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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Hayley Long|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) Tragic|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lottie can’t understand what’s going on with the women around her. Goose has got the hots for a fellow cinema employee with a name which, spelt backwards, is rather unfortunate. Her mum has fallen for the bloke who arrested Lottie back in book one, and HIS daughter is a scary emo girl. There’s only one thing to be done… road trip <! The central trio of Lottie, Goose, and Lottie’s hunky rugby playing boyfriend Gareth hightail it out of Cardiff – but can a change of scenery really solve the problems?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330523015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Rebel Angels: Bloodstone|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Seth and Conal MacGregor have spent so long hunting for the Bloodstone for Kate NicNiven, their queen, that they're reached the present day in our world (after Firebrand took place in sixteenth century Scotland.) They still haven't found it, though, but they have got themselves involved with some wonderful new characters, notably sullen teenager Finn, who's unaware of her Sithe heritage but about to findout with far-reaching consequences. Returning to the realm of the fairies with her in tow, and two others, the MacGregor boys are about to find even more trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537239</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond|title=The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war & at the moment of disaster... I am not cleva, so forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.'' The Monster Billy Dean tells the story of Billy, a boy born into the dystopia of a war-torn town and the product of an illicit liaison between a young woman and her priest. His birth coincided with an apocalyptic bombing and his parents have hidden him away from the ruins and the catastrophe in a single room, both out of shame and in the belief that his coming into the world and surviving at such a violent moment signifies a sacred future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919055</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=Midwinterblood|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Half a century into our future, a journalist called Eric Seven scents a story on a small, isolated island and goes to investigate. Rumours have spread, saying that people there never age, and that there are no children. He has barely set foot on the quay when he sees, and to his surprise falls in love with, a girl called Merle. But almost immediately we, the readers, realise that there is more than one mystery in this strange place. Why are the inhabitants so overwhelming in their welcome to him? What is happening on the other half of the island? And, most worryingly, why is Eric sleeping so much, and forgetting his reason for coming to the island for hours on end? From the very first page there are signs of menace and disorientation, and at last Eric overcomes his torpor and comes to understand that something is badly wrong. He endures terrible nightmares, full of blood and violence, and at the last, just as the islanders drag him to a stone table to kill him, things become clear in his mind. He has been here before. In fact, he has been here many, many times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620098</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=Wolves of Mercy Falls: Forever|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Spring is in the air at Mercy Falls, and for Sam Roth that means a chance to be reunited with his girlfriend Grace, who has spent the cold winter as a wolf in the forests near the town. Grace's transformations are tied to the temperature – and Sam knows only too well how hard it can be to hold on to your humanity, because he was once a wolf too, before he was cured.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121111</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Muchamore|title=People's Republic (CHERUB)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Wow. CHERUB book number 13 is here. New character Ryan is being sent off to California on his first mission. He must befriend the son of a wealthy entrepreneur with links to a prominent transnational facilitator Remove -- a criminal organisation that runs illicit transportation networks and smuggling rings. As Ryan says, the Aramov Clan is ''sort of like FedEx for bad guys''. As you can imagine, the mission proves to be a lot less straightforward than simply befriending a boy on the beach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444906879</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Judy BartkowiakMax Boucherat|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Drivers|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that you're an OK driver, right? ''But'' you're out there, all on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair The Last Life of eyes. You've got a sense of freedom, but somehow it's a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette and stopping distances – it's some ideas for getting into the right mindset to absorb the new experiences and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hayley Long|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) Mad|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lottie Biggs is about to turn 15. She has a job which she doesn't mind, as Head Saturday Girl at shoe shop Sole Mates, a fantastic best friend in the ultra-cool Goose, and a crush on the divine Mad Alien (or Neil Adam, as his name reads slightly less-excitingly forwards.) All that her and Goose are thinking about at the moment (except for Neil) is getting their GCSE's so they can get out of the boring suburb of Cardiff they live in. Things are about to change for Lottie, though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330479733</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne-Marie Conway|title=Star Makers Club: Polly Plays Her PartLori 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 her family phone screen, and the Star Makers’ new production.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409520919</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathryn James|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 safe place in the woodsgame has been doctored – well, and Nell realises her new friend Evan River where is somehow linked to the kidnapping, it's left to the younger a girl to try to save the day.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903063</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HarrisonRachel Greenlaw|title=Soul BeachCompass and Blade

|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=In an alternate world, Tristan Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Grace come from The City, she is a closed talented singer. Life is hard and enclosed society in which religion dominates. Tristan had been an acolyte at St Augustine's. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion of free will food is difficult to come by the Rector. A star pupil, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent the first part of so Seo and her childhood in friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the convent, but a single act meagre rations of kindness led to her excommunicationrice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tera Lynn ChildsAlexia Casale|title=Forgive My FinsSing if you Can't 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 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 is a normal sized nose. Hers whiff of Southern trains when the father 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. Plus, a mother who leaves nose job leaflets in her roomhis colleagues, bags and on the kitchen table with her breakfastbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408819619</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryLex Croucher|title=Solstice at StonewyldeGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Yul's odyssey culminates Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in an epic final conflict a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and destiny appears Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to be on his side. The Villagers are ready to rise against their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the oppression kingdom's only female knight) - something that Magus has built upon them so skilfully over Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the years that subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they weren't consciously aware of it until recentlyare enabling their own other romantic attachments. However But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Magus is still will they find a brutal force way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to be reckoned with and he is more dangerous than ever in his desperation.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098872</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyNick Brooks|title=ShiftPromise Boys

