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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Steve Voake|title=Dark Woods|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Cal has been taken on holiday to America by the latest in a long line of foster families. Despite the trip, there are tensions. Cal has been let down so many times that he refuses to trust in anyone and he rejects any overtures his foster mother makes. He knows they'll send him back to the children's home <!-- the only question is when. So when he meets Eden Remove - vital, funny, exciting - at a campsite and she suggests a walk in the woods, Cal snatches at the chance to get away with someone who doesn't know anything about him or his past. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571260055</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsMax Boucherat|title=An Act The Last Life of LoveLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Chris and Imran were childhood friends. Blood brothers. They swore it when they played together in We meet Lori on the wilderness behind first evening she's got the estate where they lived. But not any more. The riots put paid house to that. 9/11 put paid herself – no neighbour to thatpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Wars What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Iraq a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Afghanistan put paid that is to that. Ten years log onto Voxminer, Chris the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a veteran of Afghanistanhit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, waiting and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to receive a medal from the country for which he lost a legenter shows signs of tampering. Imran is angry and rebellious When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, flirting with extremism. Terrorism has wrecked their friendship and sent them her safe place in different directions. And nowthe game has been doctored – well, terrorism where is threatening a girl to end their very lives... turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444002287</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanRachel Greenlaw|title=Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=In book two of this prequel series about ''I can hear the beloved orange-haired vampire from Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series, we find Larten Crepsley and his friend Wester Flack finally free song of the restrictions and privations imposed upon them by their master, Seba Nilesea. The young vampires have joined call of the Cubsdeep, and are wandering the world enjoying all the "pleasures" human life can give them - wine, women, song, and a ringside seat at as many bloody wars as they could shake a stick at (plus a good supply of fresh blood answering beat in the aftermath of battle)my heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315880</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Gennifer Choldenko|title=No Passengers Beyond This Point|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=India is fourteen Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks andplundering the wrecks. Mira, like many teenagersher mother before her, doesn't see much outside her own narrow sphere is one of interest. She's spiky and defensive and reacts the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any setbacks with anger survivors and aggression, usually turned against her familyany treasure that lies within. But insidewhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, like many teenagers, shethey capture the island's rather lonely leader and lostMira's father. Finn Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is twelve and not as good at basketball as he'd like. He's not as popular charming as he'd like either. But he is honest secretive and loyalwith only coordinates to guide her, and he longs for she sets off in search of a chance family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to prove it. Mouse is six and a bit unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of an oddity. She has an imaginary friend and a brain foreign islands to the size heart of a planet. This doesnthe smuggler't always make s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her easy to get along withhome and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815729</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary FreemanHarry Allen|title=Piccadilly Love Stories: Don't AskChildren of the Sun

|summary=Lily thinks of herself as being about Ra Eun Seo lives in a 6 out of 10 on the scale of 'hideous gargoyle to Brad Pitt' North Korean town and she knows her boyfriend Jack is an 8a talented singer. So why would he want Life is hard and food is difficult to be with come by, so Seo and her? Despite him seeming friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to be supplement the perfect boy she's convinced there's something in his past and only gets more suspicious when he keeps clamming up about it. So when she finds his ex-girlfriend on a social networking site it seems like a great idea to create a fake profile meagre rations of rice and make friends with herkimchi at home. Is it worth telling this many lies just to find the truth?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1853409979</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simmone HowellAlexia Casale|title=Notes From the Teenage UndergroundSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=GemIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, only child of arty mother Bev and an absent haiku-obsessed father always found fitting but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in difficult until the mysterious Lo turned up at school. The trio middle of a dance performance that was going to change herlife. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Lo and Mira have been inseparable for desperate to get back to a while now but life that's as normal as they plan their summer project – an Andy Warhol inspired underground film – she starts can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to feel pushed try to sort out by , and just the other twoday to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Can So even though she deal with examscan't dance anymore, romance co-worker Dodgy, save her friendship with Mira and Lo and cope with might she be able to sing her father’s reappearanceway through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747585121</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellie IrvingSimon Fox|title=For the RecordDeadlock

