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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Ransom Riggs|title=Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=After his grandfather's death, sixteen year old Jacob is sent to a psychiatrist. He swears that he'd seen a monster of some description <!-- just like the weird and unusual things the old man used to tell him about Remove - when he discovered the body. As you can imagine, everyone thinks Jacob is crazy. But then events set in motion a visit to the island off the coast of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew up, andas Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he discovers that his grandfather may have been telling the truth all along...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744769</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lindsey Leavitt|title=Sean Griswold's Head|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When she finds out her dad was diagnosed with MS some months ago, but no-one had felt the need to tell her, Payton's world starts to fall apart. So much so, that when her new counselor suggests picking something as a Focus Object to write about, she decides to go for it, and chooses Sean Griswold's head. But what starts off as a supposedly academic study of the said head becomes something rather more interesting, as she realizes that Sean himself might be someone worth focusing on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140712059X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat FallsMax Boucherat|title=Rip Tide (Dark The Last Life)of Lori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Our favourite Dark Lifer and his Topsider friend are set for another post-apocalyptic adventure in this follow-up to Dark Life. Ty and Gemma discover a township chained and sunk We meet Lori on the ocean floorfirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, every one of its hundreds of residents murdered. But before they can begin to unravel the mysterymother at work, another crisis takes centre stage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387624</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lara Chapman|title=Flawless|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sarah Burke has everything. Model looks and bodyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, straight A grades and a best friend who would take a bullet for on herlonesome. The What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one thing she doesn't have is a normal sized nose. Hers is massive. Somain intention, Sarah and that is forced to hide behind a fake confidence that pushes people about log on to defend herself from Voxminer, the bullying world-building, critter-collecting game that her nose attracts. Plus, is a mother who leaves nose job leaflets hit in her room, bags and on the kitchen table with her breakfast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408819619</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kit Berry|title=Solstice at Stonewylde|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=YulLori's odyssey culminates in an epic final conflict and destiny appears to be on his sideworld. The Villagers are ready to rise against the oppression that Magus But first Lori has built upon them so skilfully over the years a tiny inkling that they werenthis stormy night doesn't consciously aware of it until recently. Howeverfind herself entirely on her own, Magus is still a brutal force to be reckoned with and he is then she finds something even more dangerous than ever in his desperationspooky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098872</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shift|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=You might be thinking For the worst problem a modern-day American girl could have is her rock-star-in-waiting boyfriend dying, and coming back as a ghost that server she and those younger than her can see because of some untold event in the past, but suffering when he gets malevolent bestie and becomes a shade, which means she has nobody else should be able to help him move on before he's locked up in limboenter shows signs of tampering. That's because you're not factoring When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the last boy born before hergame has been doctored – well, who can't see but where is utterly repellent a girl to ghosts, but who she's just about to fall in love with when her late love turns up again, this time with a strangely solid, corporeal form...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben BrooksRachel Greenlaw|title=Grow Up|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jasper is seventeen. He spends his time pretending to revise for his AS levels, fantasising about sex with Georgia Treely, hanging out with self-harming best friend Tenaya watching cheesy TV shows, and taking ketamine and mephedrone with his friends. When he's at a loose end, he goes to sex chatrooms in a quest to see how far he can get without going private (paying). He's also convinced that his step-father, Keith, is a homicidal maniac whose next victim is likely to be Jasper's mother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857861875</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlotte Moore|title=Milicent's Book|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary='My name is Milicent Bella Ludlow Compass and I am an orphan'. So opens this story told in diary form of a year in the life of a young Victorian girl whose father has just died. Luckily there are some kind and loving relatives willing to help her and Mabel, her older sister, and they are able to stay living in their family home, Yotes, for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846470803</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=BalladBlade
|rating=3.5
