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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganMax Boucherat|title=Return to RibblestropThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Before they even get back We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to Ribblestroppop in, Millie and her friends singularly or together hitchhikebabysitter poorly, pay their bus drivers the fare in fagsmother at work, survive a car crashjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, set fire to on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a hotelblanket fort, survive being eaten by a lion and other big catsshe has one main intention, and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record that is to take his unemployed circus animals log on to Ribblestrop. And what Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is Ribblestrop, you may ask? "Ribblestropa hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a school?" said Flaviotiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.<br>"Kind For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of", said Ruskintampering. "It's trying When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to be."turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali LewisRachel Greenlaw|title=Everybody JamCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Danny lives on a cattle station in ''I can hear the song of the Australian outbacksea. His brother Jonny died The call of the deep, the answering beat in an horrific accident last year and the subject is absolutely taboomy heart. Nobody even mentions his name. But Danny keeps Jonny's room just as it was when he died, and he touches his picture every day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939248X</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|author=Eve Edwards|title=The Queen's Lady|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Although it's not long since Lady Jane Rievaulx's husband died she's already beginning Rosevear, a new life in service to remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Queen at Richmond Palacewrecks. It's not enthusiasm which Mira, like her mother before her, is driving her one of the seven who swim out to this but her late husband's children are disputing her dower rights survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and her own father finds it difficult to accept any treasure that she is now an independent womanlies within. In But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the Queenwrecking, they capture the island's service she has a degree of protection. The man she loves – James Lacy – has demons of his own to conquer leader and heMira's about father. Desperate to set sail save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is 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 Americassea. When Jane's family force With only nine days to unearth what might save her into a dreadful situation it looks father, as though her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the one man who can smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save her is at the other side future of her home and the worldones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra GloverHarry Allen|title=FalloutChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hannah tries Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to object when come by, so Seo and her so-called friends throw an impromptu party at her house during her parents' absence, but she simply doesn't know how to stand up to them. At first things aren't too bad: her parents will Nari and Min go ballistic when they see the spilt beer on the carpetsforaging every evening, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. Then drink looking for tree bark and drugs begin edible grasses to take their toll. A window is smashed during a fight, all manner supplement the meagre rations of things are damaged beyond repair, rice and the house is burgled. And something terrible, something so bad she can't face it or admit it, happens to Hannah during that eventful night. And it will destroy lives in more than one familykimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel H WilsonAlexia Casale|title=Code Lightfall and the Robot King|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Code Lightfall is on a school trip to a prehistoric mound when he falls through a trap into another world, where everything is made of crystal, or metal, and the only living Sing if you Can'animals' are all robotic. It's a world under threat, so can he journey across its bizarre landscapes and save it all? And what is the truth of the mound, where his grandfather disappeared a year ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Buried Thundert Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=On It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a walk in the woods near the familylife-changing disability too, but that's new home, Maya what Ven is suddenly compelled by dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a glinting pair of yellow eyes dance performance that was going to run away from change her brother and deep into the treeslife. What But she finds is shocking - three dead bodies with a figure standing over the third. Terrifiedcomes back fighting, Maya stumbles back and recounts the horror desperate to her parents, who call avoid the police. But the police can't find any bodiespity stares, and itdesperate to get back to a life that's clear they think as normal as shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a prankster. Even Maya's parents don't really believe 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 challenges her body continues to throw at herto navigate. They think So even though shecan's seeing things and they're worried that t dance anymore, might she's ill. be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Berlie DohertySimon Fox|title=TreasonDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Forced by Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his power-hungry aunt and uncle to leave shift on the comfort of his modest family homeforce, Will Montague finds himself utterly overwhelmedand then suddenly rings Archie, as demanding he works as fetch something from a page secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to Prince Edward under smell the keen eye whiff of Southern trains when the temperamental King Henry, just as prone to unexpected bursts of compassion as he father is to brutal cruelty. Just as he begins to find his feet in this new positionarrested, Will finds himself suddenly leaving Archie on the runlate express to Brighton, desperately trying to clear the name of toting a tin his father, convicted of treason for failing was determined to revert to the Protestantism