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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Steve Cole and Chris Hunter|title=Tripwire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died on Day Zero <!-- the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow Airport, killing countless thousands of innocent people. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his father, Felix has signed up to a training program for the Minos Chapter Remove - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit of underage operatives. He knows the risks if he's successful, but what he doesn't know is that another, even more devasting, Orpheus attack is imminent... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldMax Boucherat|title=ExtrasThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the future city of this bookhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, many people live with what is called a reputation economyon her lonesome. With everybody practically What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a cyborgblanket fort, they're online permanentlyshe has one main intention, using optical and brain implants that is to see everybodylog on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's statusworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, output and then she finds something even morespooky. Many people have hovercam companions, For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to make their own documentaries and film their own livesenter shows signs of tampering. They rely When malevolent eyes spark up on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions her phone screen, and interests her safe place in order to become more the game has been doctored – well-known. A , where is a girl called Aya is struggling to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymity.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn MoriartyRachel Greenlaw|title=Dreaming of Amelia|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=New scholarship students Riley Compass and Amelia are so mysterious that everyone at Ashbury High School is talking about them. Add to that the creepy happenings around school, and Lydia Jaackson-Oberman's PC actually typing its own messages to her, and it seems pretty appropriate that the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering for much of the book is on Gothic Fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fridrik Erlings|title=Fish in the SkyBlade|rating=43.5
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|summary=''I've got a dad can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in a shoe box and a mum whomy heart.'s struggling for her life against a famished cannibalistic sewing machine.'
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|summary=Two years ago, Ali Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicideshe is a talented singer. They became local heroes Life is hard and were looked up to as good examples of modern day teenagers. Ali was on her way to Cambridge, Stephen about to start his own business, Jackson getting ready food is difficult to be reunited with his brother in Brighton where he'd also study historycome by, so Seo and Hannah joining her mother's hairdressing business. Then something dreadful happened. Five weeks later, Daniel was deadfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the gang meagre rations of friends who had been adjusting to life as heroes were responsiblerice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerAlexia Casale|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and DonSing if you Can't TellDance
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|summary=After It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without seeing her grandmother, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a summons life- to visit the old lady at her house in the town of Wisteria. Reluctantly, she goes there to please her motherchanging disability too, but finds out that despite the invitation, her grandmother doesn't seem happy to see her, and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, who's currently living there. More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiar, because she's seen it many times what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in her dreams...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Enthoven|title=Crawlers|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are the men middle of a dance performance that want was going to take over the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupidchange her life. Ever since the Great Fire of London trapped her in an underground dungeon in 1666 But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Queen has been neutralised. Even thenpity stares, the great and the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves desperate to kill her. She had too much potential. But they did have the sense get back to keep her safely locked awaya life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule the world through the Queen and he Meanwhile there's set her a test. If she passesnew (cute!) boy in school, he will set her free. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Pretties|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the unnamed city of the future, all the adults are pretty. They've had mental and physical surgery music A Level performance piece to try to make them calmsort out, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beings. If they have any trouble as young adults it is just the problem day to day traumas of what all the challenges her body continues to wear throw at parties, or how her to get rid of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pmnavigate. UnfortunatelySo even though she can't dance anymore, one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, one of the few people in the world might she be able to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldSimon Fox|title=UgliesDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary="This city Late one night Graham Blake is a paradiselate back from his shift on the force, Tally. It feeds you, educates you, keeps you safe. It makes you pretty." And that's meant literally. As soon as they're sixteen years old, ugly people like Tally are completely rebuilt - no more freckles, dull eyes, rough skin, or ideas about biting their fingernailsand then suddenly rings Archie, and made demanding he fetch something from a pretty. It's scientificsecret place, and obviously of benefit, considering join him on the parties, status and love afforded to prettiesrun. But is it essential? When her best friend is prettified Tally finds a new friend, ShayThey get together, who has secrets but barely begin to share in smell the few weeks before whiff of Southern trains when the operation they're due to have father is arrested, leaving Archie on the same day. Secrets of another placelate express to Brighton, another waytoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of people staying forever ugly - through choicequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole DryburghLex Croucher|title=Talk to the HandGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way Who knew that what I See It''really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, which she wrote at eighteenit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and which detailed her battles Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with cancer and Bridget (the loss of kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her sightprivate diaries. We loved And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the warts-and-all picture subterfuge of her life that she gave us thenfalling in love with each other, and so we were when really pleased 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 see that she's written live a second book. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William HusseyNick Brooks|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of the DemontidePromise Boys
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|summary=Jake When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a rather solitary person. He's bright but bored by school grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and he's obsessed with horror comicseach could have been there at the time of his murder. He owns an amazing collection and he knows all the stories But who killed him, and myths and folklores off by heart. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is realwhy, and if any of the Demontide is almost upon him. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Powell1919635017|title=The Master of MisruleA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the ArcanumSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to so why is he running around London committing a life-altering game series of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness robberies? And how did he learn to this, then players. But theycrack safes? You'd found it wanting, and ll have to wait to get an answer to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebooksecond question because I avoid spoilers. With that, however, But I'll answer the referee is no more, and the Lord of Misrule is in chargefirst one: for his grandmother. Free, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=In the TreesDifferent for Boys
