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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=Gamerunner|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Maze is more than just a role <!-- Remove -playing game. Rick is one of the many who immerse themselves entirely in the game, and essentially live their life in its virtual reality. He is one of the lucky ones. Thanks to the fact that his guardian, Daed, is the mind behind the Maze and is employed by the powerful and merciless firm Crater, Rick has lived a protected life, one spent inside the thick walls of the multi-storeyed headquarters of Crater. He has never had to go outside and live a life of extreme poverty under the constant threat of gangs or, even worse, the lethal acid rain that is a part of the intensely polluted atmosphere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806487</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsMax Boucherat|title=He's After Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Anna's father has run off with a younger woman, the hated Jude. Her mother is a wreck because of it. Her little sister Livi is going off the rails and running with a bad crowd. All this mayhem is anathema to Anna, who is a reserved, cautious and hardworking girl with an ambition to study literature at university. If this is what unrestrained, rampant emotions result in, then Anna's having none of it. She's never been in love and in many ways she sees this as a blessing. And then she meets Jem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Salman Rushdie|title=Luka and the Fire of The Last Life|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Back in 1990, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Verses' with a book dedicated to his then nine year old son, Zafar, called 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'. Now, his second son, Milan, finally gets a book of his own, although he had to wait until he was 13 for his father to get around to it. 'Luka and the Fire of Life' is very much a follow up to 'Haroun' and it is certainly helpful, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events in the first book are referred to here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Bruton|title=We Can Be HeroesLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ben We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the 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 blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is spending to log on to Voxminer, the summer with his grandparents because his mother world-building, critter-collecting game that is ill againa hit in Lori's world. She won But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't stop going out for runs find herself entirely on her own, and is not eating properlythen she finds something even more spooky. She's gone back to stressing out about having For the "right" cutlery server she and worrying about technology her bestie and health hazardsnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. And When malevolent eyes spark up on her beautiful hair has started falling out. Ben's father was killed phone screen, and her safe place in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicadogame has been doctored – well, he's feeling very lonely indeed. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N M BrowneRachel Greenlaw|title=Wolf BloodCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Trista is a Celtic warrior girl and seeress. Her visions are always horrifying, full ''I can hear the song of blood and deaththe sea. And one The call of her premonitions tells her she must escape from the tribe who have captured and enslaved her, for their time is running out. Fleeing into the snowy forestdeep, she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this time the game is surely up. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one of the soldiers has a secret - he is a shapeshifter. Part wolf, part man, Morcant also has both Roman Celtic blood in his veins and he has never felt truly at home answering beat in either worldmy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Andy Briggs|title=Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Robbie Canler is Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the runrocks and plundering the wrecks. From whatMira, it takes us a while to find outlike her mother before her, but it's clear that it's something bad when the alternative is working for an illegal logging team in the jungle one of the Congo. The work is tough at seven who swim out to survey the best of times, ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when things start going wrong for the teamCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, itthey capture the island's definitely not the best of times. And then Jane Porter, his bossleader and Mira's daughter, disappears..father. Can she be found? And why do all these strange things keep happening Desperate to the loggers? It's almost save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as if there was he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a weird presence family secret that lies buried deep in the junglesea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057127238X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Samantha Mackintosh|title=Lula Does The Hula|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Talullah BirdWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, otherwise known as Tatty, Lu, or Lula, has finally been kissed! She has a boyfriend! Frikkly frik! This is exciting! Except there is an evil woman lusting after her boyfriend! Hoooo no! And journey takes her dad is weird! Hooo noagain! If you think this review is annoying so far with from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the exclamation marks and strange wordssmuggler's territory, you may want Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to avoid save the future of her home and the book!ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256532</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreview|author=David Almond|title=My Name Is Mina|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=We first Mina in Skellig. A homeschooled, William Blake-loving, slightly precious child, she arrived in Michael's life with not a little whiff of the culture shock about her. Now, we can find out what really makes Mina tick as we read through her journal. Mina is full of contradictions. She likes to be different, individual, but she doesn't like being a misfit. She wants friends but she doesn't know how to make them or to keep them. She is both reflective and impulsive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gregg Olsen|title=Empty Coffin: Envy|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=A small town is stunned by the death of a young girl, Katelyn, and although the death is attributed to an accident, there are some who believe that suicide and homicide shouldn't be ruled out just yet. Although twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan weren't close to the girl at the time of her death, they used to be good friends and a combination of guilt and curiosity leads them to investigate the death and its true cause. They may just 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 to discover the truth behind the death; however, they find themselves digging up more than they bargained for when tragic history, and revelations from the past begin to reveal themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402789572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman|title=David|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 the model for one of the world's greatest pieces of art - Michelangelo's David. Or that he'll become intimately embroiled in the deadly rivalries and politics of the city. As the statue of David is slowly created, Gabriele will have to walk the line between the republican faction and those supporting the return of the Medicis without being exposed by either. 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 a Market girl through and through. Her whole life has been about the dance, the performance and the Market. But now the Market is at war with the magicians, Merris has pitted Sin against Mae – a tourist – for leadership of the Market, and everything is coming apart around her. Sin needs a plan, and fast. Unfortunately, Sin is more of a doer than a thinker. Thinking is where Mae excels, and the pink haired tourist is winning the race for leadership despite Sin's lifelong service to the Market.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Maryon|title=A Million Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mima's father is the light of her life. She loves him more than anything. But he's also an army officer and this story opens with him leaving for a six month tour of Afghanistan. Her mother is heavily pregnant and her grandmother is spending all her time thinking about her childhood sweetheart. Her friend Jess is busily trying to make friends at school - army brats are forever having to make new friends. So nobody really has time to pay attention to Mima, who can't get her fears about her father being killed and injured out of her mind... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326297</amazonuk>}} {{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 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 Children 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
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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 she is a glass coffin, Allie tied talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to the front of a traincome by, so Seo and Nick still amnesiac her friends Nari and still puddling chocolate wherever he goes. Milos is trying to continue with Mary's demonic plan to end the living worldMin go foraging every evening, but he lacks her charisma looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the vapour meagre rations of Afterlights is getting smaller as a steady trickle decamps. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Liz Miles (Editor)|title=Truth rice 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 to get my hands on a collection of twenty stories by writers who, in the main, I hadn't encountered before, I jumped kimchi at it. The selection, however, ofthis score of tales about ''slipping on the stepping stones of life'' left me feeling curiously unsatisfied in many caseshome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015864</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreview|title=Candle Man: Society of DreadFrontpage|author=Glenn Dakin|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity as the Candle Man and defeated his evil ex-guardian, Dr Saint. The young boy is still ambivalent about his superhero status and conflicted over his ability to use tripudon energy to melt his - 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 to its original benevolence are thwarted by the renaissance of an old, and even more terrifying, villain - Dr Pyre. With his friends abducted and enslaved, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlexia Casale|title=Bang Bang YouSing if you Can're Dead|author=Narinder Dhamit Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|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
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MomentumSimon Fox|authortitle=Saci LloydDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|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
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AsylumLex Croucher|authortitle=Rachel AndersonGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sunday arrived in the UK at Lowestoft. He'd have preferred Iceland, ''which, so he'd heard, was cold and treeless but democratic and respectful of human life''. Sent from a refugee camp by his Auntie Pru, Sunday is very religious and very respectful of human life, unlike the militia who destroyed his village. So it's difficult for Sunday to become a Muslim. But that's what he has to do. His papers confiscated by a shady people trafficker, Sunday finds himself the unpaid caretaker at Hawk Rise, a condemned London tower block. And his name isn't Sunday any more; it's Piet Ali.
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{{newreview
|title=Darkness Becomes Her
|author=Kelly Keaton
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Growing up in foster care has always left Ari wondering where she came from. The teal coloured eyes and strange, unchangeable, silver hair just adds to the mystery surrounding her. When she searches for answers to her questions about her past, she finds a simple message left for her by her mother – ''RUN''. Desperately seeking answers and with scary figures on her trail, she returns to her birthplace of New 2, once known as New Orleans, to find herself plunged into a power struggle which could have far reaching consequences.
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{{newreview
|title=The Deserter
|author=Peadar o Guilin
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|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
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paige HarbisonNick Brooks|title=Here Lies BridgetPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bali Rai1919635017|title=Killing HonourA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Sat comes from a prosperous Sikh family in Leicester. His mother spends a lot of time at the gurdwara but his father and brother don't and are not above breaking parts of the Sikh code - they both eat meat and drink alcohol. Overall, though, Sat's family is a traditional one and so when his parents hear a rumour that his sister Jas has a boyfriend at college, they withdraw her and arrange a marriage to Taz Atwal, a wealthy local businessman.
