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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Rosalie Warren|title=Coping With Chloe|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anna and Chloe are twins who share everything. If anything, the terrible accident Chloe suffered has brought them closer. Apart from teacher Miss Tough and new boy Joe, though, everyone seems worried by Anna's references to her twin. They seem to think Chloe's dead – but can't they understand the two girls are just sharing a body? Then Chloe falls for Joe, who Anna likes herself, and Anna is left trying to see how this could ever work…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912029 </amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny NimmoMax Boucherat|title=The Secret KingdomLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Protected by a moon cloakWe 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 ringblanket fort, and three mysteriously powerful leopardsshe has one main intention, Timoken the magician and his camel Gabar seek a new home after the boy that is forced to flee log on to Voxminer, the secret kingdomworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But will they ever first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find peace with the vicious viradees herself entirely on their trail? This prequel to her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the Charlie Bone series contains new server she and her bestie and old charactersnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, including a couple of brief cameos from Charlie himselfand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, but where is well worth reading as a stand-alone or introduction girl to the series if you've never heard of it.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Blakley-CartwirghtRachel Greenlaw|title=Red Riding Hood|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok, the biggest let down of this book was the missing chapter at the end, which will be made available after the film is released – bad move. I understand that it's meant to keep people interested in it, Compass and not spoil the film, but honestly, it's just frustrating, Now, my book will be forever incomplete – not good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Stephens|title=The Emerald Atlas: The Books of Beginning|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Whisked away from their parents in the dead of night ten years ago, Kate, Michael and Emma have seen more than their fair share of orphanages. Nobody wants to adopt three children together - least of all when the youngest has a strong penchant for using her fists whenever she can - and so when we meet them, they're on their way to yet another. But the orphanage at Cambridge Falls is unlike any other. They're the only children in residence, the housekeeper seems to think they are members of the French royal family, and the town is in the middle of a barren wasteland and is bereft of children. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857530186</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M J Putney|title=Dark MirrorBlade|rating=43.5

|summary=Born around a hundred years after ''I can hear the nobility decided that magic was a tool which should be used only by commoners, when Tory Mansfield discovers she can float in song of the air she knows she must keep it to herselfsea. Until a terrible accident leaves her powers as The call of the only thing that can save one of her familydeep, and she's forced to reveal herself and face disgrace and humiliationthe answering beat in my heart. For an outed mage in London's high society there's only one thing that can be done – aspell in Lackland Abbey, the school which can cure youngsters of magic. Not everyone at Lackland wants to be cured, though… and Tory needs to decide whether her powers are a curse or a gift.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312622848</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Sarah Singleton|title=The Stranger|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the events of ''The Island''wrecks. Mira, Ottolike her mother before her, Jen is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Charlie have gone their separate gap year waysany treasure that lies within. Otto is in Mumbai but isnBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't having nearly such s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a good time wreck survivor who is as charming as he'd anticipated. Jen has moved on from the retreat is secretive and is travelling with Kumaronly coordinates to guide her, but is getting itchy feetshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. She's not sure she wants With only nine days to take things with Kumar any further. But Charlie is ecstatic in unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her dream job at from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the tiger sanctuary. Itsmuggler's challenging - poaching and corruption are big problems standing in territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the way future of her home and the sanctuary's funding - but ones she loves itholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janni HowkerHarry Allen|title=The Nature Children of the BeastSun

|summary=Bill Coward Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is mature for a child his age – cooking for his father talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and grandfather (Chunder)Min go foraging every evening, undressing his father looking for tree bark and putting him edible grasses to bed when he comes home drunk. So when supplement the mill his father meagre rations of rice and grandfather work kimchi at is closed down, their world is thrown into turmoil. Mike's (Bill's best friend) father has a nervous breakdown. Bill's father goes off to Scotland to work in the oil fieldshome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329908</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeAlexia Casale|title=Twilight RobberySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Mosca and her companions will be familiar It's hard enough to readers of 'Fly By Nightnavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but it that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in no way necessary to have read the first volume middle of a dance performance that was going to change her adventures to thoroughly enjoy this booklife. She is a twelve-year-old orphan But she comes back fighting, who travels desperate to avoid the roads with her homicidal goosepity stares, and desperate to get back to a rather shifty poet calledlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, charminglyher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Eponymous Clent. We meet them and just after a particularly energetic display the day to day traumas of destruction by all the said goose: Eponymous has been thrown into jail until he challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can pay for the damage't dance anymore, and Mosca is trying might she be able to raise some cash by reading aloud an old newspaper to illiterate townsfolk.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405055391</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judy BartkowiakSimon Fox|title=NLP For TeensDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=NLP For Teens Late one night Graham Blake is part of late back from his shift on the Engaging NLP series force, and is a follow-on then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something 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 secret place, 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 join him on the parent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caragh M O'Brien|title=Birthmarked|rating=3run.