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|summary=When DrewWritten in verse, this is Ronny's brother is once again expelled 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's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and sent away so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a special reform new school, Drew doesn't really careand keep himself out of trouble. She He listens to music constantly, and has enough always dreamed of her own troubles to deal withbeing a rapper. But then one day she is followed home from now, in this new school by a mysterious doctor, who claims his teacher encourages him to have be part of a sinister message from her brotherpoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, begging Drew Ronny begins to help him because see the school is not a reform schoolconnections between rap and poetry, and actually all the children there are being brainwashedpower of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008240566</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Peternelle van ArsdaleJenny Valentine|title= The Beast is an Animal |rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=The Beast is an Animal, but what does that make Alys? Alys was only seven when her village was set upon by the Soul Eaters, she was the only one to see them. Alys and the other orphans are sent to the neighbouring village but this place is not like home. In the strange village of Defaid people are pious, they say that Alys's village must have been in league with the Beast, that they drew the Soul Eaters in. People in Defaid are suspicious, and they are particularly suspicious of Alys, though she never tells a soul what she has seen. Despite it's piety and it devotion to the ways of the Shepherd, Defaid feels the Soul Eaters creeping ever closer, luring them with their singing. Alys does not like Defaid or its residents and she does not belong there, Alys knows the danger of the Soul Eaters but she is drawn to them. As she grows older and the danger grows greater, the dark question grows larger in Alys's mind, is she bad like them? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160459</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julie Bertagna|title= Exodus|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Exodus is a book which, though fifteen years old, strikes some horrifying truths about the world we live in right at this moment. Set in a world ravaged by global warming and melting ice-caps, this is the story of the last inhabitants of an island called Wing, who set sail in search of a new life once Wing is sunk under the rising tide. It turns out to be a much wilder story than you'd thing, and one which dredges up so many interesting questions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509854517</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Simon P Clark|title=Not Yet Dark|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Philippa and Danny have been friends since they were tiny. But now, at fifteen and into the unforgiving world of adolescence, there are stresses and pressures. Danny has some new friends Us in the rugby team and they are full of the obnoxious, somewhat sexist, bravado of the jock world. They make jokes about Philippa Before and she doesn't like it. She gets angry when Danny doesn't shut them down. And, if she's truthful, she's a tiny bit jealous of the time Danny spends with them. For his part, Danny feels a bit suffocated by this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Amy Reed|title=The Nowhere Girls|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Amy Reed’s ''The Nowhere Girls'' is another timely novel that aims to educate young women about feminism- a very hot political topic at the moment. It sees Grace, Erin and Rosina- three extremely socially awkward teenagers- unite to create a movement, known as The Nowhere Girls, which will challenge the sexist culture at their school. In the process, they hope to get justice for Lucy, a local girl who was forced to leave town as a result of the abuse she received after truthfully accusing three of her male peers of gang rape.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349003076</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephanie Perkins|title= There's Someone Inside Your House|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Makani Young is still adjusting to her new life with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska after her parents send her away from her beloved Hawaiian home. She's made friends and has even had a hint of romance, yet her old life is hard to forget. But things in her new quiet little Nebraskan town take a strange turn when one by one, her classmates are violently murdered. No one knows who is next on the killer's list or why they are being targeted, but Makani realises her past may soon catch up with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509859802</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=My Side of the Diamond|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''You have to accept that if two people jump from the dome of St Paul's they would be bound to land. They'd be dead but they would land.'' Except, in this most unusual book, they didn't. Two people were seen leaving the outside of the London Cathedral's dome, but were never found at the foot of it – and someone has been in prison ever since for pushing them off. It's a most peculiar scenario, and our narrator Jaz is struggling to tell her mysterious interrogator, Mr Jones, all about it – and all about her relationship with her best friend. Now Becky, the friend, was a child prodigy sci-fi author, until something happened – she realised she wanted something else from life. Rushing around to investigate the case of the fallers, she seems to have found that, in the shape of a hot-blooded romance. But what is Jaz doing starting her testimony with talk of inquests, evidence and hatred?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406431</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Louis de Bernieres|title=Blue Dog|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Mick's mother had a mental breakdown after his father's death and Mick was sent to live in in the outback with Granpa. On the face of it you'd think that it was going to be a lonely life for an eleven-year-old city boy, with no school to attend, in fact no other children anywhere near. Granpa's busy too: life on a cattle station is brutal for anyone, with all the heat and the dust. But they've all got to make the best of the situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784704172</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=SatelliteAfter

