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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren David Jenny Valentine|title=The Liar's Handbook Us in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Everyone tells River Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that he's even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a liar trip out but he doesnunfortunately they don't see it that way – as far as River is concerned he just thinks up interesting stuff to fill in get each other's contact details at the gaps in what he knowstime. His lies But then chance brings them back together, and they are harmless: unlike the lies that his mum's new boyfriendinseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, Jasonand now they must work through their grief, tells. Jason is a total fake and River is on a crusade to expose him. Howevertheir friendship, River's investigation doesn't work out as plannedtogether. He does uncover a serious deception (involving his biological father and the police) but will anyone believe him?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126801</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanne RyanMax Boucherat|title=CharismaThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Charismatic is exactly what Aislyn was not. She was shy, to the extent that she panicked when she was in large crowds. This shyness clearly affected her, and at the beginning of the book it showed how much of an impact it would have on her future had it been left untreated. Her best friend, Evie, knows just how bad it is and has tried multiple ways to help her, but to no avail. So, naturally, when Aislyn is offered Charisma, an underground drug with a guarantee to bring her out of her shell, she accepts it.
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{{newreview
|author= Johanna Handley
|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary=Juniper and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's family. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxic,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanket. So for now, it's James and Juniper against the world. Well, it would be, if James hadn't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.
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{{newreview
|author= Johanna Handley
|title= The Burning of Juniper Slaide (The Juniper Series)
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary=Juniper and James are best friends, but their friendship is more intense than most, even though James' father is in prison for murdering Juniper's family. Most outsiders would consider their relationship ''toxic,'' but for painfully shy Juniper, having a close friend who can make decisions for her and speak in her behalf is her comfort blanket. So for now, it's James and Juniper against the world. Well, it would be, if James hadn't gone missing. Now Juniper feels guilty. She was the last person to see James alive and they had a terrible argument. Now Juniper is all alone and exposed, with nobody to shield her from the scary outside world.
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Cassidy
|title=No Virgin
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book, although rather short, managed to put its message across clearly. I was interested to read this, as it is a theme that I had not read before in a book. I found it very difficult to read at times, but I always found myself turning the next page a minute after the last. I was quite nervous to read this, but after I had finished, I could not have been more glad I had chosen it - it showed me the mind-set of the main character after her experience. I found this an interesting and unique book.
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{{newreview
|title=The Song from Somewhere Else
|author=A F Harrold and Levi Pinfold
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you were being stalked by We meet Lori on the school bully and his two sidekicksfirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, and if a kindly soul rescued you from them in the parkmother at work, you'd be gratefuljust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, righton her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Or would you? Frank knows Snuggled in a blanket fort, she should be grateful when Nick rescues her from Neil Noble has one main intention, and his acolytes Rob and Roy. But she also knows that Nick is to log on to Voxminer, the world- laughed at for being flea-ridden and smelly at school building, critter- collecting game that is not a person youhit in Lori'd want to be associated withs world. So Frank intends to say thanks But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and get then she finds something even more spooky. For the heck out server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Nick's house as quickly as she can..tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408853361</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Sun is also a StarRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Nicola YoonCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Natasha is a rationalist. She thinks life is all about observable facts: data and ''I can hear the effective analysis song of itthe sea. In fact, she wants to become a data analyst and help make the world a better place through The call of the evidence-based policies that will flow from it. But this ambition is looking less likely now. Because Natasha is an undocumented immigrant to New Yorkdeep, the authorities have found out about it thanks to her reckless father, and unless there's a miracle, Natasha will be deported back to Jamaica answering beat in just twelve hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552574244</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Leigh Bardugo|title= Crooked Kingdom|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=''They don't know who we are. Not really. They don't know what we've done, what we've managed together… so let's show them they picked the wrong damn fightmy heart.''
