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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregg OlsenMax Boucherat|title=Empty Coffin: EnvyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A small town is stunned by We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the death of house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a young girlblanket fort, Katelynshe has one main intention, and although the death that is attributed to an accidentlog on to Voxminer, the world-building, there are some who believe critter-collecting game that suicide and homicide shouldnis a hit in Lori't be ruled out just yets world. Although twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan weren But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't close to the girl at the time of find herself entirely on her deathown, they used to be good friends and a combination of guilt then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and curiosity leads them to investigate the death her bestie and its true cause. They may just nobody else should be teenagers, but combine the fact that they have a father who is a true crime author, with the mysterious supernatural abilities they share, the twins are more than well-equipped able to discover the truth behind the death; however, they find themselves digging enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up more than they bargained for when tragic historyon her phone screen, and revelations from her safe place in the past begin game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to reveal themselves.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1402789572</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanRachel Greenlaw|title=DavidCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=It's 1501 and Gabriele is in Florence without a penny to his name. As a greenhorn country boy, he managed to get himself robbed almost as soon as he arrived in the city. But he does have one big advantage: a renowned sculptor as a step-brother. Gabriele hopes this will be enough to find him work, but little does he dream that he will soon find himself 'I can hear the model for one song of the world's greatest pieces of art - Michelangelo's Davidsea. Or that he'll become intimately embroiled in the deadly rivalries and politics The call of the city. As the statue of David is slowly createddeep, Gabriele will have to walk the line between the republican faction and those supporting the return of the Medicis without being exposed by eitheranswering beat in my heart. It won't be easy... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800527</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Sarah Rees Brennan|title=The Demon's Surrender|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Cynthia 'Sin' Davies is Rosevear, a Market girl through remote and through. Her whole life has been about the dancepartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the performance rocks and plundering the Marketwrecks. But now Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Market is at war with seven who swim out to survey the magicians, Merris has pitted Sin against Mae ruins – a tourist – for leadership of the Market, rescuing any survivors and everything is coming apart around herany treasure that lies within. Sin needs But when the Council Watch lays a plan, and fast. Unfortunately, Sin is more of a doer than a thinker. Thinking is where Mae excelstrap to end the wrecking, and the pink haired tourist is winning they capture the race for leadership despite Sinisland's lifelong service to the Market.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Maryon|title=A Million Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mimaleader and Mira's father is the light of her life. She loves Desperate to save him more than anything. But from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he's also an army officer is secretive and this story opens with him leaving for only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a six month tour of Afghanistanfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Her mother is heavily pregnant and With only nine days to unearth what might save her grandmother is spending all father, as her time thinking about journey takes her childhood sweetheart. Her friend Jess is busily trying from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to make friends stop at school - army brats are forever having nothing to make new friends. So nobody really has time to pay attention to Mima, who can't get save the future of her fears about her father being killed home and injured out of her mind..the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007326297</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryHarry Allen|title=Moondance of Stonewylde|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=[[Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry|Magus of Stonewylde]] left us at a crucial turning point with Yul receiving the Earth Magic at the Solstice instead Children of Magus. However, ''Moondance of Stonewylde'' begins with Stonewylde operating normally, and the population unaware of the significance of the previous festival. Nevertheless, even the Machiavellian Magus can't keep covering the cracks that are beginning to show in Stonewylde's community for ever, and there are subtle signs of a revolution brewing. However, things take a turn for the worse when Magus discovers a way to use Sylvie to rejuvenate his Magic, and it is up to Yul and his only other ally, the ancient Mother Heggy, to stop history from repeating itself and save the girl that he loves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=EverfoundSun

|summary=We rejoin the limbo world of ''Everlost'' for this final volume Ra Eun Seo lives in Neal Shusterman's ''Skinjacker'' trilogy with Mary Hightower asleep a North Korean town and encased in a glass coffin, Allie tied to the front of she is a train, and Nick still amnesiac and still puddling chocolate wherever he goestalented singer. Milos Life is trying to continue with Mary's demonic plan to end the living world, but he lacks her charisma hard and the vapour of Afterlights food is getting smaller as a steady trickle decamps. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Liz Miles (Editor)|title=Truth and Dare|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=I love anthologies, especially ones containing a host of unfamiliar authors, so when I was given the chance difficult to get my hands on a collection of twenty stories come by writers who, in the main, I hadn't encountered before, I jumped at it. The selection, however, ofthis score of tales about ''slipping on the stepping stones of life'' left me feeling curiously unsatisfied in many cases.