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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie RyanMax Boucherat|title=The Dead-Tossed WavesLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gabry has lived her whole life behind We meet Lori on the safety of first evening she's got the Barrierhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, in the seaside town of Vista. She isn't keen to venture past itbabysitter poorly, mother at work, to explore the remains of just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old amusement park, but Gabry is drawn by the allure of Catcher, on her best friend Cira's brotherlonesome. Cira What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and the others are sure they will be safe from the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague is to log on to Voxminer, the world Gabry lives -building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in. Gabry decides to risk it, and her whole Lori's world is turned upside down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575090898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dead (The Dark)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lazarus Stone is home alone - his father But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's away t find herself entirely on business her own, and his mother died in a car crash when he was just babythen she finds something even more spooky. He's lazing around, chatting on For the phone with his best mate Craig, when a foul smell begins server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to suffuse the houseenter shows signs of tampering. Tracking it to the lounge When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, he opens the door and discovers a skinless figure drenched her safe place in blood. Not a corpse - Red the game has crossed over from the other side with been doctored – well, where is a message for Lazarus's father... Hell is full and the Dead are coming. girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999691</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KendallRachel Greenlaw|title=Crossing Over|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Roger can cross over into the Country of the Dead. To be able to do this he must be in pain, something his abusive Uncle, Hartah, takes full advantage of. So they travel, Hartah, Roger Compass and his Aunt Jo, from faire to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting the grieving. Until, Hartah, takes them to the sea. It is there that Roger gets dragged into helping Hartah and others wreck the Frances Ormund, a navy ship carrying precious cargo back to the Queendom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackson Pearce|title=Sisters RedBlade

|summary=Scarlett March lives to hunt ''I can hear the Fenris - song of the werewolves that took her eye and savaged her body during a brutal attack when she was just a young girlsea. Scarlett managed to save her sister RosieThe call of the deep, but Grandma Oma died horrificallythe answering beat in my heart. Scarlett's body is marked by scar after scar and the scars never let her forget. She lives and breathes the hunt, killing Fenris after Fenris and saving teenaged girl after teenaged girl. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900587</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=With his father overseas in the British ArmyRosevear, his mother unwella remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and older brother Mycroft busy working for plundering the governmentwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, young Sherlock Holmes is forced one of the seven who swim out to spend his school holidays with his unknown uncle survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and auntany treasure that lies within. Looking forward But when the Council Watch lays a trap to days of doing whatever he wantsend the wrecking, especially after meeting urchin Matty Arnatt, hethey capture the island's leader and Mira's initially displeased when Mycroft hires father. Desperate to save him an American tutor – but the tutor, Amyus Crowefrom death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and his daughter Victoria end up teaming up with Sherlock only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to solve unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the mysterious deaths watched streets of two local menforeign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and uncover a plot which could have far-reaching consequences…the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>033051198X</amazonuk>0008664730

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isobelle CarmodyHarry Allen|title=Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles)Children of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=A nuclear catastrophe called the Great White destroyed most of the world, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and only those who lived in isolated parts of the countryside were able food is difficult to survive come by refusing all contact with radiation-infected refugees from the urban centres. In time the cities grew again, but the fear of outsiders so Seo and of those who were different remained her friends Nari and became a religionMin go foraging every evening, composed in part looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of half-remembered elements of faiths from the time before the apocalypserice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806975</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe NeillAlexia Casale|title=Firespell: The Dark EliteSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Lily Parker It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is sent to boarding school dealing with after collapsing on stage in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity middle of a dance performance that was going to do some prestigious research work in Germanychange her life. She was expecting bitchy classmates, and But she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitematecomes back fighting, Scoutdesperate to avoid the pity stares, who stays out late at night and reappears covered desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in bruises, a school full of secret hiding places, a principal who knows her parents music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and seems just the day to have an entirely wrong idea about their work – or a mysterious group day traumas of supernatural teens called all the Dark Elitechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>0571373801

