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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Keris Stainton|title=Della Says: OMG <! |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since she was four, Della has had a secret crush on Dan, the good-looking and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons with her. And now, more than ten years later, he wants to kiss her. It seems too good to be true, and for a while Della fears the whole thing is a joke, set up by mean girl Gemima. After all, Gemima is Dan's best friend. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about Dan, her family, her friends...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lara FoxMax Boucherat|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on the ShelfThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anya Buxton is back. ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the summer holidays and her mum is keen for her house to herself – no neighbour to find a summer job rather than waste her days lounging around pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at home. After the briefwork, worrying possibility that she might just end up as a newspaper delivery girl she lands a dream position gaining work experience with a London publishing housean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. She finds herself simultaneously editing What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a dishyblanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, though slightly disturbed teen authorthe world-building, struggling with critter-collecting game that is a long distance relationship with Al, wondering if hit in Lori'The Boy' really s world. But first Lori has turned over a new leaf tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and being wooed by the boss's sonthen she finds something even more spooky. And, of course, For the server she's blogging it all for and her dedicated followers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenna Burtenshaw|title=Wintercraft|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The wardens raid villages bestie and cities for people competent to fight in the war, a war nobody knows anything about other than if you’re sent else should be able to fight you don’t come backenter shows signs of tampering. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years ago, taking Kate’s parents with them. Kate is taken in by When malevolent eyes spark up on her uncle, Artemisphone screen, and grows up her safe place in the book shop with him and her friendgame has been doctored – well, Edgar. But now the wardens are back, and looking for more people to fight. However, they are also looking for the Skilled – where is a dying breed of people who can see through the veil of life and death. They want girl to build an army of the dead.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>0008666482

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenRachel Greenlaw|title=Infinity (Pocket Money Puffins)Compass and Blade

|summary=Girl is a teen from small town America. We don't know where exactly, but it's somewhere people drive (which rules out I can hear the likes song of NYC) and it's somewhere that has a roundaboutthe sea. Most of America doesn't have these – instead they have much more sensible crossings and lights and T-junctions – so it's a source of intrigue for many The call of the town's residents. For new driver Girl the roundabout is joint top on her List Of Things To Masterdeep, along with sleeping with her boyfriend Anthony. They might seem entirely unrelated to the likes of you and me, but to Girl the links are clearanswering beat in my heart. They're both things she will have to deal with for a first time eventually, but she still can't decide whether to rush ahead in order to get them out of the way quickly, or put them off for just a little longer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330775</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=Vamoose (Pocket Money Puffins)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There are lots of reasons not to become a teen mum while still at school – there’s your loss of freedomRosevear, for a startremote and partially forgotten island, plus survives on luring ships into the fact that babies spend their days crying rocks and pooingplundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, not is one of the seven who swim out to mention survey the fact they’re expensiveruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But what happens when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to Jess save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is something that no one has warned secretive and with only coordinates to guide her about: , she goes into hospital and gives birth to sets off in search of a bouncing baby moosefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Which is, it has With only nine days to be saidunearth what might save her father, slightly odd. As she and boyfriend Nick struggle through first-time parenthood and learn as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to deal with the Unique Challenge heart of having a non-homo-sapien childthe smuggler's territory, there’s a lesson for all Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of us about biting off more than we can chew her home and unpredictable consequencesthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141329149</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy WerlinHarry Allen|title=ImpossibleChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is just as it should be for Lucy Scarborough. She lives with loving foster parents hard and at seventeen food is looking forward difficult to attending prom with come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and her dateMin go foraging every evening, who has definite boyfriend potential. The only fly in the ointment is Miranda Scarborough, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth looking for tree bark and edible grasses to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her in supplement the care meagre rations of Leo rice and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy's life has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possiblekimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonAlexia Casale|title=The Prince of MistSing if you Can't Dance

