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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossMax Boucherat|title=After Tomorrow|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''We were looking at a long line of people trudging down a country road. They were loaded with bundles and backpacks and babies and they all looked miserable and exhausted. Refugees, I thought automatically. But they weren't. They were people like us.'' After ''Armageddon Monday'' - the collapse of all the major banks in the UK - life has become increasingly difficult for Matt and his family. Money is worthless. Food is the main currency. People who have it are resented and hated. They're named and shamed on ''hoarder'' websites and subject to violent raids by those who don't. Matt's family has more food than most because they have an allotment and have set up a trading network. But the raiders don't care about ''how'' they got their food. They just want it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tanya Byrne|title=Follow Me Down|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Adamma Okomma, daughter The Last Life of a Nigerian diplomat, isn't keen on moving to boarding school, even the exclusive Crofton College in Wiltshire. However, after arriving there, she quickly makes friends with the beautiful but unpredictable Scarlett. What seems like a beautiful friendship, though, is torn apart when both girls fall for the same guy. After Scarlett goes missing, can Adamma put their problems behind her? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755393074</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=The Maleficent SevenLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The arrival of Darquesse, We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the sorcerer destined house to herself – no neighbour to destroy the civilised worldpop in, babysitter poorly, is on the horizon. For most peoplemother at work, the obliteration of billions of lives might be something to worry about. In times gone byjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Tanith Low would've been on the forefront of the side of good, fighting to protect the world from Darquesseher lonesome. But now that she has What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a Remnant bonded to her soulblanket fort, her conscience has been erased and she has become one of the worst of the bad guysmain intention, and all she wants to do that is to usher in the end of the world. There are four weapons with the power log on to kill godsVoxminer, scattered around the world-building, and two teams desperately hunting them downcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Tanith Low leads But first Lori has a group of dangerous villainous misfits determined to tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the weapons server she and destroy them, her bestie and it is nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up to Dexter Vexon her phone screen, good friend of Skulduggery Pleasantand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, along with where is a team of renegade sorcerers, girl to find these weapons before the others.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007500920</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|author=Michael Grant|title=LIGHT|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The dome has become transparent. The teens, and kids, in the FAYZ, are still trapped inside, but now they can see out - and their parents, and others, can see in. With interviews taking place by primitive methods, the outside world are starting to find out just how violent life has been, and this is just adding to the worries of Sam, Astrid, and the rest. How will the world receive them when they get out - or rather, if they get out? The gaiaphage, having taken human form as Caleb and Diane's rapidly-maturing daughter, is as evil as ever, and with Drake as its servant, is destroying anyone in his path. Can those left alive inside the FAYZ survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525758X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica SorensenRachel Greenlaw|title=The Secret of Ella Compass and MichaBlade

|summary=Ella and Micha haven’t seen each other for months, quite unusual for a couple who have been best friends forever. Ella’s been away at college, in Vegas, but Micha didn’t know this as she upped and left without so much as a wave goodbye, so he’s been trying to track her down. But, just as he does so, she shows up back home anyway as it’s summer break and she’s back at her dad’s, ''I can hear the house she grew up in, song of the house next door to Michasea.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552283</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|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. 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 call of the boydeep, and of the new technology that's the cause of her woes. Finding a list her grandmother wrote as a teen answering beat in the Sixties, she decides to go vintage, and live as her grandmother didmy heart. 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 Back|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since they were childrenMira, Sinead has been taunted by like her mother before her older brother Patrick, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Always their motherBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's favouritefather. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he constantly plays games is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, trying she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to force unearth what might save her to follow him. When he goes missingfather, it seems to be his most sinister game yet - as he leaves a trail her journey takes her from the watched streets of clues which lead foreign islands to Benedict Housethe heart of the smuggler's territory, a strange place where time seems Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to stand stillsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386816</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillHarry Allen|title=Department 19: Battle LinesChildren of the Sun

|summary=The wheels have been set Ra Eun Seo lives in motion for Dracula to rise. Department 19 is in disarray, dealing with deaths, the disappearance of their chief Henry Seward, a North Korean town and the dreadful knowledge that there could be yet more traitors in the ranks. Jamie Carpenter she 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 before, Matt Browning talented singer. Life is desperately trying to find a cure for vampirism, hard and Larissa Kinley food is in the USA trying difficult to help in the fight against her own kind. With Zero Hour coming ever closercome by, 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 world, your entire future depends on your final school test results. Everyone is classified according to personality type so Seo and entry to any career or university depends upon your personality type. It's impossible to cheat the test... unless you're Rhiannon. Rhiannon should really be a Perceiver. But all her life she has wanted her own hive. And to achieve thisfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person looking for tree bark and edible grasses to ever have manipulated supplement the test. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership training, followed by a choice meagre rations of Devoted to serve her, followed by command of a prestigious space ship rice and hivekimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryAlexia Casale|title=FracturedSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=As It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a teen criminal in Lorderlife-run Britainchanging disability too, Kyla was slated - her memories erased and her personality "reset". But Kyla wasnbut that't like s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the other Slateds - she retained tantalising memories middle of a dance performance that was going to change her previous life. ''Fractured'' picks up Kyla's story after But she's lost Ben comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and just as desperate to get back to 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 to play in the fight against the Lordersas normal as she can possibly manage. But it Meanwhile there's not as easy as that. Is Kyla a victim? new (cute!) boy in school, her music A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the end ever justify day to day traumas of all the means? The more Kyla learns about challenges her body continues to throw at her historyto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, the more such questions burn. And the more danger might she finds herself in...be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiSimon Fox|title=SiegeDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Leah Jackson Late one night Graham Blake is miserable and in detention. This is particularly infuriating because late back from his shift on the detention means she's likely to be late for her ''fame force, and fortune'' interviewthen suddenly rings Archie, one of the few chances kids at YOP schools have to make it into college and to get demanding he fetch something from a life worth having. But Leah's worries are about to become muchsecret place, much more immediate. Year 9 kids storm into and join him on the roomrun. They're armed. And they're shooting. Leah escapes get together, but barely begin to smell the melee by hauling herself up into whiff of Southern trains when the roofspace. But only just. Kids are dead. Teachers are dead. Everyone else father is rounded up in arrested, leaving Archie on the gym. Only Leah late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Anton are free, but they are trapped above the ceiling tilesbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cora CarmackLex Croucher|title=Losing It|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Bliss is a drama student, but what else would you expect with a name like that? And yet, when we first meet her, I would never have guessed that was her major. She just doesn’t seem the type. She’s also not the type to pick up random men Gwen and Art Are Not in bars, but that’s exactly what she does as the book starts. It’s her friend Kelsey’s fault. She’s determined to get Bliss out there, because that’s not where Bliss normally is. About to graduate at the end of the year, Bliss has made it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s time to change that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brittany Geragotelis|title=What The SpellLove|rating=2.54

|summary=Brooklyn just wants Who knew that what I really needed to be noticed by someone – the popular kids at her high schoolread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, the cute guy she likesyou see, anyone other than is in love with Bridget (the guidance counsellor who’s kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her only real friendprivate diaries. Luckily for her And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, she’s counting down creating the days until her sixteenth birthday - subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when she’ll have her powers really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as a witch finally unbound. When this happens, thoughtheir impending wedding draws ever closer, even though it initially seems like it will give her everything she wantsthey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, her new abilities could have caused more problems than ever.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117073</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyNick Brooks|title=Through Dead EyesPromise Boys

|summary=After an unfortunate episode at When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, Alex has joined his father on a business trip to Amsterdam. He had grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been hoping to spend some there at the time with his father, but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter of his father's new girlfriendmurder. But Angelien is pretty who killed him, and so Alex is quite happy to be shown around by her. When her boyfriend Dirk isn't aroundwhy, that is. At an antique marketand if any of the boys are innocent, Alex finds himself drawn will they be able to an ancient-looking mask. He can't help but buy it. And once bought, he can't help but put it on. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anne Cassidy1919635017|title=Killing Rachel: The Murder NotebooksA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=RoseSolomon Klyne isn's mother and Josht a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's father - both members of the police cold case squad - ll have been missing for more than five years now. Although their bodies were never found, to wait to get an answer to the authorities have always insisted that they are probably deadsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But in I'll answer the [[Dead Timefirst one: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first book]] in this series, the step siblings find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alivefor his grandmother.. So Rose, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have - including trying to decipher the cryptic notebooks they have discovered. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom ClempsonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=One Seriously Messed-Up Weekend: In the Otherwise Un-Messed-Up Life of Jack SamsoniteDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Two years after Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they''messed-re all fired up week'' described in , straining at the [[One Seriously Messedleash only a single-Up Week: sex school can form, the talk in the Otherwise Mundane class and Uneventful Life of Jack Samsonite by Tom Clempson|first Jack Samsonite book]]out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, things arenas he doesn't all know what his score is, where his achievements in that different for our heroregard lie. He's still trying to get together with had a casual relationship, a girl - despite having ended book 1 in bed with someonesecret one, for several months now, things didnand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 't go as he would have wanted after that. Heexperienced's also struggling at school again, and itbut whether that's even more important than his attempts to pass his GCSEs were. This timeset in stone, he needs to get into film schoolcan't be sure. He has a weekend to make a film, and And that's mostly because of who he needs a girl to kiss, 's been having the relationship and at least one enemy to fightthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411690</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Oliver1800901232|title=RequiemStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Out Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the Wilds, Lena is now trying to cope with the return of her first love Alex along rural village where she lived with her feelings for Julianfamily was happy, but these relationship issues take a backseat as life becomes very dangerous for herif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and everyone else. Back woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Portland, her friend Hana is set Hanoi it was an opportunity not to marry be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the man who will become Mayor mini- a perfect pairingbus to Hanoi. Only, surely? While both Hanh and the other girls have changed were not going to work in a lot since the start of book oneshop, the biggest changes are still they were to comework in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones 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>1444722972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsPatrice Lawrence|title=Raining FireNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Gangs have always dominated Brave. Charlene, the Green'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, an inner-city estate she's fostering with an ominous undercurrent of violencea pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Growing up Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the Green, Ethan has never really known anything different; howevercreation of one such item is part of the plot here, he has always harboured as Charlene is a hope to escape from the placewonder knitter, and his position on is making something full of love for her younger sister – a professional football training programme might just give him the chance to do so. Unfortunately, the Green wonyounger sister she't let him go so easilys allowed contact with no more. Drawn into We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a violent feud between store detective, and then force people to give her two major gangsdays off school, Ethan will have no choice but when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to play his partsay, if he doesn't want a gun put only to the heads of everyone he cares aboutremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620276</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoAnn Sei Lin|title=Itch RocksRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Itchingham LofteKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, we are told, is a massive dining hall floating in the most protected boy in sky where soldiers of the worldEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. While I hadn't read the [[Itch by Simon Mayo|first book]] about himHowever, we are snappily and easily informed when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that he has previously been involved in an adventure regarding she is a very rare chemical Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – element 126 – and a power sought after all across the various people that would control itEmpire. While it's obvious He asks her to all those in his Cornish village and at his school that something major happenedcome with him, due to him disappearing for a couple leave the life of months of specialised medical caredreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, and returning with an MI5 armed guard constantly at watch over him and his familysoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, only those few people (mum, dad, sister, tomboy cousinbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and his various guards) have any idea of what has happenedshe is forced to flee out into the world. OhShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and of course a couple whole world of enemies resilient enough to turn up for the sequel…adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531328</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Day I Met SuzieWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Everyone takes an instant dislike to Suzie GreyMeet Fitz, the new girl a young Scottish lad full of frustration at collegehimself. There's Lockdown is only just something about her that makes people's skin crawl. Everyoneover, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, that isbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, save IndieCassie. Indie is They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a soft touchsubhuman hum coming from the earth. She just can't help herself. She's a sucker for a sob story and most Is this connected with one of her hardeco-earned wages from her part-time job at warrior parents saying the end of the salon go on bailing 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 her boyfriendthe truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's many disasterst.. Indie feels sorry for Suzie, this mousy, hard-done-by girl, and she takes her under her wing.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997028</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave CousinsTori Bovalino|title=Waiting For GonzoThe Devil Makes Three|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>}} {{newreview|author=Tammara Webber|title=Between The Lines|rating=45

|summary=Emma Working all summer in her boarding school's library is a seventeen year old actress, thrust into the spotlight in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with request for over a co-star hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who half of Americarequested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's teens are drooling overheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. Reid is As a Hollywood heartthrob with an ego the size petty act of Los Angeles revenge for making her find and deliver such a reputation as a player. When large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the two meetbooks, sparks fly - but scribbled with the ugliest insults she can Emma trust the superstarthink of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, or and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would she be better off going , if someone hadn't delivered them for the less-exciting but more sensible Graham?her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141347465</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksPhilip Reeve|title=The Bunker DiaryUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Linus In a word, rich. There is taken from certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the streets simply for having done a good turnScillies. While patrolling his usual haunt at Liverpool Street station - there There are often good pickings for the homeless there troll people on it, and sea- 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 witches, and nose. It appears he's in some kind legends of underground bunker. A lift is the only way in and out. At first, Linus thinks he Dark family that has been kidnapped to keep watch for ransom - this particular street kid has a rich magical islands and famous father. But then the lift opens and a young girl appearstheir monster approaching from even further west, having been similarly druggedwhere no ship dare sail. Over The current Darks are the next few daysWatcher, four more people arrive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326123</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siobhan Curham|title=Finding