First things first if you haven't read [[Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo]] yetRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the first book in rocks and plundering the duologywrecks. Mira, you should read it as soon as possiblelike her mother before her, buy it or borrow it before anything else is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and then read Crooked Kingdomany treasure that lies within. Trust meBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, because while Six of Crows is unimaginably cleverthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with diverse characters a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a brilliant heist plotfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Crooked Kingdom is on a whole other levelas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of 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 dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622309</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Allie EsiriHarry Allen|title= A Poem for Every Night of the Year|rating= 4|genre= Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Poetry can feel a little intimidating, to children and grown-ups. All those school lessons of dissecting poems in order to ascertain exactly what the poet intended with every word and stylistic form tend to kill the beauty of a well-written poem. This collection is a year-long tour through a vast history of poetry, and gives the reader a new poem to try every night, with everything from Michael Rosen to Shakespeare to Christina Rosetti.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813136</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ransom Riggs|title= Tales of the PeculiarSun|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= A fork-tongued princess. A boy who can control the currents of the sea. Cannibals who feast on the limbs of a village of peculiars. These are just a few of the brilliant stories to be found in ''Tales of the Peculiar'', all of which hold mystical information about the peculiar world - a place familiar to many of us since its first introduction by Ransom Riggs in [[Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs|Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children]]. The stories in this collection explore peculiar history and folklore in a wonderfully imaginative way, and also include some beautiful illustrations to accompany each of the tales.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373407</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Richard Smith|title=The Darziods' Stone|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When the school summer trip to Blackpool gets cancelled, Harry's parents offer to include Harry's friends Ra Eun Seo lives in their trip to Tredock Cove in Cornwall. Amelia, Mitch and Asad are grateful - Cornwall will be great a North Korean town and, even if it isn't as great as Blackpool, anything she is better than being stuck at home, right? Ryan a talented singer. Life is less convinced. He's not the most open-minded of boys hard and he sincerely believes that Cornwall is full of carrot-crunchers. But he goes along anyway, even if it food is reluctantly. Even Ryan doesn't want difficult to be left at home come by himself.And it doesn't take long , so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for the quiet break in Cornwall to turn into something much more exciting - tree bark and frightening. The kids find a secret code and become convinced that cracking it will lead them edible grasses to hidden treasure. And it might well do, but supplement the code will also lead them to something much more dangerous..meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784563730</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The HypnotistAlexia Casale|authortitle=Laurence AnholtSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=PipIt'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 parents died what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a traffic accident and he has been living in an orphanage ever sincedance performance that was going to change her life. He has only one treasured possession - a battered copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, given and desperate to him by his schoolteacher mother. Thatget back to a life that's how Pip got his name and he has a vague but treasured memory of his own father telling him of his own great expectationsas normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's thanks a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to his ability try to read that Pip finds himself released into sort out, and just the care - well, sold, actually - day to day traumas of old Zachary, who wants a companion for his bedridden wife, Lilybelle, all the challenges her body continues to throw at Dead River Farmher to navigate. Lilybelle likes being read So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552573450</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Clover MoonSimon Fox|authortitle=Jacqueline WilsonDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Clover Moon lives in Cripps AlleyLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a slum street in Victorian England. Her father works at the factory secret place, and join him on the heavy work has taken a toll on his healthrun. He likes They get together, but barely begin to drink an ale or two after worksmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, spending money leaving Archie on the family can barely afford. Clover's mother died giving birth late express to her younger sister, MegsBrighton, toting a wispy, shy child. Father married again - tin his father was determined to Mildredkeep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a sharp-tongued woman who is free with a beating, particularly if the beating goes to Clover. Clover has another four half-siblings and it's Clover, rather than Mildred, who takes care whole heap of themquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532731</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Saint DeathLex Croucher|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Anapra is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a slum just outside the Mexican city of Juarezmost delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, right on the border is in love with Bridget (the United Stateskingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. People scrape And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a living working at one or more boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of the American factoriesfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which pay wages so low that workers they can barely feed both truly be themselves. This is where people come to try and find their own way into the US, or pay people traffickers are they destined to do it for them. It's also live a place where the drug cartels run everything and things don't end well if you get on the wrong side of the drug cartels.