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|summary=After his best friend fell in love with a faerie, James realised she would never love him that way. But his attempts to get away from her, and the unrequited love he still nurses, only lead him straight to more faeries than ever before. For at James' new school, Thornking-Ash, 'I can hear the student populace is entirely made song of musical prodigies. And there's nothing that attracts faeries more than music. James has even attracted his own muse – the deadly and dangerously attractive Nualasea. The music she helps him make is better than he could ever manage on his owncall of the deep, but James knows the deadly consequences of making a deal with faeries, and he knows Nuala wonanswering beat in my heart.''t give him freebies for long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140712112X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Cynthia Hand|title=Unearthly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Clara wants what ordinary teenagers want: friendsRosevear, good school gradesa remote and partially forgotten island, a boyfriendsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Only Clara isn't an ordinary teenager Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins she's part angel. She's fluent in all languages, naturally gifted academically rescuing any survivors and in sportsany treasure that lies within. All But when the good stuff comes with Council Watch lays a pricetrap to end the wrecking, but even thatthey capture the island's leader and Mira's not so badfather. Clara has a Purpose, an angelic calling, Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a mysterious boy from bargain with a forest fire, revealed wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in search of a series family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of visions that can strike any time the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of day or nighther home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405259647</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieHarry Allen|title=The Medusa Project: Double CrossChildren of the Sun|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Each of the 'Medusa Project' books is narrated by one of the teens involved Ra Eun Seo lives in turn, a North Korean town and this time it she is a talented singer. Life is Nico who hard and food is the first person speaker. Things are not going well for the group: their former mentor Geri has just tried difficult to kill themcome by, so Seo and by using all her government friends Nari and police contacts she has managed to make it look as if they are guilty of murder. The four teens' psychic abilities allow them to escape to FranceMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and now they need to work out how edible grasses to stop Geri and clear their names. But things just get worse and worse: supplement the strain meagre rations of their situation rice and the introduction of new characters start to pull the group apart just kimchi at the time when they need to trust each other the mosthome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707069X</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex WoolfAlexia Casale|title=Chronosphere: MalfunctionSing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5
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|summary=The ideal paradise of life inside the Chronosphere isnIt't supposed s hard enough to be like this. If navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're like Raffi and his friends you're spending having to navigate a year insidelife-changing disability too, which only takes but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a minute of real dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, enjoying a hedonisticdesperate to avoid the pity stares, summery lifestyle with time on your hands and little caresdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Except itMeanwhile there's getting more than summerya new (cute!) boy in school, it's a hothouse; the food is running her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out; the exits are locked; and people are rioting , and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken and feel just the end day to day traumas of their happinessall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. But then, if youSo even though she can're like Raffi and his friendst dance anymore, you are actually unknowingly there for a much more sinister reason, and someone's "project" is about might she be able to get much less Utopian.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907184562</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreview|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=The Scorpio Races|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At a young age Sean Kendrick watches his father die violently in the Scorpio Races – a race held every year on the beaches of the island where riders compete for a huge cash prize by riding the dangerous ''capaill uisce'', the water horses. Years later Sean is a four-time winner of the Scorpio Races with a prized mare – Corr – and plans to win again. Meanwhile, Puck (Kate) Connolly has been orphaned by the ''capaill uisce'' and struggles for every meal; their main source of income is her brother Gabe, but when he announces that he is leaving the island Puck realises that she has to fight for the survival of her family. Seeing no other option she enters her island pony into the races. The stakes are high as Sean and Puck compete against each other for the highest prize of them all – freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407129856</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maxine LinnellSimon Fox|title=CloserDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This Late one night Graham Blake is one of those concise late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and powerful little books where it's best for join him on the reader run. They get together, but barely begin to come to it with as little knowledge smell the whiff of Southern trains when the plot as possiblefather is arrested, so I'll feature leaving Archie on the mood - and Mel has a lot of those. Beyond her yet-late express to-actually-start relationship with Raj, and her best friend Chloe, she has her family - fractious animosity with her older sisterBrighton, toting a younger brother who only plays computer gamestin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and little freedom it seems from her mother. At least her step-dad's the bearer of a funky bloke though - although one mum finds fault with easily enough. It's hardly comfy domesticity, and is even worse when interrupted by something very disturbingwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907869263</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joss StirlingLex Croucher|title=Stealing Phoenix|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Phoenix is a thief. She's a very good one, thanks to having some rather useful psychic abilities. Working for the cruel and dominating Seer, she's forced to follow his instructions to bring him whatever he wants – just as the rest of their community of savants are. Then she's told to get something from Yves Benedict, Gwen and for the first time Art Are Not in her life, fails to take what she wants. Yves has powers of his own… and he may be the one who's stolen her heart. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Damian Dibben|title=The History Keepers: The Storm BeginsLove
