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|summary=We are back in the south When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of France Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for the third and final timeeverything around her. In one cornerA misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, the and that'Frenchs definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with King Louis boys have gone very well so far, and his henchmen rampaging through, warring in the name she's never had a good kiss with any of peace. them? In another corner, the local peopleSo she just finds herself watching Isabel, struggling in the harsh environment and none too pleased wanting to see their corner of the world the location for religious wars, hang out with her because fighting with the Cathar ''heretics'' also present. The lines are drawn, in a realistically convoluted wayher is fun, and this book will see one of our heroes cross one such lineshe definitely just hates Isabel, just as other people make their own momentous decisions. It will take all the narrative skills of the land itself to get the story across to us.doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247075</amazonuk>000862657X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary NaylusAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The DresskeeperWild East|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Things are pretty grim for Picky. She is thirteen years old, being bullied at school, and has to spend her weekends helping her single, working mum to take care of her little brother and her senile grandmother. One evening, at her Gran's house, she goes up into the attic and tries on an old dress that she finds inside an old chest. The dress turns out to be magic, and she suddenly finds herself back in 17th Century London, struggling with a strange man who is calling her 'Amelia' and is trying to kill her. Picky ends up embroiled in Amelia's 17th century life as she tries to find out the truth of who is attempting to murder her, at the same time as trying to avoid arousing suspicion with her strange behaviour whenever she returns to the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956122280</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rick Yancey|title=The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In late 19th century America, young Will Henry has been the apprentice of the stern, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his parents, who were also employed by the doctor. The twelve year old boy has seen many things in his service to the monstrumologist - a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor the twin corpses of a young girl and the headless creature with fangs in his chest who had tried to feast on her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Delaney |title=The Spook's Stories: Witches|rating=45

|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny'Warning: Not s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to be read after dark,' are the only words on the back of ''move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The Spookmove is initiated by Ronny's Stories'mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and on the inside flapso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, 'The Times' warns us that this book is 'seriously scary'and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper..  The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamely But now, thoughin this new school, with a story about a young Spook (a sort his teacher encourages him to be part of monster-hunter) who falls in love with a witch poetry writing workshop group and is forced , slowly, Ronny begins to bear see the consequences when connections between rap and poetry, and the witch's sister comes to stay power of creativity and exhibits a taste for the neighbor-childrencrafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>0241645441

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannJenny Valentine|title=WakeUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary=Janie Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is seventeen and studying hard for collegea once in a lifetime connection. She They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's also working lots of hours contact details at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way of resourcestime. College is Janie's only But then chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far brings them back together, and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way.they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1471196585

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn Moriarty Max Boucherat|title=The Spell Book Last Life of Listen Taylor|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Listen Taylor's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing family, with all of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed to work on the 'Zing Family Secret'. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break up. The stories of these people come together to create a tale of life, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Berkeley|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)Lori Mills

|summary=I shall start with a word of advice. When you're being hounded by a circus master, and a magician, for We meet Lori on the soul of a tiger thatfirst evening she's contained in a tiger's egg that's contained in got the brain of your teddy bear, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best house to herself – no neighbour to make sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book pop in a fantasy trilogy. Still - never mind, the angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight and cloud citiesbabysitter poorly, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world to desert oases and backmother at work, and friends new and just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old will be , on board to helpher lonesome.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Fallen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A 17 year old girl at What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boyblanket fort, who she's immediately drawn has one main intention, and that is to. He seems determined log on to either ignore her or be outright rude to herVoxminer, until he saves her lifethe world-building, and the two of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's ''Twilight'', but it certainly world. But first Lori has striking similarities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gareth Hinds|title=King Lear|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate mannertiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but I do not like King Learand then she finds something even more spooky. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense server she and her bestie and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible nobody else should be able to create the great tragedy it's thought to beenter shows signs of tampering. To my mind the acclaim When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and esteem her safe place in which it's held the game has been doctored – well, where is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Beth DurstRachel Greenlaw|title=IceCompass and Blade

