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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robyn Schneider|title=Severed Heads, Broken Hearts|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ezra Faulkner thinks that everyone has a tragedy in their life, something which will forever define you. His happens when he loses his girlfriend, his tennis ambitions, and his social life in one night after a car accident shatters his knee. Drawn back towards his old friend Toby - whose own tragedy, years ago, was to catch a decapitated head on a theme park ride, forever dooming him to misfit status - he meets new girl Cassidy. With new friends around him and a potential new love, can Ezra rebuild his life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115461</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Paradise|author=Simone Elkeles|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Caleb Becker has spent the last year in juvie for hitting Maggie Armstrong in his car whilst drink driving. He thinks getting out of jail is the first step to things going back to normal, but he's about to learn exactly how much can change in a year and the terrible price of a secret within his family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119033</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The Summer Last Life of Telling Tales|author=Laura SummersLori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Grace and Ellie are at We meet Lori on the seaside with their mum. Theyfirst evening she're not on a holidays got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, though just an avidly rule- they've escaped from their domineering and abusive fatherbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. As the two settle into What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a new school blanket fort, she has one main intention, and make new friendsthat is to log on to Voxminer, Grace the world- who only ever speaks to Ellie building, critter- meets someone she can be collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself around, while Ellie reinvents herself as Elleentirely on her own, a confident and popular girl instead of then she finds something even more spooky. For the shy server she and her bestie and scared youngster she used nobody else should be able to beenter shows signs of tampering. But can they ever be free of When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the shadow of her fathergame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848122314</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AntigoddessRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Kendare BlakeCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Paranormal
|summary=Athena and her brother Hermes are a lot less godlike than they used to be. In fact, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside her and Hermes's body is eating itself. Literally. They are on a road trip to find out exactly what it is killing the gods and to save themselves if they can. No matter the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Split Second
|author=Sophie McKenzie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=Nat and Charlie are connected long before they meet. They were both there the day a terrorist bomb decimated the marketplace. Nat was trying to find his brother and stop him because he's pretty sure Lucas is the bomber. Charlie was sulking because her mother wouldn't let her get a tattoo. And the bomb went off. Charlie's mother died. Nat's brother was left in a coma. In this Britain of the near-future, beset by an endless cycle of more and more austerity, where people queue for free food handouts and racist extremist groups are increasingly dominating the public conversation, neither Charlie nor Nat had thought anything could get any worse. But it did.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115976</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Tregarthur's Promise
|author=Alex Mellanby
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mrs Tregarthur has assembled a very strange assortment of children for her hiking trip on Dartmoor. She seems to have collected the misfits, the trouble makers, and the unwanted. In other words, the children that will not be missed. This is of course more than a simple day trip. Mrs Tregarthur has made a dreadful promise which can only be fulfilled by the children. The children are more of a handful than she expects though and fail to reach the cave as quickly as she would like. When an earthquake drives some of the group into the cave for shelter the teacher shouts out the very strange words to Alvin: ''Keep my promise. Save him!'' Alvin soon has other things to worry about though as a cave-in leaves I can hear the group trapped. Eventually finding their way out on the other side, they find themselves in a primeval forest with no way back to their own homes or time. Survival will become a battle which not all song of them will win, but their biggest danger will not be the cold, starvation or dangerous animals. It will be from the other children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957315546</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Under Attack|author=Jim Eldridge and Dave Shepherd|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=My sons are army barmy as they say, and have been begging for military stories so I was delighted to see this in the Barrington Stoke rangesea. The book reminded me a bit call of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books with heroes blazing to the rescue, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with actiondeep, but there really does not seem to be any character development. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly and the British Army comes to the rescueanswering beat in my heart. A very small child is shot and the doctor elects to perform emergency surgery on a kitchen table rather than waiting for the helicopter to arrive, but the Taliban haven't given up. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next to the child's heart under the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... all the while under heavy fire. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|title=Gamer|author=Chris Bradford|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=''Gamer'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is written for one of the child seven who would rather be in front of a console than reading bookswim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Even But when the cover depicts action with Council Watch lays a scene that changes trap to depict fighting if you tilt end the wrecking, they capture the bookisland's leader and Mira's father. This isn't Desperate to say it lacks depth. This has save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a well developed plot, wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and very good characterisationwith only coordinates to guide her, but she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the action never stopssea. It is perfect for children who are used 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 high adrenaline experience heart of a video gamethe smuggler's territory, but it has plenty Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to offer save the child who loves books as wellfuture of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Have a Little FaithHarry Allen|authortitle=Candy HarperChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Faith has been moved into Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a different form talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to separate come by, so Seo and her from her friend Megsfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, as the teachers seem to think they're a bad combination. On the plus side, the school are bussing in cute boys looking for their choir - tree bark and Faith is ready edible grasses to get to know supplement the dreamy Finn a lot better. Until she realises he's singing a duet with her sworn enemy, meagre rations of rice and kimchi at leasthome. Can Faith get the boy? And will she be able to move back into the same form as Megs by impressing Miss Ramsbottom with her new found maturity?