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Gaia lives in a post-climate change America They get together, near one but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the Great Lakes - or the unlake as its waterless hollow father is now known. Gaia is a midwife-in-training, following after her mother. For this familyarrested, leaving Archie on the cool age - that islate express to Brighton, our age - is almost forgotten. There is no power in Wharftontoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and both water and food is in short supply. But Wharfton sits outside the walled city bearer of Enclave, and things are entirely different there - the scenes a whole heap of leisure, wealth and plenty are played out on the Tvalter's big screen, which serves as entertainment for Wharfton's residentsquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071394</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=The Opposite of Amber|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Jinn was quick and shining bright; Jinn was motor-mouthed and nurturing... Actually she catered for my every whim to the point where she anticipated it asked for it, spoke for me There was never any need for me to speak and I know I could never say anything as well as she did, so I didn't bother. I didn't resent her or anything. I was proud to be spoken for by Jinn, sparky and bold. I was spoiled voiceless.'' ''Spoiled voiceless'' - isn't that a whole world of meaning contained in just two words?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599920</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Black|title=Robin Hood Vs the Plague Undead (Mash Ups) |rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1194 AD, strange reports reach Robin Hood and his men in Sherwood Forest. There's an outbreak of plague in Nottingham and its victims are refusing to stay dead...   Robin Hood vs. The Plague Undead is a 'mash up' of the Robin Hood myth with contemporary zombie tales. All the usual Robin Hood characters are there - Friar Tuck, 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 setting, and having Robin Hood fighting zombies rather than the rich tends to undermine his leftwing credentials.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140831388X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerLex Croucher|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 a car accident, Ivy took up with Gregory, who turned out to be a serial murderer Gwen and all-round bad guy. She was saved from him by a combination of Tristan Art Are Not in angel form, her psychic best friend Beth and stalwart admirer Will. Now the three of them are working at a holiday inn for the summer, 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 to keep the incidents of the fateful night a secret. However, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up to the consequences of their actions. Their binding pact has held together for a year, partly out of 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 to the truth, for their own sakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Hill|title=Department 19Love

|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a normalgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, happyit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived at his house Gwen and men Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in black combats love with strange, ultraBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -violent weapons burst in and executed his fathersomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Since And thenwhen Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Jamie and his mother have lived in a succession creating the subterfuge of miserable, dour little houses and Jamie has become less and less interested falling in a succession of miserablelove with each other, dour little schoolswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. He resents his mother But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, like all good disaffected teenagers do. will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M GrantNick Brooks|title=Belle's SongPromise Boys

|summary=Chaucer was a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write When the famous Canterbury Talesprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, but he also found three boys find themselves called into the time police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and courage to be a spy for each could have been there at the king at a time of civil unrest his murder. But who killed him, and political intrigue in Britain. So a story set during one of his journeyswhy, one which combines his secret work and some if any of the more memorable characters from the talesboys are innocent, 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 will they be able to self-harm and obsessive behaviour, and a cracking good plot emerges.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Robson1919635017|title=The Devil's Triangle|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 to be very ill-advised as Sam and his friend, Callum, find themselves lost and stranded on an island that is terrifyingly different from anything they have witnessed before. Meanwhile, Sam's twin sister Niamh is caught up in the search for the boys, co-ordinated by their father, Matthew, who is desperate to rescue Sam and Callum from the same mysterious phenomenon that took his wife nine years ago. As the search for the boys threatens to disintegrate under allegations that Matthew may be responsible for their disappearance, Niamh goes on the run, desperate to keep searching for her brother, 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 Thief to the Draki for generations, and there are those in the Pride who would use her for their own ends. Craving freedom, Jacinda takes Catch a risk that nearly costs her life. Now Jacinda's mother has dragged her and twin sister Tamra from their mountain home, sneaking away in the middle of the night, leaving everything they knew behind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756508</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|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 next-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>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=The Demon CollectorKitt 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 Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in YA circlesfact they all go back to primary school days together. But when As they do appear're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, you the talk in class and out often wonder why there arenturns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't more of them. And this know what his score is absolutely the case with The Kissing Game, where his achievements in that regard lie. Ranging from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short stories He's had a casual relationship, each a secret one will incite, surprise for several months now, and stimulateso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate Brian1800901232|title=Private: The Book 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 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 dislike. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071297</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Cat Clarke|title=Entangled|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The story starts on day three of Grace's imprisonment by a kidnapper. She'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 Grace's life, the one thing we're never quite 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, that mile-deep hell-hole cum nightmare scientific experiment writ large. He's arisen to find the country in tatters, as the nasty creatures born there are in charge and decimating the population. There is only one thing to do - kill the man responsible. And Alex, eight feet tall, with an obsidian blade for an arm and muscles upon his muscles, will still face his hardest battle yet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259405</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=TyrannySteve 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 in the Australian outback. His brother Jonny died Working all summer 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 husbandboarding school's children are disputing her dower rights and her own father finds it difficult to accept that she library is now an independent woman. In the Queen's service last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she has gets a request for over a degree of protection. The man hundred books that she loves – James Lacy – has demons of his own to conquer and he's about to set sail to the Americasdeliver herself. When Jane's family force her into a dreadful situation What makes it looks as though worse is the one man who can save her is at requested the other side of the worldbooks: Mr Birch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>}} {{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 parentsThe boarding school' absences headmaster, but she simply doesn't know how to stand up to themand a man Tess hates. At first things aren't too bad: As a petty act of revenge for making 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 find and drugs begin to take their toll. A window is smashed during deliver such a fightlarge request, all manner Tess sticks post-it notes on each of things are damaged beyond repairthe books, and scribbled with the house is burgled. And something terrible, something so bad ugliest insults she canthink of. They't face it or admit itre never meant to reach him, happens to Hannah during that eventful night. And it will destroy lives in more than one familyof course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel H Wilson|title=Code Lightfall and the Robot King|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Code Lightfall Her plan 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 metalget her anger out like this, and the only living 'animals' are then take them all roboticoff before delivering them. It's a world under threat, so can he journey across its bizarre landscapes and save No harm done… Or it all? And what is the truth of the moundwould be, where his grandfather disappeared a year ago?if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerPhilip Reeve|title=Buried ThunderUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=On In a walk word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the woods near Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family's new homethat has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, Maya is suddenly compelled by a glinting pair who has to keep notes of yellow eyes to run away activity from her the Hidden Lands, his brother and deep into the trees. What she finds is shocking - three dead bodies Will who lives in London with a figure standing over the third. Terrifiedtoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, Maya stumbles back and recounts the horror to her parentsAndrewe's foundling daughter, who call washed up out of the policesea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the police can't find any bodiesworld of protecting their island, and like 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 illor not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Berlie DohertyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|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 Julia 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)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 their cat from the family home in SW England to trail him around town on be lighthousekeepers for a Saturday morning. But summer, in the girls far NE of the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women do things differentlyScottish islands. They have access to top-secret files Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. They have been trained Dad is going to disguise themselves for covert operations. They know how to read be automating the slightest hints drawn from a person's body language. When they get curious about somethinglantern, which is his specialist thing, there's very little chance it while mum will stay hidden. But now their skills are really being put be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the testelusive Greenland shark. Cammie's room-mate Macey And Julia, the daughter of a senator on the campaign trailwell, has been attacked. It she will take everything her friends have learned, be homesick and more, to protect her and solve the mysteries which surround themalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140830953X</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexandra Adornetto Jonathan Stroud|title=HaloThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=2.54|genre=Teens|summary=When three angels – GabrielScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Ivy rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Bethany – arrive in a quiet townFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, their mission is to bring good robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to a world in danger of falling into darknesskeep herself alive. They have to conceal their true nature – hiding the glow of their skinBut then she meets Albert Browne, their wings – a task not easy for Bethanydark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the least experienced mythical Free Isles of the trioLondon Lagoon. She's overwhelmed by human lifeTogether, fascinated by they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the experiences available horrors of post-apocalyptic society to her in human form. A fascination that leads to a dangerous attraction to human boy, Xavier. Falling in love was not part of reach the holy missionFree Isles, and Gabriel and Ivy fear Bethany won't but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the position to save anybody if she continues down the path she's on.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410759</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{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 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 request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the lid, as Pandora did, missing children and allowed that lastbring an end to this evil, terrible evil to escapeor will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729292</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David PetersenKristen O'Neal|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard|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 Lycanthropy 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 WolfOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Usual spoiler warning Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for [[The Pale Assassin (Pimpernelles) by Patricia Elliott|Pimpernelles book onethe rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', The Pale Assassin]]: at the end an online support group where she talks to a bunch of that bookother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, heroine Eugenie while also providing an escape to just joke and love interest Julien had escaped mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the French Revolution but been forced chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to leave behind EugenieBrigid's brother Armand house to face the wrath of the government over the failed attempt to rescue the Kingcheck up on her. Eugenie is being followed by Guy Deschamps, who But what she still trusts, despite Juliendoesn's duel with him at t expect to find there is a werewolf in the end of basement – and for that werewolf to be the first book, not knowing that he's working girl she has been talking to online for the Pale Assassin himself Raoul Goulletpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340956771</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=William Hussey|title=Witchfinder: Gallows at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After turning from horror comic geek Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]