|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska''I can hear the song of the sea. She loves The call of the ice and deep, the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back answering beat in Fairbanksmy heart. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=A J Healy|title=Tommy Storm Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Galactic Knights|rating=3wrecks.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's Mira, like her mother before her, is one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe seven who swim out to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with survey the ruins – rescuing EVERYTHING from destructionany survivors and any treasure that lies within. Not just But when the planet, or Council Watch lays a trap to end the solar systemwrecking, or even they capture the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know whatisland's leader and Mira's going father. Desperate to cause this destructionsave him from death, or when, but Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and his friends and their ship seem with only coordinates to be guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only people proactively going about saving nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the day. So itheart of the smuggler's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to kill themsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonHarry Allen|title=The Battle Children of the Sun

|summary=This book Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but a brief browse at the juvenile titletalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, cover so Seo and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting her friends Nari and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene years. SoMin go foraging every evening, despite its label, I've given it four looking for tree bark and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read edible grasses to supplement the story avidly, meagre rations of rice and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly toldkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithAlexia Casale|title=Furnace: Death SentenceSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Alex Sawyer. Framed for It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a murder he certainly didnlife-changing disability too, but that't do, the lad s what Ven is given life (of a kind) dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Furnace, a literal hellhole middle of a private prisondance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, buried desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a mile under Englandlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. ItMeanwhile there's a vicious existencenew (cute!) boy in school, with tribal gangs among the inmatesher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and worse on just the staff - the warden is helped by his malevolent blacksuits, nasty medical aides called wheezers, and there are mutated, feral creatures day to day traumas of all kinds collectively called ratsthe challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. After two previous books of failed break-outs, Alex is under the knife of the wardenSo even though she can't dance anymore, who has a new tactic. He does not want might she be able to break Alex - he aims to remake him, with medicine, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing, as one of his own.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleySimon Fox|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthDeadlock

|summary=Young Robert Late one night Graham Blake is put on a train late back to school by from his stepmother. It's shift on the first journey force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's made fetch something from a secret place, and join him on his ownthe run. It turns out They get together, but barely begin to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagined. The train stalls at smell the mouth whiff of a tunnel and while Southern trains when the other passengers sleep through father is arrested, leaving Archie on the waitlate express to Brighton, toting a mysterious woman in white tells him tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a series whole heap of stories - stories with a differencequestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris GrimlyLex Croucher|title=Tales of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death Gwen and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best Art Are Not in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The HollowLove

|summary=When Abbey's best friendWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Kristenit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, disappears Gwen and is assumed deadArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Abbey feels as though she has no-one left much to talk to. Refusing to believe that Kristen their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is really gone, while struggling to come to terms in love with life on her own, Abbey meets Bridget (the mysterious Caspian, a young man who appears to be the perfect gentleman, showering her with handkingdom's only female knight) -crafted gifts and words of wisdom within weeks of meeting something that Art discovers from herprivate diaries. But beneath those piercing green eyes and soft-spoken manner And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Caspian has secrets creating the subterfuge of his falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their ownother romantic attachments. Hoping to uncover those But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and determined to will they find out what really happened to her best frienda way in which they can both truly be themselves, Abbey begins or are they destined to question her sanity, as the truth proves more frightening than she thought.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael P. SpradlinNick Brooks|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail of FatePromise Boys

