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|summary=Prince Osamu is a pampered, spoiled young orphan who has never known friends his own age or been told what to do. He spends his life surrounded by beauty and riches in a world where most people do not even dare to raise their eyes to his face, collecting We meet Lori on the exquisite pots made by Master Masumi and writing poems. His tutors have told him about first evening she's got the demons of Hades which try, every few centuries, house to break through the barrier and take over this world, and that it is his responsibility herself – no neighbour to repel them, but he dismisses all this as old wives' tales. And then one night the forces of the Emissary attack the palace, and every certainty he had is gone pop in a flash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755633</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=The Double Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1937 Amaryllis Ruben is about to turn seventeen. As a present, her fatherbabysitter poorly, Arnold Rubenmother at work, a widowed, multijust an avidly rule-millionairebreaking eleven year old, is going to give his daughter his life long work, an invention that on her lonesome. What could alter time forever, possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a memory machine. It can capture the goodblanket fort, erase the badshe has one main intention, and keep you young for all time. But things aren't going that is to log on to plan; apart from Amaryllis not wanting it, other people have taken an interestVoxminer, and not in a good way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Kathleen Ryan|title=Glow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone expected Kieran and Waverley to be together. As the first of the first generation born in spaceworld-building, it seemed almost written in the stars. Destiny. Waverley critter-collecting game that is mostly happy with her life on board the Empyrean – one of two ships trailblazing across the universe to New Earth, where their crews will start a new human frontier – she loves Kieran (she thinks) and the shiphit in Lori's crew is like one big happy familyworld. But sometimes, she wonders if her life would be different, if her choices would be different, if the weight of continuing the human race didnfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't rest find herself entirely on her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535587</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Miles|title=Fury (Fury Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Both the central characters in Fury have dark secrets. Em is in love with her best friend's boyfriend. So when Gabby goes away on a winter holiday own, and Zach starts flirting with her, Em just can't resist even though then she knows she's doing finds something unforgivable. Chase lives on a trailer park but runs with a rich crowdeven more spooky. He'll do just about anything to maintain his place in For the group - server she and her bestie and there's something he has done nobody else should be able to that end enter shows signs of which he's deeply ashamedtampering. But their small American town has come to the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come to Ascension and Em and Chase are about to discover that feeling guilty isn't the only price they'll be paying for their misdeeds... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071998</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Foden|title=Life, Death and Gold Leather Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite having not seen her uncle Jupe, the famous former rock star, for several years after he fell out with her mother, Clover is still devastated by his death. So when her parents split When malevolent eyes spark up the day after she turns thirteen, and on her father runs off with a nude model, she doesn't think things can get any worse. Can she cope with the fallout of the split, look after kid sister Lilyphone screen, and get to know cute fellow guitarist Riley better? Or will her rival Sophie Skelling's teeny crochet bikini tempt him away from her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407120867</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Monique Truong|title=Bitter safe place in the Mouth|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Linda Hammerickgame has been doctored – well, where is a young girl growing up in North Carolina in the late 1970's, is different. She suffers from synesthesia, tasting things when she speaks or hears words. She grows up with her great-uncle, Baby Harper, as her best friend, as hissingsong voice is the only one she can hear without the accompanying tastes, and writes letters back and forth with her best friend Kelly rather than have long conversations with her.to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099474743</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Deborah WhiteRachel Greenlaw|title=Wickedness|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Claire's grandmother has just died. And her parents have just split up. So it's not really a good time. Mum is being even more of a pain than usual - endlessly cross, endlessly cleaning, endlessly combing Gran's belongings for anything of value - Compass and Claire wants nothing more than to go home to her own house and her own things. But then she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandmother. It contains a sheaf of manuscripts and a ring inscribed with a hieroglyph. Once on Claire's finger, the ring gets stuck - much to her mother's annoyance. It could be worth a pretty penny to the rather sinister Egyptologist who's interested in buying some of Gran's possessions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848775318</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=There Is No DogBlade

