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|summary=Meet Pierrot. As Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a very young child once in 1930s Paris he is going to have a very awkward journey through his young lifelifetime connection. His father is They meet as children one day on a violent drunk, reacting badly to what he saw in WWItrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanthey are inseparable. That woman Something has happened though, Emilie, is going to diesomething terrible and tragic, and leave Pierrot an orphannow they must work through their grief, which will leave him in a home where he is bullied. But from the reaches of Europe and from the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrixtheir friendship, who will give him a home, of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghoftogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonMax Boucherat|title=DreamlandThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=EllieWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, Charlie and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home that is to log on to LondonVoxminer, where Mumthe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century house, 47 Foster Squareworld. But itfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's not quite ''home'' to Londont find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. They're not returning to their old house but For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to another tiny, cramped flatenter shows signs of tampering. When asked whymalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, all Mum will say where is, "Ask your father."a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroRachel Greenlaw|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!Compass and Blade|rating=23.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to other areas of the place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Annabel Pitcher|title=Silence is Goldfish|rating=4

|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers she's a Pluto and her parents wanted a Mercury or VenusI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, at leastthe answering beat in my heart.''

When Tess Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is in her fatherone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's studyfather. Desperate to save him from death, she discovers Mira makes a bargain with a blog post wreck survivor who is as charming as he has written which gives away is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a devastating family secretthat lies buried deep in the sea. SuddenlyWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, for Tessas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, everything has changed. She decides Mira must be determined to run away but chickens out stop at nothing to save the last minute. As future of her life falls apart, Tess retreats into selective mutism home and her only conversations are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torchthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C J SkuseHarry Allen|title=MonsterChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=More than anything else, sixteen year-old Nash wants to be Head Girl of Bathory School. Indeed Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she's willing to put up with almost anything to get the top jobis a talented singer. But, just when she's poised Life is hard and food is difficult to be awarded the rolecome by, everything starts to unravel. Nash so Seo and a group of school misfits have to stay at school over the Christmas holidays her friends Nari andMin go foraging every evening, trapped by the worst weather in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting looking for their lives. Not everyone is going tree bark and edible grasses to survivesupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggAlexia Casale|title=Username: EvieSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girl, nobody at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bus. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house – after all, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish to live there, with nobody else around, and the memory of her deceased mother. But luckily someone is choosing a place for her –her father is able to put all his work into a cyber-world for her, the E-Scape, which is close to the perfect world. All that remains is to programme the humans to be her friends, and make the connection Evie has with them and them with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)|rating= 4

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you haven't read the [[Zomre having to navigate a life-B by Darren Shan|first book]] changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Mussi|title= Breakdown|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= From the start middle of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand and doesn’t let goa dance performance that was going to change her life. She uses short But she comes back fighting, sharpdesperate to avoid the pity stares, savage sentences and desperate to urge them get back to follow her protagonist Melissa on a terrifying odyssey into a relentlessly brutal world where only the meanest, smartest and toughest survivelife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It is Meanwhile there's a horrific vision of a post-apocalypticnew (cute!) boy in school, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fear, povertyher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, corrupt militarisation and anarchy. Ravenous dogs roam just the streets and day to day traumas of all the stench of violence and sexual slavery is never far awaychallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Melissa is blessed with beauty which some So even though she can't dance anymore, might consider a curse. Will she emerge into the light or be trapped in Hades foreverable to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeSimon Fox|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=(By Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the way there are spoilers ahead – this is definitely force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a series to be read in ordersecret place, starting from [[Tesla 1 by Mark Lingane|Tesla 1]] )and join him on the run. Alone again now that Melanie has been killedThey get together, Sebastian makes it but barely begin to North America. Far from it being smell the land whiff of promise it used Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to beBrighton, the country is now an apocalyptic ruintoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, full of people scavenging for their survival and the Infected forging bearer of a path whole heap of worse-than-death and destructionquestions. Sebastian needs to focus on his ultimate challenge as foreseen in a rather scary way but there's a small matter distracting him: who's firing rockets at him?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1515000796</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaLex Croucher|title=Fans of the Impossible LifeGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54

