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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Pittacus Lore|title=I am Number Four|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet John Smith. By all appearances he is the usual fifteen year old American kid, except for the fact he and his 'father' shift location every few months. John is certainly not his real name, but has to face up to reality <!- school bullies, hot girls and in fact any friends being unattainable with such a peripatetic lifestyle. 'Dad' stays at home, scanning the internet and all news sources, in order to protect the pair - for they are among the remaining dozen or so inhabitants of Lorien, living in hidden exile on Earth, but hunted by their enemies from yet another alien race. Can the fact they are permanently pursued grant them any peace Remove - especially when 'John' is about to undergo some rather prominent alien-style puberty?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332476</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerMax Boucherat|title=Dark Secrets 2The Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Those of you who read my review of We meet Lori on the [[Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Donfirst evening she't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|first Dark Secrets]] binds got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-up will know I absolutely loved breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that book. This is a similar proposition – two averageto log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-sized teen novels packaged together in collecting game that is a very good value volume. Both are set hit in Wisteria, MarylandLori's world. Both feature teenage girls looking for closure But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on past eventsher own, with dark secrets buried in their past – and both are guaranteed then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to capture the imagination enter shows signs of their target audience of teen girlstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and of her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a fair few other readers besides.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416994629</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L J SmithRachel Greenlaw|title=Forbidden GameCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=While looking for a game to play for her boyfriend's birthday, Jenny Thorn comes across a strange shop she's never seen before. Going in, she talks to a handsome boy who sells her a mysterious game in a plain box. But when she and her friends open I can hear the game to play it, they're transported to a world where the boy is the Shadow Man, and the consequence song of losing the game can be deadlysea. The group call of teens are left fighting against their worst nightmares as they try to defeat the sinister Shadow Man and escape – but when some of them finally do get outdeep, they realise that it's just the beginning of the nightmare for themanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387381</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Tabitha Suzuma|title=Forbidden|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maya is sixteenMira, prettylike her mother before her, sociable is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and wise beyond her yearsany treasure that lies within. But shewhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's never been kissedfather. Lochan Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is seventeensecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, drop-dead gorgeous and most she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the girls at his school have crushes on himsea. He's also highly intelligentWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, at as her journey takes her from the top watched streets of his class and heading off foreign islands to a good London university and on the cusp heart of a bright future. But hethe smuggler's never kissed a girl. You'd think thenterritory, that when these two teenagers kiss for the first time, it would Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the beginning future of a gorgeous first love affair, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong. Because Maya her home and Lochan are brother and sister..the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862308160</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda StrachanHarry Allen|title=Dead Boy Talking|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''They say it takes about 25 minutes to bleed to death. I want to scream and yell but there's no one here to hear me and I... I can't breath enough to yell anyway. I'm going to die here, all on my own.'' Josh is lying in the snow in an alleyway in a pool of his own blood. He stabbed one of his best mates yesterday, and now it's happened to him. He knows he's dying and his thoughts turn to how this could possibly have happened. He wonders where Skye is and what she's doing. He hopes Danny is ok. And, as he goes over the events Children of the day before, which culminated in his stabbing Ranj, his missing brother Gary keeps intruding into the picture. Why did he go? And did his parents' obsession with Gary's disappearance play a part in what's happened? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537204</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Samantha Mackintosh|title=Kisses for Lula|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Girls do worry, about all sorts of things. And one of the things they enjoy worrying about most is whether or not they are passing the milestones on life's journey at the same time as everyone else. The fact that they combine this with loud demands to be treated to be an individual is a major reason for stress-related hair-loss and gibbering in parents. Lula is no exception here. Her sixteenth birthday is approaching fast, and unless she gets kissed before then (by pretty well anyone: she's desperate) she is convinced she will be jinxed for life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249625</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=iBoySun

|summary=Tom Harvey Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is wandering along after school on his way to meet up with his friend Lucy when he hears his name called from up high in one of the tower blocks on his estatea talented singer. He doesn't have time Life is hard and food is difficult to look up before everything goes up. Waking up in hospital days latercome by, Tom discovers he has fragments of a shattered iPhone embedded in his brain. And still worseso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, his friend Lucy has been gang-raped in a brutal attack that Tom had been so closed looking for tree bark and edible grasses to walking in onsupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WatersAlexia Casale|title=Passing Strange (Generation Dead)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Karen DeSonne, the sexiest zombie amongst the many differently biotic teenagers in Oakvale, gets a turn at centre stage in the latest in Daniel Waters's ''Generation Dead'' series. Karen has always worn a disguise. When she was alive, her various camouflages hid the crippling depression that engulfed her so often and eventually led to her suicide. Now sheSing if you Can's dead, make up, hair dye and blue contact lenses enable her to "pass" as a living girl. She talks fluently and her movements are fluid, unlike most of her differently biotic peers, whose pauses, stutters and jerky movements mark them out for all to see. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Gray|title=Losing Itt Dance

