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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Jessica Warman|title=Between|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Elisabeth Valcher, a spoilt, vain but popular girl, wakes up after a party to celebrate her 18th birthday on her father's yacht to discover herself dead, lying face down in the water. Luckily for Liz, who has trouble remembering exactly who she is and what happened in the run up to her death, she is soon joined by another ghost, Alex, one of the unpopular boys from her high school, who was killed a year earlier in a hit and run accident. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405260483 </amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeMax Boucherat|title=Fly by NightThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The Fractured Realm is a country existing We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in , babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an uneasy peaceavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Each province is ruled by the craftsmen guilds which hold ultimate control What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, an ineffective Dukeshe has one main intention, and citizens who honour a multitude of demithat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-godsbuilding, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori'The Beloveds world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, who haunt them their entire lifeand then she finds something even more spooky. This is For the world Mosca Mye inhabits. An orphan, Mosca is fostered by her aunt server she and uncle, who think little of her bestie and use her as a bookkeeper due nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her uniquephone screen, and quite illegalher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, ability to read and write. She runs away the night she burns their mill where is a girl to the ground. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330418262</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=50 CentRachel Greenlaw|title=PlaygroundCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary=When Butterball fills a sock with batteries and attacks geeky Maurice in ''I can hear the song of the playground, his school sends him off to twice-weekly meetings with a therapist. Butterball is not impressedsea. It's a waste The call of his time and he will never, never, tell anyone the truth about that day. Besidesdeep, any problem could be easily fixed if his mother just gave up on this idea of nursing school and moved them out of the stifling suburbs and back to New York Cityanswering beat in my heart.''
Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But Liz has other ideaswhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father.Desperate to save him from death, 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 family secret that lies buried deep in the sea.With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of 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>1780873301</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica MartinezHarry Allen|title=VirtuosityChildren of the Sun|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Carmen Bianchi plays the violin; Ra Eun Seo lives in fact a North Korean town and she might well be the best young violinist in the world. She plays is a Stradivarius worth $1talented singer.2 millionLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, provided by the grandparents who otherwise have little to do with so Seo and her friends Nari and she's managed by her motherMin go foraging every evening, whose word is law. Schooling is provided by a home tutor – looking for tree bark and she doesn't even get edible grasses to knock on doors because of supplement the possible damage to her hands: she kicks instead. So far she hasn't really minded that she doesn't have a life outside meagre rations of violin, but then she meets Jeremy King – a fellow competitor in the world's most prestigious violin competition – rice and she has to think about her prioritieskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857072846</amazonuk>1805140493
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|rating=5
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|summary=Ooh, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after the other! More of It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that in the further reading at the end. you''Mr Creecher'' isn't re having to navigate a retellinglife-changing disability too, a sequel or a prequel; itbut that's an interlude, set midway through what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the events middle of Mary Shelley's novela dance performance that was going to change her life. It's Regency London But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Industrial Revolution is beginning to crank uppity stares, and Billy is an orphan and pickpocket trying desperate to survive in the grimy streets. About get back to rob what he thinks is a corpse, Billy is set upon by some acquaintances to whom he owes money. Before Fletcherlife that's knife prises out Billyas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's eye, the corpse - not a corpse at allnew (cute!) boy in school, in case you didn't guess - comes her music A Level performance piece to try to his rescue. This hugesort out, shambling man is not a pretty sight. But he has a job for Billy. Mr Creecher has come and just the day to London on day traumas of all the trail of Victor Frankenstein, with whom he has a bargain. And he needs Billy challenges her body continues to follow Frankenstein throw at her to make sure he doesnnavigate. So even though she can't renege on the deal.dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettSimon Fox|title=Verity FibbsDeadlock|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Verity Fibbs is the daughter of fashion designer Saffron Fibbs. Saffron's brought her up on her own and made a pretty good job of it without a lot of input from Verity's 'bio-dad'. Verity's used to the celebrity lifestyle although Saffron does her best to keep her feet firmly on the ground, with or without coffee suede boots. The latest buzz is that Saff and Eden Greenfield are dating – it's even trending on Twitter – and Verity is getting texts asking if the fashion magnate is going to be her new Dad. When Vee wants to retreat from all this she plays an online game called Demon Streets, although she's ''obviously'' not addicted. Before long she's going to find that she's playing the game against a real, live villain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755379470</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lois Lowry|title=Number the Stars|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Copenhagen, 1943, and everyone Late one night Graham Blake is late back from schoolgirls like Annemarie up are suffering from shortageshis shift on the force, fear and loathing - all caused by Nazi occupiers. But it's always been an open countrythen suddenly rings Archie, has Denmarkdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and no less than the King takes a daily horse ride, protected in plain view by every single loyal subject. But when, join him on the Jewish New Year, word gets out that Jews will have to be hidden more discretely, things kick into actionrun. Annemarie and her family take her best friend, EllenThey get together, but barely begin to smell the country for safety. But it seems death will even follow them there...