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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Sarah Singleton|title=The Island|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Otto has arrived in Goa a couple of days ahead of Charlotte and Jen, his gap year companions. It's typical of Otto to steal what should be shared thunder. He's a lovely lad, but he's a tad selfish and he does like to be first for everything. Each of the three has a different reason for the trip: Otto wants to get some experience for a hoped <!-- Remove -for career in photo-journalism; Charlie wants to volunteer and beef up her environmental credentials; Jen has dreamed of journeying to India for as long as she can remember. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsMax Boucherat|title=The Chamber Last Life of ShadowsLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's Londongot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds a hidden vault babysitter poorly, mother at impossible depth work, just an avidly rule- and seems to release into the world The Lord of Flies. A mysterious masked stage magician does the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks the streetsbreaking eleven year old, and a street gang of ruffians-on-the-up decides to solve the mystery. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at the British Museum has a new employer, asking something much more evil from himher lonesome. Surely all of that cannot be connected in some wayWhat could possibly go wrong? Surely one book can not have all those dark and mysterious elements we can probably all recognise, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge of parody?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Wasserman|title=Crashed|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lia lives Snuggled in a future where minds can be saved even if bodies can't. After a fatal car crashblanket fort, her brain she has been scannedone main intention, mappedand that is to log on to Voxminer, savedthe world-building, and transferred into critter-collecting game that is a machine designed to look and feel human. She'll live forever. We last saw her with her new mech "life" hit in tatters after AudenLori's terrible accident and her family's rejectionworld. She can But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't see a future for find herself amongst entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the orgs any more server she and so she rejoins Jude her bestie and his group nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinn's mansiontampering. It's a life of extreme thrill-seeking, backed When malevolent eyes spark up by Quinn's unlimited credit and Jude's shady contact at Bio Maxon her phone screen, who supplies them with dangerous and untestedher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, but exciting and cutting edge mods and updates. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387659</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David YellandRachel Greenlaw|title=The Truth About LeoCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Leo lives inside his own head for much of the time. You can't really blame him. He's always tired for a start. That's because he's often up early, tidying up I can hear the house after one song of his father's rampagesthe sea. His father drinks too muchThe call of the deep, you see, and sometimes he smashes up the house. Leo can't risk this being discovered because his father's the only person he's got since his mother died of canceranswering beat in my heart. He misses her like crazy, and he's afraid he'll be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinking. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=Tomorrow's Guardian|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he seems to relive short periods of his lifeRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and dreams about other people from different timesplundering the wrecks. The reality Mira, like her mother before her, is far stranger – he's a Walker, with one of the power seven who swim out to rescue those he dreamed aboutsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana, But when the Great Fire of London, and Council Watch lays a German U-Boat, guided by trap to end the mysterious Professorwrecking, Tom saves they capture the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, island's leader and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powersMira's father. There are others, howeverDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with similar powers, a wreck survivor who aren't is as pleasant charming as Tom's new friends – he is secretive and the four of them, allied with the Professor and his roguish helper Septimusonly coordinates to guide her, are pitched into she sets off in search of a battle family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the worlds. Thatwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes territory, Mira must be determined to stop at stake herenothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerHarry Allen|title=Blade: Cutting LooseChildren of the Sun

|summary=''Cutting Loose'' is the seventh book about Blade, the fourteen-year-old anti-hero who has unerring skill with Ra Eun Seo lives in a knife North Korean town and she is a past that won't let him gotalented singer. Blade Life is hard and food is coming difficult to the edge of his resources come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and he can't Min go on foraging every evening, looking for much longer. He has done all he can to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jaz, talked tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in the Beast. It's not enough, but it's the best he could do meagre rations of rice and now he just wants outkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dyan SheldonAlexia Casale|title=My Worst Best FriendSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Gracie Mooney and Savanna Zindle areIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, unlikely as it may seem, best friends. Savanna but that's what Ven is popular, beautiful, loud, confident and, well, dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a little bit stupiddance performance that was going to change her life. Gracie is shortBut she comes back fighting, plain, quietdesperate to avoid the pity stares, and an intelligent lizard-loving environmentalistdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Their friendship really shouldnMeanwhile there't works a new (cute!) boy in school, but somehow it doesher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and they spend hours and hours together, then when they're not together spend hours discussing everything on just the day to day traumas of all the phone with each otherchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. You can tell already what's going to happen, So even though she can't you? Yesdance anymore, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting might she be able to happen...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenSimon Fox|title=Paper TownsDeadlock