|summary=Ok. Imagine God is actually a teenage immortal, much in the vein of teenage humans. He rushes his coursework (creation) and while there are flashes of brilliance and potential in it, there's no real thought or organisation and so the whole thing doesn't really work properly. But God is too busy having a lie-in or lusting after buxom young women to be ironing out these sorts of boring creases in I can hear the making song of a successful planet. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kit Berry|title=Shadows at Stonewylde|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When we last left Stonewylde, the community seemed to be on the verge of a period of glorious prosperity and happiness as Yul became the new Magus and Sylvie joined him as guardians of Stonewyldesea. Thirteen years have passed, and Stonewylde is almost unrecognisable; it hasn't quite succumbed to the Outside World yet, but just how much longer can it remain self-sufficient and resistant to the consumerism and pervasive technology that is characteristic of the rest The call of the country? Furthermoredeep, the cracks that begin to appear answering beat in Yulmy heart.'s and Sylvie's relationship are branching out throughout the whole community, with malcontent brewing, cruelty going unchecked, and sinister hints of a dark presence returning to Stonewylde.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098899</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Ally Carter|title=Heist Society|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A new series from the creator of the [[I'd Tell You I Love YouRosevear, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls) by Ally Carter|Gallagher Girls]]? Excellent! And this book doesn't disappoint: young people with unusual a remote and highly specialised skillspartially forgotten island, encountering bad guys survives on luring ships into the rocks and peril with determination and a healthy dose of humourplundering the wrecks. SoMira, like her mother before her, what's is one of the difference from seven who swim out to survey the 'Gallagher Girls'? Well, this time, ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the heroine and her crew are, um, Council Watch lays a trap to put it bluntlyend the wrecking, they capture the villains! Except that itisland's leader and Mira's just not that simplefather. Kat comes Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a large family of burglars wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and art thieveswith only coordinates to guide her, but she decides she's had enough sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the family business and wants a normal lifesea. SadlyWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, someone else decides thatas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's not going territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to happen. They should have told save the future of her, using your criminal abilities to forge a false identity home and get yourself into the best boarding school in the country is not the best way to go straightones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408309556</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|author=Lil Chase|title=Boys for Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Gwynnie has always been one of the guys which was fine...until Charlie Notts showed up at school. He's Hot (capital H) and friendly and likes football, but when Gwynnie realises he's firmly putting her on his list of mates, not girls, action must be taken. The thing is, for a girl whose close family and friends are all blokes, and whose one life love to date wasn't so much a trouser shape as a team (Go Spurs!), it's going to be a big jump from ''being'' one of the guys to ''bagging'' one of the guys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857384821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackie Martin|title=Burglar Boy|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Burglar Boy'' opens with a big scene - Dean is halfway though robbing a house when the owner returns. Chased by an irate man with a good aim and a golf club, he barely makes it out in one piece. But he dutifully returns home and divvies up a pile of ill-gotten goods to Callum, his older brother, who rewards him for the risk and the bruises with a paltry fiver. Still, it's more pocket money than Dean is likely to see from his mother, who has lapsed further and further into a bottle of vodka since her most recent boyfriend left. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907552146</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hayley LongHarry Allen|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 Children 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=MidwinterbloodSun

|summary=Half Ra Eun Seo lives in a century into our future, a journalist called Eric Seven scents a story on North Korean town and she is a small, isolated island and goes to investigatetalented singer. 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, Life is hard and to his surprise falls in love with, a girl called Merle. But almost immediately we, the readers, realise that there food is more than one mystery in this strange place. Why are the inhabitants so overwhelming in their welcome difficult to him? What is happening on the other half of the island? And, most worryinglycome by, why is Eric sleeping so much, Seo and forgetting his reason for coming to the island for hours on end? From the very first page there are signs of menace her friends Nari and disorientationMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and at last Eric overcomes his torpor and comes edible grasses to understand that something is badly wrong. He endures terrible nightmares, full supplement the meagre rations of blood and violence, rice and kimchi 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 timeshome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620098</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterAlexia Casale|title=Wolves of Mercy Falls: ForeverSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Spring It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the air at Mercy Falls, and for Sam Roth middle of a dance performance that means a chance was going to be reunited with his girlfriend Gracechange her life. But she comes back fighting, who has spent desperate to avoid the cold winter pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a wolf new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the forests near day to day traumas of all the townchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Grace So even though she can's transformations are tied to the temperature – and Sam knows only too well how hard it can t dance anymore, might she be able to hold on to your humanity, because he was once a wolf too, before he was cured.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121111</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{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 - 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>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne-Marie ConwaySimon Fox|title=Star Makers Club: Polly Plays Her PartDeadlock