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|genre=Teens|summary=Since Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his mother died, Kid geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been staying restructured, so his desk is one of four with Nadine both his best buddy from the football team, and flipping burgers two other old muckers – in a fast food joint after fact they all go back to primary schooldays together. It As they's not an exciting lifere all fired up, but he isn't unhappy. And then Nadine gets straining at the leash only a boyfriend single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the flat gets rather crampedout often turns to sex. And then a box of his mother's possessions arrives. Inside Which is confusing for Ant, as he finds a photo of the father hedoesn's never met and a copy of t know what his birth certificatescore is, which tells him where his achievements in that his father comes from Belize. And suddenly, Kid makes a decisionregard lie. He's going nowhere fast in Londonhad a casual relationship, so he's going to head out to Belize and find the man in the photo. He's on a plane within days. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gene Kemp|title=No Way Out|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Alex and Adam are twinssecret one, for several months now, and theyso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 're telepathic to boot. Theyexperienced're very close, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adamwhether that's looking forward to their holiday on Uncle Ben and Aunt Sadie's farmset in stone, but Alex he can't think of anything worsebe sure. Adam is always happy to read to their little sister Emmy, but Alex resents the attention she gets (she And that's disabled, ymostly because of who he'see). By s been having the relationship and large, they're just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumbles. When the car they're in goes through thick fog and crashes, they find themselves in a town from times past, sex with inhabitants who don't want to let them leave, and who have an eye on Emmy.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delphine de Vigan1800901232|title=No and MeStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
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|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Lou is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160fashion designer. She's thirteen, but she's been moved up two years at school and Life in the rural village where she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably lived with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enoughfamily was happy, her only real friend at school is Lucasif not prosperous, who's seventeen so when the smartly-dressed man and such woman came to the village to offer Hahn a rebel that he's been moved down job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. two yearsSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talksshop, seldom gets dressedthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Her father is worn down to You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the bone legs? The ones with worry the artfully-placed rips and Lou doesndistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted is hes quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MagrsPatrice Lawrence|title=The Diary of a Dr Who AddictNeedle
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|summary=DaveyBrave. Charlene, in his first term at secondary schoolthe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, is horrifiedcharacters and readers both. Not only is his best friend trying to grow Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up through residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the use creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a home gymwonder knitter, and standing him up on the first morning is making something full of termlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, he also seems and then force people to be becoming dismissive of The Showgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Stillwell, he what exactly happens is trying not for me to be esoteric - just like his sistersay, painting her face only to look like Bowie album sleeves of all things - remark how sharp and Davey knows betterpointy those knitting needles can be.. He knows everyone should be enthralled with the spectacle of Tom Baker falling off a building and becoming Peter Davison.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenAnn Sei Lin|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=If you want 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 know where Tolkein, C S Lewis drink and make merry between their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universitiesconquests. In this bookHowever, at leastwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, Johnsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, Charles and Jack are guardians to leave the life of a very important bookdreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the Imaginarium Geographicamatter, within which lives because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a lot of secret, vital informationshikigami, and almost she is forced to flee out into the soul of world. She joins Himura aboard the land. They might not get Orihime, a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world sky- there ship whose express purpose is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictionalto hunt down shikigami, and more, en route to a quest whole world of Arthurian proportions.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewMarcus Sedgwick|title=MortlockWrath
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the AmarantMeet Fitz, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasisyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it Lockdown is cursedonly just over, and take a blood oath never he should be free to remove it. Londondo what he wants, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs to go where he wants and with her guardian the Great Cardamomwhom he wants, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimesbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, the coward Cassie. They were half of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on themdesultory school band, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the Amarant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Green|title=Drawing with Light|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Emily doesn't remember her biological motherearth. She ran away Is this connected with another man when Emily was just two. Now, one of her older sister Kat, her father, and her stepmother Cassy make up eco-warrior parents saying the end of the family unit and Emily thinks world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just fine that way. She doesnbonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't need a mother who didn't want her and has never even tried to get in touch. But then Kat goes off to university, her father buys a rundown house in the middle of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while it's being renovated, and Cassy gets pregnant.. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenTori Bovalino|title=Along for the RideThe Devil Makes Three
