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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gemma MalleyMax Boucherat|title=The LegacyLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Longevity isnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't workings got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The drug What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that prolongs life expectancy indefinitely appears is to log on to have reached its own life expectancy. A terrible virus Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is wreaking havoc across Britain and the sluggish immune systems of the Legals simply cana hit in Lori't copes world. Consumed by But first Lori has a desperate thirst, theytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn're dying horrible deathst find herself entirely on her own, leaving behind shrivelled and desiccated corpsesthen she finds something even more spooky. It's Richard Pinsent's worst nightmare. Not that Richard cares about people dying, For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of coursetampering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800896</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Torment|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Right When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, first things first. If you haven't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]]and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, go read it - or at least read where is a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|review]] girl to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea - because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers for the earlier Lauren Kate novel.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreview|author=John Brindley|title=Blood Crime|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is lying in hospital in a meningitis-induced coma. It's the last straw for his mother - Joe has been unable to cope ever since his father died, refusing to believe in a tragic laboratory accident and accusing his ex-research partner and her new boyfriend of murder. Before he became ill, Joe's state of mind had become dangerously unstable, and now it's up to his uncle Frank, a hospital consultant, to save him. But Joe isn't lying there insensible: he's fighting the greatest battle of his life - rushing through his veins and arteries evading the aggressive bacteria, rousing his body to fight back, and trying to work out what really happened to his father and whether his own illness has anything to do with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255719X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonRachel Greenlaw|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through Time|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: the prospect of settling down for hours Compass and hours of reading pleasure is very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety to the mix. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Pan|title=Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views on the Twilight SeriesBlade
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|genre=Teens
|summary=I'm sure die hard (Twi-hard) fans will love this book, since it gives them a little bit more about Bella and Edward and Jacob. All those things they've mulled over since I can hear the series ended are encapsulated in song of the topics raised heresea. Team Edward need not shake their heads in dismay at the book's title - it's controversial on purpose - and The call of the question of who Bella should have ended up with is looked at from both points of view, along with other issues such as whether she should have become a vampiredeep, the faithfulness of the films to the books and which character readers would most like to beanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1569758220</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shade|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Aura. She was Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the first people in seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the world Council Watch lays a trap to be born after The Shiftend the wrecking, beyond which every newborn was opened to they capture the world of the ghosts, hearing island's leader and seeing them whether they liked Mira's father. Desperate to or not. Her boyfriend, Logansave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who she wants is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to make love to for the first time on the night of his seventeenth birthdayguide her, suddenly dies first instead - making him one she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the many ghosts Aura sea. With only nine days to unearth what might be able save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to help. But is something the heart of greater help buried in a school project, touching on standing stone circles, the solsticessmuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the mysteries future of her own family's past - home and a new young man in her life?the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pam BachorzHarry Allen|title=CandorChildren of the Sun
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|genre=Teens
|summary=The children of Candor know how to behave Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and the children of Candor stick to those rules: ''The great are never late.''<br>''Healthy breakfasts make for smart minds.''<br>''Academics are the key to success.''<br>''Always be courteous.'' In Candor, everyone she is happya talented singer. There Life is no crime. There are no tantrums. There is just respect hard and cooperation. It food is a harmonious place that people from the outside desperately want difficult to relocate come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses tosupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405250275</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon PackhamAlexia Casale|title=comin 2 gt uSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5
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|summary=Sam Tennant is reasonably happy at school, generally gets on alright with people, and doesnIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you't have much re having to worry about – until henavigate a life-changing disability too, but that's murdered what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the first chapter middle of this novela dance performance that was going to change her life. Oh But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, not and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there''really''' murdered – his character s a new (cute!) boy in a game he plays online is killed. But thenschool, the two who kill him refer her music A Level performance piece to try to him by his real name instead of his computer personasort out, and he realises that virtual life has just become very nasty indeedthe day to day traumas of all 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>1848120958</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lili St CrowSimon Fox|title=Jealousy (Strange Angels)Deadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Dru Anderson has finally arrived at the Schola Prima – the main school for the training of wulfen and djamphir. She's supposed to be safe here. Supposed to be. Dru doesn't find life any easier. There's someone who wants her dead, and Dru has to work out who, and who else is loyal to them. Because loyalty is everything in the Order.
