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|genre=TeWhen FinConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's guardiangot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Judge Harlequin Brown is murderedjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, life as he knows it becomes on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a whole lot more exciting blanket fort, she has one main intention, and dangerous. In that is to log on to Voxminer, the course of one lifeworld-changing daybuilding, he learns critter-collecting game that there is a pathway between his London hit in Lori'Somewheres world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and an alternate London then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a parallel world called 'Nowhere'tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and that her safe place in the fates of both worlds are now under threat from game has been doctored – well, where is a group of rogue Knights, who have the ability girl to travel between these worlds using their double edged swords.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerRachel Greenlaw|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of MidnightCompass and Blade|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Like the first four novellas in the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two 'bind-up' editions - this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisteria, Maryland and trying to find closure on past events3. In this case, Anna is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return to the place where her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their family, but by the time she returns her uncle is dead, his body found in the boot of a burnt out car. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct is to get out as quickly as possible, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said to be psychic, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards a solution - but also further into danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisi Harrison|title=Monster High|rating=5

|summary=I don't know about everyone else, but 'I'm getting a bit fed up can hear the song of the sea. The call of all the vampiresdeep, werewolves and other creepies that seem to have popped up since the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]answering beat in my heart. So, when this book landed on my doorstep, I can't say I held much hope for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Clare Chambers|title=Burning Secrets|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=DanielRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, his like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and his sister Louie are escaping any treasure that lies within. But when the city Council Watch lays a trap to spend six months on end the wrecking, they capture the isolated island of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniels leader and Mira's mother father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie as charming as he is prone secretive and with only coordinates to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after guide her, she sets off in search of a conviction for fire-setting resulting family secret that lies buried deep in the death 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 an old itinerant. Therethe smuggler's plenty territory, Mira must be determined to leave behindstop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelHarry Allen|title=Half BrotherChildren of the Sun

|summary=Ben's thirteen Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and an only child. You'd think he was entirely used to being the centre of attention, then, wouldn't you? But this isn't really the case. Ben's parents are academics. His father she is a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as her husband's research assistanttalented singer. Ben Life is used to coming second to the advance of science. He can cope with that. Usually. But then his parents up sticks hard and move him all the way across Canada. Why? Because his father's new university food is prepared difficult to underwrite his new project - raising a chimpanzee as human and trying to teach it American Sign Language. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|title=Sigrun's Secret|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It must have seemed to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in Icelandcome by, breaking so Seo and training the colts on the family farm or helping her mother, Thora, who was a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her father's ship returned home friends Nari and the family was together again. It was not to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding a dreadful secret and when it caught up with themMin go foraging every evening, Sigrun, her father looking for tree bark and Asgrim, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik for three years. She was completely unused edible grasses to supplement the busy city life meagre rations of rice and disliked the violence and cruelty she found around her. But – kimchi at the same time – her own skills as a healer and midwife began to blossom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)|rating=4home.5|genre=Teens|summary=Larten Crepsley leads a hard, hard life. One child amongst many, born during an industrial revolution, he works horrendously long and dangerous hours in a silk factory even though he's yet to see his teens. If the family is to eat, there is little choice. The foreman is a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, and nobody dares challenge him and if it wasn't for his orphan cousin, Vur, Larten's life would be grim indeed. But things never seem quite so dark when you have a true friend, do they? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beate Teresa HanikaAlexia Casale|title=Learning to ScreamSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Malvina is thirteen It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years oldwithout suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the youngest middle of three children in a dysfunctional familydance performance that was going to change her life. Her father is a very grumpy teacherBut she comes back fighting, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems desperate to suffer permanently from migraine. She has a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united in their dislike of the 'boys from avoid the estate'. Her grandmother died last yearpity stares, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job desperate to get back to go and visit him and take him his meals. The family think this is a great arrangement because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visits. Therelife that's a problem thoughas normal as she can possibly manage. Malvina doesnMeanwhile there't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Bracegirdle|title=The Joy of Spooking: Unearthly Asylum|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The district of Spooking is still a problem for the evil diplomats from Darlington, the city that surrounds it. It was in the way of their waterpark [[The Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P J Bracegirdle|last time]], and now puts a stop to s a new sewage plant. Actually, chiefly (cute!) boy in the way last time was Joyschool, who still calls it home. her music A coldLevel performance piece to try to sort out, decrepit, run-down and gothic home in her instance, but home nevertheless. But just the evil diplomats are still making their plans day to redevelop day traumas of all the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige for it with challenges her beloved author E A Peugeot as a son of Spooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leila Rasheed|title=The World Turned Upside Down|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Stratford upon Avon 1642 – The English Civil War has come body continues to the town. Mary is a young Catholic throw at a time when her religion was regarded with deep suspicionto navigate. She is drawn to Jack, So even though he is a Roundhead soldier with no moneyshe can't dance anymore, land or status, and he is from an inferior background might she be able to sing her.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956506402</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceySimon Fox|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the WendigoDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop has spent Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his life tracking down dark and mysterious creatures, shift on the existence of some of these fiends is too much for him to believe. In fact, there's a split between Warthrop, his former close friend John Chanlerforce, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampiresthen suddenly rings Archie, werewolvesdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predatorrun. Warthrop scoffs at the other men's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why it's impossible for it to exist - but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when he disappears searching for it. It's not just friendship that drives him to look for his colleague though, as he's asked by Chanler's wife Muriel - who is Warthrop's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes the monstrumologist and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wilderness They get together, but when they return barely begin to New York they bring back someone - or something - that can endanger their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After spending smell the entire whiff of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], Southern trains when the excellent second book in this series, looking for itfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can shelate express to Brighton, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince toting a tin his father was determined to make peace with keep away from his fathercolleagues, or is their quest to end in bloodshed and failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=Out For Blood|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academy. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one bearer of the most infamous vampire hunters a whole heap of his generation. He believes in staking all vampires, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brenna YovanoffLex Croucher|title=The ReplacementGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Mackie lives Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet townmost delightful way. People are good and kind and the trials In this story, Gwen and tribulations of other places Arthur have traditionally been absent betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from Gentryher private diaries. Recently And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, howevercreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, things have felt less secure. People when really they are getting nervous and it just won't stop rainingenabling their own other romantic attachments. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning they destined to fail. It's getting more and more difficult to avoid the truth... ... because Mackie is different. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannNick Brooks|title=GonePromise Boys

