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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=Ali SparkesRachel Greenlaw|title=Unleashed : A Life Compass and Death JobBlade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A new series about what happens when Britain's most important and secret assets - teenagers with paranormal abilities - get a week's holidayI can hear the song of the sea. In book oneThe call of the deep, Lisa gets involved with kidnapping and assassination attemptsthe answering beat in my heart. And she only wanted to go shopping at Harvey Nicks!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756060</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Rachel Hawkins|title=Hex Hall: Raising Demons|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.5|genre=Teens|summary=Raising Demons (published in But when the US under Council Watch lays a trap to end the title Demonglass) is wrecking, they capture the second book in island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a planned trilogy about bargain with a teenager wreck survivor who has strong magical powersis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. This review may contain spoilers for With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the first book in watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the seriessmuggler's territory, [[Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins|Hex Hall]]; Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the book certainly doesones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387233</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martyn BedfordHarry Allen|title=FlipChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=With no warning, no hint of anything wrong or out of the ordinary in his life, Alex wakes up one morning having lost six months of his life and Ra Eun Seo lives in a foreign house filled with strangers; the morning turns from weird and scary, to outright crazy North Korean town and terrifying when Alex discovers that the body he has woken up in she is not his own but that of a boy called Philip, or ''Flip'' for shorttalented singer. Before he has time to even contemplate the horrifying possibility that he isn't dreaming or hallucinating, Life is hard and food is actually stuck in the body of a boy who he has never seen before, Alex is forced difficult to face a day in the life of Philip Garamondcome by, literally. As he goes through so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every possible route of enquiryevening, every logical way looking for tree bark and edible grasses to at least make sense supplement the meagre rations of his situation, if not try to reverse it, growing panic sets in rice and a chaotic, thrilling, and truly frightening sequence of events are set offkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329894</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosalie WarrenAlexia Casale|title=Coping With ChloeSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Anna and Chloe are twins who share everythingIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'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 going to change her life. If anything But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the terrible accident Chloe suffered has brought them closerpity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Apart from teacher Miss Tough and Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy Joein school, thoughher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, everyone seems worried by Anna's references and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her twinto navigate. They seem to think Chloe's dead – but So even though she can't they understand the two girls are just sharing a body? Then Chloe falls for Joe, who Anna likes herselfdance anymore, and Anna is left trying might she be able to see how this could ever work…sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907912029</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny NimmoSimon Fox|title=The Secret KingdomDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Protected by a moon cloakLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a ringsecret place, and three mysteriously powerful leopardsjoin him on the run. They get together, Timoken but barely begin to smell the magician and his camel Gabar seek a new home after whiff of Southern trains when the boy father is forced to flee the secret kingdom. But will they ever find peace with arrested, leaving Archie on the vicious viradees on their trail? This prequel late express to the Charlie Bone series contains new and old charactersBrighton, including toting a couple of brief cameos tin his father was determined to keep away from Charlie himselfhis colleagues, but is well worth reading as and the bearer of a stand-alone or introduction to the series if you've never heard whole heap of itquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Blakley-CartwirghtLex Croucher|title=Red Riding HoodGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ok, the biggest let down of this book Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was the missing chapter at the enda gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, which will be made available after the film is released – bad move. I understand that it's meant to keep people interested lifted my spirits in ita most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and not spoil the filmArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, but honestlyyou see, itis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's just frustratingonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Nowcreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, my book will they find a way in which they can both truly be forever incomplete – not good.themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410821</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John StephensNick Brooks|title=The Emerald Atlas: The Books of BeginningPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Whisked away from their parents in When the dead principal (headmaster) of night ten years ago, KateUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, Michael and Emma have seen more than their fair share of orphanages. Nobody wants to adopt three children together - least of all when boys find themselves called into the youngest police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a strong penchant for using her fists whenever she can - grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and so when we meet them, they're on their way to yet another. But the orphanage each could have been there at Cambridge Falls is unlike any other. They're the only children in residence, the housekeeper seems to think they are members time of the French royal familyhis murder. But who killed him, and the town is in the middle of a barren wasteland why, and is bereft if any of children. the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857530186</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Putney1919635017|title=Dark MirrorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Born around a hundred years after the nobility decided that magic was Solomon Klyne isn't a tool which should be used only by commonersbad lad, when Tory Mansfield discovers she can float in the air she knows she must keep it to herself. Until so why is he running around London committing a terrible accident leaves her powers as the only thing that can save one series of her family, and sherobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's forced ll have to wait to get an answer to reveal herself and face disgrace and humiliationthe second question because I avoid spoilers. For an outed mage in LondonBut I's high society there's only ll answer the first one thing that can be done – aspell in Lackland Abbey, the school which can cure youngsters of magic: for his grandmother.. 