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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HigsonMax Boucherat|title=The DeadLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ok. I'm writing for two sets of readers here: those who have read We meet Lori on the first book in evening she's got the series, and those who have not. The Dead is a prequel house to herself – no neighbour to The Enemy but both books are set pop in the same post, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-apocalyptic world breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in which the adult population a blanket fort, she has been decimated by a killer disease. Those one main intention, and that survive roam the streets as zombies, looking for untainted human flesh is to eat. The only untainted flesh belongs log on to children who were fourteen or under when Voxminer, the disease struckworld-building, and were somehow immune. The Enemy critter-collecting game that is set two years after the epidemic, when ita hit in Lori's getting more world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more difficult for children to find food spooky. For the server she and shelter by scavenging her bestie and they are beginning nobody else should be able to realise that they need to band together to start forming enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the prototype for game has been doctored – well, where is a new society. girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384654</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlRachel Greenlaw|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful DarknessCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Growing up there, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was a normal enough Southern town, if you could forgive the inhabitants' obsessions with 'I can hear the War song of Northern Aggressionthe sea. That was until he met Lena Duchannes and got plunged into her family's own civil war, as her family fought to get The call of the young Caster to chooseeither Light or Dark. If you've haven't read [[Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|Beautiful Creatures]]deep, the first novel answering beat in this sequence, break off from this review and go out and grab it now! If you have, youmy heart.'ll remember that Lena's 16th birthday left her with a choice to make that would kill half of her family. This book follows Ethan as he tries to support her through that choice but watches her get pulled towards her Dark cousin Ridley and a new boy in town, the mysterious John Breed. While the first novel was more of a romance, this is an adventure story which sees Ethan, his friend Link, new girl in town Liv, and a variety of others embark on a journey to save the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Savita Kalhan|title=The Long Weekend|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam's just moved to Rosevear, a new school yet againremote and partially forgotten island, but this time he's made a good friend really quicklysurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. He Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Lloyd get on so well together any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, theycapture the island're spending time with each other after school a lot - until they make one horrible mistake s leader and end up trapped in a car speeding far away Mira's father. Desperate to save him from their hometowndeath, Mira makes a bargain with a strange and creepy driver. Once they reach a big house, Sam wreck survivor who is quickly separated from Lloyd - can as charming as he figure out a way is secretive and with only coordinates to escape alive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We pick up exactly where we left guide her, she sets off in this second book search of a family secret that lies buried deep in David Gatward's The Dead seriesthe sea. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice)With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, resurrected (twice), been as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the world heart of the Dead (don't ask), become a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skinsmuggler's fallen off)territory, and has gone some way Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to locating his father (prisoner of save the Dark and seriously not having a good time future of it). Along with best mate Craig her home and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a missionthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally CondieHarry Allen|title=MatchedChildren of the Sun

|summary=When the Society Matches Cassia to her best friend Xander, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she couldn't be more thrilledis a talented singer. Unlike the other girlsLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, she knows so Seo and her Match – doesn't need friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to read his details, go through supplement the motions meagre rations of dating as dictated by the Society, doesn't need to worry they won't get alongrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333057</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayAlexia Casale|title=The Hollow: The HauntedSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=In [[The Hollow by Jessica Verday|The Hollow]]It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Abbey tried to cope but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in thedisappearance middle of her best friend and her feelings for new boyfriend Caspian - only a dance performance that was going to find herself losing change her grip on sanity when life. But she discovered Caspian was deadcomes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a Shade, rather than another real personlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. After Meanwhile there's a summer away from Sleepy Hollownew (cute!) boy in school, she returnsher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, trying to concentrate on making perfumes and getting science tuition from nice cute Ben - but then Caspian reappears. Will just the two find true love? Why are there so many other weird strangers around Sleepy Hollow who Abbey keeps meeting? What exactly DID happen day to Kristen? Where do Katrina Van Tassel and Nikolas, the famous Headless Horseman day traumas of Sleepy Hollow, fit into all this? And does anyone who missed the first book have any hope of following whatchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's going ont dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384994</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesSimon Fox|title=Rules of AttractionDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Carlos Fuentes isn't interested in living in America with Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his over-protective brother Alexshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, but his mother sends him there for his senior year of high school to try and keep join him out of troubleon the run. Kiara Westford is happy They get together, but barely begin to help a new guy settle in - at least until smell the shy stutterer actually meets whiff of Southern trains when the bad boy. Despite their initial dislike of each otherfather is arrested, they're thrown together when Carlos has drugsplanted leaving Archie on him and her well respected the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father takes him in was determined to stop him being sent back to Mexicokeep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions. Will these two headstrong youngsters find love?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SilverwoodLex Croucher|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged Sword|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Fin's guardian, Judge Harlequin Brown is murdered, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting Gwen and dangerous. In the course of one life-changing day, he learns that there is a pathway between his London Art Are Not in 'Somewhere', and an alternate London of a parallel world called 'Nowhere', and that the fates of both worlds are now under threat from a group of rogue Knights, who have the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swords.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of MidnightLove