|summary=Born Elk and raisedMab are best friends, along with twins Orion and Libraor more than that even, on the space station Moon 2, Leo has never set foot on Earth. And yet, everyone calls it home. Moon 2 orbits about 250 miles above Earththeir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. It travels at 17,500 miles an hour, making They meet as children one full orbit every ninety minutes. If you ever look day on a trip out of but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the porthole beneathtime. But then chance brings them back together, you'll usually see ocean. What would it be like to see the ocean for real? Leo and the twins may soon be able to do that now that they are teenagers and the scientists below think they are strong enough to come homeinseparable. Each Something has their own idea of what it will be like happened though, something terrible and tragic, and what now they would like to do. Orion wants to go to a concert. Libra wants to dig her hands in soil. Leo wants to throw a ball must work through their grief, and observe its arc. Everyone wants to see a bird in flighttheir friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444936778</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Dollmaker Last Life of Krakow|author=R M RomeroLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Karolina is a refugee from We meet Lori on the Land of first evening she's got the Dolls. Her homeland has been ravaged by rats and Karolina was blown by a magical wind into Krakowhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Polandbabysitter poorly, mother at the height of WWIIwork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. She finds herself What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a workshop belonging blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to CyrylVoxminer, known as the Dollmaker of Krakow. Lonelyworld-building, crippled Cyryl repairs Karolina and the two cement critter-collecting game that is a strong friendship which helps Cyryl hit in his life outside the workshopLori's world. But it's not just the Land of the Dolls suffering under first Lori has a vicious enemy: ittiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's Polandt find herself entirely on her own, tooand then she finds something even more spooky. Together, Karolina For the server she and Cyryl befriend their Jewish neighbours her bestie and determine nobody else should be able to do whatever enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the can game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to save from the monstrous Nazi regime...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406375632</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonRachel Greenlaw|title=ScarecrowCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary= When Jack's dad discovers illegal activity at work and blows 'I can hear the song of the whistle, he makes some very powerful and dangerous enemiessea. He and Jack are forced to go into hiding in a remote cottage in The call of the Scottish highlands. Miles from anywhere and anyonedeep, they hope they will be alone and safethe answering beat in my heart. But it quickly transpires that they are neither. Dad's enemies already know where they are heading and, even before they move in, Jack starts to have doubts whether they are actually alone. Did he really see the scarecrow next to their cottage move?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445319</amazonuk>'}}{{newreview|author=Steve Cole|title=Senseless|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=16 year old Kenzie Mitchell, otherwise known as K-BoyRosevear, thinks his every dream has come true when he's wins the chance to attend a top gaming tournament at Sensia HQ on a remote tropical and partially forgotten island. The contestants are flown in , survives on their own private jet luring ships into the rocks and transferred by limo to plundering the swankiest of hotelswrecks. It all seems too good to be true – which Mira, like her mother before her, is one of course it is. Within hours, events start the seven who swim out to take a sinister turn. Kenzie wakes in survey the night unable to see and one by one his other senses ruins – touch, hearing, smell rescuing any survivors and taste – flicker in and outany treasure that lies within. And he's not on his own. It's happening But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the other contestants toowrecking, sometimes with fatal consequences. Kenzie wants to believe it isnthey capture the island't really happening. He wants to believe its leader and Mira's just a really good virtual reality gamefather. But with Sensia in controlDesperate to save him from death, the line between realities has almost entirely disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phill Featherstone|title= Paradise Girl|rating= 3|genre= General Fiction|summary= Kerryl Shaw lives on Mira makes a Yorkshire farm – bargain with a somewhat idealised one that survives on a few hens and two or three cows wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a few sheep. The kind of farm family secret that might have been profitable lies buried deep in the 1950s but by the time Kerryl has arrived should have been strugglingsea. A teenage boy not pulling his weightWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, now that as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the grandparents are old and heart of the father is deadsmuggler's territory, would not Mira must be met with exasperated indulgence. There are no stock-hands, no farm managers, no applications for subsidies, or worries about the tax return. Maybe the unwelcome wind turbine covers determined to stop at nothing to save the costs future of her home and the rest of itones she holds most dear. Already, in setting, it's feeling a little unreal. But maybe we can forgive that… |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785898728</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=We See EverythingHarry Allen|authortitle=William SutcliffeChildren of the Sun

