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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Maria V Snyder|title=Outside In|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Although the revelation that Inside, a society crammed into a self <!-contained cube-shaped metal hull, is actually floating through space came as a shock to the population of Inside, both the Uppers and the Lowers of society expected life to get better after the success of the revolution and the deposition of the tyrannical Travas. However, Trella learns that setting up a new society that smooths over the divides and prejudices that consumed the old one is a cumbersome process. When bombs start exploding and violence begins to flare, a new potent threat has to be confronted by the divided population of Inside, in the form of Outsiders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Franny Billingsley|title=Chime|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Briony is a witch. She's ready to be hanged 'now, please.' She's an engaging and captivating central character struggling to cope with the death of her beloved stepmother and looking after her slightly deranged twin sister Rose. And she can talk to the Old Ones, a crew of supernatural spirits who are best compared to ghostly rejects from 'Cold Comfort Farm'. Chime is in turns beguiling, frustrating, enjoyable and annoying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747583811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Moira Young|title=Blood Red Road|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Saba has lived in the desolation surrounding the dried-up Silverlake for all of her eighteen years. The family has just one neighbour Remove - a chaal addict, so not exactly sociable - so Saba's only companions are her father, her twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi. Saba worships Lugh, resents Emmi for their mother's death in childbirth, and is confused by her father, who believes he can read the future in the stars. But it's all she knows and as long as Lugh is close, she's happy enough. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124250</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill LewisMax Boucherat|title=Sky HawkThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rob and Euan want to chase Iona McNair off CallumWe meet Lori on the first evening she's farm. She's newly returned got the house to herself – no neighbour to the villagepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, staying with her grandfatherjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her mother nowhere to be seenlonesome. It's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a close community blanket fort, she has one main intention, and rumours abound that is to log on to Voxminer, the world- and Iona building, critter-collecting game that is a bit of a pariah amongst the childrenhit in Lori's world. But something about first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her draws Callum in own, and Iona returns then she finds something even more spooky. For the favour by trusting him with server she and her deepest secret: she's found an osprey's nest high above the loch bestie and she's desperate nobody else should be able to protect the endangered birdsenter shows signs of tampering. And so When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the two of them forge game has been doctored – well, where is a friendship as they try girl to keep Iris and her mate out of harm's way. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756230</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat PatrickRachel Greenlaw|title=ForgottenCompass and Blade

|summary=''Here's the thing about me: I can see hear the song of the future sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in flashes, like memories. But my past is a blankheart. I remember what I'll wear tomorrow, and argument that won't happen until this afternoon. But I don't know what I ate for dinner last night.'' As you can imagine, life is quite tricky for London. At 4.33am every morning, her memory resets. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405253614</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Delirium|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Imagine Rosevear, a world without love..remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Where romance was deadMira, parents felt no affection for their childrenlike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Romeo and Juliet was studied as a cautionary tale. Lena's world has nearly reached any treasure that stagelies within. The cure has been found for amor deliria nervosaBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, and is given to all children when they reach capture the age of 18. After her motherisland's suicide for love Lena is desperate to reach that age leader and receive the cure. She knows things will change - sheMira's seen the effect it has on those father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who go through it is as charming as he is secretive and the way it makes them all calmer - but she's ready with only coordinates to welcome it. And then guide her, she meets sets off in search of a boyfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her views on love are turned completely upside down. But with from the watched streets of foreign islands to the date heart of the cure so closesmuggler's territory, can Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she possibly do anything about her new feelings?holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980915</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cliff McNishHarry Allen|title=The Hunting GroundChildren of the Sun

|summary=When Elliott Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Ben move into Glebe House with their father, she is a professional renovater, they don't expect anything other than another short pause in their peripatetic livestalented singer. Elliott kind of wishes the family could put down some roots, but there Life is hard and food is something difficult to be said come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for staying in huge mansions with grounds tree bark and edible grasses to explore. But right from supplement the start things aren't as they should bemeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. Why does Elliott wake at night, feeling afraid? Why is Ben lying about going into the abandoned East Wing? Who is the old lady with the dead flowers pinned to her dress? And why is the house full of pictures of a previous owner, all with a hunting theme? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001922</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bryony PearceAlexia Casale|title=AngelSing if you Can's Furyt Dance