|summary=Luke Late one night Graham Blake is obsessed with records. He's so busy planning late back from his shift on breaking world records when he grows upthe force, and playing world records DVD gamesthen suddenly rings Archie, that demanding he doesn't take much of an interest in what's going fetch something from a secret place, and join him on around himthe run. But that's about They get together, but barely begin to change, because smell the whiff of Southern trains when the village of Port Bren father is chosen arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to host Brighton, toting a waste-incinerator plant tin his house will be demolished father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the graveyard where his dad's buried will be destroyed – unless the village is too historically important for this to happenbearer of a whole heap of questions. How can they put themselves on the map in one week? Luke comes up with the idea to break 50 world records… but why won't his mum let him take part?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370331982</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yasutaka TsutsuiLex Croucher|title=The Girl Who Leapt Through TimeGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54

|summary=Kazuko is clearing up her school science lab after hours when something strange happens. Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? She appears to disturb an intruder busy doing some kind of chemistry experiment - one that leaves But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a lavender scent to the roommost delightful way. She faintsIn this story, Gwen and comes Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to to find no trace of any disturbance. their mutual disgust! But things get weirder Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - she starts to see something that Art discovers from her and her schoolfriends enduring disaster after disasterprivate diaries. Has she now got powers And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of premonitionfalling in love with each other, 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 both truly be themselves, or is something odder at footare they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184688134X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Don CalameNick Brooks|title=Swim the FlyPromise Boys

|summary=Matt and his friends, Coop and SeanWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, set three boys find themselves a challenge every summercalled into the police station as suspects. This year Each, seemingly, with fifteenth birthdays under their belts and hormones has a-go-gogrudge of some description against Principal Moore, their goal is to see a girl - any girl - nakedand each could have been there at the time of his murder. They know it won't be easy but But who killed him, as Coop insistsand why, it's step one in a very important and natural order if any of things. I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to what the final step could boys are innocent, will they be... able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848774532</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Haig1919635017|title=The RadleysA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Rowan Radley is a freak who has to wear factor 60 sunblock. Clara is wasting away as she tries to turn vegan. Their parents are a normal suburban couple – arenSolomon Klyne isn't they? When a bully tries to take advantage of Clara in a secluded fieldbad lad, so why is he finds he's bitten off rather more than running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he can chew – and she's bitten off rather more than he can survive without. Who do you call when you need a body learn to be buriedcrack safes? Abstainers Peter and Helen havenYou't had to deal with this sort of thing since they gave up drinking human blood – so in a moment of desperation they turn ll have to Will, Peter's brother, who's rather more of a traditional vampire. Things are about wait to get messy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406330280</amazonuk>}} {{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 an answer to get better after the success of the revolution and the deposition of the tyrannical Travassecond question because I avoid spoilers. However, Trella learns that setting up a new society that smooths over But I'll answer the divides and prejudices that consumed the old first one is a cumbersome process: for his grandmother.. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 Patrick Ness 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 YoungTea Bendix|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 - 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 Different 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>}} {{newreview|author=Gill Lewis|title=Sky HawkBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=Rob Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Euan want is surprised to chase Iona McNair off Callum's farm. She's newly returned to the villagefind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, staying with her grandfather, her mother nowhere to be seen. It's a close community and rumours abound - and Iona so his desk is a bit one of a pariah amongst the children. But something about her draws Callum in and Iona returns the favour by trusting him four with her deepest secret: she's found an osprey's nest high above both his best buddy from the loch football team, and she's desperate to protect the endangered birds. And so the two of them forge a friendship as other old muckers – in fact they try all go back to keep Iris and her mate out of harm's wayprimary school days together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756230</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cat Patrick|title=Forgotten|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary= As they''Here's re all fired up, straining at the thing about me: I leash only a single-sex school can see form, the future talk in flashes, like memoriesclass and out often turns to sex. But my past Which is a blank. I remember what I'll wear tomorrowconfusing for Ant, and argument that won't happen until this afternoon. But I donas he doesn't know what I ate for dinner last nighthis score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He'' As you can imagines had a casual relationship, 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 a world without love... Where romance was deadsecret one, parents felt no affection for their childrenseveral months now, and Romeo and Juliet was studied as a cautionary tale. Lenaso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's world has nearly reached that stage. The cure has been found for amor deliria nervosaset in stone, and is given to all children when they reach the age of 18he can't be sure. After her mother And that's suicide for love Lena is desperate to reach that age and receive the cure. She knows things will change - shemostly because of who he's seen been having the effect it has on those who go through it relationship and the way it makes them all calmer - but she's ready to welcome itsex with. And then she meets a boy, and her views on love are turned completely upside down. But with the date of the cure so close, can she possibly do anything about her new feelings?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980915</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cliff McNish1800901232|title=The Hunting GroundStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=When Elliott and Ben move into Glebe House with their father, Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a professional renovater, they don't expect anything other than another short pause fashion designer. Life in their peripatetic lives. Elliott kind of wishes the rural village where she lived with her family could put down some rootswas happy, if not prosperous, but there is something so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to be said for staying offer Hahn a job in huge mansions with grounds Hanoi it was an opportunity not to explorebe missed. But right from Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the start things aren't as they should bemini-bus to Hanoi. Why does Elliott wake at night Only, feeling afraid? Why is Ben lying about Hanh and the other girls were not going into to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the abandoned East Wing? Who is the old lady ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the dead flowers pinned to her dresslegs? And why is The ones with the house full of pictures of a previous owner, all with a hunting themeartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001922</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