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000527</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Haunt MeNick Brooks|authortitle=Liz KesslerPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Some quite difficult themes When the principal (headmaster) of anxietyUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, bullying and self-harm in this beyond three boys find themselves called into the grave love storypolice station as suspects. Each, which seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the same time creates a positive message about finding a path through themof his murder. Cute But who killed him, and enjoyable.why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009184</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Niven1919635017|title=Holding Up the UniverseA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= High school can be far from the easiest place to navigate through for Solomon Klyne isn't a lot of teenagersbad lad, but some have so why is he running around London committing a harder job than others. After the sudden death series of her mother, Libby started eating and she didnrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't stop until she almost killed herself. Years of doctors, counsellors and psychologists, combined with determination, sweat and tears, and she is finally ready ll have to return wait to school after almost five years out. Libby is determined get an answer to make up for lost time, and refuses to be defined by her weight – she wants to be a girl who can do anything, a girl whose confidence and self-esteem is immune to anything that a few idiot high schoolers might throw her waythe second question because I avoid spoilers. On But I'll answer the surface, Jack Masselin seems like the archetypal idiot high school guyfirst one: charming but thoughtless, superficial, and far too concerned with fitting in to do what he really knows is the right thing; but beneath all the charm and swagger, Jack is a nervous ticking time bombfor his grandmother. Every day is a struggle to get through, and he is constantly just one mistake away from embarrassing or hurting himself and the people around him. Because Jack has prosopagnosia, a cognitive disorder that means he can't recognise faces, whether it be his own, his family's or any of the hundreds of school kids that he is constantly surrounded by. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357053</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katharine McGeePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title= The Thousandth FloorDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= The future's brightAnt 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 been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the future's TALL. In 2118football team, New York, life centres around The Towerand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It As they's 1000 stories tallre all fired up, takes up most of straining at the islandleash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is now home to Grand Central stationconfusing for Ant, Central Parkas he doesn't know what his score is, schools, shops, restaurants and gymswhere his achievements in that regard lie. A whole city under one very high roof. Where you live on within the tower is He's had a proxy for who you are and how successful youcasual relationship, or at least your parentsa secret one, have become. Higher floors trump lower floorsfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the pinnacle is ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that 1000th floor penthouse's set in stone, owned by Avery he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and her familythe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008179972</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susin Nielsen1800901232|title=Word Nerd Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre= Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= Ambrose Bukowski is your typical nerd – clever and geeky Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with no friends and appalling dress sense. Howeverher family was happy, to add to his problemsif not prosperous, he's also got a serious nut allergy so when the smartly-dressed man and a slightly insane overprotective mother. When woman came to the school bullies almost kill him by putting village to offer Hahn a peanut job in his sandwich, Ambrose is pulled out of school Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and educated at homeHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Lonely Only, Hanh and bored, life is the other girls were not looking good for Ambrose until he meets his neighbour's grown up son, Cosmos, who has just been released from prison. Outwardly the two have nothing going to work in common other than a love of Scrabble but, as we soon discovershop, this turns out they were to be enough to form work in virtual slavery in an unlikely friendship illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that helps felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them both. