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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CremerMax Boucherat|title=Witches War: NightshadeThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Calla Tor has always known where We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her life is headinglonesome. Grow up What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, become mated and that is to log on to RenVoxminer, lead the new pack formed of her packmates and hisworld-building, serve the Keeper who they are assigned to servecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. That But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's the way things are for alphast find herself entirely on her own, and servitude is the sacred calling of the Guardiansthen she finds something even more spooky. Then Calla breaks one of For the fundamental rules of server she and her society – she saves the life bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a human boy, Shaytampering. She hopes to never see him again When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but when it becomes clear that he's somehow important to and her safe place in the Keepersgame has been doctored – well, and Calla where is charged a girl to look after him, she finds herself spending a lot of time with him. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410279</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie JonesRachel Greenlaw|title=Need Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Zara's stepfather died in front 'I can hear the song of her after seeing a man at the window - it spooked him so much that his heart failedsea. Her mother is concerned about her, Zara's not herself, she's hollow after the sudden loss The call of the closest thing to a father she's ever had. So, she's sent away to live with her Grandmother, Bettydeep, the answering beat in Mainemy heart. However, Maine isn't the safe haven that Zara's mother thought it would be. People are going missing, young boys to be precise, the same thing that happened just before Zara, her mother and stepfather moved away from Maine to start with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807408</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Medusa Project: Hunted|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Many teens (Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and older peopleany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, too!) wish they had a super-power or two: life would surely be easier if you could read other peoplecapture the island's leader and Mira's minds or move objects without touching themfather. But if this fascinating series about Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a team of crime-fighting teenagers shows us one clear thing, it wreck survivor who is that psychic powers can bring as many problems charming as solutions. Dylan, the central character in this particular volume, he is an angry, bad-tempered girl whose bristly exterior echoes her gift of protection her from physical harm. She is not well-liked by the other three, secretive and this becomes a real problem when she finds herself having with only coordinates to deal not only with terrible revelations about guide her father, but with the appearance she sets off in her life search of a mysterious boy, Harryfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Why does he know so much about With only nine days to unearth what might save her? And can she trust him? Lonelyfather, vulnerable Dylan is in as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the ideal position smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to make poor judgements save the future of her home and get herself into serious troublethe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385281</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally PrueHarry Allen|title=Ice MaidenChildren of the Sun

|summary=The Pan of Hamgee Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a relatively inconspicuous fellow living in the world of K'Barth, the setting of the battle between the overbearing, alien Grongolian settlers talented singer. Life is hard and the fanatic Resistance, described aptly food is difficult to come by The Pan as being 'The lesser, but only very slightly lesser of two evilsso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, possibly.' Naturally, The Pan wants nothing looking for tree bark and edible grasses to do with this political conflict but due to a number of unfortunate cases of wrong place, wrong time and disastrous luck, he has somehow been drafted in as supplement the getaway driver of a group meagre rations of bank robbers, rice and somehow come into possession of a magical thimble with the power to allow teleportation, an object greatly desired by K'Barth's despot ruler Lord Vernonkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907809007</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele JaffeAlexia Casale|title=RosebushSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=FirstlyIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Ibut that've got to say this book s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was incredibly hard going to put downchange her life. The plot is so absorbing I found myself trying But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to read a page at every opportunity I gotlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. I was late for work on Meanwhile there's a few occasions because I couldn't pull myself away. This is one new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the best books I have read in the last few monthschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410384</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse AndersonSimon Fox|title=ForgeDeadlock|genrerating=Teens4.5|ratinggenre=4Confident Readers|summary=We left Curzon Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Isabel at the end of Chainsthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, just after they'd escaped slavery in New York at and join him on the beginning of the American Revolutionary Warrun. We pick up again with Curzon - Isabel has run off They get together, but barely begin to find her sister - stumbling slap bang into smell the middle whiff of Southern trains when the Battle of Saratoga. Cornered into enlisting into father is arrested, leaving Archie on the Patriot armylate express to Brighton, Curzon isn't blind toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the ironies in his situation as bearer of a slave fighting for the freedom whole heap of white menquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803801</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleLex Croucher|title=Being BillyGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Billy is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a 'lifer' - he's been gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in care for eight yearsa most delightful way. He's angry In this story, defensive Gwen and folded up inside himself. HeArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's prone to vandalism and violence and barely a week goes by without his careworkers needing to restrain himonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. He doesn't really go to school and even And then when he doesGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Billy is so far behind that there seems little point. The only joy creating the subterfuge of falling in his life comes from the twinslove with each other, his little brother and sisterwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Louie and Lizzie But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can't keep him out of troubleboth truly be themselves, but or are they can provide an anchor and Billy delights in caring for them. He reads them bedtime stories and sits by the door of destined to live a lie their room until they fall asleep. whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141331356</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel VincentNick Brooks|title=Soul Screamers: My Soul to TakePromise Boys