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015864</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Candle Man: Society of Dread|author=Glenn Dakin|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity as the Candle Man so Seo and her friends Nari and defeated his evil ex-guardianMin go foraging every evening, Dr Saint. The young boy is still ambivalent about his superhero status and conflicted over his ability to use tripudon energy to melt his - looking for tree bark and London's - enemies. But the fight against evil pays no attention to inexperience or moral ambiguity and Theo is about to find himself down in the Network again. This time, his attempts to return The Society of Good Works edible grasses to its original benevolence are thwarted by supplement the renaissance meagre rations of an old, rice and even more terrifying, villain - Dr Pyre. With his friends abducted and enslaved, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again..kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bang Bang You're DeadAlexia Casale|authortitle=Narinder DhamiSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Mia is holding her family together. SheIt's never known her fatherhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, her mother but that's what Ven is suffering from manic depression which she refuses dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to seek help for, and change her twin brother Jamie is causingher real concernlife. So when But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the fire alarm is set off at school pity stares, and rumours fly around desperate to get back to a life that 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a pupil with a gun on new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the loose, she starts day to worry that Jamie has done day traumas of all the unthinkablechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Ignoring all common sense So even though she can't dance anymore, might she desperately tries be able to see for herself whether he could be the one with the gun...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055256043X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MomentumSimon Fox|authortitle=Saci LloydDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=London, 2030. Energy wars are consuming the globe now peak oil Late one night Graham Blake is past. Britain creaks late back from his shift on with ever-declining influence the force, and is now partly dependent on aid then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from China. The gap between rich a secret place, and poor is now so great that join him on the poor (run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the Outsiders) live in dreadful slums while whiff of Southern trains when the rich (father is arrested, leaving Archie on the Citizens) spend most of their time plugged into the netlate express to Brighton, experiencing life as toting a fantasy. Civil unrest is springing up, only tin his father was determined to be ruthlessly put down by the Kossackskeep away from his colleagues, and the new security forcebearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900811</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AsylumLex Croucher|authortitle=Rachel AndersonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=It's been four years coming, but this sequel to The Inferior won't disappoint those who have loyally waited. I've loyally waited. And Who knew that what I would like really needed to say that four years has been too longread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In that time dystopian fiction for young adults has become more this story, Gwen and more popular - lots of it Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is very good - and I did wonder if I would in love with Bridget (the central character Stopmouth quite as much as I had before. I shouldnkingdom't have worrieds only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. He's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a gorgeous creation - braveboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, honestcreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, loyal and committedwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, he will appeal equally they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to male and female readers. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385610963</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paige HarbisonNick Brooks|title=Here Lies BridgetPromise Boys

|summary=Bridget Duke, daughter of a famous celebrity, is When the undisputed queen principal (headmaster) of her Urban Promise Prep school. Popularis murdered, wanted by the three boys and feared or adored by find themselves called into the girlspolice station as suspects. Each, she barely even notices the trail of destruction she leaves behind her as friendsseemingly, teachers and even her stepmother end up being hurt by her actions. So when Bridget is in has a car accidentgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and ends up in limbo, she's sent into each could have been there at the shoes time of those she's wronged to see the effect she's had on them. Can she redeem herself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830499X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen McCombie|title=Six Words and a Wish|rating=4his murder.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jem has a dad who's a clown, a best friend But who's a hypochondriac, a house where it's always Christmaskilled him, and a sister who's missing – or is she? Gracie left home after something Jem saidwhy, and if any of the younger girl has always wondered whether she's to blame for her big sister's disappearance. When her mother receives a present from Gracie on her birthdayboys are innocent, she thinks she might finally will they be able to ask her. As well as hoping her sister returns, Jem also tries to form a band, helps her dad do his clown shows, and may even have found a cute boy she likes…clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407107887</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bali Rai1919635017|title=Killing HonourA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Celia Frost has always been extremely careful, never playing with other children, always wearing gloves and long sleeves, and never getting into unwanted confrontations. For she knows from her mother that the rare disorder that she suffers fromSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, which so why is not unlike haemophilia, will mean that just he running around London committing a small cut, a seemingly insignificant graze, can leave her bleeding uncontrollably until she diesseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. However, But