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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author= Francesca Simon|title= The Monstrous Child|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Hel is the ultimate gloomy, angst-ridden teen. Her dad's hardly ever around, her mum is at best indifferent to her, and her brothers are evil little beasts. She lives in a land of sleet and noise and ice. But that's not the worst of it. She has been, since birth, half human and half corpse, with all the accompanying odours that produces, and - wait for it – there'll never be an end to her misery because she's eternal. And you feel hard done by because you have to take the occasional exam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571330266</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Umminger|title= My Favourite Manson Girl|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Fifteen year old Anna has had an excruciating year, topped off with new stepparents and a new school. So she ''borrows'' her family's credit card, and runs away to LA to crash with her sister. But Hollywood isn't the escape she needs, and it soon dawns on her: she's trapped in a town full of lost souls and wannabes, with no friends, no cash and no return ticket. When her sister's obsessive ex offers her a job researching the murderous Manson girls for his next indie film, she accepts – albeit reluctantly. This is not quite the summer Anna had in mind; but the more she learns about the girls and her fate, the more she comes to understand her family – and herself. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472150848</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenny T Colgan, Jacqueline Rayner, Steve Lyons, Guy Adams and Andrew Lane|title=Doctor Who: The Legends of River Song|rating=3|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Hello, sweetie.'' And with those words we know where we are – in the company of River Song, one of modern TV's more infuriating characters. Now she's likeable enough, it was just the timey wimey stuff she was lumbered with that made her hard to live with. I would say this was a return to her side, but have we had that pleasure yet – isn't it in our future, which is her past, and vice versa at the same, er, time? Either way, five tales here bring a selection of her escapades to a YA audience. The results can be bordering on the written ''Who'' as seen elsewhere, but can certainly frustrate as usual.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940880</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Morgan Matson|title= The Unexpected Everything|rating=3|genre= Teens|summary= The Unexpected Everything follows Andie, the daughter of a prominent US politician, who has led a careful life as a result. Incredibly organised, her plans of attending the John Hopkins medical program all summer long are set. Until they're not. A political scandal implicating her dad causes all her neatly arranged plans to evaporate. So instead, to make sure her summer isn't wasted and there's no gap in her resume, she gets a dog-walking job.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471146146</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stewart Foster Leanne Egan|title=Bubble Boy Lover Birds
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|summary=Ethan is a Changer. Changers are an ancient race of humans who change identities four times during adolescence before choosing a permanent persona When new girl, Isabel, moves to inhabit for the rest of their lives. Because of this, Changers gain insight into other peopleLou's lives and become better people because hometown of it. They literally walk in another manLiverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's shoesdisdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, if you will.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002444</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=These Shallow Graves|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Jennifer Donnelly wrote one of my all-but Lou feels her pulse racing every time favourite booksshe looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn'A Gathering Lightt it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, so I was very excited and wanting to read hang out with her because fighting with her latest novel is fun, and see how it compared. Like ''A Gathering Light''she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn''These Shallow Graves'' is a historical novel with a murder mystery at its heart and a feisty heroine who challenges the standards of the day. t she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405176</amazonuk>000862657X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Trigger Mortis Wild East
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|summary= Bond Written in verse, this is backRonny's story, this time authored by international best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. It all begins with a seemingly simple mission (young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at least a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Bond). After Ronny's safety after a few days trainingtragic event, James heads to Germany and so Ronny finds himself trying to race settle in the European championship at Nürburgring where he plans to stop the Russians using dirty tricks to secure victory. Howevera new town, we're not surprised that Bond soon uncovers a much bigger new school, and more serious plot: a scheme by Korean Sin Jai-Seong (otherwise known as Jason Sin) keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and SMERSH (has always dreamed of being a top-secret department rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of the Russian government) a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to undermine see the American space programme whilst simultaneously murdering millions of New Yorkers connections between rap and poetry, and toppling the Empire State Building. As the clock ticks down, only Bond power of creativity and CIA field-agent, Jeopardy Lane, can stop itcrafting your words. But are they already too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409159140</amazonuk>0241645441
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Goldy MoldavskyJenny Valentine|title=Kill Us in the Boy BandBefore and After
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|summary=Rupert Pierpont has put his head above the parapet Elk and taken his juggling act onto Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don''Britaint get each other's Got Talent''-styled TV show, as you docontact details at the time. Bizarrely there were three other Ruperts contestingBut then chance brings them back together, and all four got lumped into the same boy band – The Rupertsthey are inseparable. Something has happened though, as you do. Several massive albums something terrible and hugely successful tours later, the four lads are globally knowntragic, and have entered the world of true fandom – the realms where girls know to wear incontinence pads and live with it rather than forsake now they must work through their front-row concert positiongrief, and where girl fans (with their own inclusivefriendship, tribal nickname, of course) send online death threats to anyone sexually linked to the starstogether. The band has got a showcase Thanksgiving TV special to perform in New York, and is in town at a hipsterish swanky hotel. And here is Rupert P waking up surrounded by four huge Ruperts fans, and hardly seeing anything other than girls' tights – as you do. But this is through no intent of his own – for he has been kidnapped by four of the very same fans he soon