|summary=What's this that Jake Late one night Graham Blake is doing - breaking into late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a building? Vandalising it with graffitisecret place, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? join him on the run. Three years ago he would have been doing this as a yobbish kickThey get together, but now he's a teenage agent barely begin to smell the whiff of a shadowy organisation called Southern trains when the Academyfather is arrested, and people want him leaving Archie on the late express to succeed in Brighton, toting a tin his mission. But do they all want that? Who are father was determined to keep away from his taskmasters after all? And what does colleagues, and the Void have in store for his future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rhys Thomas|title=The Suicide Club|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself is nearly successful – except when he announces in class that he's taken bearer of a whole bottle heap of pills, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in and saves his life. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero, and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone elsequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat FallsLex Croucher|title=Dark Life|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Climate change came. The oceans rose. Half the land mass disappeared uner the water. Some of what was left simply crumbled away. Now, Topsiders live Gwen and Art Are Not in giant tower blocks in a society under an authoritarian regime with emergency powers. Time outside is limited because the sun is so strong it causes third degree burns. Status brings space, not money. Using space to which you aren't entitled brings severe punishment crashing down upon you. It's no wonder Gemma wants to find her brother, who is living as Dark Life on the ocean floor. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simone Elkeles|title=Perfect ChemistryLove

|summary=On the outsideWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Brittany is in love with Bridget (the flawless highkingdom's only female knight) -school girlsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. She has the perfect hair And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the perfect outfit, and the perfect boyfriend. Any girl should be jealous subterfuge of herfalling in love with each other, right? Wrongwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies a multitude of family problems But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, her despair at the thought of her severely disabled sister being bundled off to will they find a nursing home never leaving her mind. She has to keep her hurt hidden to save her imageway in which they can both truly be themselves, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more and more of her life refuses or are they destined to live up to the expectations she has forced upon herself.a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Chris Higgins|title=Tapas and Tears|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's tough being fourteen. You're old enough to be getting to grips with who you are and what you like, but other people – parents, friends, teachers – often seem to think they know better than you do about what's best. Jaime is on the shy side. She's not a huge fan of meeting new people, and she's never strayed far from her mum's side before, so a fortnight alone in Spain is the last thing she wants. But, a school exchange is exactly what she finds herself signing up for and before she knows it, she's bundled off for two long weeks – but will it all be fun in the sun, or, as the book's title seems to hint at, are ''Tapas and Tears'' on the horizon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Cross|title=Where I Belong|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Khadija - although this is not her real name - is a young Somali girl, sent to Britain by her father. She's supposed to get an education and earn some money and then return, equipped to help bring prosperity to both her family and her impoverished country. She's an illegal immigrant, posing as a sister to Abdi. Abdi is a second generation Somali immigrant. He was born in the Netherlands and came to Britain when he was very young. He feels a connection to the land of his parents, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been to Somalia. Freya is the daughter of a world-famous fashion designer, Sandy Dexter. She's aware of her privileged status, but she feels lonely and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for a daughter, and her father's abiding love for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve Cole and Chris HunterNick Brooks|title=TripwirePromise Boys

|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died on Day Zero - When the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow Airportprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, killing countless thousands of innocent peoplethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his father Each, seemingly, Felix has signed up to a training program for grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit time of underage operativeshis murder. He knows the risks if he's successful But who killed him, but what he doesn't know is that anotherand why, even more devastingand if any of the boys are innocent, Orpheus attack is imminent... will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Westerfeld1919635017|title=ExtrasA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=In the future city of this bookSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, many people live with what so why is called he running around London committing a reputation economy. With everybody practically a cyborg, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants series of robberies? And how did he learn to see everybodycrack safes? You's status, output and more. Many people ll have hovercam companions, to make their own documentaries and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya is struggling wait to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Moriarty|title=Dreaming of Amelia|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=New scholarship students Riley and Amelia are so mysterious that everyone at Ashbury High School is talking about them. Add an answer to that the creepy happenings around school, and Lydia Jaackson-Obermansecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I's PC actually typing its own messages to her, and it seems pretty appropriate that ll answer the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering first one: for much of the book is on Gothic Fictionhis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fridrik ErlingsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Fish in the SkyDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary='I've got a dad Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a shoe box standard school, and a mum who's struggling for her life against a famished cannibalistic sewing machine.' Oh dear! Josh Stephenson is just thirteen. His father surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is separated one of four with both his best buddy from his mother the football team, and works away on 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 ship single-sex school can form, the talk in class and so out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn's a much-missed presence t know what his score is, where his achievements in Joshthat regard lie. He's life (the shoe box). Money is tight with only had a casual relationship, a secret one parent at home, for several months now, and so his mother works multiple jobshas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, some he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of them at home (who he's been having the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He relationship and his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics and they spend a great deal of time watching documentaries on television, or planning their ownthe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845393422</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|author=Melissa de la Cruz|title=Blue Bloods|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Blue Bloods'' is the first book in a series aimed at teenagers and it's about vampires, currently a popular theme in young adult novels. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and they're part of the New York elite. They're rich, young, beautiful and popular. Thought to be immortal, their world is shattered as one of them is found murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Westerfeld1800901232|title=Specials|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In the un-named city of the future, all the adults are living in the delusion that their city is right. After a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society norm. But one young woman is not like that. She is going to a party, looking ugly, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is of most importance. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, Tally. The bad news is that her ugliness is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Before I FallSteve Cole