|summary= JeremyWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Mira it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Sebby are very different peopleArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, each with much to their own complex and difficult issuesmutual disgust! Gwen, you see, who find themselves inexplicably drawn together. Jeremy is an artist, painfully shy and still struggling to get over in love with Bridget (the horrible incident kingdom's only female knight) - something that ruined his last year of school. Mira is cool and fashionable, but suffers Art discovers from depression, constantly fighting against a sleep that threatens to overpower her for days on endprivate diaries. Then there's Sebby And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, flamboyantcreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, irreverent and charmingwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, but with hurt and troubles simmering behind his façadewill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, and no family or support network are they destined to lean on. The powerful friendship and love that forms between them could save them from live a lie their broken selves, but it could just as easily drag them all down together. whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Courtney SheinmelNick Brooks|title= EdgewaterPromise Boys|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Lorrie may run with the big dogs, but right now she's more of a mutt. Her mother is AWOL and her aunt is becoming more eccentric by the day. She's politely asked to leave her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arrive, and so she sets off home to sort it all out. Again. It's becoming something of a habit this need to act the grown up while the real grown ups fail to make the grade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosemary Hayes|title= The Mark|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary='She's his mark'. Rachel's on the run. Naïve, homeless and emotional, she's easy prey. But for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Miriam Moss |title=Girl on a Plane|rating=54

|summary= It's September 1970 and 15 year old Anna is on her way back to boarding When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school in England. Friends of her family joke about the recent hijackings but Anna is far more concerned about leaving her home in Bahrain and their mongrel dogmurdered, Woofathree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. These worries are Each, seemingly, howeverhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, wiped from her mind when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas and diverted to a disused airstrip in each could have been there at the Jordanian deserttime of his murder. Here they are forced to wait for days with almost no food But who killed him, and why, and very little water while their captors issue their demands to if any of the British government. If these demands boys are not met within three daysinnocent, will they will blow up the plane killing all the hostages. be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443316</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Claire McFall1919635017|title= Black Cairn Point|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Heather agrees to a camping holiday with Dougie and his friends because she's desperate to get closer A Thief to him. But when they disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, Heather becomes certain that they have woken Catch a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in the pitch-black dark, and it is planning deadly revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=OneKiller|author=Sarah CrossanKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=It's always been Tippi-and-Grace. Never Tippi and Grace. These twins canSolomon Klyne isn't be separated - and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physicallya bad lad, too. Because Tippi and Grace are conjoined twins. They have two heads, two hearts, two sets so why is he running around London committing a series of lungs, two pairs of arms. But at the waist, they come together. Life hasnrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't been easy - their father has lost his job as a college professor and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at the bank ll have to wait to get an answer to keep up the health insurance paymentssecond question because I avoid spoilers. Medical bills are crippling and money is tight, so tight that But I'll answer the twins are going to have stop being homeschooled and enroll in a "normal" school first one: for the first timehis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford Patrick Ness and Professor Anil SethTea Bendix|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and FeelingDifferent for Boys|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet the brain. We all have one4. We all use it (and by 'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of the day. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body language. It's such a vital part of the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age. But in this varied and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=The Astrologer's Daughter|rating=5