led by the Kingkeep away from his colleagues, and simultaneously gaining more awareness the bearer of the world he lives in and the plights a whole heap of the working classquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391211</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally CarterLex Croucher|title=Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When your average girl wonders Who knew that what a boy is I really like, she and her friends will maybe ask around among brothers and lab partners, or even, if he is majorly good-looking, try needed to trail him around town on read right now was a Saturday morning. gay Arthurian RomCom? But the girls of the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women do things differently. They have access to top-secret files. They have been trained to disguise themselves for covert operations. They know how to read the slightest hints drawn from a person's body language. When they get curious about somethinghonestly, there's very little chance it will stay hidden. But now their skills are really being put to the test. Cammie's room-mate Macey, the daughter of lifted my spirits in a senator on the campaign trail, has been attackedmost delightful way. It will take everything her friends have learned In this story, Gwen and moreArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to protect her and solve the mysteries which surround them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830953X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexandra Adornetto |title=Halo|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=When three angels – Gabrieltheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Ivy and Bethany – arrive in a quiet townyou see, their mission is to bring good to a world in danger of falling into darkness. They have to conceal their true nature – hiding love with Bridget (the glow of their skin, their wings – a task not easy for Bethany, the least experienced of the trio. Shekingdom's overwhelmed by human life, fascinated by all the experiences available to only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her in human formprivate diaries. A fascination that leads to And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a dangerous attraction to human boythey find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Xavier. Falling creating the subterfuge of falling in love was not part of the holy missionwith each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and Gabriel and Ivy fear Bethany won't will they find a way in which they can both truly be in the position themselves, or are they destined to save anybody if she continues down the path she's on.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410759</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia RayburnNick Brooks|title=SirenPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=17-year old Vanessa has always been looked after by her more adventurousWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, outgoing older sister Justinethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. So when her sister is found dead while they're on vacation in Winter Harbor Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and Justine's boyfriend Caleb goes missing, she's devastatedeach could have been there at the time of his murder. Desperately searching for answers to Justine's demise But who killed him, she returns to Harbor seeking answersand why, and teams up with Caleb's brother Simon to find them. Then if any of the weather gets strangeboys are innocent, and other bodies start turning up… can will they solve the mysterybe able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571260063</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Hoffman1919635017|title=The Left Hand of GodA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cale is fourteen and his life so far has not been one to envy. Brought to the RedeemersSolomon Klyne isn' Sanctuary as just t a toddlerbad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's lived within its militant religious fanaticism for all the years he can remember. Beaten, brutalised and half-starved, Cale and his fellow acolytes are being raised ll have to wait to fight get an ongoing and bloody war against heretics. Cale is of special interest answer to Bosco, a Redeemer Lord Militant, and we soon realise whythe second question because I avoid spoilers. Cale is intelligent, ruthless, quick, and has But I'll answer the ability to kill without remorsefirst one: for his grandmother.. He is an asset. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333553</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie HearnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=WreckersDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The story of Pandora, whose actions are the cause of all the ills Ant is in our worldYear Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is well-known. As Julie Hearn ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of her characters sayfour with both his best buddy from the football team, men remember it because and two other old muckers – in fact they feel better if all go back to primary school days together. As they 're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can blame herform, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that other female villainregard lie. He's had a casual relationship, Evea secret one, for all their woes several months now, and crimes. But supposing Hope wasnso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced't the last thing in , but whether that plain wooden box? What if something else, something slow and ugly and steeped 's set in evilstone, skulked in the shadows right at the bottom? he can't be sure. And what if someone today lifted that's mostly because of who he's been having the lid, as Pandora did, relationship and allowed that last, terrible evil to escape?the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729292</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Petersen1800901232|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The GuardStitched Up|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start with, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchise. But I'm often up for an introduction to a fantasy cycle, and I always relish being welcomed to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin-off]], and I'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from the pens of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Curtis Jobling|title=Wereworld: Rise of the WolfSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyDyslexia Friendly|summary=Drew Ferran knows there's Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a monster roaming fashion designer. Life in the