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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook HastingsMax Boucherat|title=Immortal Remains (Weirdsville)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Welcome back We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to Weirdsvilleherself – no neighbour to pop in, sorry Woodsvillebabysitter poorly, the town set mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a truly creepy hollowblanket fort, she has one main intention, whose forest contains the greatest concentration of ghosts you'll find anywhere in England. Fresh from vanquishing a ghost army and enabling Emily that is to pass log on to Voxminer, the other side and be reunited with her motherworld-building, our four reluctant ghosthunters have critter-collecting game that is a new mystery to solvehit in Lori's world. Freak accidents have killed four local girls in the last four months But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and Charlotte is convinced then she will be nextfinds something even more spooky. She's For the only one left alive from a seance server she and her friends took part bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place inthe game has been doctored – well, and she where is certain that death is stalking her. a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganRachel Greenlaw|title=TrashCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Raphael lives in Behala, a slum that's grown up around a landfill site in an unnamed South American country. He's a dumpsite boy - this means he and his family scrape a living by combing through I can hear the detritus song of richer people's livesthe sea. Behala replaced Smoky Mountain, another slum that got so dangerous that landslides killed dozens The call of people and the authorities closed it. What a homedeep, eh? But Raphael has a smile that lights up his whole face and lifts the spirits of all those upon whom he bestows it. And he has good things answering beat in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secretmy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619014</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Sara Starbuck|title=Dread Pirate Fleur Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Hangman's Noose|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When a mysterious young girl in a barrel is fished from the sea rocks and rescued by plundering the pirate ship belonging to Fleur's uncle Williamwrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, it seems bad news might be on is one of the way. The girl turns seven who swim out to have psychic abilities - survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and they're just about to hit landfall at Salem, right in time for the witch-huntsany treasure that lies within. But worse is when the Council Watch lays a trap to come. William gets captured thereend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board insteadMira's father. Fleur then has Desperate to skipper the craft herselfsave him from death, on Mira makes a bargain with a rescue missionwreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a very tense domestic situationfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. ThatWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's hard enough when you're a mere teenaged girlterritory, against ruffians and pirates, but when Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the ship has secrets future of her own to be revealed..home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken HowardHarry Allen|title=The Young ChieftainChildren of the Sun|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=One minute, Jamie Doran Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is playing basketball with his friends in downtown LA, the next he's en route to the island of Doran in Scotland to bury his father. James Doran, you see, had been Doran's clan chieftain. The island proves a culture shock for cosmpolitan Jamietalented singer. It's remote Life is hard and dilapidatedfood is difficult to come by, there's no internet or mobile phone accessso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the only TV is in the community centre. Jamie's grandmother isn't welcoming either - in fact, she barely bothers to hide her distate for her black daughter-in-law meagre rations of rice and mixed race grandsonkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848530331</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantAlexia Casale|title=Lies (Gone)Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam is tired of being heroic. Tired of being relied upon. But he resents being sidelined by his own girlfriend. AstridIt's Town Council is busy bringing bureaucracy and officialdom hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to the FAYZnavigate a life-changing disability too, but will it ever do anything other than procrastinate? Sam doesn't think so and he's painfully aware that danger lurks around every corner. Zil's band of freak-haters are gearing up to cause some damage, Caine what Ven is down but not out, and food is still dealing with after collapsing on stage in short supply. Tensions are growing and the Town Council isn't up to the job. And what's worse is middle of a dance performance that Sam doesn't think he is, either... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254297</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L J Smith|title=The Night of the Solstice|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Claudia knew she wasn't really supposed was going to follow the fox - not on change her own, to the old, forbidden house on the hilllife. But she did. And it will change everything. The fox is the familiar of Morgana Sheecomes back fighting, powerful sorceress and only guardian of desperate to avoid the passageway to another universepity stares, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing and she must be found before the solstice, for then the gateway will be open desperate to all, including Cadal Forge, an evil magician dedicated get back to conquering Eartha life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Claudia Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, and her siblingsmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Charles, Jane and leader Alys, must find her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in just the balance on the night day to day traumas of all the Winter Solsticechallenges 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>0857070509</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidySimon Fox|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box GirlsDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Cherry Costello told her teachers that she was leaving Glasgow Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and moving to live in then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another of her tall talessecret place, and join him on the run. But this one was true. Not only was Cherry moving They get together, but barely begin to Somerset smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the Costelloslate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father and daughter, were going was determined to live with keep away from his girlfriend colleagues, and her four daughters. From it just being the two bearer of a whole heap of them there would be seven altogetherquestions. How will Cherry cope? And how will the Tanberry family cope with two new members?