|summary=Horary Astrology Ant is an ancient branch 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 horoscopic astrology four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in which an astrologer attempts fact they all go back to answer a question asked primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at an exact time by the construction of leash only a horoscope around itsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Clear Which is confusing for Ant, as mud? Yeshe doesn't know what his score is, me toowhere his achievements in that regard lie. Suffice to say, an horary astrologer would have to be a very gifted individual indeed and Avicenna CroweHe's motherhad a casual relationship, Joannea secret one, is such an astrologer. In factfor several months now, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers and maniacally obsessed clients at so has effectively progressed up the bad end of the scale toladder headed by 'experienced', wellbut whether that's set in stone, worsehe can't be sure. Sometimes And that's mostly because of who he'much'' worse…s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek Landy1800901232|title=Demon Road|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Amber Lamont was a relatively ordinary 16-year-old, living a pretty quiet, uneventful life; she went to school, had a part-time job, and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over the course of just one day everything goes completely to hell. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon, a genuine, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip a human to shreds. Her demon side is the least of her problems, however. For Amber's parents are also demons, and now that her powers have manifested, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on the run, travelling the Demon Road across America in a desperate attempt to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his own. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008140812</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Jenny Downham|title=UnbecomingSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Three women. Three sets of secrets about Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be laid barea fashion designer.Katie lives Life in the rural village where she lived with her learningfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-disable brother Chris dressed man and her rather controlling mother. They've recently moved woman came to the village to her mother's childhood town after Katie's father got offer Hahn a girlfriend and a new babyjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Katie, a hardworking Some money changed hands and dutiful girl, is halfway through her AS levels when everything Hanh was on the mini- and I mean everything - goes wrongbus to Hanoi. First up Only, Katie kisses her best friend Esme. Esme rejects her Hanh and, worse still, tells all the mean other girls at school what happened. They miss no opportunity were not going to mock and name call. And then work in a phone call one night brings Mary into their livesshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200646</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula DubosarskyPatrice Lawrence|title=The Red ShoeNeedle|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=They may be quite far apart, but three houses in a row in the rural suburbs of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual people. In one, a solitary old man of very few words, shuffling to the end of his days, but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, and with a gun in the corner of his lounge. In the middle, a family of five, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due to the same war, a mother feeling friendless and alone in the isolated time and location, and their three daughters – one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radio. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Libba Bray|title= Lair of Dreams|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability to read people's secrets, she's a media darling. It seems like everyone's in love with New York City's latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'. But while Evie is enjoying the high life, her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois and Ling Chan will fight to keep their powers secret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maureen White|title=Butterfly Shell|rating=53

|summary=One of Brave. Charlene, the worst kind 'heroine' of nerve-wracking days has arrived: that first day this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of Secondary School. As we all remembermultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, thatand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's part scaryat uni. 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 exciting for any girl (or boy tooof the plot here, of courseas Charlene is a wonder knitter, but this and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a girlsyounger sister she' school)s allowed contact with no more. It's an age when you're anxious about making new friends We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and fitting in anyway, but at ''then force people to give her'' new two days off school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim , when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to a group of bulliesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Six.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzAnn Sei Lin|title= The Young WorldRebel Skies|rating= 3.5

|summary= After Kurara has spent her entire life as a mysterious sickness wipes out servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the rest sky where soldiers of the populationEmpire 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 young survivors band together in small tribespower to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, desperately trying to rebuild their society leave the life of olddreary servitude that is all she has known. In New York CityWell, Jeffersonsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, reluctant leader of because the tribe from Washington Square, hears of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a potential cure for The Sickness. Soshikigami, he and a squad of heavily armed teens set she is forced to flee out across New York in search of this cureinto the world. Along She joins Himura aboard the way they must avoid gangs and cultsOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and brave the perils a whole world of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankind's future. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn BennettMarcus Sedgwick|title=Night OwlsWrath|rating=4.5

