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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillMax Boucherat|title=Department 19The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived a normalWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, happybabysitter poorly, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived mother at his house and men in black combats with strangework, ultrajust an avidly rule-violent weapons burst breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and executed his father. Since thenthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, Jamie and his mother have lived critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a succession of miserabletiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, dour little houses and Jamie has become less then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and less interested in a succession nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of miserabletampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, dour little schools. He resents his motherand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, like all good disaffected teenagers do. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M GrantRachel Greenlaw|title=Belle's SongCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Chaucer was a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write ''I can hear the famous Canterbury Tales, but he also found song of the time and courage to be a spy for the king at a time of civil unrest and political intrigue in Britainsea. So a story set during one The call of his journeysthe deep, one which combines his secret work and some of the more memorable characters from the tales, is an intriguing proposition, metaphorically as well as literallyanswering beat in my heart. Add a dreamy, motherless girl whose guilt at causing her father's accident only reinforces her tendency to self-harm and obsessive behaviour, and a cracking good plot emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Mark Robson|title=The Devil's Triangle|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A rebellious boat journey Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Bermuda Trianglerocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, also known as the Devil's Trianglelike her mother before her, prompted by Sam's annoyance at his father's obsession with is one of the area's notoriety, turns seven who swim out to be very ill-advised as Sam and his friend, Callum, find themselves lost survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and stranded on an island any treasure that is terrifyingly different from anything they have witnessed beforelies within. MeanwhileBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Samthey capture the island's leader and Mira's twin sister Niamh father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is caught up secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in the search for of a family secret that lies buried deep in the boys, co-ordinated by their sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Matthew, who is desperate to rescue Sam and Callum as her journey takes her from the same mysterious phenomenon that took his wife nine years ago. As watched streets of foreign islands to the search for heart of the boys threatens to disintegrate under allegations that Matthew may smuggler's territory, Mira must be responsible for their disappearance, Niamh goes on the run, desperate determined to keep searching for her brother, but with only their rather ambiguous twin bond stop at nothing to guide save the future of herhome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389783</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie JordanHarry Allen|title=FirelightChildren of the Sun

|summary=Jacinda was singled out as special by her Pride when Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she manifested with the ability to breath fireis a talented singer. A fire-breather hasn't been born Life is hard and food is difficult to the Draki for generationscome by, so Seo and there are those in the Pride who would use her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for their own ends. Craving freedom, Jacinda takes a risk that nearly costs her life. Now Jacinda's mother has dragged her tree bark and twin sister Tamra from their mountain home, sneaking away in edible grasses to supplement the middle meagre rations of the night, leaving everything they knew behindrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756508</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily Franklin and Brendan HalpinAlexia Casale|title=Jenna & JonahSing if you Can's Fauxmancet Dance|rating=45

|summary=Meet Jenna and JonahIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Charlie and Fielding – theybut that're s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the stars middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the hit TV show 'Jenna pity stares, and Jonahdesperate to get back to a life that's How To Be A Rock Star'as normal as she can possibly manage. On-screen they Meanwhile there're next-door neighbours s a new (cute!) boy in a will theyschool, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, won't they plot. Off-screen they're every bit and just the perfect couple they are on TV, romantic dinners, flowers – day to day traumas of all the lotchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. The problem is they hate each other. You heard me right So even though she can't dance anymore, they loathe each other.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881630X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewSimon Fox|title=The Demon CollectorDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Edgy Taylor – a 19th century dog muck collector for a cruel masterLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Talon – wouldn't claim to have had the best of lives. His only enjoyment of his 13 years or so so far has been setting and solving riddlesthen suddenly rings Archie, while demanding he's spent most of his time avoiding the cruelty of his employer. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him fetch something from Talona secret place, revealing the tanner to be a demon called Thammuz and turning join him to stone, Edgy may have cause to look back on his old life with nostalgiathe run. Because inside the Royal Society of Daemonologie They get together, there are people who think Edgy can help them in their quest but barely begin to find smell the heart whiff of Southern trains when the legendary demon Molochfather is arrested, who turned against Satan. There are people who think he's a nuisance. And there are people who want him dead. Can Edgy figure out who's who? He'll have leaving Archie on the late express toBrighton, because toting a mistake could cost him tin his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>}} {{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 father was determined 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 keep away from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short stories, each one will incitehis colleagues, surprise and stimulate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian Falkner|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 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 bearer of Spells|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Following in her older sister's footsteps after May's return from the exclusive Billings School for Girls to marry the handsome George Thackery III, Eliza Williams is expecting that everyone at the school will remember her sister with affection. But Theresa Billings – as powerful as her name suggests – clearly wasn't a great friend whole heap of May's, and Eliza must navigate the rivalries and friendships of school as she tries to settle in. Then the girls find a spell book, and bond over frivolous magic as they help each other and embarrass people they dislikequestions. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071297</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeLex Croucher|title=EntangledGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=The story starts on day three of Grace's imprisonment by Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a kidnappermost delightful way. She's In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been given pen and paper betrothed since they were tiny, much to explain her recent actionstheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, including falling is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her boyfriend Natprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the ups and downs subterfuge of her friendship falling in love with Saleach other, her self-harming, and her attempted suicidewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. As we learn more and more about Grace's life But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, the one thing we're never quite sure of is where the mysterious Ethanwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, herkidnapper, fits into things…or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849163944</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithNick Brooks|title=Furnace: ExecutionPromise Boys

