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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Waking World (The Future King)Max Boucherat|authortitle=Tom HuddlestonThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''Many tales have been told of We meet Lori on the boy who became our greatest king. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran is the son of one of the Islandfirst evening she's wealthiest Laws. He lives in got the underground farmstead of Hawk's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere and the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning house to attack further and further inland, burning homes and taking slaves. Aran wants to join the fight against them but that task has been given herself – no neighbour to his older brother. Aran's future lies pop in overseeing the farmstead and it's not a future he wants. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=Fire & Ash|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books in the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this review. So if you haven't read the others, get thee over to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Untold|author=Sarah Rees Brennan|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kami Glass' hometown is about to become ground zero for a sorcerer fight for supremacy. And the sorcerers aren't bothered about humans becoming collateral damage - What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in facta blanket fort, she has one faction wants a human sacrifice to increase the power of their magic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078097</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Coldest Girl in Coldtown|author=Holly Black|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, vampires existmain intention, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities have been given that is to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast log on TV 24 hours a dayto Voxminer, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeenworld-yearbuilding, critter-old Tana collecting game that is about to find outa hit in Lori's world. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire and But first Lori has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, and a mysterious vampire named Gavriel, she’s headed for the largest Coldtown of them all. Can they get there – and if they do, will any of them survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Haunted|author=William Hussey|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emma Rhodes is haunted by the memory of tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her younger brother Richieown, whose death has torn apart her family and left Emma plagued by intense guilt. But when the arrival of a mysterious boy, Nick Redway, heralds the arrival of spirits of the dead to Milton Lake, Emma then she finds herself being haunted by altogether something even more dangerous entitiesspooky. The 'unmade' are spirits of people who died violent, unexpected deaths, now corrupt and desperate to possess living flesh. A necromancer is calling the dead back to the world using the fabled Ghost Machine. The more For the machine is used, the weaker the gates between life server she and death grow, until nothing can stop the unmade being unleashed upon the town. Only Nick seems to know how to fight the ghosts, her bestie and Emma must help him nobody else should be able to find the necromancer operating the Ghost Machine, before all hell breaks loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192732501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=More Than This|author=Patrick Ness|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Here is the boy, drowning.'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the sea, arms and legs flailing and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware enter shows signs of his final momentstampering. His death consumes him with a heavy When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself her safe place in a desolate, shattered world; naked, alonethe game has been doctored – well, starving and alive. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move is a girl to America, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Lord of OpiumRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Nancy FarmerCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=At last! A long-awaited sequel to Nancy Farmer's acclaimed ''House of the Scorpion'', in which she explored the life of a little boy who was created solely to provide organs for the failing body of a drug lord. Matt's story was exciting and heartbreaking - would you want to find out you were a clone? It was also incredibly thought-provoking, exploring ideas of prejudice, power, courage, love and sacrifice. And it all took place in a dystopian future in which the drug trade was all but legitimised and in which people are enslaved by microchips in the brain.
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{{newreview
|title=The 100
|author=Kass Morgan
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Nuclear war has rendered ''I can hear the song of the Earth uninhabitable for centuriessea. The remains of human society, a colony call of people that managed to escape the cataclysm, live out their lives on massive city-like spaceships. Unfortunately, the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin to run outdeep, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans and measures answering beat in an attempt to protect the remaining population. With options running out, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent to the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain life. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagers, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth takingmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=Ghost Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I loved Susan CooperRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother 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 capture the island's leader and Mira's [[The Dark father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised charming as I am he is secretive and with only coordinates to say this - this book is far better. While still suitable for older childrenguide her, this is definitely she sets off in search of a book family secret that adults will want lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to read unearth what might save her father, as well. The book is more mature than her early works, and while obviously gifted journey takes her from the start, Cooperwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's talents have matured as well. This book is territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing short to save the future of a masterpieceher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead MenHarry Allen|authortitle=Derek LandyChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Kingdom of the Wicked'' left the magical world reeling Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and on the precipice of conflict, a conflict that erupts into full out war between Sanctuaries. Although the Supreme Council has vastly superior numbers, Ireland she is home to some of the most powerful sorcerers in the world, including the legendary Dead Men, creating a formula for endless violencetalented singer. But this Life is no straightforward war. Friends hard and former allies suddenly find themselves on opposing sides of the conflict, and not everyone food is prepared