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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne LaFleurMax Boucherat|title=Eight KeysThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=On moving We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to middle schoolpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old Elise's life takes , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amandablanket fort, she has one main intention, and embarrassed by her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool and certainly not popular – she's alsostruggling that is to log on to cope with Voxminer, the new arrivals at her homeworld-building, Aunt Bessiecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's younger sister Annie and her baby daughter Avaworld. Just when she But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know how find herself entirely on her own, and then she can cope with everything, help arrives in finds something even more spooky. For the form server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a strange key with tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her name on it. As she opens a door to find out about phone screen, and her pastsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, Elise starts where is a girl to realise that she can take control of her future.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellRachel Greenlaw|title=Sektion 20Compass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's the early 1970s and Alex is living with his family in East Berlin. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola, fashion and rock music, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time is spent at school listening to endless lectures on the superiority of the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinks, even when he's with his family and closest friends. Nobody in East Berlin wants to come to the attention of the Stasi, the state security service. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808633</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bernard Beckett|title=August|rating=4

|summary=In an alternate world, Tristan and Grace come from The City, a closed and enclosed society in which religion dominates. Tristan had been an acolyte at St Augustine's'I can hear the song of the sea. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion The call of free will by the Rector. A star pupildeep, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent the first part of her childhood answering beat in the convent, but a single act of kindness led to her excommunicationmy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Forgive My Fins|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=You think you've got problems with your love life? Spare Rosevear, a thought for Lily Sandersonremote and partially forgotten island, who has a huge crush survives on swimming god Brody Bennettluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, an obnoxious biker-boy neighbour Quince Fletcherlike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a serious deadline problem. Shetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's totally convinced that Brody is the right man for her, leader and needs Mira's father. Desperate to get save him to realise this from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and take him home with only coordinates to meet guide her father. Who just happens to be the King , she sets off in search ofThalassinia. Of course, a family secret that will also means revealing her big secret. You see, Lily is half-mermaidlies buried deep in the sea. With all this going through only nine days to unearth what might save her mindfather, itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's no surprise when she gets confusedterritory, leading Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to a kiss which changes everything..save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848771347</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher PikeHarry Allen|title=Final FriendsChildren of the Sun

|summary=When Jessica Hart Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and her friends end up at a new school, she decides to throw is a party to get to know some of the cute guys theretalented singer. It seems like a great idea at the time – but it will have far-reaching consequences which will mean their senior year will be nothing like they expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901303</amazonuk>}} {{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 Life is hard and food is sent difficult to a psychiatrist. He swears that he'd seen a monster of some description - just like the weird come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and unusual things the old man used to tell him about - when he discovered the body. As you can imagineMin go foraging every evening, everyone thinks Jacob is crazy. But then events set in motion a visit looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the island off the coast meagre rations of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew up, rice andas Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he discovers that his grandfather may have been telling the truth all along..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594744769</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittAlexia Casale|title=Sean GriswoldSing if you Can's Headt Dance

|summary=When she finds out her dad was diagnosed with MS some months agoIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but no-one had felt that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the need middle of a dance performance that was going to tell change herlife. But she comes back fighting, Paytondesperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's world starts to fall apartas normal as she can possibly manage. So much so Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, that when her new counselor suggests picking something as a Focus Object music A Level performance piece to write about, she decides try to go for itsort out, and chooses Sean Griswold's head. But what starts off as a supposedly academic study just the day to day traumas of all the said head becomes something rather more interestingchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, as might she realizes that Sean himself might be someone worth focusing on.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140712059X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat FallsSimon Fox|title=Rip Tide (Dark Life)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Our favourite Dark Lifer and Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his Topsider friend are set for another post-apocalyptic adventure in this follow-up to Dark Life. Ty shift on the force, and Gemma discover then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a township chained secret place, and sunk join him on the ocean floorrun. They get together, every one of its hundreds of residents murdered. But before they can but barely begin to unravel smell the whiff of Southern trains when the mystery, 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 body, straight A grades and a best friend who would take a bullet for her. The one thing she doesn't have father is a normal sized nose. Hers is massive. Soarrested, Sarah is forced leaving Archie on the late express to hide behind Brighton, toting a fake confidence that pushes people about tin his father was determined to defend herself keep away from the bullying that her nose attracts. Plushis colleagues, a mother who leaves nose job leaflets 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=Yul's odyssey culminates in an epic final conflict and destiny appears to be on his side. The Villagers are ready to rise against the oppression that Magus has built upon them so skilfully over the years that they weren't consciously aware bearer of it until recently. However, Magus is still a brutal force to be reckoned with and he is more dangerous than ever in his desperationwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098872</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyLex Croucher|title=ShiftGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=You might be thinking the worst problem Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a modern-day American girl could have is her rock-star-gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in-waiting boyfriend dyinga most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and coming back as a ghost that she and those younger than her can Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see because of some untold event , is in love with Bridget (the past, but suffering when he gets malevolent and becomes a shade, which means she has to help him move on before hekingdom's locked up in limboonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. That's because you're not factoring in the last And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy born before herthey find themselves becoming reluctant allies, who can't see but is utterly repellent to ghosts, but who she's just about to fall creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when her late love turns up againreally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, this time with will they find a strangely solidway in which they can both truly be themselves, corporeal form...or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben Nick Brooks|title=Grow UpPromise Boys