|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now she's graduated from high When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, has a guaranteed job with three boys find themselves called into the local police after collegestation as suspects. Each, and a boyfriend who loves her like crazy. Her future should be brightseemingly, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - has to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fightinggrudge of some description against Principal Moore, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll be blind and crippledeach could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenny Downham1919635017|title=You Against MeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of man, you seek revenge, rightrobberies? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says And how did he didn't do it, you defend him, don't youlearn to crack safes?You'' It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother's ll have to wait to get an alcoholic and Mikey has answer to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the house - getting food on the table, getting first one: for his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social servicesgrandmother.. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=RevolutionDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Meet AndiAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, a New York girl on a trip and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to Parisprimary school days together. SheAs they's a talented musician re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for exceptional studentsAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. SheHe's had a casual relationship, a wisecrackingsecret one, for several months now, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. Sheand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's a brilliant people watcherset in stone, and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smilehe can't be sure. SheAnd that's also seriously depressed mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Lynn Barnes1800901232|title=Raised by WolvesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Bryn has Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed with her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Pack, but Humanwas happy, if not Werewolfprosperous, Bryn is something of so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity not to undermine it – to keep her distance be missed. Some money changed hands and maintain that piece of her that is her true self. She doesn't want to submit Hanh was on the mini-bus to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedomHanoi. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms Only, Hanh and Europe's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacy, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard other girls were not going to work in a gift for Sultan Mehmed Vshop, Lord of they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the Horizons ones with intricate embroidery and ruler of beading on the Ottoman Empire. But legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when things go drastically you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and dramatically wrong Deryn, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan and Alek, the heir to the throne of Austriaher co-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battlesworkers made them. Everyone has their own secrets, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly war...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudPatrice Lawrence|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)Needle|rating=4.53

