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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessMax Boucherat|title=The Hit|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Manchester. About thirty years from now. Hardly anyone has a job that pays enough to live on. Last Life is mean and limited for most people. And then a rock star gives his final concert. Jimmy Earles dies on stage after taking Death, a new drug that gives the ultimate high at an equally high price - it kills you after seven days and there is no antidote.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843533X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lindsey Leavitt|title=Going Vintage|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After finding out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her with a girl he met online, Mallory decides that the best way to make her life less complicated is to get rid of the boy, and of the new technology that's the cause of her woes. Finding a list her grandmother wrote as a teen in the Sixties, she decides to go vintage, and live as her grandmother did. Will she find the answer to her modern-day problems in the past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140713485X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=S B Hayes|title=Don't Look BackLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ever since they were childrenWe 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 avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Sinead has been taunted by on her older brother Patricklonesome. Always their mother What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's favourite, he constantly plays games with world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on herown, trying to force and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to follow himenter shows signs of tampering. When he goes missingmalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, it seems to be his most sinister and her safe place in the game yet - as he leaves a trail of clues which lead to Benedict Househas been doctored – well, where is a strange place where time seems girl to stand still.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386816</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillRachel Greenlaw|title=Department 19: Battle LinesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=The wheels have been set in motion for Dracula to rise. Department 19 is in disarray, dealing with deaths, ''I can hear the disappearance song of their chief Henry Seward, and the dreadful knowledge that there could be yet more traitors in sea. The call of the ranks. Jamie Carpenter is trying to train rookies into a fighting force who can take on vampires more dangerous than any newly-turned ones that have ever been seen beforedeep, Matt Browning is desperately trying to find a cure for vampirism, and Larissa Kinley is in the USA trying to help answering beat in the fight against her own kindmy heart. With Zero Hour coming ever closer, can the department save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007354517</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Janine Southard|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen Novel)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In Rhiannon's worldRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, your entire future depends survives on your final school test resultsluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Everyone Mira, like her mother before her, is classified according one of the seven who swim out to personality type survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and entry to any career or university depends upon your personality typetreasure that lies within. ItBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's impossible to cheat the test... unless youleader and Mira're Rhiannons father. Rhiannon should really be Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a Perceiver. But all wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her life , she has wanted her own hivesets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. And With only nine days to achieve thisunearth what might save her father, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to ever have manipulated the test. Rhiannonheart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future is set: leadership training, followed by a choice of Devoted to serve her, followed by command of a prestigious space ship home and hivethe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryHarry Allen|title=FracturedChildren of the Sun

|summary=As Ra Eun Seo lives in a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain, Kyla was slated - her memories erased North Korean town and her personality "reset". But Kyla wasn't like the other Slateds - she retained tantalising memories of her previous lifeis a talented singer. ''Fractured'' picks up Kyla's story after she's lost Ben Life is hard and just as a mysterious man from her past comes back into her life. It seems that Kyla's memories represent more than just a failed slating. She has a role food is difficult to play in the fight against the Lorders. But it's not as easy as that. Is Kyla a victim? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can the end ever justify the means? The more Kyla learns about come by, so Seo and her historyfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the more such questions burn. And the more danger she finds herself in..meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiAlexia Casale|title=SiegeSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Leah Jackson is miserable and in detention. This is particularly infuriating because the detention means sheIt's likely hard enough to be late for her navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you''fame and fortune'' interview, one of the few chances kids at YOP schools have to make it into college and re having to get navigate a life worth having. But Leah's worries are about to become much, much more immediate. Year 9 kids storm into the room. They're armed. And they're shooting. Leah escapes the melee by hauling herself up into the roofspace. But only just. Kids are dead. Teachers are dead. Everyone else is rounded up in the gym. Only Leah and Anton are free-changing disability too, but they are trapped above the ceiling tiles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cora Carmack|title=Losing It|rating=3.5|genre=Womenthat's Fiction|summary=Bliss what Ven is a drama student, but what else would you expect dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a name like that? And yet, when we first meet her, I would never have guessed dance performance that was going to change her majorlife. She just doesn’t seem the type. She’s also not the type to pick up random men in bars, but that’s exactly what But she does as the book starts. It’s her friend Kelsey’s fault. She’s determined to get Bliss out therecomes back fighting, because that’s not where Bliss normally is. About desperate to graduate at avoid the end of the yearpity stares, Bliss has made it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s time and desperate to get back to change a life that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brittany Geragotelis|title=What The Spell|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brooklyn just wants to be noticed by someone – the popular kids at her high school, the cute guy 's as normal as she likes, anyone other than the guidance counsellor who’s her only real friendcan possibly