|summary=And so to When the end. Alex and his closest friends have escaped the Furnace Penitentiaryprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, that mile-deep hell-hole cum nightmare scientific experiment writ large. He's arisen to three boys find themselves called into the country in tatters, police station as the nasty creatures born there are in charge and decimating the populationsuspects. There is only one thing to do - kill Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the man responsibletime of his murder. And AlexBut who killed him, eight feet talland why, with an obsidian blade for an arm and muscles upon his musclesif any of the boys are innocent, will still face his hardest battle yet.they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571259405</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=Tyranny|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf to the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Bailey1919635017|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 A Thief 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 Catch a swimming pool at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900846</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Garth Nix and Sean Williams|title=TroubletwistersKitt Townsend

|summary=Jack and Jaide ShieldSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, twins, are living perfectly normal lives until so why is he running around London committing a brief visit from their elusive father sparks series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an unexplainable, chaotic, reality-bending storm that destroys their home and introduces them answer to the mysterious world of second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the Wardens, a group gifted with diverse powers, and their perpetual struggle against a force known only as The Evilfirst one: for his grandmother.. As young Wardens, or Troubletwisters, just growing into their Gifts, the pair struggle to make sense of the chaos that surrounds them and discover the true nature of their heritage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Return to RibblestropDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Before they even get back to RibblestropAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Millie and her friends singularly or together hitchhikeis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, pay their bus drivers so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the fare football team, and two other old muckers – in fags, survive a car crash, set fire fact they all go back to a hotelprimary school days together. As they're all fired up, survive being eaten by straining at the leash only a lion and other big catssingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals out often turns to Ribblestropsex. And Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is Ribblestrop, you may ask? "Ribblestropwhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a school?" said Flavio.<br>"Kind of"secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, said Ruskinhe can't be sure. "ItAnd that's trying to bemostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with."|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|author=Ali Lewis|title=Everybody Jam|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Danny lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. His brother Jonny died in an horrific accident last year and the subject is absolutely taboo. 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 a new life in service to the Queen at Richmond Palace. It's not enthusiasm which 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 woman. In the Queen's service she has a degree of protection. The man she loves – James Lacy – has demons of his own to conquer and he's about to set sail to the Americas. When Jane's family force her into a dreadful situation it looks as though the one man who can save her is at the other side of the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sandra Glover1800901232|title=Fallout|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hannah tries to object when 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 go ballistic when they see the spilt beer on the carpets, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. Then drink and drugs begin to take their toll. A window is smashed during a fight, all manner of things are damaged beyond repair, 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 family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Daniel H Wilson|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 '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 ThunderSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=On Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a walk fashion designer. Life in the woods near the rural village where she lived with her family's new homewas happy, if not prosperous, Maya is suddenly compelled by so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a glinting pair of yellow eyes job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to run away from her brother be missed. Some money changed hands and deep into Hanh was on the trees. What she finds is shocking mini- three dead bodies with a figure standing over the thirdbus to Hanoi. Terrified Only, Maya stumbles back Hanh and recounts the horror other girls were not going to her parentswork in a shop, who call the policethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But You know those jeans you really wanted: the police can't find any bodies, ones with intricate embroidery 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 beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and they're worried distressed seams that shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's illquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Berlie Doherty|title=Treason|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Forced by his power-hungry aunt and uncle to leave the comfort of his modest family home, Will Montague finds himself utterly overwhelmed, as he works as 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 cruelty. 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 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, she and her friends will maybe ask around among brothers and lab partners, or even, if he is majorly good-looking, try to trail him around town on a Saturday morning. 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 something, 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 a senator on the campaign trail, has been attacked. It will take everything her friends have learned, and more, 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 in a quiet town, their mission is to bring good to a world 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 in human form. A fascination that leads to a dangerous attraction to human boy, Xavier. Falling in love was not part of the holy mission, and Gabriel and Ivy fear Bethany won't be in the position to save anybody if she continues down the path she's on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410759</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tricia Rayburn|title=Siren|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=17-year old Vanessa has always been looked after by her more adventurous, outgoing older sister Justine. So when her sister is found dead while they're on vacation in Winter Harbor, and Justine's boyfriend Caleb goes missing, she's devastated. Desperately searching for answers to Justine's demise, she returns to Harbor seeking answers, and teams up with Caleb's brother Simon to find 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