|summary=After Kaylee and her friend Emma sneak into an over18's club, Kaylee gets unnervingly distressed by When the sight principal (headmaster) of a girldancingUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, feeling three boys find themselves called into the police station as if she needs to screamsuspects. As Emma Each, along with themysterious Nashseemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, try to calm her and remove her from each could have been there at the club, shetells them that she's convinced the girl is going to dietime of his murder. Waking upthe next day to turn on the news But who killed him, she finds out she was right. Andthen it happens again… Kaylee's convinced she's a freak and there'ssomething deeply wrong with herwhy, but Nash seems surprisingly unfazedby this, while her aunt and uncle if any of the boys are both acting strangely. What'swrong with her? And why does she know less about herself than innocent, will theydo about herbe able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303551</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keren David1919635017|title=When I Was Joe|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We meet 14 year old Tyler and his young mother Nicki at the policestation as he gives a statement about a stabbing he witnessed.Unfortunately for them, some of the people involved would rather notallow him A Thief to testify against them and he's forced to flee for hislife, moving into the Witness Protection scheme 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 and is coachedby older teen Ellie. Not everyone's happy with the impact he makes,though, and he needs to worry about rivals in school nearly as much ashe does about the gangsters who are still trying to silence him. Andthen he meets a girl with a dark secret of her own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847801005</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Stead|title=When You Reach Me|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Miranda has quite a bit going on in her life. Since her best friend Sal was punched on the street for no reason, he's been distant, shutting Miranda out of his life. This loss leaves Miranda somewhat adrift, as she and Sal have been inseparable since they were at day care together. So she strikes up Catch a friendship with Annemarie, but that involves coming between Annemarie and the stuck-up Julia. And then Colin joins the group, which adds yet more complications - Miranda likes Colin, but she's worried he might like Annemarie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392129</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Lee Monroe|title=Dark Heart Forever|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jane Jonas has been troubled by dreams lately. Dreams so vivid, it's almost like they're real. In them is a green eyed boy who believes they are each other's destiny. But in the real world, Jane has met Evan. Charming, charismatic, damaged Evan – intoxicating, incredibly attractive and just a little frightening. Jane has never been the sort to have friends, let alone boyfriends. And Evan is perfect, isn't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu|title=The Shadow SpeakerKitt Townsend|rating=24.5

|summary=Set in Western Africa in 2070Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, in so why is he running around London committing a world which has been forever changed by Peace Bombs, released years ago by series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an environmental group answer 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 shadowssecond question because I avoid spoilers. But five years ago, I'll answer the warrior queen Jaa beheaded Eiji's tyrannical father, and Jaa has returned seeking Eiji's helpfirst one: for his grandmother.. 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 CollinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Tyme's EndDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Bibi feels like Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a fish out standard school, 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 waterfour with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She As they's right in re all fired up, straining at the middle of the most difficult of teenage yearsleash only a single-sex school can form, the ones talk in which you donclass and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't feel as though you belong anywhereknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Bibi He's feelings are exacerbated because she is adopted. Friends of had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the family took her in after her parents died and they have done their best ladder headed by her. They love her and'experienced', despite everythingbut whether that's set in stone, Bibi loves themhe can't be sure. But she doesn And that't feel as though she belongs to this family and she thinks constantly s mostly because of her real parents who he's been having the relationship and her real home in the Middle Eastsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806479</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Godbersen1800901232|title=Bright Young ThingsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Right from Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the fantastic prologuerural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, which tells us this is so when the story of ''the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and bigsmartly-city dreams'', this is a book which had me completely dressed man and utterly hooked straight away. Cordelia Gray and her friend Letty Haubstadt run away from their small hometown in Ohio just after Cordelia's wedding, Letty determined woman came to the village to become offer Hahn a star job in New York while Cordelia seeks Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the infamous bootlegger Darius Grey, convinced he's her fathermini-bus to Hanoi. Meanwhile Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in the Big Apple itselfa shop, flapper Astrid Donal wants they were to get her boyfriend Charlie to commit to her but isn't sure if she can trust himwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. This first book in You know those jeans you really wanted: the Bright Young Things series follows ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the three girls over a few weeks which will change all of their liveslegs? 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>0141335343</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonya HartnettPatrice Lawrence|title=The Midnight ZooNeedle|rating=53