I'll answer the first one day Celia snaps: for his grandmother.. When she humiliates a bully, the boy gets his revenge and with a small flick of a knife starts a cut that will kill her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409531090</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Darkness Rising: The GatheringDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Maya has lived her whole life Ant is in strange little rural townYear Eleven at quite a standard school, Salmon Creek. Although 'little' means a population of less than 200 and 'rural' really does mean in the middle of nowhereis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Maya so his desk is happy living where she does. Sure, she gets more contact one of four with cougars than she does with people some daysboth his best buddy from the football team, but she's always loved nature and shetwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's always been content re all fired up, straining at Salmon Creekthe leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410171</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carlos Ruiz Zafon|title=The Midnight Palace|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Calcutta Which is confusing for Ant, 1916. Lieutenant Peake sacrifices as he doesn't know what his life to save two twin babies from a terrifying and murderous demon. Sixteen years laterscore is, the separated twins meet againwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Sheere has spent her childhood moving from place to place with her grandmother - never staying still He's had a casual relationship, always hypervigilant. Ben has lived in a Calcutta orphanage secret one, for several months now, and so has a band effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of friends - who he's been having the Chowbar Society - who are all about to be released from care to make their way in relationship and the worldsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001671</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Green1800901232|title=Looking For AlaskaStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=When Miles Halter leaves his safe, comfortable life in Florida for Culver Creek – Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a boarding school his father used to attend – he's looking for what French poet Francois Rabelais called the Great Perhapsfashion designer. Miles thinks he's found it Life in Alaska Young – beautifulthe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, flirtyif not prosperous, sexy, but messed up Alaska. Her mood changes like so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the flip of village to offer Hahn a switchjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. She smokes Some money changed hands and drinks too muchHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Miles couldn't be more Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in love an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on 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 Hanh and herco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007424833</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy MoranPatrice Lawrence|title=Dangerous to KnowNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Jack Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and Bethany are in lovereaders both. But Bethany Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's mother thinks Jack is fostering with a bad influencepleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. He comes from Such a bad family - tempestuous personality may be in need of a broken homecomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one brother was such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a drug dealerwonder knitter, the other smoked too much dope and ended up sectioned - and he just isn't the sort is making something full of boy Bethanylove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's mother wants allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her daughter belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to spend time withgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... It's well, what exactly happens is not all snobbery though - Bethany's father is terminally ill for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the family has too much on its plate to pointy those knitting needles can be thinking of first love affairs. Says Bethany's mother. But not Bethany. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406317292</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonAnn Sei Lin|title=UltravioletRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Alison wakes up Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to find herself sectioned in form paper into whatever she desires – a secure psychiatric unit for teenagerspower sought after all across the Empire. Arriving home He asks her to come with blood on your hands and gibbering endless confessions him, to having killed a girl who's gone missing will do leave the life of dreary servitude thatis all she has known. But there isnWell, soon Kurara won't have any proof say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Tori she is still missing so both the police and Alison's doctors want to get forced to flee out into the bottom of what happenedworld. The thing She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose isto hunt down shikigami, Alison herself can't explain what happened. and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408312751</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryMarcus Sedgwick|title=Magus of StonewyldeWrath

|summary=Stonewylde is Meet Fitz, a mysterious self-contained community that exists in the heart young Scottish lad full of modern England but operates in isolation from the rest of the world, offering a very alternative lifestylefrustration at himself. Pagan culture Lockdown is an intrinsic part of Stonewylde, with its various seasonal festivals, unique style of livingonly just over, and most importantly its reverence of nature. Society in the community is also pretty unorthodox, being based upon an autocracy ruled by the Magus, a figure who is blessed with Earth Magiche should be free to do what he wants, during each of the eight seasonal festivals, that gives him the power to run Stonewylde.