|summary=Doing it for the first time... It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you know, ''Losing'' It. It. Sex. They talk about it re having to navigate a lotlife-changing disability too, teenagers. And eventually, they do it. But when but that's what Ven is the right time? Where is the right place? Who is the right person? Is everyone else doing it already? Will they be cheap if they do it too? Or will they be left behind dealing with after collapsing on stage in the peripheries middle of all a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's important in life? And as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's so much eagerness a new (cute!) boy in teenagers - not just for sexschool, but for everything. They sure do hate her music A Level performance piece to try to wait. But sometimessort out, it's better and just the day to wait. The trick for day traumas of all the poor things, I suppose, is knowing when exactly challenges her body continues to throw at her to stop waitingnavigate. And when you So even though she can've never done itt dance anymore, how on earth can you possibly know thatmight she be able to sing her way through instead?! Stepping into the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today's teen market, each with a story about virginity. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy HopkinsSimon Fox|title=Million Dollar MatesDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's nine months since Jess Hall's mother died Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and she's still finding it difficult to come to terms with what's happenedthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran They get together, but all that's about barely begin to change. Jess' Dad has got smell the job whiff of general manager at Number 1Southern trains when the father is arrested, Porchester Park. These apartments are not just up-market they're where leaving Archie on the A-listers live and after some initial reluctance about leaving Gran Jess is excited. There's an Olympic-size pool where she can swim and both she and Charlie will be able late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to have their own rooms in the house that goes with the job. Everyone at school envies here keep away from his colleagues, and it looks as though she's living the dreambearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonLex Croucher|title=InfinityGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Nick GautierWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, scholarship kid teased for his poverty it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and his motherArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when he stops them only female knight) - something that Art discovers from mugging an elderly coupleher private diaries. But And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the man who rescues him turns out to mix subterfuge of falling in seriously weird circleslove with each other, things get when really bizarrethey are enabling their own other romantic attachments. If anything But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, really bizarre is will they find a massive understatement. Nick goes on way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and live a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home of New Orleans.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Rees BrennanNick Brooks|title=The Demon's CovenantPromise Boys

|summary=A few weeks after When the events principal (headmaster) of [[The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan|The Demon's Lexicon]] and Mae Urban Promise Prep school is finally ungrounded. Determined to get on with 'normal' life and forget the magic she's lost since brothers Nick and Alan Ryves leftmurdered, Mae is only interested in hitting three boys find themselves called into the town and meeting up with Sebpolice station as suspects. Nice Each, seemingly, normal Seb.Then Mae learns her brother Jamie has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been secretly meeting up with Gerald, there at the new leader time of the Obsidian Circlehis murder. Afraid that Jamie is getting involved in dangerous things But who killed him, and why, Mae does and if any of the only thing she can and calls Alan.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382908</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Smiley1919635017|title=Nobody's Horse|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Abby lives on her family's farm in California. They specialise in taking horses and ponies which are not at their peak and bringing them on so that they can be sold at a profit. Abby's father is determined that she won't get attached to any of the horses, because that only increases the pain when they inevitably go, but two are going to make an impact on her that she could not have expected. The first is a foal whose dam dies when he's a matter of weeks old and he takes Abby's heart. The second has the opposite effect because every time that Abby rides him he's determined A Thief to buck her off. She's frightened of him and it's Catch a tribute to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Kimberly Greene|title=My Life on TV|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam’s sister, Danni, is a pop star and her mother is Danni’s manager. Dad died before Sam was born, so between the three of them life is quite fraught, particularly as they’re the subject of a reality show which is planned to run for three years. If they manage the full three years the house they live in will belong to their mother, but it all looks to be in jeopardy when Danni decides that she can’t take the pop star life any longer and she’s going to hang up her microphone. Sam’s scared that this will mean they have to leave the house and go back to the days when they had to struggle to pay the rent. There might be a way round it though – what if she was to become a TV star and the reality show could continue?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409508293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Holly Black|title=The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)Kitt Townsend

