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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieMax Boucherat|title=The Medusa Project: HuntedLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Franz isnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't popular s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the village, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It's 1939 What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and the German boy that is to log on an extended holiday in England. Unsurprisinglyto Voxminer, the local boys donworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori't appreciate an enemy in their midsts world. Franz isn But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't happy at home either - he mistrusts his Nazi parents find herself entirely on her own, and he remembers then she finds something even more spooky. For the rounding up of the disabled, the gypsies server she and the Jews, her bestie and the smashing glass at nightnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Lonely, Franz spends a lot of time When malevolent eyes spark up on the commonher phone screen, observing the natural world and her safe place in the wildlifegame has been doctored – well, in all its beauty and cruelty. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729659</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M T McGuireRachel Greenlaw|title=K'Barthan Trilogy: Few Are ChosenCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=The Pan of Hamgee is a relatively inconspicuous fellow living in the world of K'Barth, 'I can hear the setting song of the battle between the overbearing, alien Grongolian settlers and the fanatic Resistance, described aptly by The Pan as being 'The lesser, but only very slightly lesser of two evils, possiblysea.' Naturally, The Pan wants nothing to do with this political conflict but due to a number of unfortunate cases call of wrong place, wrong time and disastrous luck, he has somehow been drafted in as the getaway driver of a group of bank robbersdeep, and somehow come into possession of a magical thimble with the power to allow teleportation, an object greatly desired by Kanswering beat in my heart.'Barth's despot ruler Lord Vernon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907809007</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Michele Jaffe|title=Rosebush|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=FirstlyRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, I've got to say this book was incredibly hard to put downsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The plot Mira, like her mother before her, is so absorbing I found myself trying one of the seven who swim out to read a page at every opportunity I gotsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. I was late for work on But when the Council Watch lays a few occasions because I couldntrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island't pull myself aways leader and Mira's father. This Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is one as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the best books I have read in smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the last few monthsones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410384</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=Forge|genre=Teens|rating=4|summary=We left Curzon and Isabel at the end of Chains, just after they'd escaped slavery in New York at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. We pick up again with Curzon - Isabel has run off to find her sister - stumbling slap bang into the middle of the Battle of Saratoga. Cornered into enlisting into the Patriot army, Curzon isn't blind to the ironies in his situation as a slave fighting for the freedom of white men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803801</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Earle|title=Being Billy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Billy is a 'lifer' - he's been in care for eight years. He's angry, defensive and folded up inside himself. He's prone to vandalism and violence and barely a week goes by without his careworkers needing to restrain him. He doesn't really go to school and even when he does, Billy is so far behind that there seems little point. The only joy in his life comes from the twins, his little brother and sister. Louie and Lizzie can't keep him out of trouble, but they can provide an anchor and Billy delights in caring for them. He reads them bedtime stories and sits by the door of their room until they fall asleep. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141331356</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel VincentHarry Allen|title=Soul Screamers: My Soul to Take|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After Kaylee and her friend Emma sneak into an over18's club, Kaylee gets unnervingly distressed by the sight Children of a girldancing, feeling as if she needs to scream. As Emma, along with themysterious Nash, try to calm her and remove her from the club, shetells them that she's convinced the girl is going to die. Waking upthe next day to turn on the news, she finds out she was right. Andthen it happens again… Kaylee's convinced she's a freak and there'ssomething deeply wrong with her, but Nash seems surprisingly unfazedby this, while her aunt and uncle are both acting strangely. What'swrong with her? And why does she know less about herself than theydo about her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303551</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keren David|title=When I Was JoeSun

|summary=We meet 14 year old Tyler Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and his young mother Nicki at the policestation as he gives a statement about she is a stabbing he witnessedtalented singer.Unfortunately for them, some of the people involved would rather notallow him to testify against them Life is hard and he's forced food is difficult to flee for hislifecome by, moving into the Witness Protection scheme so Seo and starting afresh ina new school. Despite the vicious thugs on his trail, there arecertain compensations to life at his new school. Formerly just a facein the crowd at St Saviour's, the mysterious newcomer quickly becomespopular, especially when he gets involved in athletics her friends Nari and is coachedby older teen Ellie. Not everyone's happy with the impact he makes,thoughMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and he needs edible grasses to worry about rivals in school nearly as much ashe does about supplement the gangsters who are still trying to silence himmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. Andthen he meets a girl with a dark secret of her own…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847801005</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadAlexia Casale|title=When You Reach MeSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Jane Jonas has been troubled by dreams lately. Dreams so vivid, itIt's almost like theyhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're real. In them is having to navigate a green eyed boy who believes they are each otherlife-changing disability too, but that's destinywhat Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But in she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the