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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren MillerMax Boucherat|title=ParallelThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Imagine waking up every day to find yourself in a new reality, an alternate future derived from a small variation in one of those what-if moments that populate every day of your life. Some of these moments are easy to identify: the moment you confirm your university choices, the moment you We meet Lori on the person whofirst evening she'll become your best friend, s got the moment you tell someone you love them. Others are more subtle and harder house to herself – no neighbour to definepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, but they can have just as much an influence on your future. This is the reality of Abby Barnes, an eighteen year old whose life is constantly being warped and changed by the actions and decisions of a seventeenavidly rule-breaking eleven year-old version of , on her from a parallel worldlonesome.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=The Dark is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a childblanket fort, I read The Grey King, book 4 in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence. I loved the book so much it topped my Christmas list for years, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as a child's bookshe has one main intention, and it is brilliant as book for children, but it is also well loved by many adults, whether as a cherished memory of their own childhood or as a book discovered as an adult. I'll admit that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent readto log on to Voxminer, whatever age you may be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie McGarry|title=Dare You To|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Seventeenthe world-yearbuilding, critter-old Beth Risk knows collecting game that her mother would face jail if anyone found out the truth about her. Sheis a hit in Lori's trying to look after her mother the best she can - until her uncle comes to the rescueworld. Except Beth But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't want rescuing, and only goes with her uncle to keep him from exposing her mother. Living with him, she meets town golden boy Ryan Stone, who asks her out on a dare. What starts as an instant dislike find herself entirely on her part, though, turns to attractionown, and then she finds that Ryan has depths no-one else knows aboutsomething even more spooky. Can this mismatched couple help each other to find happiness?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennie Wood For the server she and her bestie and Jeff McComsey|title=Flutter|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves nobody else should be able to yet another new town, she falls for a girl who isn't interested in herenter shows signs of tampering. Lily, though, has a trick When malevolent eyes spark up on her sleeve - she's a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a boy so that she can have a chance with Saffron. As Jessephone screen, she starts to build a new life for herself at school -can this 'boy' get and her safe place in the girl? Additionallygame has been doctored – well, why where is Lily so resistant a girl to any sort of harm, and who are the strange people who are trying to find herturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettRachel Greenlaw|title=Everything is Fine (Compass and Other Lies I Tell Myself)Blade

|summary=Fifteen-year-old Esther Armstrong is having problems at home. Her mum and dad keep arguing, her younger brother is driving her crazy, and she's reduced to writing letters to her older brother about 'I can hear the situation as he's not around. When she finds some letters from a soldier to his girlfriend, she starts trying to find out what happened to them - will she work it out, and also get her own life back on track?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755379497</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Jones|title=Dead Jealous|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy is a rationalist. Her sweatshirt says so: ''GOD IS DEAD'', it proclaims. She's been swearing blind she wouldn't attend her mother and stepfather's handfasting ceremony at song of the annual pagan festival. It's all stuff and nonsensesea. But then her best friend - and secret love - Michael goes and gets a girlfriend and jealousy gets the better The call of Poppy. Suddenly, the festival and the handfasting seem much more inviting. Once theredeep, Poppy meets a strange girl at the shores of Scariswater Lakeanswering beat in my heart. When Beth turns up dead, Poppy is sure she has been murdered. And the police don't seem to care, putting it down as an accident. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408327546</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Bethany Wiggins|title=Stung|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Fiona wakes up confused Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and disorientedplundering the wrecks. She's in Mira, like her bedroom but mother before her bedroom has never looked like this, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. ItBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's filthyleader and Mira's father. And abandoned. Where Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in search of a family? And how has she come secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to have a strange tattoo on save the future of her hand? home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsHarry Allen|title=FragmentsChildren of the Sun

