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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=New England RocksFrontpage|author=Christina Courtenay|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=After being expelled from her boarding school, Rain Mackenzie gets sent abroad to New England, to live with her parents and attend the local high school. Not expecting to like anything about the place, she's surprised to find herself immediately falling for the school heartthrob Jesse Devlin. Will they end up together, or will Jesse's girlfriend Amber get in the way?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781890307</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=Phoenix|author=SF SaidThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Lucky thinks he is 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 normal Human boy. But blanket fort, she has one nightmain intention, he dreams and that the stars are singing is to log on to him and he can feel a mysterious power rising within him. When he wakesVoxminer, his bedclothes are scorched. And when his mother finds outthe world-building, Luckycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world is turned upside down . But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and he then she finds himself on an alien spaceship, 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 the runher phone screen, and her safe place in the middle of a warzone. Everything Lucky game has been brought up to believe is being tested. The war between Human and Axxa is ragingdoctored – well, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more than she does humans? Where where is his father? What are the secrets his mother has kept from him all his lifea girl to turn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin BenwayRachel Greenlaw|title=Spy Society|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen-year-old Maggie Silver is a spy, just like her parents. Well, not quite like her parents - she's far better than either at cracking safes. They've always worked as a team, though, so when the Collective - the mysterious organisation that give them assignments in righting wrongs - choose her for a solo run, she's not sure what to expect. Thrown into high school for the first time ever, she's got a clear mission - make friends with Jesse Olivier, stop a security leak, Compass and get out. Making friends with Jesse is easy. It's the getting out witout anyone getting their heart broken which might be tough. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Flappers: Diva|author=Jillian Larkin|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Clara Knowles and Lorraine Dyer are both devastated by Marcus Eastman's upcoming wedding. Can either of them stop it? Meanwhile, Gloria Carmody is socialising with business mogul Forrest Hamilton, as befits an icon of flapperdom. But it's not just pleasure for Gloria - if she can get some information about Forrest for the FBI, her future with boyfriend Jerome could be a bright one. If not, she could be back in jail in the blink of an eye...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565067</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Weight of Souls|author=Bryony PearceBlade

|summary=Taylor Oh has inherited a curse from her mother''I can hear the song of the sea. Fated to help ghosts The call of murder victims get revengethe deep, or be taken by the Darkness herself, she lives her life answering beat in fear of being consumedmy heart. It's bad enough trying not to alienate her only friend, and persuade her father that she's not insane - but when school bully Justin gets murdered, she's left trying to solve the crime and also cope with the realisation she's becoming attracted to him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844639</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Black Dragon (Mysterium)|author=Julian Sedgwick|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Danny is a fish out of water at his public school. Half ChineseRosevear, he's still a newcomer after over a yearremote and partially forgotten island, having grown up in a circus called The Mysteriumsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Those days behind himMira, like her mother before her, he delights at is one of the chance seven who swim out to go survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Hong Kong with his guardian aunt Lauraend the wrecking, even while shethey capture the island's there working as an undercover journalist, investigating nightmarish Triad gangs. Once in that exotic world itleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a quandary to know just what side wreck survivor who is onas charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what with corrupt cropsmight save her father, people who are not as they appear and more – but what on earth is her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the connection between all this and heart of the darksmuggler's territory, disastrous ending Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the circus suffered?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444913700</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=All Our YesterdaysHarry Allen|authortitle=Cristin TerrillChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=Em Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Finn are being held prisoner by the Doctor. They never see each other but are able to communicate through the cell wallshe is a talented singer. This Life is a blessing but also a curse: they can each hear the interrogations hard and torture meted out food is difficult to the other. Neither talks but how much can they take? And then Em finds a note hidden in come by, so Seo and her cell. It's from her future self friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and it tells of fourteen escapes. And fourteen failed trips back edible grasses to supplement the past to try to put things right. There's only one way left. Em must kill someone she lovesmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835193</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Love in RevolutionAlexia Casale|authortitle=B R CollinsSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Everyone in her village It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life- in