real worldpity stares, Jane has met Evanand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Charming Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, charismaticher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, damaged Evan – intoxicating, incredibly attractive and just a little frightening. Jane has never been the sort day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to have friends, let alone boyfriendsnavigate. And Evan is perfect, isn So even though she can't hedance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444901893</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu|title=The Shadow Speaker|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Set in Western Africa in 2070, in a world which has been forever changed by Peace Bombs, released years ago by an environmental group to counteract the effects of a US nuclear bomb, teenage heroine Eiji grows up knowing she is different. The Peace Bomb has given many people superpowers, hers being to communicate with shadows. But five years ago, the warrior queen Jaa beheaded Eiji's tyrannical father, and Jaa has returned seeking Eiji's help. While her mother forbids her from leaving her town, the shadows tell Eiji that if she doesn't go with Jaa war is inevitable. What can she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423100360</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsSimon Fox|title=Tyme's EndDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Bibi feels like Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a fish out of watersecret place, and join him on the run. She's right in They get together, but barely begin to smell the middle whiff of Southern trains when the most difficult of teenage yearsfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the ones in which you don't feel as though you belong anywhere. Bibi's feelings are exacerbated because she is adopted. Friends of the family took her in after her parents died and they have done their best by her. They love her andlate express to Brighton, despite everythingtoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, Bibi loves them. But she doesn't feel as though she belongs to this family and she thinks constantly the bearer of a whole heap of her real parents and her real home in the Middle Eastquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806479</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna GodbersenLex Croucher|title=Bright Young ThingsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=Right from the fantastic prologueWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, which tells us it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this is the story of ''the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes , Gwen and big-city dreams''Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, this is a book which had me completely and utterly hooked straight away. Cordelia Gray and her friend Letty Haubstadt run away from much to their small hometown in Ohio just after Cordelia's weddingmutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Letty determined to become a star is in New York while Cordelia seeks love with Bridget (the infamous bootlegger Darius Grey, convinced hekingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her fatherprivate diaries. Meanwhile And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in the Big Apple itselflove with each other, flapper Astrid Donal wants to get her boyfriend Charlie to commit to her but isn't sure if she can trust himwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. This first book But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in the Bright Young Things series follows the three girls over which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a few weeks which will change all of lie their whole lives.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141335343</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Sonya Hartnett|title=The Midnight Zoo|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Eastern Europe during World War II and orphaned Roma brothers Andrej and Tomas are journeying through war-ravaged countryside carrying a precious and secret bundle. It's an odd kind of journey because they really don't have anywhere to go. They have a great deal to avoid, however, such as soldiers with rifles, bombs, and villagers who would decry them on sight. As Andrej trudges on, worrying about Tomas, he is thinking it's just another night, just another village in ruins. But he's wrong. The boys stumble across a zoo. The cages are still standing, intact and locked. And the animals have no food and water. But they are alive. And they can talk. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633149X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie JonesNick Brooks|title=EnticePromise Boys

|summary=When I got this book I didn't realise it was the third book in a seriesprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, and to start with this put me off; I thought I'd be three boys find themselves called into the one stood outside the window watching everyone else at the party and not understand what was going onpolice station as suspects. However Each, as I started to read I started to feel more included than I thought I would (seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there is a nice little reminder paragraph at the start that filled me on what I had missed)time of his murder. So But who killed him, although I recommend you start with the first book in the seriesand why, Entice does have its own legs and is very capable if any of standing on them.the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408810441</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nina Grunfeld1919635017|title=How To Get What You WantA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people Solomon Klyne isn'at t a crossroads in their life'bad lad, who are unsure what to do next. The author so why is he running around London committing a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out wait to get an answer to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the 'Balance Chart'first one: for his grandmother.. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HigsonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The DeadDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm writing for two sets of readers here: those who have read the first book Ant is in the seriesYear Eleven at quite a standard school, and those who have not. The Dead is a prequel surprised to The Enemy but both books are set in the same post-apocalyptic world in find his geography class (within which the adult population it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been decimated by a killer disease. Those that survive roam restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the streets as zombiesfootball team, looking for untainted human flesh and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to eatprimary school days together. The As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only untainted flesh belongs to children who were fourteen or under when a single-sex school can form, the disease struck, talk in class and were somehow immuneout often turns to sex. The Enemy Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is set two years after the epidemic, when itwhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's getting more and more difficult had a casual relationship, a secret one, for children to find food several months now, and shelter so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by scavenging 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and they are beginning to realise that they need to band together to start forming the prototype for a new societysex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384654</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl1800901232|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful DarknessStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Growing up there, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a normal enough Southern town, if you could forgive fashion designer. Life in the inhabitants' obsessions rural village where she lived with the War of Northern Aggression. That was until he met Lena Duchannes and got plunged into her family's own civil warwas happy, if not prosperous, as her family fought so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to get the young Caster village to chooseeither Light or Dark. If you've haven't read [[Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|Beautiful Creatures]], the first novel offer Hahn a job in this sequence, break off from this review and go out and grab Hanoi it now! If you have, you'll remember that Lena's 16th birthday left her with a choice was an opportunity not to make that would kill half of her familybe missed. This book follows Ethan as he tries to support her through that choice but watches her get pulled towards her Dark cousin Ridley Some money changed hands and a new boy in town, Hanh was on the mysterious John Breedmini-bus to Hanoi. While Only, Hanh and the first novel was more of other girls were not going to work in a romanceshop, this is they were to work in virtual slavery in an adventure story which sees Ethan, his friend Link, new girl in town Liv, illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and a variety of others embark beading on a journey to save the daylegs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Savita KalhanPatrice Lawrence|title=The Long WeekendNeedle|rating=53

|summary=SamBrave. Charlene, the 's just moved heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to a new school yet againlike, but this time he's made a good friend really quicklycharacters and readers both. He Kicked out of multiple homes and Lloyd get on so well together that theyschools, she're spending time s fostering with each other after school a lot - until they make one horrible mistake pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and end has taken up trapped residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a car speeding far away from their hometowncomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a strange store detective, and creepy driverthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Once they reach a big housewell, Sam what exactly happens is quickly separated from Lloyd - not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can he figure out a way to escape alive?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842708465</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GatwardAnn Sei Lin|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=We pick up exactly Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where we left off in this second book in David Gatward's The Dead seriessoldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice)However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, resurrected (twice)someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, been to leave the world life of the Dead (dondreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't ask)have any say in the matter, become because the Midori is destroyed by a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself monstrous paper spirit known as a personal guardian angel (Arielleshikigami, alcoholic)and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a Dead guide (Red, sky-ship whose skin's fallen off)express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner of the Dark and seriously not having a good time whole world of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a mission. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Ally Condie|title=Matched|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When the Society Matches Cassia to her best friend Xander, she couldn't be more thrilled. Unlike the other girls, she knows her Match – doesn't need to read his details, go through the motions of dating as dictated by the Society, doesn't need to worry they won't get along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333057</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow: The Haunted|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In [[The Hollow by Jessica Verday|The Hollow]], Abbey tried to cope with thedisappearance of her best friend and her feelings for new boyfriend Caspian - only to find herself losing her grip on sanity when she discovered Caspian was dead, a Shade, rather than another real person. After a summer away from Sleepy Hollow, she returns, trying to concentrate on making perfumes and getting science tuition from nice cute Ben - but then Caspian reappears. Will the two find true love? Why are there so many other weird strangers around Sleepy Hollow who Abbey keeps meeting? What exactly DID happen to Kristen? Where do Katrina Van Tassel and Nikolas, the famous Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, fit into all this? And does anyone who missed the first book have any hope of following what's going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384994</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesMarcus Sedgwick|title=Rules of AttractionWrath

|summary=Carlos Fuentes isn't interested in living in America Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with his over-protective brother Alexwhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his mother sends him there for foot in it when he talks to his senior year best friend, Cassie. They were half of high a desultory school to try and keep him out band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of trouble. Kiara Westford the world is happy to help already a done deal? Is it some spooky new guy settle in - at least until kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the shy stutterer actually meets the bad boy. Despite their initial dislike of each othertruth? Well, they're thrown together not when Carlos Cassie has drugsplanted on him and her well respected father takes him in to stop him being sent back to Mexicogone missing he can't... Will these two headstrong youngsters find love?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SilverwoodTori Bovalino|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged SwordDevil Makes Three

