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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipMax Boucherat|title=Firebrand (Rebel Angels)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Seth lives in We meet Lori on the land of first evening she's got the Sidhehouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, protected from the world of full-mortals by an ancient magical Veil. Therebuilding, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's an uneasy but relatively settled peace, with only the occasional border fray to disturb their long livesworld. But things arenfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't easy for Seth - he's find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the unwanted second son server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a Sidhe lordtampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, his mother interested only and her safe place in the corridors of power at the court of Kate NicNiven, and his father with eyes only for his older brother Conal. The inhabitants of his dun don't trust him, he's half-feralgame has been doctored – well, and his only real tie where is a girl to Conal, who has taken him under his wing, and for whom Seth would gladly die. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537190</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine WebbRachel Greenlaw|title=The Dream Thief (Horatio Lyle)Compass and Blade

|summary=When an orphan girl appears on Horatio Lyle's doorstep'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, half-dead a remote and apparently poisonedpartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the genius inventor finds himself drawn into a conspiracy that reaches to rocks and plundering the highest circles of London Societywrecks. Someone Mira, like her mother before her, is kidnapping workhouse children one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and essentially turning them into zombiesany treasure that lies within. Somone is stealing their dreams. With But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the help of his young wardwrecking, they capture the street-urchin Tessisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets out into off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the darkest parts heart of the city smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop themat nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654251</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Theresa BreslinHarry Allen|title=Prisoner Children of the InquisitionSun

|summary=Don't read this book if you are of Ra Eun Seo lives in a delicate disposition North Korean town and prone to nightmares. Within the first few pages a woman is burned at the stake, a man she is unjustly accused and hanged, his young son only just escapes the same fate and a woman dies in childbirthtalented singer. But this Life is no horror story, hard and none of the violence is gratuitous: this food is quite simply the world of fifteenth century Spain. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella are fighting the Moors in Granada, Christopher Columbus is seeking royal funding for a voyage difficult to prove the world is roundcome by, so Seo and the Inquisition is spreading terror her friends Nari and anguish throughout the land. And against this background of momentous eventsMin go foraging every evening, we have the thrilling looking for tree bark and beautiful account of edible grasses to supplement the lives meagre rations of two young people, bound together by hatred rice and lovekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617038</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=LJ AdlingtonAlexia Casale|title=The Burning MountainSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=In AD79It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Gaius Justinius Aquila but that's what Ven is drenched dealing with after collapsing on stage in grey ashthe middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, trying desperately desperate to help avoid the citizens of Herculaneum as Vesuvius erupts around them. In 1943pity stares, German paratrooper Peter Schafer finds himself in Naples. Peter has and desperate to get back to a secret - helife that's underage, having run away to sign upas normal as she can possibly manage. Within the year, Peter will find himself defending Monte Cassino against Meanwhile there's a huge Allied bombardment. Throughout his time new (cute!) boy in Italyschool, Peter will have many encounters with Vittoriaher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, an impoverished Neapolitan who steals and just the day to keep herself and a ragbag bunch day traumas of orphans aliveall the challenges 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>0340956828</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveySimon Fox|title=Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles)Deadlock|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Isabeau St. Croix has no care for politics Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and royaltythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and would really rather not spend her time among join him on the newly royal Drake familyrun. They get together, attempting but barely begin to negotiate peace between them and smell the Hounds, her vampire clan. The Hounds are not well thought whiff of among vampiresSouthern trains when the father is arrested, who fear their dual fangs and strange rituals. But leaving Archie on the Drakes are like no vampires Isabeau has ever metlate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and they aren't like royalty eitherthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880705X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vanessa CurtisLex Croucher|title=Zelah Green: One More Little ProblemGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=We first met Zelah when her OCD got so bad she Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was sent off to a live-gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in centre for treatmenta most delightful way. She's at home now 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 OCD still around but not totally debilitating. Shekingdom's still jumping on the stairs only female knight) - but not so many jumps and not so often. She's still scrubbing her face, but it isn't quite red raw. You'd call something that Art discovers from her overly fastidious rather than illprivate diaries. And her therapist is pleased then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with her progresseach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But then... as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405240547</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Carol Lynch Williams|title=The Chosen One|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Thirteen-year-old Kyra has one father, three mothers, and twenty siblings - yes, twenty - with another two on the way. She lives on a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. His father had been Prophet before him, but since his father's death and Prophet Childs' accession, things have taken a turn for the worse. A fence has gone up around the compound. Adolescent boys are driven off, and the Prophet seems to be choosing younger and younger girls to marry older and older men. And now, it's Kyra's turn. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. And her father is afraid to refuse him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By Midnight|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=April Dunne doesn't really consider herself to be a genius, and her family certainly aren't rich - so how did she get accepted by the ultra-prestigious Ravenwood school when her family moved from Scotland to Highgate? She can't work it out but has other problems to worry about, in any case, such as the two local murders and the way people at her school get angry when she tries to take their photograph. On the plus side, there's a seriously stunning boy she's drawn to straight away, Gabriel Swift, and she thinks he likes her, although his behaviour is weird at times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095520</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldNick Brooks|title=Secret Hour (Midnighters)Promise Boys