 {{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? - even his newly-found friends may have something to do with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184554</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex EpsteinPatrice Lawrence|title=The Circle CastNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Anna Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is just extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a girl of elevenpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, when and has taken up residence in her father is involved son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in protecting need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the British Isles from creation of one such item is part of the Saxon invaders. Butplot here, when the warlord Uter Pendragon decides to claim her mother Ygraine as hisCharlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with lethal consequences, things changeno more. Her locale - from southwestern EnglandWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to sanctuary in Irelandgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Her standpoint - from proud young girl absorbing some passed-down military knowledgewell, what exactly happens is not for me to a young woman of magicsay, bent on vengeanceonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. And her name - from Anna, to Morgan.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1896580637</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin MulhernAnn Sei Lin|title=ClashRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alex Crow is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the sort of kid who you stay well away fromMidori, whether you're a massive dining hall floating in the nerdy classroom joker or the loudmouthed bully sky where soldiers of the classEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. From Kyle's point of view he appears However, when a man named Himura arrives to be tell her that she is a disturbed psychoCrafter like him, someone with barely restrained brutality, and he does everything possible the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to avoid come with him. However, events conspire to bring leave the two together, and we learn life of dreary servitude that there is a lot more to both characters than first impressions seem to implyall she has known. As tensions mount and stakes are uppedWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, it because the Midori is down to destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a tortured Alex shikigami, and she is forced to overcome his internal confusionflee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, fight a sky-ship whose express purpose is to save those close to himhunt down shikigami, and redeem himself as a person.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846471168</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsMarcus Sedgwick|title=Miles From OrdinaryWrath

|summary=Lacey wakes up one summer morning ready to start her new job at the library. Maybe she'll actually make her first real friend. It's also Lacey's mother's first day tooMeet Fitz, working a young Scottish lad full of frustration at the local grocery storehimself. But, Lacey's mother Lockdown is ill – she hears voicesonly just over, or to and he should be more specific she hears the voice of Lacey's dead Grandfather telling her what free to do. But they need the money after Lacey's mother spent all their money on tinned food ready for the end of the world that Lacey's Grandfather had told her was coming. Everything starts off wellwhat he wants, to go where he wants and Lacey even manages to become friends with one of the cool kidswhom he wants, Aaronbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, on the bus to the libraryCassie. ButThey were half of a desultory school band, as but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the day goes on Lacey's memories come flooding back and what started off as enigmatic – saying she could hear a normal day starts to spiral out subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of control.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312555121</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Megan Abbott|title=The End her eco-warrior parents saying the end of Everything|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=On the surface this book world is about the disappearance already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of a thirteen-year-old girl. Her best friend and neighbour Lizzie relates how she searches for clues, how music she discovers that a local man may be involved, and how Evie and Lizzie's families struggle to cope. But look again at the title. What really unfolds here is the story dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the effect a single incident has on three familiestruth? Well, not two, how that one event came about, and why nothing will ever be the same for everyone involvedwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't.. It is a book which is complex, deep and very, very intense.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535455</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland|title=Bracelet of Bones (Viking Sagas)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's 1036 in Trondheim, Norway. Solveig lives with her father, stepmother and stepbrothers. Her mother died many years ago and neither Solveig nor her father Halfdan have ever truly recovered. Before his injury, Halfdan was a Viking mercenary and his dearest wish is to rejoin his old commander, Harald Hardrada in Miklagard (Constantinople). He promises Solveig that, should the call ever come, he will take her with him... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249396</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsTori Bovalino|title=The School of Night: Creeping TerrorDevil Makes Three