difficult to follow orders. Then there is the threat of an army of Warlockscome by, gathering to attack the mortal populationso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and thereby reveal the magical population edible grasses to supplement the world. And despite Roarhaven being the new site for the Irish Sanctuary, can its population, including the secretive Children meagre rations of The Spider, really be trusted? And looming above all this chaos is the greatest threat of all: Darquesse. Valkyrie knows that she doesn't have any more second chances. If she succumbs to that sinister voice in her head, the lure of that incredible power, she will watch everyone she cares about die by her own handrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000748920X</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HurtAlexia Casale|authortitle=Tabitha SuzumaSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Matheo It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a golden boydance performance that was going to change her life. His family is wealthy But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and he wants for nothing. He goes desperate to get back to a prestigious private school. Oxbridge beckonslife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. He is Meanwhile there's a champion diver new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and a hot prospect for just the upcoming Olympics. He moves in day to day traumas of all the most desirable circleschallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. And he has a beautiful So even though she can't dance anymore, hot girlfriend in Lola. Most boys would give their eye teeth might she be able to be Matheo. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300201</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreview|title=Boy Meets Boy|author=David Levithan|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paul is gay, and confident in his sexuality. With a loving, supportive family, he doesn't have to hide his feelings. Life seems pretty good to him - but falling in love can change everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007533039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ostrich|author=Matt Greene|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon]] deserves every piece of praise it received, as a children's novel with plenty to interest older readers and a wonderful way of portraying Asperger's Syndrome through its narrator, Christopher Boone. ''Ostrich'' by Matt Greene follows quite similar lines, although this time the narrator, Alex, has a brain tumour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869523</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ArclightFrontpage|author=Josin L McQuein|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Many years into the future, after terrifying monsters called the Fade have taken over most of our world, the survivors have banded together in the refuge of the Arclight. With nowhere to go, they stay within their wall of light - until a teenage girl Marina comes out of the Dark and finds them. Marina, though, has lost her memory. What is her secret, why are the Fade taking such a special interest in her, and can she help her rescuers fight back against them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405263946</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|title=Stay Where You Are And Then Leave|author=John BoyneDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Alfie Late one night Graham Blake is just five years old when late back from his shift on the Great War breaks out in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from Georgie for a while secret place, and Alfie's mother reads them to join him. But then on the letters grow miserable and frighteningrun. Alfie's mother stops reading them aloud and hides them away - They get together, but Alfie finds them anyway. And then barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the letters stop altogether. Alfie is told that his father is arrested, leaving Archie on a secret mission and can't write, but he sees through the lie immediately. And then, one daylate express to Brighton, toting a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what has happened to tin his father. He's home was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the front but he's in hospital, suffering from bearer of a condition nobody understood at the time: shell shockwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robyn SchneiderLex Croucher|title=Severed Heads, Broken HeartsGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ezra Faulkner thinks Who knew that everyone has what I really needed to read right now was a tragedy gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their lifemutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something which will forever define youthat Art discovers from her private diaries. His happens And then when he loses his girlfriendGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, his tennis ambitionscreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, and his social life in one night after a car accident shatters his kneewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Drawn back towards his old friend Toby - whose own tragedy But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, years ago, was to catch will they find a decapitated head on a theme park rideway in which they can both truly be themselves, forever dooming him or are they destined to misfit status - he meets new girl Cassidy. With new friends around him and live a potential new love, can Ezra rebuild his lifelie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115461</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ParadiseNick Brooks|authortitle=Simone ElkelesPromise Boys|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Caleb Becker has spent When the last year in juvie for hitting Maggie Armstrong in his car whilst drink driving. He thinks getting out principal (headmaster) of jail Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the first step to things going back to normalpolice station as suspects. Each, seemingly, but he's about to learn exactly how much can change in has a year grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the terrible price time of a secret within his familymurder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471119033</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreview|title=The Summer of Telling TalesFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Summers|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Grace and Ellie are at the seaside with their mum. They're not on a holiday, though - they've escaped from their domineering and abusive father. As the two settle into a new school and make new friends, Grace - who only ever speaks to Ellie - meets someone she can be herself around, while Ellie reinvents herself as Elle, a confident and popular girl instead of the shy and scared youngster she used to be. But can they ever be free of the shadow of her father?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848122314</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1919635017|title=Antigoddess|author=Kendare Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Athena and her brother Hermes are a lot less godlike than they used A Thief 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 Catch 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>}} {{newreview|title=Split SecondKiller|author=Sophie McKenzieKitt Townsend
|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.