an unnamed Basque country - loves pello and Esteya is no different. Itchanging disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the national sport and its heroes are national heroes. That the holder middle of the Kings Cup hails from her village is a source of pride dance performance that was going to Esteya, change her twin brother Martin, and everyone elselife. Except older brother Leon. So when the Bull But she comes home for a visitback fighting, everyone is excited. And when a young peasant boy challenges him desperate to a game, everyone laughs. And when avoid the peasant boy winspity stares, everyone is shocked and discomfiteddesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Except Leon. Leon Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, a communist sympathiserher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, sees it as a symbolic victory of and just the peasant over the dissolute regime day to day traumas of all the Kingchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815702</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mitch BennSimon Fox|title=TerraDeadlock

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Terra Late one night Graham Blake is different late back from everyone else his shift on Fnrr the force, and not only because she has vowels in her name. You seethen suddenly rings Archie, Terra isn’t actually demanding he fetch something from Fnrra secret place, and join him on the run. Her adoptive They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father (Lbbpis arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a Fnrrn scientist) rescued her tin his father was determined to keep away from her parentshis colleagues, and the Bradshaws, on the planet Rrth in bearer of a moment whole heap of unthinking philanthropyquestions. If only he'd done a little more thinking and little less philanthropy…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575132086</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|title=ThemFrontpage|author=L A WeatherlyLex Croucher|rating=5|genretitle=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Kylie Gwen and her family had a prosperous upper middle class life - until the day Kylie's stepfather nearly beat her to death. Forced to flee, they ended up Art Are Not in a shelter, and are now trying to start life over with a very different set of circumstances. Kylie's Mom is working and exhausted, they live in a run down flat, and the money barely stretches to covering groceries - and as Kylie's little sister keeps reminding her - this is all her fault. Pressures build up with strange phone calls. Could Kylie's stepfather have found them? And of course there are the usual difficulties of starting a new school and trying to make friends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122091</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Winter Damage|author=Natasha CarthewLove|rating=54

|summary=''The moor and all Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it had got was out there waiting for her lifted my spirits in the darka most delightful way. In this story, a cold rock thingGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, hard as nails.'' But Ennor doesn't see another choice. She has much to go. The fourteen-year-old girl lives with her ailing father and autistic brothertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Tripyou see, is in a trailer on love with Bridget (the frozen Cornish moor. Ennorkingdom's mother has been gone for years only female knight) - after something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they lost the farm and Ennor's father turned to drugsfind themselves becoming reluctant allies, she turned to religion. And left. But now creating the country is subterfuge of falling to pieces. There in love with each other, when really they are riotsenabling their own other romantic attachments. There's no money to But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be earned. School has closed. Father is getting iller. They're behind on the rent and eviction is looming. The social themselves, or are threatening they destined to take Trip away. There's nothing else for it.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408835835</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby: After IrisNick Brooks|authortitle=Natasha FarrantPromise Boys

|summary=A few years after Iris's deathWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, her twin sister Bluebell is still getting used to life without herthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She's also having to cope with her parents' frequent absences Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the new au pairtime of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the cute boy who's just moved in next door. Can she solve all her problems? And boys are the rest of her family coping with Iris being gone any better than she isinnocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571278213</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Jon For Short1919635017|authortitle=Malorie Blackman and Vladimir Stankovic|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The book begins with a horrible dream of dark footsteps and the flash of knife blade plunging down again and again. Waking up brings no respite to the terror or pain for Jon, because his waking world is even more frightening than the nightmare. He wakes up in a darkened hospital room. There are now windows A Thief to the outside, only Catch a small frosted glass window to the hall which lets in a tiny bit of light. The nurses seem cruel and angry. They insist on calling him Joe, No matter how often he tells them his name is Jonathan - Jon for short. The nightmare comes again and again. It starts out exactly the same, but each time it goes on just a little longer and Jon sees a bit more. The dream is not the only cause of his terror. Each time when he wakes up, another part of his body has been removed. Piece by piece he is being dismembered. Soon there will be nothing left of him - and no one will tell him why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121958</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=All The Truth That's In MeKiller|author=Julie BerryKitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Four years agoSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, Judith and another girl disappeared. Two years ago, Judith came back alone, and unable so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to speakthe second question because I avoid spoilers. Shunned by most of But I'll answer the people in her close-knit community, can she find her voice to save those around her, and herself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670786152</amazonuk>first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RithmatistPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Brandon SandersonDifferent for Boys