|summary=If you do have to move into a small American town, make sure it isn't Bixby, Oklahoma. Jessica does, and finds it perhaps more trouble than it's worth. She quickly bonds with some When the principal (headmaster) of the more goth-seeming kids at her high Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, but it's three boys find themselves called into the night-time activities that intrigue herpolice station as suspects. She thinks she's in Each, seemingly, has a dream when she walks through a dazzling forest grudge of raindropssome description against Principal Moore, suspended in a moment and each could have been there at the time of frozen time - that moment being exactly midnighthis murder. But wouldn't you know? - her goth-seeming friends are active at midnight too - who killed him, and why, and so are some very dangerous creatures if any of the terrible kind...boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410031</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Pittacus Lore1919635017|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 A Thief to face up to reality - school bullies, hot girls and in fact any friends being unattainable with such Catch 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 - especially when 'John' is about to undergo some rather prominent alien-style puberty?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332476</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 2Kitt Townsend

|summary=Those of you who read my review Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the [[Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Donsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|ll answer the first Dark Secrets]] bind-up will know I absolutely loved that bookone: for his grandmother. This is a similar proposition – two average-sized teen novels packaged together in a very good value volume. Both are set in Wisteria, Maryland. Both feature teenage girls looking for closure on past events, with dark secrets buried in their past – and both are guaranteed to capture the imagination of their target audience of teen girls, and of a fair few other readers besides.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416994629</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L J SmithPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Forbidden Game|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 the game to play it, they're transported to a world where the boy is the Shadow Man, and the consequence of losing the game can be deadly. The group 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 out, they realise that it's just the beginning of the nightmare Different for them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387381</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tabitha Suzuma|title=ForbiddenBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=Maya Ant is sixteen, prettyin Year Eleven at quite a standard school, sociable and wise beyond her years. But she's never is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been kissed. Lochan restructured, so his desk is seventeenone of four with both his best buddy from the football team, drop-dead gorgeous and most of the girls at his two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school have crushes on himdays together. He As they's also highly intelligentre all fired up, straining at the top of his leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and heading off out often turns to a good London university and on the cusp of a bright futuresex. But Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's never kissed had a girl. You'd think thencasual relationship, a secret one, that when these two teenagers kiss for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the first timeladder headed by 'experienced', it would be the beginning of a gorgeous first love affairbut whether that's set in stone, wouldnhe can't you? But you'd be wrongsure. Because Maya And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and Lochan are brother and sister..the sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862308160</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|author=Linda Strachan|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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Samantha Mackintosh1800901232|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>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Kevin Brooks|title=iBoySteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Tom Harvey is wandering along after school on his way Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to meet up be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with his friend Lucy her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when he hears his name called from up high the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in one of Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the tower blocks on his estatemini-bus to Hanoi. He doesn't have time Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to look up before everything goes up. Waking up work in hospital days latera shop, Tom discovers he has fragments of a shattered iPhone embedded they were to work in virtual slavery in his brainan illegal garment factory. And still worse, his friend Lucy has been gang You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-raped in a brutal attack placed rips and distressed seams that Tom had been felt so closed to walking in onsoft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Daniel Waters|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 she'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 It|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Doing it for the first time... you know, ''Losing'' It. It. Sex. They talk about it a lot, teenagers. And eventually, they do it. But when 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 on the peripheries of all that's important in life? And there's so much eagerness in teenagers - not just for sex, but for everything. They sure do hate to wait. But sometimes, it's better to wait. The trick for the poor things, I suppose, is knowing when exactly to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?! Stepping into the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today's teen market, each with a story about virginity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Hopkins|title=Million Dollar Mates|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's nine months since Jess Hall's mother died and she's still finding it difficult to come to terms with what's happened. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran but all that's about to change. Jess' Dad has got the job of general manager at Number 1, Porchester Park. These apartments are not just up-market they're where 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 to have their own rooms in the house that goes with the job. Everyone at school envies here and it looks as though she's living the dream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon|title=Infinity|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre is a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Rees BrennanPatrice Lawrence|title=The Demon's CovenantNeedle|rating=43