manage. Luckily for her, she’s counting down the days until her sixteenth birthday - when she’ll have her powers as Meanwhile there's a witch finally unbound. When this happens, though, even though it initially seems like it will give her everything she wants, her new abilities could have caused more problems than ever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117073</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Through Dead Eyes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an unfortunate episode at (cute!) boy in school, Alex has joined his father on a business trip her music A Level performance piece to Amsterdam. He had been hoping try to spend some time with his fathersort out, but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter of his father's new girlfriend. But Angelien is pretty and so Alex is quite happy just the day to be shown around by day traumas of all the challenges her. When body continues to throw at her boyfriend Dirk isn't around, that is. At an antique market, Alex finds himself drawn to an ancient-looking masknavigate. He So even though she can't help but buy it. And once boughtdance anymore, he can't help but put it on. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidySimon Fox|title=Killing Rachel: The Murder NotebooksDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Rose's mother Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and Josh's father - both members of join him on the police cold case squad - have been missing for more than five years nowrun. Although their bodies were never found They get together, but barely begin to smell the authorities have always insisted that they are probably dead. But in whiff of Southern trains when the [[Dead Time: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first book]] in this seriesfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the step siblings find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alive. So Roselate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have - including trying to decipher the cryptic notebooks they have discoveredbearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom ClempsonLex Croucher|title=One Seriously Messed-Up Weekend: In the Otherwise Un-Messed-Up Life of Jack SamsoniteGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Two years after the ''messed-up week'' described Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the [[One Seriously Messed-Up Week: in the Otherwise Mundane a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite by Tom Clempson|first Jack Samsonite book]]Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, things aren't all that different for our hero. He's still trying much to get together with a girl - despite having ended book 1 their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in bed love with someone, things didnBridget (the kingdom't go as he would have wanted after s only female knight) - something thatArt discovers from her private diaries. He's also struggling at school again And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and it's even more important than his attempts to pass his GCSEs were. This timecreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, he needs to get into film schoolwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. He has a weekend to make a film But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and he needs will they find a girl to kissway in which they can both truly be themselves, and at least one enemy or are they destined to fight.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411690</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Requiem|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Out in the Wilds, Lena is now trying to cope with the return of her first love Alex along with her feelings for Julian, but these relationship issues take a backseat as life becomes very dangerous for her, and everyone else. Back in Portland, her friend Hana is set to marry the man who will become Mayor - a perfect pairing, surely? While both girls have changed a lot since the start of book one, the biggest changes are still to come...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722972</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsNick Brooks|title=Raining FirePromise Boys

|summary=Gangs have always dominated When the Greenprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, an inner-city estate with an ominous undercurrent of violencethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Growing up in the Green Each, Ethan has never really known anything different; howeverseemingly, he has always harboured a hope to escape from the placegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his position on a professional football training programme might just give murder. But who killed him the chance to do so. Unfortunately, and why, and if any of the Green won't let him go so easily. Drawn into a violent feud between two major gangsboys are innocent, Ethan will have no choice but they be able to play his part, if he doesn't want a gun put to the heads of everyone he cares about.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620276</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Mayo1919635017|title=Itch RocksA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Itchingham Lofte, we are toldSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he 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 most protected boy in the worldsecond question because I avoid spoilers. While But I hadn't read ll answer 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 – and the various people that would control it. While it's obvious to all those in his Cornish village and at his school that something major happened, due to him disappearing one: for a couple of months of specialised medical care, and returning with an MI5 armed guard constantly at watch over him and his family, only those few people (mum, dad, sister, tomboy cousin, and his various guards) have any idea of what has happenedgrandmother... Oh, and of course a couple of enemies resilient enough to turn up for the sequel…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531328</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Day I Met SuzieDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone takes an instant dislike Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to Suzie Greyfind 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 new girl football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at collegethe leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. There Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn's just something about her t know what his score is, where his achievements in that makes peopleregard lie. He's skin crawl. Everyonehad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that is's set in stone, save Indie. Indie is a soft touch. She just he can't help herselfbe sure. She And that's a sucker for a sob story and most mostly because of her hard-earned wages from her part-time job at the salon go on bailing out her boyfriendwho he's many disasters. Indie feels sorry for Suzie, this mousy, hard-done-by girl, been having the relationship and she takes her under her wingthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997028</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|author=Dave Cousins|title=Waiting For Gonzo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Oz is newly arrived in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. At first, he wishes life there was more exciting, but drawing a moustache on a photo of schoolmate Isobel Skinner - nicknamed Psycho - might bring him the wrong sort of excitement. 