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{{newreview
|title=Tregarthur's Promise
|author=Alex Mellanby
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mrs Tregarthur has assembled Solomon Klyne isn't a very strange assortment of children for her hiking trip on Dartmoor. She seems to have collected the misfitsbad lad, the trouble makers, and the unwanted. In other words, the children that will not be missed. This so why is of course more than a simple day trip. Mrs Tregarthur has made he running around London committing a dreadful promise which can only be fulfilled by the children. The children are more series of a handful than she expects though and fail robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to reach the cave as quickly as she would like. When get an earthquake drives some of the group into answer to the cave for shelter the teacher shouts out the very strange words to Alvin: ''Keep my promisesecond question because I avoid spoilers. Save him!'But I' Alvin soon has other things to worry about though as a cave-in leaves ll answer the group trappedfirst one: for his grandmother. 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 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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Under AttackPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Jim Eldridge and Dave ShepherdDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=My sons are army barmy as they sayAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and have is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been begging for military stories restructured, so I was delighted to see this in the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit his desk is one of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books four with heroes blazing to both his best buddy from the rescuefootball team, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to be any character developmentprimary school days together. The story itself is very simple but flat. The Taliban attacks As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a hospital repeatedly single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the British Army comes out often turns to the rescuesex. A very small child Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is shot and the doctor , where his achievements in that regard lie. elects to perform emergency surgery on He's had a casual relationship, a kitchen table rather than waiting secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the helicopter to arriveladder headed by 'experienced', but the Taliban havenwhether that's set in stone, he can't given upbe sure. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next to the child And that's mostly because of who he's heart under been having the most desperate of circumstances, without blood, anaesthetics etc.... all relationship and the while under heavy firesex with. Will the British Army be able to save the day?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122113</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=GamerStitched Up|author=Chris BradfordSteve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=''Gamer'' is written for the child who would rather Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be in front of a console than reading bookfashion designer. Even Life in the cover depicts action rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a scene that changes job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to depict fighting if you tilt be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the book. This isn't mini-bus to say it lacks depthHanoi. This has a well developed plot Only, Hanh and very good characterisation, but the action never stops. It is perfect for children who are used other girls were not going to the high adrenaline experience of work in a video gameshop, but it has plenty they were to offer work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the child who loves books as wellartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Have a Little FaithPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Candy HarperNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Faith has been moved into a different form to separate her from her friend MegsBrave. Charlene, as the teachers seem 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to think theylike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she're s fostering with a bad combinationpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. On Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the plus sidecreation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, the school are bussing in cute boys for their choir - and Faith is ready to get to know the dreamy Finn making something full of love for her younger sister – a lot better. Until younger sister she realises he's singing allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a duet with store detective, and then force people to give her sworn enemytwo days off school, at leastwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Can Faith get the boy? And will she then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be able to move back into the same form as Megs by impressing Miss Ramsbottom with her new found maturity?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078232</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title=The Dead Men Stood TogetherRebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMarcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A Meet Fitz, a young boy lives 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 with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in a harbour town with it when he talks to his motherbest friend, Cassie. It's They were half of a happy lifedesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the boy misses his father, enigmatic – saying she could hear a sailor who left for subhuman hum coming from the sea a year ago and died far from homeearth. He also dreams Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the sea and end of adventure. So when his uncle comes to visit, full the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of stories of faraway lands and treasure, he is entranced. He ignores the warning from the pilotmusic she's son. How could his uncle be dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the deviltruth? AndWell, despite his mothernot when Cassie has gone missing he can's tears, he follows his uncle to seat... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShineTori Bovalino|authortitle=Candy GourlayThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''This s library is not the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a ghost story even though there are plenty of ghosts in itrequest for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. And What makes it's not a horror story though some people might be horrifiedworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's not a monster story eitherheadmaster, even though there is and a monster in it and that monster happens to be meman Tess hates.'' Thirteen-year-old Rosa doesn't get out much. She lives with As a petty act of revenge for making her father, find and deliver such a doctorlarge request, and their housekeeperTess sticks post-come-governess in it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the remote island community ugliest insults she can think of Mirasol. ItThey's always raining on Mirasolre never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. And No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's a superstitious place. People believe that if the rain stops, evil will come. And they also believe that monsters can stop the rain. Monsters like Rosat delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619200</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BloodtidePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Melvin BurgessUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary=Set in In a world only a book could inhabit - half word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a post-apocalyptic futurepeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, half in beyond the mists of the myths of the past Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea- ''Bloodtide'' retells part witches, and legends of the Volsunga saga - Icelandic tales of gods and heroes and