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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Katy Moran|title=Dangerous to Know|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jack and Bethany are in love. But Bethany's mother thinks Jack is a bad influence. He comes from a bad family <!-- a broken home, one brother was a drug dealer, the other smoked too much dope and ended up sectioned Remove - and he just isn't the sort of boy Bethany's mother wants her daughter to spend time with. It's not all snobbery though - Bethany's father is terminally ill and the family has too much on its plate to be thinking of first love affairs. Says Bethany's mother. But not Bethany. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406317292</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonMax Boucherat|title=Ultraviolet|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alison wakes up to find herself sectioned in a secure psychiatric unit for teenagers. Arriving home with blood on your hands and gibbering endless confessions to having killed a girl who's gone missing will do that. But there isn't any proof and Tori is still missing so both the police and Alison's doctors want to get to the bottom of what happened. The thing is, Alison herself can't explain what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312751</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kit Berry|title=Magus Last Life of StonewyldeLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Stonewylde is a mysterious self-contained community that exists in We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the heart of modern England but operates house to herself – no neighbour to pop in isolation from the rest of the world, offering a very alternative lifestyle. Pagan culture is an intrinsic part of Stonewyldebabysitter poorly, with its various seasonal festivalsmother at work, unique style of livingjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and most importantly its reverence of natureon her lonesome. Society What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the community is also pretty unorthodoxa blanket fort, being based upon an autocracy ruled by the Magusshe has one main intention, a figure who and that is blessed with Earth Magicto log on to Voxminer, during each of the eight seasonal festivalsworld-building, critter-collecting game that gives him the power to run Stonewylde.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Morgan Matson|title=Amy and Rogeris a hit in Lori's Epic Detour|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amy hasnworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't got in a car for months, since find herself entirely on her dad died in the crashown, so she can't believe it when her mother tells her and then she needs to take it from California to the East Coast, finds something even if she '''has''' arranged for Roger, the seriously cute son of a family friend, to drivemore spooky. She thinks For the trip will server she and her bestie and nobody else should be a four day nightmare, as scheduled by her motherable to enter shows signs of tampering. Except Roger's not keen When malevolent eyes spark up on overly regimented tripsher phone screen, and Amy's so upset at being forced into doing this that she's happy to go off track… so her safe place in the pair decide game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to take the scenic route and explore America on the way there.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857072684</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy PlumRachel Greenlaw|title=Die For MeCompass and Blade

|summary=Ever since Kate's parents died, she's been living life on pause – moving from day to day without actually ever living. She's moved with her sister to Paris to live with their grandparents, but even I can hear the beautiful city song of love can't shake her out the sea. The call of her apathy. At leastthe deep, not until she meets Vincentthe answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741102X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Benjamin J Myers|title=Bad Tuesdays 4: The Nonsuch King|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=With Chess teaching herself Rosevear, 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 skills she'll need ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when time reaches the fifth node Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with Box stuck on a distant planet fighting for his life wreck survivor who is 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 other Fleshlingssea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's time territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to see what Splinter is doing..save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556428</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve VoakeHarry Allen|title=Dark Woods|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Cal has been taken on holiday to America by the latest in a long line Children 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 - 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>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Gibbons|title=An Act of LoveSun|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Chris and Imran were childhood friends. Blood brothers. They swore it when they played together in the wilderness behind the estate where they lived. But not any more. The riots put paid to that. 9/11 put paid to that. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan put paid to that. Ten years on, Chris is a veteran of Afghanistan, waiting to receive a medal from the country for which he lost a leg. Imran is angry and rebellious, flirting with extremism. Terrorism has wrecked their friendship and sent them in different directions. And now, terrorism is threatening to end their very lives... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002287</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)|rating=4

|summary=In book two of this prequel series about the beloved orange-haired vampire from Darren Shan's Cirque du Freak series, we find Larten Crepsley Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and his friend Wester Flack finally free of the restrictions and privations imposed upon them by their master, Seba Nile. The young vampires have joined the Cubs, 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 she is a good supply of fresh blood in the aftermath of battle)talented singer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315880</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gennifer Choldenko|title=No Passengers Beyond This Point|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=India Life is fourteen hard andfood is difficult to come by, like many teenagers, doesn't see much outside her own narrow sphere of interest. She's spiky so Seo and defensive and reacts to any setbacks with anger and aggression, usually turned against her family. But inside, like many teenagers, she's rather lonely friends Nari and lost. Finn is twelve and not as good at basketball as he'd like. He's not as popular as he'd like either. But he is honest and loyalMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and he longs for a chance edible grasses to prove it. Mouse is six and a bit supplement the meagre rations of an oddity. She has an imaginary friend rice and a brain the size of a planet. This doesn't always make her easy to get along withkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815729</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary FreemanAlexia Casale|title=Piccadilly Love Stories: DonSing if you Can't AskDance