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|title=This Dark Endeavour|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are twins, born just two minutes apart. They look alike but their personalities couldn't be more different. Konrad whiff of Southern trains when the father is calmarrested, assured and capable. People like him. Victor is intense and arrogant with a burning ambition. He rubs people up leaving Archie on the wrong way more often than not. The twins live with their beautifullate express to Brighton, sometimes waywardtoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, cousin Elizabeth and the three are educated alongside great friend and wordsmith Henry. It's bearer of a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau in the Genevese republicwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560123</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aimee CarterLex Croucher|title=The Goddess TestGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Kate's mother makes Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a dying wish most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to return to her home towntheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Edenyou see, Kate drops whatis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's left of her life and goes with only female knight) - something that Art discovers from herprivate diaries. She doesn't want to make friends – she's here for her mum and nothing else – so she's not very interested And then when popular girl AvaGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with her jock boyfriend Dylaneach 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, invites her or are they destined to live a party.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848450400</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beth WebbNick Brooks|title=Wave Hunter: The Book of WaterPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=As When the Iron Age comes to a closeprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Romans are sweeping across three boys find themselves called into the British countryside destroying anyone who stands in their waypolice station as suspects. The druids are Each, seemingly, has a particular target - the Romans understand all too well that grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the society they seek to subdue revolves around its religion and its sacred placestime of his murder. Tegen is determined to stop them. As the Star Dancer But who killed him, the young druid girl's destiny is to avert a great eviland why, and she believes that evil is if any of the Roman invasion.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956867308</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie Fletcher1919635017|title=Far RockawayA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor have Solomon Klyne isn't a long-held ambition: to one day take the subway and ride it right the way to the very end, to Far Rockaway. Just for the sheer hell of it. But when the day comesbad lad, Cat's brother doesn't show. This so why is more than he running around London committing a disappointment series of robberies? And how did he learn to Cat - itcrack safes? You's ll have to wait to get an utter betrayal. She needed Joe on answer to the trip second question because she has a guilty secretI avoid spoilers. She hasn't read the latest book Victor gave her - he sends her a classic adventure every year on her birthday - and she knows heBut I'll want to discuss as it they ride answer the trainfirst one: for his grandmother.. Without Joe, Cat has no chance of concealing her sin. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099732X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=VelvetDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=The opening chapter of this book Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a roller-coaster of a read. Velvet standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has fainted while doing back-breakingbeen restructured, gruelling work in a laundryso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and risks being sent two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to the workhouseprimary school days together. Quick thinking saves her job As they're all fired up, and straining at the reader relaxes, leash only to learn a shocking single-sex school can form, the talk in class and shameful secret about the heroine we have already begun out often turns to likesex. Her fortunes soon change Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in true Dickensian stylethat regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, but her troubles are not over: this same a secret will come back to haunt her (please excuse one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the pun) and put her ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the power of one of relationship and the other characterssex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599211</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1800901232|title=Dust & DecayStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Dust & Decay'' picks up Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the action six months after ''Rot & Ruin's'' climactic battle rural village where she lived with Charlie Pinkher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-eye dressed man and woman came to the Motor City Hammervillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Benny Some money changed hands and his friends have spent Hanh was on the time honing their selfmini-defence and zombie-killing skills through some very intense training by Tombus to Hanoi. And now Only, Hanh and the time is finally right. They're about other girls were not going to head back out into the Ruin work in search of the jet plane a shop, they saw were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the sky after ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the battle at Gameland. There might, just might, be a real civilisation surviving somewhere on legs? The ones with the continentartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070975</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeyn RobertsPatrice Lawrence|title=D4rk InsideNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=''4Brave. Earthquakes shudder across Charlene, the world.''<br>'heroine'3. SOMETHING of this piece is releasedextremely 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 son Blake'<br>s old room while he's 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 Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she'2s 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 shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then. Trust no one - not even yourself.''