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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoMax Boucherat|title=Itch RocksThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Itchingham Lofte, we are told, is We meet Lori on the most protected boy in the world. While I hadnfirst evening she't read s got the [[Itch by Simon Mayo|first book]] about him, we are snappily and easily informed that he has previously been involved in an adventure regarding a very rare chemical – element 126 house to herself and the various people that would control it. While it's obvious no neighbour to all those pop in his Cornish village and at his school that something major happened, due to him disappearing for a couple of months of specialised medical carebabysitter poorly, and returning with an MI5 armed guard constantly mother at watch over him and his familywork, only those few people (mumjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, dadon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, sister, tomboy cousin, and his various guards) have any idea of what she has happened. Ohone main intention, and of course a couple of enemies resilient enough that is to turn up for the sequel…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531328</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Higgins|title=The Day I Met Suzie|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone takes an instant dislike log on to Suzie GreyVoxminer, the new girl at college. There's just something about her world-building, critter-collecting game that makes peopleis a hit in Lori's skin crawlworld. Everyone, But first Lori has a tiny inkling that is, save Indie. Indie is a soft touch. She just canthis stormy night doesn't help find herselfentirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. She's a sucker for a sob story For the server she and her bestie and most nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her hard-earned wages from phone screen, and her part-time job at safe place in the salon go on bailing out her boyfriend's many disasters. Indie feels sorry for Suziegame has been doctored – well, this mousy, hard-done-by where is a girl, and she takes her under her wing.to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997028</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave CousinsRachel Greenlaw|title=Waiting For GonzoCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary=Oz is newly arrived in ''I can hear the sleepy village song of Slowleighthe sea. At first, he wishes life there was more excitingThe call of the deep, but drawing a moustache on a photo of schoolmate Isobel Skinner - nicknamed Psycho - might bring him the wrong sort of excitementanswering beat in my heart. Someone else who's wishing her life was rather less exciting is his sister Meg, who's hiding a secret which Oz knows but her parents don't - can he survive Psycho and help his sister? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745468</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Tammara Webber|title=Between The Lines|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emma is Rosevear, a seventeen year old actressremote and partially forgotten island, thrust survives on luring ships into the spotlight in a modern adaptation rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Pride the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Prejudice with any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a co-star who half of Americatrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's teens are drooling overfather. Reid is Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a Hollywood heartthrob bargain with an ego the size of Los Angeles and a reputation wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a playerfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. When With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the two meet, sparks fly - but can Emma trust watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the superstarsmuggler's territory, or would she Mira must be better off going for determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the less-exciting but more sensible Graham?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141347465</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksHarry Allen|title=The Bunker DiaryChildren of the Sun
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|summary=Linus is taken from the streets simply for having done Ra Eun Seo lives in a good turn. While patrolling his usual haunt at Liverpool Street station - there are often good pickings for the homeless there - he offers to help a blind man loading a van. He wakes up feeling dreadful with vague memories of a pad soaked in anaesthetic held over his mouth North Korean town and nose. It appears he's in some kind of underground bunker. A lift she is the only way in and out. At first, Linus thinks he has been kidnapped for ransom - this particular street kid has a rich and famous fathertalented singer. But then the lift opens Life is hard and a young girl appears, having been similarly drugged. Over the next few days, four more people arrive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326123</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siobhan Curham|title=Finding Cherokee Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Claire Weeks food is timid, lonely, and characterised difficult to come by a pronounced limp. On the other hand, Cherokee Brown is confident, cool, so Seo and unafraid to stand up for herself. On her fifteenth birthday, Claire discovers that her birth name was actually Cherokee Brown, friends Nari and that her birth fatherMin go foraging every evening, who had supposedly abandoned her looking for America, has been living just a tube journey away from her for over a decade. Meeting her father, Claire discovers a whole new side tree bark and edible grasses to her life that she couldn't have imagined. Spurred on by this rush supplement the meagre rations of self-discovery Claire decides to embrace Cherokee rice and all that she stands for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405260386</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kim Harrington|title=Perception|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After solving a murder over the summer, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself the centre of attention kimchi at school. Mostly it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone is sending her increasingly creepy messages, and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followedhome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreview|author=Ilsa