|summary=Polly Conway Late one night Graham Blake is having to deal with rather a lot at late back from his shift on the moment. Her mum has got force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a fabulous new job – but it’s in Spain! That leaves Polly to live with her dad, her new stepmother who she can’t standsecret place, and her baby brother who’s just annoyingjoin him on the run. Depressed by the problems in her life They get together, she ignores her dad’s rules and turns but barely begin to smell the friend2friend website to find comfort. As she gets increasingly addicted to whiff of Southern trains when thesitefather is arrested, she starts to lose focus leaving Archie on the important things in her life – including her family late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the Star Makers’ new productionbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409520919</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn JamesLex Croucher|title=MistGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Thirteen year old Nell Beecham Who 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. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is nowhere near as cool or pretty as in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her glamorous sister Gwenprivate diaries. But And then when Gwen goes missing after then catches Art kissing a sweet sixteen party boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in the woodslove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and Nell realises her new friend Evan River is somehow linked to the kidnappingwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, it's left or are they destined to the younger girl to try to save the day.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903063</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HarrisonNick Brooks|title=Soul BeachPromise Boys|rating=3.54

|summary=Alice's older sister MeggieWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, a university student and erstwhile reality show star, was found dead 4 months agothree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Murdered. After prolonged Police investigations and appeals it's time Each, finally, for the funeralseemingly, has a chance to put Meggie to rest. But for Alicegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, this is just and each could have been there at the beginningtime of his murder. 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 But who killed him, and one in very bad taste at thatwhy, but when you're 16 years old and your best friend and confidante has been ripped viciously out if any of your life, 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 dead. And though she's sure it's a ruseboys are innocent, Alice cannot help clicking through will they be able to see who or what awaits her.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620063</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tracy Deebs1919635017|title=Tempest RisingA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Sixteen year old Tempest Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is going through some changes in her bodyhe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But they’re not I'll answer the usual changes teen girls go through as they grow upfirst one: for his grandmother.. Instead, she’s developing gills and a tail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408820188</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzanne LaFleurPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Eight Keys|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=On moving to middle school, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn Different for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amanda, and embarrassed by her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool and certainly not popular – she's alsostruggling to cope with the new arrivals at her home, Aunt Bessie's younger sister Annie and her baby daughter Ava. Just when she doesn't know how she can cope with everything, help arrives in the form of a strange key with her name on it. As she opens a door to find out about her past, Elise starts to realise that she can take control of her future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Dowswell|title=Sektion 20Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=ItAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the early 1970s talk in class and Alex out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is living with , where his family achievements in East Berlinthat regard lie. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, fashion and rock musicso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but Alex whether that's set in stone, he can only dream of these things't be sure. His time is spent at school listening to endless lectures on the superiority And that's mostly because of the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinks, even when who he's with his family been having the relationship and closest friends. Nobody in East Berlin wants to come to the attention of the Stasi, the state security servicesex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808633</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bernard Beckett1800901232|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 Augustine'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>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Forgive My FinsSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=You think you've got problems with your love life? Spare a thought for Lily Sanderson, who has a huge crush on swimming god Brody Bennett, an obnoxious bikerTwelve-year-boy neighbour Quince Fletcher, and old Hanh wanted to be a serious deadline problemfashion designer. She's totally convinced that Brody is Life in the right man for rural village where she lived with herfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and needs woman came to get him the village to realise this offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and take him home Hanh was on the mini-bus to meet her fatherHanoi. Who just happens Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to be the King ofThalassinia. Of coursework in a shop, that will also means revealing her big secretthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You see, Lily is halfknow those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-mermaid. With all this going through her mind, itplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's no surprise when she gets confused, leading to a kiss which changes everything.quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848771347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher PikePatrice Lawrence|title=Final FriendsNeedle|rating=53

