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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieMax Boucherat|title=Blood RansomThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's not enough got the house to find out you're 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 clone blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to have both Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a renegade scientist tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill youthen she finds something even more spooky. Oh no. Because when MI5 For the server she and her bestie and the FBI relocate you, they condemn you nobody else should be able to living thousands enter shows signs of miles away from the only other person tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the world that might understand what you've game has been through. It's safer that waydoctored – well, apparently. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanRachel Greenlaw|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=At ''I can hear the end song of [[the sea. The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the first book]] call of the Moorehawke Trilogydeep, The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorhawke, her childhood friend Razi, and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperatelytrying to find Razi's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared to be driven insane. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from this second novel the answering beat in the sequence, but was thrown sideways by the massive detour takenmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=David Whitley|title=The Children of Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Lost|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Mark and Lily have left Agora rocks and they have no idea what to expect from the land beyond plundering the city wallswrecks. They have been brought up within a rigid system based on barter in a city where everything can be traded: goodsMira, serviceslike her mother before her, people, even emotions are up for saleis one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. They have also been taught that outside But when the city walls is Council Watch lays a wildernesstrap to end the wrecking, with no civilised lifethey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Do bear in mind here that their idea of civilisation is Agora…They are ill equipped Desperate to survivesave him from death, and immediately make things worse by arguing Mira makes a bargain with one another. Mark a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is furious secretive and with Lily for only coordinates to guide her part , she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in their banishment 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 heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and his actions lead to Lily being placed in great dangerthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330120</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook HastingsHarry Allen|title=Immortal Remains (Weirdsville)Children of the Sun|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Welcome back to Weirdsville, sorry Woodsville, the town set Ra Eun Seo lives in a truly creepy hollow, whose forest contains the greatest concentration of ghosts you'll find anywhere in England. Fresh from vanquishing a ghost army North Korean town and enabling Emily to pass on to the other side and be reunited with her mother, our four reluctant ghosthunters have she is a new mystery to solvetalented singer. Freak accidents have killed four local girls in the last four months, Life is hard and Charlotte food is convinced she will be next. She's the only one left alive from a seance she difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends took part inNari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and she is certain that death is stalking herkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganAlexia Casale|title=TrashSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Raphael lives in Behala, a slum thatIt's grown up around a landfill site in an unnamed South American country. Hehard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's re having to navigate a dumpsite boy life- this means he and his family scrape a living by combing through the detritus of richer people's lives. Behala replaced Smoky Mountainchanging disability too, another slum that got so dangerous that landslides killed dozens of people and the authorities closed it. What a home, eh? But Raphael has a smile but that lights up his whole face and lifts the spirits of all those upon whom he bestows it. And he has good things in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secret. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sara Starbuck|title=Dread Pirate Fleur and the Hangman's Noose|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When a mysterious young girl in a barrel what Ven is fished from the sea and rescued by the pirate ship belonging to Fleur's uncle William, it seems bad news might be dealing with after collapsing on stage in the way. The girl turns out middle of a dance performance that was going to have psychic abilities - and they're just about to hit landfall at Salem, right in time for the witch-huntschange her life. But worse is to come. William gets captured thereshe comes back fighting, and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board instead. Fleur then has desperate to skipper avoid the craft herself, on a rescue mission, in a very tense domestic situation. That's hard enough when you're a mere teenaged girlpity stares, against ruffians and pirates, but when the ship has secrets of her own desperate to be revealed...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ken Howard|title=The Young Chieftain|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=One minute, Jamie Doran is playing basketball with his friends in downtown LA, the next he's en route get back to the island of Doran in Scotland to bury his father. James Doran, you see, had been Dorana life that's clan chieftainas normal as she can possibly manage. The island proves a culture shock for cosmpolitan Jamie. It's remote and dilapidated, Meanwhile there's no internet or mobile phone access, and the only TV is in the community centre. Jamie's grandmother isn't welcoming either - a new (cute!) boy in factschool, she barely bothers to hide her distate for her black daughter-in-law and mixed race grandson. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848530331</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Grant|title=Lies (Gone)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam is tired of being heroic. Tired of being relied upon. But he resents being sidelined by his own girlfriend. Astrid's Town Council is busy bringing bureaucracy and officialdom music A Level performance piece to the FAYZ, 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 try to cause some damage, Caine is down but not sort out, and food is still in short supply. Tensions are growing and just the Town Council isn't up day to the job. And what's worse is that Sam doesn't think he is, either... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254297</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L J Smith|title=The Night day traumas of all the Solstice|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Claudia knew she wasn't really supposed challenges her body continues to follow the fox - not on throw at her own, to the old, forbidden house on the hillnavigate. But So even though she did. And it will change everything. The fox is the familiar of Morgana Sheecan't dance anymore, powerful sorceress and only guardian of the passageway to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing and might she must be found before the solstice, for then the gateway will be open able to all, including Cadal Forge, an evil magician dedicated to conquering Earth. Claudia, and sing her siblings, Charles, Jane and leader Alys, must find her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in the balance on the night of the Winter Solstice.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 and moving to live in a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another of her tall tales. But this Late one was true. Not only was Cherry moving to Somerset night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the Costellosforce, father and daughterthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, were going to live with his girlfriend and her four daughters. From it just being join him on the two of them there would be seven altogetherrun. How will Cherry cope? And how will the Tanberry family cope with two new members?