|summary=Cassel Sharpe dreams of Solomon Klyne isn't a white cat and wakes up on the roof of his school buildingbad lad, perilously close to so why is he running around London committing a fatal fall. Afraid that series of robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's suicidal or otherwise unstable, his principal sends him home, while ll have to wait to get an answer to the school decides whether or not he can stay on as a pupilsecond question because I avoid spoilers. This is completely devastating But I'll answer the first one: for Cassel, who is struggling with some major issueshis grandmother. For starters, he's only non-worker in a family of workers. His gloved hands cover useless fingers. His touch doesn't manipulate emotions, remove memories, bring luck, or kill, maim or otherwise injure. Even in a world where working is illegal, it's hard to be the only normal person in your family|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575096713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Nicholas DaneDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=14-year-old Nicholas Dane Ant is taken into care after his mother, in Year Eleven at quite a secret smack headstandard school, dies in an accidental overdose. Meadow Hill and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is an assessment centreever learnt) has been restructured, but so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the truth is that not much genuine assessment is going on. It's a savagefootball team, brutal regime and Nicholas fights against it from the starttwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Eventually, he As they's taken under the wing of Tony Crealre all fired up, straining at the deputy headleash only a single-sex school can form, and the only person talk in the place who appears class and out often turns to have a shred of common humanitysex... ... or so Nick thinks. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141316330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Hale|title=Sudden Death (Striker)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jake Bastin Which is confusing for Ant, son of famous former footballer Steveas he doesn't know what his score is, thought where his life was difficult enough even before his father enters negotiations to join St Petersburg’s newest football team as managerachievements in that regard lie. But when the agent his dad’s discussing the move with collapses of He's had a casual relationship, a suspected heart attacksecret one, things get far more complicated – because Jake is convinced he was actually poisonedfor several months now, and can’t understand why his dad seems happy to go along with a cover so has effectively progressed up. As the pair move to St Petersburgladder headed by 'experienced', the bodies start piling upbut whether that's set in stone, and Jake goes from having to fight to control his temper, to fight to save his lifehe can't be sure. With no way And that's mostly because of knowing if who he can trust anyone, even his own father, can 's been having the relationship and the youngster stand up to criminals who are happy to kill to get what they want?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249501</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dominic Barker1800901232|title=Adam and the ArkonautsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Adam is on Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a missionfashion designer. Both he and his father have spent Life in the decade since his mother rural village where she lived with her family was kidnapped by an Evil Scientist looking for herhappy, if not prosperous, and perfecting their own skills. They might have got so when the best clue of all so far smartly- one that has led them dressed man and woman came to the mysterious, hidden, and downright alarming city of Buenos Suenosvillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Those skills? Being able Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to communicate with animalsHanoi. Since learning Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to gibber like work in a spider monkey shop, they can both bark, purr perfectly, and morewere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It will take You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the extraordinary menagerie to survive legs? The ones with the unusual city, artfully-placed rips and try and discover what happened to Adamdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's mum - quite possible that Hanh and what the Evil Scientist might want by holding her hostage for the same skills in returnco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=Fallen Grace|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Parkes is not yet sixteen when she loses her baby. Worse still, it is 1861, and Grace is unmarried. To have a baby out of wedlock is a shameful thing for a girl in Victorian times, even if it is not by her own choice, and Grace has to cope all alone with the shame of her condition and the loss of her child, not to mention a sister who needs constant care and their increasing poverty. But ''Fallen Grace'' is not some nineteenth century version of the misery memoir: Grace has resourcefulness and determination as well as beauty, and her story moves at a gripping pace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599130</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Ryan|title=The Dead-Tossed Waves|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gabry has lived her whole life behind the safety of the Barrier, in the seaside town of Vista. She isn't keen to venture past it, to explore the remains of an old amusement park, but Gabry is drawn by the allure of Catcher, her best friend Cira's brother. Cira and the others are sure they will be safe from the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague the world Gabry lives in. Gabry decides to risk it, and her whole 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's away on business and his mother died in a car crash when he was just baby. He's lazing around, chatting on the phone with his best mate Craig, when a foul smell begins to suffuse the house. Tracking it to the lounge, he opens the door and discovers a skinless figure drenched in blood. Not a corpse - Red has crossed over from the other side with a message for Lazarus's father... Hell is full and the Dead are coming. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999691</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KendallPatrice Lawrence|title=Crossing OverNeedle

