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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleLeanne Egan|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldLover Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California to New Jersey andWhen new girl, quite by accidentIsabel, embarks on a journey moves to become a heroLou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A fantastic origin tale for the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engagingmisunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, fast-pacedbut Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, 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 teensthat's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, 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-helpit? Because Lou is straight, tell-an-adult book, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who canisn't see the point she? Even though none of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and, in the light she's never had a good kiss with any of later eventsthem? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, utterly daft) decision and wanting to simply sail away into the sunsethang out with her because fighting with her is fun, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking hordeshe definitely just hates Isabel, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the time... doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>000862657X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Ashley Hickson-Lovence|authortitle=Teri TerryWild East
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|summary=ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's not story, a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and she dies in the first few pages of ''Contagion''. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than start at a year agomostly white school. Her brother Kai The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is still looking worried for herRonny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, hopeful that she will be found alive and wellkeep himself out of trouble. But Callie isn't alive He listens to music constantly, and wellhas always dreamed of being a rapper. She's been taken But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a secretive medical facility on poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the island of Shetland, experimented onconnections between rap and poetry, and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formpower of creativity and crafting your words. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>0241645441
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya LandmanJenny Valentine|title=Passing for WhiteUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=In 1847Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was a slavelifetime connection. He was They meet as children one day on a talented carpenter too, trip out but on November the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at him, smiling and being polite. What was going on? He wasnunfortunately they don't just unnerved, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking get each other's contact details at the white womantime. But then chance brings them back together, looking ''her'' in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than thatthey are inseparable. Only this wasn't a white woman: this was Rosa Something has happened though, who was mixed race. She could pass for whitesomething terrible and tragic, but she too was a slave. Rosa and Benjamin eventually marriednow they must work through their grief, but it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wastheir friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallMax Boucherat|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic booksWe 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. He also dreams of being What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a superhero blanket fort, she has one main intention, and saving that is to log on to Voxminer, the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girlworld-building, hopefully). Batman critter-collecting game that is his favourite superhero. But Cala hit in Lori's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is But first Lori has a bit of a geek tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she then sells on and her bestie and nobody else should be able to lazy classmatesenter shows signs of tampering. Still When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and her safe place in the gorgeous Freya game has been doctored – well, where is making friendly overtures...a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessRachel Greenlaw|title= ReleaseCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|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''I can hear the song of the sea. Adam is used to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere The call of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... wellthe deep, best not to think about thatthe answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Spellslinger|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=''And when did I volunteer to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?''
Enter Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the world wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Janseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'Teps leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, powerful mages Mira makes a bargain with the ability a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to draw on guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the seven magicssea. Then meet KellenWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, who despite being as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the son heart of one the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most formidable mages in the clan, has no magical ability whatsoeverdear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessHarry Allen|authortitle=Karen GregoryChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5
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|summary=Hedda Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is 20 weeks pregnanta talented singer. It was a one-night standLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, so there's no father on the scene. She's 17. She's in Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the grip meagre rations of an eating disorder rice and has been for years. 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 direkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreview|title=The Pearl ThiefFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinAlexia Casale|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia to you and me, Sing if you please - has just returned to Strathfearn. It's 1938 and her grandfather, the Earl of Strathfearn, has recently died, leaving a mountain of debt behind him. The familyCan's ancestral home has been sold to meet the debt and the death duties and will soon become a school. But, as the contents of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underway, there is time 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Fallen Children|author=David Owent Dance
