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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne-Marie ConwayMax Boucherat|title=Star Makers Club: Polly Plays Her PartThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Polly Conway is having to deal with rather a lot at We meet Lori on the moment. Her mum has first evening she's got a fabulous new job the house to herself – but it’s no neighbour to pop in Spain! That leaves Polly to live with her dad, her new stepmother who she can’t standbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and on her baby brother who’s just annoyinglonesome. Depressed by the problems What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in her lifea blanket fort, she ignores her dad’s rules has one main intention, and turns that is to log on to Voxminer, the friend2friend website to 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 comfortherself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. As she gets increasingly addicted to For thesite, server she starts and her bestie and nobody else should be able to lose focus enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on the important things in her life – including phone screen, and her family and safe place in the Star Makers’ new production.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409520919</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn JamesRachel Greenlaw|title=Mist|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thirteen year old Nell Beecham is nowhere near as cool or pretty as her glamorous sister Gwen. But when Gwen goes missing after a sweet sixteen party in the woods, Compass and Nell realises her new friend Evan River is somehow linked to the kidnapping, it's left to the younger girl to try to save the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Harrison|title=Soul BeachBlade

|summary=Alice's older sister Meggie, a university student and erstwhile reality show star, was found dead 4 months ago. Murdered. After prolonged Police investigations and appeals it's time, finally, for I can hear the funeral, a chance to put Meggie to rest. But for Alice, this is just song of the beginningsea. As she's getting ready to bury her sister, she receives an odd email that's claiming to be ''from'' said sister. It's clearly a joke, and one in very bad taste at that, but when you're 16 years old and your best friend and confidante has been ripped viciously out The call of your lifethe deep, you'll cling to just about anything. The invitation invites Alice to 'join' Meggie on Soul Beach…a Social Networking site for the young and the deadanswering beat in my heart. And though she's sure it's a ruse, Alice cannot help clicking through to see who or what awaits her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620063</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Tracy Deebs|title=Tempest Rising|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen year old Tempest Mira, like her mother before her, is going through some changes in her bodyone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But they’re not when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the usual changes teen girls go through as wrecking, they grow upcapture the island's leader and Mira's father. InsteadDesperate to save him from death, she’s developing gills Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a tailfamily 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 the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408820188</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne LaFleurHarry Allen|title=Eight KeysChildren of the Sun

|summary=It's the early 1970s Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Alex she is living with his family in East Berlina talented singer. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola, fashion Life is hard and rock music, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time food is spent at school listening difficult to endless lectures on the superiority of the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinkscome by, even when he's with his family so Seo and closest her friends. Nobody in East Berlin wants to come Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the attention meagre rations of the Stasi, the state security servicerice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808633</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard BeckettAlexia Casale|title=August|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 AugustineSing if you Can's. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion of free will by the Rector. A star pupil, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent the first part of her childhood in the convent, but a single act of kindness led to her excommunication. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Forgive My Finst Dance

|summary=You think It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you've got problems with your love re having to navigate a life? Spare a thought for Lily Sanderson-changing disability too, who has but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a huge crush on swimming god Brody Bennettdance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, an obnoxious biker-boy neighbour Quince Fletcherdesperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a serious deadline problemlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's totally convinced that Brody is the right man for a new (cute!) boy in school, her, and needs music A Level performance piece to get him try to realise this sort out, and take him home just the day to meet day traumas of all the challenges her father. Who just happens body continues to be the King ofThalassinia. Of course, that will also means revealing throw at her big secretto navigate. You see So even though she can't dance anymore, Lily is half-mermaid. With all this going through her mind, it's no surprise when might she gets confused, leading be able to a kiss which changes everything...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848771347</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Christopher Pike|title=Final Friends|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When Jessica Hart and her friends end up at a new school, she decides to throw a party to get to know some of the cute guys there. 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 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 - 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 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 father is arrested, leaving Archie on the mysterylate express to Brighton, another crisis takes centre stagetoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387624</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lara ChapmanLex Croucher|title=FlawlessGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Sarah Burke has everythingWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Model looks and body In this story, straight A grades Gwen and a best friend who would take a bullet for her. The one thing she doesn't Arthur have is a normal sized nose. Hers is massive. Sobeen betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Sarah is forced to hide behind a fake confidence in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that pushes people about to defend herself Art discovers from the bullying that her nose attractsprivate diaries. Plus, And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a mother who leaves nose job leaflets in her roomboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, bags and on creating the kitchen table subterfuge of falling in love with her breakfasteach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408819619</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryNick Brooks|title=Solstice at StonewyldePromise Boys

