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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy RobbMax Boucherat|title=Geekhood: Mission ImprobableThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. 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 world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Despite his efforts with Sarah at ''I can hear the start song of term, fourteen-year-old Archie is still as geeky and as clueless about girls as everthe sea. Then he meets Clare, a sixteen-year-old who has relationship problems The call of her ownthe deep, and they create a fake relationship to try and get their crushes to notice themthe answering beat in my heart. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184715364X</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=Tide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her parents' deaths at the hands , is one of the demons they fought against, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by seven who swim out to survey the revelation towards ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end of book 1 that her the wrecking, they capture the island'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harrys leader and Mira's friend Sean Hannayfather. Unable Desperate to trust Sean following his liessave him from death, Sarah turns Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to Nicholasguide her, new on she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the scenesea. But Nicholas has dark secrets With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in foreign islands to the wrong person? And will she find out heart of the truth about smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Midnight legacy before future of her home and the demons attack again?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily MurdochHarry Allen|title=If You Find MeChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the middle of the forest, Carey and Jenessa live with their mother Ra Eun Seo lives in a tatty old camper van. Cut off from civilisation, they scrabble to take care of themselves North Korean town and each other, in she is a setting where every day talented singer. Life is a fight for physical hard and mental survival. They just about make it through, but the girls’ mother food is a drug addict with a habit of disappearingdifficult to come by, so Seo and she’s done just that. It’s been more than a month since they saw her. Maybe more than two. Then, one day, summoned by a letter sent by the girls’ mother, strangers appear in the woodsfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for Carey tree bark and Jenessa. They have come edible grasses to take them away from supplement the woods, meagre rations of rice and back to the real worldkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621523</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonAlexia Casale|title=Quicksilver|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Before I say anything else, I ''must'' warn you. ''Quicksilver'' is billed as a companion novel to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with the implication that you could read either first. You can't. You mustn't. So Sing if you havenCan't read ''Ultraviolet'', go no further. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left off. But this time, synaesthete Alison is left behind and the story is told from the point of view of Tori|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Packham|title=FirewallersDance|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After Jess's dad gets suspended from work, her mum takes her and her older sister out of school. Fleeing from publicity, they go to a remote Scottish island to join a community of people who shun modern technology. The longer they stay on the island, though, the stranger things seem to be. What's going on, and when will Jess see her dad again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emma Pass|title=ACID|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=The UK is now the IRB - Independent Republic of Britain. It's no longer run by elected politicianshard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, who were completely discredited but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a catastrophic financial crashdance performance that was going to change her life. Instead But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the IRB is a police state, led by ACIDpity stares, and desperate to get back to a fearsomely authoritarian organisation. Marriage has been abandoned in favour of ''life partneringthat's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there' - s a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the state tells you who day to live with and whether or not you can have a child. Contact with day traumas of all the outside world is forbiddenchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Society is divided So even though she can't dance anymore, with a tiny wealthy elite and a huge mass of an underclass living in poverty and shortage.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552566144</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleSimon Fox|title=HeroicDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jammy Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Sonny McGann are brothers then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the notorious Ghost estaterun. They and their friends are always there for each other - and with get together, but barely begin to smell the drugs and violence that dominate whiff of Southern trains when the place where they livefather is arrested, they need leaving Archie on the late express to be. In particularBrighton, Sonny needs toting a tin his older brother father was determined to keep an eye out for him and make the plans for their group. Then Jammy and away from his mate Tommo join the army and go off to Afghanistancolleagues, and Sonny's left to hold the fort at homebearer of a whole heap of questions. With his brother no longer there to look after him, can Sonny keep it together? And when Jammy returns, how will things change?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141346272</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossLex Croucher|title=After TomorrowGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=''We were looking at Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a long line of people trudging down gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a country roadmost delightful way. They were loaded with bundles and backpacks and babies In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they all looked miserable and exhausted. Refugeeswere tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, I thought automaticallyis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they weren't. They were people like us.'' After ''Armageddon Monday'' - find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the collapse subterfuge of all the major banks falling 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 love with each other, when really they are resented and hatedenabling their own other romantic attachments. 