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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The StrangerDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After the the events of ''The Island'', Otto, Jen and Charlie have gone their separate gap year ways. Otto Ant is in Mumbai but isn't having nearly such Year Eleven at quite a good time as he'd anticipated. Jen has moved on from the retreat standard school, and is travelling with Kumar, but is getting itchy feet. She's not sure she wants surprised to take things with Kumar any further. But Charlie is ecstatic in her dream job at the tiger sanctuary. It's challenging - poaching and corruption are big problems standing in the way of the sanctuary's funding - but she loves find his geography class (within which it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janni Howker|title=The Nature of the Beast|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bill Coward seems absolutely nothing about geography is mature for a child his age – cooking for his father and grandfather (Chunderever learnt)has been restructured, undressing so his father and putting him to bed when he comes home drunk. So when the mill desk is one of four with both his father and grandfather work 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 buddy from the oil fields.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Hardinge|title=Twilight Robbery|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mosca football team, and her companions will be familiar two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to readers of 'Fly By Nightprimary school days together. As they're all fired up, but it is in no way necessary to have read straining at the first volume of her adventures to thoroughly enjoy this book. She is leash only a twelvesingle-year-old orphansex school can form, who travels the roads with her homicidal goose, talk in class and a rather shifty poet called, charmingly, Eponymous Clent. 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 is trying out often turns to raise some cash by reading aloud an old newspaper to illiterate townsfolksex.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405055391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=NLP For Teens Which is part of the Engaging NLP series and is a follow-on from NLP confusing for Children. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult Ant, as it he doesn't know what his score is for the parents it, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a traumatic time secret one, for the teens several months now, and anything which makes it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from so has effectively progressed up the teens rather than being imposed ladder headed 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 Americaexperienced', near one of the Great Lakes - or the unlake as its waterless hollow is now known. Gaia is a midwife-but whether that's set in-trainingstone, following after her motherhe can't be sure. For this family, the cool age - And that is, our age - is almost forgotten. There is no power in Wharfton, and both water and food is in short supply. But Wharfton sits outside the walled city 's mostly because of Enclave, and things are entirely different there - who he's been having the scenes of leisure, wealth relationship and plenty are played out on the Tvalter's big screen, which serves as entertainment for Wharfton's residentssex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071394</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Philip1800901232|title=The Opposite of AmberStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Jinn was quick and shining bright; Jinn was motorTwelve-year-mouthed and nurturingold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer... Actually she catered for my every whim to Life in the point rural village where she anticipated it asked for itlived with her family was happy, spoke for me There was never any need for me to speak and I know I could never say anything as well as she didif not prosperous, so I didn't bother. I didn't resent her or anything. I when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was proud an opportunity not to be spoken for by Jinn, sparky missed. Some money changed hands and bold. I Hanh was spoiled voiceless.'' ''Spoiled voiceless'' on the mini- 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=3bus to Hanoi.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1194 AD Only, strange reports reach Robin Hood Hanh and his men the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in Sherwood Forest. There's an outbreak of plague in Nottingham and its victims are refusing to stay deadillegal garment factory...   Robin Hood vs. The Plague Undead is a 'mash up' of You know those jeans you really wanted: the Robin Hood myth ones with contemporary zombie tales. All intricate embroidery and beading on the usual Robin Hood characters are there - Friar Tuck, Little John, legs? The ones with the Sheriff of Nottingham artfully- but with loads of zombies thrown in as well. placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It must be very difficult to bring the two strands together and I don't think the author has s quite succeeded. The problem is possible that both mythologies endure for different reasons Hanh and it's hard to fuse her co-workers made 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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerPatrice Lawrence|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)Needle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Evercrossedof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she'' picks s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up where residence in her son Blake's old room while he'Kissed by an Angel'' left offs at uni. After her boyfriend Tristan was killed Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a car accidentcomfort blanket, Ivy took up with Gregoryyou might perhaps think, who turned