|summary=After his ship When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is lost in a storm murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as he is returning to Englandsuspects. Each, seemingly, Tristan is washed up on has a grudge of some foreign shoredescription against Principal Moore, completely lost and with no sign each could have been there at the time of his companionsmurder. When he wakes But who killed him, he's surrounded by four men and two womenwhy, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises he's in France. He explains his situation to Celia, one and if any of the young womenboys are innocent, and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly will they be a spy, she ignores his pleas for directions able to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marilyn Kaye 1919635017|title=Gifted: Here Today, Gone TomorrowA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Emily has a gift – she can predict the future. But her visions arenSolomon Klyne isn't always clear and she sometimes gets them wrong. She a bad lad, so why is one he running around London committing a series of nine students from the Gifted class, though at the moment she feels like the weakest person there. But now her classmates need her, they are starting to disappear and Emily is their only hope. Will she robberies? And how did he learn how to interpret her blurry visions in timecrack safes? And be able You'll have to wait to use her gift get an answer to save her friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510061</amazonuk>the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Klavan Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Last Thing I Remember (Homelander)Different for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Charlie West - US Air Force hopeful Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and karate expert - remembers when 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 main concern was whether schoolmate Beth would best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out with himoften turns to sex. So why Which is confusing for Ant, as he strapped to doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a chair secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in a windowless cell?stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755352998</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1800901232|title=PastworldStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the futurerural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, London has been restored so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to its Victorian state and turned into the village to offer Hahn a theme park. Pastworld prides itself on its authenticity and indeed many of its full time residents don't even realise that they're living job in a fantasy recreation of Hanoi it was an old reality. Eve is one suchopportunity not to be missed. Cossetted Some money changed hands and overHanh was on the mini-protected by her guardianbus to Hanoi. Only, Jack, she feels a desperate need for freedom Hanh and runs away the other girls were not going to join work in a travelling circusshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Here she discovers not only You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the truth about Pastworld, but some remarkable, almost supernatural, talentsartfully-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>0747581738</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyson Noel Patrice Lawrence|title=The Immortals: EvermoreNeedle

|summary=Sixteen-year-old Ever used Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to be normallike, popular evencharacters and readers both. She had Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a best friendpleasant yoga tutor, a cute boyfriendAnnie, and has taken up residence in her whole future ahead son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of her. Then a tragic car accident claimed comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the lives plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her family younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her parents belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her little sister Rileytwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Ever survivedwell, but what exactly happens is not unscathedfor me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512854</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Walter Moers Ann Sei Lin|title=The Alchemaster's ApprenticeRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Meet Echo the Crat. He is a rare example of his species, which is a cat that can speak every language known. His Kurara has spent her entire life among the miserable, permanently ill citizens of Malaisea is not great, which is why, when the strange scientist from the castle that looms over everyone and everything offers him as a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury servant on the streetsMidori, a massive dining hall floating in the offer is accepted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L J Smith|title=Dark Visions: The Strange Power, The Possessed, The Passion|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Kaitlyn Fairchild has always known she was different. She's able to draw things that haven't happened yet - although sky where soldiers of the drawings are never specific enough Empire come to be of any usedrink and make merry between their conquests. Worse, they scare people, as do her weird eyes. SoHowever, when she's given the opportunity a man named Himura arrives to go away to an Institute where tell her that sheis a Crafter like him, and four other teens someone with other powers, will be trained the power to control their abilities, form paper into whatever she jumps at desires – a power sought after all across the chanceEmpire. After meeting charismatic healer Rob, psychokinetic LewisHe asks her to come with him, and Anna, who can talk to leave the animals, life of dreary servitude that is all she already feels at homehas known. Even the addition of the fifth teenWell, convicted murderer Gabriel, cansoon Kurara won't dull her happiness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joanne Dahme |title=The Plague|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=The story begins have any say in 1348the matter, because the year in which the Black Death first reached England. Nell and her younger brother George lose their parents to the plagueMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and as orphans their future looks bleak. But a chance meeting leads to Nell's lookalike similarity she is forced to flee out into the Princess Joan transforming their fateworld. She is taken into joins Himura aboard the royal household to act as Orihime, a double for the Princess in times of danger. Two years later she and her brother accompany the Princess on her voyage sky-ship whose express purpose is to marry the Prince of Castile. Nothing goes as plannedhunt down shikigami, and Nell finds herself being passed off as the Princess against her will.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762433442</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Hogan Marcus Sedgwick|title=Perfect GirlWrath