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=During World War Two, MaxIt's father decides hard enough to move the whole family navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a seaside retreat he knows of life- a wooden house far away from the city he's grown his family up in. Nobody seems changing disability too keen on the idea, neither of Maxbut that's sisters, his mother, nor he - and Max what Ven is gifted a pocket watch by his loving, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a father, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine"dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the house they move topity stares, and its surroundings, are full of more successful time machines - desperate to get back to a stash of early home videos, life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a public clock that runs backwardsnew (cute!) boy in school, a sunken shipwreckher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, a yard full and just the day to day traumas of statues of a stone circus..all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. And letSo even though she can's not forget the mysterioust dance anymore, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedings.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsSimon Fox|title=Jake Ransom and the Skull King's ShadowDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts a terrifying chase, Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the discovery of fabulous Mayan artifactsforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a shadowy enemysecret place, and join him on the run. And that gripping scene sets the tone for They get together, but barely begin to smell the rest whiff of Southern trains when the book. After the strange disappearance of their parentsfather is arrested, who were on an archeological dig leaving Archie on the Mountain of Boneslate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, Jake Ransom and his sister Kady are sent the bearer of a parcel containing two halves whole heap of a Mayan coin, their mother's sketchbook and their father's notebook. There is no indication what these things mean or what to do with themquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy JagoLex Croucher|title=Montacute HouseGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Cess Who 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, is in love with Bridget (the poultry girl at Montacute House. She and her mother live alone kingdom's only female knight) - Cess has never met something that Art discovers from her fatherprivate diaries. In fact And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, she doesn't even know who he is. Shunned by creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other villagers because of her illegitimacy, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcastswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. There's William But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, who has a club foot - thought of as will they find a curse way in Elizabethan Englandwhich they can both truly be themselves, and Edith, who's been chased out of the village for witchery by the woman-hating local priest. or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Gregory Hughes|title=Unhooking the Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Rat and Bob are prairie children. Winnipeg is a land ''so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days''. When their father dies and they're orphaned, they are determined to avoid a children's home at all costs and embark upon a road trip to New York City, in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob is pretty much the hanger-on - he knows that the Rat is a special kid who would never make it in an institution and so he puts his fears aside to follow his singular sister. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849162956</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=White Crow|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rebecca is not happy to be leaving London. She's not happy with her dad, she's not happy with her boyfriend, and she just generally an unhappy person. Having to move to a dead-end place like Winterfold doesn't help at all. Her only friend there is a strange girl named Ferelith who one hot summer's day shows her an abandoned mansion where two hundred years ago a priest performed horrible experiments on human corpses. He wanted to learn something from the dead. But what was it? And what does Ferelith really want from Rebecca?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551876</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakeBrooks|title=Blood NinjaPromise Boys

|summary="It makes perfect sense that ninjas should be vampires". So Taro When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is told early on in this bookmurdered, and on three boys find themselves called into the evidence here that statement is correctpolice station as suspects. With Each, seemingly, has a gutsy, bloody opening to the adventure we see Taro being attacked by ninjasgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and rescued by a friendly vampire among them - having doubted each could have been there at the existence time of both from his corner of sixteenth century rural Japanmurder. The attack nearly leaves Taro an orphan, but opens himself up to a whole unexpected destiny, as people seek to kidnap But who killed him - or worse, and beyond thatwhy, an entirely unforseen existence as a teenage vampire when his saviour turns him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873875</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mari Strachan|title=The Earth Hums in B Flat|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Choosing a child as the viewpoint character of a novel requires confidence and imagination. To succeed is to convince the reader if any of events at two levels – the child's world within the adult world surrounding her. The very best novels about childhoodboys are innocent, like say Harper Lee's classic, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', also reflect a wider cultural truth. In 'The Earth Hums in B Flat', a claustrophobic Welsh village is both protection and straitjacket as the characters struggle will they be able to cope with clear their family secrets. If that sounds a bit tacky, fear not, because the viewpoint character, Gwenni, is all whippet and sharp corners.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847673058</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ally Carter1919635017|title=I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have A Thief to Kill You (Gallagher Girls)Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=If ever there were a new series chock full of characters to make Harry, Ron, Hermione et al look like wimps, then this is it. Virginia might not be the most exciting of States, and sleepy Roseville may not be the most thrilling of towns, but for our purposes that's good. Boring and ordinary is good. Flying under the radar is good. To the town's residents, the Gallagher Academy is just your typical all girls private school. They donSolomon Klyne isn't know much about it, but then who would want to when it's clearly housing a group of snootybad lad, snobby rich kids? Except...it's not. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women so why is not the place it makes out it is – this is an elite institution with he running around London committing a difference, for all its boarders are spies in training, with a curriculum in lethal weapons and covert operations as well as exquisite twists on the usual subjects: foreign languages here mean dedicated days where the whole school converses in any one series of the FOURTEEN languages the girls have robberies? And how did he learn to master.