<br>''1. The killing game has begunwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...'' |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230756182</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley HowarthAnn Sei Lin|title=MapheadRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=MapHead and his father Ran are of Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Subtle World. Ran can travel through timeMidori, make things disappear and erase human memories. MapHead can flash a massive dining hall floating in the map sky where soldiers of any place across his face the Empire come to drink and bald scalpmake merry between their conquests. MapHead However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a halfling and now he is almost 12Crafter like him, Ran has brought someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him , to meet his human motherleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. As they need to pass for humansWell, theysoon Kurara won've taken new names - Boothe and Powerst have any say in the matter, from because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a random movie - practised their Englishshikigami, and enrolled MapHead at she is forced to flee out into the same school as his half-brotherworld. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|title=The Alien in She joins Himura aboard the Garage and Other Stories |rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Would aliens like custard creams? Can fake tan hide Orihime, a big lie? Are TV remotes sinister objects? Do secrets make you popular? Rob Keeley explores all these questions sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and more in a super collection whole world of slightly spooky, blackly comic short stories. They're beautifully observed and you can see that Rob knows children well. He has the emotional landscape exactly right and is equally accurate when describing - and sometimes gently mocking - peer relationships. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848765797</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan Cooper, Joseph Delaney, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Matt Haig, Robin Jarvis, Derek Landy, Sam Llewellyn, Mal Peet, Philip Reeve and Eleanor UpdaleMarcus Sedgwick|title=HauntedWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I've always enjoyed Meet Fitz, a good ghost story – whether young Scottish lad full of frustration at a sleepover 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 foot in it when I was he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a teenagerdesultory school band, or even now reading horror stories in bed in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the middle of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the nightearth. As soon as I saw Is this book I knew I wanted to read it, and it did not disappoint; a group connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of excellent authors from all genres have come together and the result world is already a collection done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of brilliant stories ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not to be missed by any ghost hunters out therewhen Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393214</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna SheehanTori Bovalino|title=A Long, Long SleepThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This is a book set Working all summer in the future, with hover-cars and eye-scans and travel to other planets. But make no mistake – thather boarding school's not what this book library is about. Sixteen-year-old Rose has been asleep the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for far longer than over a hundred books that she intended; in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the meantime man who requested the world has almost come to an end in a terrible plaguebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her stasis tube has been abandoned in find and deliver such a basement. If Brendan had not come exploringlarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she might can think of. They're never have been found at allmeant to reach him, of course. But how Her plan is that possible? How could the daughter and heiress of the most powerful couple in the galaxy have been forgotten? This book is about to get her awakeninganger out like this, and the slowthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, painful unfurling of the real facts of if someone hadn't delivered them for her early life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575104724</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M GrantPhilip Reeve|title=Hartslove|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=1861, Epsom. A young lad, Garth, is at the start of the biggest horse race in the land, astride The One, an ungainly but lightning-fast three year old who had never been ridden until just months ago. At the side of the track, Garth's five sisters, Utterly Dark and friends, are willing him on. How can this young jockey win the race, upon which the fate Face of their castle home and so much more depends? And what are we to learn after the prologue that sets all this out, that would make us want him to NOT win?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow: The Hidden|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abbey loves Caspian more than ever, and with her death apparentlyapproaching, she knows they will be able to be together forever soon. But why is he growing so distant? Is there something the revenants who are protecting her aren't telling her? And can anyone keep her safe from the rogue revenant Vincent, who attacked her previously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385001</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Wallace|title=Emerald|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emerald and her brother Richard never understood why her father decided that after his death they would go and live with their uncle and aunt at Hawkstone Hall, even though their mother was still alive. Still, she had always been a cold woman, more interested in profit than people, and they soon forgot her. Until, that is, the day she wrote to Uncle Charles saying that Emerald was to marry Lord Suckley, and that he was already on his way to the Hall to inspect his new bride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416917160</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laini Taylor|title=Daughter of Smoke and Bone|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Karou's friends think she's normal. They assume, however often she tells them that her bright blue hair grows that colour, that she dyes it. They think her frequent errands are just normal everyday things to earn money. They believe the snake-bodied being she draws in her sketchbook is a figment of her imagination. They're wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=The Drake Chronicles: Bleeding Hearts|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Things in Violet Hill are not looking good at the moment. The small town is practically over run by the vicious Hel-Blar vampires: not the civilised, friendly (and hot) variety that Lucy is used too – these are feral, and attack indiscriminately, humans and vampires alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Beck|title=The