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelly McKain|title=Half a Sister|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Hannah's parents They get together, but barely begin to have whispered, but obviously heated discussions about something her immediate thought is that they're splitting up. There's quite a bit smell the whiff of that at school and Hannah would hate it to happen to her. But Southern trains when it all comes out the reality father is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a fifteen year old daughter living in Paris and that her mother has been in a serious car accident. Sam sees no alternative but tin his father was determined to bring Ellie to live with themkeep away from his colleagues, but Charlotte is worried about how this will affect their daughter. When it's put to Hannah she has visions and the bearer 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 a darker side whole heap of Ellie emerges and life turns into a nightmare for Hannahquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia Telep (Editor)Lex Croucher|title=Kiss Me DeadlyGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=What do Peter PanWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, werecats, vampires, teenage zombiesit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and unicorn hunters Arthur have in common? Possibly been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! very little... but they all appear as central characters Gwen, you see, is in stories in this often enchanting anthology of stories of supernatural romance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762439491</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenny Valentine|title=The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Runaway Chap walks into a hostel off love with Bridget (the street. Hekingdom's in need of only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a meal and a bed for boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the nightsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. As the workers question him But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, trying to get will they find a historyway in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they notice his resemblance destined to live 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. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000728361X</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca FitzpatrickNick Brooks|title=CrescendoPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We last saw Nora and Patch at When the end principal (headmaster) of ''HushUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, Hush'' - lovely titlethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, that! - battered after seemingly, has a Nephilim conflictgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, but very much togetherand each could have been there at the time of his murder. Patch is no longer fallen But who killed him, has been given back guardian angel status and the threat to Nora is no more. You'd think everything would go swimmingly after thatwhy, wouldn't you? But you know and I know that falling in love with if any kind of angelthe boys are innocent, fallen or otherwise, isn't conducive will they be able to a normal life. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387195</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garrett Carr1919635017|title=Lost DogsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt 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 of Zachladder headed by 's situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880915X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Legacy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Longevity isnexperienced't working. The drug , but whether that prolongs life expectancy indefinitely appears to have reached its own life expectancy. A terrible virus is wreaking havoc across Britain and the sluggish immune systems of the Legals simply 's set in stone, he can't copebe sure. Consumed by a desperate thirst, they're dying horrible deaths, leaving behind shrivelled and desiccated corpses. It And that's Richard Pinsentmostly because of who he's worst nightmare. Not that Richard cares about people dying, of coursebeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800896</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Kate1800901232|title=TormentStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=RightTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, first things first. If you haven't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]]if not prosperous, go read 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- or at least read bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|review]] shop, they were to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea 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- because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers for the earlier Lauren Kate novelworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BrindleyPatrice Lawrence|title=Blood CrimeNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Joe is lying in hospital in a meningitis-induced comaBrave. ItCharlene, the 's the last straw heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for his mother - Joe has been unable some people to cope ever since his father diedlike, refusing to believe in a tragic laboratory accident characters and accusing his ex-research partner readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and her new boyfriend of murder. Before he became illschools, Joeshe's state of mind had become dangerously unstablefostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and now ithas taken up residence in her son Blake's up to his uncle Frank, a hospital consultant, to save him. But Joe isn't lying there insensible: old room while he's fighting at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the greatest battle creation of one such item is part of his life - rushing through his veins and arteries evading the aggressive bacteriaplot here, rousing his body to fight backas 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 store detective, and trying then force people to work out give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what really happened exactly happens is not for me to say, only to his father remark how sharp and whether his own illness has anything to do with itpointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184255719X</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice HendersonAnn Sei Lin|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through TimeRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=There is something really satisfying about Kurara has spent her entire life as a huge brick of servant on the Midori, a book: massive dining hall floating in the prospect sky where soldiers of settling down for hours the Empire come to drink and hours make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of reading pleasure dreary servitude that is very temptingall she has known. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fansWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because it contains three whole storiesthe Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, adding variety and she is forced to flee out into the mixworld. It's absolutely ideal for She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a holiday read.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle PanMarcus Sedgwick|title=Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views on the Twilight SeriesWrath|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I'm sure die hard (Twi-hard) fans will love this bookMeet Fitz, since it gives them a little bit more about Bella young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Edward he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and Jacobwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. All those things they've mulled over since They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the series ended are encapsulated in enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the topics raised hereearth. Team Edward need not shake their heads in dismay at the book's title Is this connected with one of her eco- it's controversial on purpose - and warrior parents saying the question end of who Bella should have ended up with the world is looked at from both points already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of view, along with other issues such as whether music she should have become a vampire, the faithfulness 's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the films to the books and which character readers would most like to betruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1569758220</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{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.