Cherokee Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Claire Weeks is timidAndrewe, lonely, and characterised by a pronounced limp. On who has to keep notes of activity from the other handHidden Lands, Cherokee Brown is confident, cool, and unafraid his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to stand up for herself. On her fifteenth birthday, Claire discovers that her birth name was actually Cherokee Brownworry about such local yokel superstitions, and that her birth fatherAndrewe's foundling daughter, who had supposedly abandoned her for America, has been living just a tube journey away from her for over a decadewashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Meeting her fatherBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Claire discovers a whole new side to her life that she couldn't have imagined. Spurred on by this rush both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of self-discovery Claire decides to embrace Cherokee and all that she stands forprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405260386</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim HarringtonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=PerceptionJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After solving Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a murder over the summer, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself in the centre far NE of attention at schoolthe Scottish islands. Mostly it's annoying Here be Vikings, but harmless - popular girls wanting her that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone be automating the lantern, which is sending his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her increasingly creepy messagescareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and Clare keeps getting the feeling alone – until she's being followedsuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ilsa J BickJonathan Stroud|title=Drowning InstinctThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jenna Scarlett McCain is 16 years oldan outlaw, and fresh out of a psychiatric hospital when her parents enrol her at a new high school in rejecting the wilds draconian conformity of Wisconsin. Being the new kid at school adds Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to an already iffy situation (parents who ignore her angst in favour wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of their own; a brother who enlisted to get away from them) Britain, robbing banks and she’s not really looking forward shooting other outlaws to term startingkeep herself alive. But then she meets someoneAlbert Browne, 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 dark boy with dark powers and athletics coacha darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, but he’s more than that they plan to flee to Jennathe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Against Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the rules, cannibalistic Tainted and against all the oddshorrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, he becomes her ally, and so much but will they be any more.accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870434</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HodkinMercedes Helnwein|title=The Evolution of Mara DyerSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Mara knows that the things that have been haunting her for the past year are not necessarily all in her headGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. The problem is persuading everyone else As a secret illegitimate daughter 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 wella man with a "real" family, Mara realises that anything she says is just going used to convince them shenot being a priority in people's more crazylives. She tries to pretend that But when she knows defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she has problems and she's trying to get better, but that's made difficult when Jude keeps trying to scare spend her - leaving dead cats time writing novels in the gardensolitude, messages written for her life now has a boy in bloodit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857073656</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SmaleT L Huchu|title=Geek GirlThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners Ropa Moyo is clevera 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, works hardshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and retains lots her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of informationEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She knows will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more facts dangerous than just about anyone else at her schoolshe ever could've imagined. She just doesn't know why barely anyone seems Will she find the missing children and bring an end to like this evil, or will it claim her...too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489447</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saci LloydKristen O'Neal|title=Quantum DropLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=We're in London. The London that's left after the next financial crash devastates life for most people right across the world. Money is hard Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come by, and most people survive on black market credits, supplied by to terms with the Betta. Everyone either works fact that she may be in constant pain for the Betta or borrows from themrest of her life. And when AnthonyShe joins 's girlfriend gets on the wrong side 'Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of the Betta other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and is taken help each other out in a gang hit, he must venture into the virtual world while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Drop if he is chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to find out who is responsible steal her parents' car and how drive to Brigid's house to get justicecheck up on her. But the Drop what she doesn't expect to find there is a dangerous, dangerous place..werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144490082X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian|title=Burn for Burn|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Kat wants revenge Move on her ex-best friend, who now taunts her whenever they cross paths. Lillia wants revenge on the boy who's started treating her little sister as more than a friend. Mary wants revenge on the boy whose cruelty led to her leaving Jar Island for years, only returning now. Individually, they may not be able to do much - but as a trio, they're sure they can wreak vengeance on those people who've wronged them. Just how far will these three 17-year-olds go?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442440759</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Gail Carriger|title=Etiquette and Espionage|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is being sent to a finishing school. She's none too happy about it, until she gets there and finds there's rather more to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality than meets the eye. Because while her mother thought she was there to be finished, she's also going to learn just '''how''' to finish - 'anything or anyone who needs finishing.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411585</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]