|summary=When Jessica Hart Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her friends end up son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a new 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 Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she decides shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to throw a party say, only to get to know some of the cute guys thereremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444901303</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ransom RiggsAnn Sei Lin|title=Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=After his grandfather's deathKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, sixteen year old Jacob is sent to a psychiatrist. He swears that he'd seen a monster massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of some description - just like the weird Empire come to drink and unusual things the old make merry between their conquests. However, when a man used named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him about - when he discovered , someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the bodyEmpire. As you can imagineHe asks her to come with him, everyone thinks Jacob to leave the life of dreary servitude that is crazyall she has known. But then events set Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in motion the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a visit monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the island off world. She joins Himura aboard the coast of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew upOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, andas Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he discovers that his grandfather may have been telling the truth all along...a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594744769</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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 FallsMarcus Sedgwick|title=Rip Tide (Dark Life)Wrath

|summary=Our favourite Dark Lifer Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his Topsider friend are set for another post-apocalyptic adventure foot in this follow-up it when he talks to Dark Lifehis best friend, Cassie. Ty and Gemma discover They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a township chained and sunk on subhuman hum coming from the ocean floor, every earth. Is this connected with one of its hundreds her eco-warrior parents saying the end of residents murdered. But before they the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can begin to unravel Fitz find out the mysterytruth? Well, another crisis takes centre stagenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387624</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lara ChapmanTori Bovalino|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 is massive. So, Sarah is forced to hide behind a fake confidence that pushes people about to defend herself from the bullying that her nose attracts. Plus, 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 of it until recently. However, Magus is still a brutal force to be reckoned with and he is more dangerous than ever in his desperation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098872</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Ben Brooks|title=Grow Up|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jasper is seventeen. He spends his time pretending to revise for his AS levels, fantasising about sex with Georgia Treely, hanging out with self-harming best friend Tenaya watching cheesy TV shows, and taking ketamine and mephedrone with his friends. When he's at a loose end, he goes to sex chatrooms in a quest to see how far he can get without going private (paying). He's also convinced that his step-father, Keith, is a homicidal maniac whose next victim is likely to be Jasper's mother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857861875</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlotte Moore|title=Milicent's BookDevil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school'My name s library is Milicent Bella Ludlow the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and I am an orphan'a man Tess hates. So opens this story told in diary form As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a year in large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the life ugliest insults she can think of a young Victorian girl whose father has just died. Luckily there are some kind and loving relatives willing They're never meant to help her and Mabelreach him, of course. Her plan is to get her older sisteranger out like this, and they are able to stay living in their family home, Yotesthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for a whileher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846470803</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterPhilip Reeve|title=BalladUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=3.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After his best friend fell In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in love with this story set on a faeriepeculiar island called Wildsea, James realised she would never love him that British but waywest, beyond the Scillies. But his attempts There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to get away keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from hereven further west, and where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the unrequited love he still nursesWatcher, Andrewe, only lead him straight who has to more faeries than ever before. For at James' new schoolkeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, Thornking-Ashhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, the student populace is entirely made of musical prodigies. And thereand Andrewe's nothing that attracts faeries more than musicfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. James has even attracted But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his own muse – the deadly sullen brother and dangerously attractive Nuala. The music she helps him make is better than he could ever manage on his own, but James knows curious ward are thrust into the deadly consequences world of making a deal with faeriesprotecting their island, and he knows Nuala won't give him freebies for longlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140712112X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cynthia HandKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=UnearthlyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Clara wants what ordinary teenagers want: friendsJulia, good school gradesour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a boyfriend. Only Clara isn't an ordinary teenager – she's part angel. She's fluent in all languagessummer, naturally gifted academically and in sportsthe far NE of the Scottish islands. All the good stuff comes with a price Here be Vikings, but even that's not so badkind of Scottish island. Clara has a Purpose Dad is going to be automating the lantern, an angelic callingwhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to save a mysterious boy from a forest firehunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, revealed to her in a series of visions that can strike any time of day or