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{{newreview
|author=John E Smelcer
|title=The Edge of Nowhere
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Could you survive in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the wilds of Alaska if you were washed overboard force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a fishing boat during a storm secret place, and somehowjoin him on the run. They get together, amazingly, managed but barely begin to make it to dry land? This smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the challenge facing Seth and his loyal doglate express to Brighton, Tucker. They are out on Seth's father's fishing boat during toting a terrible storm and neither Seth's dad or tin his friend realise that the boy and dog have been washed overboard until they reach home and are found father was determined to be missing keep away from the boat. A search party is sent outhis colleagues, but Seth is assumed drowned. Luckily, Seth and his dog manage to get to one of the tiny islands that run along the coast bearer of Alaska, and after realising that no one is coming to help them they slowly make their way hundreds a whole heap of miles over many monthsquestions. Will they starve to death, or freeze, or be eaten by bears before they manage to make it home?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391963</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa FlavinLex Croucher|title=The Blackhope EnigmaGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary=14-year old Sunni finds it bad enough Who knew that when she's trying what I really needed to do some research on read right now was a famous Fausto Corvo painting gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Blackhope Tower's Mariner's Chambera most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, she gets lumbered with her annoying stepbrother to look after. Add much to that the presence of her classmate Blaisetheir mutual disgust! Gwen, a boy who's better at art than she isyou see, and her day is looking depressing – and thatin love with Bridget (the kingdom's '''before''' Dean mysteriously vanishing only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when walking around Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the chamber's labyrinthsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But 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>1848770340</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|author=Joss Stirling|title=Finding Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sky is upset when her adopted parents decide to move her away from all her friends in London to a small town in America, but tries to make the best of it. She quickly makes some good friends, but one particular guy is strangely attractive, even though he doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with her. Their paths will cross, however, and they'll be thrown together by fate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192732137</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannNick Brooks|title=Fade (Wake Trilogy)Promise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's story continuesWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Still unable to control her abilities as Each, seemingly, has a dream catchergrudge of some description against Principal Moore, her latest case is proving difficult. Somebody is preying on the students and each could have been there at Fieldridge and the violent and haunting nightmares that Janie has no choice but to watch yield few answerstime of his murder. Being forced to keep her relationship with Cabel secret is putting a serious strain on the pair But who killed him, and when Janie learns of the terrible consequences of her powerswhy, she wonders and if Cabe is just one more any of the many sacrifices she'll have boys are innocent, will they be able to make.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387365</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Candy Gourlay1919635017|title=Tall StoryA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Andi is a young teenager in the UK. She's not very tall, but she is brilliant at basketball. And she has finally been chosen to play for her school team.
 
Bernardo is an extremely tall teenager in the Philippines. He lives with his aunt and uncle, and keeps on growing. He is surrounded by superstition, since his name is the same as that of a legendary giant who supposedly protected his village during a major earthquake. Oddly enough, there have not been any earthquakes for some years... ever since Bernardo had his first dramatic growth spurt.
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{{newreview
|author=Christine Johnson
|title=Claire de Lune
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Claire was having the perfect sixteenth birthday. OkaySolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so most why is he running around London committing a series of the people probably only turned up for her swimming pool, her hands and ears were itching like crazy and everyone had robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to leave early because of the werewolf sighting in the forest nearby. But all Claire cared about was Matthew Engle, talking wait to her and flirting with her and promising get an answer to call her later. Then her mother takes her into the woods and reveals a dark and dangerous secret – she and Claire are werewolvessecond question because I avoid spoilers. Everything Claire thought she knew about werewolves is wrong, but how can she continue to see Matthew, whose father is leading But I'll answer the hunt first one: for them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389287</amazonuk>his grandmother...