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|summary=Life It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is tough dealing with after collapsing on the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope stage in the futuremiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. They're already judged by their poverty But she comes back fighting, their religiondesperate to avoid the pity stares, their raceand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Carving out a prosperous future from this inauspicious place seems like Meanwhile there's a pipe dream. But, new (cute!) boy in their various waysschool, Siobhanher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Keisha, Maida and Morris are just the day to day traumas of all trying - whether that means making plans the challenges her body continues to throw at her to get outnavigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, or developing strategies might she be able to cope with life as it has been dealt.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Angie ThomasSimon Fox|title=The Hate U GiveDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Garden Heights Late one night Graham Blake is a neighbourhood notorious for all late back from his shift on the wrong reasons: povertyforce, drugsand then suddenly rings Archie, shootingsdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, it ticks all and join him on the ghetto stereotypesrun. 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' They get together, Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. It's where she can be herself and not care about what people think or how people expect her to act - a freedom that isn't afforded but barely begin to her at smell the posh suburban high school where she is one whiff of just a handful of black students. However, Garden Heights Southern trains when the father is also where her childhood friend was shot in a drive-by. And nowarrested, it's leaving Archie on the place where Starr witnesses the devastatinglate express to Brighton, fatal shooting of her unarmed friendtoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, Khalil. At and the hands bearer of a police officer. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her life, and the lives whole heap of everyone around herquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamLex Croucher|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary= It's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago Who knew that Micah Grey what I really needed to read right now was still living the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble familygay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, trapped it lifted my spirits in a gilded cage forever hiding her true selfmost delightful way. Since running away, Micah has managed to reinvent himself, first as a circus acrobat In this story, Gwen and then as a magician's apprentice. Along the way he's discovered love and friendships that Arthur have helped keep him afloatbeen betrothed since they were tiny, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready much to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growingtheir mutual disgust! Gwen, the Chimaera are returningyou see, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping point. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Hoyle|title=The Challenge|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary= One ordinary afternoon, Benin love with Bridget (the kingdom's best friend Will goes missingonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Soon after And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school and take an interest creating the subterfuge of falling in him. It turns out both twins have an obsession love with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in when really they are enabling their strange gameown other romantic attachments. But with every new challenge as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they set himcan both truly be themselves, he starts or are they destined to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cat ClarkeNick Brooks|title= Girlhood|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=''Girlhood'' focuses on a group of friends; Harper, Rowan, Lily and Ama, who are fast approaching the end of term at an elite boarding school in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of Kirsty causes a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group and Harper soon finds herself caught between her old friends and the mysterious new girl who seems to have so much in common with her. But is Kirsty who she claims to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jeff Zentner|title=Goodbye Days|rating= 4.5 |genre= Teens|summary= ''Where are you guys? Text me back.'' Ending three lives with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends a simple, impatient text to his best friend. His best friend who is driving and on the way to pick him up at any moment. His best friend who in replying to his text, rams into the back of a truck instantly killing himself and their other two best friends in the car.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Letters to the Lost|author=Brigid KemmererPromise Boys
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|summary=Juliet When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has always written letters to her mother. The award-winning photojournalist wasn't a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at home much and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skypethe time of his murder. And Juliet is still writing those letters even though her mother died in a hit- But who killed him, and-run accidentwhy, rushing home to surprise her daughter by arriving earlier than expected. Juliet leaves them at her graveside, overwhelmed with grief and guilt. If her mother hadn't come home early for her daughterif any of the boys are innocent, she would still will they be alive today.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Stargazing for BeginnersA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jenny McLachlanKitt Townsend|rating=4.5