|summary=HomeworkMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Drinking your milkLockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Coming home on time. Keeping your mouth shut. These are the sort They were half of rules you would associate with 14 year old Ruthie's mother. Her mother's glamorous sistera desultory school band, Aunt Marty (aka but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the Goddess enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of Love at a swish NYCher eco-based magazine), on warrior parents saying the end of the other hand, world is already a different story. And when done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she swoops into town and sweeps Ruthie away in a whirlwind of silk underwear, virgin Cosmopolitans and a whole career's worth dreaming of advice on all things boy related? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Ruthie not when Cassie has a feeling things will never be quite the same againgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382290</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy Brett Tori Bovalino|title=Ember FuryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Ember Morton-Fury Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the daughter of rock super-star Lyndon Fury and artist Amica Morton, who died last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when Em was she gets a request for over a small childhundred books that she has to deliver herself. It's What makes it worse is the beginning of man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school holidays and she's on her way to Los Angeles to see her father (well, his entourageheadmaster, actually as he doesn't do ''the dad thing'') and his new wife ''the'' actress Charity Lanea man Tess hates. I say that As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it's the beginning notes on each of the school holidaysbooks, but thatscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They's a moot point as Em has been expelled from yet another school because re never meant to reach him, of the small matter of a major fire which she startedcourse. You just know that things are not going Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be any better in LA, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347889</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trisha Telep (Editor) Philip Reeve|title=The Eternal KissUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Do you love vampires In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but aren't sure way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to go keep notes of activity from here? Perhaps you've just read the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series everyoneHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's talking about but don't know what else is foundling daughter, who washed up out thereof the sea one day eleven years ago. Maybe you've always been a die-hard vampire fan But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and aren't sure which his curious ward are thrust into the world of the contemporary fantasy authors fit your tasteprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762437170</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=G P Taylor|title=Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mariah Mundi is leaving the famed Prince Regent Hotel of his past adventures and going out into the wider world. This time, his friend and mentor, Captain Charity, is bringing him along on board a luxury liner called the ''Triton'', as it races another liner, the ''Ketos'', across the Atlantic. Charity's mission is to protect the prize money that the ''Triton'' carries in its hold. But someone doesn't want the ''Triton'' to win. In fact, they don't even want to give it a chance. What they want is the prize money, preferably before they sink the ''Triton'' to the bottom of the sea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571227007</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ann Turnbull|title=Alice in Love and War|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alice Newcombe is unhappy, and has been since the death of her father five years ago. Living on a farm with an uncle who makes advances on her whenever he can, and an aunt who doesn't believe a word she says, and never really wanted her anyway – Alice dreams of escape, to run away and find something better. Now, with the Civil War on, everything is about to change. Royalist soldiers soon set up camp on the farm Kiran Millwood Hargrave and one soldier in particular catches Alice's eye – Robin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406302449</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabriella Poole Tom de Freston|title=Secret Lives (Darke Academy)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie Bell knows the value of information. Raised in a care home, she's tough Julia and smart, and when she earns a scholarship to the exclusive Darke Academy, she knows it's her ticket to a new and better life. The snobby, upper class students who bought their way in aren't going to stop her experiencing life at the Academy to its fullest, and taking all the opportunities it offers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=LeviathanShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=You have to hand it to Scott Westerfeld. He writes a great pageJulia, our pre-turner teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and he has an enviable eye their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a good angle on contemporary interestssummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. In Leviathan Here be Vikings, he's bringing steampunk that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to junior readers. If you're not a trainspotterish fan of be automating the maze of sci-fi and fantasy sub-genreslantern, you may not know what steampunk which ishis specialist thing, let alone whether you or your children while mum will like it. Basically, steampunk fiction is set be leaving her career in a world in which steam is still algae behind to hunt the main source of powerelusive Greenland shark. Often And Julia, the world is an alternate history pastwell, but it can she will be the future too. Westerfeld's chosen an alternate history for Leviathan - we're in 