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 But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they have an allotment and have set up find a trading network. But the raiders don't care about ''how'' way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they got destined to live a lie their food. They just want it. whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya ByrneNick Brooks|title=Follow Me DownPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Adamma Okomma, daughter When the principal (headmaster) of a Nigerian diplomat, isn't keen on moving to boarding Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, even three boys find themselves called into the exclusive Crofton College in Wiltshirepolice station as suspects. However Each, seemingly, after arriving has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there, she quickly makes friends with at the beautiful but unpredictable Scarletttime of his murder. What seems like a beautiful friendship But who killed him, thoughand why, is torn apart when both girls fall for and if any of the same guy. After Scarlett goes missingboys are innocent, can Adamma put will they be able to clear their problems behind hernames? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755393074</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Derek Landy1919635017|title=The Maleficent SevenA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The arrival of Darquesse, the sorcerer destined to destroy the civilised world, is on the horizon. For most people, the obliteration of billions of lives might be something to worry about. In times gone by, Tanith Low wouldSolomon Klyne isn've been on the forefront of the side of good, fighting to protect the world from Darquesse. But now that she has t a Remnant bonded to her soul, her conscience has been erased and she has become one of the worst of the bad guyslad, and all she wants to do so why is to usher in the end of the world. There are four weapons with the power to kill gods, scattered he running around the world, and two teams desperately hunting them down. Tanith Low leads London committing a group series of dangerous villainous misfits determined robberies? And how did he learn to find the weapons and destroy them, and it is up crack safes? You'll have to Dexter Vex, good friend of Skulduggery Pleasant, along with a team of renegade sorcerers, wait to find these weapons before the others.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007500920</amazonuk>}} {{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 get an answer to find out just how violent life has been, and this is just adding to the worries of Sam, Astrid, and the restsecond question because I avoid spoilers. 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 DianeBut I'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 ll answer the FAYZ survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525758X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Sorensen|title=The Secret of Ella and Micha|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ella and Micha haven’t seen each other first one: for months, quite unusual for a couple who have been best friends foreverhis grandmother. 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, the house she grew up in, the house next door to Micha.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552283</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|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 Different 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 BackBoys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since they were childrenAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Sinead and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been taunted by her older brother Patrickrestructured, 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. Always their mother As they's favouritere all fired up, he constantly plays games with herstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, trying to force her the talk in class and out often turns to follow himsex. When Which is confusing for Ant, as he goes missingdoesn't know what his score is, it seems to be where his most sinister game yet - as he leaves achievements in that regard lie. He's had a trail of clues which lead to Benedict Housecasual relationship, a strange place where time seems to stand stillsecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386816</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Hill1800901232|title=Department 19: Battle LinesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=The wheels have been set in motion for Dracula Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to risebe a fashion designer. Department 19 is Life in disarraythe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, dealing with deathsif not prosperous, so when the disappearance of their chief Henry Seward, smartly-dressed man and woman came to the dreadful knowledge that there could village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be yet more traitors in the ranksmissed. Jamie Carpenter is trying to train rookies into a fighting force who can take Some money changed hands and Hanh was on vampires more dangerous than any newlythe mini-turned ones that have ever been seen beforebus to Hanoi. Only, Matt Browning is desperately trying Hanh and the other girls were not going to find work in a cure for vampirismshop, and Larissa Kinley is they were to work in the USA trying to help virtual slavery in the fight against her own kindan illegal garment factory. With Zero Hour coming ever closer, can You know those jeans you really wanted: the department save ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the daylegs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007354517</amazonuk> 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.
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janine SouthardPatrice Lawrence|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen Novel)Needle|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 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 this, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person to ever have manipulated the test. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership training, followed by a choice of Devoted to serve her, followed by command of a prestigious space ship and hive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Fractured|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britain, Kyla was slated - her memories erased and her personality "reset". But Kyla wasn't like the other Slateds - she retained tantalising memories of her previous life. ''Fractured'' picks up Kyla's story after she's lost Ben 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 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 her history, the more such questions burn. And the more danger she finds herself in...