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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie KagawaMax Boucherat|title=The Iron Fey: The Iron KingLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meghan Chase has always found her life slightly odd. SheWe meet Lori on the first evening she's never fitted got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in at school, where bullies relentlessly target herbabysitter poorly, nor mother at homework, where her family always seem slightly surprised to find her there – except her little brotherjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Ethan, they barely remember on her as soon as she leaves the roomlonesome. Her only friend What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world -building, critter-collecting game that is Robbie, a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her happy-go-lucky next door neighbourown, who can always make her laughand then she finds something even more spooky. Meghan thinks turning sixteen will signal a change in their fortunes – For the server she'll and her bestie and nobody else should be able to driveenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, get them out of hickville once and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a while.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778304345</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda Press WulfRachel Greenlaw|title=CrusadeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=The Children's Crusade is one of those extraordinary stories of 'I can hear the Middle Ages which have caught the imagination song of historians and preachers. A young shepherd, who believed he was called by God to save the city of Jerusalem, managed to collect together an enormous horde of children and lead them all the way to the southern coast of Francesea. There, he assured them, the seas would part; they would march straight to the Holy Land and take back the city where Jesus had died. It is hard to say how much or how little The call of this story is true as records are sketchy — after all, the children concerned were mostly illiterate — but the spectacledeep, hardship and faith of the enterprise make for a dramatic taleanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804840</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Simon Scarrow|title=Gladiator: Fight for Freedom|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Marcus's father was Rosevear, a centurion in remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Roman legionswrecks. After Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the slave revolt led by Spartacus was finally put down, he retired from seven who swim out to survey the army ruins – rescuing any survivors and bought any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a farm on a small Greek trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Marcus has spent most of his boyhood on the farmDesperate to save him from death, learning Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to train dogsguide her, shoot his sling accurately and dreaming she sets off in search of one day becoming a fighter like his family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father. But , as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the farm is in debt and Marcussmuggler's life is about territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to crumble..save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333634</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidHarry Allen|title=Almost TrueChildren of the Sun

|summary=My usual warning when reviewing sequelsRa Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, there's no way on earth I can avoid some spoilers so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the breathtaking [[When I Was Joe by Keren David|When I Was Joe]] so bear that in mind when readingmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847801013</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren KateAlexia Casale|title=The Betrayal of Natalie HargroveSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Natalie Hargrove is one half of the It couple of Palmetto High, destined 's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to become Palmetto Princess. Her boyfriend Mike King should be navigate a shoolife-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in for Prince alongside the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her - except Mike doesn't seem too botheredlife. But she comes back fighting, in contrast desperate to avoid the loathsome - but hunky - Justin Balmerpity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. So when she Meanwhile there's given a chance new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to knock JB sort out , and just the day to day traumas of all the running for the crown, who can blame Natalie for pulling a harmless prank? Except when the prank turns out challenges her body continues to throw at her to be much less harmless than navigate. So even though shecan'd have expectedt dance anymore, the It couple are left frantically trying might she be able to cover their tracks before they lose everything.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552563722</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria V SnyderSimon Fox|title=Inside OutDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Through Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the narrative of the brilliantly gutsyforce, yet bitter Trellaand then suddenly rings Archie, ''Inside Out'' describes the unlikely revolution provoked by the mission undertaken by our protagonists to discover the legendary Gateway – demanding he fetch something from a rumoured pathway between secret place, and join him on the self-contained Inside and a utopia known only as Outsiderun. Originally reluctant to be drawn into what she considers to be a hoax They get together, Trella, due but barely begin to her particular proficiency smell the whiff of Southern trains when it comes to travelling through the piping and ventilation system that separates the various levels of Insidefather is arrested, somehow becomes leaving Archie on the figurehead of the rebellion of the Lowers against the Uppers. Howeverlate express to Brighton, there are some people who don't approve of this newfound hopetoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and are keen to stifle the revolution before it even beginsbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778304116</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike LancasterLex Croucher|title=0.4Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Kyle Straker's taped testimony begins Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with an editorBridget (the kingdom's note: ''The peculiar format only female knight) - something that you are holding - Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a book - was still boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the dominant form subterfuge of information storage at the time the tapes were madefalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. There is But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a reason why I insisted on this archaic format way in which willthey can both truly be themselves, I hope, become apparent as the narrative progresses.'' Kyle or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives in the early 21st century in a quiet village full of ordinary people.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405253045</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Ally Kennen|title=Quarry|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Scrappy's life is going absolutely nowhere. His mother has left his father. His sister is saving like mad for the deposit on a flat so that she can move out too. His grandfather is descending into senility. His school is about to be demolished. His best friend Silva gets all the girls and he's worried about the school villain, Judge, picking on him. His father, paranoid about a visit from tax inspectors, slaves over the scrapyard's books all night and so his temper is unpredictable. Very unpredictable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407111078</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie JonesNick Brooks|title=CaptivatePromise Boys