|summary=Like the first four novellas Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two 'bind-up' editions - a most delightful way. In this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisteria, Maryland Gwen and trying Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to find closure on past events. In this casetheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Anna is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return to in love with Bridget (the place where her mother died so kingdom's only female knight) - something that he can tell Art discovers from her something important about their familyprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, but by creating the time she returns her uncle is deadsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, his body found in the boot of a burnt out carwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct is to get out But as quickly as possibletheir impending wedding draws ever closer, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said to will they find a way in which they can both truly be psychicthemselves, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards or are they destined to live a solution - but also further into danger.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Lisi Harrison|title=Monster High|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting a bit fed up of all the vampires, werewolves and other creepies that seem to have popped up since the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. So, when this book landed on my doorstep, I can't say I held much hope for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare ChambersNick Brooks|title=Burning SecretsPromise Boys

|summary=Daniel, his mother and his sister Louie are escaping the city to spend six months on When the isolated island principal (headmaster) of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniel's mother Urban Promise Prep school is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie is prone to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after a conviction for fire-setting resulting in murdered, three boys find themselves called into the death of an old itinerantpolice station as suspects. There's plenty to leave behind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|title=Half Brother|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ben's thirteen and an only child. You'd think he was entirely used to being the centre of attention Each, thenseemingly, wouldn't you? But this isn't really the case. Ben's parents are academics. His father is has a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as her husband's research assistant. Ben is used to coming second to each could have been there at the advance time of science. He can cope with that. Usuallyhis murder. But then his parents up sticks who killed him, and why, and move him all if any of the way across Canada. Whyboys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names? Because his father's new university is prepared to underwrite his new project - raising a chimpanzee as human and trying to teach it American Sign Language. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marie-Louise Jensen1919635017|title=Sigrun's Secret|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It must have seemed A Thief to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in Iceland, breaking and training the colts on the family farm or helping her mother, Thora, who was Catch a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her father's ship returned home 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 them, Sigrun, her father and Asgrim, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik for three years. She was completely unused to the busy city life and disliked the violence and cruelty she found around her. But – at the same time – her own skills as a healer and midwife began to blossom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Darren Shan|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)Kitt Townsend

