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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Various AuthorsMax Boucherat|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= We meet Lori on the first evening she''A Change Is Gonna Come'' is s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an anthology of stories avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and poems interpreting that is to log on to Voxminer, the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. Itworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's Stripes Publishingworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's response t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the under-representation enter shows signs of BAME authors tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the UK. And it's game has been doctored – well, where is a great response.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847158390</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andrew ShvartsRachel Greenlaw|title= Royal BastardsCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= A group ''I can hear the song of teens witness something that they shouldnthe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''t  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and find themselves hunted by half plundering the kingdomwrecks. Royal plotsMira, magiclike her mother before her, adventure is one 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 rich culture trap to immerse yourself end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep inthe sea. Can With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the pack heart of bastards make it the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to safety before save the future of her home and the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1484767659</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No FilterHarry Allen|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsChildren of the Sun|rating=45
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|summary=Em - Emerald - has led Ra Eun Seo lives in a pretty privileged lifeNorth Korean town and she is a talented singer. Her wealthy parents have sent Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her to a posh private school. She's friends with all the right peopleNari and Min go foraging every evening, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness looking for tree bark and light in Em's world. Or is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in edible grasses to supplement the crosshairs meagre rations of the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets rice and kimchi at home about to turn from secret to open crisis. And when Em's mother overdoses, the dominoes start to topple.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408884518</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Hayley LongAlexia Casale|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceSing if you Can't Dance|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= On GriffIt's thirteenth birthdayhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, he and his brotherbut that's lives change forever when their entire family what Ven is caught up dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a road accidentdance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there'The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point of view of his brothers a new (cute!) boy in school, Dylan, as they both her music A Level performance piece to try to come sort out, and just the day to terms with day traumas of all the end of their world as they know itchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406261</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clementine BeauvaisSimon Fox|title=PiglettesDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The results are in – and for Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the first time in three years Mireille has not been voted ugliest girl in schoolforce, but only the third ugliest. When her replacement at that exalted low position comes calling for sympathyand then suddenly rings Archie, Mireille is at first too hard-hearted to give demanding he fetch something from a damnsecret place, for angry self-defence is her default modeand join him on the run. But soon all three medallists in the unwanted competition form a trioThey get together, and all three see a reason but barely begin to go and gatecrash smell the 14th July Presidential Garden Party – one girl because her favourite band are playing there; another as her brother has been ignored for a major military honour in favour whiff of his ex-superior, who should instead be getting hauled over Southern trains when the coals and not applauded; and for Mireille, the reason father is that the President's husband is her natural birth fatherarrested, and has never acknowledged her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691200</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenna Evans Welch|title= Love & Gelato|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up ''Love & Gelato'' in hope of a light-hearted summery read, with an added draw being that leaving Archie on the action takes place in Italylate express to Brighton, toting a favourite country of minetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and that's exactly what I got. The novel tells the story bearer of Lina, a teenager who fulfils her dying Mother's wish by spending a summer in Tuscany, conveniently staying just outside whole heap of Florence, getting to know the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest by a journal her Mom left her, documenting the year she met Lina's father whilst studying photography in Florencequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Callie BatesLex Croucher|title= The Waking Land|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=''They need something to believe in, something beyond crowns Gwen and kingdoms. They need to believe Art Are Not in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her father's plans of revolution fell through, and at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostage. Raised by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and she's condemned to death for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her father's men, and finds herself moving from one imprisonment to another. Her father it seems, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years ago, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna to be the face of the rebellion. He wants her to be the Steward of the Land capable of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with and how she will shape her destiny. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Ethan I Was Before|author=Ali StandishLove
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ethan and his family are moving to a little town in Georgia from the big city of Boston in a last ditch attempt to help Ethan get over the loss of best friend Kacey. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else to think about. There's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. There's a new school with a new pecking order to navigate. There's a new friend in Coralee, who has a great line in tall stories and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But it's hard to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does...
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{{newreview
|author=Sonya Hartnett
|title=Surrender
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment for Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a minor infraction is gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a constant threat - most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to belittle her young son and express her disappointment in him. Anwell is not popular at school and his life at home is severely proscribed. Sotheir mutual disgust! Gwen, when Finnigan appearsyou see, Anwell is grateful for a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild and full of a dark freedom. He doesnin love with Bridget (the kingdom't even go to school.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Clare|title= Lord of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2s only female knight)|rating= 4- something that Art discovers from her private diaries.5|genre= Teens|summary=After And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the cataclysmic events subterfuge of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight'falling in love with each other, Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and when really they are enabling their friendsown other romantic attachments. Their troubles are by no means over But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [find a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyNick Brooks|title=ResurrectionPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant – the sharply dressed and wise-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs help. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together and have plans to use their unique set of skills to wage war on the mortal world. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have a scheme that should guarantee their success: they're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powers, Skulduggery can't defeat them alone. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will she stay when the time runs out? Will they be able to save the world?