|summary=A few weeks after Brave. Charlene, the events of [[The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan|The Demonheroine's Lexicon]] of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and Mae is finally ungroundedreaders both. Determined to get on with 'normal' life Kicked out of multiple homes and forget the magic schools, she's lost since brothers Nick fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and Alan Ryves lefthas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, Mae you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is only interested in hitting part of the town plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and meeting up is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with Sebno more. NiceWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, normal Seb.Then Mae learns and then force people to give her brother Jamie has been secretly meeting up with Geraldtwo days off school, the new leader of the Obsidian Circlewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Afraid that Jamie well, what exactly happens is getting involved in dangerous thingsnot for me to say, Mae does the only thing she to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can and calls Alanbe...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382908</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane SmileyAnn Sei Lin|title=Nobody's HorseRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Abby lives Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on her family's farm the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in California. They specialise in taking horses the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and ponies which are not at make merry between their peak and bringing them on so conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that they can be sold at she is a profitCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Abby's father He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is determined that all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't get attached to have any of say in the horsesmatter, 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 Midori is destroyed by a foal whose dam dies when he's monstrous paper spirit known as a matter of weeks old shikigami, and he takes Abby's heartshe is forced to flee out into the world. The second has She joins Himura aboard the opposite effect because every time that Abby rides him he's determined Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to buck her off. She's frightened of him hunt down shikigami, and it's a tribute to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly BlackMarcus Sedgwick|title=The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)Wrath

|summary=Cassel Sharpe dreams Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of a white cat frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and wakes up on the roof of his school buildinghe should be free to do what he wants, perilously close to a fatal fall. Afraid that go where he wants and with whom he's suicidal or otherwise unstablewants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his principal sends him homefoot in it when he talks to his best friend, while Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the school decides whether or not he can stay on as enigmatic – saying she could hear a pupilsubhuman hum coming from the earth. This is completely devastating for Cassel, who is struggling Is this connected with some major issues. For starters, he's only nonone of her eco-worker in a family warrior parents saying the end 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 the world where working is illegal, already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's hard to be dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the only normal person in your familytruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575096713</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessTori Bovalino|title=Nicholas DaneThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=14-year-old Nicholas Dane Working all summer in her boarding school's library is taken into care after his mother, the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a secret smack head, dies in an accidental overdosehundred books that she has to deliver herself. Meadow Hill What makes it worse is an assessment centre, but the truth is that not much genuine assessment is going onman who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's a savageheadmaster, brutal regime and Nicholas fights against it from the starta man Tess hates. EventuallyAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, he's taken under the wing Tess sticks post-it notes on each of Tony Creal, the deputy headbooks, and scribbled with the only person in the place who appears to have a shred ugliest insults she can think of common humanity... ... or so Nick thinks. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141316330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Hale|title=Sudden Death (Striker)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jake BastinThey're never meant to reach him, son of famous former footballer Steve, thought his life was difficult enough even before his father enters negotiations course. Her plan is to join St Petersburg’s newest football team as manager. But when the agent his dad’s discussing the move with collapses of a suspected heart attack, things get far more complicated – because Jake is convinced he was actually poisonedher anger out like this, and can’t understand why his dad seems happy to go along with a cover upthen take them all off before delivering them. As the pair move to St PetersburgNo harm done… Or it would be, the bodies start piling up, and Jake goes from having to fight to control his temper, to fight to save his lifeif someone hadn't delivered them for her. With no way of knowing if he can trust anyone, even his own father, can the youngster stand up to criminals who are happy to kill to get what they want?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249501</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dominic BarkerPhilip Reeve|title=Adam Utterly Dark and the ArkonautsFace of the Deep

|summary=Adam In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a missionpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Both he There are troll people on it, and his father have spent sea-witches, and legends of the decade since his mother was kidnapped by an Evil Scientist looking Dark family that has to keep watch for her, magical islands and perfecting their own skillsmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. They might have got The current Darks are the best clue of all so far - one that Watcher, Andrewe, who has led them to keep notes of activity from the mysteriousHidden Lands, hiddenhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and downright alarming city Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of Buenos Suenosthe sea one day eleven years ago. Those skills? Being able to communicate with animals. Since learning to gibber like a spider monkey they can But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both bark, purr perfectly, his sullen brother and more. It will take his curious ward are thrust into the extraordinary menagerie to survive the unusual cityworld of protecting their island, and try and discover what happened to Adam's mum - and what the Evil Scientist might want by holding her hostage for the same skills in returnlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|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 Julia 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 WavesShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gabry Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has lived been packed off with her whole life behind parents and their cat from the safety of the Barrierfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the seaside town far NE of Vistathe Scottish islands. She isn't keen to venture past it Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to explore be automating the remains of an old amusement parklantern, but Gabry which is drawn by the allure of Catcherhis specialist thing, her best friend Cira's brother. Cira and the others are sure they while mum will be safe from leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague the world Gabry lives inelusive Greenland shark. Gabry decides to risk it And Julia, well, she will be homesick and her whole world is turned upside downalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575090898</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GatwardJonathan Stroud|title=The Dead (The Dark)Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lazarus Stone Scarlett McCain 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 aroundan outlaw, chatting on rejecting the draconian conformity of the phone with his best mate Craig, when a foul smell begins Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to suffuse wander the house. Tracking it to wildlands between the loungeSeven Kingdoms of Britain, he opens the door robbing banks and discovers a skinless figure drenched in bloodshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Not But then she meets Albert Browne, a corpse - Red has crossed over from the other side dark boy with dark powers and a message for Lazarus's fatherdarker past.With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon.. Hell is full Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the Dead horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are coming. in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999691</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KendallMercedes Helnwein|title=Crossing OverSlingshot