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{{newreview
|author=Paula Rawsthorne
|title=The Truth About Celia Frost
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Darkness Rising: The GatheringDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Maya Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has lived her whole life been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in strange little rural townfact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, Salmon Creekthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Although Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn'littlet know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He' means s had a casual relationship, a population of less than 200 secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'rural, but whether that' really does mean s set in the middle of nowherestone, Maya is happy living where she doeshe can't be sure. Sure, she gets more contact with cougars than she does with people some days, but she And that's always loved nature and shemostly because of who he's always been content at Salmon Creekhaving the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410171</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carlos Ruiz Zafon1800901232|title=The Midnight PalaceStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Calcutta, 1916. Lieutenant Peake sacrifices his life Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to save two twin babies from be a terrifying and murderous demonfashion designerSixteen years later, Life in the separated twins meet again. Sheere has spent her childhood moving from place to place rural village where she lived with her grandmother family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- never staying still, always hypervigilantdressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Ben has lived in a Calcutta orphanage Some money changed hands and has a band of friends Hanh was on the mini- bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the Chowbar Society - who are all about other girls were not going to be released from care work in a shop, they were to make their way work in virtual slavery in 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 worldartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001671</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenPatrice Lawrence|title=Looking For AlaskaNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Miles Halter leaves his safeBrave. Charlene, comfortable life in Florida the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for Culver Creek – some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a boarding school his father used to attend – hepleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's looking for what French poet Francois Rabelais called the Great Perhaps. Miles thinks old room while he's found it at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in Alaska Young – beautifulneed of a comfort blanket, flirtyyou might perhaps think, sexy, but messed up Alaska. Her mood changes like and the flip creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a switch. She smokes wonder knitter, and drinks too much. Miles couldnis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she't be s allowed contact with no more in love . We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give hertwo 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 remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007424833</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy MoranAnn Sei Lin|title=Dangerous to KnowRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jack 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 Bethany are in lovemake merry between their conquests. But Bethany's mother thinks Jack However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a bad influenceCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He comes from a bad family - a broken homeasks her to come with him, one brother was a drug dealerto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, the other smoked too much dope and ended up sectioned - and he just isnsoon Kurara won't have any say in the sort of boy Bethany's mother wants her daughter matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to spend time withflee out into the world. It's not all snobbery though She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky- Bethany's father ship whose express purpose is terminally ill to hunt down shikigami, and the family has too much on its plate to be thinking a whole world of first love affairs. Says Bethany's mother. But not Bethany. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406317292</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonMarcus Sedgwick|title=UltravioletWrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alison wakes up to find herself sectioned in Meet Fitz, a secure psychiatric unit for teenagersyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Arriving home Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with blood on your hands and gibbering endless confessions whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to having killed his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a girl who's gone missing will do thatsubhuman hum coming from the earth. But there isn't any proof and Tori Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is still missing so both the police and Alisonalready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's doctors want to get to dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the bottom of what happened. The thing istruth? Well, Alison herself not when Cassie has gone missing he can't explain what happened... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408312751</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryTori Bovalino|title=Magus of StonewyldeThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Stonewylde Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a mysterious self-contained community request for over a hundred books that exists in she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the heart of modern England but operates in isolation from man who requested the rest of the worldbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, offering and a very alternative lifestyleman Tess hates. Pagan culture is an intrinsic part As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of Stonewyldethe books, scribbled with its various seasonal festivals, unique style the ugliest insults she can think of living. They're never meant to reach him, and most importantly its reverence of naturecourse. Society in the community Her plan is also pretty unorthodoxto get her anger out like this, being based upon an autocracy ruled by the Magusand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, a figure who is blessed with Earth Magic, during each of the eight seasonal festivals, that gives him the power to run Stonewyldeif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098821</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Morgan MatsonPhilip Reeve|title=Amy Utterly Dark and Roger's Epic Detourthe Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Amy hasn't got In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a car for monthspeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, since her dad died in beyond the crashScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, so she can't believe it when her mother tells her she needs and legends of the Dark family that has to take it keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from California to the East Coast, even if she '''has''' arranged for Rogerfurther west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the seriously cute son of a family friendWatcher, Andrewe, who has to drive. She thinks keep