J Bick|title=Drowning Instinct|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jenna is 16 years old, and fresh out of a psychiatric hospital when her parents enrol her at a new high school in the wilds of Wisconsin. Being the new kid at school adds to an already iffy situation (parents who ignore her angst in favour of their own; a brother who enlisted to get away from them) and she’s not really looking forward to term starting. But then she meets someone, someone special who is kind to her, pays attention to her, looks out for her. Someone she can trust. Mr Anderson is a Chemistry teacher and athletics coach, but he’s more than that to Jenna. Against the rules, and against the odds, he becomes her ally, and so much more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870434</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HodkinAlexia Casale|title=The Evolution of Mara DyerSing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=Mara knows It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that the things you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that have been haunting her for 's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the past year are not necessarily all in her head. The problem is persuading everyone else middle of a dance performance thatwas going to change her life. When Mara's parents don't believe that But she saw Jude - Jude who died in comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the building collapse pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that started all of Mara's problems - alive and well, Mara realises that anything she says is just going to convince them as normal as shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's more crazy. She tries a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to pretend that she knows she has problems sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though shecan's trying to get bettert dance anymore, but that's made difficult when Jude keeps trying might she be able to scare sing her - leaving dead cats in the garden, messages written in blood.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857073656</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SmaleSimon Fox|title=Geek GirlDeadlock
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Harriet Manners Late one night Graham Blake is cleverlate back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, works harddemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and retains lots of informationjoin him on the run. She knows more facts than just about anyone else at her school. She just doesn't know why They get together, but barely anyone seems begin to like her...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Saci Lloyd|title=Quantum Drop|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We're in London. The London that's left after smell the next financial crash devastates life for most people right across whiff of Southern trains when the world. Money father is hard to come byarrested, and most people survive leaving Archie on black market creditsthe late express to Brighton, supplied by the Betta. Everyone either works for the Betta or borrows toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from them. And when Anthony's girlfriend gets on his colleagues, and the wrong side bearer of the Betta and is taken out in a gang hit, he must venture into the virtual world whole heap of the Drop if he is to find out who is responsible and how to get justice. But the Drop is a dangerous, dangerous place..questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144490082X</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Han and Siobhan VivianLex Croucher|title=Burn for BurnGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary=Kat wants revenge on her ex-best friendWho 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, who now taunts her whenever Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they cross paths. Lillia wants revenge on were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the boy whokingdom's started treating only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her little sister as more than private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a friend. Mary wants revenge on the boy whose cruelty led to her leaving Jar Island for yearsthey find themselves becoming reluctant allies, only returning now. Individuallycreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they may not be able to do much - but are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as a triotheir impending wedding draws ever closer, will they're sure find a way in which they can wreak vengeance on those people who've wronged them. Just how far will these three 17-year-olds goboth truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1442440759</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|author=CJ Flood|title=Infinite Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=As summer begins, Iris is finding that life can be quite tricky. Her mother has packed up and left to go travelling. Her father isn't coping too well with having been abandoned by his wife. Her brother, Sam, is in trouble at school and in danger of going off the rails generally. And Iris herself is feeling overtaken by her best friend, who is obsessed with boys and fashion while Iris prefers to run wild in the woods as she's always done. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707802X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerNick Brooks|title=Etiquette and EspionagePromise Boys
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|summary=Fourteen-year-old Sophronia When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is being sent to murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a finishing schoolgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. She's none too happy about it But who killed him, and why, until she gets there and finds there's rather more to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies if any of Quality than meets the eye. Because while her mother thought she was there to boys are innocent, will they be finished, she's also going able to learn just '''how''' to finish - 'anything or anyone who needs finishing.'clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411585</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Erin Lange1919635017|title=ButterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
