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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ThemMax Boucherat|authortitle=L A WeatherlyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Kylie and her family had a prosperous upper middle class life - until We meet Lori on the day Kyliefirst evening she's stepfather nearly beat her got the house to death. Forced herself – no neighbour to fleepop in, they ended up babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a shelterblanket fort, she has one main intention, and are now trying that is to start life over with log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a very different set of circumstances. Kyliehit in Lori's Mom is working and exhausted, they live in world. But first Lori has a run down flattiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the money barely stretches to covering groceries - server she and as Kylie's little sister keeps reminding her - this is all her faultbestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Pressures build When malevolent eyes spark up with strange on her phone calls. Could Kylie's stepfather have found them? And of course there are screen, and her safe place in the usual difficulties of starting game has been doctored – well, where is a new school and trying girl to make friends.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122091</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Winter DamageRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Natasha CarthewCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The moor and all it had got was out there waiting for her in call of the darkdeep, a cold rock thing, hard as nailsthe answering beat in my heart.''

But Ennor doesn't see another choice. She has to go. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with her ailing father Rosevear, a remote and autistic brother, Trippartially forgotten island, in a trailer survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the frozen Cornish moorwrecks. Ennor's Mira, like her mother has been gone for years - after before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they lost capture the farm island's leader and EnnorMira's father turned . Desperate to drugssave 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 turned sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to religion. And left. But now unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the country is falling watched streets of foreign islands to pieces. There are riots. Therethe heart of the smuggler's no money territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be earned. School has closed. Father is getting iller. They're behind on save the rent future of her home and eviction is looming. The social are threatening to take Trip away. There's nothing else for itthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: After IrisHarry Allen|authortitle=Natasha FarrantChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=A few years after Iris's death, her twin sister Bluebell Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is still getting used to life without hera talented singer. She's also having Life is hard and food is difficult to cope with come by, so Seo and her parents' frequent absencesfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the new au pair, meagre rations of rice and the cute boy who's just moved in next doorkimchi at home. Can she solve all her problems? And are the rest of her family coping with Iris being gone any better than she is?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571278213</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jon For ShortAlexia Casale|authortitle=Malorie Blackman and Vladimir StankovicSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Four It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years agowithout suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Judith and another girl disappeareddesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Two years ago Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, Judith came back aloneher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and unable just the day to speak. Shunned by most day traumas of all the people in challenges her body continues to throw at her close-knit communityto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, can might she find her voice be able to save those around sing her, and herselfway through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670786152</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RithmatistSimon Fox|authortitle=Brandon SandersonDeadlock

|genre=teensConfident Readers|summary=Rithmatists - those with special talents who defend ordinary people against wild chalklings - must study and train hard at school to create Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the defenses , linesforce, and chalklings they'll use when they get to Nebrask, the frontline. Joelthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a pupil at one such schoolsecret place, Armedius, studies harder than anyone else. He has a superb grasp of the strategies involved and knows he would be an asset out at join him on the front. But Joel isn't a Rithmatist at allrun. They're chosen in a special ceremonyget together, and Joel was passed by. Nowbut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, as just an ordinary student at Armediusleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, he sneaks in toting a tin his father was determined to join the Rithmatics students whenever possible. That seems like all he can do - until Rithmatics students start disappearing. Could Joel's lack of ability keep him safeaway from his colleagues, and therefore allow him to help solve the mystery?bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009532</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heart-shapedLex Croucher|authortitle=Siobhan ParkinsonGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=Ok. Before Who knew that what I even start reviewingreally needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, I need to explain just how much I loved it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this book. It's the companion to an earlier story from Siobhan Parkinson, ''Bruised''Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, over the same timeframeyou see, and following a supporting character whose story is intimately connected. Before I'd read to the end of in love with Bridget (the first chapter of kingdom''Hearts only female knight) -shaped''something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, which is all creating the subterfuge of two-and-a-half pages long, I'd fallen falling in love with Annieeach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. And I knew I couldn't bear to read her story without reading Jono's But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in ''Bruised''which they can both truly be themselves, first. So I rushed orff to Amazon and downloaded it or are they destined to my Kindle. You might not find that particularly surprising, but it is. I review books. I hardly ever buy books because I have live a pile of advance copies shouting ''My turn! My turn!'' whenever I look lie their way. whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903608</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dangerous GirlsNick Brooks|authortitle=Abigail HaasPromise Boys

|summary=Anna and her friends went to Aruba for When the Spring Break principal (headmaster) of all Spring Breaks. These are privileged kids from an exclusive private Urban Promise Prep schoolis murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. They have plenty Each, seemingly, has a grudge of money and they intend to party hard before college beckons. It's a tight groupsome description against Principal Moore, but no-one is tighter than Anna and Elise. They each could have been inseparable since Elise rescued Anna from a high school bullythere at the time of his murder. But now Anna also has Tate who killed him, and this is a first love affair that consumes allwhy, like a fire. Anna is beginning to find it difficult to balance these two intense relationships and she is hoping that this holiday if any of the boys are innocent, will make everything great again. they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119149</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Ian JohnstoneKitt Townsend