|summary=From the very first lines of this powerful story we are dragged into It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a terrifying world where Cassielife-changing disability too, but that's nightmares are so real she continues to feel what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the pain middle of the injuries even after a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she has woken up. She fights sleepcomes back fighting, dreading desperate to avoid the bullet-ridden agonypity stares, the screams of family and playmatesdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the awful, breathless hunt through day to day traumas of all the field of barley until challenges her body continues to throw at last the gun fires againher to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, ending Zillah's life. Such a nightmare would shake a person for days afterwards . . . but Cassie goes might she be able to sing her way through this night after night after night.instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405251352</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom ClempsonSimon Fox|title=One Seriously Messed-Up Week: in the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life of Jack SamsoniteDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jack Late one night Graham Blake is an endearing lad with all late back from his shift on the uncertaintiesforce, desires and preoccupations of his ilk. One minute then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he is worshipping the lovely Eleanor fetch something from afara secret place, praising her as a pure and beautiful angeljoin him on the run. They get together, and but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the next he father is comparing arrested, leaving Archie on the merits of various girls' mammary glands with his mates. He plays it cool but constantly frets about looking like an idiot; he wants late express to do well in his exams but skips class with barely a qualmBrighton, and he rarely allows something as unimportant as toting a lesson tin his father was determined to intrude on keep away from his conversations. He iscolleagues, in fact, that collection of contradictions, anxieties and bravadoes which is known as the average teenage boybearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410554</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex WoolfLex Croucher|title=Chronosphere: Time Out of TimeGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=It's the 22nd CenturyWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, and finally the ideal gap year is availableit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Before being forced into a career prescribed him by his big societyIn this story, Raffi buys his way into the ChronosphereGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, whereby his body will live in stasis for one minute in general timemuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, while passing a year of sunny hedonismyou see, is in love with sports, shopping, girls and partying in a perfect idyll of modBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -conssomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. But And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of course all is not well falling in paradiselove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. His peers have But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a habit of vanishing without traceway in which they can both truly be themselves, and who knowsor are they destined to live a lie their whole lives? - even his newly-found friends may have something to do with it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907184554</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex EpsteinNick Brooks|title=The Circle CastPromise Boys

|summary=Anna is just a girl When the principal (headmaster) of eleven, when her father Urban Promise Prep school is involved in protecting the British Isles from the Saxon invaders. Butmurdered, when three boys find themselves called into the warlord Uter Pendragon decides to claim her mother Ygraine police station as his, with lethal consequences, things changesuspects. Her locale - from southwestern EnglandEach, to sanctuary in Ireland. Her standpoint - from proud young girl absorbing some passed-down military knowledgeseemingly, to has a young woman grudge of magicsome description against Principal Moore, bent on vengeanceand each could have been there at the time of his murder. And her name - from AnnaBut who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to Morgan.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1896580637</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Mulhern1919635017|title=ClashA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Alex Crow Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is the sort he running around London committing a series of kid who you stay well away from, whether yourobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You're the nerdy classroom joker or the loudmouthed bully of the class. From Kyle's point of view he appears ll have to wait to be a disturbed psycho, with barely restrained brutality, and he does everything possible get an answer to the second question because I avoid himspoilers. However, events conspire to bring But I'll answer the two together, and we learn that there is a lot more to both characters than first impressions seem to implyone: for his grandmother.. As tensions mount and stakes are upped, it is down to a tortured Alex to overcome his internal confusion, fight to save those close to him, and redeem himself as a person.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471168</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Marsden|title=Tomorrow When The War Began|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ellie and her friends are going to Hell. On a camping trip, that is. Taking enough supplies to last a week, the Australian teens are determined to have fun in the remotest part of the bush Patrick Ness and get to know each other a little better. Or a lot better in certain cases… The week goes well, but all too soon it’s time toleave. Except when they get back, it’s to find their worlds have been turned completely upside down. Their farms are devastated, animals dead or dying, and families nowhere to be found. How can this have happened, and is it related to the mysterious planes they saw flying overhead on Commemoration Day? The teens set out to find out what happened to their families and work out just how they can survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387332</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsTea Bendix|title=Miles From OrdinaryDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Lacey wakes up Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one summer morning ready of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to start her new job at the libraryprimary school days together. Maybe she As they'll actually make her first real friend. It's also Lacey's mother's first day toore all fired up, working straining at the local grocery storeleash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. But Which is confusing for Ant, Laceyas he doesn's mother t know what his score is ill – she hears voices, or to be more specific she hears the voice of Lacey's dead Grandfather telling her what to dowhere his achievements in that regard lie. But they need the money after Lacey He's mother spent all their money on tinned food ready had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the end of the world ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that Lacey's Grandfather had told her was comingset in stone, he can't be sure. Everything starts off well, and Lacey even manages to become friends with one And that's mostly because of the cool kids, Aaron, on the bus to the library. But, as the day goes on Laceywho he's memories come flooding back been having the relationship and what started off as a normal day starts to spiral out of controlthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0312555121</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan Abbott1800901232|title=The End of EverythingStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=On Brave. Charlene, the surface 'heroine' of this book piece is about the disappearance extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of a thirteen-year-old girl. Her best friend multiple homes and neighbour Lizzie relates how she searches for cluesschools, how she discovers that 's fostering with a local man may be involvedpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and how Evie and Lizziehas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's families struggle to cope. But look again at the titleuni. What really unfolds here is the story Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of the effect a single incident has on three familiescomfort blanket, not twoyou might perhaps think, how that and the creation of one event came aboutsuch item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and why nothing will ever be the same is making something full of love for everyone involvedher younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. It is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a book which store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is complexnot for me to say, deep only to remark how sharp and very, very intensepointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535455</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin Crossley-HollandAnn Sei Lin|title=Bracelet of Bones (Viking Sagas)Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's 1036 Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in Trondheimthe sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Norwaywhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Solveig lives He asks her to come with her fatherhim, stepmother and stepbrothersto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Her mother died many years ago and neither Solveig nor her father Halfdan Well, soon Kurara won't have ever truly recovered. Before his injuryany say in the matter, Halfdan was because the Midori is destroyed by a Viking mercenary monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and his dearest wish she is forced to rejoin his old commander, Harald Hardrada in Miklagard (Constantinople)flee out into the world. He promises Solveig thatShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, should the call ever comea sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, he will take her with him... and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847249396</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsMarcus Sedgwick|title=The School of Night: Creeping TerrorWrath