land rural village where his she lived with her family farm – he just doesn't realise was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it could was an opportunity not to be inside himmissed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Until a terrible creature attacks his beloved mother Only, triggering Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a transformation in himshop, and leading his father and brother they were to believe he’s responsible for her deathwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Forced to flee to You know those jeans you really wanted: the most godforsaken parts of Lyssia, Drew becomes quickly embroiled in ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the world of legs? The ones with the Werelordsartfully-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. Can he survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333391</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivy DevlinPatrice Lawrence|title=Low Red MoonNeedle|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=AveryBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's parents have been murdered, they’ve been literally torn apartof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and Avery saw the whole thingreaders both. But her minds blocked it Kicked outof multiple homes and schools, all she remembers is seeing something inhumanly fast's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, flashes and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of silvera comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and bloodthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, lots and is making something full of bloodlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Whatever killed We see Charlene prove her parents is still out therebelligerence 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 trying not for me to say, only to kill herremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881398X</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, 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, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, 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…|isbn=1406399590}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia ElliottMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Traitor's Smile (Pimpernelles)Wrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Usual spoiler warning for [[The Pale Assassin (Pimpernelles) by Patricia Elliott|Pimpernelles book oneMeet Fitz, The Pale Assassin]]: a young Scottish lad full of frustration at the end of that bookhimself. Lockdown is only just over, heroine Eugenie and love interest Julien had escaped the French Revolution he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but been forced he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to leave behind Eugenie's brother Armand to face his best friend, Cassie. 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 wrath earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the government over the failed attempt to rescue end of the King. Eugenie world is being followed by Guy Deschamps, who already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she still trusts, despite Julien's duel with him at the end dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the first booktruth? Well, not knowing that when Cassie has gone missing hecan's working for the Pale Assassin himself Raoul Goullett...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340956771</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William HusseyTori Bovalino|title=Witchfinder: Gallows at TwilightThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After turning from horror comic geek Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a cloned Witchfinder hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and saviour of humanity in the space a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a few short weekslarge request, Jake Harker's magic is understandably depleted. Try as he mightTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the blue light fails to ingite in his handugliest insults she can think of. But Jake has no time for recuperation or for coming They're never meant to terms with the loss reach him, of his mothercourse. His father Her plan is dyingto get her anger out like this, hexed by the evil witch Marcus Crowdenand then take them all off before delivering them. And the Demon Father is at largeNo harm done… Or it would be, summoning a universal coven that will threaten everything Jake has already fought to saveif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731912</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryPhilip Reeve|title=Rot & RuinUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's been fourteen years since First Night and the zombie apocalypseIn a word, rich. Those humans who survived the disease that created the undead live There is certainly an abundance of riches in pocket communitiesthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, fenced off from beyond the horrors of the outside worldScillies. Resources There are scarce troll people on it, and all citizens must find a job as soon as they turn fifteensea-witches, else their rations are cut in half. Benny Imura and legends of the Dark family that has just turned fifteen to keep watch for magical islands and so he needs work badlytheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. He tries out as a locksmithThe current Darks are the Watcher, a fence technicianAndrewe, a portraitist and a carpet coat salesman. Nothing works out and so Benny who has no option but to keep notes of activity from the last resort - an apprenticeship 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 out of the family business of zombie huntingsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, under both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the tutelage world of his older brother Tomprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070959</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhiannon LassiterKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Ghost of a ChanceJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Eva Chance is used to being ignored by her family, apart from her frail grandfather, who she adores. So she's barely even surprised when they don't set a place for her at a dinner party. But when nearly everyone is ignoring her she grows increasingly concerned – and that's when she realises she's dead. Can she solve the mystery of her murder before either malevolent ghosts or human criminals can do any more damage to her family, aided only by Kyra, who bullied her when she was alive, Kyra's brother Kyle, and a ghost called Maggie she may or may not be able to trust?