|summary=Jasper When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeenmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He spends his time pretending to revise for his AS levels Each, fantasising about sex with Georgia Treelyseemingly, hanging out with self-harming best friend Tenaya watching cheesy TV showshas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and taking ketamine and mephedrone with each could have been there at the time of his friendsmurder. When he's at a loose end But who killed him, 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-fatherand why, Keithand if any of the boys are innocent, is a homicidal maniac whose next victim is likely will they be able to be Jasper's mother...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857861875</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlotte Moore1919635017|title=Milicent's BookA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn'My name t a bad lad, so why is Milicent Bella Ludlow and I am an orphan'. So opens this story told in diary form of he running around London committing a year in the life series of a young Victorian girl whose father has just died. Luckily there are some kind and loving relatives willing robberies? And how did he learn to help her and Mabel, her older sister, and they are able crack safes? You'll have to stay living in their family home, Yotes, for a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846470803</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=Ballad|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=After his best friend fell in love with a faerie, James realised she would never love him that way. But his attempts wait to get away from her, and the unrequited love he still nurses, only lead him straight an answer to more faeries than ever before. For at James' new school, Thornking-Ash, the student populace is entirely made of musical prodigiessecond question because I avoid spoilers. And thereBut I's nothing that attracts faeries more than music. James has even attracted his own muse – ll answer the deadly and dangerously attractive Nuala. The music she helps him make is better than he could ever manage on his own, but James knows the deadly consequences of making a deal with faeries, and he knows Nuala won'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: friends, good school grades, a boyfriend. Only Clara isn't an ordinary teenager – she's part angel. She's fluent in all languages, naturally gifted academically and in sports. All the good stuff comes with a price, but even that's not so bad. Clara has a Purpose, an angelic calling, to save a mysterious boy from a forest fire, revealed to her in a series of visions that can strike any time of day or night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405259647</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Medusa Projectfirst one: Double Cross|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Each of the 'Medusa Project' books is narrated by one of the teens involved in turn, and this time it is Nico who is the first person speaker. Things are not going well for the group: their former mentor Geri has just tried to kill them, and by using all her government and police contacts she has managed to make it look as if they are guilty of murderhis grandmother. The four teens' psychic abilities allow them to escape to France, and now they need to work out how to stop Geri and clear their names. But things just get worse and worse: the strain of their situation and the introduction of new characters start to pull the group apart just at the time when they need to trust each other the most.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707069X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex Woolf|title=Chronosphere: Malfunction|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The ideal paradise of life inside the Chronosphere isn't supposed to be like this. If you're like Raffi and his friends you're spending a year inside, which only takes a minute of real life, enjoying a hedonistic, summery lifestyle with time on your hands and little cares. Except it's getting more than summery, it's a hothouse; the food is running out; the exits are locked; Patrick Ness and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken and feel the end of their happiness. But then, if you're like Raffi and his friends, you are actually unknowingly there for a much more sinister reason, and someone's "project" is about to get much less Utopian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184562</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie StiefvaterTea Bendix|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 Different for the highest prize of them all – freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407129856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maxine Linnell|title=CloserBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=This Ant is one of those concise in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and powerful little books where it's best for the reader to come 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 as little knowledge of both his best buddy from the plot as possiblefootball team, so Iand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they'll feature re all fired up, straining at the mood leash only a single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Mel has a lot of thoseout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Beyond her yet-to-actually-start He's had a casual relationship with Raj, a secret one, for several months now, and her best friend Chloe, she so has her family - fractious animosity with her older sistereffectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', a younger brother who only plays computer gamesbut whether that's set in stone, and little freedom it seems from her motherhe can't be sure. At least her step-dadAnd that's a funky bloke though - although one mum finds fault with easily enough. Itmostly because of who he's hardly comfy domesticity, been having the relationship and is even worse when interrupted by something very disturbingthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907869263</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joss Stirling1800901232|title=Stealing PhoenixStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Phoenix is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a thieffashion designer. She's a very good one Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, thanks so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to having some rather useful psychic abilities. Working for the cruel and dominating Seer, she's forced village to follow his instructions offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to bring him whatever he wants – just as be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the rest of their community of savants aremini-bus to Hanoi. Then she's told to get something from Yves Benedict Only, Hanh and for the first time other girls were not going to work in her lifea shop, fails they were to take what she wantswork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Yves has powers of his own… You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and he may be beading on the legs? The ones with the one whoartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's stolen quite possible that Hanh and her heartco-workers made them. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Damian DibbenPatrice Lawrence|title=The History Keepers: The Storm BeginsNeedle|rating=43