|summary=Roger can cross over into the Country of the DeadGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. To be able to do this he must be in pain, something his abusive Uncle, Hartah, takes full advantage As a secret illegitimate daughter of. So they travela man with a "real" family, Hartah, Roger and his Aunt Jo, from faire she is used to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting the grievingnot being a priority in people's lives. UntilBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Hartah, takes them to the seaher simple existence is changed for good. It is there that Roger gets dragged into helping Hartah and others wreck the Frances OrmundNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a navy ship carrying precious cargo back to the Queendomboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceT L Huchu|title=Sisters RedThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Scarlett March lives Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to hunt take messages from the Fenris - the werewolves that took dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her eye younger sister and savaged her body during a brutal attack when she was just a young girlaging grandmother. Scarlett managed to save her sister RosieHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, but Grandma Oma died horrifically. Scarletttargeting the city's body children. Soon, Ropa is marked by scar after scar and pulled into the search for a missing boy at the scars never let her forgetrequest of his dead mother. She lives will end up discovering an occult library and breathes realise that the hunt, killing Fenris after Fenris world of magic is far bigger and saving teenaged girl after teenaged girlmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900587</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=With his father overseas in the British Army, his mother unwell, and older brother Mycroft busy working for the government, young Sherlock Holmes is forced to spend his school holidays with his unknown uncle and aunt. Looking forward to days of doing whatever he wants, especially after meeting urchin Matty Arnatt, heKristen O's initially displeased when Mycroft hires him an American tutor – but the tutor, Amyus Crowe, and his daughter Victoria end up teaming up with Sherlock to solve the mysterious deaths of two local men, and uncover a plot which could have far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033051198X</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Isobelle CarmodyNeal|title=Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A nuclear catastrophe called the Great White destroyed most of the world, Lycanthropy and only those who lived in isolated parts of the countryside were able to survive by refusing all contact with radiation-infected refugees from the urban centres. In time the cities grew again, but the fear of outsiders and of those who were different remained and became a religion, composed in part of half-remembered elements of faiths from the time before the apocalypse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806975</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chloe Neill|title=Firespell: The Dark EliteOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Lily Parker is sent Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to boarding school terms with the fact that she may be in Chicago when constant pain for the rest of her parents get the opportunity to do some prestigious research work in Germanylife. She was expecting bitchy classmatesjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitematehelp each other out, Scout, who stays out late at night while also providing an escape to just joke and reappears covered in bruises, mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a school full of secret hiding placeswhile, a principal who knows Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents ' car and seems drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to have an entirely wrong idea about their work find there is a werewolf in the basement – or a mysterious group of supernatural teens called and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the Dark Elitepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Louis Sachar|title=The Cardturner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules!'' 17-year-old Alton Richards is shoehorned into becoming the driver and cardturner for his blind, 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 Move 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808501</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=The Last Seal|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants of the original pair clash as heaims to return to the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Morgan|title=Wasted|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jess wants to study music. She's a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jack, who needs a singer for his band, is exactly the happenstance she'd hoped for. Even better that Jack is so charming and handsome and charismatic. And still better that he feels the same attraction to her. How lucky can a girl get? Jack believes in luck. In fact, he lives his life by it. He doesn't do a thing unless his coin says he can. Newly in love, Jess is slowly drawn into his game of chance. Although it worries her a little, she can't know that a time will come when the toss of a coin is the difference between life and death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick Ness|title=Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet. Noise is used as a tool of oppression and as a weapon. There's a cure, but the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only for the most loyal. The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had to make some terrible choices. Between the President's torture and the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil war, trying to hold on long enough for the second wave of settlers to arrive. And then, in the wake of the President's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]