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Siege|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Leah Jackson Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is miserable extremely hard for some people to like, characters and in detentionreaders both. This is particularly infuriating because the detention means Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's likely to be late for fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he'fame s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and fortune'' interview, the creation of one such item is part of the few chances kids at YOP schools have to make it into college plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and to get is making something full of love for her younger sister – a life worth having. But Leahyounger sister she's worries are about allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to become muchgive her two days off school, much more immediatewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Year 9 kids storm into the room. They're armedAnd then. And they're shooting. Leah escapes the melee by hauling herself up into the roofspace. But well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only just. Kids are deadto remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. Teachers are dead. Everyone else is rounded up in the gym. Only Leah and Anton are free, but they are trapped above the ceiling tiles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cora CarmackAnn Sei Lin|title=Losing ItRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Bliss is Kurara has spent her entire life as a drama studentservant on the Midori, but what else would you expect with a name like that? And yetmassive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when we first meet a man named Himura arrives to tell herthat she is a Crafter like him, I would never have guessed that was her major. She just doesn’t seem someone with the type. She’s also not the type power to pick up random men in bars, but that’s exactly what form paper into whatever she does as desires – a power sought after all across the book startsEmpire. It’s He asks her friend Kelsey’s faultto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. She’s determined to get Bliss out thereWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because that’s not where Bliss normally the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is. About forced to graduate at flee out into the end of world. She joins Himura aboard the yearOrihime, Bliss has made it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s time a sky-ship whose express purpose is to change that. hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brittany GeragotelisMarcus Sedgwick|title=What The SpellWrath|rating=24.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brooklyn just wants to be noticed by someone – the popular kids at her high school, the cute guy she likes, anyone other than the guidance counsellor who’s her only real friend. Luckily for her, she’s counting down the days until her sixteenth birthday - when she’ll have her powers as 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 Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at schoolhimself. Lockdown is only just over, Alex has joined his father on a business trip and he should be free to Amsterdam. He had been hoping do what he wants, to spend some time go where he wants and with his fatherwhom he wants, but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter of cannot stop himself from putting his father's new girlfriend. But Angelien is pretty and so Alex is quite happy foot in it when he talks to be shown around by herhis best friend, Cassie. When her boyfriend Dirk isn't aroundThey were half of a desultory school band, that isbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. At an antique market, Alex finds himself drawn to an ancientIs this connected with one of her eco-looking mask. He canwarrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she't help but buy it. s dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And once boughtcan Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't help but put it on... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyTori Bovalino|title=Killing Rachel: The Murder NotebooksDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=RoseWorking all summer in her boarding school's mother and Josh's father - both members of library is the police cold case squad - have been missing last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for more than five years nowover a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Although their bodies were never found, What makes it worse is the authorities have always insisted that they are probably dead. But in man who requested the [[Dead Timebooks: Mr Birch. The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first book]] in this seriesboarding school's headmaster, the step siblings and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alive. So Rosedeliver such a large request, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have Tess sticks post- including trying to decipher the cryptic notebooks they have discovered. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Clempson|title=One Seriously Messed-Up Weekend: In the Otherwise Un-Messed-Up Life it notes on each of Jack Samsonite|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Two years after the ''messed-up week'' described in the [[One Seriously Messed-Up Week: in books, scribbled with the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life ugliest insults she can think of Jack Samsonite by Tom Clempson|first Jack Samsonite book]], things aren't all that different for our hero. HeThey's still trying re never meant to get together with a girl - despite having ended book 1 in bed with someonereach him, things didn't go as he would have wanted after thatof course. He's also struggling at school again, and it's even more important than his attempts to pass his GCSEs were. This time, he needs Her plan is to get into film school. He has a weekend to make a filmher anger out like this, and he needs a girl to kissthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, and at least one enemy to fightif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411690</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverPhilip Reeve|title=RequiemUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Out in the WildsIn a word, Lena rich. There is now trying to cope with the return certainly an abundance of her first love Alex along with her feelings for Julianriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but these relationship issues take a backseat as life becomes very dangerous way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for hermagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, and everyone elsewhere no ship dare sail. Back in PortlandThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, her friend Hana is set who has to marry keep notes of activity from the man 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 will become Mayor - a perfect pairingwashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, surely? While both girls have changed a lot since his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the start