{{Frontpage|author=Simon Fox|title=Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|isbn=1839944420}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis SacharLex Croucher|title=The CardturnerGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=''How are we supposed Who knew that what I really needed to be partnersread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? He can’t 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 cards and I don’t know the rules!kingdom'' 17s only female knight) -year-old Alton Richards is shoehorned into something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the driver and cardturner for his blindsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, octogenarianwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, bridge-playing, but above all richwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, uncle by his grasping parents - who or are up they destined to live a lie their eyeballs in debt and have a weather eye on potential legacies. Alton sighs but goes along with it. He's used to being told to call Lester Trapp his favourite uncle and he's used to his unrepentently mercenary parents. whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808501</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bonnie Hearn HillNick Brooks|title=Star Crossed: Taurus EyesPromise Boys

|summary=Logan McRae When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is excited by murdered, three boys find themselves called into the prospect of attending a writers' camp hosted by author Henry Jaffapolice station as suspects. Each, seemingly, who starts off by asking them all to write has a project idea and then shuffles them around. Instead grudge of her longed-for astrology featuresome description against Principal Moore, Logan ends up having to write about folk singer Sean Baylor, whose ghost may be haunting thelocality. The only person who doesn't and each could have to switch is the cute boy been there at the camp, Jeremy, who Jaffa allows to keep time of his original topic – of Sean Baylormurder. So But who killed him, and why, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting to get to know each other better – does if any of the ghost exist? Will boys are innocent, will they get it togetherbe able to clear their names? Who will write the best article and get it published? The answers to all these questionsand more lie inside the second book in the Star Crossed series (along with some temporary tattoos!)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762436719</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Forde1919635017|title=Fifteen Minute Bob|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=For years, conscientious student Rory and his hard-working mother have struggled to cope with his father, an eyeliner wearing struggling singer-songwriter unable A Thief to hold down a job, and obsessed with Catch a star called Bob Blade. While Rory finds hisfather's unreliability a nightmare to live with, his two friends Smiler and Barry think he's cool and spend more time hanging out with him than with Rory. As the trio of Smiler, Barry, and Rory's dad team up to make a music video that goes viral on the internet, Rory gets unwittingly involved and, in the words of the blurb from the back,'everything flips'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405229306</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Richard Denning|title=The Last SealKitt Townsend

|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the AbyssSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants so why is he running around London committing a series of the original pair clash as robberies? And how did heaims learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to return get an answer to the world, and burn down London by starting second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the Great Firefirst one: for his grandmother.. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola MorganPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=WastedDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Jess wants to study music. She's Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jackstandard school, who needs a singer for and is surprised to find his bandgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is exactly one of four with both his best buddy from the happenstance she'd hoped for. Even better that Jack is so charming football team, and handsome and charismatictwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. And still better that he feels As they're all fired up, straining at the same attraction to her. How lucky leash only a single-sex school can a girl get? Jack believes form, the talk in luckclass and out often turns to sex. In fact Which is confusing for Ant, as he lives his life by it. He doesn't do a thing unless know what his coin says he can. Newly in lovescore is, Jess is slowly drawn into where his game of chanceachievements in that regard lie. Although it worries her He's had a casual relationship, a littlesecret one, for several months now, she and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't know be sure. And that a time will come when the toss 's mostly because of a coin is who he's been having the difference between life relationship and deaththe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Ness1800901232|title=Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Noise Twelve- visible thought year- dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet. Noise is used as old Hanh wanted to be a tool of oppression and as a weaponfashion designer. There's a cure Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, but so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it only for the most loyal. The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had was an opportunity not to make some terrible choicesbe missed. Between the President's torture Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola mini- trying bus to prevent civil warHanoi. Only, trying to hold on long enough for Hanh and the second wave of settlers other girls were not going to arrive. And thenwork in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the wake of legs? The ones with the Presidentartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war..quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonPatrice Lawrence|title=Della Says: OMG! Needle|rating=43