|genre=Women's FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in many waysthe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boysif not prosperous, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sistersso 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. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to show off just how ''In'' you are at schoolHanoi. Only, as measured by Hanh and the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's other girls were not too worried about that. She knows she's part of going to work in a group who, by most definitions, would be called popularshop, 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 though sometimes inside she might feel beading on the inside a little like an imposter, on legs? The ones with the outside, well, sheartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's the definition of ''in''quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Guilt Trip|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Two years ago, Ali and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicide. They became local heroes 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 to be reunited with his brother in Brighton where he'd also study history, and Hannah joining her mother's hairdressing business.  Then something dreadful happened. Five weeks later, Daniel was dead, and the gang of friends who had been adjusting to life as heroes were responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After years without seeing her grandmother, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps a summons - to visit the old lady at her house in the town of Wisteria. Reluctantly, she goes there to please her mother, 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 in her dreams...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam EnthovenPatrice Lawrence|title=CrawlersNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Why are Brave. Charlene, the men that want 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to take over the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupidlike, characters and readers both. Ever since the Great Fire Kicked out of London trapped multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in an underground dungeon in 1666need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the Queen has been neutralisedplot 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. Even thenWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, the great and the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves then force people to kill give hertwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. She had too much potentialAnd then. But they did have the sense to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can rule the world through the Queen and he's set her a testbe.. If she passes, he will set her free. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldAnn Sei Lin|title=PrettiesRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the unnamed city sky where soldiers of the futureEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the adults are prettyEmpire. They've had mental and physical surgery He asks her to make them calmcome with him, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beingsto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. If they Well, soon Kurara won't have any trouble say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as young adults it a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the problem of what to wear at parties, or how to get rid of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pmworld. UnfortunatelyShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, one of these bright young things a sky-ship whose express purpose is our heroineto hunt down shikigami, Tally, one of the few people in the and a whole world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldMarcus Sedgwick|title=UgliesWrath

|summary="This city is Meet Fitz, a paradise, Tallyyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. 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 fingernailsLockdown is only just over, and made a pretty. It's scientifiche should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and obviously of benefitwith whom he wants, considering the parties, status and love afforded but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to pretties. But is it essential? When her his best friend is prettified Tally finds , Cassie. They were half of a new friend, Shaydesultory school band, who has secrets to share in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the few weeks before the operation they're due to have on enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the same dayearth. Secrets Is this connected with one of another place, another way, and of people staying forever ugly her eco- through choice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to warrior parents saying the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and end of the loss world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture music she's dreaming of her life that ? Is she gave us thenjust bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, and so we were really pleased to see that shenot when Cassie has gone missing he can's written a second bookt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=William Hussey|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jake is a rather solitary person. He's bright but bored by school and he's obsessed with horror comics. He owns an amazing collection and he knows all the stories and myths and folklores off by heart. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is real, and the Demontide is almost upon him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellTori Bovalino|title=The Master of MisruleDevil Makes Three

|summary=In Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the Arcanumman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, fortunes could be won and losta man Tess hates. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to As a life-altering game petty act of chance, power revenge for making her find and intelligencedeliver such a large request, based Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to thisbooks, then playersscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. But theyThey'd found it wanting, and re never meant to level the playing fieldreach him, had thrown out the rulebookof course. With that, however, the referee Her plan is no moreto get her anger out like this, and the Lord of Misrule is in charge. Free, too, to smother then take them all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lotteryoff before delivering them. Soon all humanity might No harm done… Or it would be out of luck, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskPhilip Reeve|title=In Utterly Dark and the Face of the TreesDeep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Since his mother diedIn a word, Kid has been staying with Nadine and flipping burgers rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a fast food joint after school. It's not an exciting lifepeculiar island called Wildsea, British but he isn't unhappyway west, beyond the Scillies. And then Nadine gets a boyfriend There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the flat gets rather crampedDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. And then a box of his mother's possessions arrives. InsideThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, he finds a photo who has to keep notes of activity from the father he's never met and a copy of his birth certificateHidden Lands, which tells him that his father comes from Belize. And suddenly, Kid makes a decision. He's going nowhere fast brother Will who lives in Londonwith too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, so heand Andrewe's going to head foundling daughter, who washed up out to Belize of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and find his curious ward are thrust into the man in the photo. He's on a plane within daysworld of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene KempKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=No Way OutJulia and the Shark