|summary=Roger can cross over into Brave. Charlene, the Country 'heroine' of the Deadthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. To be able to do this Kicked out of 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 must 's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in painneed of a comfort blanket, something his abusive Uncleyou might perhaps think, Hartahand the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, takes as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full advantage oflove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. So they travel, HartahWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, Roger and his Aunt Jothen force people to give her two days off school, from faire to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting the grievingwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Untilwell, Hartahwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, takes them only to the searemark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceAnn Sei Lin|title=Sisters RedRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris - the werewolves that took her eye and savaged Kurara has spent her body during entire life as a brutal attack when she was just a young girl. Scarlett managed to save her sister Rosie, but Grandma Oma died horrifically. Scarlett's body is marked by scar after scar and the scars never let her forget. She lives and breathes servant on the huntMidori, 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 a massive dining hall floating in the British Army, his mother unwell, and older brother Mycroft busy working for sky where soldiers of the government, young Sherlock Holmes is forced Empire come to spend his school holidays with his unknown uncle drink and auntmake merry between their conquests. Looking forward to days of doing whatever he wants, especially after meeting urchin Matty ArnattHowever, he's initially displeased when Mycroft hires a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him an American tutor – but the tutor, Amyus Crowe, and his daughter Victoria end up teaming up someone with Sherlock the power to solve the mysterious deaths of two local men, and uncover form paper into whatever she desires – a plot which could have far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033051198X</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Isobelle Carmody|title=Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A nuclear catastrophe called power sought after all across the Great White destroyed most of the world, and only those who lived in isolated parts of the countryside were able Empire. He asks her to survive by refusing all contact come with radiation-infected refugees from the urban centres. In time the cities grew againhim, but to leave the fear life of outsiders and of those who were different remained and became a religiondreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, composed soon Kurara won't have any say in part of half-remembered elements of faiths from the time before matter, because the apocalypse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806975</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chloe Neill|title=Firespell: The Dark Elite|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lily Parker Midori is sent to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity to do some prestigious research work in Germany. She was expecting bitchy classmatesdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitemate, Scout, who stays is forced to flee out late at night and reappears covered in bruises, a school full of secret hiding places, a principal who knows her parents and seems to have an entirely wrong idea about their work – or a mysterious group of supernatural teens called into the Dark Eliteworld.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louis Sachar|title=The Cardturner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see She joins Himura aboard the cards and I don’t know the rules!'' 17Orihime, a sky-year-old Alton Richards ship whose express purpose is shoehorned into becoming the driver and cardturner for his blindto hunt down shikigami, octogenarian, bridge-playing, but above all rich, uncle by his grasping parents - who are up to 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 world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808501</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill|title=Star Crossed: Taurus Eyes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Logan McRae is excited by the prospect of attending a writers' camp hosted by author Henry Jaffa, who starts off by asking them all to write a project idea and then shuffles them around. Instead of her longed-for astrology feature, Logan ends up having to write about folk singer Sean Baylor, whose ghost may be haunting thelocality. The only person who doesn't have to switch is the cute boy at the camp, Jeremy, who Jaffa allows to keep his original topic – of Sean Baylor. So, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting to get to know each other better – does the ghost exist? Will they get it together? 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!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436719</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Forde|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 to hold down a job, and obsessed with 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Last SealWrath

|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the AbyssMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only for just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his nemesis Cornelius Silver foot in it when he talks to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666best friend, descendants Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the original pair clash as heaims to return to enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fireearth. While Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break end of the seals which hold him in world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the Abysstruth? Well, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the worldnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola MorganTori Bovalino|title=WastedThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Jess wants to study music. SheWorking all summer in her boarding school's a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jack, who needs a singer for his band, library is exactly the happenstance last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she'd hoped gets a request for. Even better over a hundred books that Jack is so charming and handsome and charismatic. And still better that he feels the same attraction she has to herdeliver herself. How lucky can a girl get? Jack believes in luck. In fact, he lives his life by What makes itworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. He doesnThe boarding school't do s headmaster, and a thing unless his coin says he canman Tess hates. Newly in love, Jess is slowly drawn into his game As a petty act of chance. Although it worries revenge for making her find and deliver such a littlelarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she canthink of. They't know that a time will come when the toss re never meant to reach him, of a coin course. Her plan is the difference between life to get her anger out like this, and deaththen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessPhilip Reeve|title=Monsters Utterly Dark and the Face of Men (Chaos Walking)the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planetIn a word, rich. Noise There is used as a tool certainly an abundance of oppression and as riches in this story set on a weaponpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There's a cureare troll people on it, and sea-witches, but and legends of the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only Dark family that has to keep watch for the most loyalmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The Answer current Darks are fighting back against his authoritarian regimethe Watcher, Andrewe, but they've had who has to make some terrible choices. Between keep notes of activity from the President's torture Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and the AnswerAndrewe's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil warfoundling daughter, trying to hold on long enough for who washed up out of the second wave of settlers to arrivesea one day eleven years ago. And thenBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, in both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the wake world of the President's genocide of slavesprotecting their island, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but like it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war..or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Della Says: OMG! Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ever since she was fourJulia, our pre-teen heroine, Della has had been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a secret crush on Dansummer, in the good-looking and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons with herfar NE of the Scottish islands. And now Here be Vikings, more than ten years later, he wants to kiss herthat kind of Scottish island. It seems too good Dad is going to be trueautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, and for a while Della fears mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the whole thing is a joke, set up by mean girl Gemima. After all, Gemima is Dan's best friendelusive Greenland shark. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about DanJulia, her familywell, her friends..she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lara FoxJonathan Stroud|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on the ShelfThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anya Buxton Scarlett McCain is back. It's an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the summer holidays Surviving Towns and her mum is keen for her Faith Houses to find a summer job rather than waste her days lounging around at home. After wander the wildlands between the briefSeven Kingdoms of Britain, worrying possibility that robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she might just end up as meets Albert Browne, a newspaper delivery girl she lands a dream position gaining work experience 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 London publishing houseLagoon. She finds herself simultaneously editing a dishyTogether, though slightly disturbed teen authorthey must brave man-eating wildlife, struggling with a long distance relationship with Al, wondering if 'The Boy' really has turned over a new leaf the cannibalistic Tainted and being wooed by all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the boss's son. AndFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of course, she's blogging it all for her dedicated followers.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Jenna Burtenshaw|title=Wintercraft|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The wardens raid villages and cities for people competent to fight in the war, a war nobody knows anything about other than if you’re sent to fight you don’t come back. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years ago, taking Kate’s parents with them. Kate is taken in by her uncle, Artemis, and grows up in the book shop with him and her friend, Edgar. But now the wardens are back, and looking for more people to fight. However, they are also looking for the Skilled – a dying breed of people who can see through the veil of life and death. They want to build an army of the dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>}}  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenMercedes Helnwein|title=Infinity (Pocket Money Puffins)Slingshot|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>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=Vamoose (Pocket Money Puffins)|rating=4.5

|summary=There are lots of reasons not Gracie Welles has resigned herself to become being lonely. As a teen mum while still at school – there’s your loss secret illegitimate daughter of freedom, for a start, plus the fact that babies spend their days crying and pooingman with a "real" family, she is used to not to mention the fact they’re expensivebeing a priority in people's lives. But what happens to Jess is something that no one has warned her about: when she goes into hospital and gives birth to defends a bouncing baby moose. Which random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is, it has to be said, slightly oddchanged for good. As No longer can she and boyfriend Nick struggle through first-spend her time parenthood and learn to deal with the Unique Challenge of having a non-homo-sapien childwriting novels in solitude, there’s for her life now has a lesson boy in it that she never asked for all of us about biting off more than we can chew and unpredictable consequences: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141329149</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy WerlinT L Huchu|title=ImpossibleThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Life Ropa Moyo is just as it should be a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for Lucy Scarboroughtheir living relatives. She lives with loving foster parents and at seventeen is looking forward Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to attending prom with support not only herself, but her friends younger sister and her dateaging grandmother. However, who has definite boyfriend potential. The only fly in there's an evil stalking the ointment is Miranda Scarboroughruined streets of Edinburgh, Lucytargeting the city's birth mother whochildren. Soon, having given birth to Lucy Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at eighteen, promptly went mad the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her in realise that the care world of Leo magic is far bigger and Soledad MarKowitzmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Lucy's life has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined Will she find the missing children and bring an end to cause as much embarrassment as possible. this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonKristen O'Neal|title=The Prince of MistLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Cess is 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 poultry girl at Montacute Houserest of her life. She and her mother live alone - Cess has never met her father. In factjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she doesn't even know who he istalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Shunned by the They talk about their troubles and help each other villagers because out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her illegitimacyclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcastsPriya becomes concerned. ThereShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's William, who has house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a club foot - thought of as a curse werewolf in Elizabethan England, the basement – and Edith, who's for that werewolf to be the girl she has been chased out of the village talking to online for witchery by the woman-hating local priestpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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-Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]