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|summary=Bullied by his classmates at schoolSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, harassed by his parents at home, and weighing over 400 lbs, Butter really has very little to keep living for. so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And so how did he decides learn to stop. Living, that iscrack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But he’s not going to throw I'll answer the first one: for his not unsubstantial frame under a bus, or jump off a cliffgrandmother.. He’s going to do what he does best – eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571294405</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Barrowman Patrick Ness and Carole E BarrowmanTea Bendix|title=Bone QuillDifferent for Boys
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|genre=Teens|summary=Twins Matt Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Em Calder have both their mother's Animare gift of bringing paintings is surprised to life and their father's telepathic Guardian gifts. This makes them an unknown to the Guardian Council - some find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of whom would have four with both his best buddy from the twins boundfootball team, their powers trapped forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780550316</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Naima B Robert|title=Black Sheep|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-and two other old Dwayne is a badman muckers a wannabe rapper who hangs around with other gang members and doesn't see any future in educationfact they all go back to primary school days together. Misha As they're all fired up, highstraining at the leash only a single-flying university-bound daughter of a local councillorsex school can form, should have nothing the talk in common with him, but when they meet there's an undeniable attraction, class and they start out often turns to date in secretsex. Misha makes Dwayne want to be a better person – but with his old life tempting him back at every turn Which is confusing for Ant, can as he make a break from itdoesn't know what his score is, or will he be drawn back where his achievements in?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847802354</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meagan Spooner|title=Skylark|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Larkthat regard lie. He's city is run on magic - they've found had a way to use it like electricitycasual relationship, it powers everything. This magic comes from teenagers. When a child comes of age they find their magical powersecret one, which is then harvested. Once this is donefor several months now, your magical abilities have gone. Howeverand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', there are stories about people who are Renewablebut whether that's set in stone, there magic just keeps coming back. Someone like this would he can't be invaluable to society, and unfortunately for Lark, this is exactly what she issure. Determined not to be a slave, and having been tortured by the government for her powers, she escapes (with the help And that's mostly because of another Renewable who is a prisoner of he's been having the city) relationship and leaves. She begins her journey to find others like her - Renewables - her only clue to 'follow the birds'sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552565563</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma Malley1800901232|title=The DisappearancesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
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|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''The Disappearances'' opens Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a year after Evie and Raffy escaped from the Cityfashion designer. They have begun a new life Life in the Settlement rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- Raffy farms dressed man and Evie sews and this kibbutz-like living is like balm woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in comparison Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the ultramini-controlledbus to Hanoi. Only, denunciation environment they left behind. But Raffy's jealousy won't leave him Hanh and it's threatening the other girls were not going to ruin the couple's preciouswork in a shop, new-found peacethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Back in You know those jeans you really wanted: the City, Lucas is finding that switching off ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the System hasn't been legs? The ones with the panacea he thought it would be. His people are lost without the rigid controls they had lived under for artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so long. And to make matters worse, the Citysoft when you touched them? It's young people are disappearingquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00A4YZWJ6</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura JarrattPatrice Lawrence|title=By Any Other NameNeedle|rating=53
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|summary=Everyone knows that Holly 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 new girl at schoolpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and that has taken up residence in her family are newly arrived son Blake'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 village. None creation of one such item is part of them realise just how much the plot here, as Charlene is new about Hollya wonder knitter, though - even and is making something full of love for her nameyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Last year, she was a witness to We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a crimestore detective, and she and then force people to give her family have gone into witness protectiontwo days off school, forcing them to start life afreshwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Can they find happiness in a strange placewell, or will the nightmares that haunt Holly never leave her? Worsewhat exactly happens is not for me to say, are they safe, or could the nightmares come true?only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256737</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia RayburnAnn Sei Lin|title=Abyss: A Siren BookRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Vanessa is getting weaker Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and weakermake merry between their conquests. However, unwilling when a man named Himura arrives to use tell her powers of seduction that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to kill someone as form paper into whatever she must do if desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she doesnhas known. Well, soon Kurara won't want have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to die herselfflee out into the world. When there are more deathsShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, and Vanessa starts receiving anonymous messages from someone who seems a sky-ship whose express purpose is to know her secrethunt down shikigami, she must work out whether she's ready to face her destiny.