1914, the Archduke Ferdinand has just been assassinated homesick and Europe is on the brink of WWIalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385192</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HigsonJonathan Stroud|title=The EnemyOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=HA! ''28 Days Later'' and ''Shaun of the Dead'' meet ''Lord of the Flies'' in Charlie Higson's latest series. A mysterious disease has decimated Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the population, attacking everyone over fourteen. Most draconian conformity of the adults are dead but the ones that remain are shuffling zombies with just one thought in their addled brains - killing and feasting on children. The narrative focuses on London, where pockets of children are holed up in old supermarkets Surviving Towns and tourist attractions. Rumour has it that there's a group in Buckingham Palace who are not only safe, but who are beginning Faith Houses to envisage ways of building a new life. Both wander the Waitrose and wildlands between the Morrisons crew know that they can't last forever by scavengingSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and so they decide shooting other outlaws to make the dangerous journey across London to the Palacekeep herself alive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384646</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Hill|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It's been a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]]But then she meets Albert Browne, and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world: Fly is getting married to his girlfriend. Tim's a little worried because they've only known each other for a week. The marriage goes ahead, dark boy with dark powers and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a petdarker past. And so the brief episodes in the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Walden|title=Dreadnought (Hive)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Life goes on at H. I. V. E. (the Higher Institute of Villainous Education)With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, with the pupils heading off they plan to the 93%er - an Arctic training exercise where only 93% of students survive. Things are going less smoothly at the parent organisation, G. L. O. V. E. (the Global League of Villainous Enterprises): Jason Drake has broken away and is planning flee to overthrow his former colleagues, installing himself as the new head. Why oh why can't villains play nicely with one another?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594848</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ross Kemp|title=Ganglands: Brazil|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Luiz Alves and his sister Ana were adopted into a good home and escaped the ''favela'' which is now under the control mythical Free Isles of a vicious gang, the Comando NegroLondon Lagoon. Only a matter of days ago a young basketball star had been murdered on a bus for no better reason than that he had once made the killer look bad. Luiz had no intention of getting involved with the gangTogether, or with another shadowy organisation, Trojan Industries, but events dictated otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141325895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Augarde |title=Xthey must brave man-isle|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It was a momentous day when the salvage ship sailed up Baz's street. This is a future Englandeating wildlife, where an eco-catastrophe has drowned the world, cannibalistic Tainted and left just pockets of humanity, with no power, no Internet, little hope. But this is a momentous day, not because of the boat travelling across Baz's town, not because this is all the only powered vehicle anyone knows horrors of, but because today is the day Baz and his best-friend-topost-be Ray manage to barter their way on board, and across apocalyptic society to a different island, and a land of milk and honey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610610</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=The Bride's Farewell|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Pell Ridley runs away from home on reach the morning she's supposed to get married. She just can't face it. Birdie is a good man, a good friend evenFree Isles, but Pell doesn't want a husband. She doesn't want to end up like her mother - ''worn and shapeless with a leaking bladder, great knotted blue veins, and breasts flat as old wineskins''. And who can blame her? So she saddles up her white pony Jack and, at the last minute, takes her foster brother Bean along for the journey. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141383933</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lili St Crow |title=Strange Angels|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Most teenagers think their lives will they be any more accepted there than they are over when their crush rejects them, they get an ugly zit on their foreheads, or their parents do something unspeakably embarrassing in public. But that's the normal world. Dru lives in The Real World – a world populated by ghosts, suckers, werwulfen and zombies, and when her Dad doesn't come home from a hunt she knows she's got things far worse to worry about than boys and zits.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161259</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie|title=Wicked: Witch and Curse|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Holly Cathers always thought she was a normal teenage girl. Until one day when she's forced Move on to move across the country to live with her aunt, Marie-Claire, and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. Struggling to cope with the loss of her parents and trying to settle into her new environment, Holly can't help but notice strange incidents surrounding her new family. Plagued with visions from her mysterious ancestors and struck with an immediate enchantment to a boy she hardly knows, Holly is thrown into the world of magic and witchcraft with her cousins and drawn into a voracious war against a warlock clan that has been spanning generations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386628</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]