|genre=teensTeens |summary=Rithmatists - those with special talents who defend ordinary people against wild chalklings - must study and train hard Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school , and is surprised to create find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the defenses , linesfootball team, and chalklings two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they'll use when they get to Nebraskre all fired up, straining at the frontline. Joel, leash only a pupil at one such single-sex schoolcan form, Armedius, studies harder than anyone else. He has a superb grasp of the strategies involved talk in class and knows he would be an asset out at the frontoften turns to sex. But Joel isn Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't a Rithmatist at allknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. They He're chosen in s had a casual relationship, a special ceremonysecret one, for several months now, and Joel was passed so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by. Now'experienced', as just an ordinary student at Armediusbut whether that's set in stone, he sneaks in to join the Rithmatics students whenever possible. That seems like all he can do - until Rithmatics students start disappearing't be sure. Could Joel And that's lack mostly because of ability keep him safe, who he's been having the relationship and therefore allow him to help solve the mystery?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444009532</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Heart-shapedStitched Up|author=Siobhan ParkinsonSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Ok. Before I even start reviewing, I need Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to explain just how much I loved this bookbe a fashion designer. It's Life in the companion to an earlier story from Siobhan Parkinsonrural village where she lived with her family was happy, ''Bruised''if not prosperous, over so when the same timeframe, smartly-dressed man and following woman came to the village to offer Hahn a supporting character whose story is intimately connectedjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Before I'd read to the end of Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the first chapter of ''Heartmini-shaped''bus to Hanoi. Only, which is all of two-Hanh and-the other girls were not going to work in a-half pages longshop, I'd fallen they were to work in love with Annie. And I knew I couldn't bear to read her story without reading Jono's, virtual slavery in ''Bruised'', firstan illegal garment factory. So I rushed orff to Amazon You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and downloaded it to my Kindle. You might not find distressed seams that particularly surprising, but it is. I review books. I hardly ever buy books because I have a pile of advance copies shouting felt so soft when you touched them? It''My turn! My turn!'' whenever I look their ways quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903608</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dangerous GirlsPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Abigail HaasNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Anna and her friends went to Aruba for Brave. Charlene, the Spring Break 'heroine' of all Spring Breaks. These are privileged kids from an exclusive private schoolthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. They have plenty Kicked out of money multiple homes and they intend to party hard before college beckons. Itschools, she's fostering with a tight grouppleasant yoga tutor, Annie, but no-one is tighter than Anna and Elisehas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. They have been inseparable since Elise rescued Anna from Such a high school bully. But now Anna also has Tate tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and this the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a first wonder knitter, and is making something full of love affair that consumes allfor her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, like a fireand then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Anna well, what exactly happens is beginning not for me to find it difficult say, only to balance these two intense relationships remark how sharp and she is hoping that this holiday will make everything great againpointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119149</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Ian JohnstoneRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The hero Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of this long the Empire come to drink and engrossing book make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a boy of twelveCrafter like him, orphaned, lonely and unlovedsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He spends asks her to come with him, to leave the little free time he life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in creating beautiful kites covered in complicatedthe matter, colourful designs until because the day he meets Midori is destroyed by a strange old man who sets him on the path to his destiny monstrous paper spirit known as a saviour of not one but two worldsshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. But in line with the traditions of She joins Himura aboard the genreOrihime, this path will be fraught with feara sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, danger and loss.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Brooklyn GirlsMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Gemma BurgessWrath

