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|summary=ItWhen new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's Poland in 1939. And Annahometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's linguistics professor father is about to be rounded up in the Nazi purge of intellectualsdisdain for everything around her. Knowing this is likely to happen A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, he leaves but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her in the care of a friend for the day. When , and that's definitely because Isabel makes her father doesnfeel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't return to collect she? Even though none of herrelationships with boys have gone very well so far, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna to she's never had a new good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and dangerous world. Anna wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just seven years old and will never see her father again.hates Isabel, doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= Front LinesWild East|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever further, the USA adds its strength to the Alliance and women are allowed to fight in the military for the first time4. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the war, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants to kill the man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Courtney Summers|title=All The Rage|rating=5

|summary=In a small townWritten in verse, where everyone knows everything about everyone elsethis is Ronny's story, a teenage girl is rapedyoung black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. ''All The Ragemove is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny' is as simple as thats safety after a tragic event, and yet it is so much more complicated tooRonny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. It touches upon the blame that is laid at the victim's feet; the ways But now, in which survivors cope with this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the days connections between rap and weeks poetry, and years after such an ordeal; the idea that, while it changes you, it cannot fully erase what makes you youpower of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonJenny Valentine|title=Mind Your HeadUs in the Before and After

|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank Elk and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illnessMab are best friends, the treatments availableor more than that even, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and their friendship is written a once in a chatty but serious waylifetime connection. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before They meet as James Dawson. Shechildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help hercontact details at the time. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyssa SheinmelMax Boucherat|title=FacelessThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary=Maisie is a normal high school student. SheWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the star of the school running teamhouse 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 a wonderful boyfriendone main intention, a great best friend and she's all set that is to go log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a good collegehit in Lori's world. But when an early morning run ends in tragedyfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, Maisie and then she finds herself in hospital in something even more spooky. For the serious burns unit server she and her bestie and without most nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of her facetampering. When a donor appearsmalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctors, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarringsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, she has no idea who she where is anymore. a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How not to DisappearRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Clare FurnissCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Hattie is having rather a miserable summer''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. Both her best friends'' Rosevear, Reuben a remote and Natpartially forgotten island, are away, living it up in survives on luring ships into the south of France rocks and Edinburgh respectivelyplundering the wrecks. HattieMira, meanwhilelike her mother before her, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and working at any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a burger joint. Ittrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's hardly glamorous leader and itMira's very dispiriting father. Desperate to be the one waiting at home for the odd text or email save him from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=Queen of the Silver Arrow|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=King Metabus had not been death, Mira makes a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached the river he had to make bargain with a decision and wreck survivor who is as charming as he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms is secretive and tied with only coordinates to guide her to his javelin, which he threw across the torrent, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived sets off in search of a cave with her father and ran wild family secret that lies buried deep in the forestsea. In nearby LaurentumWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Acca had grown up hearing as her journey takes her from the story watched streets of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in foreign islands to the ground and dreamed heart of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after the death of Camillasmuggler's fatherterritory, when Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the girls became firm friendsones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperHarry Allen|title=A Dark Trade|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina Friday, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant is a big house in central London. There were seven members Children of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokes. She could cope with that, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions of one of the young men of the family. She'd already heard the stories of what had happened to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathryn Evans |title=More of Me Sun

|summary=At school, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normal. But at home Teva's life is about as far from normal as it's possible to get. Locked away Ra Eun Seo lives in what everyone outside thinks a North Korean town and she is a haunted house are eleven other Tevas, all different agestalented singer. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with the new Teva going out in the world while the previous Teva Life is hard and food is kept insidedifficult to come by, trapped as so Seo and her younger selffriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewAlexia Casale|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Some teenagers worry about who theyre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that'll wake up next s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going tochange her life. Others worry about who they But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that'll wake up s as normal asshe can possibly manage... Meanwhile there'' Ethans a new (cute!) boy in school, who is 14, is just hoping her music A Level performance piece to wake up in time try to begin his high school career in a brand new town. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns sort out that Ethan, now Drew, is a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankind, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one for each year just the day to day traumas of his time all the challenges her body continues to throw at high schoolher to navigate. Drew So even though she can's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreview|title=River of Ink 1: Genesis|author=Helen Dennis|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Some people believe that when you drown, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in the river saw only bottles, driftwood and the dented licence plate of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowning.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on the banks of the Thames, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively draws?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)Simon Fox|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Despite Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the nameforce, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birdsthen suddenly rings Archie, everything is feminine – the island is demanding he fetch something from a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone is femalesecret place, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of lifejoin him on the run. The novices there are on the cuspThey get together, in several ways – of girls turning but barely begin to women, smell the whiff of students turning to SistersSouthern trains when the father is arrested, of people learning what leaving Archie on the religion means for them starting late express to practise it with Brighton, toting a duty tin his father was determined to others. And, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes keep away from a family that lost one daughter through faminehis colleagues, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from bearer of a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasywhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilLex Croucher|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon GirlGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide Who knew that what I really needed to do with the rest of their lives. Move to the cityread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? Enrol at university? Get But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a job most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and make a life in Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career in art and comic books is possible. And if it ismutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? Itin love with Bridget (the kingdom's a frightening choiceonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Is she good enough? And in any casethen when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because subterfuge of falling in love with each member of it has the same choice before themother, 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 they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Nick Brooks|title=Dangerous Lies Promise Boys

