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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannMax Boucherat|title=GoneThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now We meet Lori on the first evening she's graduated from high schoolgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, has a guaranteed job with the local police after collegejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and a boyfriend who loves on her like crazylonesome. Her future should be bright What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter- inhabit other peoplecollecting game that is a hit in Lori's dreamsworld. It's great for But first Lori has a career in crime fighting, but ittiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's burning t find herself entirely on her outown, and then she finds something even more spooky. Janie knows that within just a few years For the server she'll and her bestie and nobody else should be blind and crippledable to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny DownhamRachel Greenlaw|title=You Against MeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind I can hear the song of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused the sea. The call of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend himthe deep, don't you?the answering beat in my heart.''

It all seems so straightforwardRosevear, doesn't it? a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But itwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's not straightforward at all for Mikey leader and EllieMira's father. Mikey comes Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a tower block. His mother's an alcoholic wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and Mikey has with only coordinates to shoulder most guide her, she sets off in search of the parental responsibility a family secret that lies buried deep in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister sea. With only nine days to schoolunearth what might save her father, fending off periodic interest as her journey takes her from social services. Meanwhile, hethe watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's trying territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to make something save the future of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pubher home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyHarry Allen|title=RevolutionChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Andi, Ra Eun Seo lives in a New York girl on a trip to Paris. She's North Korean town and she is a talented musician at a school for exceptional studentssinger. She's a wisecrackingLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. She's a brilliant people watcherso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and her descriptions edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of controlrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Lynn BarnesAlexia Casale|title=Raised by WolvesSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Bryn has lived almost all her It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she-changing disability too, but that's been under what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the care middle of a dance performance that was going to change her saviourlife. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Stone River Pack alphapity stares, Callum. Marked as Pack, but Human, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity and desperate to undermine it – get back to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her a life that is her true self. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedomas normal as she can possibly manage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms and Europe Meanwhile there's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacynew (cute!) boy in school, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard a gift for Sultan Mehmed Vher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Lord of and just the Horizons and ruler day to day traumas of all the Ottoman Empire. But when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan and Alek, the heir challenges her body continues to throw at her to the throne of Austria-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battlesnavigate. Everyone has their own secrets So even though she can't dance anymore, but not everyone wants might she be able to spark a deadly war...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudSimon Fox|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Barty Late one night Graham Blake is late back! Wellfrom his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he isn't actually back. But we do get to revisit him. Which is good. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don't, Bartimaeus is fetch something from a sarcasticsecret place, wisecracking djinni and join him on the star of a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroudrun. Whilst tied They get together, but barely begin to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies smell the whiff of world historySouthern trains when the father is arrested, particularly that of London. In factleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who has. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. He's toting a rudetin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible one liner. And he usually comes through in the endbearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithLex Croucher|title=Furnace: FugitivesGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=It has taken three books for Alex Who knew that what I really needed to get out of prison. read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murderBut honestly, and he would have found it a better experience were it lifted my spirits in a regular prisonmost delightful way. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Warden, Mr FurnaceIn this story, Gwen and the evil creatures Arthur have been betrothed since they are both makingwere tiny, breeding and employing down there. much to their mutual disgust! But Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the whole experience has come at a costkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Alex has been around these evil men too muchAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, and when really they are changing him too - making him one of enabling their toolsown other romantic attachments. It's only nowBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, on the outside for the first timewill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, that Alex gets or are they destined to live a clearer picture of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl HiaasenNick Brooks|title=ScatPromise Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Nick and his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for trouble, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimples, then trouble can't be far away. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blame. But the evidence doesn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to them to discover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Blade: Risking All|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's the final chapter. There's nothing let now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left to lose and at last revenge is in sight. Under pressure from the porkers and the gangs, and with his private empire crumbling, Hawk has retreated to his remote hideout. Blade is there, waiting. But Hawk is surrounded by a private army of security. Dozens of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis and getting past them isn't going to be easy. But Blade has his instinct back and nothing is going to stand in his way. Losing is not an option. But can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemption? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019275601X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Muchamore|title=Shadow Wave (CHERUB)|rating=3.5