|summary=Ever since she was fourBrave. Charlene, Della has had a secret crush on Danthe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, the good-looking characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons schools, she's fostering with her. And nowa pleasant yoga tutor, more than ten years laterAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he wants to kiss her's at uni. It seems too good to Such a tempestuous personality may be truein need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and for a while Della fears the whole thing creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a jokewonder knitter, set up by mean girl Gemima. After all, Gemima and is Danmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's best friendallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about Dan.. well, her familywhat exactly happens is not for me to say, her friendsonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lara FoxAnn Sei Lin|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on the ShelfRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anya Buxton is back. It's Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the summer holidays Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her mum that she is keen for her a Crafter like him, someone with the power to find form paper into whatever she desires – a summer job rather than waste power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her days lounging around at hometo come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. After Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the briefmatter, worrying possibility that she might just end up because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a newspaper delivery girl shikigami, and she lands a dream position gaining work experience with a London publishing houseis forced to flee out into the world. She finds herself simultaneously editing a dishy, though slightly disturbed teen authorjoins Himura aboard the Orihime, struggling with a long distance relationship with Alsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, wondering if 'The Boy' really has turned over and a new leaf and being wooed by the boss's son. And, whole world of course, she's blogging it all for her dedicated followers.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenna BurtenshawMarcus Sedgwick|title=WintercraftWrath

|summary=The wardens raid villages and cities for people competent to fight in the warMeet Fitz, a war nobody knows anything about other than if you’re sent to fight you don’t come backyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years ago, taking Kate’s parents with them. Kate Lockdown is taken in by her uncleonly just over, Artemisand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and grows up with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the book shop with him and her it when he talks to his best friend, EdgarCassie. But now the wardens are backThey were half of a desultory school band, and looking for more people to fight. However, they are but Cassie was also looking for one hundred per cent the Skilled enigmatic – saying she could hear a dying breed subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of people who can see through the veil world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of life and death. They want to build an army music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the deadtruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>1800900899

  {{newreview|author=Sarah Dessen|title=Infinity (Pocket Money Puffins)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Girl is a teen from small town America. We don't know where exactly, but it's somewhere people drive (which rules out the likes of NYC) and it's somewhere that has a roundabout. 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 of the town's residents. For new driver Girl the roundabout is joint top on her List Of Things To Master, 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 clear. 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffTori Bovalino|title=Vamoose (Pocket Money Puffins)The Devil Makes Three

|summary=There are lots of reasons not Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to become do — especially when she gets a teen mum while still at school – there’s your loss of freedom, request for over a start, plus the fact hundred books that babies spend their days crying and pooing, not she has to mention the fact they’re expensivedeliver herself. But what happens to Jess What makes it worse is something that no one has warned her aboutthe man who requested the books: she goes into hospital Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and gives birth to a bouncing baby mooseman Tess hates. Which isAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it has notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to be saidreach him, slightly oddof course. As she and boyfriend Nick struggle through first-time parenthood and learn Her plan is to deal with the Unique Challenge of having a non-homo-sapien childget her anger out like this, there’s a lesson for and then take them all of us about biting off more than we can chew and unpredictable consequencesbefore delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141329149</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy WerlinPhilip Reeve|title=Impossible|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Life is just as it should be for Lucy Scarborough. She lives with loving foster parents and at seventeen is looking forward to attending prom with her friends Utterly Dark and her date, who has definite boyfriend potential. The only fly in the ointment is Miranda Scarborough, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her in Face of the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy's life has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carlos Ruiz Zafon|title=The Prince of MistDeep