|summary=When Meet Fitz, a boy young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his father enter a village asking for directionsfoot in it when he talks to his best friend, the unexpected happensCassie. They find all the inhabitants observing were half of a WWII blackoutdesultory school band, and thinking it's 1943. But it's definitely 2011. Luckily but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the lad belongs to the School of Night, an arcane institute of ghost-hunters where merely talking to the shade of your dead sister enigmatic – saying she could come across as a fail. It will still take hear a lot of pluck and smarts subhuman hum coming from staff and students to solve the problem earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the ghost village end of Templeton, and the evil barriers surrounding world is already a done deal? Is it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245099</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Ali Sparkes|title=Unleashed : A Life and Death Job|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=A some spooky new series about what happens when Britainkind of music she's most important and secret assets - teenagers with paranormal abilities - get a weekdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's holidayt.. In book one, Lisa gets involved with kidnapping and assassination attempts. And she only wanted to go shopping at Harvey Nicks!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756060</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HawkinsTori Bovalino|title=Hex Hall: Raising DemonsThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5

|summary=Raising Demons (published Working all summer in the US under the title Demonglass) her boarding school's library is the second book in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a planned trilogy about request for over a teenager hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who has strong magical powersrequested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. This review may contain spoilers As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the first book in books, scribbled with the seriesugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, [[Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins|Hex Hall]]; the book certainly doesof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387233</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martyn BedfordPhilip Reeve|title=FlipUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Protected by In a moon cloakword, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a ringpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and three mysteriously powerful leopardssea-witches, Timoken and legends of the magician Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and his camel Gabar seek a new home after their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the boy is forced Watcher, Andrewe, who has to flee keep notes of activity from the secret kingdom. But will they ever find peace Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with the vicious viradees on their trail? This prequel too much science in his head to the Charlie Bone series contains new worry about such local yokel superstitions, and old charactersAndrewe's foundling daughter, including a couple who washed up out of brief cameos from Charlie the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but is well worth reading as a stand-alone or introduction to both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the series if you've never heard world of protecting their island, like itor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Blakley-CartwirghtKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Red Riding Hood|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok, the biggest let down of this book was the missing chapter at the end, which will be made available after the film is released – bad move. I understand that it's meant to keep people interested in it, Julia and not spoil the film, but honestly, it's just frustrating, Now, my book will be forever incomplete – not good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Stephens|title=The Emerald Atlas: The Books of BeginningShark

|summary=Whisked away from their parents in the dead of night ten years agoJulia, Kateour pre-teen heroine, Michael and Emma have seen more than their fair share of orphanages. Nobody wants to adopt three children together - least of all when the youngest has a strong penchant for using been packed off with her fists whenever she can - parents and so when we meet them, they're on their way to yet another. But cat from the orphanage at Cambridge Falls is unlike any other. They're the only children family home in residence, the housekeeper seems SW England to think they are members of the French royal familybe lighthousekeepers for a summer, and the town is in the middle far NE of a barren wasteland and is bereft of childrenthe Scottish islands. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857530186</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=M J Putney|title=Dark Mirror|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Born around a hundred years after the nobility decided that magic was a tool which should Here be used only by commonersVikings, when Tory Mansfield discovers she can float in the air she knows she must keep it that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to herself. Until a terrible accident leaves her powers as be automating the only lantern, which is his specialist thing that can save one of her family, and she's forced to reveal herself and face disgrace and humiliation. For an outed mage in London's high society there's only one thing that can while mum will be done – aspell leaving her career in Lackland Abbey, algae behind to hunt the school which can cure youngsters of magicelusive Greenland shark. Not everyone at Lackland wants to And Julia, well, she will be cured, though… homesick and Tory needs to decide whether her powers are a curse or a giftalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0312622848</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonJonathan Stroud|title=The StrangerOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the events Seven Kingdoms of ''The Island''Britain, Ottorobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, Jen a dark boy with dark powers 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 anticipateddarker past. Jen has moved on from the retreat and is travelling with KumarWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, but is getting itchy feet. She's not sure she wants they plan to flee to take things with Kumar any further. But Charlie is ecstatic in her dream job at the tiger sanctuarymythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. It's challenging Together, they must brave man- poaching eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and corruption all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are big problems standing in the way rest of the sanctuary's funding - but she loves it. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Janni Howker|title=The Nature of the Beast|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bill Coward is mature for a child his age – cooking for his father and grandfather (Chunder), undressing his father and putting him to bed when he comes home drunk. So when the mill 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 the oil fields.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Frances Hardinge|title=Twilight Robbery|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 twelve-year-old orphan, who travels the roads with her homicidal goose, 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 to raise some cash by reading aloud an old newspaper to illiterate townsfolk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405055391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=NLP For Teens|rating=4|genre=Home 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 ChandlerMercedes Helnwein|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)Slingshot