|summary=A shadow wave When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a tidal flow that happens after a tsunamimurdered, and it can be deadly because it travels in three boys find themselves called into the opposite direction and is often unexpectedpolice station as suspects. Robert Muchamore's latest book in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenon Each, seemingly, and tells what happens when has a bunch grudge of young CHERUB secret agents some description against Principal Moore, and their teachers get caught up in each could have been there at the chaos in Malaysia which follows the 2004 earthquake and tsunamitime of his murder. They rescue impoverished villagers But who killed him, and help them begin rebuilding their homeswhy, only to see all their hard work destroyed by government officials who use and if any of the disaster as an excuse to take away the fishermen's land and use it to build hotels for rich foreigners. Muchamore pulls no punches as he shows how greed and corruption win out over people's right to keep boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their traditional lifestyles.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034095647X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin J Myers1919635017|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood AlchemyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on Solomon Klyne isn't a prison planetbad lad, at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopers. Chess so why is just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee and languishes in he running around London committing a safe house, itching to be free. None series of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess wants robberies? And how did he learn to find out who she really is and then crack safes? You'll have to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box wants wait to get back an answer to Chess and help protect herthe second question because I avoid spoilers. And Splinter, well, he's got ideas of his own and they certainly donBut I't include an agonising death at ll answer the hands of first one: for his captors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nadia Aguiar|title=Secrets of Tamarind|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The Island of Tamarind is once again under threat, from the evils of the Red Coralgrandmother. Once more Simon and his sisters Maya and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save the island that only they can reach, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Triangle. For a second book running they must breach the barriers, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helix's legacy, and the native magical element ophalla, and put the island to rights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas E Sniegoski|title=The Fallen: Fallen Patrick Ness and Leviathan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thousands of years ago, a bunch of angels fell in love with human women. For their sins, they were cast out of Heaven. Their children are the Nephilim. They are hunted by Verchiel, leader of the Powers, hell-bent (excuse the pun!) on destroying them, especially the leader who prophecy says will lead them. On his 18th birthday, Aaron Corbet has a strange dream of weapons clanging and angels descending on a battlefield... and wakes up able to speak and understand any language, including that of his dog Gabriel. We can see where this is going, can't we?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris PriestleyTea Bendix|title=The Dead of WinterDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Michael Vyner's father died when Michael was just a baby. He was Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a herostandard school, sacrificing himself and is surprised to save the life find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of Sir Stephen Clarendon whilst fighting for four with both his best buddy from the British Empire football team, and two other old muckers – in Afghanistanfact they all go back to primary school days together. This was precious little comfort As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to Michael and sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his motherscore is, who resented the rich manwhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's largesse over the yearshad a casual relationship, a secret one, wishing for the man they lost several months now, and not so has effectively progressed up the charity of the man he saved. Soladder headed by 'experienced', when Michaelbut whether that's mother dies too and he finds himself all alone set in the worldstone, he is not entirely overjoyed to discover can't be sure. And that Sir Stephen is now his guardian 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and has invited him to spend Christmas at Hawton Merethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800136</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Berlie Doherty1800901232|title=Deep SecretStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Every now and again them there publisher people do this reviewer Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a big favour 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 reissue woman came to the village to offer Hahn a book that she job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed first time around. This is one of those now Some money changed hands and thensHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Anybody who loves words - child or adult - will love Only, Hanh and the way Berlie Doherty writesother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Her graceful, lyrical prose just floats from You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the page artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you lose yourself in the worlds she creates. Shetouched them? It's known for quite possible that Hanh and her versatility too co- writing realistic books about contemporary issues, fantasies and, as here with Deep Secret, historical novelsworkers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392358</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L A WeatherlyPatrice Lawrence|title=AngelNeedle|rating=53