|summary=Whisked When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the witness protection programmepolice station as suspects. Each, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside downseemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend But who killed him, and forced to abandon both her friends why, and her identity. Leaving city life behind herif any of the boys are innocent, she's convinced there is no way she will they be able to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraska. But, then, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next door. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary D Schmidt1919635017|title=Orbiting JupiterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph Solomon Klyne isn't like most fourteen year-oldsa bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. HeBut I's troubledll answer the first one: the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teachergrandmother.. And there's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne Patrick Ness and E H ShepardTea Bendix|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, if we're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered the secret of happiness. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none the worse Different for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison |title=Never EversBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=Two English schoolsAnt 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, six 14 year-so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip muckers – in fact they all go back to Franceprimary school days together. Add As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a 15 yearsingle-old French popstar shooting sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his latest video achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and you have so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the perfect recipe for a light-hearted relationship and funny teen romancethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Candy Harper1800901232|title=Keep The FaithStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= The basics of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the plot here are that Faith is going on village to offer Hahn a French exchange, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to join her be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was onthe mini-bus to Hanoi. Meanwhile there's more boy trouble Only, while she's also trying to juggle revising for exams Hanh and applying the other girls were not going to become work in a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the minds of certain teachers!) legs? The plot is never really ones with the main point of a Faith book though artfully- instead itplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a welcome way to catch up with one of the best friendship groups in recent YA fictionquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsPatrice Lawrence|title=Lucerin: IdentityNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Aiden Chase seemsBrave. Charlene, on the face 'heroine' of it, this piece is extremely hard for some people to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bullies, homework characters and girlsreaders both. He Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has no idea that taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he has Lucerin blood; 's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the key to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time and even materialising solid items from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable to creation of one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman such item is head part of the plot here, as Charlene is a group wonder knitter, and is making something full of powerful Lucerin who love for her younger sister – a younger sister she'pull the strings' behind the world sceness allowed contact with no more. Initially We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for peaceme to say, the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have the power only to change all of that remark how sharp and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiAnn Sei Lin|title= I Am MalalaRebel Skies

|genre= AutobiographyTeens|summary= ''She's Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a phenomenon'' is my OH's response massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to any mention of Malaladrink and make merry between their conquests. I can't disagree on some levelHowever, but what this book proves is when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that on another she is just a girlCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. One voice among many. It's just He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she decided to speak louder than mosthas known. We know about Malala Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she got luckyis forced to flee out into the world. She got lucky because when she got shot by joins Himura aboard the Taliban there were people nearbyOrihime, doctors who got her a sky-ship whose express purpose is to a hospitalhunt down shikigami, and then luckier still because when her condition worsened, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and she was flown to the UK for treatment.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMarcus Sedgwick|title=Anything That Isn't ThisWrath