|summary=''Imagine if you lost your parentsBrave. Not just in placeCharlene, but in timethe 'heroine' Scary, huh? But of this piece is exactly what happens extremely hard for some people to Jake Djones (silent Dlike, dears)characters and readers both. Believing his parents have gone to Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a bathroom conventionpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's carrying on at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as usual until they get home. But then heCharlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's abducted on his way home from school allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and taken then force people to a secret base hidden beneath the Monument in Londongive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Jake discovers that his parents have kept a secret from him: they are secret agents working well, what exactly happens is not for the History Keepersme to say, working only to prevent evil villains from tampering with history itself, remark how sharp and they have gone missing in sixteenth century Venicepointy those knitting needles can be... B|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857530534</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna PhilbinAnn Sei Lin|title=Celebriteens: In the SpotlightRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Girls usually get together because they've got something Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in common the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and for Lizzie, Carina and Hudson it's make merry between their famous parentsconquests. Lizzie's mother is However, when a supermodel and even in man named Himura arrives to tell her thirties that she's still one of is a Crafter like him, someone with the most beautiful women in power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the worldEmpire. Lizzie's – not. WellHe asks her to come with him, she's not exactly ugly but compared to her mother (and she always leave the life of dreary servitude that is) all she just doesnhas known. Well, soon Kurara won't come up to scratch. Carina's dad have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a rich (''very'' rich) businessman monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and he's determined that C (as she's known) is going forced to join flee out into the company and eventually take overworld. Carina has other ideas. Hudson wants to make music and you might think that having She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a pop diva for a mother sky-ship whose express purpose is a good startto hunt down shikigami, but Hudson's style is different and her mother can't accept that.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121200</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen GrantMarcus Sedgwick|title=Wish Me DeadWrath

|summary=Rural GermanyMeet Fitz, in modern times. Steffi and her five friends lark about in a deserted building to summon a witch and get her to kill a local celebrity - who does indeed dieyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. When a repeat attempt gifts a decent amount of cash to Steffi it becomes clear she Lockdown is alone in having her wishes granted. So what will happen when she wishes for the town hunk - hasn't Steffi heard only just over, and he should be free to be careful do what you wish for? But how on earth can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *that* title?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keris Stainton|title=Jessie Hearts NYC|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After splitting up with Taylorhe wants, Jessie is desperate to forget about himgo where he wants and with whom he wants, so her first ever trip to New York is heaven-sent – even if but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it does mean having when he talks to stay with her mother. Emma, her his best friend, is equally thrilled to be Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her. While Jessie eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is still upset at her mother’s decision to move to America, New YorkerFinn is facing problems already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of his own with his controlling family. Railroaded into working in his dadmusic she's insurance company during his summer holidaydreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he dreams of being an architectcan't.. He's also fallen hard for a girl - who happens to be his best friend's girlfriend. What will happen when these two meet?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate CostelloeTori Bovalino|title=The Breakfast ClubDevil Makes Three