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{{newreview
|author=Richmal Crompton
|title=Just William
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Whether it's a trip to the cinemaJulia, babysitting a youngsterour pre-teen heroine, being a page boy at a wedding, or running away has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to take be lighthousekeepers for a job below stairssummer, in the far NE of the 11-year old William Brown can always Scottish islands. Here be relied on to create chaos and havoc wherever he goesVikings, that kind of Scottish island. This short story collection (the first of 38 books) Dad is a wonderful introduction going to a classic character.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507451</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jason Wallace|title=Out of Shadows|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Robert Jacklin arrives at his new boarding school as a very reluctant pupil. He's a reluctant Africanbe automating the lantern, too - which is his family has just moved to Zimbabwe after his father has been given a diplomatic placing there. More than anything elsespecialist thing, Robert wants while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to return to Englandhunt the elusive Greenland shark. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390487</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Heather Brewer|title=The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=High school is hard enough for most kids And Julia, but for half vampire Vladwell, it really bites. First there's his blood cravings she will be homesick and alone how exactly do you sneak a pint of O neg into your lunchbox? Then there's his enlarged fangs, his ever developing powers that Vlad doesn't know the extent of and the fact that his crush seems to have a thing for his best mateuntil she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0142411876</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jandy NelsonJonathan Stroud|title=The Sky is EverywhereOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary='There were once two sisters who were not afraid 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 dark boy with dark because powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the dark was full mythical Free Isles of the others voice around the roomLondon Lagoon...' But now there's only oneTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, because 19 year old Bailey has died the cannibalistic Tainted and her17 year old sister Lennie is left alone all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in her grief, apart from herGram and Uncle Big.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406326305</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreview|author=Irfan Master|title=A Beautiful Lie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Bedridden with cancer, Bilal's bapuji, or father, doesn't realise how far the plan for the Partition of India has progressed. Bilal has kept the news from him as he was worried that it would kill him – but when he accepts that death is imminent, Bilal swears to at least save him the pain of having his heart broken before he passes away. Along with his friends Chota, Manjeet and Saleem, Bilal swears to stop him from ever finding out. 1947 India, though, is a dangerous place for everyone, and there are people in their town who don't think that Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus should be doing anything together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408805758</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=J P Buxton|title=I Am The Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the Dark Ages, Tog is brought up by a woodcutter. Strangely, he's being taught rather more than you'd expect a woodcutter's apprentice to be learning, including how to read and write Latin. Why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970057</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine RundellMercedes Helnwein|title=The Girl SavageSlingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In Zimbabwe, Nice Will Silver has lived all her life with her father Nice William Silver, his employer Nice Captain Browne, and her friend Nice Simon. But when Nice Captain Browne falls in love with Nasty Cynthia Vincy, Nice Will is uprooted from her roots and sent to an English boarding school, run by Nice Miss Blake and her assistant Nasty Mrs Robinson. How will she cope?
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{{newreview
|author=Julie Kagawa
|title=The Iron Fey: The Iron King
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meghan Chase has always found her life slightly odd. She's never fitted in at school, where bullies relentlessly target her, nor at home, where her family always seem slightly surprised to find her there – except her little brother, Ethan, they barely remember her as soon as she leaves the room. Her only friend in the world is Robbie, her happy-go-lucky next door neighbour, who can always make her laugh. Meghan thinks turning sixteen will signal a change in their fortunes – she'll be able to drive, get them out of hickville once in a while.