|summary=During World War TwoIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, Max's father decides and legends of the Dark family that has to move keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the whole family Watcher, Andrewe, who has to a seaside retreat he knows keep notes of - a wooden house far away activity from the city he's grown Hidden Lands, his family up brother Will who lives in. Nobody seems London with too keen on the ideamuch science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, neither of Maxand Andrewe's sistersfoundling daughter, his mother, nor he - and Max is gifted a pocket watch by his loving, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker who washed up out of a father, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine"the sea one day eleven years ago. But the house they move towhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and its surroundings, his curious ward are full thrust into the world of more successful time machines - a stash of early home videos, a public clock that runs backwards, a sunken shipwreckprotecting their island, a yard full of statues of a stone circus... And let's like it or not forget the mysterious, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedings. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|author=James Rollins|title=Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts a terrifying chase, the discovery of fabulous Mayan artifacts, and a shadowy enemy. And that gripping scene sets the tone for the rest of the book. After the strange disappearance of their parents, who were on an archeological dig on the Mountain of Bones, Jake Ransom and his sister Kady are sent a parcel containing two halves 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 them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lucy Jago|title=Montacute House|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Cess is the poultry girl at Montacute House. She and her mother live alone - Cess has never met her father. In fact, she doesn't even know who he is. Shunned by the other villagers because of her illegitimacy, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcasts. There's William, who has a club foot - thought of as a curse in Elizabethan England, and Edith, who's been chased out of the village for witchery by the woman-hating local priest. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregory Hughes|title=Unhooking the Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Rat Kiran Millwood Hargrave 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 SedgwickTom de Freston|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, Julia 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>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=Blood Ninja|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary="It makes perfect sense that ninjas should be vampires". So Taro is told early on in this book, and on the evidence here that statement is correct. With a gutsy, bloody opening to the adventure we see Taro being attacked by ninjas, and rescued by a friendly vampire among them - having doubted the existence of both from his corner of sixteenth century rural Japan. The attack nearly leaves Taro an orphan, but opens himself up to a whole unexpected destiny, as people seek to kidnap him - or worse, and beyond that, 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 of events at two levels – the child's world within the adult world surrounding her. The very best novels about childhood, 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 to cope with their family secrets. If that sounds a bit tacky, fear not, because the viewpoint character, Gwenni, is all whippet and sharp corners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847673058</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ally Carter|title=I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 don't know much about it, but then who would want to when it's clearly housing a group of snooty, snobby rich kids? Except...it's not. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is not the place it makes out it is – this is an elite institution with 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 of the FOURTEEN languages the girls have to master.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adriana Trigiani|title=Viola in Reel Life|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It definitely wasn't Viola's choice to go to boarding school and she really would have preferred not to have to share a room with three other girls she'd never met before, but her parents – both film makers - were going 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 York. She'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 Santry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389260</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Updale|title=Johnny SwansonShark

