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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yvonne WoonMax Boucherat|title=Dead BeautifulThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Renee is a normal school girl living We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in sunny California, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. On her sixteenth birthday What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is drawn to log on to Voxminer, the woods by world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her house. There own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the dead bodies server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her parents, surrounded by scattered coinsphone screen, and shreds of cloth her safe place in their mouths. The police say they both died from the game has been doctored – well, where is a heart attack, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister must be going on.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsRachel Greenlaw|title=GamerunnerCompass and Blade

|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The Maze is more than just a role-playing game. Rick is one call of the many who immerse themselves entirely deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the game, rocks and essentially live their life in its virtual realityplundering the wrecks. He Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the lucky ones. Thanks seven who swim out to survey the fact ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that his guardian, Daed, is lies within. But when the mind behind Council Watch lays a trap to end the Maze and is employed by wrecking, they capture the powerful island's leader and merciless firm CraterMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Rick has lived Mira makes a bargain with a protected lifewreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, one spent inside the thick walls she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the multi-storeyed headquarters of Cratersea. He has never had With only nine days to go outside and live a life unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of extreme poverty under foreign islands to the constant threat heart of gangs or, even worsethe smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the lethal acid rain that is a part future of her home and the intensely polluted atmosphereones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806487</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsHarry Allen|title=He's After MeChildren of the Sun

|summary=Anna's father has run off with Ra Eun Seo lives in a younger woman, the hated Jude. Her mother North Korean town and she is a wreck because of ittalented singer. Her little sister Livi Life is going off the rails hard and running with a bad crowd. All this mayhem food is anathema difficult to Annacome by, who is a reservedso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, cautious looking for tree bark and hardworking girl with an ambition edible grasses to study literature at university. If this is what unrestrained, rampant emotions result in, then Anna's having none supplement the meagre rations of it. She's never been in love rice and in many ways she sees this as a blessing. And then she meets Jemkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salman RushdieAlexia Casale|title=Luka and the Fire of 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, Sing 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 Heroes|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ben is spending the summer with his grandparents because his mother is ill again. She won't stop going out for runs and is not eating properly. She's gone back to stressing out about having the "right" cutlery and worrying about technology and health hazards. And her beautiful hair has started falling out. Ben's father was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicado, he's feeling very lonely indeed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=N M Browne|title=Wolf BloodDance|rating=4.5

|summary=Trista is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a Celtic warrior girl and seeress. Her visions are always horrifyinglife-changing disability too, full but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of blood and deatha dance performance that was going to change her life. And one of her premonitions tells her But she must escape from comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the tribe who have captured pity stares, and enslaved desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her, for their time is running music A Level performance piece to try to sort out. Fleeing into the snowy forest, she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this time just the game is surely up. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one day to day traumas of all the soldiers has a secret - he is a shapeshifterchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Part wolf So even though she can't dance anymore, part man, Morcant also has both Roman Celtic blood in his veins and he has never felt truly at home in either world. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy BriggsSimon Fox|title=Tarzan: The Greystoke LegacyDeadlock

|summary=Robbie Canler Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the run. From whatforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, it takes us demanding he fetch something from a while to find outsecret place, but it's clear that it's something bad when and join him on the alternative is working for an illegal logging team in the jungle of the Congorun. The work is tough at They get together, but barely begin to smell the best whiff of times, and Southern trains when things start going wrong for the teamfather is arrested, it's definitely not leaving Archie on the best of times. And then Jane Porterlate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his boss's daughtercolleagues, disappears... Can she be found? And why do all these strange things keep happening to and the loggers? It's almost as if there was bearer of a weird presence in the junglewhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057127238X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshLex Croucher|title=Lula Does The HulaGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Talullah BirdWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, otherwise known as Tatty, Lu, or Lula, has finally been kissed! She has it lifted my spirits in a boyfriend! Frikkly frik! This is exciting! Except there is an evil woman lusting after her boyfriend! Hoooo no! And her dad is weird! Hooo noagain! If you think most delightful way. In this review is annoying so far with the exclamation marks story, Gwen and strange wordsArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, you may want much to avoid the booktheir mutual disgust!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256532</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond|title=My Name Is Mina|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=We first Mina in Skellig. A homeschooled Gwen, William Blake-lovingyou see, slightly precious child, she arrived is in Michaellove with Bridget (the kingdom's life with not only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a little whiff boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of the culture shock about herfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Now But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, we will they find a way in which they can find out what really makes Mina tick as we read through her journal. Mina is full of contradictions. She likes to both truly be different, individualthemselves, but she doesn't like being a misfit. She wants friends but she doesn't know how to make them or are they destined to keep them. She is both reflective and impulsive. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997265</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanNick Brooks|title=DavidPromise Boys