attests to hate…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980451X</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jeff ZentnerMax Boucherat|title=The Serpent KingLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= IWe meet Lori on the first evening she'm hardly s got the first person 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 one main intention, and that is to comment log on to Voxminer, the saturation of the youngworld-building, critter-adult fiction market collecting game that is a hit in recent yearsLori's world. I But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn've several friends who love YA so much they seem to exclusively read this genret find herself entirely on her own, and here's then she finds something even more spooky. For the thing – I really want server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to like it, tooenter shows signs of tampering. I know there's good stuff out there When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but it seems like and her safe place in the more I look the less I find. I've slogged my way through dozens game has been doctored – maybe even hundredswell, who knows – of formulaic, samey and often downright repetitive books which didn't inspire any of that passion in me.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443812</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul BirdRachel Greenlaw|title=The HuntCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary=This is Britain after ''I can hear the Very Big Crash. Life is very different, especially if you live in one song of the lower suburbs under the Local Government's authority. Cush lives in one such suburb. He works as a detective in the floating Krawczyk building and, though he thinks it himself, is pretty good at his job. His wife Samir doesn't work, even though she'd like to, and spends her days at home reading those most antiquated of things: books. Their son Nim is sixteen and is obsessed with a video game called The Hunt. Cush and Samir fall out constantly over their differing approaches to Nim's obsessionsea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786106655</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|title= The Sword call of the Spirit (Spirits 3)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= ''There are truths which must be revealed before deep, the battle may commence. You do not yet know the meaning of the swordanswering beat in my heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeHarry Allen|title= Whisper to Me|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Cassie lives with her father in a New Jersey beach town. Dad spends most Children of his time closeted away with his insect collection. He's an ex-Navy SEAL who suffers from PTSD and its concomitant anger issues. Frankly, Cassie finds him best avoided. Cassie herself is doing ok, despite a recent tragedy. Until, that is, she finds a dismembered foot on the beach, thought to be from a victim of a serial killer stalking the locality.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408853868</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Moth GirlsSun|rating=45
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|summary=The first seven weeks of secondary school changed Mandy Crystal's life. It was Ra Eun Seo lives in those seven weeks that she became friends with Petra Armstrong a North Korean town and Tina Pointer. And it was at the end of those seven weeks that she refused to join them when they impulsively decided to explore the house on Princess Streetis a talented singer. That was the last time anyone saw either of them – Petra Life is hard and Tina disappeared, never food is difficult to be seen again. Labelled the 'Moth Girls' come by the media, the two girls have haunted Mandy ever since. For five years she has had to live with the guilt that for many hours she didn't admit where she'd last seen so Seo and her friends. Were those hours crucial? Would they have been found it she'd told Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the police where they'd gone sooner? When the house is knocked down, Mandy can't resist visiting. It is during this visit that a chance encounter changes everythingmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405117</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue Wallman Alexia Casale|title=Lying About Last Summer Sing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=SkyeIt's sisterhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Luisa, died in a tragic accident last summer and Skye but that's what Ven is still struggling to come to terms dealing with both after collapsing on stage in the events she witnessed and the loss middle of a dance performance that was going to change her sisterlife. It's But she comes back fighting, thereforedesperate to avoid the pity stares, not surprising and desperate to get back to a life that 's as normal as she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday for bereaved teenscan possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's up for anything that will stop a new (cute!) boy in school, her thinking about music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the past so she's totally unprepared when she starts receiving text messages from an account only Luisa had access day to. Rather than erasing day traumas of all thoughts of the pastchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, Skye finds herself having might she be able to confront sing her worst fears. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407165364</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alice OsemanSimon Fox|title=Radio SilenceDeadlock
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''School'' Frances Late one night Graham Blake is a single-minded study machine, with just one purpose: get into Cambridge. She's responsible, studious, and furiously focused late back from his shift on ticking all the boxes needed for a perfect applicationforce, boxes with no place for friends and hobbies. And this is the Frances that pretty much everyone sees. Only her mum knows there is more to her than meets the eyethen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from her distinctivea secret place, geeky fashion sense and serious artistic talent, to her fangirl love for join him on the wonderful podcast showrun. They get together, Universe City. When a chance encounter leads but barely begin to her meeting smell the creator whiff of University CitySouthern trains when the father is arrested, Aled Lastleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, she finally has toting a friend with whom she can genuinely be comfortable around, and celebrate all her weird and wonderful quirks. However, when complications and secrets threaten tin his father was determined to shatter this powerful friendship, Francis finds herself at a crossroads, caught between her old secure path of least resistancekeep away from his colleagues, and the much scarier option bearer of a whole heap of putting her true self out there and risking it all to discover what she truly wantsquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007559240</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian ConaghanLex Croucher|title=The Bombs That Brought Us Together|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Law is fourteen. He has always lived Gwen and Art Are Not in Little Town and he has seen its descent into a difficult place to be. There's no drinking. No littering. No complaining. No being out after dark. Medicine is hard to get, which is a problem when your mum, like Charlie's mum, has trouble breathing. But even breathing is less important than keeping out of the way of the Rascals, the Regime's enforcers. And Charlie is a sensible boy. He has the rules of Little Town down pat and he never, never breaks them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408855747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sheila O'Flanagan |title=The Crystal Run Love|rating=34