|summary=Lex Ra Eun Seo lives in what used to be Londona North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Today, it Life is hard and food is a closed-offdifficult to come by, bombed-out area known as ''The Strip''. Nobody comes in so Seo and her friends Nari and nobody can Min go out. Drones are a constant presence overhead. Alan spends all his time watching The Strip. His talent as a gamer got him foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the job meagre rations of drone pilot. He hasn't bombed anyone yet but he's hyped up to do it. It's fighting terrorism, after all. Alan's observation target is a high-profile target - a man high up in the resistance organisation known as ''The Corps''. Alan calls him #K622. But Lex calls him Dad. Lex rice and Alan will never meet. But their lives will collide in devastating ways..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408890194</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Jay BurridgeAlexia Casale|title=Supersaurs 1: Raptors of ParadiseSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=''I'm thirteen years OLD, not young.'' And it's a good job too, for her grandma and godfather have taken Bea on an extended holiday to Indonesia, where the wild dinosaurs live. Yes, this is a world where they never went extinct, and have been used for riding for leisure or as pack animals ever since mankind domesticated them. But wild and dangerous ones still exist, such as the Raptors of Paradise. Bea's older guardians have another reason to go there, though – they are in search of clues that might lead them to at last discover the fate of Bea's birth parents, who disappeared a decade ago. She's unaware of this being the final grasp at one last clue – and all of them are ignorant of how the real danger and mystique on the island may actually come not from the fabulous beasts, but from other humans…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786968002</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robin Jarvis|title= Time of Blood|rating= 4

|summary= Travel back over It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a hundred years into Whitbylife-changing disability too, but that's past what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to see two witches battle an ancient evilchange her life. Follow young Lil as But she tries comes back fighting, desperate to avoid spoilers the pity stares, and find her best frienddesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405280255</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Brian Gallagher|title= Pawns|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Meanwhile there''Pawns'' tells the story of Johnny, Stella and Alice, all of whom are growing up s a new (cute!) boy in Ireland during the War of Independenceschool, and who have somehow become friends in spite of their very different political views. Stella is passionately pro-British, while Johnny frequently risks his life her music A Level performance piece to pass information try to the pro-Irish rebelssort out, and Alice is left stranded in just the middle, supporting neither side day to day traumas of all the disputechallenges 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>1847178936</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Zillah BethellSimon Fox|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareDeadlock

|summary=Auden has Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a condition called achromatopsiasecret place, which means that he can't see coloursand join him on the run. He likes They get together, but barely begin to pretend that it doesn't matter but it does. And smell the whiff of Southern trains when the older Auden getsfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the more it seems late express to matter. Mind youBrighton, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in toting a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken root. It never rains any more. Britain, an island with plenty of coastlinetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now bearer of 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 fightingwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848126085</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Adam SilveraLex Croucher|title= They Both Die at the EndGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4

|summary= ''No matter how we choose Who knew that what I really needed to liveread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, we both die at the end''much to their mutual disgust! The year is 2017Gwen, the place is Americayou see, but this is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know in love with Bridget (the exact date of everyonekingdom's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they will be dead within find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat deathsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, all have failedwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MoonriseNick Brooks|authortitle=Sarah CrossanPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=Joe When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearsmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texas Each, seemingly, convicted has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder of a police officer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe But who killed him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes throughand why, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across if any of the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined boys are innocent, will they be able to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=I am TraitorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Sif Sigmarsdottir Kitt Townsend