|summary=I didn't have much hope for this book - the middle book Ra Eun Seo lives in a series tends North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to be fillercome by, so Seo and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brillianther friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, I though it was going looking for tree bark and edible grasses to be hard to top. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowingsupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bridget TylerAlexia Casale|title=Drummer GirlSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Lucy It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is really pleased when Harper McKenzie decides dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to start talking change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to her again avoid the pity stares, and suggests forming desperate to get back to a band. From then, life gets increasingly wonderful that's as they recruit three other girlsnormal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, enter a talent showher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and make it just the day to day traumas of all the finalschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Parties So even though she can't dance anymore, fame, and success await - until everything comes crashing down. What went wrongmight she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776926</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allen ZadoffSimon Fox|title=Boy NobodyDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Zach Abram has a choice - death or death. He can either choose the death of others or Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his own death. At shift on the age of 12force, his parents were killed and he was abducted by a shadowy American government agencythen suddenly rings Archie, trained as an assassin and give a simple a choice kill and keep killing or die. He is told that demanding he is fetch something from a patriot, that those he kills are enemies of the statesecret place, and as such deserve to die. But this is very state which will kill join him if he makes one mistakeon the run. Zach is 16 nowThey get together, but he isn't Zach anymore, he is whoever the agency wants him to be, and for 2 years he has gone from one target barely begin to another. He has used his youth as cover, befriending smell the children whiff of his future victims and killed without remorse or emotion. But something Southern trains when the father is different this timearrested, he has started leaving Archie on the late express to experience feelings and question Brighton, toting a tin his assignment. This will be father was determined to keep away from his most dangerous mission yetcolleagues, and if he fails he will have more to fear from his own side than his enemiesthe bearer of a whole heap of questions. But if he succeeds what will the cost be to himself?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408327600</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonLex Croucher|title=The Watcher Gwen and Art Are Not in the ShadowsLove

|summary=Good and bad luck combined have forced Irene and her family – mother Simone and insular younger brother Dorian – Who knew that what I really needed to live in the Normandy village of Blue Bay. read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? It's a way to relieve the poverty her deceased father left them inBut honestly, as Simone is now housekeeper to Lazarus Jann, a mysterious elderly businessman who lives it lifted my spirits in a mansion peopled by countless automatamost delightful way. In this story, Gwen and the isolated shell of what used Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to be his healthy wife. their mutual disgust! Irene herself has met Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the maidkingdom's brother, which the village network has immediately inflated into a longonly female knight) -term romancesomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Dorian is happy enough to be errand-And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy for Jann's peculiar correspondence. So farthey find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, so interestingwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But is there as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a dark secret to way in which they can both truly be had with the clockwork toys keeping Jann company? Is the tale of a ghost on the lighthouse islet true? And what else could be implied in the book's very title? In such a small villagethemselves, for anyone or are they destined to hold live a secret it has to be very big, and very powerful…lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001655</amazonuk>1526651793

