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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin|title=Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Jenna and Jonah, Charlie and Fielding – they're the stars of the hit TV show 'Jenna and Jonah's How To Be A Rock Star'. On <!--screen they're nextRemove -door neighbours in a will they, won't they plot. Off-screen they're every bit the perfect couple they are on TV, romantic dinners, flowers – the lot. The problem is they hate each other. You heard me right, they loathe each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewMax Boucherat|title=The Demon CollectorLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Edgy Taylor 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 lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a 19th century dog muck collector for a cruel masterblanket fort, she has one main intention, Talon – wouldn't claim and that is to log on to have had Voxminer, the best of lives. His only enjoyment of his 13 years or so so far has been setting and solving riddlesworld-building, while hecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's spent most of his time avoiding the cruelty of his employerworld. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him from Talonfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, revealing and then she finds something even more spooky. For the tanner to server she and her bestie and nobody else should be a demon called Thammuz and turning him able to stone, Edgy may have cause to look back enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on his old life with nostalgia. Because inside the Royal Society of Daemonologieher phone screen, there are people who think Edgy can help them and her safe place in their quest to find the heart of the legendary demon Molochgame has been doctored – well, who turned against Satan. There are people who think he's where is a nuisance. And there are people who want him dead. Can Edgy figure out who's whogirl to turn? He'll have to, because a mistake could cost him his life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|author=Karen Mahoney|title=The Iron Witch|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Donna has always been an outcast. The arms she hides underneath long gloves are covered in iron tattoos that give her enhanced strength – strength she has tried to hide. But, despite her best efforts, Donna was involved in an incident at school, an incident that means she's now homeschooled and a social pariah.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan Chambers|title=The Kissing Game|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=You don't see that many short story collections in YA circles. But when they do appear, you often wonder why there aren't more of them. And this is absolutely the case with The Kissing Game. Ranging from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short stories, each one will incite, surprise and stimulate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian FalknerRachel Greenlaw|title=Brainjack|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam comes to the attention of the CDD (Homeland Security's Cyber Defence Division) when he crashes the entire American internet network because he wants a top spec laptop Compass and one of those super-cool new neural headsets, but doesn't have the money to buy them. Thinking he's been given a hacker network initiation test, Sam then successfully penetrates the White House's security system. It's all the CDD needs to know, and Sam finds himself sprung from federal custody and recruited. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=Private: The Book of SpellsBlade