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tammara Webber1800901232|title=Between The Lines|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emma is a seventeen year old actress, thrust into the spotlight in a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with a co-star who half of America's teens are drooling over. Reid is a Hollywood heartthrob with an ego the size of Los Angeles and a reputation as a player. When the two meet, sparks fly - but can Emma trust the superstar, or would she be better off going for the less-exciting but more sensible Graham?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347465</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Kevin Brooks|title=The Bunker DiarySteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Linus is taken from the streets simply for having done a good turn. While patrolling his usual haunt at Liverpool Street station Twelve- there are often good pickings for the homeless there year- he offers old Hanh wanted to help be a blind man loading a vanfashion designer. He wakes up feeling dreadful Life in the rural village where she lived with vague memories of her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a pad soaked job in anaesthetic held over his mouth Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and nose. It appears he's in some kind of underground bunker. A lift is Hanh was on the only way in and outmini-bus to Hanoi. At first Only, Linus thinks he has been kidnapped for ransom - this particular street kid has a rich Hanh and famous father. But then the lift opens and other girls were not going to work in a young girl appearsshop, having been similarly druggedthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Over You know those jeans you really wanted: the next few days, four more people arriveones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-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>0141326123</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siobhan CurhamPatrice Lawrence|title=Finding Cherokee BrownNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Claire Weeks Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is timid, lonelyextremely hard for some people to like, characters and characterised by a pronounced limpreaders both. On the other hand Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, Cherokee Brown is confidentshe's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, coolAnnie, and unafraid to stand has taken up for herselfresidence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. On her fifteenth birthdaySuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, Claire discovers that her birth name was actually Cherokee Brownyou might perhaps think, and that her birth fatherthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, who had supposedly abandoned her and is making something full of love for America, has been living just a tube journey away from her for over younger sister – a decadeyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Meeting We see Charlene prove her fatherbelligerence with a store detective, Claire discovers a whole new side and then force people to give her life that two days off school, when she couldn't have imaginedshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Spurred on by this rush of self-discovery Claire decides well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to embrace Cherokee remark how sharp and all that she stands forpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405260386</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim HarringtonAnn Sei Lin|title=PerceptionRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=After solving Kurara has spent her entire life as a murder over servant on the summerMidori, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself a massive dining hall floating in the centre sky where soldiers of attention at schoolthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Mostly it's annoyingHowever, but harmless - popular girls wanting her when a man named Himura arrives to use tell her unique gift for show and entertainment - but that she is a Crafter like him, someone is sending with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her increasingly creepy messagesto come with him, and Clare keeps getting to leave the feeling life of dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's being followedt 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 flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ilsa J BickMarcus Sedgwick|title=Drowning InstinctWrath

|summary=Jenna is 16 years oldMeet Fitz, and fresh out a young Scottish lad full of a psychiatric hospital when her parents enrol her frustration at a new high school in the wilds of Wisconsinhimself. 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) Lockdown is only just over, and she’s not really looking forward he should be free to term starting. But then she meets someonedo what he wants, someone special who is kind to hergo where he wants and with whom he wants, pays attention but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to herhis best friend, looks out for herCassie. Someone she can trust. Mr Anderson is They were half of a Chemistry teacher and athletics coachdesultory school band, but he’s more than that to JennaCassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Against Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the rules, and against world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the oddstruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he becomes her ally, and so much morecan't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870434</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HodkinTori Bovalino|title=The Evolution of Mara Dyer|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mara knows that the things that have been haunting her for the past year are not necessarily all in her head. The problem is persuading everyone else of that. When Mara's parents don't believe that she saw Jude - Jude who died in the building collapse that started all of Mara's problems - alive and well, Mara realises that anything she says is just going to convince them she's more crazy. She tries to pretend that she knows she has problems and she's trying to get better, but that's made difficult when Jude keeps trying to scare her - leaving dead cats in the garden, messages written in blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Holly Smale|title=Geek GirlDevil Makes Three