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly McKainLex Croucher|title=Half a SisterGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Hannah's parents begin Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have whisperedbeen betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, but obviously heated discussions about something her immediate thought is that they're splitting up. Therein love with Bridget (the kingdom's quite a bit of only female knight) - something that at school and Hannah would hate it to happen to Art discovers from herprivate diaries. But And then when it all comes out Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has a fifteen year old daughter living subterfuge of falling in Paris and that her mother has been in a serious car accident. Sam sees no alternative but to bring Ellie to live love with themeach other, but Charlotte is worried about how this will affect when really they are enabling their daughterown other romantic attachments. When it's put 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 Hannah she has visions of long girly chats and swopping clothes and makeup and agrees without further thought. To begin with it's everything she hoped it would be but then live a darker side of Ellie emerges and life turns into a nightmare for Hannah.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia Telep (Editor)Nick Brooks|title=Kiss Me DeadlyPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=What do Peter PanWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, werecatsthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, vampiresseemingly, teenage zombieshas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and unicorn hunters each could have in common? Possibly been there at the time of his murder. very little... but But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they all appear as central characters in stories in this often enchanting anthology of stories of supernatural romance.be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762439491</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Valentine1919635017|title=The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Runaway Chap walks into a hostel off the street. He's in need of a meal and a bed for the night. As the workers question him, trying to get a history, they notice his resemblance A Thief to Catch a poster of a boy who's been missing for two years. Chap isn't Cassiel Roadnight. Chap isn't anyone. But the temptation is there: become Cassiel. Get a family. Live in a home. Become ''someone''. And so he takes the chance and the new identity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>000728361X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Crescendo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We last saw Nora and Patch at the end of ''Hush, Hush'' - lovely title, that! - battered after a Nephilim conflict, but very much together. Patch is no longer fallen, has been given back guardian angel status and the threat to Nora is no more. You'd think everything would go swimmingly after that, wouldn't you? But you know and I know that falling in love with any kind of angel, fallen or otherwise, isn't conducive to a normal life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387195</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garrett Carr|title=Lost DogsKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Some extraordinary children are to be found in the Northern Irish port-town of Hardglass. One, Akeem, has in fact just arrived - Solomon Klyne isn't a stowaway on a cargo ship. Elsewherebad lad, friends Andrew and Ewan are waiting to see the result of Ewan's father's trial for being a weapons dealer. While their friend May so why is newly residing at he running around London committing a most unusual school, one whose pupils have talents series of robberies? And how did he learn to match her singular one of sensing and empathising with the thoughts of animals. Itcrack safes? You's a gang of people brought together in a natural, realistic way, with some fantastic factors ll have to their lives that are only going wait to get heightened. For said weapons, allegedly going on their way an answer to be decommissioned, will soon be on the same cargo boat Akeem has just left - and theysecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I're weapons from ll answer the darker side of horrorfirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385990</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=A Trick of the DarkDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=What if you found Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a way standard school, and is surprised to cheat death? What if find his geography class (within which it left you pain-free foreverseems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both physically and emotionally? But what if it also meant you had to split your soulhis best buddy from the football team, and that left you unable two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to touch anyone ever again? primary school days together. After Zach As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and Annis are dragged out often turns to France for a family reconciliation events are set in motion that cannot be undonesex. Annis sees Zach killed by a the tumbling wall of an old ruined houseWhich is confusing for Ant, yet moments later as he doesn't know what his score is standing, unharmed, where his achievements in front of herthat regard lie. As she tries to help ZachHe's had a casual relationship, and appease her bittera secret one, broken parentsfor several months now, she is dragged deeper and deeper into so has effectively progressed up the horror ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of Zachwho he's situationbeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880915X</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma Malley1800901232|title=The LegacyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Longevity isn't workingTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. The drug that prolongs life expectancy indefinitely appears 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 have reached its own life expectancybe missed. A terrible virus is wreaking havoc across Britain Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the sluggish immune systems of mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the Legals simply can't cope. Consumed by other girls were not going to work in a desperate thirstshop, they're dying horrible deaths, leaving behind shrivelled 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 desiccated corpses. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's Richard Pinsent's worst nightmare. Not quite possible that Richard cares about people dying, of courseHanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800896</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren KatePatrice Lawrence|title=TormentNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=RightBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, first things firstcharacters and readers both. If you haven Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]]s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, go read it - or and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at least read uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|review]] store detective, and then force people to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea - because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for the earlier Lauren Kate novelme to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BrindleyAnn Sei Lin|title=Blood CrimeRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is lying in hospital in Kurara has spent her entire life as a meningitis-induced coma. It's servant on the last straw for his mother - Joe has been unable to cope ever since his father diedMidori, refusing a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to believe in a tragic laboratory accident drink and accusing his ex-research partner and her new boyfriend of murdermake merry between their conquests. Before he became illHowever, Joe's state of mind had become dangerously unstablewhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, and now it's up someone with the power to his uncle Frank, form paper into whatever she desires – a hospital consultantpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to save himleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. But Joe isnWell, soon Kurara won't lying there insensible: he's fighting have any say in the greatest battle of his life - rushing through his veins and arteries evading matter, because the aggressive bacteria, rousing his body to fight backMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and trying she is forced to work flee out what really happened into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to his father hunt down shikigami, and whether his own illness has anything to do with it. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184255719X</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonMarcus Sedgwick|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through TimeWrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=There Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is something really satisfying about only 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 foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a huge brick of desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a book: subhuman hum coming from the prospect earth. Is this connected with one of settling down for hours and hours her eco-warrior parents saying the end of reading pleasure the world is very tempting. already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fanscan Fitz find out the truth? Well, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety to the mixnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday read.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreview|author=Michelle Pan|title=Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views on the Twilight Series|rating=3.5|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 the series ended are encapsulated in the topics raised here. Team Edward need not shake their heads in dismay at the book's title - it's controversial on purpose - and 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 vampire, the faithfulness of the films to the books and which character readers would most like to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1569758220</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyTori Bovalino|title=ShadeThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Aura. She was one of the first people Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the world last thing Tess Matheson wants to be born after The Shift, beyond which every newborn was opened do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the world of man who requested the ghostsbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, hearing and seeing them whether they liked to or nota man Tess hates. Her boyfriendAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, LoganTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, who scribbled with the ugliest insults she wants can think of. They're never meant to make love to for the first time on the night of his seventeenth birthdayreach him, suddenly dies first instead - making him one of the many ghosts Aura might be able to helpcourse. But Her plan is something of greater help buried in a school projectto get her anger out like this, touching on standing stone circlesand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, the solstices, the mysteries of her own familyif someone hadn's past - and a new young man in t delivered them for her life?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pam BachorzPhilip Reeve|title=CandorUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The children of Candor know how to behave 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 is happy. There is no crime. There are no tantrums. There is just respect and cooperation. It is a harmonious place that people from the outside desperately want to relocate to.
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{{newreview
|author=Simon Packham
|title=comin 2 gt u
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam Tennant is reasonably happy at school, generally gets on alright with people, and doesn't have much to worry about – until he's murdered in the first chapter of this novel. Oh, not '''really''' murdered – his character in a game he plays online is killed. But then, the two who kill him refer to him by his real name instead of his computer persona, and he realises that virtual life has just become very nasty indeed.