|summary=If you loved Brave. Charlene, the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series, you will also love ''Angel'heroine'of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, the first book in a new paranormal trilogycharacters and readers both. However Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, even if you are among those who didnshe't see the attraction of Ms Meyers fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's books, thereold room while he's at uni. Such a very good chance tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you will enjoy this: L A Weatherly might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a gifted writerwonder knitter, and her take on paranormal romance is expertly crafted, making something full of exciting plot twists 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 then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well-rounded characters, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409521966</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieAnn Sei Lin|title=Blood RansomRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=It's not enough Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to find out you're drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a clone and man named Himura arrives to have both tell her that she is a renegade scientist and Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a fundamentalist terrorist group trying power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to kill youcome with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Oh no. Because when MI5 and Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the FBI relocate youMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, they condemn you and she is forced to living thousands of miles away from the only other person in flee out into the world that might understand what you've been through. It's safer that wayShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, apparently. and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanMarcus Sedgwick|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=At the end Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the first book]] of the Moorehawke Trilogyfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, The Poison Throneand he should be free to do what he wants, Wynter Moorhawketo go where he wants and with whom he wants, her childhood but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend Razi, and her romantic interest Christopher Cassie. They were all desperatelytrying to find Razi's half-brother Alberonof a desultory school band, whose father Jonathon appeared to be driven insanebut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from Is this second novel in connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the sequencetruth? Well, but was thrown sideways by the massive detour takennot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David WhitleyTori Bovalino|title=The Children of the LostDevil Makes Three|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Mark and Lily have left Agora and they have no idea what to expect from the land beyond the city walls. They have been brought up within a rigid system based on barter in a city where everything can be traded: goods, services, people, even emotions are up for sale. They have also been taught that outside the city walls is a wilderness, with no civilised life. Do bear in mind here that their idea of civilisation is Agora…They are ill equipped to survive, and immediately make things worse by arguing with one another. Mark is furious with Lily for her part in their banishment and his actions lead to Lily being placed in great danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rook Hastings|title=Immortal Remains (Weirdsville)|rating=4

|summary=Welcome back Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to Weirdsville, sorry Woodsville, deliver herself. What makes it worse is the town set in a truly creepy hollow, whose forest contains man who requested the greatest concentration of ghosts youbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school'll find anywhere in Englands headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Fresh from vanquishing As a ghost army petty act of revenge for making her find and enabling Emily to pass deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on to each of the other side and be reunited books, scribbled with her mother, our four reluctant ghosthunters have a new mystery to solve. Freak accidents have killed four local girls in the last four months, and Charlotte is convinced ugliest insults she will be nextcan think of. SheThey's the only one left alive from a seance she and re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her friends took part inanger out like this, and she is certain that death is stalking then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganPhilip Reeve|title=TrashUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=When In a mysterious young girl word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a barrel is fished from peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea -witches, and rescued by legends of the pirate ship belonging Dark family that has to Fleur's uncle Williamkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, it seems bad news might be on the waywhere no ship dare sail. The girl turns out to have psychic abilities - and they're just about to hit landfall at Salemcurrent Darks are the Watcher, right in time for the witch-hunts. But worse is to come. William gets captured thereAndrewe, and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board instead. Fleur then who has to skipper keep notes of activity from the craft herselfHidden Lands, on a rescue missionhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, in a very tense domestic situation. Thatand Andrewe's hard enough foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when you're a mere teenaged girlAndrewe Dark drowns himself, against ruffians both his sullen brother and pirates, but when his curious ward are thrust into the ship has secrets world of her own to be revealed..protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken HowardKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Young ChieftainJulia and the Shark

|summary=Claudia knew she wasn't really supposed to follow the fox Julia, our pre- not on teen heroine, has been packed off with her ownparents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, to in the old, forbidden house on far NE of the hillScottish islands. But she did. And it will change everything Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. The fox Dad is the familiar of Morgana Shee, powerful sorceress and only guardian of the passageway going to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing and she must be found before automating the solsticelantern, which is his specialist thing, for then the gateway while mum will be open leaving her career in algae behind to all, including Cadal Forge, an evil magician dedicated to conquering Earthhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Claudia And Julia, and her siblingswell, Charles, Jane she will be homesick and leader Alys, must find her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in the balance on the alone – until she suddenly finds company one night of the Winter Solstice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070509</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyJonathan Stroud|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box GirlsOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=When Cherry Costello told her teachers that she was leaving Glasgow Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and moving Faith Houses to live in a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of her tall talesBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But this