|summary=Harriet Manners Working all summer in her boarding school's library is cleverthe 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 a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, works hardscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, and retains lots of informationcourse. She knows more facts than just about anyone else at Her plan is to get her schoolanger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. She just doesnNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't know why barely anyone seems to like delivered them for her...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489447</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saci LloydPhilip Reeve|title=Quantum DropUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We're In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in Londonthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. The London that's left after the next financial crash devastates life for most There are troll people right across the world. Money is hard to come byon it, and most people survive on black market creditssea-witches, supplied by and legends of the Betta. Everyone either works Dark family that has to keep watch for the Betta or borrows magical islands and their monster approaching from themeven further west, where no ship dare sail. And when Anthony's girlfriend gets on The current Darks are the wrong side Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Betta Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and is taken Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out in a gang hitof the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, he must venture both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the virtual world of the Drop if he is to find out who is responsible and how to get justice. But the Drop is a dangerousprotecting their island, dangerous place..like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144490082X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny Han Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Siobhan VivianTom de Freston|title=Burn for BurnJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Kat wants revenge on her exJulia, our pre-best friendteen heroine, who now taunts has been packed off with her whenever they cross paths. Lillia wants revenge on parents and their cat from the boy who's started treating her little sister as more than a friend. Mary wants revenge on the boy whose cruelty led family home in SW England to her leaving Jar Island be lighthousekeepers for years, only returning now. Individually, they may not be able to do much - but as a triosummer, they're sure they can wreak vengeance on those people who've wronged them. Just how in the far will these three 17-year-olds go?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442440759</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=CJ Flood|title=Infinite Sky|rating=4NE of the Scottish islands.5|genre=Teens|summary=As summer begins Here be Vikings, Iris is finding that life can be quite trickykind of Scottish island. Her mother has packed up and left Dad is going to go travelling. Her father isn't coping too well with having been abandoned by be automating the lantern, which is his wife. Her brotherspecialist thing, Sam, is while mum will be leaving her career in trouble at school and in danger of going off algae behind to hunt the rails generallyelusive Greenland shark. And Iris herself is feeling overtaken by her best friendJulia, well, who is obsessed with boys she will be homesick and fashion while Iris prefers to run wild in the woods as alone – until she's always donesuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707802X</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gail CarrigerJonathan Stroud|title=Etiquette The Outlaws Scarlett and EspionageBrowne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Scarlett McCain is being sent an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a finishing schooldark boy with dark powers and a darker past. She's none too happy about itWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, until she gets there and finds there's rather more they plan to flee to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies the mythical Free Isles of Quality than meets the eyeLondon Lagoon. Because while her mother thought she was there Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be finished, she's also going to learn just '''how''' to finish - 'anything or anyone who needs finishing.'any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411585</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Erin LangeMercedes Helnwein|title=ButterSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Bullied by his classmates at school, harassed by his parents at home, and weighing over 400 lbs, Butter really Gracie Welles has very little resigned herself to keep living forbeing lonely. And so he decides As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to stopnot being a priority in people's lives. LivingBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, that her simple existence ischanged for good. But he’s not going to throw his not unsubstantial frame under a busNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, or jump off for her life now has a cliff. He’s going to do what he does best – eatboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571294405</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Barrowman and Carole E BarrowmanT L Huchu|title=Bone QuillThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twins Matt Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Em Calder have both a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their motherliving relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's Animare gift of bringing paintings been using it to life support not only herself, but her younger sister and their fatherher aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's telepathic Guardian giftschildren. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. This makes them She will end up discovering an unknown to occult library and realise that the Guardian Council - some world of whom would have magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the twins boundmissing children and bring an end to this evil, their powers trapped forever.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780550316</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Naima B RobertKristen O'Neal|title=Black SheepLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Sixteen-year-old Dwayne is Having 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. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a badman – a wannabe rapper who hangs around bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other gang members out, while also providing an escape to just joke and doesnmess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't see any future in education. Misha, high-flying university-bound daughter of respond to the chat for a local councillorwhile, should have nothing in common with him, but when they meet therePriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's an undeniable attraction, and they start house to date in secretcheck up on her. Misha makes Dwayne want But what she doesn't expect to be find there is a better person werewolf in the basement – but with his old life tempting him back at every turn, can he make a break from it, or will he and for that werewolf to be drawn back in?the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847802354</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Meagan Spooner|title=Skylark|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark's city is run Move on magic - they've found a way to use it like electricity, it powers everything. This magic comes from teenagers. When a child comes of age they find their magical power, which is then harvested. Once this is done, your magical abilities have gone. However, there are stories about people who are Renewable, there magic just keeps coming back. Someone like this would be invaluable to society, and unfortunately for Lark, this is exactly what she is. Determined not to be a slave, and having been tortured by the government for her powers, she escapes (with the help of another Renewable who is a prisoner of the city) and leaves. She begins her journey to find others like her - Renewables - her only clue to 'follow the birds'. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565563</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]