|summary=It's 1501 and Gabriele When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is in Florence without a penny to his name. As a greenhorn country boymurdered, he managed to get himself robbed almost as soon as he arrived in three boys find themselves called into the city. But he does have one big advantage: a renowned sculptor police station as a step-brothersuspects. Gabriele hopes this will be enough to find him work Each, seemingly, but little does he dream that he will soon find himself the model for one has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the world's greatest pieces time of art - Michelangelo's Davidhis murder. Or that he'll become intimately embroiled in the deadly rivalries But who killed him, and why, and politics if any of the city. As the statue of David is slowly createdboys are innocent, Gabriele will have they be able 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... clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800527</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Rees Brennan1919635017|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 Thief to Catch 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>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Kate Maryon|title=A Million AngelsKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=MimaSolomon Klyne isn's father t a bad lad, so why 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 running around London committing a six month tour series 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 robberies? And how did he learn to make friends at school - army brats are forever having crack safes? You'll have to make new friends. So nobody really has time wait to pay attention get an answer to Mima, who canthe second question because I avoid spoilers. But I't get her fears about her father being killed and injured out of her mindll answer the first one: for his grandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326297</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Moondance of StonewyldeDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=[[Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry|Magus of Stonewylde]] left us Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a crucial turning point standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with Yul receiving both his best buddy from the Earth Magic at the Solstice instead of Magusfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. However, As they''Moondance of Stonewylde'' begins with Stonewylde operating normallyre all fired up, and straining at the population unaware of leash only a single-sex school can form, the significance of the previous festivaltalk in class and out often turns to sex. Nevertheless Which is confusing for Ant, even the Machiavellian Magus canas he doesn't keep covering the cracks know what his score is, where his achievements in that are beginning to show in Stonewylderegard lie. He's community for everhad a casual relationship, and there are subtle signs of a revolution brewing. Howeversecret one, things take a turn for the worse when Magus discovers a way to use Sylvie to rejuvenate his Magicseveral months now, and it is so has effectively progressed up to Yul and his only other allythe ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the ancient Mother Heggy, to stop history from repeating itself relationship and save the girl that he lovessex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098856</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal Shusterman1800901232|title=EverfoundStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=We rejoin Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the limbo world of ''Everlost'' for this final volume smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Neal Shusterman's ''Skinjacker'' trilogy with Mary Hightower asleep Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and encased the other girls were not going to work in a glass coffinshop, Allie tied they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the front of a train, ones with intricate embroidery and Nick still amnesiac beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and still puddling chocolate wherever he goes. Milos is trying to continue with Marydistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's demonic plan to end the living world, but he lacks quite possible that Hanh and her charisma and the vapour of Afterlights is getting smaller as a steady trickle decampsco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz Miles (Editor)Patrice Lawrence|title=Truth and DareNeedle