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|summary=''Imagine if you lost your parents. Not just in placeWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, but it lifted my spirits in time'' Scary, huh? But a most delightful way. In this is exactly what happens to Jake Djones (silent Dstory, dears). Believing his parents Gwen and Arthur have gone been betrothed since they were tiny, much to a bathroom conventiontheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, heis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's carrying on as usual until they get homeonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But And then when Gwen then he's abducted on his way home from school and taken to catches Art kissing a secret base hidden beneath boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Monument subterfuge of falling in Londonlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Jake discovers that his parents have kept But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a secret from him: way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are secret agents working for the History Keepers, working they destined to prevent evil villains from tampering with history itself, and they have gone missing in sixteenth century Venice. Blive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857530534</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna PhilbinNick Brooks|title=Celebriteens: In the SpotlightPromise Boys
|rating=4
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|summary=Girls usually get together because they've got something in common and for LizzieWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Carina and Hudson it's their famous parentsthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Lizzie's mother is Each, seemingly, has a supermodel grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and even in her thirties she's still one each could have been there at the time of the most beautiful women in the world. Lizzie's – nothis murder. WellBut who killed him, she's not exactly ugly but compared to her mother (and she always is) she just doesn't come up to scratch. Carina's dad is a rich (''very'' rich) businessman why, and he's determined that C (as she's known) is going to join if any of the company and eventually take over. Carina has other ideas. Hudson wants boys are innocent, will they be able to make music and you might think that having a pop diva for a mother is a good start, but Hudson's style is different and her mother can't accept that.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121200</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Grant1919635017|title=Wish Me DeadA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rural GermanySolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, in modern times. Steffi and her five friends lark about in so why is he running around London committing a deserted building series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to summon a witch and get her an answer to kill a local celebrity - who does indeed diethe second question because I avoid spoilers. When a repeat attempt gifts a decent amount of cash to Steffi it becomes clear she is alone in having her wishes granted. So what will happen when she wishes for But I'll answer the town hunk - hasn't Steffi heard to be careful what you wish first one: for? But how on earth can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *that* title?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>his grandmother...
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Jessie Hearts NYC|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After splitting up with Taylor, Jessie is desperate to forget about him, so her first ever trip to New York is heaven-sent – even if it does mean having to stay with her mother. Emma, her best friend, is equally thrilled to be coming with her. While Jessie is still upset at her mother’s decision to move to America, New YorkerFinn is facing problems of his own with his controlling family. Railroaded into working in his dad's insurance company during his summer holiday, he dreams of being an architect. He's also fallen hard Different for a girl - who happens to be his best friend's girlfriend. What will happen when these two meet?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Costelloe|title=The Breakfast ClubBoys
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Billie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and her three 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 both his best friends have grown buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to love the breakfast club primary school days together. As they've formedre all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, meeting every Saturday morning to pass the time talk in class and discuss the week theyout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn've hadt know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Mario He's is the perfect venue had a casual relationship, a secret one, for it - several months now, and so ithas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 's a huge shock when they find itexperienced's closing down! In addition, Billiebut whether that's mother is adamant that she shouldn't pursue the career set in music she wants more than anythingstone, and Billie he can't understand whybe sure. Can And that's mostly because of who he's been having the girls find somewhere else to spend Saturday mornings, relationship and can they persuade Billie's mum that music is what really matters to her?the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444902857</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Kuhn1800901232|title=The GameStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Julia 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 smartly-dressed man and Robertwoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. They're siblings Some money changed hands and Hanh was on their way the mini-bus to Grace CollegeHanoi. Only, an exclusive campus stuck up Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in the Canadian wilderness. It's a rum placeshop, set by a lake under lowering mountainsthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It's a place of sudden night-time blackouts, unexpected screams through You know those jeans you really wanted: the dark, mysterious parties clandestinely held out of sight, ones with intricate embroidery and pupils declaring it all 'evil', but what is student prank beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and what is due to something more sinisterdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? And what could Julia It's quite possible that Hanh and Robert possibly be running from to force her co-workers made them to this strange end of the earth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410562</amazonuk>.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vincent CaldeyPatrice Lawrence|title=A Good Clean EdgeNeedle|rating=53