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The hero of this long and engrossing book Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a boy series of twelve, orphaned, lonely and unloved. He spends the little free time robberies? And how did he has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicated, colourful designs until learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the day he meets a strange old man who sets him on second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the path to first one: for his destiny as a saviour of not one but two worldsgrandmother.. But in line with the traditions of the genre, this path will be fraught with fear, danger and loss.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Brooklyn GirlsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Gemma BurgessDifferent for Boys

|genre=Women's FictionTeens |summary=22-year-old Pia Keller 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 screwed up again. She should be living the dreambeen restructured, sharing a Brooklyn townhouse so his desk is one of four with her four both his best friends - but one too many drunken escapades leads buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to her getting sacked from her new jobprimary school days together. After hearing this As they're all fired up, her parents are ready to summon her straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to live with them abroadsex. They clearly don Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't think sheknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's mature enough to look after herself - had a casual relationship, a secret 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 she prove them wrong?'t be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=CarnabyStitched Up|author=Cate SampsonSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Sarah's mother Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was murdered happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and Sarah found woman came to the bodyvillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Agonisingly, she didn't even realise she'd found the body at first - Sarah thought her mother Some money changed hands and Hanh was asleep on the sofamini-bus to Hanoi. But she wasn't Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Borys - Sarah's sister Jude's boyfriend - has been accused of You know those jeans you really wanted: the murder ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the trial is coming up, legs? The ones with Sarah as a key witness. A school counsellor, a lawyer the artfully-placed rips and a police officer are all trying to prepare her, but Sarah can't think about distressed seams that. felt so soft when you touched them? It's too dangerousquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. And she has more than a court case on her plate|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111581X</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Ghost StadiumFrontpage|author=Tom Palmer |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son to read on his own. He loves the short but exciting stories, and the easy-to-read text. With this book though, the temptation to turn out the lights and read this out loud by torch light was simply too much to resist. It begins as a boy's own adventure. Three boys, Lucas, Irfan and Jack have come up with the perfect plan to start their summer holidays on a high note. Their local football club has been closed for years, but the boys have a scheme to get into the stadium one last time and spend a night camping on the pitch. My son immediately realised the football pitch would be the perfect place to camp out. It is difficult to get into, but once there, it would be like being in a wilderness. The high walls would block out everything, leaving the boys completely alone in the dark. There is only one problem. Places that are very difficult to get into can also be very difficult to get out of...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPatrice Lawrence|title=Brock|author=Anthony McGowanNeedle|rating=53

|summary=The events of the badger bait are horrifyingBrave. Thankfully Charlene, the author does not feel the need 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to give us all the gory detaillike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, but in she's fostering with a sensepleasant yoga tutor, he has made it more terrifying but what is left unsaid. Everything about this book is extremely realistic. I am an adultAnnie, and this book had my stomach has taken up residence in knots. It isnher son Blake's old room while he't just what happens to the animals, but the psychological terror directed s at the boys as welluni. This is made more intense by Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the level creation of character development in this book. McGowan has created characters with one such depth I can't help wondering if he has based any item is part of this on real children. Perhaps not the badger baiting partplot here, but the inner turmoil created by poverty, shattered familiesas Charlene is a wonder knitter, and the responsibility is making something full of being love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a caretaker at an early age store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well many other personality traits which are so true , what exactly happens is not for me to life it is difficult say, only to believe you are reading fictionremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. The characters in this book are so genuine, I feel as if I know them. My son also commented on how much he liked certain characters, a sure sign that the author has succeeded in making the characters real to the reader.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122083</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeAnn Sei Lin|title=FallingRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=''Falling'' is Kurara has spent her entire life as a book that I liked for some reasonsservant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and disliked for othersmake merry between their conquests. It However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is very short and terribly bleak romance. Anna seems a Crafter like him, someone with the power to have it form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after allacross the Empire. She He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is popular, pretty, and all she has an absolutely perfect and very wealthy boyfriendknown. Well, Cam. Isoon Kurara won'm afraid I never warmed to Anna though. She comes across as one of those people who feel t have any say in the matter, because the world revolves around them. Self centred Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is, she does truly care for her best friend Tilly, perhaps more than she realisesforced to flee out into the world. It all comes together in tragic misunderstanding on She joins Himura aboard the night of Cam's big partyOrihime, a party he never wanted sky-ship whose express purpose is to havehunt down shikigami, but that Anna pushed him into.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122075</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Philippa Gregory|title=Stormbringers|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Luca Vero, his servant Frieze, and his clerk Brother Peter are investigating signs of the end of the world. Accompanied by Lady Isolde and her servant Ishraq, they arrive in Piccolo just before the mysterious Johann, a young body claiming to be called by God. He's followed by a horde of children who he's leading on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Even though his grandiose claims that the sea will part for them would seem absurd if anyone else said so, he's so charismatic that Luca and Isolde believe him - could he really be chosen by God? Or is he leading the children, and Luca and Isolde, into tragedy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=The Fury: The Director's Cut|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes the Fury as ''a zombie book without zombies''. This book has several things in common with the zombie genre; a group of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apart, and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for now. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan SmithMarcus Sedgwick|title=My Friend the EnemyWrath