villains. Civilisation Dark family that has long abandoned London to its criminals keep watch for magical islands and its gang wars, going so far as to surround its borders with released ''halfmen''their monster approaching from even further west, genetically manipulated creatures with a lust for violencewhere no ship dare sail. With The current Darks are the population trapped inside the city wallsWatcher, Andrewe, Val Volson who has risen to a position keep notes of power. Only King Conor is left standing activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his wayhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But Val wants peace. He wants unity so that when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his people can break out curious ward are thrust into the world of the city and prosperprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849396957</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night WitchesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=LJ AdlingtonJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary=Rain Aranoza comes Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from Rodina. It's the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a nation of science and rationality. It holds no truck with superstition and religion. Andsummer, in the tradition far NE of all authoritarian societiesthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, it is ruthless in stamping out traces that kind of the Old World and its belief in witchesScottish island. Rodina Dad is controlled by a network known as Aura and Aura encourages denunciations. Control going to be automating the lantern, which is enforced by his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Scrutiners elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and Aura instructs citizens in even the minutiae of their daily livesalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444904310</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Blinded by the LightJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Joe KiplingThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Dystopian FictionTeens|summary=Some time in a near-future BritainScarlett McCain is an outlaw, things look very different. The Sandman virus wiped out most rejecting the draconian conformity of the population. The fortunate few live in one of three Neighbourhoods, each protected by Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the Boundary. Beyond wildlands between the Boundary is Outside - a wasteland populated with infected feral Echoes. Luckily for MaryAnnSeven Kingdoms of Britain, she lives in the Neighbourhood that was once known as Manchesterrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. And But then she's meets Albert Browne, a rich dark boy with dark powers and privileged Alphaa darker past. Although her parents aren't celebrities - which MaryAnn would likeWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, because then she'd be invited they plan to flee to cooler parties - they are influential in the Light, mythical Free Isles of the Neighbourhood's leadershipLondon Lagoon. So MaryAnn has designer clothesTogether, servantsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and nothing all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more to worry about accepted there than bagging a date with peer group kudos. they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909776009</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Testing Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Joelle CharbonneauSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=I'll break from my usual reviewing style Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of starting off a man with a plot summary here"real" family, for reasons which will shortly become obviousshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, and just start by saying ''The Testing'' her simple existence is an interesting dystopian readchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, with for her life now has a wonderful narrator, which I'd definitely recommendboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776535</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= T L Huchu|title=The Phenomenals: A Game Library of Ghouls|author=F E Higginsthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Once againRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, I’ve jumped right in here – going straight using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the second book in a seriesdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. As Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it happensto support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, A Game there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Ghouls Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is not pulled into the search for a bad one to do missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that with. You’re never left confused because you haven’t read the first one (A Tangle world of Traitors) because they keep you up to date enough for it to be a fairly good stand alonemagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. You want to Will she find the first one though, because if it’s going missing children and bring an end to be anywhere near as good as this one it’s a book you want to read.evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330507567</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Up In FlamesKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Nicole WilliamsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
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|summary=Elle Montgomery Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has spent her whole life doing exactly what she's supposed to - what everyone else thinks is how come to terms with the fact that she should live may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. OutsideShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Elle is smiling politely and perfectly happy an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with her perfect-fit boyfriendchronic illnesses. InsideThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, Elle is screaming for the chance while also providing an escape to do something a bit wild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118460</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Heroes (Most Wanted)|author=Anne Perry|rating=4just joke and mess around.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Trench warfare has widely been acknowledged as one When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the most soul destroying forms of combat. It broke men physically and mentally. Death seemed inevitable chat for manya while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and life was so horrible that at times it must have come as releasedrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. So But what she doesn't expect to find there is one more death among a werewolf in the multitudes? To Chaplain Joseph Reavely every death counts, but he can not let this one go. Morton was not killed by enemy fire - he was murdered basement – and Joseph will not rest until justice is done. It sounds pretty straight forward, but there is far more for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to it than this and justice is truly poetic in this caseonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842995103</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|title=Moose Baby|author=Meg Rosoff|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jess is a pretty average teenage mother - except for one thing. Instead of giving birth Move on to a normal little girl as she was expecting, she ends up delivering a 23lb moose calf by C-Section. It seems there has been a cluster of non homo-sapien births to human mothers. For some unexplained reason, a number of women have given birth to animals - mostly moose. Jess feels confident she can cope with the trials and tribulations of teenage parenthood. She can handle the midwives' harsh looks, her mother's disappointment and her boyfriend's parents' disapproval. But giving birth to a moose instead of a human may be more than any mother can adjust to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781121974</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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