|summary=Following in her older sister's footsteps after May's return from I can hear the exclusive Billings School for Girls to marry the handsome George Thackery III, Eliza Williams is expecting that everyone at song of the school will remember her sister with affectionsea. But Theresa Billings – as powerful as her name suggests – clearly wasn't a great friend The call of May'sthe deep, and Eliza must navigate the rivalries and friendships of school as she tries to settle answering beat inmy heart. Then the girls find a spell book, and bond over frivolous magic as they help each other and embarrass people they dislike. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071297</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Cat Clarke|title=Entangled|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The story starts Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on day three luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Gracethe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's imprisonment by a kidnapper. Sheleader and Mira's been given pen father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and paper with only coordinates to explain guide her recent actions, including falling she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in love with her boyfriend Nat, the ups and downs of sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her friendship with Salfather, as her self-harming, and journey takes her attempted suicide. As we learn more and more about Gracefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's lifeterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the one thing we're never quite sure future of is where her home and the mysterious Ethan, herkidnapper, fits into things…ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849163944</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithHarry Allen|title=Furnace: ExecutionChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=And so to the end. Alex Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and his closest friends have escaped the Furnace Penitentiary, that mile-deep hell-hole cum nightmare scientific experiment writ largeshe is a talented singer. He's arisen to find the country in tatters, as the nasty creatures born there are in charge Life is hard and decimating the population. There food is only one thing difficult to do - kill the man responsible. And Alexcome by, eight feet tallso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, with an obsidian blade looking for an arm tree bark and muscles upon his muscles, will still face his hardest battle yetedible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571259405</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley FairfieldAlexia Casale|title=TyrannySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''It' s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used re having to take joy in navigate a life. She used to dream of a bright future - a careerchanging disability too, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasnthat't keen on s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the curves middle of a dance performance that was going to change her new, more womanly bodylife. When But she looked in comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the mirrorpity stares, she didnand desperate to get back to a life that't see an hourglass figure developing; s as normal as she saw fat and flabcan possibly manage. Deaf Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the warnings day to day traumas of all the challenges her parents and body continues to throw at her boyfriendto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she listened be able to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Helen Bailey|title=Running in Heels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=You'd like Daisy Davenport. Her father might be rich but she's a lot nicer than most fourteen year old girls. She's perhaps a little too attached to the good things in life, such as her mother's Louboutins and her own cracked silver Mulberry bag, but as she's always had that sort of lifestyle it's easy to understand why she sees nothing wrong in them. And besides everyone else at her private school has the same sort of lifestyle: some girls don't even look the side you're on unless you have a swimming pool at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900846</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth Nix and Sean WilliamsSimon Fox|title=TroubletwistersDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jack Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Jaide Shieldthen suddenly rings Archie, twins, are living perfectly normal lives until demanding he fetch something from a brief visit from their elusive father sparks an unexplainablesecret place, chaoticand join him on the run. They get together, reality-bending storm that destroys their home and introduces them but barely begin to smell the mysterious world whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the Wardenslate express to Brighton, toting a group gifted with diverse powerstin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and their perpetual struggle against a force known only as The Evil. As young Wardens, or Troubletwisters, just growing into their Gifts, the pair struggle to make sense bearer of the chaos that surrounds them and discover the true nature a whole heap of their heritagequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganLex Croucher|title=Return to Ribblestrop|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Before they even get back to Ribblestrop, Millie Gwen and her friends singularly or together hitchhike, pay their bus drivers the fare Art Are Not in fags, survive a car crash, set fire to a hotel, survive being eaten by a lion and other big cats, and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals to Ribblestrop. And what is Ribblestrop, you may ask? "Ribblestrop's a school?" said Flavio.<br>"Kind of", said Ruskin. "It's trying to be."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Lewis|title=Everybody JamLove|rating=4.5

|summary=Danny lives on Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a cattle station gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the Australian outbacka most delightful way. His brother Jonny died In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in an horrific accident last year and love with Bridget (the subject is absolutely tabookingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Nobody even mentions his name And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But Danny keeps Jonny's room just as it was when he diedtheir impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, and he touches his picture every day. or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184939248X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eve EdwardsNick Brooks|title=The Queen's LadyPromise Boys