|summary=Lily thinks of herself as being about It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a 6 out of 10 life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the scale middle of 'hideous gargoyle a dance performance that was going to Brad Pitt' and she knows change her boyfriend Jack is an 8life. So why would he want But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to be with her? Despite him seeming get back to be the perfect boy shea life that's convinced as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's something a new (cute!) boy 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 school, her music A Level performance piece to try to create a fake profile sort out, and make friends with her. Is it worth telling this many lies just the day to find the truth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1853409979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simmone Howell|title=Notes From the Teenage Underground|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gem, only child day traumas of arty mother Bev and an absent haiku-obsessed father always found fitting in difficult until all the mysterious Lo turned up challenges her body continues to throw at school. The trio of her, Lo and Mira have been inseparable for a while now but as they plan their summer project – an Andy Warhol inspired underground film – she starts to feel pushed out by the other twonavigate. 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 he can chew – and she's bitten off rather more than running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he can survive without. Who do you call when you need a body learn to be buriedcrack safes? Abstainers Peter and Helen haven't had to deal with this sort of thing since they gave up drinking human blood – so in a moment of desperation they turn to Will, Peter's brother, whoYou's rather more of a traditional vampire. Things are about ll have 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 wait 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 answer to cope with the death of her beloved stepmother and looking after her slightly deranged twin sister Rosesecond question because I avoid spoilers. And she can talk to the Old Ones, a crew of supernatural spirits who are best compared to ghostly rejects from But I'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 ll answer the desolation surrounding the dried-up Silverlake first one: 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 Emmihis grandmother. 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 LewisPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Sky HawkDifferent for Boys

|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 so his desk is one of four with her grandfatherboth his best buddy from the football team, her mother nowhere and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to be seenprimary school days together. It As they's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a close community and rumours abound single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Iona out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a bit of casual relationship, a pariah amongst the children. But something about her draws Callum in secret one, for several months now, and Iona returns so has effectively progressed up the favour ladder headed by trusting him with her deepest secret: she's found an ospreyexperienced', but whether that's nest high above the loch and sheset in stone, he can's desperate to protect the endangered birdst be sure. And so the two of them forge a friendship as they try to keep Iris and her mate out that's mostly because of harmwho he's waybeen having the relationship and the sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756230</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cat Patrick1800901232|title=Forgotten|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Here's the thing about me: I can see the future in flashes, like memories. But my past is a blank. 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>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Delirium|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Imagine a world without love... Where romance was dead, parents felt no affection for their children, and Romeo and Juliet was studied as a cautionary tale. Lena's world has nearly reached that stage. The cure has been found for amor deliria nervosa, and is given to all children when they reach the age of 18. After her mother's suicide for love Lena is desperate to reach that age and receive the cure. She knows things will change - she's seen the effect it has on those who go through it and the way it makes them all calmer - but she's ready to welcome it. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980915</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=The Hunting Ground|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Elliott and Ben move into Glebe House with their father, a professional renovater, they don't expect anything other than another short pause in their peripatetic lives. Elliott kind of wishes the family could put down some roots, but there is something to be said for staying in huge mansions with grounds to explore. But right from the start things aren't as they should be. 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? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001922</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bryony Pearce|title=Angel's FurySteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=From Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the very first lines of this powerful story we are dragged into a terrifying world rural village where Cassie's nightmares are so real she continues to feel the pain of the injuries even after she has woken up. She fights sleeplived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, dreading so when the bulletsmartly-ridden agony, the screams of family and playmates, dressed man and woman came to the awful, breathless hunt through the field of barley until at last the gun fires again, ending Zillah's life. Such village to offer Hahn a nightmare would shake a person for days afterwards . job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. . 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 Some money changed hands and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jack is an endearing lad with all Hanh was on the uncertainties, desires and preoccupations of his ilkmini-bus to Hanoi. One minute he is worshipping the lovely Eleanor from afar, praising her as a pure and beautiful angel Only, Hanh and the next he is comparing the merits of various other girls' mammary glands with his mates. He plays it cool but constantly frets about looking like an idiot; he wants were not going to do well work in his exams but skips class with barely a qualmshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and he rarely allows something as unimportant as a lesson to intrude beading on his conversations. He is, in fact, the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that collection of contradictions, anxieties Hanh and bravadoes which is known as the average teenage boyher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410554</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex WoolfPatrice Lawrence|title=Chronosphere: Time Out of TimeNeedle|rating=43