|summary=You might be thinking When the worst problem a modern-day American girl could have principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is her rock-star-in-waiting boyfriend dyingmurdered, and coming back three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a ghost that she and those younger than her can see because grudge of some untold event in the pastdescription against Principal Moore, 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 limboeach could have been there at the time of his murder. That's because you're not factoring in the last boy born before her, But who can't see but is utterly repellent to ghostskilled him, but who she's just about to fall in love with when her late love turns up againand why, this time with a strangely solidand if any of the boys are innocent, corporeal form...will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{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 an answer to the unrequited love he still nurses, only lead him straight to more faeries than ever beforesecond question because I avoid spoilers. For at JamesBut I' new school, Thornking-Ash, ll answer the student populace is entirely made of musical prodigies. And there's nothing that attracts faeries more than musicfirst one: for his grandmother. James has even attracted his own muse – 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 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>}} {{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; and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly Patrick Ness 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 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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonTori Bovalino|title=Jessie Hearts NYCThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=After splitting up with Taylor, Jessie Working all summer in her boarding school's library is desperate the last thing Tess Matheson wants to forget about him, so her first ever trip do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to New York deliver herself. What makes it worse is heaven-sent – even if it does mean having to stay with her motherthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. EmmaThe boarding school's headmaster, her best friend, is equally thrilled to be coming with herand a man Tess hates. While Jessie is still upset at As a petty act of revenge for making her mother’s decision to move to Americafind and deliver such a large request, New YorkerFinn is facing problems Tess sticks post-it notes on each of his own the books, scribbled with his controlling familythe ugliest insults she can think of. Railroaded into working in his dadThey's insurance company during his summer holidayre never meant to reach him, he dreams of being an architectcourse. He's also fallen hard for a girl - who happens Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be his best friend, if someone hadn's girlfriendt delivered them for her. What will happen when these two meet?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate CostelloePhilip Reeve|title=The Breakfast ClubUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=Billie and her three best friends have grown to love the breakfast club they've formedIn a word, meeting every Saturday morning to pass the time and discuss the week they've hadrich. Mario's There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the perfect venue for Scillies. There are troll people on it , and sea- so it's a huge shock when they find it's closing down! In additionwitches, Billie's mother is adamant and legends of the Dark family that she shouldn't pursue has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the career Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in music she wants more than anythinghis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Billie canAndrewe't understand whys foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Can But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the girls find somewhere else to spend Saturday morningsworld of protecting their island, and can they persuade Billie's mum that music is what really matters to her?like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444902857</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Krystyna KuhnKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The GameJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Julia , our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Robert. They're siblings on their way cat from the family home in SW England to Grace Collegebe lighthousekeepers for a summer, an exclusive campus stuck up in the Canadian wildernessfar NE of the Scottish islands. It's a rum placeHere be Vikings, set by a lake under lowering mountainsthat kind of Scottish island. It's a place of sudden night-time blackouts, unexpected screams through Dad is going to be automating the darklantern, mysterious parties clandestinely held out of sightwhich is his specialist thing, and pupils declaring it all 'evil', but what is student prank and what is due while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to something more sinister? hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And what could Julia , well, she will be homesick and Robert possibly be running from to force them to this strange end of the earth?alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410562</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vincent CaldeyJonathan Stroud|title=A Good Clean EdgeThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=After Scarlett McCain is an acrimonious divorceoutlaw, Vincent chooses rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to stay wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with his father dark powers and not his mother and sistera darker past. As his father works away much With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the timeLondon Lagoon. Together, they go to live with Vincent's grandparentsmust brave man-eating wildlife, who run an undertaking business. Vincent, a reserved the cannibalistic Tainted and sensitive childall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, is being bullied on his way but will they be any more accepted there than they are in to his new school by Frankie Lennox from the grammar school, who goes so far as to threaten Vincent with a knife. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408313022</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francisco X StorkMercedes Helnwein|title=Marcelo in the Real WorldSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Marcelo Gracie Welles has spent his childhood and the majority resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of his teenage years at Paterson, a private school that caters specifically for those with disabilities, providing them man with a protected environment where they can learn at their own rate and feel accepted. However"real" family, his father Arturo feels that it she is time that Marcelo experiences the used to not being a priority in people''real world'' and really challenges himselfs lives. Using the promise of But when she defends a senior year spent at Paterson rather than a public schoolrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, Arturo coerces Marcelo to take up a small position her simple existence is changed for the summer good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the law firm that he owns. In the firmsolitude, Marcelo is forced to interact regularly with for her life now has a plethora of different personalities, 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; boy in it is not a decision that is logical, and will require Marcelo to not only empathise with others, but also understand what makes himself tickshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121006</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyT L Huchu|title=Haunting VioletThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Violet Willoughby Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the daughter dead of one Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of Englandschool, she's foremost mediums. With been using it to support not only herself, but her mother in high demand, she follows younger sister and heraging grandmother. However, assisting in her work as she puts there's an evil stalking the cream ruined streets of society in touch with their dear departed. Of courseEdinburgh, ittargeting the city's all fakechildren. Violet has spent seven years helping her Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother con . She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the gullible into believing world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she has real psychic powers, so Violet herself certainly doesnever could't believe in ghostsve imagined. Which makes it all Will she find the more surprising when one appears missing children and bring an end to her…this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siddhartha SarmaKristen O'Neal|title=The Grasshopper's RunLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=3.5

|summary=India 1944Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, and Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the Japanese are comingrest of her life. In a brutalopeningShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', we see the inhabitants of an online support group where she talks to a small village get massacred, and the brutal killing of Uti, grandson bunch of the leader of the tribe who live thereother teens living with chronic illnesses. His best friend Gojen escapesThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, as he's in school far awaywhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. On hearing When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the tragedy, the youngster swears revengechat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and embarks drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a journey which will take him across his country werewolf in search of the man responsible basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for his friend's deaththe past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408809400</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on to the woods by her house. There 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 a heart attack, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister must be going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]