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078232</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Men Stood TogetherAlexia Casale|authortitle=Chris PriestleySing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A young boy lives in a harbour town with his mother. It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a happy life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the boy misses his father, middle of a sailor who left for the sea a year ago and died far from homedance performance that was going to change her life. He also dreams of But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the sea pity stares, and of adventuredesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. So when his uncle comes Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to visitsort out, full of stories of faraway lands and treasure, he is entranced. He ignores just the warning from day to day traumas of all the pilot's sonchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. How could his uncle be the devil? And, despite his mother So even though she can's tearst dance anymore, he follows his uncle might she be able to sea. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShineSimon Fox|authortitle=Candy GourlayDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.
|isbn=1839944420
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''This is not Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a ghost story even though there are plenty of ghosts gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in it. And it's not a horror story though some people might be horrifiedmost delightful way. It's not a monster In this story either, even though there is a monster in it Gwen and that monster happens Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to be me.'' Thirteen-year-old Rosa doesn't get out much. She lives with her fathertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, a doctoryou see, and their housekeeper-come-governess is in love with Bridget (the remote island community of Mirasol. Itkingdom's always raining on Mirasolonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And it's then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a superstitious placeboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. People believe that if the rain stops But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, evil will come. And they also believe that monsters find a way in which they can stop the rain. Monsters like Rosa. both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619200</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|title=Bloodtide|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Set in a world only a book could inhabit - half in a post-apocalyptic future, half in the mists of the myths of the past - ''Bloodtide'' retells part of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villains. Civilisation has long abandoned London to its criminals and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen'', genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violence. With the population trapped inside the city walls, Val Volson has risen to a position of power. Only King Conor is left standing in his way. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that his people can break out of the city and prosper. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Witches|author=LJ Adlington|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Rain Aranoza comes from Rodina. It's a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. And, in the tradition of all authoritarian societies, it is ruthless in stamping out traces of the Old World and its belief in witches. Rodina is controlled by a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control is enforced by the Scrutiners and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily lives. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Blinded by the LightFrontpage|author=Joe Kipling|rating=3.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Some time in a near-future Britain, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by the Boundary. Beyond the Boundary is Outside - a wasteland populated with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnn, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchester. And she's a rich and privileged Alpha. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would like, because then she'd be invited to cooler parties - they are influential in the Light, the Neighbourhood's leadership. So MaryAnn has designer clothes, servants, and nothing more to worry about than bagging a date with peer group kudos. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=The Testing |author=Joelle CharbonneauPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=I'll break from my usual reviewing style When the principal (headmaster) of starting off with Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a plot summary heregrudge of some description against Principal Moore, for reasons which will shortly become obviousand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and just start by saying ''The Testing'' is an interesting dystopian readwhy, with a wonderful narratorand if any of the boys are innocent, which I'd definitely recommend.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Phenomenals: A Game of GhoulsThief to Catch a Killer|author=F E HigginsKitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Once again, I’ve jumped right in here – going straight to the second book in a series. As it happens, A Game of Ghouls is not a bad one to do that with. You’re never left confused because you haven’t read the first one (A Tangle of Traitors) because they keep you up to date enough for it to be a fairly good stand alone. You want to find the first one though, because if it’s going to be anywhere near as good as this one it’s a book you want to read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330507567</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Up In Flames
|author=Nicole Williams