|summary=When Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a boy and his father enter request for over a village asking for directions, hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the unexpected happens. They find all man who requested the inhabitants observing a WWII blackout, and thinking it's 1943books: Mr Birch. But itThe boarding school's definitely 2011. Luckily the lad belongs to the School of Nightheadmaster, an arcane institute of ghost-hunters where merely talking to the shade of your dead sister could come across as and a failman Tess hates. It will still take As a lot petty act of pluck revenge for making her find and smarts from staff and students to solve the problem deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the ghost village of Templetonbooks, and scribbled with the evil barriers surrounding itugliest insults she can think of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245099</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Ali Sparkes|title=Unleashed : A Life and Death Job|rating=3They're never meant to reach him, of course.5|genre=Teens|summary=A new series about what happens when Britain's most important Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and secret assets - teenagers with paranormal abilities - get a week's holidaythen take them all off before delivering them. In book oneNo harm done… Or it would be, Lisa gets involved with kidnapping and assassination attemptsif someone hadn't delivered them for her. And she only wanted to go shopping at Harvey Nicks!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756060</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HawkinsPhilip Reeve|title=Hex Hall: Raising Demons|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Raising Demons (published in the US under the title Demonglass) is the second book in a planned trilogy about a teenager who has strong magical powers. This review may contain spoilers for the first book in Utterly Dark and the series, [[Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins|Hex Hall]]; Face of the book certainly does.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387233</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martyn Bedford|title=FlipDeep

|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 the magician and his camel Gabar seek a new home after legends of the boy is forced Dark family that has to flee the secret kingdomkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But will they ever find peace with The current Darks are the vicious viradees on their trail? This prequel Watcher, Andrewe, who has to the Charlie Bone series contains new and old characters, including a couple keep notes of brief cameos activity from Charlie himselfthe Hidden Lands, but is well worth reading as a stand-alone or introduction his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to the series if youworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe've never heard of it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Blakley-Cartwirght|title=Red Riding Hood|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Oks foundling daughter, the biggest let down who washed up out of this book was the missing chapter at the end, which will be made available after the film is released – bad movesea one day eleven years ago. I understand that it's meant to keep people interested in itBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and not spoil his curious ward are thrust into the film, but honestlyworld of protecting their island, like it's just frustrating, Now, my book will be forever incomplete – or not good.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410821</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John StephensKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Emerald Atlas: The Books of BeginningJulia and the Shark

