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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Bryony Pearce|title=Angel's Fury|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=From the very first lines of this powerful story we are dragged into a terrifying world where Cassie's nightmares are so real she continues to feel the pain of the injuries even after she has woken up. She fights sleep, dreading the bullet-ridden agony, the screams of family and playmates, and the awful, breathless hunt through the field of barley until at last the gun fires again, ending Zillah's life. Such a nightmare would shake a person for days afterwards . . . but Cassie goes through this night after night after night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251352 </amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Clempson|title=One Seriously Messed!-Up Week: in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jack is an endearing lad with all the uncertainties, desires and preoccupations of his ilk. One minute he is worshipping the lovely Eleanor from afar, praising her as a pure and beautiful angel, and the next he is comparing the merits of various girls' mammary glands with his mates. He plays it cool but constantly frets about looking like an idiot; he wants to do well in his exams but skips class with barely a qualm, and he rarely allows something as unimportant as a lesson to intrude on his conversations. He is, in fact, that collection of contradictions, anxieties and bravadoes which is known as the average teenage boy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410554</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alex Woolf|title=Chronosphere: Time Out of Time|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's the 22nd Century, and finally the ideal gap year is available. Before being forced into a career prescribed him by his big society, Raffi buys his way into the Chronosphere, whereby his body will live in stasis for one minute in general time, while passing a year of sunny hedonism, with sports, shopping, girls and partying in a perfect idyll of mod-cons. But of course all is not well in paradise. His peers have a habit of vanishing without trace, and who knows? Remove - even his newly-found friends may have something to do with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184554</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex EpsteinMax Boucherat|title=The Circle Cast|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Anna is just a girl Last Life of eleven, when her father is involved in protecting the British Isles from the Saxon invaders. But, when the warlord Uter Pendragon decides to claim her mother Ygraine as his, with lethal consequences, things change. Her locale - from southwestern England, to sanctuary in Ireland. Her standpoint - from proud young girl absorbing some passed-down military knowledge, to a young woman of magic, bent on vengeance. And her name - from Anna, to Morgan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580637</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Colin Mulhern|title=ClashLori 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 cloak, a ringLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and three mysteriously powerful leopardsthen suddenly rings Archie, Timoken the magician and his camel Gabar seek demanding he fetch something from a new home after the boy is forced to flee the secret kingdom. But will they ever find peace with the vicious viradees place, and join him on their trail? This prequel to the Charlie Bone series contains new and old characters, including a couple of brief cameos from Charlie himselfrun. They get together, but is well worth reading as a stand-alone or introduction barely begin to smell the series if you've never heard whiff of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Blakley-Cartwirght|title=Red Riding Hood|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=OkSouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the biggest let down of this book late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father 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 determined to keep people interested in itaway from his colleagues, and not spoil the film, but honestly, it's just frustrating, Now, my book will be forever incomplete – not goodbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410821</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John StephensLex Croucher|title=The Emerald Atlas: The Books of BeginningGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Born around a hundred years after the nobility decided Who knew that magic what I really needed to read right now was a tool which should be used only by commonersgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, when Tory Mansfield discovers she can float it lifted my spirits in the air she knows she must keep it to herselfa most delightful way. Until a terrible accident leaves her powers as the only thing that can save one of her family In this story, Gwen and she's forced Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to reveal herself and face disgrace and humiliation. For an outed mage their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in London's high society therelove with Bridget (the kingdom's only one thing female knight) - something that can be done – Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing aspell boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in Lackland Abbeylove with each other, the school when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can cure youngsters of magic. Not everyone at Lackland wants to both truly be curedthemselves, though… and Tory needs or are they destined to decide whether her powers are live a curse or a gift.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0312622848</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonNick Brooks|title=The StrangerPromise Boys