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elle Montgomery has spent her whole life doing exactly what sheSolomon Klyne isn's supposed to - what everyone else thinks t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how she should live her lifedid he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother. Outside, Elle is smiling politely and perfectly happy with her perfect-fit boyfriend. Inside, Elle is screaming for the chance to do something a bit wild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118460</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Heroes (Most Wanted)Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Anne PerryDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=Trench warfare 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 widely been acknowledged as restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the most soul destroying forms of combatfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It broke men physically As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and mentallyout often turns to sex. Death seemed inevitable Which is confusing for manyAnt, and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as release. So he doesn't know what his score is , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one more death among , for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death countsladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can not let this one go't be sure. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - And that's mostly because of who he was murdered 's been having the relationship and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forward, but there is far more to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this casethe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Moose BabyStitched Up|author=Meg RosoffSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother Twelve-year- except for one thing. Instead of giving birth old Hanh wanted to be a normal little girl as fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was expectinghappy, if not prosperous, she ends up delivering so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a 23lb moose calf by C-Sectionjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. It seems there has been a cluster of non homo Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-sapien births bus to human mothersHanoi. For some unexplained reason Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a number of women have given birth shop, they were to animals - mostly moosework in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Jess You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? feels confident she can cope The ones with the trials artfully-placed rips and tribulations of teenage parenthood. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks, her motherdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's disappointment quite possible that Hanh and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust toco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Memory: She's Dying to RememberPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Christoph MarziNeedle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jude can see Brave. Charlene, the dead'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. His life Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has changed immeasurably since taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he saw his first ghost about six months ago. He's lost interest at school uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and become even further distanced from his fatherthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, who works away as Charlene is a lot. Insteadwonder knitter, he spends most and is making something full of his time in Highgate Cemetery love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with the shapeshifting vixen Miss Rathbone a store detective, and a circle of dead then force people headed by ex-rock star Gaskellto give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Jude feels more at home with ghosts than he does with the living. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326507</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead BrigadeAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=James LovegroveRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Sergeant Jonah Hammond's career Kurara has been at spent her entire life as a standstill in servant on the years since he launched Midori, a complaint against a reckless commanding officer whose arrogance resulted massive dining hall floating in the massacre sky where soldiers of British soldiersthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Now However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that same officer she is offering Hammond another chance. This time Hammond won't have a Crafter like him, someone with the power to worry about some idiot getting his men form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all killed - because they are already deadacross the Empire. Hammond has been given the task of training a crack squad of reanimated soldiers, immune He asks her to pain, disease and capable of fighting come with massive injuries. These living dead are reanimated by nanobots. They are capable of learninghim, following instructions, and meant to be incapable leave the life of independent thoughtdreary servitude that is all she has known. HoweverWell, it soon becomes apparent that things donKurara won't always go have any say in the way they are meant to. These are not mindless killing machines; a part of them is still humanmatter, still because the soldier they once were, trapped within Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a decaying corpseshikigami, kept refrigerated until ready for and she is forced to flee out into the next missionworld. They have no lifeShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, nor do they have the luxury and a whole world of death.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995081</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Boy on the Wooden BoxMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Leon LeysonWrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is the memoir 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 putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one of hundred per cent the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's famous list of Jews saved enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the Nazis during World War IIearth. It opens between Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the wars, with Leon's family living in end of the small Polish town world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of Narewka. There wasn't much money but everyone was happy. Leonmusic she's father moved to Krakow in dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the hopes of making a better life and truth? Well, not when Leon and his siblings eventually join him, you Cassie has gone missing he can feel the wonder of a little boy new to the big city't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00CWEHR2G</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Burning Shadow (Gods and Warriors Book 2)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Michelle PaverThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A year after Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the [[Gods and Warriors (1) by Michelle Paver|first book]] in this series finished, we rejoin Hylas who last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has been captured, enslaved, and forced to work in deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the