|summary=Barty is back! WellBrave. Charlene, he isnthe 'heroine't actually back. But we do get of this piece is extremely hard for some people to revisit himlike, characters and readers both. Which is good. I Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake'm sure you know who Is old room while he'm talking abouts at uni. But just Such a tempestuous personality may be in case need of a comfort blanket, you don'tmight perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, Bartimaeus as Charlene is a sarcasticwonder knitter, wisecracking djinni and the star is making something full of love for her younger sister – a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroudyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a finger in many pies of world historystore detective, particularly that of London. In factand then force people to give her two days off school, he's saved the day almost when she shouts someone down as many times as Doctor Who hasexpletively ignorant. And then... But Bartimaeus well, what exactly happens is no Doctor Who. He's a rudenot for me to say, sarcastic egomaniac only to remark how sharp and unselfish behaviour isn't his bywordpointy those knitting needles can be. But he cracks an irresistible one liner. And he usually comes through in the end. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithAnn Sei Lin|title=Furnace: FugitivesRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=It Kurara has taken three books for Alex 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 get out of prisondrink and make merry between their conquests. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that-be hadn't framed she is a Crafter like him for murder, and he would have found it someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a better experience were it a regular prisonpower sought after all across the Empire. But noHe asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Over those three books we Well, soon Kurara won't have seen just what lives and works any say in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Wardenmatter, Mr Furnacebecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the evil creatures they are both making, breeding and employing down thereworld. But She joins Himura aboard the whole experience has come at Orihime, a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too muchsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and they are changing him too - making him one of their tools. It's only now, on the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture whole world of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl HiaasenMarcus Sedgwick|title=ScatWrath

|summary=A shadow wave Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a tidal flow that happens after a tsunamionly just over, and it can he should be deadly because it travels in the opposite direction free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and is often unexpected. Robert Muchamore's latest book with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenonit when he talks to his best friend, and tells what happens when Cassie. They were half of a bunch of young CHERUB secret agents and their teachers get caught up in desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the chaos in Malaysia which follows enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the 2004 earthquake and tsunamiearth. They rescue impoverished villagers and help them begin rebuilding their homes, only to see all their hard work destroyed by government officials who use Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the disaster as an excuse to take away end of the fishermenworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's land and use it to build hotels for rich foreigners. Muchamore pulls no punches as dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he shows how greed and corruption win out over peoplecan's right to keep to their traditional lifestylest...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034095647X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersTori Bovalino|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood AlchemyThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Chess and Working all summer in her brothers have been separatedboarding 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 deliver herself. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on a prison planet, at What makes it worse is the mercy of man who requested the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopersbooks: Mr Birch. Chess is just as much of a prisoner - sheThe boarding school's being "protected" by The Committee headmaster, and languishes in a safe house, itching to be freeman Tess hates. None As a petty act of the three intend on being locked up revenge for long. Chess wants to making her find out who she really is and then to get deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy ugliest insults she can think of innocent children. They're never meant to reach him, and Box wants of course. Her plan is to get back to Chess her anger out like this, and help protect herthen take them all off before delivering them. And SplinterNo harm done… Or it would be, well, he's got ideas of his own and they certainly donif someone hadn't include an agonising death at the hands of his captorsdelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nadia AguiarPhilip Reeve|title=Secrets Utterly Dark and the Face of Tamarindthe Deep|rating=45

|summary=The Island In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of Tamarind is once again under threatriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, from the evils of beyond the Red CoralScillies. Once more Simon There are troll people on it, and his sisters Maya sea-witches, and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save legends of the island Dark family that only they can reachhas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Trianglewhere no ship dare sail. For a second book running they must breach The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the barriersHidden Lands, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helixhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's legacyfoundling daughter, and who washed up out of the native magical element ophallasea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and put his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island to rights, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas E SniegoskiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Fallen: Fallen Julia and Leviathanthe Shark