out to be a serial murderer and all-round bad guy. She was saved from him by the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a combination of Tristan in angel formwonder knitter, her psychic best friend Beth and stalwart admirer Will. Now the three is making something full of them are working at love for her younger sister – a holiday inn for the summer, alongside Bethyounger sister she's cousin Kelsey allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her friend Dhanyatwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Will . well, what exactly happens is now Ivy's boyfriend but it's almost a year since Tristan died not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and Ivy is finding herself thinking about him more and morepointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389171</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois DuncanAnn Sei Lin|title=I Know What You Did Last SummerRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=A year agoKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, four teenagers committed a shocking crime after a party massive dining hall floating in the sky where they all had too much soldiers of the Empire come to drink, and overwhelmed by indecisionmake merry between their conquests. However, fear and desperation they made when a pact man named Himura arrives to keep the incidents of the fateful night tell her that she is a secret. HoweverCrafter like him, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the consequences of their actionsEmpire. Their binding pact has held together for a yearHe asks her to come with him, partly out of to leave the friendship they shared and mostly out life of guilt, but when it becomes apparent dreary servitude that there is someone who is looking for revengeall she has known. Well, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up to soon Kurara won't have any say in the truthmatter, for their own sakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Hill|title=Department 19|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a normalshikigami, happy, suburban life until and she is forced to flee out into the night strange creatures arrived at his house and men in black combats with strange, ultra-violent weapons burst in and executed his fatherworld. Since thenShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Jamie and his mother have lived in a succession of miserablesky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, dour little houses and Jamie has become less and less interested in a succession whole world of miserable, dour little schools. He resents his mother, like all good disaffected teenagers do. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{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 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 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 emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Robson|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 to the Draki for generations, and there are those in the Pride who would use her for their own ends. Craving freedom, Jacinda takes 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>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin|title=Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Jenna and Jonah, Charlie and Fielding – they're the stars of the hit TV show 'Jenna and Jonah's How To Be A Rock Star'. On-screen they're 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Demon CollectorWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Edgy Taylor – Meet Fitz, a 19th century dog muck collector for a cruel master, Talon – wouldn't claim to have had the best young Scottish lad full of livesfrustration at himself. His Lockdown is only enjoyment of his 13 years or so so far has been setting just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and solving riddleswith whom he wants, while but he's spent most of cannot stop himself from putting his time avoiding the cruelty of foot in it when he talks to his employerbest friend, Cassie. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him from TalonThey were half of a desultory school band, revealing but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the tanner to be enigmatic – saying she could hear a demon called Thammuz and turning him to stone, Edgy may have cause to look back on his old life subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with nostalgia. Because inside one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Royal Society end of Daemonologie, there are people who think Edgy can help them in their quest to find the heart world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the legendary demon Moloch, who turned against Satan. There are people who think hemusic she's a nuisance. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And there are people who want him dead. Can Edgy figure can Fitz find out who's whothe truth? He'll have toWell, because a mistake could cost him his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Mahoney|title=The Iron Witch|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Donna not when Cassie has always been an outcastgone missing he can't. The arms she hides underneath long gloves are covered in iron tattoos that give her enhanced strength – strength she has tried to hide. But, despite her best efforts, Donna was involved in an incident at school, an incident that means she's now homeschooled and a social pariah.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552563811</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aidan ChambersTori Bovalino|title=The Kissing GameDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=You donWorking all summer in her boarding school't see s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that many short story collections in YA circlesshe has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. But when they do appearAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, you often wonder why there aren't more Tess sticks post-it notes on each of them. And this is absolutely the case books, scribbled with The Kissing Gamethe ugliest insults she can think of. Ranging from short pieces They're never meant to reach him, of flash fiction course. Her plan is to "proper" short storiesget her anger out like this, each one will inciteand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, surprise and stimulateif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkePhilip Reeve|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 Utterly Dark and paper to explain her recent actions, including falling in love with her boyfriend Nat, the ups and downs Face 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=TyrannyDeep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks backIn a word, rich. She used to take joy There is certainly an abundance of riches in life. She used to dream of this story set on a bright future - a careerpeculiar island called Wildsea, boyfriendsBritish