|summary=''Evercrossed'' picks up where ''Kissed by an Angel'' left offGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. After her boyfriend Tristan was killed in As a secret illegitimate daughter of a car accident, Ivy took up man with Gregorya "real" family, who turned out she is used to be not being a serial murderer and all-round bad guypriority in people's lives. She was saved from him by But when she defends a combination of Tristan random boy in angel formher class with her slingshot, her psychic best friend Beth and stalwart admirer Willsimple existence is changed for good. Now the three of them are working at a holiday inn No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for the summer, alongside Beth's cousin Kelsey and her friend Dhanya. Will is life now Ivy's boyfriend but it's almost a year since Tristan died and Ivy is finding herself thinking about him more and more. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389171</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lois Duncan|title=I Know What You Did Last Summer|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A year ago, four teenagers committed a shocking crime after a party where they all had too much to drink, and overwhelmed by indecision, fear and desperation they made a pact to keep the incidents of the fateful night a secret. However, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up to the consequences of their actions. Their binding pact has held together for a year, partly out of the friendship they shared and mostly out of guilt, but when boy in it becomes apparent that there is someone who is looking for revenge, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up to the truth, she never asked for their own sakes: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillT L Huchu|title=Department 19The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived Ropa Moyo is a normalghostalker, happyusing 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, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived at his house and men in black combats with strangeshe's been using it to support not only herself, ultra-violent weapons burst in but her younger sister and executed his fatherher aging grandmother. Since thenHowever, Jamie and his mother have lived in a succession there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of miserableEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, dour little houses and Jamie has become less and less interested in Ropa is pulled into the search for a succession missing boy at the request of miserable, dour little schools. He resents his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, like all good disaffected teenagers do. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M Grant|title=BelleKristen O'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 RobsonNeal|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 Lycanthropy 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=FirelightOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Jacinda was singled out as special by her Pride when she manifested Having recently been diagnosed with the ability chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to breath fire. A fire-breather hasn't been born come to terms with the Draki fact that she may be in constant pain 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 rest of her life. Now JacindaShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s mother has dragged her and twin sister Tamra from their mountain home, sneaking away in the middle an online support group where she talks to a bunch of the night, leaving everything they knew behindother teens living with chronic illnesses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756508</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Franklin They talk about their troubles and Brendan Halpin|title=Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Jenna and Jonahhelp each other out, Charlie while also providing an escape to just joke and Fielding – they're the stars mess around. When Brigid—one 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, wonher closest friends—doesn't they plot. Off-screen they're every bit respond to the perfect couple they are on TV, romantic dinners, flowers – the lot. The problem is they hate each other. You heard me right, they loathe each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=The Demon Collector|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Edgy Taylor – a 19th century dog muck collector chat for a cruel masterwhile, Talon – wouldnPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents't claim car and drive to have had the best of lives. His only enjoyment of his 13 years or so so far has been setting and solving riddles, while heBrigid's spent most of his time avoiding the cruelty of his employerhouse to check up on her. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him from Talon, revealing the tanner what she doesn't expect to be find there is a demon called Thammuz werewolf in the basement – and turning him for that werewolf to stone, Edgy may have cause to look back on his old life with nostalgia. Because inside be the Royal Society of Daemonologie, there are people who think Edgy can help them in their quest girl she has been talking to find online for the heart 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 who? He'll have to, because a mistake could cost him his lifepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan Chambers|title=The Kissing Game|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=You don't see that many short story collections in YA circles. But when they do appear, you often wonder why there aren't more of them. And this is absolutely the case with The Kissing Game. Ranging from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short stories, each one will incite, surprise and stimulate. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian Falkner|title=Brainjack|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam comes to the attention of the CDD (Homeland Security'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>}} {{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]]