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{{newreview
|author=Linda Press Wulf
|title=Crusade
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Children's Crusade is one of those extraordinary stories of the Middle Ages which have caught the imagination of historians and preachersGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. A young shepherd, who believed he was called by God to save the city As a secret illegitimate daughter of Jerusalema man with a "real" family, managed she is used to collect together an enormous horde of children and lead them all the way to the southern coast of Francenot being a priority in people's lives. ThereBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, he assured them, the seas would part; they would march straight to the Holy Land and take back the city where Jesus had diedher simple existence is changed for good. It is hard to say how much or how little of this story is true as records are sketchy — after allNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the children concerned were mostly illiterate — but the spectacle, hardship and faith of the enterprise make for her life now has a dramatic taleboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408804840</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon ScarrowT L Huchu|title=Gladiator: Fight for FreedomThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Marcus's father was Ropa Moyo is a centurion in the Roman legions. After the slave revolt led by Spartacus was finally put downghostalker, he retired using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the army and bought a farm on a small Greek islanddead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Marcus has spent most Ever since she dropped out of his boyhood on the farmschool, learning she's been using it to train dogssupport not only herself, shoot his sling accurately but her younger sister and dreaming her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of one day becoming Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a fighter like missing boy at the request of his fatherdead mother. But She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the farm world of magic is in debt far bigger and Marcusmore dangerous than she ever could's life is about ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to crumble...this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333634</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidKristen O'Neal|title=Almost TrueLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My usual warning when reviewing sequelsBones'', therean 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 closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's no way house to check up on earth I can avoid some spoilers her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the breathtaking [[When I Was Joe by Keren David|When I Was Joe]] so bear that in mind when readingpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847801013</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Natalie Hargrove is one half of the It couple of Palmetto High, destined to become Palmetto Princess. Her boyfriend Mike King should be a shoo-in for Prince alongside her - except Mike doesn't seem too bothered, in contrast to the loathsome - but hunky - Justin Balmer. So when she's given a chance to knock JB out of the running for the crown, who can blame Natalie for pulling a harmless prank? Except when the prank turns out to be much less harmless than she'd have expected, the It couple are left frantically trying to cover their tracks before they lose everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563722</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maria V Snyder|title=Inside Out|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Through the narrative of the brilliantly gutsy, yet bitter Trella, ''Inside Out'' describes the unlikely revolution provoked by the mission undertaken by our protagonists to discover the legendary Gateway – a rumoured pathway between the self-contained Inside and a utopia known only as Outside. Originally reluctant to be drawn into what she considers to be a hoax, Trella, due to her particular proficiency when it comes to travelling through the piping and ventilation system that separates the various levels of Inside, somehow becomes the figurehead of the rebellion of the Lowers against the Uppers. However, there are some people who don't approve of this newfound hope, and are keen to stifle the revolution before it even begins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304116</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mike Lancaster|title=0.4|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Kyle Straker's taped testimony begins with an editor's note: ''The peculiar format that you are holding - a book - was still the dominant form of information storage at the time the tapes were made. There is a reason why I insisted Move on this archaic format which will, I hope, become apparent as the narrative progresses.'' Kyle lives in the early 21st century in a quiet village full of ordinary people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253045</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Jones|title=Captivate|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Zara, her werewolf boyfriend, Nick, and their friends Issie and Devyn think their pixie problems are over. They've trapped Zara's dad, a pixie king, and his followers in 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 prison, and his territory is ready for the taking. That's when Astley turns up, a pixie king himself, when he's around Zara's skin turns blue, the true colour of a pixie. Only being half pixie, 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 the most evil.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807416</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrea Cremer|title=Witches War: Nightshade|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Calla Tor has always known where her life is heading. Grow up, become mated to Ren, lead the new pack formed of her packmates and his, serve the Keeper who they are assigned to serve. That's the way things are for alphas, and servitude is the sacred calling of the Guardians. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Jones|title=Need |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zara's stepfather died in front of her after seeing a man at the window - it spooked him so much that his heart failed. Her mother is concerned about her, Zara's not herself, she's hollow after the sudden loss of the closest thing to a father she's ever had. So, she's sent away to live with her Grandmother, Betty, in Maine. 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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