|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 When the oppression that Magus has built upon them so skilfully over principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the years that they weren't consciously aware of it until recentlypolice station as suspects. However Each, Magus is still seemingly, has a brutal force to be reckoned with grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and he is more dangerous than ever in each could have been there at the time of his desperationmurder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098872</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shift|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=You might be thinking 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 she and those younger than her can see because of some untold event in the past, but suffering when he gets malevolent and becomes a shade, which means she has to help him move on before he's locked up in limbo. That's because you're not factoring in the last boy born before her, who can't see but is utterly repellent 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Brooks1919635017|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 A Thief to see how far he can get without going private (paying). He's also convinced that his step-father, Keith, is Catch a homicidal maniac whose next victim is likely to be Jasper's mother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857861875</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Charlotte Moore|title=Milicent's BookKitt 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 first one: for 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 sportsgrandmother. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Medusa Project: 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 murder. 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>}} {{newreview|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; and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken Patrick Ness 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 timesa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Steffi Lockdown is only just over, and her five friends lark about in a deserted building he should be free to do what he wants, to summon a witch go where he wants and get her with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to kill a local celebrity - who does indeed diehis best friend, Cassie. When They were half of a repeat attempt gifts desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a decent amount subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of cash to Steffi the world is already a done deal? Is it becomes clear some spooky new kind of music she is alone in having her wishes granted. So what will happen when 's dreaming of? Is she wishes for just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the town hunk - hasntruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't Steffi heard to be careful what you wish for? But how on earth can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *that* title?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Keris Stainton|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 for a girl - who happens to be his best friend's girlfriend. What will happen when these two meet?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>}} {{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 companytheir monster approaching from even further west, others leave him feeling confused and distressedwhere no ship dare sail. Things really come to a head when he is forced to make a momentous decisionThe current Darks are the Watcher, one that requires him to either ignore his conscienceAndrewe, or end up betraying his father and by extension himself; it is not a decision that is logical, and will require Marcelo who has 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 keep notes of activity from the daughter of one of England's foremost mediums. With her mother in high demandHidden Lands, she follows her, assisting his brother Will who lives in her work as she puts the cream of society in touch London with their dear departed. Of course, 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 too much science in ghosts. Which makes it all the more surprising when one appears his head to her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siddhartha Sarma|title=The Grasshopperworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's Run|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=India 1944foundling daughter, and the Japanese are coming. In a brutalopening, we see the inhabitants who washed up out of a small village get massacred, and the brutal killing of Uti, grandson of the leader of the tribe who live theresea one day eleven years ago. His best friend Gojen escapes, as he's in school far away. On hearing of the tragedy, the youngster swears revengeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and embarks on a journey which will take him across his country in search of curious ward are thrust into 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 to the woods by her house. There she finds the dead bodies world of her parents, surrounded by scattered coins, and shreds of cloth in protecting their mouths. The police say they both died from a heart attackisland, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister must be going onlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{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 of the many who immerse themselves entirely in the game, and essentially live their life in its virtual reality. He is one of the lucky ones. Thanks to the fact that his guardian, Daed, is the mind behind the Maze and is employed by the powerful and merciless firm Crater, Rick has lived a protected life, one spent inside the thick walls of the multi-storeyed headquarters of Crater. He has never had to go outside and live a life of extreme poverty under the constant threat of gangs or, even worse, the lethal acid rain that is a part of the intensely polluted atmosphere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806487</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris Higgins|title=He's After Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Anna's father has run off with a younger woman, the hated Jude. Her mother is a wreck because of it. Her little sister Livi is going off the rails Kiran Millwood Hargrave and running with a bad crowd. All this mayhem is anathema to Anna, who is a reserved, cautious and hardworking girl with an ambition to study literature at university. If this is what unrestrained, rampant emotions result in, then Anna's having none of it. She's never been in love and in many ways she sees this as a blessing. And then she meets Jem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Salman RushdieTom 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 HulaLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|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

{{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]]