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|summary=Meg loves space. And when we say Meg loves space, this doesnSolomon Klyne isn't quite explain a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how much Meg loves space. Meg loves all things space did he learn to the exclusion of almost everything else. She has a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs crack safes? You'll have to a stargazing club with her grandfather. She is determined wait to become get an astronaut answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one day: for his grandmother.. And she dreams of winning a competition that will earn her a place on a trip to NASA in Houston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kiran Millwood HargravePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Island at the End of EverythingDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary= Set Ant is in the Philippines Year Eleven at the beginning quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the last centuryfootball team, Ami lives with her mother on Culion Islandand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It As they's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a beautiful place covered single-sex school can form, the talk in lush forests class and surrounded by a blue sea out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that matches the skyregard lie. It He's Ami's home had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and the only place she so has ever known. But Culion is an island for people with leprosy who are sent there to live on effectively progressed up the edge of the world away from civilisationladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Ami And that's mother is among the infected but Ami herself remains untouched, so when government official Mr Zamora arrives to transport the islanders mostly because of who are free from the sickness to another island, Amihe's world is torn apart. Banished across been having the sea to an orphanage, Ami is determined to get back home relationship and crosses great lengths to return to her sick mother once more, on the island at the end of everythingsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Cassandra Clare1800901232|title= Lady MidnightStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Cassandra Clare is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the City of Angels rural village where she grew up. She recallslived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, "I so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an imaginative teenager, always seeing supernatural creatures opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and potential magic around every corner"Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Her novel is imbued with her love of film noir Only, classical texts Hanh and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poeother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. These influences charge her urban crime fantasy You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with mystery intricate embroidery and imagination. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially to teenage fans of 'beading on the legs? The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy to rejoin ones with the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma artfully-placed rips and Julian last seen battling for their lives at the age of 12 during the Dark Wars in 'The City of Heavenly Firedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It' s quite possible that Hanh and now facing painful decisionsher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben Davis and Mike LoweryPatrice Lawrence|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Straight Outta NerdsvilleNeedle
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|summary=A lot has happened in Brave. Charlene, the life 'heroine' of our hero Joe since we [[The Private Blog of Joe Cowley by Ben Davis|first met him]]this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. A lot must have happened in the third book in the series tooKicked out of multiple homes and schools, as we start here she's fostering with him a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in a very new situation. Heher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in Londonneed of a comfort blanket, not you might perhaps think, and the Midlands town creation of his upbringingone such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and three is making something full of his flat-mates love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and buddies are a band about then force people to be signed by a major labelgive her two days off school, with him when she shouts someone down as their ostensible managerexpletively ignorant. And he's got a newthen... well, cosmopolitan girlfriend. But this what exactly happens is a teen diary book full of the comedy of embarrassmentnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and nothing pointy those knitting needles can ever be expected to go his way…...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192747959</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Ann Sei Lin|title=See How They Lie Rebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Fifteen year-old Mae Kurara has only vague memories of spent her entire life before her dadas a servant on the Midori, an internationally famous psychiatrist, set up Hummingbird Creek. To Mae a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the strict timetable, stringent exercise routine Empire come to drink and perfectly balanced organic diet are normalmake merry between their conquests. The Creek's patients However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires teens a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with psychological problems – might find it unnerving him, to be trapped in leave the middle life of nowhere with no mobile phone or internet but Mae thinks dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's lucky. Or t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she does until a chance incident reveals her parents have been lying about her mum's family. Mae starts is forced to wonder what else they might have lied aboutflee out into the world. Soon Mae She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is questioning everything she's been told about Hummingbird Creek with dangerousto hunt down shikigami, and potentially deadly, consequences.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165380</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelMarcus Sedgwick|title=Every Hiddden ThingWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Three things stir Samuel's teenaged heartMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Duty to his father Lockdown is oneonly just over, and another is admiration for the man's career as a dinosaur hunter he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and aspiration with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to follow in his tracksbest friend, Cassie. Dad has never been They were half of a professor as suchdesultory school band, but gets called it anyway, having lucked into being quite Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a pioneer in subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the field end of finding fossils. And the third thingworld is already a done deal? Rachel. Not conventionally beautiful, Samuel still finds enough in her to arouse things. But thatIs it some spooky new kind of music she's where dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the trouble liestruth? Well, for Rachelnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's father and his are confirmed enemies and rivalst.. And as luck would have it, they're all four headed to the same remote, outlawish region in search of notable remains. How can they be loyal to the science, and to their families, ''and'' to their hearts?