|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order committing a curfew. After that, series of robberies? And how did he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to patrol the streetssecond question because I avoid spoilers. Not that the army has any But I'll answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagersfirst one: for his grandmother.. To where, nobody knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Alex BellDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died Ant is in an awful fire not long ago Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and that is why Jemima decides surprised to leave London 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 take two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up , straining at the leash only a job as a teacher on single-sex school can form, the Isle of Skyetalk in class and out often turns to sex. But leaving the place Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima know what his score is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on , where his achievements in that terrible nightregard lie. It doesn He't help that Miss Graysons had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the mistress at the schoolladder headed by 'experienced', is a strangebut whether that's set in stone, forbidding sort, while he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucy Adlington1800901232|title=The Red RibbonStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Ella is rushing Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to her audition for be a job in fashion, as are several other young womendesigner. Thrown Life in at the deep end in rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the highsmartly-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a dress from scratch for job in Hanoi it was an important client before four pm that dayopportunity not to be missed. But she manages it, even working through Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the nonmini-existent lunch break, bus to design a silk wonder worthy of any environmentHanoi. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design houseOnly, Hanh and this is no normal environment for the recipient other girls were not going to be wearing work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the frock. legs? This is Birchwood – or AuschwitzThe ones with the artfully-Birkenau to placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and Iher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406288</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E LockhartPatrice Lawrence|title= Genuine FraudNeedle|rating= 43|genre= Teens|summary= Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. IKicked out of multiple homes and schools, she'm going to straight s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up say that Iresidence in her son Blake'm not going to mention the plot in this review, because I cans old room while he't without inevitably spoiling something s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in this twistingneed of a comfort blanket, turningyou might perhaps think, great suspense and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a novel. All I will say wonder knitter, and is that I felt like I was watching making something full of love for her younger sister – a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see this advertised as Charlene prove her belligerence with a film on the side of a bus any time soonstore detective, and if that then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happensis not for me to say, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backsideonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sally NichollsAnn Sei Lin|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoRebel Skies|rating= 45

|summary=''Things Kurara has spent her entire life as a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells servant on the story of three teenage girlsMidori, all a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgroundsthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. There's EvelynHowever, an upper-class girl expected when a man named Himura arrives to marry at tell her that she is a young age, MayCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a middle-class girl power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with an opinionated Motherhim, and Nellto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a working-class girl who does what shikigami, and she can is forced to help her large family scrape byflee out into the world. The novel chronicles both their contributions She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to the fight for suffragehunt down shikigami, and the way their lives change when World War One begins.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinMarcus Sedgwick|title= InvictusWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= It's the 24th century and human beings have cracked the secret Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of time travelfrustration at himself. Farway Gaius McCarthy Lockdown is 17 only just over, and dreams of following in his mother's footsteps as a Recorder for the Corps of Central Time Travellers. If he succeedsshould be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he is determined to track down Emprawants, who disappeared on a mission but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when her son was just 7. But Farway tanks he talks to his final exam and his ambitions seem crushedbest friend, Cassie. He's given another chance by LuxThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a black marketeer who employs teams subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of rogue time travellers to plunder her eco-warrior parents saying the past end of its artifacts - artifacts that fetch fortunes in credits in the Central Time worldis already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510102868</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= M A BennettTori Bovalino|title= S.T.A.G.SThe Devil Makes Three|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 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 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 in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406768</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ruth Lauren|title=Prisoner of Ice and Snow|rating=4