|summary=ZaraWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, her werewolf boyfriend, Nick, and their friends Issie and Devyn think their pixie problems are overthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. They've trapped Zara's dad Each, a pixie kingseemingly, and his followers in has a house surrounded by iron to stop them getting out and killing more teenage boys. But, Zara's dad is growing weak in his iron prisongrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and his territory is ready for each could have been there at the taking. That's when Astley turns up, a pixie king himself, when he's around Zara's skin turns blue, the true colour time of a pixiehis murder. Only being half pixie But who killed him, and having not been turned, why is Zara reacting like this? But Astley isn't the only pixie king that's made his way to Maine to claim the territory, and he's certainly not if any of the most evil.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807416</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrea Cremer1919635017|title=Witches War: NightshadeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Calla Tor has always known where her life Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is heading. Grow up, become mated he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to Ren, lead the new pack formed of her packmates and his, serve the Keeper who they are assigned to servesecond question because I avoid spoilers. ThatBut I's ll answer the way things are first one: for alphas, and servitude is the sacred calling of the Guardianshis grandmother. Then Calla breaks one of the fundamental rules of her society – she saves the life of a human boy, Shay. She hopes to never see him again, but when it becomes clear that he's somehow important to the Keepers, and Calla is charged to look after him, she finds herself spending a lot of time with him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410279</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie JonesPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Need Different for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Zara's stepfather died Ant is in front of her after seeing Year Eleven at quite a man at the window - standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it spooked him seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so much that his heart failed. Her mother desk is concerned about herone of four with both his best buddy from the football team, Zaraand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's not herselfre all fired up, she's hollow after straining at the sudden loss of leash only a single-sex school can form, the closest thing talk in class and out often turns to a father shesex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's ever had. Soa casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', shebut whether that's sent away to live with her Grandmother, Betty, set in Maine. Howeverstone, Maine isnhe can't the safe haven be sure. And that Zara's mother thought it would be. People are going missing, young boys to be precise, mostly because of who he's been having the same thing that happened just before Zara, her mother relationship and stepfather moved away from Maine to start the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807408</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie McKenzie1800901232|title=The Medusa Project: Hunted|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Many teens (and older people, too!) wish they had a super-power or two: life would surely be easier if you could read other people's minds or move objects without touching them. But if this fascinating series about a team of crime-fighting teenagers shows us one clear thing, it is that psychic powers can bring as many problems as solutions. Dylan, the central character in this particular volume, 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, and this becomes a real problem when she finds herself having to deal not only with terrible revelations about her father, but with the appearance in her life of a mysterious boy, Harry. Why does he know so much about her? And can she trust him? Lonely, vulnerable Dylan is in the ideal position to make poor judgements and get herself into serious trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385281</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Sally Prue|title=Ice MaidenSteve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Franz isn't popular Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village. It's 1939where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the German boy is on an extended holiday village to offer Hahn a job in England. Unsurprisingly, the local boys don't appreciate Hanoi it was an enemy in their midstopportunity not to be missed. Franz isn't happy at home either - he mistrusts his Nazi parents Some money changed hands and he remembers Hanh was on the rounding up of the disabledmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, the gypsies Hanh and the Jewsother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and the smashing glass at night. Lonely, Franz spends a lot of time beading on the common, observing legs? The ones with the natural world artfully-placed rips and the wildlife, in all its beauty distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and crueltyher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729659</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M T McGuirePatrice Lawrence|title=K'Barthan Trilogy: Few Are ChosenNeedle|rating=43

|summary=The Pan Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of Hamgee this piece is a relatively inconspicuous fellow living in the world of K'Barthextremely hard for some people to like, the setting characters and readers both. Kicked out of the battle between the overbearing, alien Grongolian settlers multiple homes and the fanatic Resistanceschools, described aptly by The Pan as being she'The lessers fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, but only very slightly lesser of two evilsAnnie, possiblyand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni.' Naturally, The Pan wants nothing to do with this political conflict but due to Such a number tempestuous personality may be in need of unfortunate cases of wrong placea comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, wrong time and disastrous luckthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, he has somehow been drafted in as the getaway driver of Charlene is a group of bank robberswonder knitter, and somehow come into possession is making something full of love for her younger sister – a magical thimble younger sister she's allowed contact with the power no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to allow teleportationsay, an object greatly desired by K'Barth's despot ruler Lord Vernononly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907809007</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michele JaffeAnn Sei Lin|title=RosebushRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=FirstlyKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, I've got a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to say this book was incredibly hard drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to put down. The plot tell her that she is so absorbing I found myself trying a Crafter like him, someone with the power to read form paper into whatever she desires – a page at every opportunity I gotpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. I was late for work on a few occasions because I couldnWell, soon Kurara won't pull myself away. This is one of the best books I have read any say in the last few monthsmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is 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 adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410384</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse AndersonMarcus Sedgwick|title=Forge|genre=TeensWrath|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=45

