a ''push'' or will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reserved?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= Truth or DareDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= After an accident leaves Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his brother, Kamgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with severe neurodisability, it's obvious that the lives of Sef and both his family will never be best buddy from the same again. Plagued by feelings of guilt football team, and struggling two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to copeprimary school days together. As they're all fired up, Sef turns all his attention to straining at the leash only way that he might be able a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to help - moneysex. In an attempt to raise funds Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his brotherachievements in that regard lie. He's carehad a casual relationship, he enlists the help of Claire. As a volunteer at secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the facility looking after Kamladder headed by 'experienced', shebut whether that's the only person from school set in stone, he can't be sure. And that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation is, and how important it is to get the funding that mostly because of who he needs. Aided by Claire's equipment been having the relationship and YouTube know-how, the two create a channel where their alter-egos, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their cause. However, £60,000 is no small amount, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy featsex with. Just how far are they willing to go for their cause? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=High Spirits (Spirits 4)Stitched Up|author=Rob KeeleySteve Cole|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Millions of people will die Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the warrural village where she lived with her family was happy, Ellie. And it's our job to make sure it happens. That's why our work isn't easy.'' And if that's not ominousprosperous, I don't know what is. It's been two years since Ellie's last adventure in so when the spirit world or talked smartly-dressed man and woman came to her friend, the ghost of Edward Fitzberranger. She has tried village to do what Viewpoint asked her offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to do be missed. Some money changed hands and live a normal, boring, human life. Mum is still working for Hanh was on the Journeyback historical remini-enactment company but it looks as though her job won't last much longerbus to Hanoi. Money is tight Only, Hanh and Mum, as ever, is stressed. Dad got compensation for his accident, so he is living the life of Riley. He's eager other girls were not going to help out but Mum won't hear of it. And Ellie has work in a romantic interest shop, they were to work in Luke. All virtual slavery in all, things could be better but they could also be worsean illegal garment factory. No more spirits. No more corrupting of timelines You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-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>1788036158</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gwyneth ReesPatrice Lawrence|title=Libby in the MiddleNeedle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twelve-year-old Libby has an older sister, Bella. Bella used to be a real confidante to Libby but things have changed since she got a boyfriend. Now, Bella makes Libby feel childish, foolish and unwanted. The close friendship they had shared has gone and Libby worries that it will never come back. Libby also has a younger sister, Grace. Grace is lovely but it seems to Libby that Grace, as the baby of the family, commands all the parental love and attention. Libby is well and truly stuck in the middle, without a role of her own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408852772</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison|title=Freshers|rating=53

|summary= Away from homeBrave. Away from friends. Leaving behind parts of the person that you were growing upCharlene, in the hopes 'heroine' of finding more of the person that you want this piece is extremely hard for some people to becomelike, characters and readers both. Going to university is Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a monumental transition. For somepleasant yoga tutor, Annie, itand has taken up residence in her son Blake's an escape. A chance to start anew. A freedom of the sort that youold room while he'll rarely have s at any other point in lifeuni. An opportunity to make lifelong friends and memories that will stay with you forever. However, student life can also Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a double-edged sword. There's a fine linecomfort blanket, after allyou might perhaps think, between the opportunity to meet new people and the pressure to make new friends. With great freedom comes great responsibility. In creation of one such item is part of the hands of new young adultsplot here, just leaving the nestas Charlene is a wonder knitter, itand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's something that can get very messyallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, very quickly. Phoebe and Luke went then force people to the same high give her two days off school, but never really floated in the same circleswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But when the two collide in the madness of Fresher's weekwell, little do they realise that they're about what exactly happens is not for me to get pulled into each other's worlds for a messysay, intense only to remark how sharp and hilarious term that neither of them will ever forgetpointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655880</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian LivingstoneAnn Sei Lin|title=Fighting Fantasy: The Port of PerilRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy |summary=As I promised I would when I looked back at the beginning of the 35 year history of ''Fighting Fantasy'' gamebooks [[Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone|(here)]], I took to the brand-new-for-2017 volume with my pen, mapping paper, and most importantly, dice. For the first time in a long, long time, I would not read a book for review. I would play it. And so, armed with healthy stamina, reasonable luck but frankly embarrassing skill, I set off. This is the report of that journey – as well as hopefully being the usual useful book review.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407181297</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sophie McKenzie|title= SweetFreak|rating=3.5