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarra ManningNick Brooks|title=Diary of a Crush: French KissPromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=When Edie moves up to Manchester and starts college she’s the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a little scared – scared to be in a new town with new peoplegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and none each could have been there at the time of her old friendshis murder. But then she meets a trouser-shape by the name of Dylan who killed him, and everything changes. She develops a huge crush on the handsome but complicated boywhy, and chronicles her feelings for him in her diary. Well that explains if any of the titleboys are innocent, then.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001561</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malorie Blackman1919635017|title=Noble ConflictA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Kaspar believes in the Alliance with a whole heart. Who wouldnSolomon Klyne isn't? In the face of terrorist attacks from the Crusader Insurgencya bad lad, the Alliance's response so why is non-fatal. Its security forces are equipped with stun guns and captured insurgents are not killed. Theyhe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You're incapacitated, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians like Kaspar are trained ll have to wait to get an answer to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in the least violent way possiblesecond question because I avoid spoilers. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking KasparBut I's, you can see how measured and ethical ll answer the Alliance's response seemsfirst one: for his grandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Suzy CoxPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Dead Girls Detective AgencyDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Dead Girls Detective Agency takes us with Charlotte Feldman, an average school girl who Ant is pushed under in Year Eleven at quite a train standard school, and wakes up is surprised to find that the afterlife for murdered teenagers his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is a downtown hotel one of four with both his best buddy from where the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they must solve their cases 're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and get the killer out often turns to confess sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in order to move onthat regard lie. I’d call it He's had a casual relationship, a fresh secret one, for several months now, and original take on so has effectively progressed up the whodunit if I hadnladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't seen variants be sure. And that's mostly because of it before. However, it does have individuality. The sole condition for moving on is solving who he's been having the relationship and the murder – there’s no pansying around finding absolution or atoning for transgressionssex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472106598</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne Thomas1800901232|title=Jelly Cooper: AlienStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Jelly Cooper is just turning fourteenTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. But excitement about Life in the rural village where she lived with her birthday is taking second place family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to sheer exhaustionbe missed. For weeks, Jelly has been having recurring nightmares that leave her shaken Some money changed hands and afraid. And it's all taking a toll Hanh was on her the mini- her friends Humphrey and Agatha are beginning bus to get worriedHanoi. Add Only, Hanh and the night terrors other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the figurative nightmare of school, a crush ones with intricate embroidery and beading on a boy so cool the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and gorgeous distressed seams that Jelly sees no world in which hefelt so soft when you touched them? It'd fancy her back, s quite possible that Hanh and a cheerleader out to humiliate her at every turn, and you can see that Jelly's life could be betterco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00C4Y3TZS</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingPatrice Lawrence|title=SilverNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'Silverheroine' has a of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. large ant Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with silver circuits on the covera pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while there are no actual ants he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in this bookneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the illustration creation of one such item is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on part of the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpsesplot here, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machines. They possess as Charlene is a swarm intelligence similar to ants. This sounds far fetched but wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a great deal of progress has been made in research currently being conducted younger sister she's allowed contact with just this in mind - to create nanobots no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well known in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism , what exactly happens is capable of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It would be impossible not for scientists me to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is say, only to control a few remark how sharp and have these control the restpointy those knitting needles can be.. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology and there were safeguards in the book as well - they just didn't work.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyAnn Sei Lin|title=The Chocolate Box Girls: Coco CaramelRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Coco is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the youngest sky where soldiers of the Tanberry sisters but very much her own personEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. For herHowever, life is about animals and she loves going when a man named Himura arrives to the stables for riding lessons even if she does overestimate tell her own abilities. She was hoping that she could pick up is a job there Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a couple power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of evenings a week so dreary servitude that is all she could have extra lessons, but it went instead to form-mate Lawrie Marshall and they're not each other's biggest fanshas known. Well, they're not until the pony which Coco has set her heart on is sold to someone who doesnsoon Kurara won't seem to have any say in the animal's best interest at matter, because the front of his mind. Coco and Lawrie unite to save Caramel and another pony which is just about to foal - but how will they cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141341572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Mulligan|title=The Boy with Two Heads|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Richard Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a nice kid. Dutifulshikigami, hardworking, rule-abiding, he makes both parents and teachers proud. But one day, everything changes. Richard wakes up with a painful lump on his neck. Rushed she is forced to hospital, his parents get some devastating news from flee out into the specialistsworld. Richard is growing She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a second head. Yowzer. When the head sky- Rikki - emergesship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, Richard, his parents, his teachers and his friends, all do their best to cope. But Rikki isn't like Richard. He's spiteful. He's angry. He's rude. He says the most unsayable things and he causes a great deal whole world of trouble. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560670</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tammara WebberMarcus Sedgwick|title=Where You AreWrath

|summary=[[Between The Lines by Tammara Webber|Between The Lines]] saw seventeen year old Emma catapulted to fame as she made Meet Fitz, a film adaptation young Scottish lad full of Pride frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Prejudice with heartthrob Reid Alexander and started he should be free to fall for himdo what he wants, only to end up go where he wants and with more sensible Grahamwhom he wants, another cast member. Now School Pride is nearly ready but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to be releasedhis best friend, and it's time for the cast to start the publicity blitz - which means Emma and ReidCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, as but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the stars. will be spending enigmatic – saying she could hear a lot of time togethersubhuman hum coming from the earth. Can Emma's new relationship Is this connected with Graham stay strong despite this? Not if Reid, and Brooke - who's desperate to get one of her hands on Graham and become more than just his friend - have got anything to do with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOMeco-B Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm going to do this for all books in this series except warrior parents saying the first one. Before we begin. If you haven't read end of the first book in this series, DONworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she'T read this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review s dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the first book, read the first book itselftruth? Well, then come back. If you donnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't, you'll be sorry... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyTori Bovalino|title=The 5th WaveDevil Makes Three

