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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=Teens4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. 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 turn?__NOTOC__|isbn=0008666482}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonRachel Greenlaw|title=The StrangerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=After ''I can hear the song of the events sea. The call of ''The Island''the deep, Otto, Jen and Charlie have gone their separate gap year ways. Otto is in Mumbai but isn't having nearly such a good time as he'd anticipated. Jen has moved on from the retreat and is travelling with Kumar, but is getting itchy feet. She's not sure she wants to take things with Kumar any further. But Charlie is ecstatic answering beat in her dream job at the tiger sanctuarymy heart. It's challenging - poaching and corruption are big problems standing in the way of the sanctuary's funding - but she loves it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Janni Howker|title=The Nature of the Beast|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bill Coward is mature for Rosevear, a child his age – cooking for his father remote and grandfather (Chunder)partially forgotten island, undressing his father survives on luring ships into the rocks and putting him plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to bed when he comes home drunksurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. So But when the mill his father and grandfather work at is closed downCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, their world is thrown into turmoil. Mikethey capture the island's (Billleader and Mira's best friend) father has . Desperate to 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 nervous breakdownfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. BillWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's father goes off territory, Mira must be determined to Scotland stop at nothing to work in save the future of her home and the oil fieldsones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329908</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeHarry Allen|title=Twilight RobberyChildren of the Sun

|summary=Mosca and her companions will be familiar to readers of 'Fly By Night', but it is Ra Eun Seo lives in no way necessary to have read the first volume of her adventures to thoroughly enjoy this book. She is a twelve-year-old orphan, who travels the roads with her homicidal goose, North Korean town and she is a rather shifty poet called, charmingly, Eponymous Clenttalented singer. We meet them just after a particularly energetic display of destruction by the said goose: Eponymous has been thrown into jail until he can pay for the damage, and Mosca Life is trying to raise some cash by reading aloud an old newspaper to illiterate townsfolk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405055391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home hard and Family|summary=NLP For Teens food is part of the Engaging NLP series and is a follow-on from NLP for Children. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caragh M O'Brien|title=Birthmarked|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Gaia lives in a post-climate change America, near one of the Great Lakes - or the unlake as its waterless hollow is now known. Gaia is a midwife-in-training, following after so Seo and her mother. For this family, the cool age - that is, our age - is almost forgotten. There is no power in Wharfton, friends Nari and both water and food is in short supply. But Wharfton sits outside the walled city of EnclaveMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and things are entirely different there - edible grasses to supplement the scenes meagre rations of leisure, wealth rice and plenty are played out on the Tvalter's big screen, which serves as entertainment for Wharfton's residentskimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071394</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipAlexia Casale|title=The Opposite of AmberSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Jinn re having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was quick and shining bright; Jinn was motor-mouthed and nurturinggoing to change her life... Actually But she catered for my every whim comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the point where she anticipated it asked for itpity stares, spoke for me There was never any need for me and desperate to get back to speak and I know I could never say anything a life that's as well normal as she did, so I didn't bothercan possibly manage. I didn Meanwhile there't resent s a new (cute!) boy in school, her or anything. I was proud music A Level performance piece to try to be spoken for by Jinnsort out, sparky and boldjust the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. I was spoiled voiceless.'' ''Spoiled voiceless'' - isn So even though she can't that a whole world of meaning contained in just two wordsdance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599920</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BlackSimon Fox|title=Robin Hood Vs the Plague Undead (Mash Ups) Deadlock|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Nottingham and its victims are refusing to stay dead...  Robin Hood vs. The Plague Undead Late one night Graham Blake is a 'mash up' of late back from his shift on the Robin Hood myth with contemporary zombie tales. All the usual Robin Hood characters are there - Friar Tuckforce, Little John, the Sheriff of Nottingham - but with loads of zombies thrown in as well. It must be very difficult to bring the two strands together and I don't think the author has quite succeeded. The problem is that both mythologies endure for different reasons and it's hard to fuse them together without compromising the strengths of both – zombies may work better in an urban settingthen suddenly rings Archie, and having Robin Hood fighting zombies rather than the rich tends to undermine his leftwing credentials.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140831388X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=''Evercrossed'' picks up where ''Kissed by an Angel'' left off. After her boyfriend Tristan was killed in demanding he fetch something from a car accident, Ivy took up with Gregorysecret place, who turned out to be a serial murderer and all-round bad guy. She was saved from join him by a combination of Tristan in angel form, her psychic best friend Beth and stalwart admirer Willon the run. Now the three of them are working at a holiday inn for the summer They get together, alongside Beth's cousin Kelsey and her friend Dhanya. Will is now Ivy's boyfriend but it's almost a year since Tristan died and Ivy is finding herself thinking about him more and more. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389171</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lois Duncan|title=I Know What You Did Last Summer|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A year ago, four teenagers committed a shocking crime after a party where they all had too much to drink, and overwhelmed by indecision, fear and desperation they made a pact barely begin to keep smell the incidents whiff of Southern trains when the fateful night a secret. However, someone knows their secret and that someone father is determined to make them face up to the consequences of their actions. Their binding pact has held together for a yeararrested, partly out of leaving Archie on the friendship they shared and mostly out of guilt, but when it becomes apparent that there is someone who is looking for revenge, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up late express to the truthBrighton, for their own sakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Hill|title=Department 19|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived toting a normal, happy, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived at his house and men in black combats with strange, ultra-violent weapons burst in and executed tin his father. Since then, Jamie and was determined to keep away from his mother have lived in a succession of miserablecolleagues, dour little houses and Jamie has become less and less interested in a succession of miserable, dour little schools. He resents his mother, like all good disaffected teenagers do. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K M Grant|title=Belle's Song|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Chaucer was a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write the famous Canterbury Tales, but he also found the time and courage to be a spy for the king at a time bearer of civil unrest and political intrigue in Britain. So a story set during one of his journeys, one which combines his secret work and some whole heap of the more memorable characters from the tales, is an intriguing proposition, metaphorically as well as literally. 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 emergesquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark RobsonLex Croucher|title=The Devil's TriangleGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=A rebellious boat journey into the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, prompted by Sam's annoyance at his father's obsession with the area's notoriety, turns out Who knew that what I really needed to be very ill-advised as Sam and his friendread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Callumit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, find themselves lost Gwen and stranded on an island that is terrifyingly different from anything Arthur have been betrothed since they have witnessed before. Meanwhilewere tiny, Sam's twin sister Niamh is caught up in the search for the boys, co-ordinated by much to their fathermutual disgust! Gwen, Matthewyou see, who is desperate to rescue Sam and Callum from in love with Bridget (the same mysterious phenomenon kingdom's only female knight) - something that took his wife nine years agoArt discovers from her private diaries. As the search for the boys threatens to disintegrate under allegations that Matthew may be responsible for their disappearance And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Niamh goes on creating the run, desperate to keep searching for her brothersubterfuge of falling in love with each other, but with only their rather ambiguous twin bond to guide her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie Jordan|title=Firelight|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jacinda was singled out as special by her Pride when she manifested with the ability to breath fire. A fire-breather hasn't been born to the Draki for generations, and there really they are those in the Pride who would use her for enabling their own endsother romantic attachments. Craving freedom But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Jacinda takes will they find a risk that nearly costs her life. Now Jacinda's mother has dragged her and twin sister Tamra from their mountain home, sneaking away way in the middle of the nightwhich they can both truly be themselves, leaving everything or are they knew behind.destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756508</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily Franklin and Brendan HalpinNick Brooks|title=Jenna & Jonah's FauxmancePromise Boys

|summary=Meet Jenna and Jonah, Charlie and Fielding – they're When the stars principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the hit TV show 'Jenna and Jonah's How To Be A Rock Star'police station as suspects. On-screen they're next-door neighbours in Each, seemingly, has a will theygrudge of some description against Principal Moore, won't they plotand each could have been there at the time of his murder. Off-screen they're every bit the perfect couple they are on TV But who killed him, romantic dinnersand why, flowers – and if any of the lot. The problem is they hate each other. You heard me rightboys are innocent, will they loathe each other.be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881630X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Mayhew1919635017|title=The Demon CollectorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Edgy Taylor – a 19th century dog muck collector for Solomon Klyne isn't a cruel masterbad lad, 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 riddles, while why is he's spent most running around London committing a series of his time avoiding the cruelty of his employer. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him from Talon, revealing the tanner robberies? And how did he learn to be a demon called Thammuz and turning him crack safes? You'll have to stone, Edgy may have cause wait to look back on his old life with nostalgia. Because inside the Royal Society of Daemonologie, there are people who think Edgy can help them in their quest get an answer to find the heart of the legendary demon Moloch, who turned against Satansecond question because I avoid spoilers. There are people who think heBut I's a nuisancell answer the first one: for his grandmother. And there are people who want him dead. Can Edgy figure out who's who? He'll have to, because a mistake could cost him his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 Patrick Ness and a social pariah.