copper mines on Thalakreabooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a volcanic islandman Tess hates. The Crows still have 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 books, scribbled with the dagger ugliest insults she can think of prophecy. They're never meant to reach him, so this evil clan is still in controlof course. Hylas Her plan is determined to escape get her anger out like this, and find his missing sisterthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, but the mines are dangerous and run by ruthless slaversif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339284</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Cruel SummerPhilip Reeve|authortitle=James DawsonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Twelve months after Janey Bradshaw's suicideIn a word, her friends get together rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a secluded Spanish villa. After a year apartpeculiar island called Wildsea, there's a lot to talk about - British but way west, beyond the elephant in the room is Janey's deathScillies. Ryan Hayward isn't convinced she killed herself There are troll people on it, and sea- witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and when someone else their monster approaching from their old school turns upeven further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, they seem who has to confirm keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his suspicions. Except very quicklyhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, thereand Andrewe's another dead bodyfoundling daughter, and Ryan and his friends need to get rid who washed up out of the corpsesea one day eleven years ago. Of courseBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, where there's a murder victimboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, there's also a murderer - who can like it be? Will anyone stay alive to find out?or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621086</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Siege Kiran Millwood Hargrave and StormTom de Freston|authortitle=Leigh BardugoJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=On the run from the DarklingJulia, our pre-teen heroine, Alina has been packed off with her parents and Mal are together at last. But when he emerges their cat from the Shadow Fold with family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a horrific new powersummer, in the Darkling could prove himself far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be more dangerous than everautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Alina And Julia, well, she will be torn homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between her growing powerthe Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man she loves-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and her patriotism all the horrors of post- can she survive apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the oncoming stormrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621132</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Hold Your BreathMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Caroline GreenSlingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Tara can locate lost objects - keysGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, phones, and even she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But she knows that this strange ability can bring trouble, so when bully Melodie Stone goes missing, she wants to keep defends a random boy in her class with her visions to herself. The images she sees won't go awayslingshot, though - should she risk humiliation, or worse, by trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848121709</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=New England Rocks|author=Christina Courtenay|rating=2simple existence is changed for good.5|genre=Teens|summary=After being expelled from No longer can she spend her boarding schooltime writing novels in solitude, Rain Mackenzie gets sent abroad to New England, to live with for her parents and attend the local high school. Not expecting to like anything about the place, life now has a boy in it that she's surprised to find herself immediately falling never asked for the school heartthrob Jesse Devlin: Wade Scholfield. Will they end up together, or will Jesse's girlfriend Amber get in the way?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781890307</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PhoenixT L Huchu|authortitle=SF SaidThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Lucky thinks he Ropa Moyo is a normal Human boy. But one nightghostalker, he dreams that the stars are singing to him using Zimbabwean magic (and he can feel a mysterious power rising within himbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. When he wakesEver since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, his bedclothes are scorchedbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. And when his mother finds outHowever, Luckythere's world is turned upside down and he finds himself on an alien spaceshipevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, on targeting the runcity's children. Soon, and in Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the middle request of a warzonehis dead mother. Everything Lucky has been brought She will end up to believe discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is being tested. The war between Human far bigger and Axxa is raging, so why does Lucky's mother trust alien renegades more dangerous than she does humans? Where is his father? What are ever could've imagined. Will she find the secrets his mother has kept from him all his lifemissing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561814X</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin BenwayKristen O'Neal|title=Spy SocietyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sixteen-year-old Maggie Silver is a spyHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, just like Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her parentslife. WellShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', not quite like her parents - an online support group where she's far better than either at cracking safestalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Theytalk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn've always worked as a team, though, so when t respond to the Collective - the mysterious organisation that give them assignments in righting wrongs - choose her chat for a solo runwhile, shePriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's not sure what house to expectcheck up on her. Thrown into high school for the first time ever, But what shedoesn's got t expect to find there is a clear mission - make friends with Jesse Olivier, stop a security leak, werewolf in the basement – and get out. Making friends with Jesse is easy. It's for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the getting out witout anyone getting their heart broken which might be toughpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116743</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{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>}}Move on to [[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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