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571273963</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine LongshoreMarcus Sedgwick|title=GiltWrath|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Kitty Tylney has always followed her best friend Cat. Cat is larger than life, full of ridiculous plans and plots, the self-titled Queen of Misrule. Cat wants nothing more than to live life at the Court of Henry VIII - wearing amazing clothes and enjoying the attention of handsome lords - and Kitty is happy to play along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116948</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Oisin McGann|title=Rat Runners|rating=45
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|summary=Nimmo lives in Meet Fitz, a London young Scottish lad full of the futurefrustration at himself. It's not a great place 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 he talks to behis best friend, Cassie. Under constant surveillance by the WatchWorld network and its Robocop-style Safe-GuardsThey were half of a desultory school band, even but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the slightest transgression brings you into very unwelcome attention enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the authoritiesearth. Life is particularly difficult for Nimmo. His Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents are in prison and he must live below saying the radar end of WatchWorld, amid the cityworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's underground criminals. As you dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can imagineFitz find out the truth? Well, Nimmo not when Cassie has skillsgone missing he can't. And this is why gang boss Move-Easy calls him in when a case containing valuable black market credit cards goes missing. Nimmo, together with sibling grifters Manikin and FX, and teen geek Scope, are to find the case or face Move-Easy's chief goons.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552566209</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerTori Bovalino|title=Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, Book 2)The Devil Makes Three
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|summary=The events of [[The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder by Marissa Meyer|Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last time]] are but media chatter as we start book two, with thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a French farmgirl being worried. Her grandmother has been missing request for over a fortnight, and hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the police think therebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's no case headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for them to solve. Our girl is even more worried when making her dadfind and deliver such a large request, long missing presumed drunkTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, turns up to ransack the farm looking for something that must have been left behind – something that her kidnappers need. Things might look up scribbled with the arrival ugliest insults she can think of a good-looking man. They're never meant to reach him, the epitome of calm power and strong sensescourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, but while he seems concerned and claims his innocence, dad points him out as one of the gang behind the crimethen take them all off before delivering them. How much can he No harm done… Or it would be trusted? Either way, things must be investigated – and so our heroine, Scarlet, complete with if someone hadn't delivered them for her favourite riding-red hoodie, must go off into the unknown –alongside the man his fellow underground fighters call Wolf….|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340231</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kai MeyerPhilip Reeve|title=Arcadia BurnsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=If you haven't read the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this seriesstory set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There will be spoilersare troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that 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 Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah NaughtonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Hanged Man RisesJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The Wigman is at largeJulia, murdering children. You'd think this would be the first concern for Titus Adamsour pre-teen heroine, as he's only fifteen, his has been packed off with her parents are incorrigible drunks and he has their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a young sister, Hannahsummer, to look out for. But in London in the late 1800sfar NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, there are more pressing concerns than serial killers on the loosethat kind of Scottish island. Like how Dad is going to pay be automating the rent. Like where the next meal lantern, which is coming from. Like staying out of his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the workhouseelusive Greenland shark. Like keeping your sister on the right side of the law. Thankfully And Julia, well, Titus has a friend in Inspector Pilsbury. He doesn't arrest Hannah when she's caught with pickpockets. He feeds her will be homesick and keeps her safe at the station alone – until Titus comes to collect hershe suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707864X</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brandon SandersonJonathan Stroud|title=Alcatraz versus the Evil LibrariansThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=2.54|genre=Teens|summary=The celebration of Alcatraz's thirteenth birthday Scarlett McCain is quite a muted one – he gets a thirteen-year old parcel an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of sand in the post, claimed Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to be his inheritance from his birth parents, and he burns down wander the kitchen in his foster home – wildlands between the latest in a long line Seven Kingdoms of disasters that have followed him in his short accident-prone