|summary=As far as Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she knows, Cassie could be has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the last human on Earthbooks: Mr Birch. Surely, sheThe boarding school's one 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 last fewbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. After the first four waves They're never meant to reach him, of the Others - mysterious aliens who appeared course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and quickly laid waste to humanity - then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's impossible t delivered them for her to trust anyone she meets. Can she ever find the strength to rescue her kid brother?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141345837</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lily HernePhilip Reeve|title=DeadlandsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I was hesitant to choose this book. I love In a good dystopian future bookword, rich. The problem There is, I don't define very many certainly an abundance of them as good. I have read far too many zombie books that really don't offer anything differentriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, plenty of bloodBritish but way west, gorebeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and damsels in distresssea-witches, but not enough character developmentand legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, or logical thoughtwhere no ship dare sail. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and gutsThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, but it is also his brother Will who lives in London with too much more difficult science in his head to pull off. Sarah worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Savannah LotzAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the mother sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and daughter team who have written this book under his curious ward are thrust into the pen name Lily Herneworld of protecting their island, have managed to do this perfectlylike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Inferno (Chronicles of Nick)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=I'm tempted to say I have a love/hate relationship with the Chronicles of Nick series, but that's probably overstating both aspects of it. Call it a like/dislike relationship, perhaps - at its best - notably in much of the first book, [[Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Infinity]] and [[Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Infamous]], it's a high-octane thrill ride which is hugely entertaining thanks to the sheer amount of larger than life characters and some very well-written dialogue. At other moments, as in [[Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Invincible]], Kenyon's narration can make me grit my teeth Julia and the books can have pacing issues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=The RisingShark

|summary=Tam's village in rural Laos must make way for a new highway. So Tam Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and his their cat from the family move home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a new village summer, in the lowlandsfar NE of the Scottish islands. They've been promised running water Here be Vikings, electricity, and even a schoolthat kind of Scottish island. But Dad is going to be automating the ground lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the new village is scattered with bombs left over from America's war in Vietnamelusive Greenland shark. AndJulia, while Tam and his father are preparing their field for the new rice cropwell, one explodes and everything changes again. Tam's father is dead and his mother and sisters won't she will be able to keep their house unless Tam goes to the city homesick and earns money to send homealone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192793535</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoffrey MaloneJonathan Stroud|title=Dead Boys' ClubThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Sam wakes up one morning at dawnScarlett McCain is 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. It's strangely quietBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Outside his hutWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the village is absolutely silent. No cockerels are crowingLondon Lagoon. Something is horribly wrong. Stepping outsideTogether, Sam's worst fears are realised. A line of childrenthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all armed with AKthe horrors of post-47sapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are rushing at him, yelling like crazy. It's God's Freedom Army. in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999608</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy RobbMercedes Helnwein|title=Geekhood: Mission ImprobableSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Despite his efforts Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with Sarah at the start of terma "real" family, fourteen-year-old Archie she is still as geeky and as clueless about girls as everused to not being a priority in people's lives. Then he meets ClareBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, a sixteen-year-old who has relationship problems of her ownsimple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and they create for her life now has a fake relationship to try and get their crushes to notice themboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184715364X</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniela SacerdotiT L Huchu|title=TideThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her parentsyounger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there' deaths at s an evil stalking the hands ruined streets of the demons they fought againstEdinburgh, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by targeting the revelation towards the end of book 1 that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight was actually Harrycity's friend Sean Hannaychildren. Unable to trust Sean following his liesSoon, Sarah turns to Nicholas, new on Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the scene. But Nicholas has dark secrets request of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the wrong person? And will world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack againmissing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emily MurdochKristen O'Neal|title=If You Find MeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=In the middle of the forestHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Carey and Jenessa live Priya has to come to terms with their mother the fact that she may be in a tatty old camper vanconstant pain for the rest of her life. Cut off from civilisationShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', they scrabble an online support group where she talks to take care a bunch of themselves other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each otherout, in a setting where every day is a fight for physical while also providing an escape to just joke and mental survivalmess around. They just about make it through, but When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the girls’ mother is chat for a drug addict with a habit of disappearingwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and she’s done just that. It’s been more than a month since they saw drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Maybe more than two. Then, one day, summoned by But what she doesn't expect to find there is a letter sent by the girls’ mother, strangers appear werewolf in the woods, looking basement – and for Carey and Jenessa. They have come that werewolf to take them away from be the woods, and back girl she has been talking to online for the real worldpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621523</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=R J Anderson|title=Quicksilver|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Before I say anything else, I ''must'' warn you. ''Quicksilver'' is billed as a companion novel Move on to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with the implication that you could read either first. You can't. You mustn't. So if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet'', go no further. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|UltravioletNewest Thrillers Reviews]] 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=Firewallers|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>}}