|summary=Billy is Meet Fitz, a 'lifer' - he's been in care for eight yearsyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He's angryLockdown is only just over, defensive and folded up inside himself. He's prone he should be free to vandalism and violence and barely a week goes by without his careworkers needing do what he wants, to restrain him. He doesn't really go to school where he wants and even with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he doestalks to his best friend, Billy is so far behind that there seems little pointCassie. The only joy in his life comes They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the twins, his little brother and sisterearth. Louie and Lizzie Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can't keep him Fitz find out of troublethe truth? Well, but they not when Cassie has gone missing he can provide an anchor and Billy delights in caring for them't.. He reads them bedtime stories and sits by the door of their room until they fall asleep. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141331356</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel VincentTori Bovalino|title=Soul Screamers: My Soul to TakeThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=After Kaylee and Working all summer in her friend Emma sneak into an over18boarding school's club, Kaylee library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets unnervingly distressed by the sight of a girldancing, feeling as if request for over a hundred books that she needs has to screamdeliver herself. As Emma, along with What makes it worse is the man who requested themysterious Nashbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, try to calm and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and remove her from deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the clubbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults shetells them that shecan think of. They's convinced the girl is going re never meant to diereach him, of course. Waking upthe next day Her plan is to turn on the news, she finds get her anger 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 like this, while her aunt and uncle are both acting strangelythen take them all off before delivering them. WhatNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn'swrong with t delivered them for her? And why does she know less about herself than theydo about her?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303551</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidPhilip Reeve|title=When I Was Joe|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We meet 14 year old Tyler Utterly Dark and his young mother Nicki at the policestation as he gives a statement about a stabbing he witnessed.Unfortunately for them, some Face of the people involved would rather notallow him 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 MeDeep

|summary=Miranda has quite In a bit going on word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in her life. Since her best friend Sal was punched this story set on the street for no reasona peculiar island called Wildsea, he's been distantBritish but way west, shutting Miranda out of his lifebeyond the Scillies. This loss leaves Miranda somewhat adriftThere are troll people on it, as she and Sal have been inseparable since they were at day care together. So she strikes up a friendship with Annemariesea-witches, but that involves coming between Annemarie and legends of 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>}} {{newreview|author=Lee Monroe|title=Dark Heart Forever|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jane Jonas family that has been troubled by dreams lately. Dreams so vividto keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, it's almost like they're realwhere no ship dare sail. In them is a green eyed boy who believes they The current Darks are each other's destiny. But in the real world, Jane has met Evan. CharmingWatcher, charismaticAndrewe, damaged Evan – intoxicating, incredibly attractive and just a little frightening. Jane who has never been to keep notes of activity from the sort to have friendsHidden Lands, let alone boyfriends. And Evan is perfect, isn't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu|title=The Shadow Speaker|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Set his brother Will who lives in Western Africa London with too much science 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 his head to communicate with shadows. But five years ago, the warrior queen Jaa beheaded Eiji's tyrannical fatherworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Jaa has returned seeking EijiAndrewe's help. While her mother forbids her from leaving her townfoundling daughter, the shadows tell Eiji that if she doesn't go with Jaa war is inevitable. What can she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423100360</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=Tyme's End|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Bibi feels like a fish who washed up out of water. She's right in the middle of the most difficult of teenage sea one day eleven yearsago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the ones in which you don't feel as though you belong anywhere. Bibi's feelings are exacerbated because she is adopted. Friends world of the family took her in after her parents died and they have done protecting their best by her. They love her andisland, despite everything, Bibi loves them. But she doesn't feel as though she belongs to this family and she thinks constantly of her real parents and her real home in the Middle Eastlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806479</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna Godbersen|title=Bright Young Things|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Right from the fantastic prologue, which tells us this is the story of ''the girls with their short skirts Kiran Millwood Hargrave and bright eyes and big-city dreams'', this is a book which had me completely 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 to become a star in New York while Cordelia seeks the infamous bootlegger Darius Grey, convinced he's her father. Meanwhile, in the Big Apple itself, flapper Astrid Donal wants to get her boyfriend Charlie to commit to her but isn't sure if she can trust him. This first book in the Bright Young Things series follows the three girls over a few weeks which will change all of their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335343</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sonya HartnettTom de Freston|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 Julia and locked. And the animals have no food and water. But they are alive. And they can talk. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633149X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Jones|title=EnticeShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When I got this book I didn't realise it was Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the third book family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a seriessummer, and to start with this put me off; I thought I'd be in the one stood outside the window watching everyone else at far NE of the party and not understand what was going onScottish islands. However Here be Vikings, as I started that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to read I started be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to feel more included than I thought I would (there is a nice little reminder paragraph at hunt the start that filled me on what I had missed)elusive Greenland shark. So And Julia, although I recommend you start with the first book in the serieswell, Entice does have its own legs she will be homesick and is very capable of standing on themalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408810441</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nina GrunfeldJonathan Stroud|title=How To Get What You WantThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=How To Get What You Want 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 shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a self help book aimed at young people 'at dark boy with dark powers and a crossroads in their life'darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, who are unsure what they plan to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want flee to do is half the battle towards achieving itmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and sets out all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to help reach the reader identify who Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like in the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HigsonMercedes Helnwein|title=The DeadSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=OkGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. I'm writing for two sets As a secret illegitimate daughter of readers here: those who have read the first book in the seriesa man with a "real" family, and those who have she is used to notbeing a priority in people's lives. The Dead is But when she defends a prequel to The Enemy but both books are set in the same post-apocalyptic world random boy in which the adult population has been decimated by a killer disease. Those that survive roam the streets as zombiesher class with her slingshot, looking her simple existence is changed for untainted human flesh to eatgood. The only untainted flesh belongs to children who were fourteen or under when the disease struckNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and were somehow immune. The Enemy is set two years after the epidemic, when for her life now has a boy in 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 she never asked for a new society: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384654</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlT L Huchu|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful DarknessThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Growing up thereRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was using Zimbabwean magic (and a normal enough Southern town, if you could forgive the inhabitants' obsessions with the War bit of Northern Aggression. That was until he met Lena Duchannes and got plunged into her family's own civil war, as her family fought Scottish pragmatism) to get take messages from the young Caster to chooseeither Light or Darkdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. 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 Ever since she dropped out and grab it now! If you haveof school, you'll remember that Lenashe's 16th birthday left her with a choice to make that would kill half of her family. This book follows Ethan as he tries been using it to support her through that choice not only herself, but watches her get pulled towards younger sister and her Dark cousin Ridley and a new boy in townaging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the mysterious John Breed. While the first novel was more ruined streets of a romance, this is an adventure story which sees Ethan, his friend LinkEdinburgh, new girl in town Liv, and a variety of others embark on a journey to save targeting the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Savita Kalhan|title=The Long Weekend|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Samcity's just moved to a new school yet againchildren. Soon, but this time he's made Ropa is pulled into the search for a good friend really quicklymissing boy at the request of his dead mother. 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 She will end up trapped in a car speeding far away from their hometown, with a strange discovering an occult library 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 realise that the world of the Dead (don't ask), become a Keeper (magic is far bigger and more dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skinthan she ever could's fallen off), and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner of ve imagined. Will she find the Dark missing children 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 bring an end to her best friend Xanderthis evil, she couldn't be more thrilled. Unlike the other girls, she knows or will it claim 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.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333057</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayKristen O'Neal|title=The Hollow: The HauntedLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=In [[The Hollow by Jessica Verday|The Hollow]]Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Abbey tried Priya has to cope come to terms with thedisappearance fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her best friend life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an 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, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her feelings closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for new boyfriend Caspian - only a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to find herself losing steal her grip parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on sanity when she discovered Caspian was dead, a Shade, rather than another real personher. After a summer away from Sleepy Hollow, But what she returns, trying doesn't expect 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 is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to Kristen? Where do Katrina Van Tassel and Nikolas, be the famous Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, fit into all this? And does anyone who missed girl she has been talking to online for the first book have any hope of following what's going on?past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384994</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Simone Elkeles|title=Rules of Attraction|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Carlos Fuentes isn't interested in living in America with his over-protective brother Alex, but his mother sends him there for his senior year of high school to try and keep him out of trouble. Kiara Westford is happy to help a new guy settle in - at least until the shy stutterer actually meets the bad boy. Despite their initial dislike of each other, they're thrown together when Carlos has drugsplanted Move on him and her well respected father takes him in to stop him being sent back to Mexico. Will these two headstrong youngsters find love?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Silverwood|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 and dangerous. In the course of one life-changing day, he learns that there is a pathway between his London 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 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 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]