|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 residenceSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the housekeeper seems to think they are members far NE of the French royal familyScottish islands. Here be Vikings, and that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the town lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the middle of a barren wasteland elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and is bereft of childrenalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857530186</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M J PutneyJonathan Stroud|title=Dark MirrorThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Born around a hundred years after Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the nobility decided that magic was a tool which should be used only by commoners, when Tory Mansfield discovers she can float in draconian conformity of the air she knows she must keep it Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to herself. Until a terrible accident leaves her powers as wander the wildlands between the only thing that can save one Seven Kingdoms of her familyBritain, robbing banks and she's forced shooting other outlaws to reveal keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and face disgrace and humiliationa darker past. For an outed mage in London's high society there's only one thing that can be done – aspell in Lackland AbbeyWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the school which can cure youngsters mythical Free Isles of magicthe London Lagoon. Not everyone at Lackland wants to be curedTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, though… the cannibalistic Tainted and Tory needs all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to decide whether her powers reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are a curse or a gift.in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0312622848</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Sarah Singleton|title=The Stranger|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After the the events of ''The Island'', Otto, 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 has moved on from the retreat and is travelling with Kumar, but is getting itchy feet. She's not sure she wants to take things with Kumar any further. But Charlie is ecstatic in her dream job at the tiger sanctuary. It's challenging - poaching and corruption are big problems standing in the way of the sanctuary's funding - but she loves it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janni HowkerMercedes Helnwein|title=The Nature of the BeastSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Bill Coward is mature for a child his age – cooking for his father and grandfather (Chunder), undressing his father and putting him Gracie Welles has resigned herself to bed when he comes home drunkbeing lonely. So when the mill his father and grandfather work at is closed downAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, their world she is thrown into turmoil. Mike's (Bill's best friend) father has used to not being a nervous breakdown. Billpriority in people's father goes off to Scotland to work in the oil fieldslives.|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 But when she defends a random boy 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 class with her homicidal gooseslingshot, and a rather shifty poet called, charmingly, Eponymous Clenther simple existence is changed for good. We meet them just after a particularly energetic display of destruction by the said goose: Eponymous has been thrown into jail until he No longer can pay for the damageshe spend her time writing novels in solitude, 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 her life now has a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as boy in it is that she never asked 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: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caragh M O'BrienT L Huchu|title=BirthmarkedThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Gaia lives in Ropa Moyo is a post-climate change Americaghostalker, near one using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Great Lakes - or the unlake as its waterless hollow is now knowndead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Gaia is a midwife-in-trainingEver since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, following after but her younger sister and her motheraging grandmother. For this familyHowever, there's an evil stalking the cool age - that isruined streets of Edinburgh, our age - is almost forgottentargeting the city's children. There is no power in WharftonSoon, and both water and food Ropa is in short supply. But Wharfton sits outside pulled into the search for a missing boy at the walled city request of Enclave, his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and things are entirely different there - realise that the scenes world of leisure, wealth magic is far bigger and plenty are played out on more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the Tvalter's big screenmissing children and bring an end to this evil, which serves as entertainment for Wharfton's residents. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071394</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipKristen O'Neal|title=The Opposite of AmberLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=''Jinn was quick and shining bright; Jinn was motor-mouthed and nurturing... Actually she catered for my every whim Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the point where fact that she anticipated it asked may be in constant pain 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 the rest of her or anythinglife. I was proud to be spoken for by Jinn, sparky and bold. I was spoiled voiceless.'' 'She joins 'Spoiled voiceless'Oof Ouch My Bones' - 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 online support group where she talks to stay dead...   Robin Hood vs. The Plague Undead is a 'mash up' bunch of the Robin Hood myth other teens living with contemporary zombie taleschronic illnesses. All the usual Robin Hood characters are there - Friar TuckThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, Little John, the Sheriff of Nottingham - but with loads of zombies thrown in as well. It must be very difficult while also providing an escape to bring the two strands together just joke and I donmess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't think respond to the author has quite succeeded. The problem is that both mythologies endure chat 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>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=''Evercrossed'' picks up where ''Kissed by an Angel'' left off. After her boyfriend Tristan was killed in a car accidentwhile, Ivy took up with Gregory, who turned out to be a serial murderer and all-round bad guyPriya becomes concerned. She was saved from him by a combination of Tristan in angel form, decides to steal her psychic best friend Beth parents' car and stalwart admirer Will. Now the three of them are working at a holiday inn for the summer, alongside Bethdrive to Brigid's cousin Kelsey and house to check up on her friend Dhanya. Will is now IvyBut what she doesn's boyfriend but it's almost a year since Tristan died and Ivy t expect to find there 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 werewolf in the incidents of the fateful night a secret. However, someone knows their secret basement – and for that someone is determined to make them face up werewolf to be the consequences of their actions. Their binding pact girl she has held together been talking to online for a year, partly out of the friendship they shared and mostly out of guilt, but when it becomes apparent that there is someone who is looking for revenge, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up to the truth, for their own sakespast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 and men in black combats with strange, ultra-violent weapons burst in and executed his father. 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K M Grant|title=Belle's Song|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Chaucer was a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write the famous Canterbury Tales, but he also found the time and courage Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]