|summary=It's 1941Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Peter wishes the war away every single day. His father Lockdown is away fighting. They rarely hear only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from him. Mr flipping Bennett is always at putting his house. Making sure foot in it when he and talks to his mother are managingbest friend, apparentlyCassie. That's not what They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the other children are enigmatic – sayingshe could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. They say Peter's mother Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is Mr Bennettalready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's fancy woman. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And they bully Peter about it. Despite farms lying all aroundcan Fitz find out the truth? Well, there isnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't much food. Everything is rationed..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190843581X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Julia Green|title=This Northern Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Kate is not happy. Still raw from the disaster with Sam, she's been whisked away on a long holiday with her parents to a remote Hebridean island. Even discounting a broken heart, this is not the type of holiday a vivacious teenage girl wants to go on. And there's more. Kate's parents have been rowing of late. And she knows that this holiday is a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. It's not something she wants to sit and observe, day after day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408820692</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margo Lanagan|title=Yellowcake|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=We should always make time for short stories. Especially if they are written by Margo Lanagan. In ''Yellowcake'', a traveller boy uses three items to reunite an old man with his memories. A boy with a crippled foot watches his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up in their harbour. Rapunzel gets a makeover in which things turn out differently. We find out how the Ferryman of the Dead became the Ferrywoman. And more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849921113</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Levithan and Andrea CremerTori Bovalino|title=InvisibilityThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Stephen 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 has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is cursed with invisibilitythe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. HeThe boarding school's never been seen by anyoneheadmaster, even his parentsand a man Tess hates. Elizabeth isn't invisibleAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, but sometimes scribbled with the ugliest insults she wishes she wascan think of. After problems back home, sheThey's hoping re never meant to make a new start in New York City by blending into the backgroundreach him, of course. Then she meets StephenHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and can see himthen take them all off before delivering them. What is No harm done… Or it about her thatwould be, if someone hadn's so special? The two fall t delivered them for each other hard - but in a world full of spells and curses, does love stand a chance?her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348879</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katherine LongshorePhilip Reeve|title=TarnishUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anne Boleyn In a word, rich. There is coming back to courtcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. After suffering embarrassment There are troll people on it, and exilesea-witches, Anne is not about to let this second chance slip through her fingers. But and legends of the trickery of court life is difficult Dark family that has to navigate, keep watch for magical islands and telling friend their monster approaching from foe can be even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the difference between social success and becoming a pariah. Luckily she Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the help of Thomas WyattHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, poet and infamous womaniserAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. He promises to make Anne the most popular woman at courtBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and when Anne starts to play his game, things start to escalate far further than anyone ever imagined. For not only does Anne manage to get curious ward are thrust into the court eating out world of her handprotecting their island, but the King is starting to sit up and take notice too..like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116964</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon RobinsonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Nowhere|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=There are 100 teenagers trapped in a prison for crimes they don't remember committing. Does anyone know they're there? What do Julia and the people holding them there want? And will they ever break out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014134654X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Krispy WhispersShark

