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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsMax Boucherat|title=Miles From OrdinaryThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's 1036 got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Trondheim, Norway. Solveig lives with her fatherbabysitter poorly, stepmother and stepbrothers. Her mother died many years ago and neither Solveig nor at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her father Halfdan have ever truly recoveredlonesome. Before his injury What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, Halfdan was a Viking mercenary and his dearest wish that is to rejoin his old commanderlog on to Voxminer, the world-building, Harald Hardrada critter-collecting game that is a hit in Miklagard (Constantinople)Lori's world. He promises Solveig But first Lori has a tiny inkling thatthis 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 call ever comegame has been doctored – well, he will take her with him... where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847249396</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|author=Justin Richards|title=The School of Night: Creeping Terror|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When a boy and his father enter a village asking for directions, the unexpected happens. They find all the inhabitants observing a WWII blackout, and thinking it's 1943. But it's definitely 2011. Luckily the lad belongs to the School of Night, an arcane institute of ghost-hunters where merely talking to the shade of your dead sister could come across as a fail. It will still take a lot of pluck and smarts from staff and students to solve the problem of the ghost village of Templeton, and the evil barriers surrounding it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245099</amazonuk>}}  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ali SparkesRachel Greenlaw|title=Unleashed : A Life Compass and Death JobBlade

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martyn BedfordHarry Allen|title=FlipChildren of the Sun

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rosalie WarrenAlexia Casale|title=Coping With ChloeSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny NimmoSimon Fox|title=The Secret KingdomDeadlock

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Blakley-CartwirghtLex Croucher|title=Red Riding HoodGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John StephensNick Brooks|title=The Emerald Atlas: The Books of BeginningPromise Boys

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=M J Putney1919635017|title=Dark MirrorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|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>

 {{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'', OttoAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, 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 surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has moved on been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the retreat football team, and is travelling with Kumar, but is getting itchy feettwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She As they's not sure she wants to take things with Kumar any further. But Charlie is ecstatic in her dream job re all fired up, straining at the tiger sanctuary. It's challenging leash only a single- poaching sex school can form, the talk in class and corruption are big problems standing in the way of the sanctuary's funding - but she loves itout often turns to sex. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Janni Howker|title=The Nature of the Beast|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bill Coward Which is mature for a child his age – cooking confusing for his father and grandfather (Chunder)Ant, undressing his father and putting him to bed when as he comes home drunk. So when the mill doesn't know what his father and grandfather work at score is closed down, their world is thrown into turmoilwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Mike He's (Billhad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's best friend) father has a nervous breakdownset in stone, he can't be sure. Bill And that's mostly because of who he's father goes off to Scotland to work in been having the relationship and the oil fieldssex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329908</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Hardinge1800901232|title=Twilight RobberyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Mosca and her companions will be familiar to readers of 'Fly By Night', but it is in no way necessary to have read the first volume of her adventures to thoroughly enjoy this book. She is a twelveTwelve-year-old orphan, who travels Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the roads rural village where she lived with her homicidal goosefamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a rather shifty poet calledjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, charminglyHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, Eponymous Clentthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. We meet them just after a particularly energetic display of destruction by You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the said goose: Eponymous has been thrown into jail until he can pay for legs? The ones with the damage, artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and Mosca is trying to raise some cash by reading aloud an old newspaper to illiterate townsfolkher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405055391</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=NLP For Teens 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 her mother. For this family, the cool age - 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 of Enclave, and things are entirely different there - the scenes of leisure, wealth and plenty are played out on the Tvalter's big screen, which serves as entertainment for Wharfton's residents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071394</amazonuk>}} {{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 ChandlerPatrice Lawrence|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)Needle

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Evercrossed'' picks up where ''Kissed by an Angel'' left off. After her boyfriend Tristan was killed in a car accidentof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Ivy took up with Gregory, who turned out to be a serial murderer characters and all-round bad guyreaders both. She was saved from him by a combination Kicked out of Tristan in angel form, her psychic best friend Beth multiple homes and stalwart admirer Will. Now the three of them are working at a holiday inn for the summerschools, alongside Bethshe's cousin Kelsey fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her friend Dhanya. Will is now Ivyson Blake's boyfriend but itold room while he's almost a year since Tristan died and Ivy is finding herself thinking about him more and moreat uni. |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 Such a shocking crime after tempestuous personality may be in need of a party where they all had too much to drinkcomfort blanket, and overwhelmed by indecisionyou might perhaps think, fear and desperation they made a pact to keep the incidents creation of one such item is part of the fateful night plot here, as Charlene is a secret. Howeverwonder knitter, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up to the consequences making something full of their actionslove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Their binding pact has held together for We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a yearstore detective, partly out of the friendship they shared and mostly out of guiltthen force people to give her two days off school, but when it becomes apparent that there is she shouts someone who down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is looking not for revengeme to say, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up only to the truth, for their own sakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Hill|title=Department 19|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived a normal, happy, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived at his house remark how sharp and men in black combats with strange, ultra-violent weapons burst in and executed his fatherpointy those knitting needles can be. Since then, Jamie and his mother have lived in a succession of miserable, 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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M GrantAnn Sei Lin|title=Belle's SongRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Chaucer was Kurara has spent her entire life as a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write servant on the famous Canterbury TalesMidori, but he also found a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the time Empire come to drink and courage make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to be tell her that she is a spy for Crafter like him, someone with the king at power to form paper into whatever she desires – a time power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of civil unrest and political intrigue dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in Britain. So the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a story set during one of his journeysshikigami, one which combines his secret work and some of she is forced to flee out into the more memorable characters from world. She joins Himura aboard the tales, is an intriguing propositionOrihime, metaphorically as well as literally. Add a dreamy, motherless girl sky-ship whose guilt at causing her father's accident only reinforces her tendency express purpose is to self-harm and obsessive behaviourhunt down shikigami, and a cracking good plot emerges.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aidan ChambersTori Bovalino|title=The Kissing GameDevil Makes Three