she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405259647</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieJonathan Stroud|title=The Medusa Project: Double CrossOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Each of Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the 'Medusa Project' books is narrated by one draconian conformity of the teens involved in turn, Surviving Towns and this time it is Nico who is Faith Houses to wander the first person speaker. Things are not going well for wildlands between the group: their former mentor Geri has just tried Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to kill themkeep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and by using all her government and police contacts she has managed to make it look as if they are guilty of murdera darker past. The four teens' psychic abilities allow With mysterious militiamen hunting them to escape to Francedown, and now they need plan to work out how flee to stop Geri and clear their namesthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But things just get worse and worse: Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the strain of their situation cannibalistic Tainted and all the introduction horrors of new characters start post-apocalyptic society to pull reach the group apart just at the time when Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they need to trust each other are in the most.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707069X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex WoolfMercedes Helnwein|title=Chronosphere: MalfunctionSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=The ideal paradise of life inside the Chronosphere isn't supposed Gracie Welles has resigned herself to be like thisbeing lonely. If you're like Raffi and his friends you're spending As a secret illegitimate daughter of a year inside, which only takes man with a minute of "real life" family, enjoying she is used to not being a hedonistic, summery lifestyle with time on your hands and little cares. Except itpriority in people's getting more than summerylives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, it's a hothouse; the food her simple existence is running out; the exits are locked; and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken and feel the end of their happinesschanged for good. But thenNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, if you're like Raffi and his friends, you are actually unknowingly there for her life now has a much more sinister reason, and someone's "project" is about to get much less Utopianboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907184562</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterT L Huchu|title=The Scorpio RacesLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=At Ropa Moyo is a young age Sean Kendrick watches his father die violently in the Scorpio Races – ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a race held every year on bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the beaches dead of the island where riders compete Edinburgh for a huge cash prize by riding the dangerous their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there'capaill uisce'', s an evil stalking the water horses. Years later Sean is a four-time winner ruined streets of the Scorpio Races with a prized mare – Corr – and plans to win again. MeanwhileEdinburgh, Puck (Kate) Connolly has been orphaned by targeting the city''capaill uisce'' and struggles for every meal; their main source of income is her brother Gabes children. Soon, but when he announces that he Ropa is leaving pulled into the island Puck realises that she has to fight search for a missing boy at the survival request of her familyhis dead mother. Seeing no other option she enters her island pony into the races. The stakes are high as Sean She will end up discovering an occult library and Puck compete against each other for realise that the highest prize world of them all – freedommagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407129856</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maxine LinnellKristen O'Neal|title=Closer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This is one of those concise Lycanthropy and powerful little books where it's best for the reader to come to it with as little knowledge of the plot as possible, so I'll feature the mood - and Mel has a lot of those. Beyond her yet-to-actually-start relationship with Raj, and her best friend Chloe, she has her family - fractious animosity with her older sister, a younger brother who only plays computer games, and little freedom it seems from her mother. At least her step-dad's a funky bloke though - although one mum finds fault with easily enough. It's hardly comfy domesticity, and is even worse when interrupted by something very disturbing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907869263</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joss Stirling|title=Stealing PhoenixOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Phoenix is a thiefHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. Shejoins 's 'Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a very good onebunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, thanks while also providing an escape to having some rather useful psychic abilitiesjust joke and mess around. Working When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for the cruel a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and dominating Seer, shedrive to Brigid's forced house to follow his instructions to bring him whatever he wants – just as the rest of their community of savants arecheck up on her. Then But what shedoesn's told t expect to get something from Yves Benedict, find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the first time in her life, fails to take what girl she wants. Yves has powers of his own… and he may be been talking to online for the one who's stolen her heartpast few months. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Damian Dibben|title=The History Keepers: The Storm Begins|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Imagine if you lost your parents. Not just in place, but in time'' Scary, huh? But this is exactly what happens to Jake Djones (silent D, dears). Believing his parents have gone to a bathroom convention, he's carrying on as usual until they get home. But then he's abducted Move on his way home from school and taken to a secret base hidden beneath the Monument in London. Jake discovers that his parents have kept a secret from him: they are secret agents working for the History Keepers, working to prevent evil villains from tampering with history itself, and they have gone missing in sixteenth century Venice. B|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857530534</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]