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adriana Trigiani|title=Viola in Reel Life|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It definitely wasn't Violacrack safes? You's choice to go to boarding school and she really would ll have preferred not to have wait to share a room with three other girls she'd never met before, but her parents – both film makers - were going get an answer to be abroad for a year and single rooms were in short supply. And that was how, at the beginning of the school year, Viola came to be at the Prefect Academy in South Bend, Indiana rather than in her native New Yorksecond question because I avoid spoilers. SheBut I'd left behind her best friend, Andrew (no – he's not her boyfriend, he's a best friend who happens to be a boy) and is sharing a room with Marisol Carreras, Romy Dixon and Suzanne Santryll answer the first one: for his grandmother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389260</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Updale|title=Johnny Swanson|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary='Strength in What Remains' is the inspirational account of Deogratias, a man who has fled from the genocide and civil war in Burundi (just south of the equator in East Central Africa, bordering Rwanda). He escapes to New York, out of fear and want of a safer life; only his new found American life isn't quite what it promised.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385616422</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia ReesPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Fool's GirlDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=When Illyria Ant is sacked, the fool Feste spirits theDuke's daughter, Violetta, to Londonin Year Eleven at quite a standard school, to chase the evil Malvolio andreclaim an ancient relic. There they meet William Shakespeare, whothey persuade is surprised to help them in an exciting quest find his geography class (within which builds to aclimax in the Forest of Arden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=April (Conspiracy 365it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's April and Cal has survived three months of his year on the run. Will the fourth bring him any closer to answers about the Ormond Singularity? And can he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in Januarybeen restructured, feeling rather shell-shocked after so his father's death from a mysterious disease and his brush desk is one of four with a crazed lunatic who told him that both his father was murdered and he'd be next unless he could hold out until next New Year's Eve. Within days, Cal found himself on best buddy from the run, accused of battering his own sisterfootball team, and two other old muckers – in search of something called the Ormond Singularity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hayley Long|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) Desperate|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lottie Biggs, who's in her mid-teens is recovering from what's described as a 'mental disorder of a reasonably significant nature'fact they all go back to primary school days together. SheAs they's having counselling from Blake (from New Zealand) who has some rather unusual turns of phrase and looks like Johnny Deppre all fired up, but without straining at the pirate makeleash only a single-up. All sex school can form, the talk in all she's doing quite well. Gareth Stingecombe is still the love of her life class and out often turns to seal the bond even tighter she gets a Saturday job in his mother's hairdressing salonsex. This mightWhich is confusing for Ant, or might notas he doesn't know what his score is, turn out to be a mistake given what the mother-where his achievements in-law-to-be thinks constitutes that regard lie. He's had a trendy hairstyle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033047975X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Hawkins|title=Hex Hall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sophie Mercer has been sent to casual relationship, a boarding school secret one, for monsters after a little love spell goes horribly wrong. Hecate Hall several months now, and so has been set effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'to protect and instruct shapeshifter, witch and fae children who have risked exposure of their abilitiesbut whether that'.  As s set in any good school storystone, she soon makes new friends and enemieshe can't be sure. Her room mate is a 15 year old vampire with an obsession with everything pink, and Sophie must struggle to hide her disgust at Jenna’s blood consumption, as they quickly become good friends. She faces more difficulty with a trio And that's mostly because of glamorous witches. Anna, Chaston and Elodie hate Jenna and they are frequently sarcastic who he's been having the relationship and nasty at Sophie’s expense. At the same time though, they approach her to join their coven, and her reluctance to get involved makes her more unpopularsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387225</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Gray1800901232|title=EvernightStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=I'm at Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a complete loss how to review this bookfashion designer. I'm very tempted to take a tip from my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert who Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, on occasionif not prosperous, has been known to suggest that you should watch a film '''then''' read his review if it's full of twists so when the smartly-dressed man and hard woman came to describe without spoilers. I'm actually thinking that's not a bad idea here – but will try my best the village to provide offer Hahn a review with as few clues as possible to the twists and turns, just job in case two sentences aren't enough Hanoi it was an opportunity not to convince you. This may not be easy, so bear with me!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007355319</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Inside My Head|rating=4missed.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe has moved from London to rural Norfolk Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini- her parents are expecting a late baby and they want bus to downsizeHanoi. Only, get out of Hanh and the city, and live other girls were not going to work in a more sustainable way. Unsurprisinglyshop, Zoe isn't big on this planthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Wrenched from her school and friends, You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the vibrancy of legs? The ones with the capital, sheartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's convinced quite possible that Hanh and her life has just taken a socking great turn for the worseco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802716</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonPatrice Lawrence|title=Rich and MadNeedle|rating=43