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan ChambersTea Bendix|title=The Kissing GameDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=You don't see that many short story collections Ant is in YA circles. But when they do appearYear Eleven at quite a standard school, you often wonder why there aren't more of them. And this and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely the case nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with The Kissing Game. Ranging both his best buddy from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short storiesthe football team, each one will incite, surprise and stimulatetwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. |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 As they's Cyber Defence Division) when he crashes re all fired up, straining at the entire American internet network because he wants leash only a top spec laptop and one of those supersingle-cool new neural headsetssex school can form, but doesn't have the money talk in class and out often turns to buy themsex. Thinking Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn'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 t knowwhat his score is, and Sam finds himself sprung from federal custody and recruited. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=Private: The Book of Spells|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Following where his achievements 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 affectionregard lie. But Theresa Billings – as powerful as her name suggests – clearly wasn He't s had a great friend of May'scasual relationship, and Eliza must navigate the rivalries and friendships of school as she tries to settle in. Then the girls find a spell booksecret one, for several months now, 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 on day three of Graceso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 's imprisonment by a kidnapper. Sheexperienced's been given pen and paper to explain her recent actions, including falling in love with her boyfriend Nat, the ups and downs of her friendship with Sal, her self-harming, and her attempted suicide. As we learn more and more about Gracebut whether that's lifeset in stone, the one thing wehe can're never quite t be sure of is where the mysterious Ethan, herkidnapper, fits into things…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849163944</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=Furnace: Execution|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=And so to the end. Alex and his closest friends have escaped the Furnace Penitentiary, And that mile-deep hell-hole cum nightmare scientific experiment writ large. He's arisen to find the country in tatters, as mostly because of who he's been having the nasty creatures born there are in charge relationship and decimating the population. There is only one thing to do - kill the man responsible. And Alex, eight feet tall, sex with an obsidian blade for an arm and muscles upon his muscles, will still face his hardest battle yet.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571259405</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lesley Fairfield1800901232|title=TyrannyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=As Tyranny shakes her Twelve-year- ''I '''TOLD''' you not old Hanh wanted to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks backbe a fashion designer. She used to take joy Life in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a careerthe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, boyfriendsif not prosperous, children so when the smartly- but dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it all went wrong when she hit pubertywas an opportunity not to be missed. She wasn't keen on Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the curves of her newmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, more womanly body. When she looked Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in the mirrora shop, she didn't see they were to work in virtual slavery in an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and flab. Deaf to beading on the legs? The ones with the warnings of her parents artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexiaco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen BaileyPatrice Lawrence|title=Running in HeelsNeedle|rating=43

|summary=YouBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine'd of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like Daisy Davenport, characters and readers both. Her father might be rich but Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a lot nicer than most fourteen year pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old girls. Sheroom while he's perhaps at uni. Such a little too attached to the good things tempestuous personality may be in lifeneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her motheryounger sister – a younger sister she's Louboutins allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her own cracked silver Mulberry bagtwo days off school, but when she shouts someone down as she's always had that sort of lifestyle it's easy expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to understand why she sees nothing wrong in themremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900846</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth Nix and Sean WilliamsAnn Sei Lin|title=TroubletwistersRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jack 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 Jaide Shieldmake merry between their conquests. However, twinswhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, are living perfectly normal lives until someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a brief visit from their elusive father sparks an unexplainable, chaoticpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, reality-bending storm that destroys their home and introduces them to leave the mysterious world life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the Wardensmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a group gifted with diverse powers, and their perpetual struggle against a force monstrous paper spirit known only as The Evil. As young Wardensa shikigami, or Troubletwisters, just growing and she is forced to flee out into their Giftsthe world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, the pair struggle a sky-ship whose express purpose is to make sense of the chaos that surrounds them hunt down shikigami, and discover the true nature a whole world of their heritage.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganMarcus Sedgwick|title=Return to RibblestropWrath