one was truethen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Not only was Cherry moving With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to Somerset the Costellosmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, father and daughterthey must brave man-eating wildlife, were going to live with his girlfriend the cannibalistic Tainted and her four daughters. From it just being all the two horrors of them post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there would be seven altogether. How will Cherry cope? And how will than they are in the Tanberry family cope with two new membersrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly McKainMercedes Helnwein|title=Half a SisterSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=When Hannah's parents begin Gracie Welles has resigned herself to have whisperedbeing lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, but obviously heated discussions about something her immediate thought she is that they're splitting up. Thereused to not being a priority in people's quite a bit of that at school and Hannah would hate it to happen to herlives. But when it all comes out the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has she defends a fifteen year old daughter living random boy in Paris and that her mother has been in a serious car accident. Sam sees no alternative but to bring Ellie to live class with themher slingshot, but Charlotte her simple existence is worried about how this will affect their daughterchanged for good. When it's put to Hannah No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has visions of long girly chats and swopping clothes and makeup and agrees without further thought. To begin with a boy in it's everything that she hoped it would be but then a darker side of Ellie emerges and life turns into a nightmare never asked for Hannah: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia Telep (Editor)T L Huchu|title=Kiss Me DeadlyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=What do Peter PanRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, werecatsusing Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, vampires, teenage zombiesshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and unicorn hunters have in common? Possibly very littleher aging grandmother.However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children.Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. but they all appear as central characters in stories in this often enchanting anthology She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of stories of supernatural romancemagic 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>0762439491</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ValentineKristen O'Neal|title=The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Runaway Chap walks into a hostel off Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the street. He's fact that she may be in need of a meal and a bed constant pain for the nightrest of her life. As the workers question himShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', trying an online support group where she talks to get a historybunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, they notice his resemblance while also providing an escape to a poster just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of a boy whoher closest friends—doesn's been missing t respond to the chat for two yearsa while, Priya becomes concerned. Chap isnShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid't Cassiel Roadnights house to check up on her. Chap isnBut what she doesn't anyone. But the temptation expect to find there is there: become Cassiel. Get a family. Live werewolf in a home. Become ''someone''. And so he takes the chance basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the new identitypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000728361X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|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 Dogs|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 - a stowaway Move on a cargo ship. Elsewhere, 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 is newly residing at a most unusual school, one whose pupils have talents to match her singular one of sensing and empathising with the thoughts of animals. It's a gang of people brought together in a natural, realistic way, with some fantastic factors to their lives that are only going to get heightened. For said weapons, allegedly going on their way to be decommissioned, will soon be on the same cargo boat Akeem has just left - and they're weapons from the darker side of horror...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385990</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=A Trick of the Dark|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=What if you found a way to cheat death? What if it left you pain-free forever, both physically and emotionally? But what if it also meant you had to split your soul, and that left you unable to touch anyone ever again? After Zach and Annis are dragged to France for a family reconciliation events are set in motion that cannot be undone. Annis sees Zach killed by a the tumbling wall of an old ruined house, yet moments later he is standing, unharmed, in front of her. As she tries to help Zach, and appease her bitter, broken parents, she is dragged deeper and deeper into the horror of Zach's situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880915X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Legacy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Longevity isn't working. The drug 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 can't cope. Consumed by a desperate thirst, they're dying horrible deaths, leaving behind shrivelled and desiccated corpses. It's Richard Pinsent's worst nightmare. Not that Richard cares about people dying, of course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800896</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Torment|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Right, first things first. If you haven't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]], go read it - or at least read a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|reviewNewest Thrillers Reviews]] to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea - because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers for the earlier Lauren Kate novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice Henderson|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 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 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>}} {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shade|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Aura. She was one of the first people in the world to be born after The Shift, beyond which every newborn was opened to the world of the ghosts, hearing and seeing them whether they liked to or not. Her boyfriend, Logan, who she wants to make love to for the first time on the night of his seventeenth birthday, suddenly dies first instead - making him one of the many ghosts Aura might be able to help. But is something of greater help buried in a school project, touching on standing stone circles, the solstices, the mysteries of her own family's past - and a new young man in her life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>}}