|summary='Strength in What Remains' is the inspirational account of DeogratiasJulia, our pre-teen heroine, a man who has fled been packed off with her parents and their cat from the genocide and civil war family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in Burundi (just south the far NE of the equator in East Central AfricaScottish islands. Here be Vikings, bordering Rwanda)that kind of Scottish island. He escapes Dad is going to New Yorkbe automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, out of fear while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and want of a safer life; only his new found American life isn't quite what it promisedalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385616422</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia ReesJonathan Stroud|title=The Fool's GirlOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Illyria Scarlett McCain is sackedan outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the fool Feste spirits wildlands between theDuke's daughterSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, Violettaa dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the LondonLagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to chase reach the evil Malvolio andreclaim an ancient relic. There Free Isles, but will they meet William Shakespeare, whobe any more accepted there than they persuade to help them in an exciting quest which builds to aclimax are in the Forest rest of Arden.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=April (Conspiracy 365)|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 January, feeling rather shell-shocked after his father's death from a mysterious disease and his brush with a crazed lunatic who told him that 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 the run, accused of battering his own sister, and 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'. She's having counselling from Blake (from New Zealand) who has some rather unusual turns of phrase and looks like Johnny Depp, but without the pirate make-up. All in all she's doing quite well. Gareth Stingecombe is still the love of her life and to seal the bond even tighter she gets a Saturday job in his mother's hairdressing salon. This might, or might not, turn out to be a mistake given what the mother-in-law-to-be thinks constitutes 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 a boarding school for monsters after a little love spell goes horribly wrong. Hecate Hall has been set up 'to protect and instruct shapeshifter, witch and fae children who have risked exposure of their abilities'.  As in any good school story, she soon makes new friends and enemies. 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 of glamorous witches. Anna, Chaston and Elodie hate Jenna and they are frequently sarcastic 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 unpopular.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387225</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claudia GrayMercedes Helnwein|title=EvernightSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=I'm at a complete loss how Gracie Welles has resigned herself to review this bookbeing lonely. I'm very tempted to take As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a tip from my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert who"real" family, on occasion, has been known she is used to suggest that you should watch not being a film '''then''' read his review if itpriority in people's full of twists and hard to describe without spoilerslives. I'm actually thinking that's not But when she defends a bad idea here – but will try my best to provide a review random boy in her class with as few clues as possible to the twists and turnsher slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, just for her life now has a boy in case two sentences aren't enough to convince youit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. This may not be easy, so bear with me!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007355319</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonT L Huchu|title=Inside My HeadThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe has moved from London to rural Norfolk - her parents are expecting Ropa Moyo is a late baby and they want to downsize, get out of the cityghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and live in a more sustainable way. Unsurprisingly, Zoe isn't big on this plan. Wrenched bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from her school and friends, and the vibrancy dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of the capitalschool, she's convinced that been using it to support not only herself, but her life has just taken a socking great turn for the worse. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802716</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Nicholson|title=Rich younger sister and Mad|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Maddy Fisher goes for something, she goes all outher aging grandmother. She has decided to fall in loveHowever, but not just any kind there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of love – it has to be Edinburgh, targeting the cancity't-eat-can't-sleep, crazy kinds children. But then once you get to know Maddy, you'd expect nothing lessSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for this is a girl who lives with a camel missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and thinks nothing realise that the world of choosing her parentsmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could' shop over her own well equipped room when ve imagined. Will she wants to find a bed the missing children and bring an end to curl up in for a think.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405247398</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann KelleyKristen O'Neal|title=Koh TabuLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Bonnie MacDonald is thrilled Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to be going come to a beautiful tropical island terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of the Amelia Earhart Cadetsher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', especially as the only adult present will be the incredibly glamorous Layla Campbell, nicknamed the Duchess, who treats them all like adultsan online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. But the dream holiday becomes a nightmare - after landing on the wrong island despite dire warnings from the boatman who took them thereThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, a storm kills him while also providing an escape to just joke and one mess around. When Brigid—one of Bonnieher closest friends—doesn's friends and wrecks t respond to the boatchat for a while, leaving them trapped with no-one knowing where they arePriya becomes concerned. With the Duchess shining rather less brightly as she’s revealed She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to be practically useless in the face of danger, itBrigid's left house to Bonnie and check up on her friend Jas . But what she doesn't expect to try and keep find there is a werewolf in the remaining girls alive basement – and find a way for that werewolf to be rescuedthe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756044</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=The Red Necklace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Paris's streets are already humming with talk of revolution, when the young gypsy Yann Margoza is summoned to perform his magic at the chateau of a selfish, debt-ridden marquise. He is to tell the assembled aristocracy their future. But what he hoped would be the ticket to a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision of the richly-dressed crowd drowning in a sea of blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>}} {{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-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>}} {{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 a hidden vault at impossible depth - 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 streets, and a street gang of ruffians-Move 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 him. Surely all of that cannot be connected in some way? 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 in a future where minds can be saved even if bodies can't. After a fatal car crash, her brain has been scanned, mapped, saved, and transferred into a machine designed to look and feel human. She'll live forever. We last saw her with her new mech "life" in tatters after Auden's terrible accident and her family's rejection. She can't see a future for herself amongst the orgs any more and so she rejoins Jude and his group of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinn's mansion. It's a life of extreme thrill-seeking, backed up by Quinn's unlimited credit and Jude's shady contact at Bio Max, who supplies them with dangerous and untested, but exciting and cutting edge mods and updates. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387659</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Yelland|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 the house after one 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 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 life, and dreams about other people from different times. The reality is far stranger – he's a Walker, with the power to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of London, and a German U-Boat, guided by the mysterious Professor, Tom saves the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powers. There are others, however, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new friends – and the four of them, allied with the Professor and his roguish helper Septimus, are pitched into a battle to save the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes at stake here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]