|summary=When FinWorking all summer in her boarding school's guardian, Judge Harlequin Brown library is murdered, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting and dangerous. In the course of one life-changing day, he learns that there is last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a pathway between his London in 'Somewhere', and an alternate London of request for over a parallel world called 'Nowhere', and hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the fates of both worlds are now under threat from a group of rogue Knights, man who have requested the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swordsbooks: Mr Birch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of Midnight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Like the first four novellas in the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two boarding school'bind-up' editions - this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisterias headmaster, Maryland and trying to find closure on past eventsa man Tess hates. In this case, Anna is summoned there by As a letter from petty act of revenge for making her uncle asking her to return to find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the place where her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their familybooks, but by scribbled with the time ugliest insults she returns her uncle is deadcan think of. They're never meant to reach him, his body found in the boot of a burnt out carcourse. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct plan is to get her anger out as quickly as possiblelike this, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zackand then take them all off before delivering them. The O'Neill women have always been said to No harm done… Or it would be psychic, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw if someone hadn't delivered them for her towards a solution - but also further into danger.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisi HarrisonPhilip Reeve|title=Monster HighUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I don't know about everyone elseIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but I'm getting a bit fed up of all way west, beyond the vampiresScillies. There are troll people on it, werewolves and other creepies sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that seem has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to have popped keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up since out of the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]sea one day eleven years ago. SoBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, when this book landed on my doorstepboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, I can't say I held much hope for like itor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare ChambersKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Burning SecretsJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=DanielJulia, his mother our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and his sister Louie are escaping their cat from the city family home in SW England to spend six months on be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the isolated far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniel's mother Dad is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie going to be automating the lantern, which is prone his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after a conviction for fire-setting resulting in hunt the death of an old itinerantelusive Greenland shark. There's plenty to leave behind And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelJonathan Stroud|title=Half BrotherThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Ben's thirteen Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and an only child. You'd think he was entirely used Faith Houses to being wander the wildlands between the centre Seven Kingdoms of attentionBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But thenshe meets Albert Browne, wouldn't you? But this isn't really the case. Ben's parents are academics. His father is a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist dark boy with dark powers and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as her husband's research assistanta darker past. Ben is used With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to coming second flee to the advance mythical Free Isles of sciencethe London Lagoon. He can cope with that. Usually. But then his parents up sticks Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and move him all the way across Canada. Why? Because his father's new university is prepared to underwrite his new project horrors of post- raising a chimpanzee as human and trying apocalyptic society to teach it American Sign Language. reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenMercedes Helnwein|title=Sigrun's SecretSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=It must have seemed Gracie Welles has resigned herself to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in Iceland, breaking and training the colts on the being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family farm or helping her mother, Thora, who was she is used to not being a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her fatherpriority in people's ship returned home and the family was together againlives. It was not to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding But when she defends a dreadful secret and when it caught up random boy in her class with them, Sigrun, her father and Asgrimslingshot, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik simple existence is changed for three yearsgood. She was completely unused to the busy city life and disliked the violence and cruelty No longer can she found around spend her. But – at the same time – writing novels in solitude, for her own skills as life now has a healer and midwife began to blossomboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanT L Huchu|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga Library of Larten Crepsley)the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Larten Crepsley leads Ropa Moyo is a hardghostalker, hard lifeusing Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. One child amongst manyEver since she dropped out of school, born during an industrial revolutionshe's been using it to support not only herself, he works horrendously long but her younger sister and dangerous hours in a silk factory even though heher aging grandmother. However, there's yet to see his teens. If an evil stalking the family is to eatruined streets of Edinburgh, there is little choicetargeting the city's children. The foreman Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and nobody dares challenge him realise that the world of magic is far bigger and if it wasn't for his orphan cousin, Vur, Lartenmore dangerous than she ever could's life would be grim indeedve imagined. But things never seem quite so dark when you have a true friendWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, do theyor will it claim her too? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beate Teresa HanikaKristen O'Neal|title=Learning to ScreamLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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{{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After spending the entire of Move on to [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded ShadowsNewest Thrillers Reviews]], the excellent second book in this series, looking for it, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can she, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince to make peace with his father, or is their quest to end in bloodshed and failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>}}