YOUNG FICTION REVIEWS & Stories

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Young Fiction Reviews

New for 2008

Cybernation by Erica Blaney Hachette Children's Books ISBN: 9780340950326 • Jack Clarkson If you’re into Sci-Fi or anything with a bit of imagination then this is the book for you Consequences… Don’t call me baby by Laurie Depp • Alana Hebenton Don’t call me baby creates a realistic teenage voice with is use of contemporary cultural references to ‘Hello’ magazine and celebrities like David Beckam, Diary Of A Chav: Too Cool for School by Grace Dent • Rebecca Wass 'Enjoyable and fast paced tale' of Shiraz Bailey Wood Jupiter Williams by S.I. Martin. Published by Hodder Children’s books Priced £5.99 ISBN: 9780340944066 • Jack Clarkson review Seriously, if you mess with this guy, he will end you… The Underwood See by Michael Lawrence, Orchard Books £5.99 ISBN-10: 1841211702 ISBN-13: 978-1841211701 • Emma McGill. Naia and Alaric use the willow tree in the north garden at Withern Rise to transport themselves to different realities. Here they meet and with the help of Aldous U. they work out the secrets of their worlds, bringing them together. This is a brilliantly written book, Fashionistas by Sarra Manning • Tabz Parkes review Definition: Someone who eats, sleeps, breathes and lives for fashion. Unzipped – A Toolkit for Life Author: Matt Whyman ISBN-13: 978 0 340 94533 9 • Richard Parry Review 'Whyman’s book is a must buy for the inquisitive growing boy or for the worryingly anxious parent'. Just In Case By Meg Rosoff Puffin Books ISBN- 978-0-141-31806-6 • Anna Bennett It’s hard to know where to begin writing this review about such an extraordinary book. It’s strange, haunting, humorous and deeply moving, and unlike any book I have ever read. Seeing Stars by Christina Jones, • Stephanie Vile I picked up this book because I'm fascinated by astrology and love wondering "what else is out there." I think it's because that the stars that we see in the sky no longer exist by the time they reach our eyes. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Atom, £4.99) ISBN: 1-904233-02-3 • Daniel Alves The use of a child as a hero in an adult world is nothing new, but the book is so finely crafted and written, so varied and so very cold towards Ender, that human empathy compels us to read on and discover his fate. Gallowglass Author: Brian Keaney • Stephen Doyle review Gallowglass is the second in a trilogy of young adults fantasy and adventure books called ‘The Promises of Doctor Sigmundus’ by Brian Keaney, the first volume titled ‘The Hollow People’. The Way I See It by Nicole Dryburgh Hodder Children’s Books ISBN: 9780340956922 • Holly Bates The autobiography of a truly amazing woman, "The Way I See It" is Nicole Dryburgh’s account of the emotional and challenging years of her life from the age of eleven when she was diagnosed with a malignant tumour on her spine. I am Spartapuss by Robin Price Publisher: Mogzilla ISBN-10: 0954657608 ISBN-13: 978-0954657604 • Stephen Doyle I am Spartapuss is quite squarely aimed at children. It is also entrancing and highly amusing. Fashionistas: Irina by Sarra Manning Hodder Children's Books (20 Mar 2008) ISBN-13: 978-0340932223 • Aby Davis Irina Kerchenko is trying to nick a dress from a Moscow Prada when she is spotted.