|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

 {{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

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen BaileyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Running in HeelsJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=You'd like Daisy Davenport. Her father might be rich but she's a lot nicer than most fourteen year old girls. She's perhaps a little too attached to the good things in lifeJulia, our pre-teen heroine, such as has been packed off with her mother's Louboutins parents and her own cracked silver Mulberry bagtheir cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, but as she's always had that sort of lifestyle it's easy to understand why she sees nothing wrong in them. And besides everyone else at her private school has the same sort far NE of lifestyle: some girls don't even look the side you're on unless you have a swimming pool at homeScottish islands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Nix and Sean Williams|title=Troubletwisters|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jack and Jaide Shield, twins Here be Vikings, are living perfectly normal lives until a brief visit from their elusive father sparks an unexplainable, chaotic, reality-bending storm that destroys their home and introduces them kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the mysterious world of the Wardenslantern, a group gifted with diverse powerswhich is his specialist thing, and their perpetual struggle against a force known only as The Evilwhile mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. As young Wardens And Julia, or Troubletwisterswell, just growing into their Gifts, the pair struggle to make sense of the chaos that surrounds them she will be homesick and discover the true nature of their heritagealone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganJonathan Stroud|title=Return to RibblestropThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Before they even get back to RibblestropScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Millie rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and her friends singularly or together hitchhike, pay their bus drivers Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the fare in fags, survive a car crashSeven Kingdoms of Britain, set fire to a hotel, survive being eaten by a lion robbing banks and shooting other big catsoutlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, and encourage a Brazilian dark boy with dark powers and a criminal record darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to take his unemployed circus animals flee to Ribblestropthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. And what is RibblestropTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, you may ask? "Ribblestrop's a school?" said Flavio.<br>"Kind the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of"post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, said Ruskin. "It's trying to but will they be."any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Ali Lewis|title=Everybody Jam|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Danny lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. His brother Jonny died in an horrific accident last year and the subject is absolutely taboo. Nobody even mentions his name. But Danny keeps Jonny's room just as it was when he died, and he touches his picture every day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939248X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eve Edwards|title=The Queen's Lady|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Although it's not long since Lady Jane Rievaulx's husband died she's already beginning a new life in service to the Queen at Richmond Palace. It's not enthusiasm which is driving her to this but her late husband's children are disputing her dower rights and her own father finds it difficult to accept that she is now an independent woman. In the Queen's service she has a degree of protection. The man she loves – James Lacy – has demons of his own to conquer and he's about to set sail to the Americas. When Jane's family force her into a dreadful situation it looks as though the one man who can save her is at the other side of the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra GloverMercedes Helnwein|title=FalloutSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Hannah tries Gracie Welles has resigned herself to object when her so-called friends throw an impromptu party at her house during her parents' absencebeing lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, but she simply doesn't know how is used 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 itnot being a priority in people's nothing that can't be fixedlives. Then drink and drugs begin to take their toll. A window is smashed during But when she defends a fightrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, all manner of things are damaged beyond repair, and the house her simple existence is burgledchanged for good. And something terribleNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, something so bad she can't face for her life now has a boy in it or admit it, happens to Hannah during that eventful night. And it will destroy lives in more than one familyshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel H WilsonT L Huchu|title=Code Lightfall and The Library of the Robot KingDead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Code Lightfall Ropa Moyo is on a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school trip , she's been using it to a prehistoric mound when he falls through a trap into another worldsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, where everything is made there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of crystal, or metalEdinburgh, and targeting the only living city'animals' are all robotics children. It's Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a world under threat, so can he journey across its bizarre landscapes missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and save it all? And what is realise that the truth world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the moundmissing children and bring an end to this evil, where his grandfather disappeared a year agoor will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerKristen O'Neal|title=Buried ThunderLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|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

{{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]]