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Morgan Matson|title=Amy go where he wants and Roger's Epic Detour|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amy hasn't got in a car for monthswith whom he wants, since her dad died but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the crash, so she can't believe it when her mother tells her she needs he talks to take it from California to the East Coast, even if she '''has''' arranged for Roger, the seriously cute son of a family his best friend, to driveCassie. She thinks the trip will be They were half of a four day nightmaredesultory school band, as scheduled by her mother. Except Roger's not keen on overly regimented trips, and Amy's so upset at being forced into doing this that she's happy to go off track… so but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the pair decide to take the scenic route and explore America on the way there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072684</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Plum|title=Die For Me|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since Kate's parents died, enigmatic – saying she's been living life on pause – moving could hear a subhuman hum coming from day to day without actually ever livingthe earth. She's moved Is this connected with one of her sister to Paris to live with their grandparents, but even eco-warrior parents saying the beautiful city end of love can't shake her out of her apathy. At least, not until she meets Vincent.|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 the skills she'll need when time reaches the fifth node and with Box stuck on world is already a distant planet fighting for his life with the other Fleshlings, done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's time to see what Splinter is doing... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556428</amazonuk>}} {{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 dreaming of foster families. Despite ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the triptruth? Well, there are tensions. Cal not when Cassie has been let down so many times that gone missing he refuses to trust in anyone and he rejects any overtures his foster mother makescan't. 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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571260055</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsTori Bovalino|title=An Act of LoveThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Chris and Imran were childhood friends. Blood brothersWorking all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. They swore What makes it when they played together in worse is the wilderness behind man who requested the estate where they lived. But not any morebooks: Mr Birch. The riots put paid to thatboarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. 9/11 put paid to that. Wars in Iraq As a petty act of revenge for making her find and Afghanistan put paid to that. Ten years deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes oneach of the books, Chris is a veteran scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of Afghanistan. They're never meant to reach him, waiting to receive a medal from the country for which he lost a legof course. Imran Her plan is angry and rebelliousto get her anger out like this, flirting with extremism. Terrorism has wrecked their friendship and sent then take them all off before delivering them in different directions. And nowNo harm done… Or it would be, terrorism is threatening to end their very lives..if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444002287</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanPhilip Reeve|title=Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 Utterly Dark 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 a good supply Face of fresh blood in the aftermath of battle). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315880</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gennifer Choldenko|title=No Passengers Beyond This PointDeep|rating=45

|summary=India In a word, rich. There is fourteen andcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, like many teenagersBritish but way west, doesn't see much outside her own narrow sphere of interestbeyond the Scillies. She's spiky There are troll people on it, and defensive sea-witches, and reacts legends of the Dark family that has to any setbacks with anger keep watch for magical islands and aggressiontheir monster approaching from even further west, usually turned against her familywhere no ship dare sail. But insideThe current Darks are the Watcher, like many teenagersAndrewe, she's rather lonely 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 loyal, and he longs for a chance who has to prove it. Mouse is six and a bit keep notes of an oddity. She has an imaginary friend and a brain activity from the size of a planet. This doesn't always make her easy Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to get along with. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilary Freeman|title=Piccadilly Love Stories: Donworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe't Ask|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lily thinks of herself as being about a 6 s foundling daughter, who washed up out of 10 on the scale of 'hideous gargoyle to Brad Pitt' and she knows her boyfriend Jack is an 8sea one day eleven years ago. So why would he want to be with her? Despite him seeming to be the perfect boy she's convinced there's something in But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his past sullen brother and only gets more suspicious when he keeps clamming up about it. So when she finds his ex-girlfriend on a social networking site curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it seems like a great idea to create a fake profile and make friends with heror not. Is it worth telling this many lies just to find the truth?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1853409979</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simmone HowellKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Notes From Julia and the Teenage UndergroundShark