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910989576</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg GrehanTori Bovalino|title=The Space BetweenDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''The Space Between'' tells the story of Beth, over the course of a year. We see Beth dealing with her mental illness, locked away Working all summer in her own, personal 'safe' world where she feels she can maintain her happiness by remaining isolated. Mouse the dog, however, has other ideas about this! With the entrance of Mouse into her life there comes, also, Alice and slowly Alice brings both light and love to Bethboarding school's world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910411590</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen Pendragon|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and library is the army seems powerless last thing Tess Matheson wants to do anything about it. 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise — especially when they realise she gets a request for over a hundred books that thanks she has to an ancient relative, they have more influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earthdeliver herself. And their distant relative? The former monarch and head of What makes it worse is the man who requested the round table, no lessbooks: King ArthurMr Birch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524667579</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stefan Mohamed|title= StanlyThe boarding school's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Cynicalheadmaster, solitary Stanly Bird used to be and a man Tess hates. As a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the superpowers. And books, scribbled with the super powered alliesugliest insults she can think of. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now heThey's not sure what he isre never meant to reach him, of course. Or where he Her plan isto get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world. All he knows is that his story isnit would be, if someone hadn't finisheddelivered them for her. Not quite yet …|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784630764</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenPhilip Reeve|title=The NestUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Steven can narrate In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this book to usstory set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but he can hardly ever mention way west, beyond the name of his newborn baby brotherScillies. That's not down to a fault with StevenThere are troll people on it, although there are many of those – obsessive handand sea-washingwitches, nightmares, anxiety attacks. It's because there's something wrong with and legends of the new addition Dark family that has to the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying keep watch for a new child so late in lifemagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but whatever where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the reason there is something demanding a lot of medical care and attentionWatcher, Andrewe, even if the child can more or less live in the family home. But hope seems who has to be shining a light into Steven keep notes of activity from the most unlikely source – angels that come to visit him Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his dreamshead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, from within a pleasantand Andrewe's foundling daughter, light-filled haven, with full knowledge who washed up out of the family's troubles and an offer of a way outsea one day eleven years ago. ObviouslyBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, worried for the happiness of both his family, sullen brother and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes to his curious ward are thrust into the offer world of help…protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200875</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and celebrates their achievements. There are women cat from the ancient world and women working todayfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Each Here be Vikings, that kind of them Scottish island. Dad is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and a page of text with a brief biography and outline of going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her achievementscareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work And Julia, well, she will be homesick and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americaalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1526360519</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Victoria AveyardJonathan Stroud|title= King's CageThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary=''He caught me in a prince's trap. And now I'm in a King's cage. But I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.'' The third instalment in the Red Queen seriesScarlett McCain is an outlaw, picks up right after rejecting the final events draconian conformity of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone the Surviving Towns and powerless without her lightning. At Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the mercy Seven Kingdoms of the boy who wears the crownBritain, Mare is haunted by the consequences of her past decisions. Tortured robbing banks and weak, Mare has a front seat shooting other outlaws to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold and destroy all that she believes inkeep herself alive. Being broken and beaten, Mare will never be the same again after her captivity but can But then she escape the Palace with her life to fight another day? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409151190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard|title= The Pavee and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundraymeets Albert Browne, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee a dark boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust with dark powers and suspicion is mutuala darker past. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first dayWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, it's they plan to flee to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from mythical Free Isles of the teachersLondon Lagoon. Within daysTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, Moss Cunningham the cannibalistic Tainted and his gang have accused Jim all the horrors of stealing a CD post- he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of threats, bullying and worse.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreview
|author= Gemma Fowler
|title= Moondust
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary=''Lunar Inc. is lying to us. It's been lying to us from the moment lumite power was discovered.''
After the dark days of future Earth, where an energy crisis has led Move on to chaos, lumite power has become the only solution for peace. Yet that peace is fragile. The memory of the reactor explosion at Andrianne, ten years ago, is still fresh in the public's mind. FALL, the First Anti-Lumite League, continues to campaign fiercely against the United Government and the company responsible for lumite power – Lunar Inc. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655422</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]