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783444606</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah BiancottiPatrice Lawrence|title=SwarmNeedle|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Zeroes have found a new homeBrave. If you didnCharlene, the 'heroine't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott Westerfeldof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Margo Lanagan characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Deborah Biancotti|last time]], they are six super-powered teensschools, she's fostering with a guru amongst them pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and generally has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a skill that works best when concerning crowds tempestuous personality may be in need of people. Their home is a night-club – comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one can imbue the simple act such item is part of handing out flyers to it with the magic of his inner voice that tells everyone what they want most to hearplot here, the lighting gal as Charlene is so in tune with technological signals she a wonder knitter, and is practically part making something full of love for her rigyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and the DJ herself can feed then force people to give her two days off and feed back to the emotions of the revellersschool, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – well, what exactly happens is an ideal place not for them me to experimentsay, only to enhance their powers remark how sharp and learn every nuance of using them and what that means, they are inviting regular humans to come alongpointy those knitting needles can be... That is, of course, until two brand new Zeroes slip the net – and prove to be quite talented, and more than a little malicious…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124916</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinAnn Sei Lin|title=Blood for BloodRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Second and final book Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in sequence set in a world the sky where Germany won WW2 soldiers of the Empire come to drink and Nazi experiments on Jewish children 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 produced shapeshifting humansknown. Can Yael defeat Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the Wehrmacht? Interestingmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, moving and absorbingshe is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622058</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kendare BlakeMarcus Sedgwick|title= Three Dark CrownsWrath|rating= 4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= ''Three Dark Crowns'' is Meet Fitz, a high class fantasy novel following a set young Scottish lad full of triplets: Katharinefrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, Arsinoe and Mirabellahe should be free to do what he wants, who are each gifted with specific magic to go where he wants and are equal heirs to the crown. Katharine is a poisoner with the ability whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to ingest the deadliest poisonshis best friend, a girl who cannot dieCassie. Meanwhile, Arsinoe is They were half of a naturalistdesultory school band, who has but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the power to bloom flowers and control enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the fiercest animalsearth. Finally, Mirabella is an elemental, Is this connected with one gifted with of her eco-warrior parents saying the ability to create fire and incredible storms powerful enough to topple buildings. On end of the island of Fennbirn, as world is tradition, the queens are separated at the age already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of nine and fostered by families who share their magic. From that point onwards, they are each trained to use their magic as a weapon in the fight to the death against the other sisters. On the night music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the sisterstruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can'sixteenth birthday, they will each begin their quest to secure the throne and become the rightful Queent.. While the crown awaits the victor, death awaits the two weaker queens.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509804552</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I'll Be Home For ChristmasTori Bovalino|authortitle=Benjamin Zephaniah and OthersThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Publisher Little Tiger and homelessness charity Crisis have got together and produced Working all summer in her boarding school''I'll Be Home For Christmas'' - an anthology of short stories from some of s library is the most popular writers on the UK YA scene. The stories are connected by the theme of homelast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What does home mean to you? Is makes it your house, worse is the man who requested the physical place where you live? Is it your family? Your friends? Home can mean different things to different peoplebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, can't it? The book opens with and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a powerful poem by Bookbag favouritelarge request, Benjamin Zephaniah. The following stories are disparate Tess sticks post- some telling tales it notes on each of hardship and fearthe books, some warming scribbled with the cockles ugliest insults she can think of your heart. But They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all of off before delivering them are about ''home'. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847157726</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kerry DreweryPhilip Reeve|title= Cell 7Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 45|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Tired In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of ''Big Brother'' and ''I'm riches in this story set on a Celebrity..?'' Maybe you'd prefer something more grittypeculiar island called Wildsea, something more 'real?' Welcome to the evolution of reality TV: ''Death is Justice'' gives youBritish but way west, beyond the viewerScillies. There are troll people on it, the power of life and death. Listen to the evidencesea-witches, decide whether the condemned criminal is guilty or innocent and then simply text DIE or LIVE to 7997 (Calls cost £5). Since the abolition legends of the court system a few years ago, the power of jury Dark family that has been given to the people. Those accused of murder have seven days in seven cellskeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, each with their own particular method of psychological torturewhere no ship dare sail. On The current Darks are the last dayWatcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the accused is led to Cell 7Hidden Lands, dominated by the imposing electric chair in the centre. As the public votes pour his brother Will who lives in, viewers wait London with eager anticipation to see if there will be a live execution that evening...