|summary= Beatrix Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a serious girl; small only just over, and slighthe should be free to do what he wants, considered to go where he wants and studious with a quiet determination whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to follow her dream his best friend, Cassie. They were half of becoming a medical illustrator. Pretty and petite, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipstersdesultory school band, Beatrix knows that Jack is all but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the kinds of boys enigmatic – saying she should avoidcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. LooseIs this connected with one of her eco-limbed and slim with warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a slash done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled and ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has cheekbones you gone missing he can hang from and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transit, her world is turned upside downt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisTori Bovalino|title=All Sorts of PossibleThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''When s library is the sinkhole opened, there was no time last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to break or turn deliver herself. What makes it worse is the wheelman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rima man Tess hates.'' SomehowAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Daniel makes Tess sticks post-it out notes on each of the sinkhole and emerges to safety books, scribbled with just a few scratches and bruisesthe ugliest insults she can think of. But his father isnThey't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due re never meant to a severe brain injuryreach him, Daniel is released into the care of his aunt, a woman he has never metcourse. There had been a family falling Her plan is to get her anger out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a babylike this, and since then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult to trust t delivered them for her or open up to her... ... and there's a lot to open up about.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian JohnstonePhilip Reeve|title= The Mirror Chronicles: Circles Utterly Dark and the Face of Stonethe Deep|rating= 45|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Sylas Tate has been through In a lotword, considering he wasn't yet in his teens when his journeys beganrich. His mother There is lost, leaving him to the less than tender mercies certainly an abundance of his uncle, and after a strange incident riches in book one of this series he found himself travelling to another world. Even more bizarre, while he was there he encountered Naeo, his other half – not some jokey reference to story set on a future wifepeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the true second part of his soulScillies. The two worlds (ours, based There are troll people on scienceit, and the Other, based on magic) were once onesea-witches, and it is the dearest wish legends of the down-trodden inhabitants Sylas meets Dark family that has to unite them againkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katie Everson|title= Drop|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novelThe current Darks are the Watcher, ‘DropAndrewe,’ is a tale who has to keep notes of grief and healingactivity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A-studentAndrewe's foundling daughter, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined to change her predictable lifewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. When her absentee mother is offered a job in LondonBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Carla transfers to yet another school both his sullen brother and this time she is desperate to his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not be overlooked. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Louis SacharJulia and the Shark

|summary=Tamaya isn't allowed to walk home from school on her own. And Tamaya doesn't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking a "shortcut" through the woods one dayJulia, she goes with himour pre-teen heroine, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst to Tamaya, Marshall has chosen been packed off with her parents and their cat from the route family home in order SW England to avoid school bully Chadbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who has threatened him with a reckoningin the far NE of the Scottish islands. A reckoning for nothing at all - but you know Here be Vikings, that's how school bullies workkind of Scottish island. But lying Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the woods is an even greater threat than Chad.elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinJonathan Stroud|title=The Walled CityOutlaws Scarlett and Browne

|summary= In Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the walled city draconian conformity of Hak Namthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, there are three rules; run fast, trust no onerobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and always carry your knifea darker past. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lordsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisonedLondon Lagoon. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothelsTogether, evading the roaming streetthey must brave man-gangs as she goes. Mei Yeeeating wildlife, trapped in a brothel in the city cannibalistic Tainted and forced into sexual relations with all the twohorrors of post-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days apocalyptic society to accomplish thisreach the Free Isles, as but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents rest of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Self-Esteem TeamMercedes Helnwein|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!Slingshot|rating= 43

|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a lack of body confidence? Shockingman with a "real" family, isnshe is used to not being a priority in people't s lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it?that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie T L Huchu|title=All My Secrets The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year old Evie Ropa Moyo is a normal teenager until ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a solicitor bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from Scotland appears on her doorstep with news the dead of a £10 million inheritance and a secret that turns her world upside downEdinburgh for their living relatives. ItEver since she dropped out of school, she's little wonder she struggles been using it to cope support not only herself, but her younger sister and ends up being enrolled on a summer programme for troubled teens on the remote island of Lightsea. Little does she suspect that her troubles are only just beginningaging grandmother. At However, there's an evil stalking the same time as coping with her burgeoning attraction to two ruined streets of the boys on the programmeEdinburgh, she discovers targeting the island is linked to her family secretcity's children. Evie Soon, Ropa is determined to get to pulled into the search for a missing boy at the bottom request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the mystery, unaware world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the dangers that missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will bring for both her and it claim her new friends.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122212</amazonuk>1529039452