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|summary=After an acrimonious divorceBrave. Charlene, Vincent chooses the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to stay with his father and not his mother like, characters and sisterreaders both. As his father works away much Kicked out of the timemultiple homes and schools, they go to live she's fostering with Vincenta pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's grandparentsold room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, who run an undertaking business. Vincentand the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a reserved wonder knitter, and sensitive childis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, is being bullied on his way in and then force people to his new school by Frankie Lennox from the grammar give her two days off school, who goes so far when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to threaten Vincent with a kniferemark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408313022</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francisco X StorkAnn Sei Lin|title=Marcelo in the Real WorldRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Marcelo Kurara has spent his childhood and her entire life as a servant on the majority of his teenage years at PatersonMidori, a private school that caters specifically for those with disabilities, providing them with a protected environment massive dining hall floating in the sky where they can learn at soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their own rate and feel acceptedconquests. However, his father Arturo feels when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that it she is time that Marcelo experiences the ''real world'' and really challenges himself. Using the promise of a senior year spent at Paterson rather than a public schoolCrafter like him, Arturo coerces Marcelo someone with the power to take up form paper into whatever she desires – a small position for power sought after all across the summer in Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the law firm life of dreary servitude that he ownsis all she has known. In Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the firmmatter, Marcelo because the Midori is forced to interact regularly with destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a plethora of different personalitiesshikigami, and while some prove she is forced to be enjoyable companyflee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, others leave him feeling confused and distressed. Things really come to a head when he sky-ship whose express purpose is forced to make a momentous decision, one that requires him to either ignore his consciencehunt down shikigami, or end up betraying his father and by extension himself; it is not a decision that is logical, and will require Marcelo to not only empathise with others, but also understand what makes himself tick.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121006</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyMarcus Sedgwick|title=Haunting VioletWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Violet Willoughby is the daughter of one Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of England's foremost mediumsfrustration at himself. With her mother Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in high demandit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she follows could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her, assisting in her work as she puts eco-warrior parents saying the cream end of society in touch with their dear departed. Of course, the world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's all fake. Violet has spent seven years helping her mother con dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the gullible into believing she truth? Well, not when Cassie has real psychic powers, so Violet herself certainly doesngone missing he can't believe in ghosts. Which makes it all the more surprising when one appears to her…..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siddhartha SarmaTori Bovalino|title=The Grasshopper's Run|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=India 1944, and the Japanese are coming. In a brutalopening, we see the inhabitants of a small village get massacred, and the brutal killing of Uti, grandson of the leader of the tribe who live there. His best friend Gojen escapes, as he's in school far away. On hearing of the tragedy, the youngster swears revenge, and embarks on a journey which will take him across his country in search of the man responsible for his friend's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809400</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yvonne Woon|title=Dead BeautifulDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Renee is a normal school girl living Working all summer in sunny California. On her sixteenth birthday she boarding school's library is drawn the last thing Tess Matheson wants to the woods by her house. There do — especially when she finds the dead bodies of her parents, surrounded by scattered coins, and shreds of cloth in their mouths. The police say they both died from gets a heart attack, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister must be going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=Gamerunner|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Maze is more than just request for over a role-playing gamehundred books that she has to deliver herself. Rick What makes it worse is one of the many man who immerse themselves entirely in requested the gamebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and essentially live their life in its virtual realitya man Tess hates. He is one As a petty act of the lucky ones. Thanks to the fact that his guardian, Daed, is the mind behind the Maze and is employed by the powerful revenge for making her find and merciless firm Crater, Rick has lived deliver such a protected lifelarge request, one spent inside Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the thick walls of books, scribbled with the multi-storeyed headquarters ugliest insults she can think of Crater. He has They're never had meant to go outside and live a life reach him, of extreme poverty under the constant threat of gangs orcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, even worseand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, the lethal acid rain that is a part of