|summary=Luke is obsessed Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with recordsher parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. He's so busy planning on breaking world records when he grows up, and playing world records DVD games Here be Vikings, that he doesn't take much kind of an interest in what's Scottish island. Dad is going on around him. But that's about to changebe automating the lantern, because when the village of Port Bren which is chosen to host a waste-incinerator plant his house specialist thing, while mum will be demolished and leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the graveyard where his dad's buried elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be destroyed homesick and alone – unless the village is too historically important for this to happenuntil she suddenly finds company one night. 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>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yasutaka TsutsuiJonathan Stroud|title=The Girl Who Leapt Through TimeOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=Kazuko Scarlett McCain is clearing up her school science lab after hours when something strange happens. She appears to disturb an intruder busy doing some kind outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of chemistry experiment - one that leaves a lavender scent the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the roomSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She faintsBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and comes a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to find no trace the mythical Free Isles of any disturbancethe London Lagoon. But things get weirder Together, they must brave man- she starts to see her eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and her schoolfriends enduring disaster after disaster. Has she now got powers all the horrors of premonitionpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, or is something odder at footbut will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184688134X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Don Calame|title=Swim the Fly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Matt and his friends, Coop and Sean, set themselves a challenge every summer. This year, with fifteenth birthdays under their belts and hormones a-go-go, their goal is to see a girl - any girl - naked. They know it won't be easy but, as Coop insists, it's step one in a very important and natural order of things. I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to what the final step could be... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774532</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Haig|title=The Radleys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 – aren't they? When a bully tries to take advantage of Clara in a secluded field, he finds he's bitten off rather more than he can chew – and she's bitten off rather more than he can survive without. Who do you call when you need a body to be buried? 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, who's rather more of a traditional vampire. Things are about to get messy…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406330280</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria V SnyderMercedes Helnwein|title=Outside InSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=Although the revelation that Inside, Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a society crammed into man with a self-contained cube-shaped metal hull"real" family, she is actually floating through space came as used to not being 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 Travaspriority in people's lives. HoweverBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Trella learns that setting up a new society that smooths over the divides and prejudices that consumed the old one her simple existence is a cumbersome processchanged for good. When bombs start exploding and violence begins to flareNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a new potent threat has to be confronted by the divided population of Inside, boy in the form of Outsidersit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778304132</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Franny BillingsleyT L Huchu|title=ChimeThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Briony Ropa Moyo is a witchghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's ready been using it to be hanged 'nowsupport not only herself, pleasebut her younger sister and her aging grandmother.However, there' Shes an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an engaging occult library and captivating central character struggling to cope with realise that the death world of her beloved stepmother magic is far bigger and looking after her slightly deranged twin sister Rosemore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. And Will she can talk to find the Old Ones, a crew of supernatural spirits who are best compared missing children and bring an end to ghostly rejects from 'Cold Comfort Farm'. Chime is in turns beguilingthis evil, frustrating, enjoyable and annoying.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747583811</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Moira YoungKristen O'Neal|title=Blood Red RoadLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Saba Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has lived to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the desolation surrounding the dried-up Silverlake for all rest of her eighteen yearslife. The family has just one neighbour - a chaal addict, so not exactly sociable - so SabaShe joins ''s only companions are her father, her twin brother Lugh, and younger sister Emmi. Saba worships Lugh, resents Emmi for their motherOof Ouch My Bones'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, an online support group where she's happy enough. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124250</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gill Lewis|title=Sky Hawk|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rob and Euan want to chase Iona McNair off Callum's farm. She's newly returned talks to the village, staying with her grandfather, her mother nowhere to be seen. It's a close community and rumours abound - and Iona is a bit bunch of a pariah amongst the childrenother teens living with chronic illnesses. But something They talk about her draws Callum in their troubles and Iona returns the favour by trusting him with her deepest secret: she's found help each other out, while also providing an osprey's nest high above the loch escape to just joke and shemess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's desperate t respond to protect the endangered birdschat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. And so the two of them forge a friendship as they try She decides to keep Iris and steal her mate out of harmparents's way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756230</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cat Patrick|title=Forgotten|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Herecar and drive to Brigid's the thing about me: I can see the future in flashes, like memorieshouse to check up on her. But my past what she doesn't expect to find there is a blank. I remember what I'll wear tomorrow, werewolf in the basement – and argument for that won't happen until this afternoon. But I don't know what I ate werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for dinner last night.'' As you can imagine, life is quite tricky for London. At 4.33am every morning, her memory resetsthe past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405253614</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]