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405591</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stuart Kent|title=The Catchers|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve-year-old Jamie Ellebert is wandering along perfectly happily too much science in his very normal twelve-year-old lifehead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, when a sprite suddenly appears in his bedroom. The sprite is followed by a door. Also suddenly appearing. Also in his bedroom. Thereand Andrewe's a knock at the doorfoundling daughter, so Jamie takes who washed up out of the sprite and opens itsea one day eleven years ago. Down a passage, Jamie finds an old man wearing a pointy hat who introduces But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, grandly, as ''Colin Gertrude Hillary Caterwhich, of both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the Magic and Mythical creature catchers department, world of the Magical Ministry Teathorpe branch''. Jamie is in Magictasium. After a brief magical interlude with Colin and Trixieprotecting their island, a teenage witch, Colin returns home..like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785892797</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Born ScaredKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Kevin BrooksJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Everything scares Elliott. And by everythingJulia, we really mean ''everything''. Elliott is not afraid of his mumour pre-teen heroine, his aunt has been packed off with her parents and his doctortheir cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. And Here be Vikings, that's it. Imagine that. Being frightened kind of your roomScottish island. Of colours. Of noises. Of most things around you Dad is going to be automating the lantern, no matter how everyday and mundane they are. This which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the natural state of things for Elliottelusive Greenland shark. And it's been that way since he was born prematurely and his twinJulia, Ellamaywell, diedshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405276193</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Very Good ChanceJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Minty isn't having a great time at home. It's quite clearScarlett McCain is an outlaw, from rejecting the draconian conformity of the hissing conversations in other rooms Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the looming silencesSeven Kingdoms of Britain, that her parents' marriage is in trouble. Not that either Mum or Dad is admitting that robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to Mintykeep herself alive. School is But then she meets Albert Browne, a bit of dark boy with dark powers and a boredarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, unless it's history as taught by trenchant Italian Serena Serralunga. Minty needs an escape..they plan to 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 reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014781</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Double Down (Lois Lane) Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Gwenda BondSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lois Lane is doing pretty well in MetropolisGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. The oppositionalAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, trouble-seeking army brat we first met she is used to not being a priority in [[Fallout (Lois Lane) by Gwenda Bond|Fallout]] has made some friends, got a job as a cub reporter on people''The Daily Scoop'' and even exposed s lives. But when she defends a scandal at random boy in her school. Her online relationship class with the mysterious Smallville Guy her slingshot, her simple existence is also going pretty wellchanged for good. But No longer can she spend her army general father and time writing novels in solitude, for her school principal are both still keeping life now has a weather eye on Lois. And newspaper editor Perry White is putting her under pressure boy in it that she never asked for a new story..: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023690</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Natasha FarrantT L Huchu|title= Lydia: The Wild Girl Library of Pride and Prejudice|rating= 5|genre=Teens |summary=Lydia Bennet has just turned fifteen and has received, amongst other gifts, a diary from her bookish older sister Mary. She'd rather have received some ribbon or some lace; after all, writing in a diary every day seems such a tedious pastime. But when a handsome regiment of scarlet-coats arrives in Meryton, Lydia decides that there just might be something exciting to write about after all...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002976</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jess Vallance|title= The Yellow Roomthe Dead
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|summary= Sixteen-year-old Anna lives an ordinaryRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, uneventful life with but her workaholic mother after younger sister and her father left them both years before without a single word sinceaging grandmother. However Anna, there's simple life is suddenly changed when she receives a letter from Ediean evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, her fathertargeting the city's girlfriendchildren. Soon, telling her that he has died and she would like Ropa is pulled into the search for them to meet. Anna isn't sure how to feel a missing boy at first – she was estranged from her father but the news has still come as a shock, and so Anna agrees to meet Edie and they start request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an unlikely friendship. Edie occult library and realise that the world of magic is eccentric far bigger and warm and offers Anna the companionship more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she lacks with her own unemotional mother, so much so that Anna manages to gather up find the courage missing children and bring an end to tell Edie about the troublesome secret she has been carrying deep inside this evil, or will it claim her.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405818</amazonuk>1529039452
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