|summary=Alex and Adam are twinsJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and they're telepathic their cat from the family home in SW England to bootbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. They're very close, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adam's looking forward to their holiday on Uncle Ben and Aunt Sadie's farm Here be Vikings, but Alex can't think that kind of anything worseScottish island. Adam Dad is always happy going to read to their little sister Emmy, but Alex resents be automating the attention she gets (she's disabledlantern, y'see). By and largewhich is his specialist thing, they're just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumbleswhile mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. When the car they're in goes through thick fog and crashes, they find themselves in a town from times past And Julia, with inhabitants who don't want to let them leavewell, she will be homesick and who have an eye on Emmyalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganJonathan Stroud|title=No The Outlaws Scarlett and MeBrowne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Lou Scarlett McCain is a cleveran outlaw, clever child with an IQ approaching 160. She's thirteenrejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, but she's been moved up two years at school robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she compares her flat chestedmeets Albert Browne, nervous self somewhat unfavourably a dark boy with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enough, her only real friend at school is Lucas, who's seventeen dark powers and such a rebel that he's been moved darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down two years, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talksTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down to the bone with worry cannibalistic Tainted and Lou doesn't get a great deal all the horrors of attention from him eitherpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, so distracted is he. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MagrsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Diary of a Dr Who AddictSlingshot

|summary=Davey, in his first term at secondary school, is horrifiedGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Not only is his best friend trying to grow up through the use As a secret illegitimate daughter of a home gymman with a "real" family, and standing him up on the first morning of term, he also seems to be becoming dismissive of The Show. Still, he she is trying used to be esoteric - just like his sister, painting her face to look like Bowie album sleeves of all things - and Davey knows better. He knows everyone should be enthralled with the spectacle of Tom Baker falling off not being a building and becoming Peter Davison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James A Owen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you want to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work priority in Oxbridge universitiespeople's lives. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of But when she defends a very important bookrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost the soul of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who her simple existence is whomchanged for good. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those No longer can she spend her time writing novels in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire catsolitude, for her life now has a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportionsboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewT L Huchu|title=MortlockThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the AmarantRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a mythical flower with bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasisdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying facesEver since she dropped out of school, they realize that she's been using it is cursedto support not only herself, but her younger sister and take a blood oath never to remove ither aging grandmother. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great CardamomHowever, there's an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, evil stalking the coward ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the original three Englishmencity's children. Their relatively peaceful existence Soon, Ropa is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note pulled into the capital letter, never search for a good sign…) descend on them, missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the twin brother he'd never told missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her about and destroy the Amarant.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenKristen O'Neal|title=Drawing with LightLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Emily doesn't remember Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her biological motherlife. She ran away joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with another man when Emily was chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just twojoke and mess around. Now, When Brigid—one of her older sister Katclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her father, parents' car and her stepmother Cassy make up the family unit and Emily thinks itdrive to Brigid's just fine that wayhouse to check up on her. She But what she doesn't need expect to find there is a mother who didn't want her werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has never even tried to get in touch. But then Kat goes off been talking to university, her father buys a rundown house in online for the middle of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while it's being renovated, and Cassy gets pregnantpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Sarah Dessen|title=Along for the Ride|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Auden has always felt like the odd one out amongst her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics and high achievers, and they, especially her mother, want the same for Auden. Auden's older brother is the rebel and so Auden feels as though she needs to be the one who satisfies her mother's ambition. So she works hard and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even a moment. But she's socially awkward and lacking in experience. She's never had a boyfriend, hates the colour pink and can't even ride a bike. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rook Hastings|title=Nearly Departed|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At first sight, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabby. But it's pretty much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school and clump together in little peer groups of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in the middle of it, and at night, everythings turns, well, a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you in. And there are odd noises too... ... and Emily thinks she's seen a ghost. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill|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, 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)|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 off in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off 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 to kill a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing is, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detail, but is pretty sure he was Move on 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 the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost uncle, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is old, half-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Trey. But there is a pack out there, and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of control. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had a boyfriend and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems to stick around. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Glenn Dakin|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Birthdays for Theo are not exactly how we would recognise them. One bland, forgettable present from each of the three people who live in his household. Some pink cake at the best of times. A trip to the cemetery, with the butler making sure nobody else is in sight. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break in, and force Theo to leave the confines of his bedroom and find some of the secrets of the house, it is too late - Theo is set on a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as the truths of his destiny, his origins, and his hands, come to the fore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects 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 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, Ivo is off to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for the great and the good. Uncle Jago is in finance and there isn'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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]