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|summary=Running away from Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a couple of bulliesgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Joe Hunter suddenly finds himself it lifted my spirits in the strange world of the Carcassian peoplea most delightful way. Suspected as a terrorist In this story, traitor or spyGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, he's attached much to Kaia and sent to join her on their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom'Crystal Run' – a dangerous journey through enemy Kanabian territory to replace the precious crystals s only female knight) - something that power the protective Carcassian shieldArt discovers from her private diaries. He really wants to return to Earth but he soon finds himself fighting for survival and forming And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a close friendship boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with Kaiaeach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Now he has another goal – Kaia But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will die when she completes her mission and Joe's determined to they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to keep her alive.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444927051</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nova Ren SumaNick Brooks|title=The Walls Around Us|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amber is an inmate at Aurora Hills, a juvenile detention centre reserved for the most serious young criminals. She was convicted of murdering her stepfather but maintains her innocence. Amber speaks to us from the past and she details life at Aurora Hills and the relationships and hierarchies that exist between the inmates and the guards. One night, there is a storm. The prison's electrical system fails and the girls spend a glorious and dangerous night out of their cells. During this night, Amber has a paranormal experience, during which she "meets" Orianna.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616205903</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S E Durrant|title=Little Bits of Sky|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''I've put this story together from the diaries I kept when Zac and I were children. I wrote them in the hope that life would get better for the small unloved girl that was me, and my even smaller unloved brother. And if life didn't get better or at least more interesting I was going to make it up - to put witches and castles and rides in fast cars. But I didn't need to. Life got exciting all by itself...''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857633996</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sophia Bennett|title=Love SongPromise Boys
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|summary= The Point When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is the ''hottest'' rock band in the worldmurdered, in every sense of three boys find themselves called into the wordpolice station as suspects. While Nina Each, seemingly, has always enjoyed their music, she isn't one of the millions of fan-girls utterly obsessed with the four 19 year-old boys. She prides herself on being more than just a ''girl'' girl. So when a chance encounter ends up with her being offered the job grudge of assistant to the lead singer's diva fiancéesome description against Principal Moore, touring with the band, she takes it simply as an opportunity to travel and each could have been there at the globe as part time of the entouragehis murder. But who killed him, and inject a little bit of excitement into her life. Little does she realise the craziness that she is getting herself intowhy, as she finds herself unwittingly drawn into the lives and if any of the boys and all are innocent, will they be able to clear their messy drama. names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002720</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1919635017|title=Chasing the StarsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
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|summary=Olivia - Vee - and her brother Aidan are trying to get back to Earth after Solomon Klyne isn't a mystery virus killed everyonebad lad, including their parents, on their ship. It's been so why is he running around London committing a lonely three years and a dangerous one, too, as theyseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You've tried ll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid the dangerous and xenophobic Mazonsspoilers. But sometimes I'll answer the Mazons can't be avoided and this is first one of them: when dozens of human beings are being attacked and only Vee and Aidan close enough to launch a rescue missionfor his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531417</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=A Seven-Letter WordDifferent for Boys
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Finlay Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has got more than been restructured, so his desk is one PROBLEMof four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. He lives alone with his fatherAs they're all fired up, who chainstraining at the leash only a single-smokes sex school can form, the talk in between trips class and out often turns to do odd jobs sex. Which is confusing for peopleAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, and seems to have reduced where his worth to just achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one recipe since his wife, Finlayfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's motherset in stone, vanished two years agohe can't be sure. Things are still bitter And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with him – he says she might as well .|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be dead – but a fashion designer. Life in the issue manifests itself badly rural village where she lived with Finlayher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and he has grown into suffering quite woman came to the village to offer Hahn a severe STUTTER, which leads job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to no end of TEASING at schoolbe missed. His one way out, it seems, is for a change an eightSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-letter wordbus to Hanoi. Only, SCRABBLE – he can hide away from Hanh and the mismanagement of words that his speaking implies he has over other girls were not going to work in a set of tiles and can play a decent gameshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex – is this possibly a way to combine his love of You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the word game legs? The ones with his quest for the truth about his motherartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's ABSENCE?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordPatrice Lawrence|title=When We CollidedNeedle|rating=43