|summary=Frank Palp lives in Meet Fitz, a dullyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, dystopian worldand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where ''The Grey'' pervades every aspect of lifehe wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from the food putting his foot in it when he talks to the architecturehis best friend, Cassie. So insidious are these changesThey were half of a desultory school band, that no-but Cassie was also one seems to have noticed them, apart hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from Frankthe earth. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem to be completely oblivious to Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the sinister nature end of the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quo. The all-powerful is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she''Ministry'' has a stranglehold on everything and everyone, with each household having its own assigned student, who records everything and reports suspicious activity to the mysterious Mr Vertex. Frank thinks he is s dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the only person who hates this oppressive worldtruth? Well, but one day not when Cassie has gone missing he finds a message in a bottle with a wish for ''anything that isncan't this,'' and goes on a desperate search for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mate...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E R MurrayTori Bovalino|title= The Book of Learning|rating= 4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony Smart's world is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt she didn't know existed, Ebony soon discovers that her new home, 23 Mercury Lane, is full of secrets. Discovering that she is part of an ancient order of people who have the power to reincarnate, Ebony is soon under threat from a terrible evil that threatens to destroy their existence. With just her pet rat Winston, and a mysterious book to help her, she must figure out why her people are disappearing and how to save their souls, and her own, before time runs out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Boy 23Devil Makes Three

|summary=''Boy 23 isn't Working all summer in My Place any more. He canher boarding school't see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 s library is alone.'' Before being dumped alone in the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a room entirely by himself. He hundred books that she has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of the world has been through a few short video clips, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice in My Placedeliver herself. Now, he finds himself alone with only a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life What makes it worse is in danger, people have been sent to kill him, he must head north west to the Low Countries, man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan Graudin|title=Wolf by Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Itboarding school's 1956headmaster, and a man Tess hates. And As a very different world from the one you'd expect. Germany won World War II petty act of revenge for making her find and the Nazi project is in full flow. Lebensraum is expanding. The extermination project has spread to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant and the United States is pursuing an isolationist policydeliver such a large request, hoping Nazism never makes Tess sticks post-it to the Americas. The main Axis powers notes on each of Germany and Japan have pretty much divided territory between them. To commemorate a victorious war, the two powers host the annual Axis Tourbooks, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for scribbled with the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felixugliest insults she can think of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=J Ryan|title=Missing Dad: Wanted|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is in big trouble. HeThey's been driving the car his grandfather bought re never meant to reach him before he's even old enough to take the driving test. And been caught. Still worse, he's suspected of a hit-and-run and the police don't look as though they believe him when he insists he - and his car - were nowhere near the scenecourse. Mum Her plan is unimpressed but also worried to get her anger out like this, and Joe feels horribly guiltythen take them all off before delivering them. As No harm done… Or it would be, if things couldnsomeone hadn't be worse, Joe is also suspended from schooldelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha CarthewPhilip Reeve|title=The Light That Gets LostUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At just seven years of ageIn a word, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring rich. There is certainly an abundance of his older brother. He escapes the attack by hiding riches in this story set on a wardrobe. After thatpeculiar island called Wildsea, he is taken into care. We meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. He's on his British but way to Camp Kernow, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Treywest, this is beyond the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes that the man who murdered his parents works at the camp and he intends to find him and kill himScillies. In Trey's mind, things There are simple: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever after.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|title=Once Upon a Place|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb troll people on every ''Artemis Fowl'' bookit, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-andsea-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of itwitches, and legends of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems Dark family that has to me, is more full than usual of people, things keep watch for magical islands and ideastheir monster approaching from even further west, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to themwhere no ship dare sail. The places might not be current Darks are the famous onesWatcher, but they can be the source of prideAndrewe, and who has to keep notes of storiesactivity from the Hidden Lands, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes his brother Will who lives in, London with the authors invited too much science in his head to select their chosen place worry about such local yokel superstitions, and write about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Munson|title= The November Criminals|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Addison Schacht is a high school senior (thatAndrewe's sixth form if you're British) in Washington DC and a bit foundling daughter, who washed up out of a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgil's Aeineid - he owns three copies and reads from the sea one of them every single dayeleven years ago. He has applied to But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the University world of Chicagoprotecting their island, where he wants to study classics.So far, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peerslike it or not. Hmm!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy MulliganKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title= Liquidator|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief as you enter the crazy, exciting and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulligan. You will encounter ruthless villains, non-stop danger, at least one near-death experience Julia and a rather jolly lorry driver. Where does all this happen, you ask? In the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere way, way more dangerous. Work experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Yates|title=The Winter PlaceShark

|summary=Axel Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Tess live their cat from the family home in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have a knight SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining and a good thing - because Sam is summer, in the far NE of the only parental figure in their livesScottish islands. Axel and Tess's mother died when Axel was born Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Tess Dad is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over going to be automating the care of Axellantern, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from which is his late motherspecialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Axel is And Julia, well, an individual child, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhereshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>1510107789