|summary=Sarah's mother was murdered Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and Sarah found the bodywith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. AgonisinglyThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she didn't even realise she'd found could hear a subhuman hum coming from the body at first earth. Is this connected with one of her eco- Sarah thought her mother was asleep on warrior parents saying the end of the sofa. But world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she wasn't. Borys - Sarah's sister Jude's boyfriend - has been accused dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the murder and the trial is coming uptruth? Well, with Sarah as a key witness. A school counsellor, a lawyer and a police officer are all trying to prepare her, but Sarah not when Cassie has gone missing he can't think about that. It's too dangerous. And she has more than a court case on her plate.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111581X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ghost StadiumTori Bovalino|authortitle=Tom Palmer The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke 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 for my son that she has to read on his owndeliver herself. He loves What makes it worse is the short but exciting stories, and man who requested the easy-to-read textbooks: Mr Birch. 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 boyThe boarding school's own adventure. Three boys, Lucasheadmaster, Irfan and Jack have come up with the perfect plan to start their summer holidays on a high noteman Tess hates. Their local football club has been closed As a petty act of revenge for years, but the boys have a scheme to get into the stadium one last time making her find and spend deliver such a night camping large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the pitchbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. My son immediately realised the football pitch would be the perfect place They're never meant to camp outreach him, of course. It Her plan is difficult to get into, but once thereher anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or 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..if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BrockPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Anthony McGowanUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The events of the badger bait are horrifying. Thankfully the author does not feel the need to give us all the gory detail, but in In a senseword, he has made it more terrifying but what is left unsaidrich. Everything about this book There is extremely realistic. I am certainly an adult, and this book had my stomach in knots. It isn't just what happens to the animals, but the psychological terror directed at the boys as well. This is made more intense by the level abundance of character development riches in this book. McGowan has created characters with such depth I can't help wondering if he has based any of this story set on real children. Perhaps not the badger baiting parta peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the inner turmoil created by povertyScillies. There are troll people on it, shattered familiesand sea-witches, and legends of the responsibility of being a caretaker at an early age as well many other personality traits which are so true Dark family that has to life it is difficult to believe you are reading fictionkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The characters in this book current Darks are so genuinethe Watcher, I feel as if I know them. My son also commented on how much he liked certain charactersAndrewe, a sure sign that who has to keep notes of activity from the author has succeeded Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in making his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the characters real to sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the readerworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122083</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=FallingJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''Falling'' is 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 far NE of the Scottish islands. book Here be Vikings, that I liked for some reasons, and disliked for otherskind of Scottish island. It Dad is very short and terribly bleak romance. Anna seems going to have it all. She be automating the lantern, which is popularhis specialist thing, pretty, and has an absolutely perfect and very wealthy boyfriend, Cam. I'm afraid I never warmed while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to Anna though. She comes across as one of those people who feel hunt the world revolves around themelusive Greenland shark. Self centred as she is And Julia, well, she does truly care for her best friend Tilly, perhaps more than will be homesick and alone – until she realises. It all comes together in tragic misunderstanding on the suddenly finds company one night of Cam's big party, a party he never wanted to have, but that Anna pushed him into.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122075</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippa GregoryJonathan Stroud|title=StormbringersThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Luca VeroScarlett McCain is an outlaw, his servant Frieze, and his clerk Brother Peter are investigating signs of rejecting the end draconian conformity of the world. Accompanied by Lady Isolde Surviving Towns and her servant Ishraq, they arrive in Piccolo just before Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the mysterious JohannSeven Kingdoms of Britain, a young body claiming robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to be called by Godkeep herself alive. He's followed by But then she meets Albert Browne, a horde of children who he's leading on dark boy with dark powers and a pilgrimage darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to Jerusalemflee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Even though his grandiose claims that Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the sea will part for them would seem absurd if anyone else said so, he's so charismatic that Luca cannibalistic Tainted and Isolde believe him all the horrors of post- could he really apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be chosen by God? Or