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{{newreview
|author=Lili St Crow
|title=Jealousy (Strange Angels)
|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.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161291</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John E Smelcer
|title=The Edge of Nowhere
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Could you survive In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in the wilds of Alaska if you were washed overboard from a fishing boat during this story set on a storm and somehowpeculiar island called Wildsea, amazinglyBritish but way west, managed to make it to dry land? This is beyond the challenge facing Seth and his loyal dog, TuckerScillies. They There are out troll people on Seth's father's fishing boat during a terrible storm it, and sea-witches, and neither Seth's dad or his friend realise legends of the Dark family that the boy and dog have been washed overboard until they reach home has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are found the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to be missing keep notes of activity from the boat. A search party is sent Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out, but Seth is assumed drownedof the sea one day eleven years ago. LuckilyBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Seth both his sullen brother and his dog manage to get to one of the tiny islands that run along curious ward are thrust into the coast world of Alaska, and after realising that no one is coming to help them they slowly make protecting their way hundreds of miles over many months. Will they starve to deathisland, like it or freeze, or be eaten by bears before they manage to make it home?not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391963</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa FlavinKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Blackhope EnigmaJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=14-year old Sunni finds it bad enough that when she's trying to do some research on a famous Fausto Corvo painting in Blackhope Tower's Mariner's Chamber, she gets lumbered with her annoying stepbrother to look after. Add to that the presence of her classmate Blaise, a boy who's better at art than she is, and her day is looking depressing – and that's '''before''' Dean mysteriously vanishing when walking around the chamber's labyrinth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848770340</amazonuk>
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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>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa McMann
|title=Fade (Wake Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's story continues. Still unable to control her abilities as a dream catcher, her latest case is proving difficult. Somebody is preying on the students at Fieldridge and the violent and haunting nightmares that Janie has no choice but to watch yield few answers. Being forced to keep her relationship with Cabel secret is putting a serious strain on the pair, and when Janie learns of the terrible consequences of her powers, she wonders if Cabe is just one more of the many sacrifices she'll have to make.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387365</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Candy Gourlay
|title=Tall Story
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Andi is a young teenager in the UK. She's not very tallJulia, our pre-teen heroine, but she is brilliant at basketball. And she has finally been chosen packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to play be lighthousekeepers for her school team.  Bernardo is an extremely tall teenager a summer, in the Philippinesfar NE of the Scottish islands. He lives with his aunt and uncleHere be Vikings, and keeps on growingthat kind of Scottish island. He Dad is surrounded by superstitiongoing to be automating the lantern, since his name which 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618948</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christine Johnson|title=Claire de Lune|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Claire was having the perfect sixteenth birthday. Okay, so most of the people probably only turned up for her swimming poolspecialist thing, while mum will be leaving her hands and ears were itching like crazy and everyone had career in algae behind to leave early because of the werewolf sighting in hunt the forest nearbyelusive Greenland shark. But all Claire cared about was Matthew Engle And Julia, talking to her and flirting with her and promising to call her later. Then her mother takes her into the woods and reveals a dark well, she will be homesick and dangerous secret alone until she and Claire are werewolves. Everything Claire thought she knew about werewolves is wrong, but how can she continue to see Matthew, whose father is leading the hunt for them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389287</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Rennison|title=Withering Tights|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After killing off Georgia Nicolson in a blaze of hedonism and vampires, it's time for [[:Category: Louise Rennison|Louise Rennison]] to start a new series, with a new teenage girl's first-person narrative. This time it's suddenly finds company one Tallulah Casey, a lanky girl worried about her knees and underdeveloped cleavage, and off to stay at a posh drama performance workshop centre in the wilds of Yorkshirenight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007156839</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex ScarrowJonathan Stroud|title=TimeRiders: Day of the PredatorThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=LiamScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Maddy rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Sal were each about Faith Houses to die when an old man appeared wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to them keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and invited a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to choose another fatethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. And out of Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the heartbreak of their decisions to bid farewell to their old existence cannibalistic Tainted and their loved ones is born a secret team all the horrors of time riders, dedicated post-apocalyptic society to putting right reach the chaos caused by those who meddle with time. It is