|summary=After When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the events police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of ''The Island''some description against Principal Moore, Otto, Jen and Charlie each could have gone their separate gap year ways. Otto is in Mumbai but isn't having nearly such a good been there at the time as he'd anticipatedof his murder. Jen has moved on from the retreat But who killed him, and is travelling with Kumarwhy, but is getting itchy feet. She's not sure she wants to take things with Kumar and if any further. But Charlie is ecstatic in her dream job at of the tiger sanctuary. It's challenging - poaching and corruption boys are big problems standing in the way of the sanctuary's funding - but she loves it. innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janni Howker1919635017|title=The Nature of the BeastA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Bill Coward Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is mature for he running around London committing a child his age – cooking for his father and grandfather (Chunder), undressing his father and putting him series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to bed when he comes home drunkthe second question because I avoid spoilers. So when But I'll answer the mill first one: for his father and grandfather work at is closed down, their world is thrown into turmoilgrandmother. Mike's (Bill's best friend) father has a nervous breakdown. Bill's father goes off to Scotland to work in the oil fields.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Twilight RobberyDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mosca and her companions will be familiar to readers of 'Fly By Night', but it Ant is in no way necessary to have read the first volume of her adventures to thoroughly enjoy this book. She is Year Eleven at quite a twelve-year-old orphan, who travels the roads with her homicidal goosestandard school, and a rather shifty poet calledis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, charmingly, Eponymous Clent. We meet them just after a particularly energetic display so his desk is one of destruction by four with both his best buddy from the said goose: Eponymous has been thrown into jail until he can pay for the damagefootball team, and Mosca is trying to raise some cash by reading aloud an two other old newspaper muckers – in fact they all go back to illiterate townsfolkprimary school days together.|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 As they're all fired up, straining at the Engaging NLP series and is leash only a followsingle-on from NLP for Childrensex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as it Which is confusing for the parents itAnt, as he doesn's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier t know what his score is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parent, where his achievements in that regard lie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caragh M O He'Brien|title=Birthmarked|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Gaia lives in s had a post-climate change Americacasual relationship, near a secret one of the Great Lakes - or the unlake as its waterless hollow is , for several months now known. Gaia is a midwife-in-training, following after her mother. For this familyand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', the cool age - but whether that is, our age - is almost forgotten. There is no power 's set in Wharftonstone, and both water and food is in short supplyhe can't be sure. But Wharfton sits outside the walled city And that'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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gillian Philip1800901232|title=The Opposite of AmberStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerPatrice Lawrence|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)Needle

|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

 {{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 tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the incidents of power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the fateful night a secretEmpire. HoweverHe asks her to come with him, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up to leave the consequences life of their actionsdreary servitude that is all she has known. Their binding pact has held together for Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a yearshikigami, partly and she is forced to flee out of into the world. She joins Himura aboard the friendship they shared and mostly out of guiltOrihime, but when it becomes apparent that there is someone who a sky-ship whose express purpose is looking for revenge, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up to the truthhunt down shikigami, for their own sakes.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillMarcus Sedgwick|title=Department 19Wrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived Meet Fitz, a normalyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, happyand he should be free to do what he wants, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived at his house to go where he wants and men in black combats with strangewhom he wants, ultra-violent weapons burst but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in and executed it when he talks to his fatherbest friend, Cassie. Since thenThey were half of a desultory school band, Jamie and his mother have lived in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a succession subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of miserable, dour little houses and Jamie has become less and less interested in the world is already a succession done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of miserablemusic she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, dour little schoolsnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. He resents his mother, like all good disaffected teenagers do. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 RobsonTori Bovalino|title=The Devil's TriangleMakes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=A rebellious boat journey into the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the DevilWorking all summer in her boarding school's Triangle, prompted by Sam's annoyance at his father's obsession with library is the area's notoriety, turns out last thing Tess Matheson wants to be very ill-advised as Sam and his friend, Callum, find themselves lost and stranded on an island do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is terrifyingly different from anything they have witnessed beforethe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Meanwhile, SamThe boarding school's twin sister Niamh is caught up in the search headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for the boysmaking her find and deliver such a large request, coTess sticks post-ordinated by their fatherit notes on each of the books, Matthewscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, who of course. Her plan is desperate to rescue Sam get her anger out like this, and Callum from the same mysterious phenomenon that took his wife nine years agothen take them all off before delivering them. As