notes of activity from the trip will be a four day nightmareHidden Lands, as scheduled by her mother. Except Roger's not keen on overly regimented tripshis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and AmyAndrewe's so upset at being forced into doing this that she's happy to go off track… so foundling daughter, who washed up out of the pair decide to take the scenic route sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and explore America on his curious ward are thrust into the way thereworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857072684</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy PlumKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Die For Me|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|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 Julia and the beautiful city 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 KingShark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=With Chess teaching herself the skills she'll need when time reaches the fifth node and with Box stuck on a distant planet fighting for his life with the other FleshlingsJulia, our pre-teen heroine, it'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 packed off with her parents and their cat from the latest family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a long line summer, in the far NE of foster familiesthe Scottish islands. Despite the trip Here be Vikings, there are tensionsthat kind of Scottish island. Cal has been let down so many times that he refuses Dad is going to trust be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in anyone and he rejects any overtures his foster mother makes. He knows they'll send him back algae behind to hunt the children's home - the only question is whenelusive Greenland shark. So when he meets Eden - vital And Julia, funnywell, exciting - at a campsite she will be homesick and alone – until 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 pastsuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571260055</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsJonathan Stroud|title=An Act of LoveThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Chris Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Imran were childhood friends. Blood brothers. They swore it when they played together in Faith Houses to wander the wilderness behind wildlands between the estate where they livedSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But not any morethen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. The riots put paid With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to that. 9/11 put paid flee to thatthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Wars in Iraq Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Afghanistan put paid to that. Ten years on, Chris is a veteran all the horrors of Afghanistan, waiting post-apocalyptic society to receive a medal from reach the country for which he lost a leg. Imran is angry and rebelliousFree Isles, flirting with extremism. Terrorism has wrecked their friendship and sent them but will they be any more accepted there than they are in different directions. And now, terrorism is threatening to end their very lives... the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444002287</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanMercedes Helnwein|title=Ocean of Blood (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)Slingshot|rating=43
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|summary=In book two Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of this prequel series about the beloved orange-haired vampire from Darren Shana man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's Cirque du Freak serieslives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, we find Larten Crepsley and his friend Wester Flack finally free of the restrictions and privations imposed upon them by their master, Seba Nileher simple existence is changed for good. The young vampires have joined the CubsNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and are wandering the world enjoying all the "pleasures" human for her life can give them - wine, women, song, and a ringside seat at as many bloody wars as they could shake now has a stick at (plus a good supply of fresh blood boy in the aftermath of battle)it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007315880</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gennifer CholdenkoT L Huchu|title=No Passengers Beyond This PointThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=India Ropa Moyo is fourteen a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and, like many teenagers, doesn't see much outside her own narrow sphere a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of interestEdinburgh for their living relatives. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's spiky and defensive and reacts been using it to any setbacks with anger support not only herself, but her younger sister and aggression, usually turned against her familyaging grandmother. But insideHowever, like many teenagers, shethere's rather lonely and lost. Finn is twelve and not as good at basketball as he'd like. Hean evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's not as popular as he'd like eitherchildren. But he Soon, Ropa is honest and loyal, and he longs pulled into the search for a chance to prove it. Mouse is six and a bit missing boy at the request of an oddityhis dead mother. She has will end up discovering an imaginary friend occult library and a brain realise that the size world of a planetmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. This doesn't always make Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her easy to get along with. too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815729</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary FreemanKristen O'Neal|title=Piccadilly Love Stories: Don't AskLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Lily thinks of herself as being about a 6 out of 10 on Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the scale rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''hideous gargoyle , an online support group where she talks to Brad Pitt' a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and she knows her boyfriend Jack is help each other out, while also providing an 8escape to just joke and mess around. So why would he want to be with When Brigid—one of her? Despite him seeming closest friends—doesn't respond to be the perfect boy shechat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents's convinced therecar and drive to Brigid's something in his past and only gets more suspicious when he keeps clamming house to check up about iton her. So when But what she finds his ex-girlfriend on a social networking site it seems like a great idea doesn't expect to create find there is a fake profile werewolf in the basement – and make friends with her. Is it worth telling this many lies just for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to find online for the truth?past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1853409979</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Simmone Howell|title=Notes From the Teenage Underground|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gem, only child of arty mother Bev and an absent haiku-obsessed father always found fitting in difficult until the mysterious Lo turned up 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 Move on to feel pushed out by the other two. Can she deal with exams, romance co-worker Dodgy, save her friendship with Mira and Lo and cope with her father’s reappearance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747585121</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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