The Last of the Warrior Kings by Sarah Mussi London: Hodder Children’s Books, 2008. £5.99 ISBN: 978-0-340-90322-3 • Anona Evans review Max is portrayed as a modern day hero. He is a lone crusader, fighting to restore the faith and property of an ancient civilisation. Stone Heart By Charlie Fletcher. Hodder Children’s Books £5.99 ISBN-13: 978-0340911631 • Alana Hebenton review Twelve year old outsider George is on what he thinks is just another boring school trip to the Natural History Museum, when his world gets flipped upside down and his life is transformed forever. The Catkin by Nick Green ISBN: 978-0-571-23481-3 Faber &Faber Paperback • Sam North review Too late Ben realises this is not Tae Kwon Do but Pashki, the lost art of cat kin. They are going to learn to be cats. The Cure, by Michael Coleman Published by Orchard Books ISBN: 978-1-84616-344-9 • Chris Burden "1984" meets "Annie" in this story full of life lessons for a contemporary youth. Set in the year 274 AD (After Darwin) we are granted access to an alternate version of what our world could become. Dirty Angels by Andrew Glovers • Aby Davis review On page one of Andrew Glovers debut novel his teenage protagonist announces he's got problems. He's short, clever and has weird dreams. So far, so average, until Colin tells the reader he is psychic Eggs by Jerry Spinelli (Orchard Books) ISBN: 978-1-84616-699-0 Tiffany Lee When a fine but modest and understated tale like this emerges which focuses on the triviality of childhood, it has got a long climb ahead of it. New Moon by Stepahnie Meyer • Nicole Foulger review Stephenie Meyer loses none of the drama in New Moon the sequel to the breathtaking Twilight. We enter back into the mind and life of ordinary teen Bella who has the most extraordinary boyfriend-Edward Cullen, a Vampire. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer • Nicole Foulger A gripping romantic vampire story with bite... ‘Luuurve is a many trousered thing…’ By Louise Rennison. • Louise Webster Rennison’s successful ‘The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson’ book series’ is about Georgia, our quirky, hormonal teen protagonist. dealing with the issues of boys, school life, looks and more boys. Mimosa Fortune by Echo Freer ISBN-13: 978-0340894767 Publisher: Hodder Children's Books 2007 • Jack Clarkson review There is a reason they didn’t let Lenny narrate "Of Mice and Men"! Echo Freer did not seem to realise this when she wrote Mimosa Fortune! Heaven's Eyes by David Almond Holly Bates Review This mysterious and intriguing tale of "damaged child" Erin Law’s adventures with her friends is haunting and fantastically original. The Last Vampire, Red Dice & Phantom By Christopher Pike • Chris Burden The Last Vampire is a series charting the adventures of Sita, a kick-ass five thousand year old vampire with an attitude. This is a high octane, gripping novel Teenage Kicks by Clive Gifford Hodder Children's Books ISBN-13: 978-0340950616 • Gavin Gerlach Review Despite youth being wasted on the young, Clive Gifford seems determined to get teenagers everywhere to make the most of their formative years with Teenage Kicks.

2006/7

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Man v Beast by Robert Muchamore A Rosie Wheatcroft review Man V Beast review by Rebecca Denmark

Innocent by Anne Cassidy Jo Green review

Illmore Chronicles: The Dwellings Debacle by David Lee Stone - A Keren Arnold review Let's Get Lost by Sarra Manning A Jenny Atkins review Red Moon by Rachel Anderson Vanessa Hyde review Charley Feather by Kate Pennington Clare Sager review Turbulence by Jan Mark A Gemma Roxy Williams review Where were you Robert? by Hans Magnus ENZENSBERGER A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan Dowd A Clare Sager review A Dog for Life by L S Mathews A Rowena Betts review 32 C, That’s Me By Chris Higgens Natalie Tehrani

The Curse of the Toads by Rebecca Lisle A Gemma Williams review Rift by Beverley Birch Published Oct 2006 Review by Sam North of this missing persons mystery in Africa 'Inspector Murothi is a wonderful, intelligent character, all wise and wily, an African Morse'. A Note of Madness by Tabitha Suzuma A Gill James review Permanent Rose by Hilary McKay A Katie Baillie review Damage by Sue Mayfield A Lucy Baily Review Life of Pi by Yann Martell Dan Schnierder review Last Family in England by Matt Haig Lynn Ede review The Well of Lost Plots Review by Michelle Cochraine A Series of Unfortunate Events The Austere Academy-Book the Fifth Lemony Snicket - Illustrated by Brett Helquist An Egmont Book Northern Lights - PHILIP PULLMAN Divine Madness by Robert Muchamore Klya Lacey-Davidson review

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FICTION FOR CHILDREN Zwolf the wonder dog David Tavernier - about a dog who could save marriages... Young adult fiction Holly by Jayne Sharatt (Complete e-novel) A spooky adventure for ages 10-13 The Mouse that would be King by Joanna North For kids 3-7

The Cricket Bat J.Vinay A young boy desperately needs a cricket bat Papillonia & Rowena Tariq Adam Swing Janice Slater Phoebe's too scared to come out of her room Hootenkamun Tales from the Chrysenthalis Forest (For kids) Teacher's Power Trip Gemma Williams in the classroom

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