|summary=When Maddy Fisher goes Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for somethingsome people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she goes all out. She 's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has decided to fall taken up residence in love, but not just any kind of love – it has to be the canher son Blake't-eat-cans old room while he't-sleeps at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, crazy kind. But then once you get to know Maddymight perhaps think, you'd expect nothing lessand the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, for this as Charlene is a girl who lives with a camel wonder knitter, and thinks nothing is making something full of choosing love for her parentsyounger sister – a younger sister she' shop over s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her own well equipped room two days off school, when she wants shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to find a bed say, only to curl up in for a thinkremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405247398</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann KelleySei Lin|title=Koh TabuRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bonnie MacDonald is thrilled to be going to Kurara has spent her entire life as a beautiful tropical island with the rest of servant on the Amelia Earhart CadetsMidori, especially as a massive dining hall floating in the only adult present will be sky where soldiers of the incredibly glamorous Layla CampbellEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, nicknamed the Duchesswhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, who treats them all like adults. But someone with the dream holiday becomes power to form paper into whatever she desires – a nightmare - power sought after landing on all across the wrong island despite dire warnings from Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the boatman who took them therelife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, a storm kills him and one of Bonniesoon Kurara won's friends and wrecks t have any say in the boatmatter, leaving them trapped with no-one knowing where they are. With because the Duchess shining rather less brightly Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as she’s revealed a shikigami, and she is forced to be practically useless in flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the face of dangerOrihime, it's left a sky-ship whose express purpose is to Bonnie hunt down shikigami, and her friend Jas to try and keep the remaining girls alive and find a way to be rescued.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756044</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Red NecklaceWrath

|summary=Otto has arrived in Goa Meet Fitz, a couple young Scottish lad full of days ahead of Charlotte frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Jenhe should be free to do what he wants, his gap year companions. It's typical of Otto to steal what should be shared thunder. He's a lovely ladgo where he wants and with whom he wants, but he's a tad selfish and cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he does like talks to be first for everythinghis best friend, Cassie. Each They were half of the three has a different reason for desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the trip: Otto wants to get some experience for a hoped-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 enigmatic – saying she can remember. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Richards|title=The Chamber of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's London, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds could hear a hidden vault at impossible depth - and seems to release into subhuman hum coming from the world The Lord of Fliesearth. A mysterious masked stage magician does the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks the streets, and a street gang Is this connected with one of ruffians-onher eco-warrior parents saying the-up decides to solve the mystery. A man in charge end of Fortean artefacts at the British Museum has world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new employer, asking something much more evil from him. Surely all kind of music she's dreaming of that cannot be connected in some way? Surely one book Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not have all those dark and mysterious elements we when Cassie has gone missing he can probably all recognise, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge of parody?'t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin WassermanTori Bovalino|title=CrashedThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Lia lives Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a future where minds can be saved even if bodies can't. After request for over a fatal car crash, her brain hundred books that she has been scanned, mapped, saved, and transferred into a machine designed to look and feel humandeliver herself. She'll live foreverWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. We last saw her with her new mech "life" in tatters after AudenThe boarding school's terrible accident headmaster, and her family's rejectiona man Tess hates. She can't see As a future petty act of revenge for herself amongst making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the orgs any more and so ugliest insults she rejoins Jude and his group can think of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinn's mansion. ItThey's a life re never meant to reach him, of extreme thrill-seekingcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, backed up by Quinn's unlimited credit and Judethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's shady contact at Bio Max, who supplies t delivered them with dangerous and untested, but exciting and cutting edge mods and updatesfor her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387659</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David YellandPhilip Reeve|title=The Truth About Leo|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 Utterly Dark and the house after one Face of his father's rampages. His father drinks too much, 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 cancer. 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 GuardianDeep|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he seems to relive short periods of his lifeIn a word, and dreams about other people from different timesrich. The reality There is far stranger – he's a Walker, with the power to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to the battle certainly an abundance of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of London, and riches in this story set on a German U-Boatpeculiar island called Wildsea, guided by the mysterious ProfessorBritish but way west, Tom saves beyond the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powersScillies. There are otherstroll people on it, howeverand sea-witches, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new friends – and the four legends of them, allied with the Professor Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and his roguish helper Septimustheir monster approaching from even further west, are pitched into a battle to save the worldswhere no ship dare sail. That's intentionally plural – there The current Darks are two parallel universes at stake here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Blade: Cutting Loose|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Cutting Loose'' is the seventh book about BladeWatcher, Andrewe, the fourteen-year-old anti-hero who has unerring skill with a knife and a past that won't let him go. Blade is coming to keep notes of activity from the edge of Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his resources head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and he canAndrewe't go on for much longer. He has done all he can to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jazs foundling daughter, talked to who washed up out of the policesea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, given up both his sullen brother and his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in curious ward are thrust into the Beast. It's not enoughworld of protecting their island, but like it's the best he could do and now he just wants outor not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dyan Sheldon|title=My Worst Best Friend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Mooney and Savanna Zindle are, unlikely as