|summary=I love anthologiesBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, especially ones containing a host characters and readers both. Kicked out of unfamiliar authorsmultiple homes and schools, so when I was given the chance to get my hands on she's fostering with a collection of twenty stories by writers whopleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in the main, I hadnher son Blake's old room while he't encountered before, I jumped s at ituni. The selectionSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, howeveryou might perhaps think, and the creation ofthis score one such item is part of tales about ''slipping on the stepping stones plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of lifelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she'' left s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me feeling curiously unsatisfied in many casesto say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015864</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Candle Man: Society of DreadAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Glenn DakinRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Candle Man and defeated his evil ex-guardianMidori, Dr Saint. The young boy is still ambivalent about his superhero status and conflicted over his ability to use tripudon energy a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to melt his - drink and London's - enemiesmake merry between their conquests. But the fight against evil pays no attention However, when a man named Himura arrives to inexperience or moral ambiguity and Theo tell her that she is about a Crafter like him, someone with the power to find himself down in form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Network againEmpire. This timeHe asks her to come with him, his attempts to return The Society leave the life of Good Works to its original benevolence are thwarted dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by the renaissance of an olda monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and even more terrifyingshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, villain a sky- Dr Pyre. With his friends abducted ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and enslaved, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again... a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bang Bang You're DeadMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Narinder DhamiWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Mia Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is holding her family together. She's never known her fatheronly just over, her mother is suffering from manic depression which she refuses and he should be free to seek help fordo what he wants, to go where he wants and her twin brother Jamie is causingher real concern. So when the fire alarm is set off at school and rumours fly around that there's a pupil with a gun on the loosewhom he wants, she starts but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to worry that Jamie has done the unthinkablehis best friend, Cassie. Ignoring all common senseThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she desperately tries to see for herself whether he could be hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one with of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the guntruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055256043X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MomentumTori Bovalino|authortitle=Saci LloydThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=London, 2030Working 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. Energy wars are consuming What makes it worse is the globe now peak oil is pastman who requested the books: Mr Birch. Britain creaks on with ever-declining influence The boarding school's headmaster, and is now partly dependent on aid from Chinaa man Tess hates. The gap between rich As a petty act of revenge for making her find and poor is now so great that deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the poor (the Outsiders) live in dreadful slums while books, scribbled with the rich (the Citizens) spend most ugliest insults she can think of their time plugged into the net. They're never meant to reach him, experiencing life as a fantasyof course. Civil unrest Her plan is springing upto get her anger out like this, only to and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be ruthlessly put down by the Kossacks, the new security forceif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900811</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AsylumPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Rachel AndersonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45

|summary=Sunday arrived In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the UK at LowestoftScillies. He'd have preferred Iceland, ''whichThere are troll people on it, so he'd heard, was cold and treeless but democratic and respectful of human life''. Sent from a refugee camp by his Auntie Prusea-witches, Sunday is very religious and very respectful legends of human life, unlike the militia who destroyed his village. So it's difficult for Sunday to become a Muslim. But Dark family that's what he has to do. His papers confiscated by a shady people trafficker, Sunday finds himself the unpaid caretaker at Hawk Risekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, a condemned London tower block. And his name isn't Sunday any more; it's Piet Ali. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997680</amazonuk>}} {{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 fromno ship dare sail. The teal coloured eyes and strangecurrent Darks are the Watcher, unchangeableAndrewe, silver hair just adds who has to keep notes of activity from the mystery surrounding her. When she searches for answers Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to her questions worry about her pastsuch local yokel superstitions, she finds a simple message left for her by her mother – ''RUN'and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Desperately seeking answers But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and with scary figures on her trail, she returns to her birthplace his curious ward are thrust into the world of New 2protecting their island, once known as New Orleans, to find herself plunged into a power struggle which could have far reaching consequenceslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071459</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|title=The DeserterFrontpage|author=Peadar o GuilinKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=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 I would like to say that four years has been too long. In that time dystopian fiction for young adults has become more and more popular - lots of it is very good - Julia and I did wonder if I would love the central character Stopmouth quite as much as I had before. I shouldn't have worried. He's a gorgeous creation - brave, honest, loyal and committed, he will appeal equally to male and female readers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610963</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paige Harbison|title=Here Lies BridgetShark