|summary=Meet Julia and Robert. TheyWorking all summer in her boarding school're siblings on their way 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 Grace College, an exclusive campus stuck up in deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the Canadian wildernessbooks: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's a rum placeheadmaster, set by and a lake under lowering mountainsman Tess hates. It's As a place petty act of sudden nightrevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-time blackoutsit notes on each of the books, unexpected screams through scribbled with the dark, mysterious parties clandestinely held out ugliest insults she can think of sight, and pupils declaring it all 'evil. They're never meant to reach him, but what of course. Her plan is student prank and what is due to something more sinister? And what could Julia get her anger out like this, and Robert possibly then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be running from to force , if someone hadn't delivered them to this strange end of the earth?for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410562</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vincent CaldeyPhilip Reeve|title=A Good Clean EdgeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After an acrimonious divorceIn a word, Vincent chooses to stay with his father and not his mother and sisterrich. As his father works away much There is certainly an abundance of the time, they go to live with Vincent's grandparents, who run an undertaking business. Vincent, riches in this story set on a reserved and sensitive childpeculiar island called Wildsea, is being bullied on his British but way in to his new school by Frankie Lennox from the grammar schoolwest, who goes so far as to threaten Vincent with a knife. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313022</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francisco X Stork|title=Marcelo in beyond the Real World|rating=4Scillies.5|genre=Teens|summary=Marcelo has spent his childhood and the majority of his teenage years at Paterson, a private school that caters specifically for those with disabilitiesThere are troll people on it, providing them with a protected environment where they can learn at their own rate and feel accepted. Howeversea-witches, his father Arturo feels that it is time that Marcelo experiences the ''real world'' and really challenges himself. Using the promise legends of a senior year spent at Paterson rather than a public school, Arturo coerces Marcelo to take up a small position for the summer in the law firm Dark family that he owns. In the firm, Marcelo is forced has to interact regularly with a plethora of different personalities, keep watch for magical islands and while some prove to be enjoyable company, others leave him feeling confused and distressed. Things really come to a head when he is forced to make a momentous decision, one that requires him to either ignore his conscience, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121006</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=Haunting Violet|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Violet Willoughby is the daughter of one of England's foremost mediums. With her mother in high demand, she follows her, assisting in her work as she puts the cream of society in touch with their dear departed. Of coursemonster approaching from even further west, it's all fake. Violet has spent seven years helping her mother con the gullible into believing she has real psychic powers, so Violet herself certainly doesn't believe in ghostswhere no ship dare sail. Which makes it all the more surprising when one appears to her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siddhartha Sarma|title=The Grasshopper's Run|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=India 1944, and the Japanese current Darks are coming. In a brutalopening, we see the inhabitants of a small village get massacredWatcher, and the brutal killing of UtiAndrewe, grandson of the leader of the tribe who live there. His best friend Gojen escapes, as he's in school far away. On hearing has to keep notes of activity from the tragedy, the youngster swears revengeHidden Lands, and embarks on a journey which will take him across his country brother Will who lives in London with too much science in search of the man responsible for his friend's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809400</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yvonne Woon|title=Dead Beautiful|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Renee is a normal school girl living in sunny California. On her sixteenth birthday she is drawn head to the woods by her house. There she finds the dead bodies of her parents, surrounded by scattered coinsworry about such local yokel superstitions, and shreds of cloth in their mouths. The police say they both died from a heart attackAndrewe's foundling daughter, 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 a role-playing game. Rick is one who washed up out of the many who immerse themselves entirely in the game, and essentially live their life in its virtual reality. He is sea one of the lucky onesday eleven years ago. Thanks to the fact that But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his guardian, Daed, is the mind behind the Maze sullen brother and is employed by his curious ward are thrust into the powerful and merciless firm Crater, Rick has lived a protected life, one spent inside the thick walls world 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>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Higgins|title=He's After Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Anna's father has run off with a younger womanprotecting their island, the hated Jude. Her mother is a wreck because of like 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 Jemor not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salman RushdieKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Luka Julia and the Fire of LifeShark

|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

 {{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N M BrowneMercedes Helnwein|title=Wolf BloodSlingshot|rating=4.53

|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

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshKristen O'Neal|title=Lula Does The Hula|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Talullah Bird, 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 her dad is weird! Hooo noagain! If you think this review is annoying so far with the exclamation marks Lycanthropy and strange words, you may want to avoid the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256532</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond|title=My Name Is MinaOther Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=We first Mina Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in Skelligconstant pain for the rest of her life. A homeschooled, William Blake-loving, slightly precious childShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she arrived in Michael's life with not talks to a little whiff bunch of the culture shock other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about her. Nowtheir troubles and help each other out, we can find out what really makes Mina tick as we read through her journalwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Mina is full When Brigid—one of contradictionsher closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She likes decides to be different, individual, but she doesnsteal her parents' car and drive to Brigid't like being a misfits house to check up on her. She wants friends but But what she doesn't know how expect to make them or to keep them. She find there is both reflective a werewolf in the basement – and impulsivefor that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997265</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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]]