but way west, children - but it all went wrong when she hit pubertybeyond the Scillies. She wasn't keen on There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the curves of her newDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, more womanly bodywhere no ship dare sail. When she looked in The current Darks are the mirrorWatcher, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the warnings 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 her parents and her boyfriendthe sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, she listened to Tyranny both his sullen brother and entered his curious ward are thrust into the desperateworld of protecting their island, downward cycle of anorexialike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen BaileyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Running in HeelsJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=You'd like Daisy DavenportJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Her father might Here be rich but she's a lot nicer than most fourteen year old girlsVikings, that kind of Scottish island. She's perhaps a little too attached Dad is going to be automating the good things in lifelantern, which is his specialist thing, such as while mum will be leaving her mother's Louboutins and her own cracked silver Mulberry bag, but as she's always had that sort of lifestyle it's easy career in algae behind to understand why she sees nothing wrong in themhunt the elusive Greenland shark. 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 homeJulia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900846</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth Nix and Sean WilliamsJonathan Stroud|title=TroubletwistersThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jack and Jaide Shield, twins, are living perfectly normal lives until a brief visit from their elusive father sparks Scarlett McCain is an unexplainableoutlaw, chaotic, reality-bending storm that destroys their home rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and introduces them Faith Houses to wander the mysterious world wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of the WardensBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a group gifted dark boy with diverse dark powers, and their perpetual struggle against a force known only as The Evildarker past. As young WardensWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, or Troubletwistersthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, just growing into their Giftsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the pair struggle cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to make sense of reach the chaos that surrounds them and discover Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the true nature rest of their heritage.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreview|author=Andy Mulligan|title=Return to Ribblestrop|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Before they even get back to Ribblestrop, Millie and her friends singularly or together hitchhike, pay their bus drivers the fare in fags, survive a car crash, set fire to a hotel, survive being eaten by a lion and other big cats, and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals to Ribblestrop. And what is Ribblestrop, you may ask? "Ribblestrop's a school?" said Flavio.<br>"Kind of", said Ruskin. "It's trying to be."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Lewis|title=Everybody 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eve EdwardsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Queen's LadySlingshot|rating=43
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|summary=Although it's Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not long since Lady Jane Rievaulxbeing a priority in people's husband died lives. But when she's already beginning defends a new life random boy 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 class with her dower rights and slingshot, her own father finds it difficult to accept that she simple existence is now an independent womanchanged for good. In the Queen's service No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a degree of protection. The man boy in it that 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 worldnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra GloverT L Huchu|title=FalloutThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hannah tries Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to object when her so-called friends throw an impromptu party at her house during her parents' absencetake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, but she simply doesn't know how s been using it to stand up to themsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. At first things arenHowever, there't too bad: her parents will go ballistic when they see s an evil stalking the spilt beer on ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the carpets, but itcity's nothing that can't be fixedchildren. Then drink and drugs begin to take their toll. A window Soon, Ropa is smashed during pulled into the search for a fight, all manner missing boy at the request of things are damaged beyond repair, his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the house world of magic is burgledfar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. And something terribleWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, something so bad she can't face it or admit will it, happens to Hannah during that eventful night. And it will destroy lives in more than one family.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel H WilsonKristen O'Neal|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 Lycanthropy 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 ThunderOther Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=On a walk 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 woods near the familyrest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s new home, Maya is suddenly compelled by an online support group where she talks to a glinting pair bunch of yellow eyes other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to run away from just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her brother and deep into closest friends—doesn't respond to the trees. What she finds is shocking - three dead bodies with chat for a figure standing over the thirdwhile, Priya becomes concerned. Terrified, Maya stumbles back and recounts the horror She decides to steal her parents, who call the police. But the police can't find any bodies, car and itdrive to Brigid's clear they think she's a prankster. Even Maya's parents don't really believe house to check up on her. They think But what shedoesn's seeing things t expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and they're worried for that werewolf to be the girl she's illhas been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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