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise RennisonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Withering TightsDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=After killing off Georgia Nicolson Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a blaze standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of hedonism four with both his best buddy from the football team, and vampirestwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, itstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's time for [[:Category: Louise Rennison|Louise Rennison]] to start had a new seriescasual relationship, with a new teenage girlsecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's first-person narrativeset in stone, he can't be sure. This time itAnd that's mostly because of who he's one Tallulah Casey, a lanky girl worried about her knees been having the relationship and underdeveloped cleavage, and off to stay at a posh drama performance workshop centre in the wilds of Yorkshiresex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007156839</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alex Scarrow1800901232|title=TimeRiders: Day of the PredatorStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work 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 legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Patrice Lawrence
|title=Needle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=LiamBrave. Charlene, Maddy and Sal were each about the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to die when an old man appeared to them like, characters and invited them to choose another fatereaders both. And 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's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the heartbreak creation of one such item is part of their decisions to bid farewell to their old existence the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and their loved ones is born making something full of love for her younger sister – a secret team of time ridersyounger sister she's allowed 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... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, dedicated only to putting right the chaos caused by remark how sharp and pointy those who meddle with timeknitting needles can be.. It is a decision they will sometimes regret.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014132693X</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon DogarAnn Sei Lin|title=AnnexedRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=There's been Kurara has spent her entire life as a bit of servant on the Midori, a kerfuffle over ''Annexed'' - massive dining hall floating in the story sky where soldiers of Peter van Pelsthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, who shared someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Amsterdam annexe Empire. He asks her to come with Anne Frank during World War IIhim, who fell in love with to leave the teenaged diaristlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, and who perished soon Kurara won't have any say in a Nazi death camp called Munthausen in 1945. Sharon Dogar has been accused of sexing it upthe matter, disrespecting because the too-recently deceasedMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and thrusting twenty-first century sexualised mores she is forced to flee out into a time where this sort of thing just didn't go onthe world. So, on She joins Himura aboard the one handOrihime, I was very keen a sky-ship whose express purpose is to read it hunt down shikigami, and see what I thought. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391246</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Medusa Project: The RescueWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's Meet Fitz, a fascinating premise: four babies are implanted with a gene relating to psychic abilitiesyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and as they grow up it becomes clear they have each reacted differentlyhe should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and developed different skills. Then write four books (plus a short story for World Book Day) about their shared adventures, with each book focussing on one boy or girl in particular. In this book, Ed is the central character: whom he is able to read mindswants, but is forced to use he cannot stop himself from putting his gift for evil foot in order it when he talks to save his friendsbest friend, Cassie. A highThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-octane tale about four teens struggling to stay alive when it seems every adult on warrior parents saying the end of the planet 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 to use them for their own endsthe truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385273</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bree DespainTori Bovalino|title=The Dark Divine|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace and Jude Divine have always been the poster-children for kindness and understanding. Their father is a pastor, a truly good man, and they’ve been brought up to set a good example to those around them. They seem to have everything they could want – until Daniel Kalbi returns to their lives. Devil Makes Three years ago, Jude’s friend Daniel left unexpectedly. Jude was found lying covered in his own blood – and no-one has ever told his younger sister Grace what happened. With the return of the boy she had a crush on for years, Grace needs to work out exactly what happened and how it’s linked to some attacks on people and animals which have just started – could this be a dangerous attraction for her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254580</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Artemis Fowl is trying to save the world. No wonder Holly Short and Foaly think he's not himself. He might stand to make another huge fortune, but he's thinking about global warming, and technological cures for it. But he's also thinking about a lot of other things - in particular, the patterns of the number five. His mind seems stuck making him tap things in multiples of five times, and use sentences with five words in. But when his demonstration in Iceland goes wrong with a four-engined fairy space probe crashing, he certainly becomes something other than himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141328029</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|title=Wyrmeweald: Returner's Wealth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you could imagine Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the frontier world of the Wild West transported last thing Tess Matheson wants to the Highlands of Scotland, you would have the setting for this first book in do — especially when she gets a new trilogy by the creators of the [[The Immortals (Edge Chronicles) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Edge Chronicles]]. Micah, a poor farmhand, longs to make his fortune so he can marry the wealthy Seraphita, so he sets off request for the Wyrmeweald, where riches beyond your wildest dreams can be had – if you survive. It is over a harsh and unforgiving land, full of dangerous dragon-like creatures called wyrmes, but Micah soon learns hundred books that when it comes she has to violence and deceit, deliver herself. What makes it worse is humans he needs to fear mostthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561733X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie|title=Wicked: Resurrection|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The eagerly-awaited conclusion to Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguiéboarding school's ''Wicked'' series is finally hereheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. After over three years As a petty act of wondering revenge for making her find and waiting to find out how this enthralling supernatural series will enddeliver such a large request, readers can finally dive straight into Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the war between good and evil books, scribbled with Resurrection and discover the answers to the secrets that have been kept from themugliest insults she can think of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387373</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vivian Oldaker|title=The KillerThey's Daughter|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emma has just moved re never meant to Wessex with her Dad and Janreach him, her Dad's girlfriendof course. But it's not just adjusting Her plan is to a new schoolget her anger out like this, a new country that Emma has to deal with. Emma's Dad was accused of murdering her famous Grandmother by pushing her and then take them all off a cliff in Greecebefore delivering them. No one wants to harm done… Or it would be her friend, and itif someone hadn's not long before she becomes the newest victim to bullies. Slashed swimming costumes, physical fights – being at t delivered them for her new school is difficult.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842708147</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kieran ScottPhilip Reeve|title=She's So Dead To Us|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ally Ryan had not expected to return to Orchard Hill – ever. Less than two years previously she Utterly Dark and her family had moved out in a hurry when her father’s business dealings had caused serious financial problems in the local community. But her mother has a job in the local school and they move into a small house and try to rebuild their lives. Abby wasn’t exactly expecting a warm welcome but she was surprised when so many Face of her so called 'friends' cut her dead and it’s made obvious that she now lives on the wrong side of town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070444</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Firebrand (Rebel Angels)Deep
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Seth lives in the land of the SidheIn a word, protected from the world of full-mortals by an ancient magical Veilrich. There's is certainly an uneasy abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but relatively settled peaceway west, with only beyond the occasional border fray to disturb their long livesScillies. But things aren't easy for Seth - he's the unwanted second son of a Sidhe lord, his mother interested only in the corridors of power at the court of Kate NicNivenThere are troll people on it, and his father with eyes only for his older brother Conal. The inhabitants of his dun don't trust him, he's halfsea-feralwitches, and his only real tie is to Conal, who has taken him under his wing, and for whom Seth would gladly die. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537190</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Webb|title=The Dream Thief (Horatio Lyle)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=When an orphan girl appears on Horatio Lyle's doorstep, half-dead and apparently poisoned, legends of the genius inventor finds himself drawn into a conspiracy Dark family that reaches has to the highest circles of London Society. Someone is kidnapping workhouse children keep watch for magical islands and essentially turning them into zombies. Somone is stealing their dreamsmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. With The current Darks are the help of his young wardWatcher, the street-urchin TessAndrewe, he sets out into the darkest parts of the city who has to stop them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654251</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Theresa Breslin|title=Prisoner keep notes of activity from the Inquisition|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Don't read this book if you are of a delicate disposition and prone Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to nightmares. Within the first few pages a woman is burned at the stakeworry about such local yokel superstitions, a man is unjustly accused and hangedAndrewe's foundling daughter, his young son only just escapes who washed up out of the same fate and a woman dies in childbirthsea one day eleven years ago. But this is no horror storywhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and none of the violence is gratuitous: this is quite simply the world of fifteenth century Spain. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella his curious ward are fighting the Moors in Granada, Christopher Columbus is seeking royal funding for a voyage to prove thrust into the world is round, and the Inquisition is spreading terror and anguish throughout the land. And against this background of momentous events, we have the thrilling and beautiful account of the lives of two young peopleprotecting their island, bound together by hatred and lovelike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617038</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=LJ AdlingtonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Burning MountainJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In AD79Julia, Gaius Justinius Aquila is drenched our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in grey ashSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, trying desperately to help in the citizens far NE of Herculaneum as Vesuvius erupts around themthe Scottish islands. In 1943 Here be Vikings, German paratrooper Peter Schafer finds himself in Naplesthat kind of Scottish island. Peter has a secret - he's underage, having run away Dad is going to sign up. Within be automating the yearlantern, Peter which is his specialist thing, while mum will find himself defending Monte Cassino against a huge Allied bombardmentbe leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Throughout his time in Italy And Julia, well, Peter she will have many encounters with Vittoria, an impoverished Neapolitan who steals to keep herself be homesick and a ragbag bunch of orphans alivealone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340956828</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyJonathan Stroud|title=Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles)The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=Isabeau St. Croix has no care for politics and royaltyScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and would really rather not spend her time among Faith Houses to wander the newly royal Drake family, attempting to negotiate peace wildlands between them and the HoundsSeven Kingdoms of Britain, her vampire clanrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The Hounds are not well thought of among vampiresBut then she meets Albert Browne, who fear their dual fangs a dark boy with dark powers and strange ritualsa darker past. But With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the Drakes are like no vampires Isabeau has ever metLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they aren't like royalty either.be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880705X</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vanessa CurtisMercedes Helnwein|title=Zelah Green: One More Little ProblemSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=We first met Zelah when her OCD got so bad Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she was sent off is used to not being a live-priority in centre for treatment. Shepeople's at home now, lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with the OCD still around but not totally debilitating. She's still jumping on the stairs - but not so many jumps and not so often. She's still scrubbing her faceslingshot, but it isn't quite red raw. You'd call her overly fastidious rather than illsimple existence is changed for good. And No longer can she spend her therapist is pleased with time writing novels in solitude, for her progress. But then..life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405240547</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsT L Huchu|title=The Chosen OneLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Thirteen-year-old Kyra has one father, three mothersRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and twenty siblings - yes, twenty - with another two on a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the waydead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. She lives on a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. His father had Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been Prophet before himusing it to support not only herself, but since his fatherher younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's death and Prophet Childsan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city' accessions children. Soon, things have taken Ropa is pulled into the search for a turn for missing boy at the worserequest of his dead mother. A fence has gone She will end up around discovering an occult library and realise that the compoundworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Adolescent boys are driven off, and Will she find the Prophet seems to be choosing younger missing children and younger girls bring an end to marry older and older men. And nowthis evil, or will it's Kyra's turn. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. And claim her father is afraid to refuse him. too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mia JamesKristen O'Neal|title=By MidnightLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=April Dunne doesnHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t really consider herself , an online support group where she talks to be a geniusbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her family certainly arenclosest friends—doesn't rich - so how did she get accepted by respond to the ultra-prestigious Ravenwood school when chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her family moved from Scotland parents' car and drive to Highgate? She canBrigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't work it out but has other problems expect to worry about, find there is a werewolf in any case, such as the two local murders basement – and for that werewolf to be the way people at her school get angry when girl she tries has been talking to take their photograph. On online for 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 timespast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095520</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Secret Hour (Midnighters)|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 of the more goth-seeming kids at her high school, but it's the night-time activities that intrigue her. She thinks she's in a dream when she walks through a dazzling forest of raindrops, suspended in a moment of frozen time - that moment being exactly midnight. But wouldn't you know? - her goth-seeming friends are active at midnight too - and so are some very dangerous creatures of the terrible kind...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410031</amazonuk>}} {{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 Move 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>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 2|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Those of you who read my review of the [[Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|first Dark SecretsNewest Thrillers Reviews]] bind-up will know I absolutely loved that book. 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>}}