|summary=Although it's not long since Lady Jane Rievaulx's husband died she's already beginning a new life in service to When the Queen at Richmond Palace. It's not enthusiasm which principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is driving her to this but her late husband's children are disputing her dower rights and her own father finds it difficult to accept that she is now an independent womanmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. In the Queen's service she Each, seemingly, has a degree grudge of protection. The man she loves – James Lacy – has demons some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his own to conquer and he's about to set sail to the Americasmurder. When Jane's family force her into a dreadful situation it looks as though the one man But who can save her is at the other side killed him, and why, and if any of the world.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Glover1919635017|title=FalloutA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Hannah tries to object when her so-called friends throw an impromptu party at her house during her parents' absence, but she simply doesnSolomon Klyne isn't know how to stand up to them. At first things aren't too a bad: her parents will go ballistic when they see the spilt beer on the carpetslad, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. Then drink and drugs begin to take their toll. A window so why is smashed during he running around London committing a fight, all manner series of things are damaged beyond repair, and the house is burgled. robberies? And something terrible, something so bad she canhow did he learn to crack safes? You't face it or admit it, happens ll have to wait to get an answer to Hannah during that eventful nightthe second question because I avoid spoilers. And it will destroy lives in more than But I'll answer the first one family: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel H WilsonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Code Lightfall and the Robot KingDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Code Lightfall Ant is on in Year Eleven at quite a standard school trip , and is surprised to a prehistoric mound when he falls through a trap into another worldfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, where everything so his desk is made one of crystalfour with both his best buddy from the football team, or metaland two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, and straining at the leash only living a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn'animals' are all robotict know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. ItHe's had a world under threatcasual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can he journey across its bizarre landscapes and save it all? 't be sure. And what is that's mostly because of who he's been having the truth of relationship and the mound, where his grandfather disappeared a year ago?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Bowler1800901232|title=Buried ThunderStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=On a walk in the woods near the family's new home, Maya is suddenly compelled by a glinting pair of yellow eyes to run away from her brother and deep into the trees. What she finds is shocking Twelve- three dead bodies with a figure standing over the third. Terrified, Maya stumbles back and recounts the horror to her parents, who call the police. But the police can't find any bodies, and it's clear they think she's a prankster. Even Maya's parents don't really believe her. They think she's seeing things and they're worried that she's ill. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Berlie Doherty|title=Treason|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Forced by his poweryear-hungry aunt and uncle old Hanh wanted to leave the comfort of his modest family home, Will Montague finds himself utterly overwhelmed, as he works as be a page to Prince Edward under the keen eye of the temperamental King Henry, just as prone to unexpected bursts of compassion as he is to brutal crueltyfashion designer. Just as he begins to find his feet in this new position, Will finds himself suddenly on the run, desperately trying to clear the name of his father, convicted of treason for failing to revert to the Protestantism led by the King, and simultaneously gaining more awareness of the world he lives Life in and the plights of the working class. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ally Carter|title=Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When your average girl wonders what a boy is really like, rural village where she and lived with her friends will maybe ask around among brothers and lab partners, or evenfamily was happy, if he is majorly good-lookingnot prosperous, try to trail him around town on a Saturday morning. But the girls of so when the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women do things differently. They have access to topsmartly-secret files. They have been trained dressed man and woman came to disguise themselves for covert operations. They know how the village to read the slightest hints drawn from offer Hahn a person's body language. When they get curious about something, there's very little chance job in Hanoi it will stay hidden. But now their skills are really being put was an opportunity not to the testbe missed. Cammie's room-mate Macey, the daughter of a senator Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the campaign trail, has been attackedmini-bus to Hanoi. It will take everything her friends have learned Only, Hanh and more, the other girls were not going 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 – Gabriel, Ivy and Bethany – arrive work in a quiet townshop, their mission is to bring good they were to a world work in danger of falling into darkness. They have to conceal their true nature – hiding the glow of their skin, their wings – a task not easy for Bethany, the least experienced of the trio. She's overwhelmed by human life, fascinated by all the experiences available to her virtual slavery in human forman illegal garment factory. A fascination that leads to a dangerous attraction to human boy, Xavier. Falling in love was not part of You know those jeans you really wanted: the holy mission, ones with intricate embroidery and Gabriel and Ivy fear Bethany won't be in beading on the position to save anybody if she continues down legs? The ones with the path she's on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410759</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tricia Rayburn|title=Siren|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=17artfully-year old Vanessa has always been looked after by her more adventurous, outgoing older sister Justine. So placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when her sister is found dead while they're on vacation in Winter Harbor, and Justineyou touched them? It's boyfriend Caleb goes missing, she's devastated. Desperately searching for answers to Justine's demise, she returns to Harbor seeking answers, quite possible that Hanh and teams up with Caleb's brother Simon to find her co-workers made them. Then the weather gets strange, and other bodies start turning up… can they solve the mystery?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571260063</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul HoffmanPatrice Lawrence|title=The Left Hand of GodNeedle

|summary=Cale Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is fourteen extremely hard for some people to like, characters and his life so far has not been one to envyreaders both. Brought to the Redeemers Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she' Sanctuary as just s fostering with a toddlerpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's lived within its militant religious fanaticism for all the years he can rememberat uni. BeatenSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, brutalised and half-starvedyou might perhaps think, Cale and his fellow acolytes are being raised to fight an ongoing and bloody war against heretics. Cale the creation of one such item is part of special interest to Boscothe plot here, as Charlene is a Redeemer Lord Militantwonder knitter, and we soon realise whyis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Cale is intelligentWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, ruthlesswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, quickwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and has the ability to kill without remorsepointy those knitting needles can be.. He is an asset. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333553</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie HearnAnn Sei Lin|title=WreckersRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The story of PandoraKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, whose actions are a massive dining hall floating in the cause sky where soldiers of all the ills in our worldEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is well-knowna Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. As Julie Hearn has one of He asks her characters sayto come with him, men remember it because they feel better if they can blame her, and to leave the life of dreary servitude that other female villain, Eve, for is all their woes and crimesshe has known. But supposing Hope wasnWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the last thing in that plain wooden box? What if something elsematter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, something slow and ugly and steeped in evil, skulked in she is forced to flee out into the shadows right at the bottom? And what if someone today lifted world. She joins Himura aboard the lidOrihime, as Pandora dida sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and allowed that last, terrible evil to escape?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729292</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David PetersenMarcus Sedgwick|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The GuardWrath|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 Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Drew Ferran knows there's a monster roaming the land where his family farm – he just doesn't realise it could be inside him. Until a terrible creature attacks his beloved mother, triggering a transformation in him, and leading his father and brother to believe he’s responsible for her death. Forced to flee to the most godforsaken parts of Lyssia, Drew becomes quickly embroiled in the world of the Werelords. Can he survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ivy Devlin|title=Low Red Moon|rating=3.5