Hidden KingdomDeep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Prince Osamu is In a pamperedword, spoiled young orphan who has never known friends his own age or been told what to dorich. He spends his life surrounded by beauty and There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a world where most peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people do not even dare on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to raise keep watch for magical islands and their eyes to his facemonster approaching from even further west, collecting the exquisite pots made by Master Masumi and writing poemswhere no ship dare sail. His tutors have told him about The current Darks are the demons of Hades which tryWatcher, every few centuriesAndrewe, who has to break through keep notes of activity from the barrier and take over this worldHidden Lands, and that it is his responsibility brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to repel themworry about such local yokel superstitions, but he dismisses all this as old wivesand Andrewe' taless foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. And then one night But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the forces world of the Emissary attack the palaceprotecting their island, and every certainty he had is gone in a flashlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755633</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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 father, Arnold Ruben, a widowed, multi-millionaire, is going to give his daughter his life long work, an invention that could alter time forever, a memory machine. It can capture the good, erase the bad, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and keep you young for all time. But things aren't going to plan; apart from Amaryllis not wanting it, other people have taken an interest, and not in a good way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Kathleen RyanTom de Freston|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 space, it seemed almost written in the stars. Destiny. Waverley 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) Julia and the ship's crew is like one big happy family. But sometimes, she wonders if her life would be different, if her choices would be different, if the weight of continuing the human race didn't rest on her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535587</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Miles|title=Fury (Fury Trilogy)Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Both Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the central characters family home in Fury have dark secrets. Em is in love with her best friend's boyfriend. So when Gabby goes away on SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a winter holiday and Zach starts flirting with hersummer, Em just can't resist even though she knows she's doing something unforgivable. Chase lives on a trailer park but runs with a rich crowd. He'll do just about anything to maintain his place in the group - and there's something he has done to far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that end kind of which he's deeply ashamedScottish island. But their small American town has come Dad is going to be automating the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come to Ascension and Em and Chase are about lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to discover that feeling guilty isn't hunt the only price they'll elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be paying for their misdeeds..homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071998</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona FodenJonathan Stroud|title=Life, Death The Outlaws Scarlett and Gold Leather TrousersBrowne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite having not seen her uncle JupeScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the famous former rock starSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, for several years after he fell out with her mother, Clover is still devastated by his deathrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. So when her parents split up the day after But then she turns thirteenmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and her father runs off with a nude modeldarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she doesn't think things can get any worse. Can she cope with they plan to flee to the fallout mythical Free Isles of the splitLondon Lagoon. Together, look after kid sister Lilythey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and get all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to know cute fellow guitarist Riley better? Or reach the Free Isles, but will her rival Sophie Skelling's teeny crochet bikini tempt him away from herthey be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407120867</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique TruongMercedes Helnwein|title=Bitter in the MouthSlingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Claire's grandmother Gracie Welles has just diedresigned herself to being lonely. And her parents have just split up. So it's not really As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a good time. Mum "real" family, she is used to not being even more of a pain than usual - endlessly cross, endlessly cleaning, endlessly combing Granpriority in people's belongings for anything of value - and Claire wants nothing more than to go home to her own house and her own thingslives. But then when she finds defends a letter addressed to random boy in her class with her from slingshot, her grandmothersimple existence is changed for good. It contains a sheaf of manuscripts and a ring inscribed with a hieroglyph. Once on Claire's fingerNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the ring gets stuck - much to for her mother's annoyance. It could be worth life now has a pretty penny to the rather sinister Egyptologist who's interested boy in buying some of Gran's possessionsit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848775318</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffT L Huchu|title=There Is No DogThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Imagine God Ropa Moyo is actually a teenage immortalghostalker, much in using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the vein dead of teenage humansEdinburgh for their living relatives. He rushes his coursework (creation) and while there are flashes Ever since she dropped out of brilliance school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and potential in ither aging grandmother. However, there's no real thought or organisation and so an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the whole thing doesncity't really work properlys children. But God Soon, Ropa is too busy having pulled into the search for a lie-in or lusting after buxom young women to be ironing out these sorts missing boy at the request of boring creases in his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the making world of a successful planetmagic 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>0141327162</amazonuk>1529039452
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