|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 's the 22nd Centuryheroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and finally the ideal gap year is availablereaders both. Before being forced into Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a career prescribed him by his big societypleasant yoga tutor, Raffi buys his way into the ChronosphereAnnie, whereby his body will live and has taken up residence in stasis for one minute in general time, her son Blake's old room while passing he's at uni. Such a year tempestuous personality may be in need of sunny hedonisma comfort blanket, with sportsyou might perhaps think, shopping, girls and partying in a perfect idyll the creation of mod-cons. But one such item is part of course all the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is not well in paradisemaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. His peers have We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a habit of vanishing without tracestore detective, and who knows? - even his newly-found friends may have something 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 not for me to say, only to do with itremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907184554</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex EpsteinAnn Sei Lin|title=The Circle CastRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Anna is just Kurara has spent her entire life as a girl of elevenservant on the Midori, when her father is involved a massive dining hall floating in protecting the British Isles from sky where soldiers of the Saxon invadersEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. ButHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the warlord Uter Pendragon decides power to claim form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her mother Ygraine as his, to come with lethal consequenceshim, things changeto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Her locale - from southwestern EnglandWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to sanctuary in Irelandflee out into the world. Her standpoint - from proud young girl absorbing some passedShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down military knowledgeshikigami, to and a young woman whole world of magic, bent on vengeance. And her name - from Anna, to Morgan.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1896580637</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Colin MulhernMarcus Sedgwick|title=ClashWrath

|summary=Alex Crow is the sort of kid who you stay well away fromMeet Fitz, whether you're the nerdy classroom joker or the loudmouthed bully a young Scottish lad full of the classfrustration at himself. From Kyle's point of view he appears to be a disturbed psycho, with barely restrained brutalityLockdown is only just over, and he does everything possible should be free to avoid him. Howeverdo what he wants, events conspire to bring the two together, go where he wants and we learn that there is a lot more to both characters than first impressions seem to imply. As tensions mount and stakes are uppedwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is down to a tortured Alex when he talks to overcome his internal confusionbest friend, fight to save those close to him, and redeem himself as a personCassie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471168</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Marsden|title=Tomorrow When The War Began|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ellie and her friends are going to Hell. On They were half of a camping tripdesultory school band, that is. Taking enough supplies to last but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a week, subhuman hum coming from the Australian teens are determined to have fun in earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the remotest part end of the bush and get to know each other world is already 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 done deal? Is it related to the mysterious planes they saw flying overhead on Commemoration Daysome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? The teens set out to And can Fitz find out what happened to their families and work out just how they the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can survive't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857387332</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsTori Bovalino|title=Miles From OrdinaryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Lacey wakes up one Working all summer morning ready to start her new job at the library. Maybe she'll actually make in her first real friend. Itboarding school's also Lacey's mother's first day too, working at library is the local grocery store. But, Lacey's mother is ill – last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she hears voices, or to be more specific gets a request for over a hundred books that she hears the voice of Lacey's dead Grandfather telling her what has to dodeliver herself. But they need What makes it worse is the man who requested the money after Laceybooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's mother spent all their money on tinned food ready headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for the end of the world that Lacey's Grandfather had told making her was coming. Everything starts off wellfind and deliver such a large request, and Lacey even manages to become friends with one Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the cool kidsbooks, Aaron, on scribbled with the bus ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to the libraryreach him, of course. ButHer plan is to get her anger out like this, as the day goes on Lacey's memories come flooding back and what started then take them all off as a normal day starts to spiral out of controlbefore delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0312555121</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan AbbottPhilip Reeve|title=The End Utterly Dark and the Face of Everythingthe Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=On the surface this book In a word, rich. There is about the disappearance certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a thirteen-year-old girlpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Her best friend There are troll people on it, and neighbour Lizzie relates how she searches for cluessea-witches, how she discovers and legends of the Dark family that a local man may be involvedhas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, and how Evie and Lizzie's families struggle to copewhere no ship dare sail. But look again at The current Darks are the title. What really unfolds here is the story Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the effect a single incident has on three familiesHidden Lands, not two, how that one event came his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry aboutsuch local yokel superstitions, and why nothing will ever be Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the same for everyone involvedsea one day eleven years ago. It is a book which is complexBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, deep both his sullen brother and veryhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, very intenselike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330535455</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin Crossley-HollandKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Bracelet of Bones (Viking Sagas)Julia and the Shark