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|summary=JonahBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's father died. His mother has locked herself away in griefof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, leaving Jonah characters and his two older siblings to not only run their own lives but also take care readers both. Kicked out of their three younger siblings. Itmultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a lot and Jonah is grievingpleasant yoga tutor, too. UnsurprisinglyAnnie, he and has fallen into the fog of depression. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi and taken up residence in her artist mother are spending the summer in Jonahson Blake's old room while he's townat uni. And Vivi Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is bright a wonder knitter, and beautiful and vivid and amazing and ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonahis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's life like allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a shower of meteors store detective, and changes everythingthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But Vivi has her own problemswell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Darren ShanAnn Sei Lin|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12)Rebel Skies|rating= 45
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|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenKurara 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 make merry between their conquests. 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 – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't read have any say in the matter, because the first book in this seriesMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go onand she is forced to flee out into the world. Run alongShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marisa ReichardtMarcus Sedgwick|title=UnderwaterWrath
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|summary=Morgan has Meet Fitz, a post-it note in her apartment: ''1young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3. You are not dying'' And if you had escaped a school shooting aliveLockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, you might need a note like this tooto go where he wants and with whom he wants, right? People died. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwardsbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Morgan's school closed for a whileCassie. Morgan started attending They were half of a new desultory school band, but it Cassie was just too much for heralso one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. She retreated to Is this connected with one of her apartment, enrolled at an online high school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn't crossed eco-warrior parents saying the end of the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's safe. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And a shut-incan Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's life has a rhythmt. Morgan's day is predictable: daytime TV, online school, grilled cheese and soup for lunch, visits from her therapist. And Mom and little brother Ben to liven up the evenings. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fallout (Lois Lane)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Gwenda BondThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
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|summary=Lois Lane Working all summer in her boarding school's library is an army brat with the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a history of, shall we say, oppositional behaviour. Or at least, hundred books that's how her army general father sees itshe has to deliver herself. Lois doesn't see What makes it at all like thatworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Lois just hates injustice, thatThe boarding school's allheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. And if something unjust is happeningAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she canthink of. They't let it slidere never meant to reach him, of course. But Her plan is to get her anger out like this time, her nth time in a new town and a new school, Lois has vowed to herself that things will be differentthen take them all off before delivering them. She'll No harm done… Or it would be good. She, if someone hadn'll keep t delivered them for her mouth shut. She'll fly under the radar. Heck, she might even make a friend or two.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CrushPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Eve AinsworthUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anna's mother has left her father - and her brotherIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, and Anna herselfbeyond the Scillies. That's how Anna sees There are troll people on it , and although her mother wants contactsea-witches, Anna is refusing it. It's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence and legends of father the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and brother either: she's fed up with themtheir monster approaching from even further west, toowhere no ship dare sail. Her father is always distracted and he isdefinitely favouring little brother EddieThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who, as Anna sees it, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on to keep notes of activity from the fact that all is not right Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with Anna too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and has signed her Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up for counselling sessions.out of the sea one day eleven years ago.But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Tania UnsworthJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5
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|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her mother parents and their cat from the family home in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house is full of antiques and treasures and hoardings - because Daisy's mother does like SW England to hoard - and Daisy is rarely at be lighthousekeepers for a loss for something to look at or investigate. Which is just as wellsummer, because Daisy has never gone outside in the far NE of the house and its groundsScottish islands. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded - she's terrified Here be Vikings, that kind of loss because of a family tragedy in her own childhoodScottish island. Despite this Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, Daisy has a loving relationship with her while mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: with will be leaving her pet rat, with the peacocks and rabbits career in algae behind to hunt the gardenselusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and also with paintings and topiary and other creatures of her imagination, all in the knowledge that alone – until she's being kept safe from The Crazy that once ran in her familysuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to marry well in order to repair wander the wildlands between the Camperdowne fortunes. To this endSeven Kingdoms of Britain, Eliza is sent from her family home at Stoneton Castle robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to Trumpton Hall, to be educated in the ways of noble ladieskeep herself alive. Here, But then she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a young girldarker past. And from thereWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, it's on they plan to flee to the Tudor court mythical Free Isles of Henry VIIIthe London Lagoon. Together, who is currently married they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Anne reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Cleves.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1406394815
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