is he leading any more accepted there than they are in the children, and Luca and Isolde, into tragedyrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077341</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Smith|title=My Friend the Enemy|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1941. Peter wishes the war away every single day. His father is away fighting. They rarely hear from him. Mr flipping Bennett is always at his house. Making sure he and his mother are managing, apparently. That's not what the other children are saying. They say Peter's mother is Mr Bennett's fancy woman. And they bully Peter about it. Despite farms lying all around, there isn't much food. Everything is rationed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843581X</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=David Levithan and Andrea Cremer|title=Invisibility|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Stephen is cursed with invisibility. He's never been seen by anyone, even his parents. Elizabeth isn't invisible, but sometimes she wishes she was. After problems back home, she's hoping to make a new start in New York City by blending into the background. Then she meets Stephen, and can see him. What is it about her that's so special? The two fall for each other hard - but in a world full of spells and curses, does love stand a chance?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348879</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katherine Longshore|title=Tarnish|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Anne Boleyn is coming back to court. After suffering embarrassment and exile, Anne is not about to let this second chance slip through her fingers. But the trickery of court life is difficult to navigate, and telling friend from foe can be the difference between social success and becoming a pariah. Luckily she has the help of Thomas Wyatt, poet and infamous womaniser. He promises to make Anne the most popular woman at court, 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 the court eating out of her hand, but the King is starting to sit up and take notice too...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116964</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon RobinsonMercedes Helnwein|title=NowhereSlingshot

|summary=There are 100 teenagers trapped in a prison for crimes they don't remember committingGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Does anyone know they're there? What do the people holding them there want? And will they ever break out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014134654X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Krispy Whispers|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=''A woman stops you in the road and gazes fearfully into the pram. "Your babies are not human," she says. Then she runs off.'' Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in the nest? Are they really? Really, really, really? Can you be sure? So begins the first story in ''Krispy Whispers'', As a series secret illegitimate daughter of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgess. You also get a girl dreaming of richesman with a "real" family, a lonely woman who 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Fine|title=Blood Family|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Blood Family'' she is the companion novel used to Anne Finenot being a priority in people's ''The Devil Walks''lives. Both books feature But when she defends a random boy locked away from the world and what happens when he in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is rescuedchanged for good. ''The Devil Walks'' is No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a Gothic shiver tale, set boy in the past but ''Blood Family'' is a contemporary story, exploring what happens to children who have been abused and how their lives are affectedit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532405</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex GutteridgeT L Huchu|title=Last Chance AngelThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jess turns up at the gates of Heaven Ropa Moyo is a few days earlyghostalker, causing using Zimbabwean magic (and a major headache for Darren bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Angel dead of DeathEdinburgh for their living relatives. To keep her quietEver since she dropped out of school, he agrees that she can go back 's been using it to Earth in support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an invisible form to see her friends occult library and family realise that the world of magic is far bigger and say goodbyemore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Can Will she find closurethe missing children and bring an end to this evil, or even a way to stay alivewill it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848772998</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SkiltonKristen O'Neal|title=BruisedLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Imogen is a black belt Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in Tae Kwon Doconstant pain for the rest of her life. Shejoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's her grandmaster's top student, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Agile, strongThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and confident, she has dedicated years mess around. When Brigid—one of her life closest friends—doesn't respond to becoming this goodthe chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Then she gets the chance She decides to use steal her skills when sheparents' car and drive to Brigid's involved in an attempted hold-house to check up at a diner - and freezes completelyon her. The gunman gets shot, and But what she blames herself, losing all of her confidence. What good doesn't expect to find there is Tae Kwon Do a werewolf in the real world if basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she can't bring herself has been talking to do anything with it?online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419703870</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Joanna Philbin|title=Rules of Summer|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rory wanted Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]