it may seem, best friends. Savanna is popular, beautiful, loud, confident Kiran Millwood Hargrave and, well, a little bit stupid. Gracie is short, plain, quiet, and an intelligent lizard-loving environmentalist. Their friendship really shouldn't work, but somehow it does, and they spend hours and hours together, then when they're not together spend hours discussing everything on the phone with each other. You can tell already what's going to happen, can't you? Yes, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting to happen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John GreenTom de Freston|title=Paper Towns|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=17-year-old Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since he can remember. It's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they may be, but their respective places in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Margo is one of the beautiful ones. She's cool, clever Julia and a trendsetter. Q languishes in the middle ranks with his band member mates, Radar, who's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia), and Ben, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks the status to get one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806592</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alec Sillifant|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos UnleashedShark

|summary=What's this that Jake is doing Julia, our pre- breaking into a building? Vandalising it teen heroine, has been packed off with graffiti, having ruined someone's privacy her parents and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a yobbish kicksummer, but now he's a teenage agent in the far NE of a shadowy organisation called the Academy, and people want him to succeed in his missionScottish islands. But do they all want Here be Vikings, that? kind of Scottish island. Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does Dad is going to be automating the Void have in store for lantern, which is 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 a whole bottle of pillsspecialist thing, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps while mum will be leaving her career in and saves his lifealgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero And Julia, well, she will be homesick and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone elsealone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat FallsJonathan Stroud|title=Dark LifeThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Climate change came. The oceans rose. Half Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the land mass disappeared uner wildlands between the water. Some Seven Kingdoms of what was left simply crumbled awayBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. NowBut then she meets Albert Browne, Topsiders live in giant tower blocks in a society under an authoritarian regime dark boy with emergency dark powersand a darker past. Time outside is limited because With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the sun is so strong it causes third degree burnsLondon Lagoon. Status brings spaceTogether, not money. Using space they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to which you aren't entitled brings severe punishment crashing down upon you. It's no wonder Gemma wants to find her brotherreach the Free Isles, who is living as Dark Life on but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the ocean floor. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesMercedes Helnwein|title=Perfect ChemistrySlingshot|rating=43

|summary=On the outside, Brittany is the flawless high-school girl. She Gracie Welles has the perfect hair, the perfect outfit, and the perfect boyfriendresigned herself to being lonely. Any girl should be jealous As a secret illegitimate daughter of hera man with a "real" family, right? Wrongshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies But when she defends a multitude of family problems, random boy in her despair at the thought of class with her severely disabled sister being bundled off to a nursing home never leaving slingshot, her mindsimple existence is changed for good. She has to keep No longer can she spend her hurt hidden to save her imagetime writing novels in solitude, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more and more of for her life refuses to live up to the expectations now has a boy in it that she has forced upon herselfnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsT L Huchu|title=Tapas and TearsThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItRopa 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 tough being fourteen. You're old enough been using it to be getting to grips with who you are and what you likesupport not only herself, but other people – parentsher younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, friendsthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, teachers – often seem to think they know better than you do about whattargeting the city's bestchildren. Jaime Soon, Ropa is on pulled into the shy sidesearch for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She's not a huge fan will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of meeting new people, magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's never strayed far from her mum's side before, so a fortnight alone in Spain is the last thing she wantsve imagined. But, a school exchange is exactly what Will she finds herself signing up for find the missing children and before she knows itbring an end to this evil, she's bundled off for two long weeks – but or will it all be fun in the sun, or, as the book's title seems to hint at, are ''Tapas and Tears'' on the horizonclaim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossKristen O'Neal|title=Where I BelongLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Khadija - although this is not her real name - is a young Somali girlHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, sent Priya has to Britain by come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her fatherlife. Shejoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''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 online support group where she talks to Abdi. Abdi is a second generation Somali immigrantbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. He was born in the Netherlands They talk about their troubles and came help each other out, while also providing an escape to Britain when he was very youngjust joke and mess around. He feels a connection to the land When Brigid—one of his parents, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been her closest friends—doesn't respond to Somalia. Freya is the daughter of chat for a world-famous fashion designerwhile, Sandy DexterPriya becomes concerned. Shedecides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's aware of house to check up on her privileged status, but . But what she feels lonely and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for expect to find there is a daughter, werewolf in the basement – and her father's abiding love for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choicepast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Steve Cole and Chris Hunter|title=Tripwire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died Move 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 - 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]