|summary=Before they even get back Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to Ribblestropdo what he wants, Millie to go where he wants and her friends singularly or together hitchhikewith whom he wants, pay their bus drivers the fare but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in fags, survive a car crash, set fire it when he talks to a hotelhis best friend, survive being eaten by Cassie. They were half of a lion and other big catsdesultory school band, and encourage but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a Brazilian subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals to Ribblestrop. And what is Ribblestrop, you may askdone deal? "RibblestropIs it some spooky new kind of music she's a schooldreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth?" said FlavioWell, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.<br>"Kind of", said Ruskin. "It's trying to be."|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali LewisTori Bovalino|title=Everybody JamThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Danny lives on a cattle station Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the Australian outbacklast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. His brother Jonny died in an horrific accident last year and What makes it worse is the man who requested the subject is absolutely taboobooks: Mr Birch. Nobody even mentions his name. But Danny keeps JonnyThe boarding school's room just as it was when he diedheadmaster, and he touches his picture every daya man Tess hates. |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 As 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 petty act of revenge for making her dower rights find and her own father finds deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it difficult to accept that notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she is now an independent womancan think of. In the QueenThey's service she has a degree re never meant to reach him, of protectioncourse. The man she loves – James Lacy – has demons of his own Her plan is to conquer get her anger out like this, and he's about to set sail to the Americasthen take them all off before delivering them. When JaneNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's family force t delivered them for her into a dreadful situation it looks as though the one man who can save her is at the other side of the world.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|author=Sandra Glover|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel H WilsonPhilip Reeve|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 Utterly Dark and save it all? And what is the truth Face of the mound, where his grandfather disappeared a year ago?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Buried ThunderDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=On In a walk in the woods near the family's new homeword, Maya rich. There is suddenly compelled by a glinting pair certainly an abundance of yellow eyes to run away from her brother and deep into the trees. What she finds is shocking - three dead bodies with riches in this story set on a figure standing over the third. Terrifiedpeculiar island called Wildsea, Maya stumbles back and recounts the horror to her parentsBritish but way west, who call beyond the policeScillies. But the police can't find any bodiesThere are troll people on it, 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 sea-witches, and they're worried legends of the Dark family that she's illhas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. |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 current Darks are the comfort of his modest family homeWatcher, Will Montague finds himself utterly overwhelmedAndrewe, as he works as a page who has to Prince Edward under the keen eye keep notes of activity from the temperamental King HenryHidden Lands, just as prone to unexpected bursts of compassion as he is to brutal cruelty. Just as he begins to find his feet brother Will who lives in London with too much science in this new positionhis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, Will finds himself suddenly on the runand Andrewe's foundling daughter, desperately trying to clear the name who washed up out of his father, convicted of treason for failing to revert to the Protestantism led by the Kingsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and simultaneously gaining more awareness of his curious ward are thrust into the world he lives in and the plights of the working classprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391211</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally CarterKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls)Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When your average girl wonders what a boy is really likeJulia, our pre-teen heroine, she and has been packed off with her friends will maybe ask around among brothers parents and lab partners, or even, if he is majorly good-looking, try to trail him around town on a Saturday morning. But their cat from the girls of the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women do things differently. They have access family home in SW England to top-secret files. They have been trained to disguise themselves be lighthousekeepers for covert operations. They know how to read the slightest hints drawn from a person's body language. When they get curious about somethingsummer, there's very little chance it will stay hidden. But now their skills are really being put to in the test. Cammie's room-mate Macey, the daughter far NE of a senator on the campaign trail, has been attackedScottish islands. It will take everything her friends have learned Here be Vikings, and more, to protect her and solve the mysteries which surround themthat kind of Scottish island. |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 Dad is going to bring good to a world in danger of falling into darkness. They have to conceal their true nature – hiding be automating the glow of their skinlantern, their wings – a task not easy for Bethanywhich is his specialist thing, the least experienced of the trio. She's overwhelmed by human life, fascinated by all the experiences available to while mum will be leaving her career in human formalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. A fascination that leads to a dangerous attraction to human boy And Julia, Xavier. Falling in love was not part of the holy missionwell, she will be homesick and Gabriel and Ivy fear Bethany won't be in the position to save anybody