|summary=Michael Vyner's father died when Michael was just a baby. He was a heroJulia, our pre-teen heroine, sacrificing himself to save the life of Sir Stephen Clarendon whilst fighting for has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the British Empire family home in Afghanistan. This was precious little comfort SW England to Michael and his motherbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who resented in the rich man's largesse over far NE of the yearsScottish islands. Here be Vikings, wishing for the man they lost and not the charity that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the man he saved. Solantern, which is his specialist thing, when Michael's mother dies too and he finds himself all alone while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the worldelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, he is not entirely overjoyed to discover that Sir Stephen is now his guardian well, she will be homesick and has invited him to spend Christmas at Hawton Merealone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800136</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Berlie DohertyJonathan Stroud|title=Deep SecretThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Every now Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and again them there publisher people do this reviewer shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a big favour dark boy with dark powers and reissue a book that she missed first time arounddarker past. This is one With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of those now and thensthe London Lagoon. Anybody who loves words Together, they must brave man- child or adult - will love the way Berlie Doherty writes. Her gracefuleating wildlife, lyrical prose just floats from the page cannibalistic Tainted and you lose yourself in all the worlds she creates. She's known for her versatility too horrors of post- writing realistic books about contemporary issuesapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, fantasies and, as here with Deep Secret, historical novels. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849392358</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L A WeatherlyMercedes Helnwein|title=AngelSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=If you loved the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series, you will also love ''Angel'', the first book in Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a new paranormal trilogy. However, even if you are among those who didn't see the attraction secret illegitimate daughter of Ms Meyer's booksa man with a "real" family, thereshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a very good chance you will enjoy this: L A Weatherly is a gifted writerrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, and her take on paranormal romance simple existence is expertly craftedchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, full of exciting plot twists and well-rounded charactersfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409521966</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieT L Huchu|title=Blood RansomThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's not enough Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to find take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out youof school, she're a clone and s been using it to have both a renegade scientist support not only herself, but her younger sister and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill youher aging grandmother. Oh noHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Because when MI5 and Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the FBI relocate you, they condemn you to living thousands request of miles away from the only other person in his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world that might understand what youof magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've been throughimagined. It's safer that wayWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, apparently. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanKristen O'Neal|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=At the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the first book]] of the Moorehawke Trilogy, The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorhawke, her childhood friend RaziHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperatelytrying Priya has to find Razi's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared come to terms with the fact that she may be driven insane. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from this second novel in constant pain for the sequence, but was thrown sideways by the massive detour taken.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Whitley|title=The Children rest of the Lost|rating=3her life.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Mark and Lily have left Agora and they have no idea what She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to expect from the land beyond the city wallsa bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They have been brought up within a rigid system based on barter in a city where everything can be traded: goods, services, peopletalk about their troubles and help each other out, even emotions are up for sale. They have while 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 providing an escape to survive, just joke and immediately make things worse by arguing with one anothermess around. Mark is furious with Lily for When Brigid—one of 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|genre=Teens|summary=Welcome back closest friends—doesn't respond to Weirdsville, sorry Woodsville, the town set in chat for a truly creepy hollowwhile, whose forest contains the greatest concentration of ghosts youPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents'll find anywhere in England. Fresh from vanquishing a ghost army car and enabling Emily drive to pass Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to the other side and be reunited with her mother, our four reluctant ghosthunters have find there is a new mystery to solve. Freak accidents have killed four local girls werewolf in the last four months, basement – and Charlotte is convinced she will for that werewolf to be next. She's the only one left alive from a seance girl she and her friends took part in, and she is certain that death is stalking herhas been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Andy Mulligan|title=Trash|rating=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 the detritus of richer people's lives. Behala replaced Smoky Mountain, 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 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 is fished from the sea and rescued by the pirate ship belonging to Fleur's uncle William, it seems bad news might be on the way. The girl turns out to have psychic abilities - and they're just about to hit landfall at Salem, right in time for the witch-hunts. But worse is to come. William gets captured there, and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board instead. Fleur then has to skipper the craft herself, Move on a rescue mission, in a very tense domestic situation. That's hard enough when you're a mere teenaged girl, against ruffians and pirates, but when the ship has secrets of her own 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 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 Jamie. It's remote and dilapidated, there's no internet or mobile phone access, and 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 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 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 to cause some damage, Caine is down but not out, and food is still in short supply. Tensions are growing and the Town Council isn't up 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 of the Solstice|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Claudia knew she wasn't really supposed to follow the fox - not on her own, to the old, forbidden house on the hill. But she did. And it will change everything. The fox is the familiar of Morgana Shee, powerful sorceress and only guardian of the passageway to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing and she must be found before the solstice, for then the gateway will be open to all, including Cadal Forge, an evil magician dedicated to conquering Earth. Claudia, and 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070509</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Cassidy|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box Girls|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 one was true. Not only was Cherry moving to Somerset the Costellos, father and daughter, were going to live with his girlfriend and her four daughters. From it just being the two of them there would be seven altogether. 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 begin to have whispered, but obviously heated discussions about something her immediate thought is that they're splitting up. There's quite a bit of that at school and Hannah would hate it to happen to her. But when it all comes out the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has a fifteen year old daughter living in Paris and that her mother has been in a serious car accident. Sam sees no alternative but to bring Ellie to live with them, but Charlotte is worried about how this will affect their daughter. When it's put 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 a darker side of Ellie emerges and life turns into a nightmare for Hannah.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tricia Telep (Editor)|title=Kiss Me Deadly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=What do Peter Pan, werecats, vampires, teenage zombies, and unicorn hunters have in common? Possibly very little... but they all appear as central characters in stories in this often enchanting anthology of stories of supernatural romance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762439491</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]