a decision Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they will sometimes regret.are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014132693X</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon DogarMercedes Helnwein|title=AnnexedSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=There's been Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a bit secret illegitimate daughter of a kerfuffle over ''Annexed'' - the story of Peter van Pels, who shared the Amsterdam annexe man with Anne Frank during World War IIa "real" family, who fell she is used to not being a priority in love people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with the teenaged diaristher slingshot, and who perished her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a Nazi death camp called Munthausen boy in 1945. Sharon Dogar has been accused of sexing it up, disrespecting the too-recently deceased, and thrusting twenty-first century sexualised mores into a time where this sort of thing just didn't go on. So, on the one hand, I was very keen to read it and see what I thoughtthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391246</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieT L Huchu|title=The Medusa Project: The RescueLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Ropa Moyo is a fascinating premise: four babies are implanted with ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a gene relating bit of Scottish pragmatism) to psychic abilitiestake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, and as they grow up she's been using it becomes clear they have each reacted differentlyto support not only herself, but her younger sister and developed different skillsher aging grandmother. Then write four books (plus a short story for World Book Day) about their shared adventuresHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, with each book focussing on one boy or girl in particulartargeting the city's children. In this bookSoon, Ed Ropa is pulled into the central character: he is able to read minds, but is forced to use his gift search for evil in order to save a missing boy at the request of his friendsdead mother. A high-octane tale about four teens struggling to stay alive when it seems every adult on She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the planet world of magic is out far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to use them for their own ends.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385273</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bree DespainKristen O'Neal|title=The Dark DivineLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Grace and Jude Divine have always Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the poster-children fact that she may be in constant pain for kindness and understandingthe rest of her life. Their father is a pastorShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', a truly good man, and they’ve been brought up an online support group where she talks to set a good example to those around thembunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They seem to have everything they could want – until Daniel Kalbi returns to talk about their lives. Three years agotroubles and help each other out, Jude’s friend Daniel left unexpectedly. Jude was found lying covered in his own blood – while also providing an escape to just joke and no-one has ever told his younger sister Grace what happenedmess around. With the return When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the boy she had chat for a crush on for yearswhile, Grace needs Priya becomes concerned. She decides to work out exactly what happened steal her parents' car and how it’s linked drive to some attacks Brigid's house to check up on people her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and animals which have just started – could this for that werewolf to be a dangerous attraction the girl she has been talking to online for her?the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405254580</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Artemis Fowl is trying Move on 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 the frontier world of the Wild West transported to the Highlands of Scotland, you would have the setting for this first book in a new trilogy by the creators of the [[The Immortals (Edge Chronicles) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Edge ChroniclesNewest Thrillers Reviews]]. Micah, a poor farmhand, longs to make his fortune so he can marry the wealthy Seraphita, so he sets off for the Wyrmeweald, where riches beyond your wildest dreams can be had – if you survive. It is a harsh and unforgiving land, full of dangerous dragon-like creatures called wyrmes, but Micah soon learns that when it comes to violence and deceit, it is humans he needs to fear most.|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 Viguié's ''Wicked'' series is finally here. After over three years of wondering and waiting to find out how this enthralling supernatural series will end, readers can finally dive straight into the war between good and evil with Resurrection and discover the answers to the secrets that have been kept from them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387373</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vivian Oldaker|title=The Killer's Daughter|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emma has just moved to Wessex with her Dad and Jan, her Dad's girlfriend. But it's not just adjusting to a new school, a new country that Emma has to deal with. Emma's Dad was accused of murdering her famous Grandmother by pushing her off a cliff in Greece. No one wants to be her friend, and it's not long before she becomes the newest victim to bullies. Slashed swimming costumes, physical fights – being at her new school is difficult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kieran Scott|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 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 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)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Seth lives in the land of the Sidhe, protected from the world of full-mortals by an ancient magical Veil. There's an uneasy but relatively settled peace, with only the occasional border fray to disturb their long lives. 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 NicNiven, and his father with eyes only for his older brother Conal. The inhabitants of his dun don't trust him, he's half-feral, 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>}}