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{{newreview
|author= Claire Hennessy
|title= Like Other Girls
|rating= 4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Like Other Girls When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a story about a girl murdered, three boys find themselves called Laureninto the police station as suspects. She is not like other girls Each, seemingly, though she does sometimes like other girls. For onehas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, her mum is and each could have been there at the headmistress time of her schoolhis murder. But who killed him, for two, she doesn't fit in to a cliqueand why, and for three, her boyfriend thinks she's mad. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by a revelation if any of someone close to her and when something enormous happens to Laurenthe boys are innocent, she has no one she can turn will they be able to, or so she believes.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Rook|author=Anthony McGowan|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=When Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rook.Kenny is convinced that a good dollop of love and affection is all that's needed to keep the bird alive but Nicky is sceptical. And in any case, Nicky has other things to worry about, like avoiding the bully at school and finding a way to talk to the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping hand. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|authorisbn= Stewart Foster1919635017|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems A Thief to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be Catch a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itSolomon Klyne isn's been her step-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxt a bad lad, but Alena's family so why is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions in he running around London, triggered by committing a series of bombings, threaten robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to spill over and shatter the stability of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the only family Alena has ever knownfirst one: for his grandmother.. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking back into the past, at the life of activism that her mother led, a life that her brother has always been suspiciously secretive about, in the hope of finding some answers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Honor GirlDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue is four with both his best buddy from the key football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to this autobiographical graphic novelprimary school days together. Why is Maggie not happy As they're all fired up, straining at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being leash only a sleepsingle-walkersex school can form, the talk in class and ignore the fact she's from a different state out often turns to every other girl aroundsex. Which is confusing for Ant, and practically only there to obey her motheras he doesn's family tradition – shet know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's all of had a casual relationship, a sudden become an ace shot on the rifle rangesecret one, for several months now, and can boss so has effectively progressed up the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those arenladder headed by 'experienced't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she, but whether that's enjoying her summerset in stone, and anyway they do come with their own problemshe can't be sure. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact And that she seems to be falling in love with one 's mostly because of who he's been having the counsellor campers, there to look after relationship and the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author= Karen M McManusSteve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=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 village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a 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 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrice Lawrence|title= One of Us Is LyingNeedle|rating= 53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars?heroine' Sign me up, please. But of this YA mystery piece is more extremely hard for some people to like , characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a teenage Agatha Christie: itpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's twistyat uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, complexyou might perhaps think, and at several points I began the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. 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 me to say, only to wonder if the final reveal would remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be that everyone was the murderer...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleAnn Sei Lin|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldRebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Doreen Green moves from California Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to New Jersey drink andmake merry between their conquests. However, quite by accidentwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, embarks on a journey someone with the power to become form paper into whatever she desires – a heropower sought after all across the Empire. A fantastic origin tale for He asks her to come with him, to leave the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story life of dreary servitude that is engagingall she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, fast-pacedbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, hip and extremely coolshe is forced to flee out into the world. What would She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a person be like if they had the proportional strength sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and agility a whole world of a squirrel? Wonder no more.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ron ButlinMarcus Sedgwick|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the WorldWrath|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teensMeet Fitz, our heroes are the victims a young Scottish lad full of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kindfrustration at himself. But this isn't some worthy self-helpLockdown is only just over, tell-an-adult bookand he should be free to do what he wants, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (to go where he wants andwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the light it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of later eventsa desultory school band, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the sunset, to take enigmatic – saying she could hear a break subhuman hum coming from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of all adults. In their defence, the world is already a done deal? Is it seems a sensible move at some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the timetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's not library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a spoiler if I tell you hundred books that Callie dies because she does die and she dies in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the first few pages of ''Contagion'books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than As a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking petty act of revenge for making herfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, hopeful that scribbled with the ugliest insults she will be found alive and wellcan think of. But Callie isnThey't alive and wellre never meant to reach him, of course. She's been taken Her plan is to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetland, experimented onget her anger out like this, and then burned to deathtake them all off before delivering them. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya LandmanPhilip Reeve|title=Passing for WhiteUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=In 1847a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Maconthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, GeorgiaBritish but way west, Benjamin was a slavebeyond the Scillies. He was a talented carpenter tooThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, but on November and legends of the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at himDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, smiling and being politewhere no ship dare sail. What was going on? He wasn't just unnervedThe current Darks are the Watcher, but nervous: you seeAndrewe, Benjamin was looking at who has to keep notes of activity from the white womanHidden Lands, looking ''her'' his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the eye his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasnAndrewe't a white woman: this was Rosas foundling daughter, who was mixed racewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. She could pass for whiteBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but she too was a slave. Rosa both his sullen brother and Benjamin eventually marriedhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, but like it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Bali RaiJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girlJulia, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superheroour pre-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmates. Stillteen heroine, it's not all bad. Cal's has been packed off with her parents are lovely and their cat from the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Patrick Ness|title= Release|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives family home in small-town America SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in a deeply religious householdthe far NE of the Scottish islands. His father is an evangelical preacher Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. His brother Dad is at a Christian college training going to be an evangelical preacher. Adam automating the lantern, which is used his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gayhunt the elusive Greenland shark. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... Julia, well, best not to think about thatshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sebastien de CastellJonathan Stroud|title= SpellslingerThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre= Teens
|summary=''And when did I volunteer Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter wander the wildlands between the world Seven Kingdoms of the Jan'TepBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, powerful mages a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the ability to draw on mythical Free Isles of the seven magicsLondon Lagoon. Then meet KellenTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who despite being the son of one cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the most formidable mages Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the clan, has no magical ability whatsoever. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785761315</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Karen GregorySlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hedda is 20 weeks pregnantGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. It was As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a one-night stand"real" family, so thereshe is used to not being a priority in people's no father on the scenelives. She's 17. She's But when she defends a random boy in the grip of an eating disorder and has been her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for yearsgood. Her best friend recently died. She's living No longer can she spend her time writing novels in a grotty flat because solitude, for her relationship with her parents life now has broken down. I think we can all agree a boy in it that the situation is direshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefT L Huchu|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia to you Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and me, if you please - has just returned a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to Strathfearntake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. ItEver since she dropped out of school, she's 1938 been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her grandfatheraging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the Earl ruined streets of StrathfearnEdinburgh, has recently diedtargeting the city's children. Soon, leaving Ropa is pulled into the search for a mountain missing boy at the request of debt behind himhis dead mother. The family's ancestral home has been sold to meet the debt She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the death duties and will soon become a school. But, as the contents world of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underway, there magic is time for Julie far bigger and her family to spend more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape missing children and bring an end to friendsthis evil, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenKristen O'Neal|authortitle=David OwenLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Life is tough on Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope fact that she may be in constant pain for the futurerest of her life. TheyShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''re already judged by their poverty, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their religiontroubles and help each other out, their racewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Carving out When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a prosperous future from this inauspicious place seems like a pipe dreamwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But, what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in their various ways, Siobhan, Keisha, Maida the basement – and Morris are all trying - whether for that means making plans werewolf to get out, or developing strategies to cope with life as it be the girl she has been dealttalking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview
|author=Angie Thomas
|title=The Hate U Give
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all the wrong reasons: poverty, drugs, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in the store', Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. It's where she can be herself and not care about what people think or how people expect her to act - a freedom that isn't afforded to her at the posh suburban high school where she is one of just a handful of black students. However, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot in a drive-by. And now, it's the place where Starr witnesses the devastating, fatal shooting of her unarmed friend, Khalil. At the hands of a police officer. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her life, and the lives of everyone around her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Laura Lam
|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= It's been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble family, trapped in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running away, Micah has managed to reinvent himself, first as a circus acrobat, and then as a magician's apprentice. Along the way he's discovered love and friendships that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing, the Chimaera are returning, and Ellada is about to reach a violent tipping point.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= Tom Hoyle
|title=The Challenge
|rating= 3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= One ordinary afternoon, Ben's best friend Will goes missing. Soon after, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school and take an interest in him. It turns out both twins have an obsession with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in their strange game. But with every new challenge they set him, he starts to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author= Cat Clarke
|title= Girlhood
|rating= 4
|genre= General Fiction
|summary=''Girlhood'' focuses on a group of friends; Harper, Rowan, Lily and Ama, who are fast approaching the end of term at an elite boarding school in the middle of nowhere. The arrival of Kirsty causes a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group and Harper soon finds herself caught between her old friends and the mysterious new girl who seems to have so much in common with her. But is Kirsty who she claims to be?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jeff Zentner
|title=Goodbye Days
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= ''Where are you guys? Text me back.''
Ending three lives with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends a simple, impatient text to his best friend. His best friend who is driving and Move on the way to pick him up at any moment. His best friend who in replying to his text, rams into the back of a truck instantly killing himself and their other two best friends in the car.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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