|summary=Avery's parents have been murderedMeet Fitz, they’ve been literally torn apart, and Avery saw the whole thinga young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. But her minds blocked it out, all she remembers Lockdown is seeing something inhumanly fastonly just over, flashes of silverand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and bloodwith whom he wants, lots but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of blooda desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Whatever killed Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is still already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out therethe truth? Well, and is trying to kill hernot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881398X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia ElliottTori Bovalino|title=The Traitor's Smile (Pimpernelles)Devil Makes Three

|summary=Usual spoiler warning for [[The Pale Assassin (Pimpernelles) by Patricia Elliott|Pimpernelles book one, The Pale Assassin]]: at the end of that book, heroine Eugenie and love interest Julien had escaped the French Revolution but been forced to leave behind EugenieWorking all summer in her boarding school's brother Armand library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to face the wrath of the government do — especially when she gets a request for over the failed attempt a hundred books that she has to rescue the Kingdeliver herself. Eugenie What makes it worse is being followed by Guy Deschamps, the man who she still trusts, despite Julienrequested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's duel with him at the end of the first bookheadmaster, not knowing that he's working for the Pale Assassin himself Raoul Goulletand a man Tess hates.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340956771</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Hussey|title=Witchfinder: Gallows at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After turning from horror comic geek to As a cloned Witchfinder petty act of revenge for making her find and saviour deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of humanity in the space of a few short weeks, Jake Harker's magic is understandably depleted. Try as he mightbooks, 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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryPhilip Reeve|title=Rot & RuinUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhiannon LassiterKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Ghost of a ChanceJulia and the Shark

|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

 {{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

 {{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

|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

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidKristen O'Neal|title=Almost TrueLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=My usual warning when reviewing sequelsHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, there's no way on earth I can avoid some spoilers for Priya has to come to terms with the breathtaking [[When I Was Joe by Keren David|When I Was Joe]] so bear fact that she may be in mind when reading.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847801013</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Natalie Hargrove is one half of constant pain for the It couple rest of Palmetto High, destined to become Palmetto Princessher life. Her boyfriend Mike King should be a shoo-in for Prince alongside her - except Mike doesnShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t seem too bothered, in contrast an online support group where she talks to the loathsome - but hunky - Justin Balmer. So when she's given a chance to knock JB out bunch of the running for the crown, who can blame Natalie for pulling a harmless prank? Except when the prank turns other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out to be much less harmless than she'd have expected, the It couple are left frantically trying while also providing an escape to cover their tracks before they lose everythingjust joke and mess around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563722</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maria V Snyder|title=Inside Out|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Through the narrative When Brigid—one of the brilliantly gutsy, yet bitter Trella, her closest friends—doesn''Inside Out'' describes the unlikely revolution provoked by the mission undertaken by our protagonists t respond to discover the legendary Gateway – chat for a rumoured pathway between the self-contained Inside and a utopia known only as Outsidewhile, Priya becomes concerned. Originally reluctant She decides to be drawn into what she considers steal her parents' car and drive to be a hoax, Trella, due Brigid's house to check up on 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 donBut what she doesn't approve of this newfound hope, and are keen expect 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 find there is a reason why I insisted on this archaic format which will, I hope, become apparent as the narrative progresses.'' Kyle lives werewolf 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 basement – and for the deposit on a flat so that she can move out too. His grandfather is descending into senility. His school is about werewolf to be demolished. His best friend Silva gets all the girls and he's worried about girl she has been talking to online for 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 unpredictablepast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407111078</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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]]