life. Expecting to just be farmed out to more foster parentsBritain, instead he is the subject of a battle between an armed man robbing banks and a strange old fellow claiming shooting other outlaws to be Alcatraz's grandfatherkeep herself alive. What's more the guy says Al's abilities in breaking things are But then she meets Albert Browne, a Talent dark boy with dark powers and a capital Tdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and the sands – that were stolen overnight – are a great threat they plan to flee to the world in mythical Free Isles of the hands of Librarians (with a capital L)London Lagoon. Against all his own instinctsTogether, our antithey must brave man-hero goes with eating wildlife, the latter man, finding his destiny in freeing cannibalistic Tainted and all the western world from horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the evil LibrariansFree Isles, and telling us about it later as an adult but will they be any more accepted there than they are in a most sardonic fashion.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006681</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenMercedes Helnwein|title=Smuggler's KissSlingshot|rating=4.53
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|summary=Fifteen-year-old Isabelle Gracie Welles has given up on liferesigned herself to being lonely. Walking into the seaAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is ready used to drown herself - until she changes her mind, too latenot being a priority in people's lives. But instead of drowning, when she's pulled from the waves by smugglers. While the crew aren't all happy that defends a couple of their men have jeopardized them by rescuing random boy in her class with herslingshot, she quickly becomes useful to them and starts to get a thrill from helping to evade the Preventivesher simple existence is changed for good. Can No longer can she be happy spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her new life, or will her dark secret catch up with her?now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192792806</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaT L Huchu|title=HysteriaThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Shunned by many Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her former friends after killing younger sister and her boyfriend in self-defenceaging grandmother. However, and unable to remember there's an evil stalking the details ruined streets of his deathEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Mallory feels haunted by Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his presencedead mother. When her parents send her She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to boarding school, will this be a chance for a fresh startevil, or will it claim her past catch up with her even theretoo?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408834847</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane CaseyKristen O'Neal|title=How to FallLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
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|summary=Freya dies after a fall from a cliff. But was it an accidentHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, suicide, or - horror of horrors - murder? Jess Tennant can't bear a mystery and so she sets out Priya has to come to solve terms with the mystery of fact that she may be in constant pain for the death rest of the cousin she never mether life. She meets with nothing but obstruction and hostility, but perhaps itjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s little wonder. Not only is Jess a stranger in the parochial town of Port Sentinel, an online support group where she is also the spitting image talks to a bunch of Freyaother teens living with chronic illnesses. She unsettles everyone for these reasons butThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, even despite them, Jess is while also providing an unsettling girl. She's blunt, direct, escape to just joke and she never takes no for an answermess around.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brodi Ashton|title=Everbound|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This is the second in the [[Everneath by Brodi Ashton|Everneath]] trilogy and picks up two months from where the first book finished. Two months ago the Tunnels When Brigid—one of the Everneath came to claim Nikki Beckett, to take her back closest friends—doesn't respond to the Underworld where she would be used as chat for a human battery foreverwhile, Priya becomes concerned. That night, NikkiShe decides to steal her parents's boyfriend, Jack, made the ultimate sacrifice car and took Nikkidrive to Brigid's place in the Everneathhouse to check up on her. Now, Nikki But what she doesn't expect to find there is haunted by Jack, who appears a werewolf in her dreams every night, lost, confused the basement – and slowly having the life sucked out of him. On the Surface everybody is blaming Nikki for Jack's disappearance; Jack's Mum has hired a Private Detective who's following Nikki around, convinced that werewolf to be the girl she will take him has been talking to Jackonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857074636</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Terence Blacker|title=The Twyning|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary= Efren is a nobody in the kingdom of rats till he witnesses the kidnapping of the king. His future changes in a moment as he's sent up Move on to the human world to rescue him. Talking of humans, 11 year old Peter is abandoned by his parents and left to scrape a living from London's streets. His affinity with animals gives him the name 'Dogboy' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Ross-Gibbon. The Doctor's ambition is to encourage humanity to annihilate the rats by dragging them into a war. Efren and Dogboy, both insignificant in their own worlds, must make both man and rodent see sense; easier said than done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bobbie Pyron|title=The Dogs of Winter|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Little Mishka finds his cosy world turned upside down after the death of his beloved Babushka Ina. Unable to cope, his desperate mother finds solace in the arms of an abusive, alcoholic boyfriend and things go from bad to worse. When his mother mysteriously disappears, five year old Mishka flees to the heart of the city, where he joins up with a gang of street children, begging and stealing to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395217</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]