|summary= Valor is under arrest for the attempted assassination of Anatol, DemidovaWorking all summer in her boarding school's Crown Prince. Queen Ana library is furious and sentences Valor the last thing Tess Matheson wants to life imprisonment in Tyur'ma - do — especially when she gets a request for over a brutal prison constructed of stone and ice.hundred books that she has to deliver herself.What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch.... itThe boarding school's not sounding too great headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for Valormaking her find and deliver such a large request, is Tess sticks post-it? But notes on each of the thing isbooks, this is exactly what she had been hoping for and scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's even prepared re never meant to risk her parents' respected positions at Demidova's court to achieve itreach him, of course. Because Valor's sister Sasha Her plan is already in Tyur'ma - accused of stealing a national treasure vital to cementing a peace treaty between Demidova get her anger out like this, and a neighbouring nationthen take them all off before delivering them. Valor is convinced of her sisterNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's innocence and intends to break t delivered them for her out.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408872757</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate LingPhilip Reeve|title=The Glow Utterly Dark and the Face of Fallen Starsthe Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''The Glow In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of Fallen Stars'' is the second book riches in Kate Ling's ''Ventura'' series - you can read our review of this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the first instalment [[The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling|here]]Scillies. Seren There are troll people on it, and Domsea-witches, together with Ezra and Marianalegends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, have escaped where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the VenturaWatcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the spaceship on which they have spent their whole Hidden Lands, his brother Will who livesin London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and crash landed on Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the planet Huxley 3sea one day eleven years ago. At lastBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, they both his sullen brother and his curious ward are away from thrust into the stifling authoritarianism world of life on board the ship and free to pursue protecting their own lives underneath a real skyisland, walking on real landlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1510200185</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe SeagerKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Editing EmmaJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Emma Nash is a typical 16 year old Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with all her parents and their cat from the insecurities and obsessions that come with this age. When family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the love far NE of her life ''ghosts'' her (i.e. breaks up with her by acting as if she doesn't exist), she spends the summer moping in her pyjamasScottish islands. However Here be Vikings, September arrives all too soon bringing with it the start that kind of Sixth Form and a resolution Scottish island. Dad is going to make some important ''edits'' be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to her lifehunt the elusive Greenland shark. This includes e-tweaking herself with disastrous And Julia, well, she will be homesick and often hilarious, consequences. The whole experiment is recorded in Emma's private blog: a blog that alone – until she might just regret ever writingsuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008220972</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Vicki GrantJonathan Stroud|title= 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About YouThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 3.54

|summary=''Two random strangers. Thirty-six questions guaranteed to make them fall in love. What's not to like?'' Based on a psychological theoryScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Grant's novel explores rejecting the concept that love can be engineered by using thirty-six ''simple'' questions. Questions such as ''What would constitute a perfect day?'' or ''When did you last sing draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to yourself? To someone else?'' are designed to reveal wander the wildlands between the souls and characters Seven Kingdoms of both participantsBritain, enabling them robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to form keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a deep connection dark boy with dark powers and a strangerdarker past. In a modern world dominated by technologyWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, this face they plan to face interaction is performed flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to test whether genuine human interaction can give love a ''push'' or reach the Free Isles, but will it leave them feeling vulnerable and reservedthey be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140708X</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Non PrattMercedes Helnwein|title= Truth or DareSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= After an accident leaves his brother, Kam, with severe neurodisability, it's obvious that the lives of Sef and his family will never be the same again. Plagued by feelings of guilt and struggling to cope, Sef turns all his attention to the only way that he might be able Gracie Welles has resigned herself to help - moneybeing lonely. In an attempt to raise funds for his brother's care, he enlists the help As a secret illegitimate daughter of Claire. As a volunteer at the facility looking after Kamman with a "real" family, she's the only person from school that really appreciates just how dire Kam's situation is, and how important it is used to get the funding that he needs. Aided by Clairenot being a priority in people's equipment and YouTube know-how, the two create lives. But when she defends a channel where their alter-egosrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, Truth Girl and Dare Boy, play an escalating game of Truth or Dare to persuade viewers to donate to their causeher simple existence is changed for good. HoweverNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, £60,000 is no small amount, and fundraising through YouTube is no easy featfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Just how far are they willing to go for their cause? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406366935</amazonuk>152905818X