the search for the boys threatens to disintegrate under allegations that Matthew may No harm done… Or it would be responsible for their disappearance, Niamh goes on the run, desperate to keep searching if someone hadn't delivered them for her brother, but with only their rather ambiguous twin bond to guide her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389783</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie JordanPhilip Reeve|title=FirelightUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jacinda was singled out as special by her Pride when she manifested with In a 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 ability to breath fireScillies. A fireThere are troll people on it, and sea-breather hasn't been born to the Draki for generationswitches, and there are those in legends of the Pride who would use her Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their own endsmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Craving freedomThe current Darks are the Watcher, Jacinda takes a risk that nearly costs her life. Now Jacinda's mother Andrewe, who has dragged her and twin sister Tamra to keep notes of activity from their mountain homethe Hidden Lands, sneaking away his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the middle sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of the nightprotecting their island, leaving everything they knew behindlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756508</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily Franklin Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Brendan HalpinTom de Freston|title=Jenna & Jonah's FauxmanceJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Jenna Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Jonahtheir cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, Charlie and Fielding – they're in the stars far NE of the hit TV show 'Jenna and Jonah's How To Be A Rock Star'Scottish islands. On-screen they're next-door neighbours in a will they Here be Vikings, won't they plotthat kind of Scottish island. Off-screen they're every bit Dad is going to be automating the perfect couple they are on TVlantern, romantic dinnerswhich is his specialist thing, flowers – while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the lotelusive Greenland shark. The problem is they hate each other. You heard me right And Julia, well, they loathe each othershe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881630X</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewJonathan Stroud|title=The Demon CollectorOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Edgy Taylor – a 19th century dog muck collector for a cruel masterScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Talon – wouldn't claim to have had rejecting the best draconian conformity of lives. His only enjoyment of his 13 years or so so far has been setting the Surviving Towns and solving riddles, while he's spent most of his time avoiding Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the cruelty Seven Kingdoms of his employerBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him from Talonthen she meets Albert Browne, revealing the tanner to be a demon called Thammuz dark boy with dark powers and turning him a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to stone, Edgy may have cause flee to look back on his old life with nostalgiathe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Because inside Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the Royal Society cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of Daemonologiepost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are people who think Edgy can help them in their quest to find the heart rest of the legendary demon Moloch, who turned against Satan. There are people who think he's a nuisance. And there are people who want him dead. Can Edgy figure out who's whoBritain? He'll have to, because a mistake could cost him his life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Karen Mahoney|title=The Iron Witch|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Donna has always been an outcast. The arms she hides underneath long gloves are covered in iron tattoos that give her enhanced strength – strength she has tried to hide. But, despite her best efforts, Donna was involved in an incident at school, an incident that means she's now homeschooled and a social pariah.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563811</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aidan ChambersMercedes Helnwein|title=The Kissing GameSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=You donGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people't see that many short story collections in YA circless lives. But when they do appearshe defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, you often wonder why there aren't more of them. And this her simple existence is absolutely the case with The Kissing Gamechanged for good. Ranging from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short storiesNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, each one will incite, surprise and stimulatefor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian FalknerT L Huchu|title=BrainjackThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam comes Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the attention dead of the CDD (Homeland SecurityEdinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she'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 headsetsbeen using it to support not only herself, but doesn't have the money to buy themher younger sister and her aging grandmother. Thinking heHowever, there's been given a hacker network initiation testan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, Sam then successfully penetrates targeting the White Housecity's security systemchildren. ItSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the 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's all ve imagined. Will she find the CDD needs missing children and bring an end to knowthis evil, and Sam finds himself sprung from federal custody and recruited. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329061</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate BrianKristen O'Neal|title=Private: The Book of SpellsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=3.5

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{{newreview|author=Cat Clarke|title=Entangled|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The story starts Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]