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Eva Chance is used to being ignored by Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family, apart from her frail grandfather, who she adores. So she's barely even surprised when they don't set a place home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for her at a dinner partysummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. But when nearly everyone is ignoring her she grows increasingly concerned – and Here be Vikings, that's when she realises she's deadkind of Scottish island. Can she solve Dad is going to be automating the mystery of lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her murder before either malevolent ghosts or human criminals can do any more damage career in algae behind to her familyhunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, aided only by Kyrawell, who bullied her when she was alive, Kyra's brother Kyle, will be homesick and a ghost called Maggie alone – until she may or may not be able to trust?suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755625</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richmal CromptonJonathan Stroud|title=Just WilliamThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Whether it's a trip Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the cinemaSeven Kingdoms of Britain, babysitting a youngsterrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, being a page dark boy at with dark powers and a weddingdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, or running away from home they plan to take a job below stairsflee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the 11cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-year old William Brown can always apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be relied on to create chaos and havoc wherever he goes. This short story collection (any more accepted there than they are in the first rest of 38 books) is a wonderful introduction to a classic character.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330507451</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason WallaceMercedes Helnwein|title=Out of ShadowsSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Robert Jacklin arrives at his new boarding school as Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a very reluctant pupil. He"real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a reluctant Africanrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, too - his family has just moved to Zimbabwe after his father her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has been given a diplomatic placing there. More than anything else, Robert wants to return to Englandboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849390487</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather BrewerT L Huchu|title=The Chronicles Library of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bitesthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=High school Ropa Moyo is hard enough for most kidsa ghostalker, but using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for half vampire Vladtheir living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it really bitesto support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. First However, there's his blood cravings – how exactly do you sneak a pint an evil stalking the ruined streets of O neg into your lunchbox? Then thereEdinburgh, targeting the city's his enlarged fangschildren. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his ever developing powers dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that Vlad doesn't know the extent world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the fact that his crush seems missing children and bring an end to have a thing for his best mate.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0142411876</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jandy NelsonKristen O'Neal|title=The Sky is EverywhereLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary='There were once two sisters who were not afraid of Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the dark because fact that she may be in constant pain for the dark was full rest of the others voice around the room..her life.She joins ' But now there's only one, because 19 year old Bailey has died and her17 year old sister Lennie is left alone in her grief, apart from herGram and Uncle Big.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406326305</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Irfan Master|title=A Beautiful Lie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Bedridden with cancer, BilalOof Ouch My Bones'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 an online support group where she talks to at least save him the pain a bunch of having his heart broken before he passes awayother teens living with chronic illnesses. Along with his friends Chota, Manjeet They talk about their troubles and Saleemhelp each other out, Bilal swears while also providing an escape to stop him from ever finding outjust joke and mess around. 1947 India, though, is a dangerous place for everyone, and there are people in their town who donWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn'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 respond to the Dark Ageschat for a while, Tog is brought up by a woodcutterPriya becomes concerned. Strangely, heShe decides to steal her parents's being taught rather more than you'd expect a woodcuttercar and drive to Brigid's apprentice house to be learning, including how to read and write Latin. Why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970057</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katherine Rundell|title=The Girl Savage|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In Zimbabwe, Nice Will Silver has lived all check up on her life with her father Nice William Silver, his employer Nice Captain Browne, and her friend Nice Simon. But when Nice Captain Browne falls what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in love with Nasty Cynthia Vincy, Nice Will is uprooted from her roots the basement – and sent for that werewolf to an English boarding school, run by Nice Miss Blake and her assistant Nasty Mrs Robinsonbe the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. How will she cope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571254314</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304345</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]