|summary= Carey Kurara 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 Amelia are best friendsmake merry between their conquests. However, so both are naturally very upset when SweetFreak, a malicious online accountman named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, begins someone with the power to abuse Ameliaform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. To make matters worseHe asks her to come with him, to leave the police soon find evidence life of dreary servitude that Carey was the one who sent the messagesis all she has known. Soon everyoneWell, even Ameliasoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is convinced of Carey's guilt. Only her sisterdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Poppy, accepts her innocenceand she is forced to flee out into the world. When She joins Himura aboard the online threats spill over into real lifeOrihime, Carey a sky-ship whose express purpose is determined to discover who is framing her.hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122239</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa HeathfieldMarcus Sedgwick|title= Flight of a StarlingWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Rita Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Lo are sisters and best friends too. Their partnership extends he should be free to a double act as a trapeze act in the travelling circus that forms a backdrop do what he wants, to their lives. Always on the movego where he wants and with whom he wants, travelling but he cannot stop himself from one place putting his foot in it when he talks to anotherhis best friend, never staying in one town for long is all they have ever knownCassie. The sisters are surrounded by the love They were half of their family and a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the close friends who make up enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the other circus actsearth. Their lives are happy and secure. Until Is this connected with one day Lo meets of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a boydone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, a special boy named Deannot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Their growing friendship, together with a secret that Lo discovers, will change things for ever. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405285907</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon CohenTori Bovalino|title=The Starman and MeDevil Makes Three

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''He wasn't an alien, I was sure of s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books thatshe has to deliver herself. It was more like he'd walked in through an ancient door from What makes it worse is the man who requested the pastbooks: Mr Birch... except he was hereThe boarding school's headmaster, in my bedroom and his misty forest was somewhere real on Planet Eartha man Tess hates.'' TwelveAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-year-old Kofi thought he was seeing things when he spied a tiny human it notes on a roundabout near to his houseeach of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. But he wasnThey'tre never meant to reach him, of course. Rorty Thrutch Her plan is as real as you or me. But how did Rorty come to be hiding get her anger out in the middle of a roundabout in Bradborough? And why is he so insistent that he'll soon like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be , if someone hadn''bad dead''? t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1786540088</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrice LawrencePhilip Reeve|title=Indigo DonutUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''In Bailey's opiniona word, Indigo didn't look like she needed rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a hero. One by one, she looked Monapeculiar island called Wildsea, SaskiaBritish but way west, Betti and Kay in beyond the eyeScillies. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones There are troll people on againit, she sauntered off towards and sea-witches, and legends of the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance Dark family that has to keep watch for Indigo magical islands and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it theretheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But it's not easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And that's The current Darks are the least Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of it - because someone always finds out activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about her past: that such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe''she'' is the tiny little girl s foundling daughter, who was found by washed up out of the body after her father killed her mothersea one day eleven years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444927183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Various Authors|title= A Change Is Gonna Come|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= ''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is an anthology of stories But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and poems interpreting his curious ward are thrust into the theme world of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UK. And protecting their island, like it's a great responseor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew ShvartsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= Royal Bastards|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdom. Royal plots, magic, adventure Julia and a rich culture to immerse yourself in. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=No Filter|author=Orlagh CollinsShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Em - Emerald Julia, our pre- teen heroine, has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy been packed off with her parents have sent her and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a posh private school. She's friends with all the right peoplesummer, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness and light in Em's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in the crosshairs far NE of the school's cool girl pecking orderScottish islands. Friends are suddenly less friendly Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. There are secrets at home about Dad is going to turn from secret be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to open crisishunt the elusive Greenland shark. And when Em's mother overdosesJulia, the dominoes start to topplewell, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hayley LongJonathan Stroud|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5

|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthdayScarlett McCain is an outlaw, he rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in a road accident. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the point Seven Kingdoms of view of his brotherBritain, Dylanrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, as they both try plan to come flee to terms with the end mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of their world as post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they know it. be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clementine BeauvaisMercedes Helnwein|title=PiglettesSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=The results are in – and for the first time in three years Mireille Gracie Welles has not been voted ugliest girl in school, but only the third ugliestresigned herself to being lonely. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathyAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, Mireille she is at first too hard-hearted used to give not being a damn, for angry self-defence is her default modepriority in people's lives. But soon all three medallists when she defends a random boy in the unwanted competition form a trioher class with her slingshot, 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 simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her brother has been ignored for a major military honour time writing novels in favour of his ex-superiorsolitude, 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 life now has a boy in it that she never acknowledged her…asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>152905818X