|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 's Eastern Europe during World War II heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and orphaned Roma brothers Andrej readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Tomas are journeying through war-ravaged countryside carrying schools, she's fostering with a precious pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and secret bundle. Ithas taken up residence in her son Blake's an odd kind of journey because they really donold room while he't have anywhere to gos at uni. They have Such a great deal to avoidtempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, howeveryou might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as soldiers with rifles, bombsCharlene is a wonder knitter, and villagers who would decry them on sight. As Andrej trudges on, worrying about Tomas, he is thinking itmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's just another night, just another village in ruinsallowed contact with no more. But he's wrong. The boys stumble across We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a zoo. The cages are still standingstore detective, intact and lockedthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And the animals have no food then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and waterpointy those knitting needles can be. But they are alive. And they can talk. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140633149X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie JonesAnn Sei Lin|title=EnticeRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=When I got this book I didn't realise it was Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the third book Midori, a massive dining hall floating in a series, and to start with this put me off; I thought I'd be the one stood outside sky where soldiers of the window watching everyone else at the party Empire come to drink and not understand what was going onmake merry between their conquests. However, as I started when a man named Himura arrives to read I started tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to feel more included than I thought I would (there is form paper into whatever she desires – a nice little reminder paragraph at power sought after all across the start Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that filled me on what I had missed)is all she has known. SoWell, although I recommend you start with soon Kurara won't have any say in the first book in matter, because the seriesMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Entice does have its own legs and she is very capable forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of standing on them.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408810441</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Nina Grunfeld|title=How To Get What You Want|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Higson|title=The Dead|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm writing for two sets of readers here: those who have read the first book in the series, and those who have not. The Dead is a prequel to The Enemy but both books are set in the same post-apocalyptic world in which the adult population has been decimated by a killer disease. Those that survive roam the streets as zombies, looking for untainted human flesh to eat. The only untainted flesh belongs to children who were fourteen or under when the disease struck, and were somehow immune. The Enemy is set two years after the epidemic, when it's getting more and more difficult for children to find food and shelter by scavenging and they are beginning to realise that they need to band together to start forming the prototype for a new society. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384654</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful Darkness|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Growing up there, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was a normal enough Southern town, if you could forgive the inhabitants' obsessions with the War of Northern Aggression. That was until he met Lena Duchannes and got plunged into her family's own civil war, as her family fought to get the young Caster to chooseeither Light or Dark. If you've haven't read [[Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|Beautiful Creatures]], the first novel in this sequence, break off from this review and go out and grab it now! If you have, you'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 a new school yet again, but this time he's made a good friend really quickly. He and Lloyd get on so well together that they're spending time with each other after school a lot - until they make one horrible mistake and end up trapped in a car speeding far away from their hometown, with a strange and creepy driver. Once they reach a big house, Sam is quickly separated from Lloyd - can he figure out a way 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 off in this second book in David Gatward's The Dead series. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been to the world of the Dead (don't ask), become a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off), and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner of the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a mission. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>}} {{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 the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a whole lot more exciting and dangeroushundred books that she has to deliver herself. In What makes it worse is the man who requested the course of one life-changing day, he learns that there is a pathway between his London in 'Somewherebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and an alternate London a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a parallel world called 'Nowhere'large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, and that scribbled with the fates ugliest insults she can think of both worlds are now under threat from a group . They're never meant to reach him, of rogue Knightscourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, who have the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swordsand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerPhilip Reeve|title=Utterly 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 'bind-up' editions - this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisteria, Maryland and trying to find closure on past events. 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 Face 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 HighDeep

|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

|summary=Malvina is thirteen years oldHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the youngest of three children fact that she may be in a dysfunctional family. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding constant pain for the rest of children, whilst her mother seems to suffer permanently from migrainelife. She has joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a good friend, Lizzybunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and they play together as much as they can, united in their dislike mess around. When Brigid—one of the her closest friends—doesn'boys from t respond to the estate'chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Her grandmother died last year, leaving She decides to steal her granddad on his own parents' car and it's Malvinadrive to Brigid'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 house to check up on her visits. There's a problem though. Malvina But what she doesn'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 expect to find there is still a problem for the evil diplomats from Darlington, the city that surrounds it. It was werewolf in the way of their waterpark [[The Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P J Bracegirdle|last time]], basement – and now puts a stop for that werewolf to a new sewage plant. Actually, chiefly in be 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 girl she has been talking to redevelop online for the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige for it with her beloved author E A Peugeot as a son of Spookingpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385206</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Wendigo|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop has spent his life tracking down dark and mysterious creatures, 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 Chanler, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampires, werewolves, and the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predator. Warthrop scoffs at the other men's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture Move 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, but when they return 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 the entire of [[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>}}