|summary=It's 1036 Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in TrondheimSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, Norwaythat kind of Scottish island. Solveig lives with Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her fathercareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, stepmother well, she will be homesick and stepbrothersalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. Her mother died many years ago |isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and neither Solveig nor her father Halfdan have ever truly recoveredBrowne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Before his injuryBut then she meets Albert Browne, Halfdan was a Viking mercenary dark boy with dark powers and his dearest wish is a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to rejoin his old commanderthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, Harald Hardrada in Miklagard (Constantinople). He promises Solveig thatthey must brave man-eating wildlife, should the call ever comecannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, he but will take her with him... they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847249396</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{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 SparkesMercedes Helnwein|title=Unleashed : A Life and Death JobSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=A new series about what happens when Britain's most important and Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret assets - teenagers illegitimate daughter of a man with paranormal abilities - get a week"real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's holidaylives. In book oneBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Lisa gets involved with kidnapping and assassination attemptsher simple existence is changed for good. And No longer can she only wanted to go shopping at Harvey Nicks!spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756060</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HawkinsT L Huchu|title=Hex Hall: Raising DemonsThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Raising Demons Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (published in 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, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the US under ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the title Demonglass) city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the second book in search for a planned trilogy about a teenager who has strong magical powersmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. This review may contain spoilers for She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the first book in world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the seriesmissing children and bring an end to this evil, [[Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins|Hex Hall]]; the book certainly does.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387233</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Martyn BedfordKristen O'Neal|title=FlipLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=With no warningHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, 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 in a foreign house filled Priya has to come to terms with strangers; the morning turns from weird and scary, to outright crazy and terrifying when Alex discovers fact that she may be in constant pain for the body he has woken up in is not his own but that rest of a boy called Philip, or her life. She joins ''FlipOof Ouch My Bones'' for short. Before he has time to even contemplate the horrifying possibility that he isn't dreaming or hallucinating, and is actually stuck in the body of a boy who he has never seen before, Alex is forced an online support group where she talks to face a day in the life bunch of Philip Garamond, literallyother teens living with chronic illnesses. As he goes through every possible route of enquiryThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, every logical way while also providing an escape to at least make sense just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of his situation, if not try her closest friends—doesn't respond to reverse it, growing panic sets in and the chat for a chaoticwhile, thrilling, and truly frightening sequence of events are set offPriya becomes concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329894</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rosalie Warren|title=Coping With Chloe|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anna She decides to steal her parents' car and Chloe are twins who share everything. If anything, the terrible accident Chloe suffered has brought them closer. Apart from teacher Miss Tough and new boy Joe, though, everyone seems worried by Annadrive to Brigid's references house to check up on her twin. They seem to think Chloe's dead – but canBut what she doesn't they understand the two girls are just sharing a body? Then Chloe falls for Joe, who Anna likes herself, and Anna expect to find there is left trying to see how this could ever work…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912029</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenny Nimmo|title=The Secret Kingdom|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Protected by a moon cloak, a ring, and three mysteriously powerful leopards, Timoken werewolf in the magician basement – and his camel Gabar seek a new home after the boy is forced for that werewolf to flee be the secret kingdom. But will they ever find peace with the vicious viradees on their trail? This prequel girl she has been talking to online for the Charlie Bone series contains new and old characters, including a couple of brief cameos from Charlie himself, but is well worth reading as a stand-alone or introduction to the series if you've never heard of itpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Sarah Blakley-Cartwirght|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, 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 Beginning|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Whisked away from their parents in the dead of night ten years ago, Kate, 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 her fists whenever she can - and so when we meet them, they're on their way to yet another. But the orphanage at Cambridge Falls is unlike any other. They're the only children in residence, the housekeeper seems to think they are members of the French royal family, and the town is in the middle of a barren wasteland and is bereft of children. |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 be used only by commoners, when Tory Mansfield discovers she can float in the air she knows she must keep it to herself. Until a terrible accident leaves her powers as the only 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 be done – aspell in Lackland Abbey, the school which can cure youngsters of magic. Not everyone at Lackland wants to be cured, though… and Tory needs to decide whether her powers are a curse or a gift.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312622848</amazonuk>}} {{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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]