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|summary=Auden has always felt like the odd one out amongst Working all summer in her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics and high achievers, and they, especially her mother, want the same for Auden. Audenboarding school's older brother library is the rebel and so Auden feels as though last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she needs has to be deliver herself. What makes it worse is the one man who satisfies her motherrequested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's ambitionheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. So she works hard As a petty act of revenge for making her find and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even deliver such a moment. But large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she's socially awkward and lacking in experiencecan think of. SheThey's re never had a boyfriendmeant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, hates the colour pink and canthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't even ride a bikedelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook HastingsPhilip Reeve|title=Nearly DepartedUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At first sightIn a word, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabbypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. But There are troll people on it's pretty much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school , and sea-witches, and clump together in little peer groups legends of geeks the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and swots and jocks and bulliestheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in The current Darks are the middle of itWatcher, and at nightAndrewe, everythings turnswho has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, well, a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you his brother Will who lives in. And there are odd noises London with too... ... much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Emily thinks sheAndrewe's seen a ghostfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bonnie Hearn HillKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Star Crossed: Aries Rising|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers an old book called 'Fearless Astrology'. Can the book help her and her friends get the boys they want, catch the vandals who are shocking their school with pranks, Julia and win her the approval of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' Franklin? This is a novel written for teens – of course it can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=January (Conspiracy 365)Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts him. ''They killed your father! They'll kill you! You must survive the next 365 days!'' The man is carted Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off in an ambulance, with her parents and Cal tries to shrug off their cat from the incident but it's not easy. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want family home in SW England to kill be lighthousekeepers for a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing issummer, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes far NE of a fatal illnessthe Scottish islands. His father was vague on detail Here be Vikings, but that kind of Scottish island. Dad is pretty sure he was on going to something big. Could there be a connection? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Feasey|title=Changeling: Blood Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Trey is automating the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost unclelantern, he shrugs off all objections from which is his vampire guardianspecialist thing, Lucien and catches while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatureselusive Greenland shark. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is oldJulia, half-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Trey. But there is a pack out therewell, she will be homesick and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of controlalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cliff McNishJonathan Stroud|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror StoryThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Savannah Grey Scarlett McCain is doing her best an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacyshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and then she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had meets Albert Browne, a boyfriend dark boy with dark powers and friendships are often fleetinga darker past. Nina is With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the only one that seems to stick aroundLondon Lagoon. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then all the leaves start horrors of post-apocalyptic society to swirl for no apparent reason and reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the birds to behave oddly. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>1406394815
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|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom Gracie Welles has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes)resigned herself to being lonely. The magical aspects As a secret illegitimate daughter of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal a man with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Womack|title=The Liberators|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on a South American expedition. As it's the school holidays"real" family, Ivo she is off used to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is not being a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for the great and the good. Uncle Jago is priority in finance and there isnpeople't much about wheeling and dealing that he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglect, so what Ivo is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London and enjoy everything it has to offer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Dolamore|title=Magic Under Glass|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Namira is a trouser girl - a music hall performers lives. In Lorinar, But when she's regarded as defends a faintly risque curiosity but at home random boy in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted and respected and Namira grew up in a palaceclass with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. In Lorianar, No longer can she lives spend her time writing novels in povertysolitude, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her art. And then suddenly, she's freed from the seedy music hall by Hollin Parry, a wealthy man and a member of Lorinar's Sorcerer Council. Parry life now has an automaton, a curiosity that plays the piano, and he wants Namira's unique voice to accompany it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|title=In My Sky at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom boy in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the seriesthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P J ReeceT L Huchu|title=RoxyThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maddie was at Aunt GretchenRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's funeral when she got the phone call been using it to tell support not only herself, but her that younger sister and her father was in a coma and likely to dieaging grandmother. This might sound like a double whammy but MaddieHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's father had deserted her soon after her birth (during which her children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother died) and she was brought . She will end up by Aunt Gretchen, who never missed discovering an opportunity to point out occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she was ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an unwanted burden.end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1896580017</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith MansfieldKristen O'Neal|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star BlazeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Holly Cathers Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has returned, and this time, to come to terms with the fact that she's more powerful than ever. The war between may be in constant pain for the House of Cahors witches and House rest of Deveraux warlocks still rages on, and only one side will eventually triumphher life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=Everwild|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventureShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', part philosophical enquiry, and part coming-an online support group where she talks to a bunch of-age story that began other teens living with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessorchronic illnesses. Everlost is a kind of limbo They talk about their troubles and home help each other out, while also providing an escape to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow missed the tunnel just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the light - wherever chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and whatever the light actually isdrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Adults never make it But what she doesn't expect to find there, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightower, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence in New York a werewolf in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place basement – and she "saves" for that werewolf to be the Afterlights girl she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks has been talking to fill eternityonline for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>1683692349
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