|summary=Jem has a dad who's a clownJulia, a best friend who's a hypochondriac, a house where it's always Christmasour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and a sister who's missing – or is she? Gracie left their cat from the family home after something Jem said, and the younger girl has always wondered whether she's in SW England to blame be lighthousekeepers for her big sister's disappearance. When her mother receives a present from Gracie on her birthdaysummer, she thinks she might finally in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be able Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to ask be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving hercareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. As And Julia, well as hoping her sister returns, Jem also tries to form a band, helps her dad do his clown shows, she will be homesick and may even have found a cute boy alone – until she likes…suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407107887</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bali RaiJonathan Stroud|title=Killing HonourThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=Sat comes from a prosperous Sikh family in Leicester. His mother spends a lot Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of time at the gurdwara but his father Surviving Towns and brother don't and are not above breaking parts Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of the Sikh code - they both eat meat Britain, robbing banks and drink alcoholshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Overall, thoughBut then she meets Albert Browne, Sat's family is a traditional one dark boy with dark powers and so when his parents hear a rumour that his sister Jas has a boyfriend at collegedarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they withdraw her must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and arrange a marriage all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Taz Atwalreach the Free Isles, a wealthy local businessman. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552562114</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{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 from, which is not unlike haemophilia, will mean that just a small cut, a seemingly insignificant graze, can leave her bleeding uncontrollably until she dies. However, one day Celia snaps. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=Darkness Rising: The Gathering|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maya has lived her whole life in strange little rural town, Salmon Creek. Although 'little' means a population of less than 200 and 'rural' really does mean in the middle of nowhere, Maya is happy living where she does. Sure, she gets more contact with cougars than she does with people some days, but she's always loved nature and she's always been content at Salmon Creek.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410171</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carlos Ruiz Zafon|title=The Midnight Palace|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Calcutta, 1916. Lieutenant Peake sacrifices his life to save two twin babies from a terrifying and murderous demon. Sixteen years later, the separated twins meet again. Sheere has spent her childhood moving from place to place with her grandmother - never staying still, always hypervigilant. Ben has lived in a Calcutta orphanage and has a band of friends - the Chowbar Society - who are all about to be released from care to make their way in the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001671</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Green|title=Looking For Alaska|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Miles Halter leaves his safe, comfortable life in Florida for Culver Creek – a boarding school his father used to attend – he's looking for what French poet Francois Rabelais called the Great Perhaps. Miles thinks he's found it in Alaska Young – beautiful, flirty, sexy, but messed up Alaska. Her mood changes like the flip of a switch. She smokes and drinks too much. Miles couldn't be more in love with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007424833</amazonuk>}} {{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 - 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>}} {{newreview|author=R J Anderson|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 of Stonewylde|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Stonewylde is a mysterious self-contained community that exists in the heart of modern England but operates in isolation from the rest of the world, offering a very alternative lifestyle. Pagan culture is an intrinsic part of Stonewylde, with its various seasonal festivals, unique style of living, 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 Magic, 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 and Roger's Epic Detour|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amy hasn't got in a car for months, since her dad died in the crash, so she can't believe it when her mother tells her she needs to take it from California to the East Coast, even if she '''has''' arranged for Roger, the seriously cute son of a family friend, to drive. She thinks the trip will be a four day nightmare, 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 the pair decide to take the scenic route and explore America on the way there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072684</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy PlumMercedes Helnwein|title=Die For MeSlingshot|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 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 King|rating=4

|summary=With Chess teaching Gracie Welles has resigned herself the skills to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, sheis used to not being a priority in people'll need s lives. But when time reaches the fifth node and with Box stuck on she defends a distant planet fighting for his life random boy in her class with the other Fleshlingsher slingshot, it's time to see what Splinter her simple existence is doing.changed for good.No longer can she 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>1842556428</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve VoakeT L Huchu|title=Dark WoodsThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cal has been taken on holiday Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to America by take messages from the latest in a long line dead of foster familiesEdinburgh for their living relatives. Despite the tripEver since she dropped out of school, there are tensions. Cal has she's been let down so many times that he refuses using it to trust in anyone support not only herself, but her younger sister and he rejects any overtures his foster mother makesher aging grandmother. He knows theyHowever, there'll send him back to s an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the childrencity's home - the only question is whenchildren. So when he meets Eden - vitalSoon, funny, exciting - Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at a campsite the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she suggests a walk in find the woodsmissing children and bring an end to this evil, Cal snatches at the chance to get away with someone who doesn't know anything about him or his past. will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571260055</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan Gibbons|title=An Act of Love|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|genre=Teens|summary=In book two of this prequel series about the beloved orange-haired vampire from Darren ShanKristen O's Cirque du Freak series, we find Larten Crepsley 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 of fresh blood in the aftermath of battle). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315880</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gennifer CholdenkoNeal|title=No Passengers Beyond This Point|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=India is fourteen and, like many teenagers, doesn't see much outside her own narrow sphere of interest. She's spiky 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 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 Lycanthropy and loyal, and he longs for a chance to prove it. Mouse is six and a bit of an oddity. She has an imaginary friend and a brain the size of a planet. This doesn't always make her easy to get along with. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilary Freeman|title=Piccadilly Love Stories: Don't AskOther Chronic Illnesses

|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

{{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]]