|summary=Larten Crepsley leads Solomon Klyne isn't a hard, hard life. One child amongst many, born during an industrial revolutionbad lad, so why is he works horrendously long and dangerous hours in running around London committing a silk factory even though series of robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's yet ll have to wait to get an answer to see his teens. If the family is to eat, there is little choicesecond question because I avoid spoilers. The foreman is a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, and nobody dares challenge him and if it wasnBut I't ll answer the first one: for his orphan cousin, Vur, Larten's life would be grim indeedgrandmother... But things never seem quite so dark when you have a true friend, do they? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beate Teresa Hanika|title=Learning to Scream|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Malvina is thirteen years old, the youngest of three children in a dysfunctional family. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems 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 the estate'. Her grandmother died last year, leaving her granddad on his own Patrick Ness and it's Malvina's job 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. There's a problem though. Malvina doesn't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J BracegirdleTea Bendix|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 a new sewage plant. Actually, chiefly in the way last time was Joy, who still calls it home. A cold, decrepit, run-down and gothic home in her instance, but home nevertheless. But the evil diplomats are still making their plans to redevelop the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige Different for it with 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 to the town. Mary is a young Catholic at a time when her religion was regarded with deep suspicion. She is drawn to Jack, even though he is a Roundhead soldier with no money, land or status, and he is from an inferior background to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956506402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rick Yancey|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the WendigoBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has spent been restructured, so his life tracking down dark desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and mysterious creaturestwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the existence of some of these fiends talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is too much confusing for him to believeAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. In fact, there He's had a split between Warthropcasual relationship, his former close friend John Chanlera secret one, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampires, werewolvesfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predator. Warthrop scoffs at the other menladder headed by 's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why itexperienced's impossible for it to exist - , but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when he disappears searching for it. Itwhether that's not just friendship that drives him to look for his colleague thoughset in stone, as hecan's asked by Chanlert be sure. And that's wife Muriel - mostly because of who is Warthrophe's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes been having the monstrumologist relationship and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wilderness, but when they return to New York they bring back someone - or something - that can endanger their livessex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Celine Kiernan1800901232|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel PrinceStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=FantasyDyslexia Friendly|summary=After spending the entire of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], the excellent second book Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in this series, looking for it, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can rural village where she, along lived with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and Christopher Garron, persuade woman came to the Rebel Prince village to make peace with his father, or is their quest offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to end in bloodshed be missed. Some money changed hands 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 Hanh was on the Heliosmini-Ra Vampire Hunter Academybus to Hanoi. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter Only, after all – Hanh and her Grandpa is one of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes other girls were not going to work in staking all vampiresa shop, no questions askedthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But then, he also believes it 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 a good idea for Hunter to cut off all quite possible that Hanh and her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either countco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brenna YovanoffPatrice Lawrence|title=The ReplacementNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Mackie lives in GentryBrave. Charlene, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and the trials 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and tribulations readers both. Kicked out of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recentlymultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, howeverAnnie, things have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just wonhas taken up residence in her son Blake't stop raining. Mackie isns old room while he't doing too well eithers at uni. His allergies to blood Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and steel are getting worse and worse the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and his health is beginning to fail. Itmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's getting allowed contact with no more . We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and more difficult then force people to avoid the truthgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.And then.. .well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. because Mackie is different. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannAnn Sei Lin|title=GoneRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now she's graduated from high school, Kurara has spent her entire life as a guaranteed job with servant on the local police after collegeMidori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a boyfriend who loves man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like crazy. Her future should be brighthim, but it isn't. Because Janie's someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a dreamcatcherpower sought after all across the Empire. She can - He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has to - inhabit other people's dreamsknown. ItWell, soon Kurara won's great for t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a career in crime fightingshikigami, but it's burning her and she is forced to flee outinto the world. Janie knows that within just She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a few years she'll be blind sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and crippled. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Jenny Downham|title=You Against Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't 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 an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social services. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyMarcus Sedgwick|title=RevolutionWrath

|summary=Meet AndiFitz, a New York girl on a trip to Paris. She's a talented musician young Scottish lad full of frustration at a school for exceptional studentshimself. She's a wisecrackingLockdown is only just over, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. She's a brilliant people watcherand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Raised by Wolves|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bryn has lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Packwhom he wants, but Human, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it – when he talks to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true selfhis best friend, Cassie. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece They were half of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms and Europe's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacydesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard enigmatic – saying she could hear a gift for Sultan Mehmed V, Lord subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Horizons and ruler end of the Ottoman Empire. But when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn, world is already a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan and Alek, the heir to the throne done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of Austria-Hungary, ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secretsout the truth? Well, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly warwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudTori Bovalino|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)Devil Makes Three

|summary=Barty Working all summer in her boarding school's library is back! Well, he isn't actually back. But we the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do get — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to revisit himdeliver herself. Which What makes it worse is good. I'm sure you know the man who I'm talking aboutrequested the books: Mr Birch. But just in case you donThe boarding school'ts headmaster, Bartimaeus is and a man Tess hates. As a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni petty act of revenge for making her find and the star of deliver such a wonderful and bestlarge request, Tess sticks post-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies it notes on each of world historythe books, particularly that scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of London. In factThey're never meant to reach him, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who hasof course. But Bartimaeus Her plan is no Doctor Whoto get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. He's a rudeNo harm done… Or it would be, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isnif someone hadn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible one liner. And he usually comes through in the enddelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithPhilip Reeve|title=Furnace: Fugitives|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It has taken three books for Alex to get out of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murder, Utterly Dark and he would have found it a better experience were it a regular prison. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Warden, Mr Furnace, and the evil creatures they are both making, breeding and employing down there. But the whole experience has come at a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too much, and they are changing him too - making him one Face of their tools. It's only now, on the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carl Hiaasen|title=Scat|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 AllDeep

|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 Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|fact that she may be in constant pain for the first book]] rest of the Moorehawke Trilogyher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', The Poison Thronean online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, Wynter Moorhawkewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her childhood friend Razi, parents' car and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperatelytrying drive to find RaziBrigid's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared house to be driven insanecheck up on her. I thought I knew exactly But what she doesn't expect to expect from this second novel find there is a werewolf in the sequence, but was thrown sideways by basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the massive detour takenpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>1683692349