if she continues down the path alone – until she's onsuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410759</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia RayburnJonathan Stroud|title=SirenThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|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 Scarlett McCain is found dead while they're on vacation in Winter Harboran outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Justine's boyfriend Caleb goes missingFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she's devastatedmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Desperately searching for answers With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to Justine's demisethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, she returns to Harbor seeking answersthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and teams up with Caleb's brother Simon all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to find them. Then reach the weather gets strangeFree Isles, and other bodies start turning up… can but will they be any more accepted there than they solve are in the mysteryrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571260063</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul HoffmanMercedes Helnwein|title=The Left Hand of GodSlingshot

|summary=Cale is fourteen and his life so far Gracie Welles has not been one resigned herself to envybeing lonely. Brought As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to the Redeemers' Sanctuary as just not being a toddler, hepriority in people's lived within its militant religious fanaticism for all the years he can rememberlives. Beaten, brutalised and half-starvedBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Cale and his fellow acolytes are being raised to fight an ongoing and bloody war against heretics. Cale her simple existence is of special interest to Bosco, a Redeemer Lord Militant, and we soon realise whychanged for good. Cale is intelligentNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, ruthless, quick, and for her life now has the ability to kill without remorse. He is an asseta boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333553</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julie HearnT L Huchu|title=WreckersThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The story Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Pandora, whose actions are Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the cause dead of all the ills in our world, is well-knownEdinburgh for their living relatives. As Julie Hearn has one Ever since she dropped out of her characters sayschool, men remember she's been using it because they feel better if they can blame to support not only herself, but her, younger sister and that other female villain, Eveher aging grandmother. However, for all their woes and crimes. But supposing Hope wasnthere't s an evil stalking the last thing in that plain wooden box? What if something elseruined streets of Edinburgh, something slow and ugly and steeped in eviltargeting the city's children. Soon, skulked in Ropa is pulled into the shadows right search for a missing boy at the bottom? And what if someone today lifted the lid, as Pandora did, and allowed that last, terrible evil to escape?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729292</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Petersen|title=Mouse Guard: Legends request of The Guard|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start with, I have never heard of Mr Petersen and his Mouse Guard franchisedead mother. But I'm often She will end up for discovering an introduction to a fantasy cycle, occult library and I always relish being welcomed to an author by the most esoteric, unusual, quirky and short route. My first entry to realise that the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin-off]], of magic is far bigger and Imore dangerous than she ever could'm just as likely to start the Twilight series, if ever, with the latest brief whimsyve imagined. And for those of a similar mind-set, this collection of tales from Will she find the pens of guest writers missing children and illustrators, serves as bring an odd-shaped doorway on end to this particular universe.evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingKristen O'Neal|title=Wereworld: Rise of the WolfLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Avery's parents have Having recently been murdereddiagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, they’ve been literally torn apart, and Avery saw Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the whole thingrest of her life. But her minds blocked it outShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', all an online support group where she remembers is seeing something inhumanly fast, flashes talks to a bunch of silverother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and bloodmess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, lots of bloodPriya becomes concerned. Whatever killed She decides to steal her parents ' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is still out there, a werewolf in the basement – and is trying for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to kill heronline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881398X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Patricia Elliott|title=The Traitor's Smile (Pimpernelles)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Usual spoiler warning for Move on to [[The Pale Assassin (Pimpernelles) by Patricia Elliott|Pimpernelles book one, The Pale AssassinNewest Thrillers Reviews]]: at the end of that book, heroine Eugenie and love interest Julien had escaped the French Revolution but been forced to leave behind Eugenie's brother Armand to face the wrath of the government over the failed attempt to rescue the King. Eugenie is being followed by Guy Deschamps, who she still trusts, despite Julien's duel with him at the end of the first book, not knowing that he's working for the Pale Assassin himself Raoul Goullet.|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 a cloned Witchfinder and saviour of humanity in the space of a few short weeks, Jake Harker's magic is understandably depleted. Try as he might, the blue light fails to ingite in his hand. But Jake has no time for recuperation or for coming to terms with the loss of his mother. His father is dying, hexed by the evil witch Marcus Crowden. And the Demon Father is at large, summoning a universal coven that will threaten everything Jake has already fought to save.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731912</amazonuk>}}