world of book oneprotecting their island, the biggest changes are still to come..like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444722972</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Raining FireJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gangs have always dominated the GreenJulia, an innerour pre-city estate with an ominous undercurrent of violence. Growing up in the Greenteen heroine, Ethan has never really known anything different; however, he has always harboured a hope to escape been packed off with her parents and their cat from the placefamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, and his position on a professional football training programme might just give him in the far NE of the chance to do soScottish islands. Unfortunately Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the Green won't let him go so easily. Drawn into a violent feud between two major gangslantern, Ethan will have no choice but to play which is his partspecialist thing, if he doesn't want a gun put while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the heads of everyone he cares aboutelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620276</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoJonathan Stroud|title=Itch RocksThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Itchingham LofteScarlett McCain is an outlaw, we are told, is rejecting the draconian conformity of the most protected boy in Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the world. While I hadn't read wildlands between the [[Itch by Simon Mayo|first book]] about himSeven Kingdoms of Britain, we are snappily robbing banks 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 itshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. While it's obvious to all those in his Cornish village and at his school that something major happenedBut then she meets Albert Browne, due to him disappearing for a couple of months of specialised medical care, and returning dark boy with an MI5 armed guard constantly at watch over him dark powers and his familya darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, only those few people (mum, dad, sister, tomboy cousin, and his various guards) have any idea they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of what has happenedthe London Lagoon. OhTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of course a couple of enemies resilient enough post-apocalyptic society to turn up for reach the sequel…Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531328</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Day I Met SuzieSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Everyone takes an instant dislike Gracie Welles has resigned herself to Suzie Grey, the new girl at collegebeing lonely. There's just something about her that makes people's skin crawl. EveryoneAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, that is, save Indie. Indie she is used to not being a soft touch. She just canpriority in people't help herselfs lives. She's a sucker for But when she defends a sob story and most of random boy in her hard-earned wages from class with her part-time job at the salon go on bailing out slingshot, her boyfriend's many disasterssimple existence is changed for good. Indie feels sorry for Suzie, this mousy, hard-done-by girl, and No longer can she takes spend her under time writing novels in solitude, for her winglife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997028</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave CousinsT L Huchu|title=Waiting For GonzoThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Oz Ropa Moyo is newly arrived in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. At firsta ghostalker, he wishes life there was more exciting, but drawing using Zimbabwean magic (and a moustache on a photo bit of schoolmate Isobel Skinner - nicknamed Psycho - might bring him Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the wrong sort dead of excitementEdinburgh for their living relatives. Someone else whoEver since she dropped out of school, she's wishing been using it to support not only herself, but her life was rather less exciting is his younger sister Megand her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, whotargeting the city's hiding children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a secret which Oz knows but her parents donmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. 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't - can he survive Psycho ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and help his sisterbring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745468</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tammara WebberKristen O'Neal|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 Lycanthropy 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>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=The Bunker DiaryOther Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Linus is taken from Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the streets simply for having done a good turn. While patrolling his usual haunt at Liverpool Street station - there are often good pickings fact that she may be in constant pain for the homeless there - he offers to help a blind man loading a van. He wakes up feeling dreadful with vague memories rest of a pad soaked in anaesthetic held over his mouth and noseher life. It appears heShe joins 's in some kind 'Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of underground bunkerother teens living with chronic illnesses. A lift is the only way in They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. At first, Linus thinks he has been kidnapped When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for ransom - this particular street kid has a rich while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and famous fatherdrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But then what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the lift opens basement – and a young for that werewolf to be the girl appears, having she has been similarly drugged. Over talking to online for the next past few days, four more people arrivemonths.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326123</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Siobhan Curham|title=Finding Cherokee Brown|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Claire Weeks is timid, lonely, and characterised by a pronounced limp. On the other hand, Cherokee Brown is confident, cool, and unafraid to stand up for herself. On her fifteenth birthday, Claire discovers that her birth name was actually Cherokee Brown, and that her birth father, who had supposedly abandoned her 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 to her life that she couldn't have imagined. Spurred Move on by this rush of self-discovery Claire decides to embrace Cherokee 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 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 followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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