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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 this story set on a fishing boat during 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 to be missing from the boat. A search party is sent outWatcher, but Seth is assumed drowned. LuckilyAndrewe, Seth and his dog manage to get who has to one keep notes of activity from the tiny islands that run along the coast of AlaskaHidden Lands, and after realising that no one is coming to help them they slowly make their way hundreds of miles over many months. his brother Will they starve to death, or freeze, or be eaten by bears before they manage to make it home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391963</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Teresa Flavin|title=The Blackhope Enigma|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 who lives in Blackhope Tower's Mariner's Chamber, she gets lumbered London with her annoying stepbrother too much science in his head to look after. Add to that the presence of her classmate Blaiseworry about such local yokel superstitions, a boy whoand Andrewe's better at art than she isfoundling daughter, and her who washed up out of the sea one day is looking depressing – and that's '''before''' Dean mysteriously vanishing when walking around the chamber's labyrinth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848770340</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joss Stirling|title=Finding Sky|rating=4eleven years ago.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sky is upset But when her adopted parents decide to move her away from all her friends in London to a small town in AmericaAndrewe Dark drowns himself, but tries to make both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the best world of protecting their island, like 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 fateor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192732137</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Fade (Wake Trilogy)Julia and the Shark
|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.
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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 which is his name is specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the same as that of a legendary giant who supposedly protected his village during a major earthquakeelusive Greenland shark. Oddly enoughAnd Julia, there have not been any earthquakes for some years... ever since Bernardo had his first dramatic growth spurtwell, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618948</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christine JohnsonJonathan Stroud|title=Claire de LuneThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Claire was having Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the perfect sixteenth birthday. Okay, so most draconian conformity of the people probably only turned up for her swimming pool, her hands and ears were itching like crazy Surviving Towns and everyone had Faith Houses to leave early because of wander the werewolf sighting in wildlands between the forest nearbySeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But all Claire cared about was Matthew Englethen she meets Albert Browne, talking to her and flirting a dark boy with her dark powers and promising a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to call her laterflee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Then her mother takes her into Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the woods cannibalistic Tainted and reveals a dark and dangerous secret – she and Claire are werewolves. Everything Claire thought she knew about werewolves is wrongall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but how can she continue to see Matthew, whose father is leading will they be any more accepted there than they are in the hunt for themrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389287</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise RennisonMercedes Helnwein|title=Withering TightsSlingshot|rating=4.53
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|summary=After killing off Georgia Nicolson in Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a blaze secret illegitimate daughter of hedonism and vampiresa man with a "real" family, itshe is used to not being a priority in people's time for [[:Category: Louise Rennison|Louise Rennison]] to start lives. But when she defends a new seriesrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, with a new teenage girl's first-person narrativeher simple existence is changed for good. This No longer can she spend her time it's one Tallulah Caseywriting novels in solitude, a lanky girl worried about for her knees and underdeveloped cleavage, and off to stay at life now has a posh drama performance workshop centre boy in the wilds of Yorkshireit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007156839</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex ScarrowT L Huchu|title=TimeRiders: Day The Library of the PredatorDead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=LiamRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Maddy using Zimbabwean magic (and Sal were each about a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to die when an old man appeared to them and invited them to choose another fatetake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. And Ever since she dropped out of the heartbreak of their decisions school, she's been using it to bid farewell to their old existence support not only herself, but her younger sister and their loved ones is born a secret team her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of time ridersEdinburgh, dedicated to putting right targeting the chaos caused by those who meddle with timecity's children. It Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a decision they missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will sometimes regretend up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more 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>014132693X</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon Dogar|title=Annexed|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There's been a bit of a kerfuffle over Kristen O''Annexed'' - the story of Peter van Pels, who shared the Amsterdam annexe with Anne Frank during World War II, who fell in love with the teenaged diarist, and who perished in a Nazi death camp called Munthausen 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 thought. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzieNeal|title=The Medusa Project: The Rescue|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's a fascinating premise: four babies are implanted with a gene relating to psychic abilities, Lycanthropy and as they grow up it becomes clear they have each reacted differently, 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: he is able to read minds, but is forced to use his gift for evil in order to save his friends. A high-octane tale about four teens struggling to stay alive when it seems every adult on the planet is out to use them for their own ends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385273</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bree Despain|title=The Dark DivineOther 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 to work out exactly what happened and how it’s linked Priya becomes concerned. She decides to some attacks on people and animals which have just started – could this be a dangerous attraction for steal her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254580</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=Artemis Fowl parents' car and the Atlantis Complex|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Artemis Fowl is trying drive to save the world. No wonder Holly Short and Foaly think heBrigid's not himself. He might stand house to make another huge fortune, but he's thinking about global warming, and technological cures for itcheck up on her. But hewhat she doesn's also thinking about t expect to find there is a lot of other things - werewolf in particular, the patterns of the number five. His mind seems stuck making him tap things in multiples of five times, basement – 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 for that werewolf to be 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 Chronicles]]. Micah, a poor farmhand, longs girl she has been talking to make his fortune so he can marry the wealthy Seraphita, so he sets off online 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 mostpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561733X</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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