the intensely polluted atmosphereif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806487</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsPhilip Reeve|title=He's After MeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anna's father has run off with In a younger womanword, the hated Juderich. Her mother There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a wreck because peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of it. Her little sister Livi is going off the rails Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and running with a bad crowdtheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. All this mayhem is anathema The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to Annakeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who is a reserved, cautious and hardworking girl lives in London with an ambition too much science in his head to study literature at university. If this is what unrestrainedworry about such local yokel superstitions, rampant emotions result in, then Annaand Andrewe's having none foundling daughter, who washed up out of itthe sea one day eleven years ago. She's never been in love But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and in many ways she sees this as a blessing. And then she meets Jemhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salman RushdieKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Luka Julia and the Fire of LifeShark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Back in 1990Julia, our pre-teen heroine, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Verses' has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a book dedicated to his then nine year old sonsummer, Zafar, called 'Haroun and in the Sea far NE of Stories'the Scottish islands. Now Here be Vikings, his second son, Milan, finally gets a book that kind of his own, although he had to wait until he was 13 for his father to get around to itScottish island. 'Luka and the Fire of Life' Dad is very much a follow up going to 'Haroun' and it be automating the lantern, which is certainly helpfulhis specialist thing, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the first book are referred to hereelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonJonathan Stroud|title=We Can Be HeroesThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Ben Scarlett McCain is spending an outlaw, rejecting the summer with his grandparents because his mother is ill again. She won't stop going out for runs draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and is not eating properly. She's gone back Faith Houses to stressing out about having wander the wildlands between the "right" cutlery Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and worrying about technology shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and health hazardsa darker past. And her beautiful hair has started falling outWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Ben's father was killed in Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the 9/11 terrorist attack on horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicadoFree Isles, he's feeling very lonely indeed. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N M BrowneMercedes Helnwein|title=Wolf BloodSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Trista Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a Celtic warrior girl and seeresspriority in people's lives. Her visions are always horrifying, full of blood and death. And one of But when she defends a random boy in her premonitions tells class with her she must escape from the tribe who have captured and enslaved slingshot, her, simple existence is changed for their time is running outgood. Fleeing into the snowy forest, No longer can she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this spend her time the game is surely up. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one of the soldiers writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a secret - he is a shapeshifter. Part wolf, part man, Morcant also has both Roman Celtic blood boy in his veins and he has it that she never felt truly at home in either worldasked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy BriggsT L Huchu|title=Tarzan: The Greystoke LegacyLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Robbie Canler Ropa Moyo is on the run. From whata ghostalker, it takes us using Zimbabwean magic (and a while bit of Scottish pragmatism) to find take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped outof school, but itshe's clear that been using itto support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's something bad when the alternative is working for an illegal logging team in evil stalking the jungle ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Congocity's children. The work Soon, Ropa is tough pulled into the search for a missing boy at the best request of times, his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and when things start going wrong for realise that the team, it's definitely not the best world of times. And then Jane Porter, his bossmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's daughter, disappearsve imagined... Can Will she be found? And why do all these strange things keep happening find the missing children and bring an end to the loggersthis evil, or will it claim her too? It's almost as if there was a weird presence in the jungle.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>057127238X</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshKristen O'Neal|title=Lula Does The HulaLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Talullah BirdHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, otherwise known as TattyPriya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Luan online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, or Lulawhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, has finally been kissed! Priya becomes concerned. She has a boyfriend! Frikkly frik! This is exciting! Except there is an evil woman lusting after decides to steal her boyfriend! Hoooo no! And parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her dad . But what she doesn't expect to find there is weird! Hooo noagain! If you think this review is annoying so far with a werewolf in the exclamation marks basement – and strange words, you may want for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to avoid online for the book!past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256532</amazonuk>1683692349
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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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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