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=''A woman stops you 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 summer, in the road and gazes fearfully into far NE of the pramScottish islands. "Your babies are not human Here be Vikings," she saysthat kind of Scottish island. Then she runs off.'' Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in Dad is going to be automating the nest? Are they really? Reallylantern, reallywhich is his specialist thing, really? Can you while mum will be sure? So begins leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the first story in ''Krispy Whispers''elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, a series of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgess. You also get a girl dreaming of richeswell, a lonely woman who she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds a pet and gets a boyfriend too closely together for mere coincidence. And a priest who actually meets God. And a very worrisome monster. Concentrate hard. Because you'll need to keep up..company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne FineJonathan Stroud|title=Blood FamilyThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=''Blood Family'' Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the companion novel Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to Anne Fine's ''The Devil Walks''keep herself alive. Both books feature But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy locked away from the world with dark powers and what happens when he is rescueda darker past. ''The Devil Walks'' is a Gothic shiver taleWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, set in they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the past but ''Blood Family'' is a contemporary storyLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, exploring what happens the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to children who have been abused and how their lives reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are affected. in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532405</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex GutteridgeMercedes Helnwein|title=Last Chance AngelSlingshot|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jess turns up at the gates of Heaven a few days early, causing a major headache for Darren the Angel of Death. To keep her quiet, he agrees that she can go back to Earth in an invisible form to see her friends and family and say goodbye. Can she find closure, or even a way to stay alive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848772998</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Skilton|title=Bruised|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Imogen is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. She's her grandmaster's top student. Agile, strong, and confident, she has dedicated years of her life to becoming this good. Then she gets the chance to use her skills when she's involved in an attempted hold-up at a diner - and freezes completely. The gunman gets shot, and she blames herself, losing all of her confidence. What good is Tae Kwon Do in the real world if she can't bring herself to do anything with it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419703870</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joanna Philbin|title=Rules of Summer|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rory wanted to get away from her mother, even if it means working as an errand girl for the wealthy Rule family. Isabel Rule just wanted a summer romance with a hot guy. I wanted a fun read with engaging characters. Guess which of the three of us was disappointed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001642</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claire Merle|title=The Fall|rating=4.5

|summary=In the futureGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a little way from now, priority in people fall into one of two camps, the ''Pures'' and the ''Crazies'', and society has changed almost beyond recognitions lives. The distinction is made through But when she defends a scientific testrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, but Ana has discovered something about the test which her simple existence is alarmingchanged for good. And when the rest of the country finds out what No longer can she knowsspend her time writing novels in solitude, there will be uproarfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571282911</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenT L Huchu|title=The Moon and MoreLibrary of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emeline Ropa Moyo is a conscientious studentghostalker, works hard using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for her familytheir living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's realty businessbeen using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and loves her long-term boyfriend Lukeaging grandmother. But as college draws near she wonders if However, there 's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is something she has missed by living year-round pulled into the search for a missing boy at the beachrequest of his dead mother. When other people come to She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the beach, they get to leave their real selves behind world of magic is far bigger and try on a new personamore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Her mom had her young Will she find the missing children and has always tried bring an end to provide Emeline with everything she could need. When a filmmaker’s assistant, Theo, comes into townthis evil, Emeline is intrigued by him and his very different New York City lifestyle. Maybe she does want something more than what or will it claim her old life has offered.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348291</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinKristen O'Neal|title=Rose Under FireLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=There's a list of names on the title page of this extraordinary and moving book. Note it well: these seventy-four women are real. As a group they were known as the Ravenbrück RabbitsHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, and they were Priya has to come to terms with the victims of medical experiments carried out to help improve surgery fact that she may be in constant pain for German soldiers wounded in the fieldrest of her life. Little or no anaestheticShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', poor aftercare: these things, while horrible, fit in an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with what we know of the concentration campschronic illnesses. What many will not know is the truly gut-wrenching fact that sometimes the doctors did not even bother to follow up on the experiments they carried They talk about their troubles and help each other out. All that pain, infection and disability (for those lucky enough while also providing an escape to survive the procedures), just joke and all for nothingmess around. They didnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't even help respond to the enemy soldiers recover from their injurieschat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265116</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siobhan Curham|title=Shipwrecked|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Delaney She decides to steal her parents' car and her friends from her dance school are really excited drive to have the opportunity Brigid's house to perform check up on a South Pacific cruise shipher. But when a storm hits and leaves them stranded on an island, theywhat she doesn're left fighting t expect to survive - find there is a werewolf in the basement – and fighting with each other, as tensions build when they start for that werewolf to panic about whether they'll be rescued. As if that wasn't bad enough, the island girl she has a dark secret - will they learn it before it's too late?been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405264578</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Lauren Miller|title=Parallel|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 meet the person who'll become your best friend, the moment you tell someone you love them. Others are more subtle and harder Move on to define, 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 seventeen-year-old version of her from a parallel world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=The Dark is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a child, 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 book, 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 read, whatever age you may be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]