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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=UnbreakableFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Set up centuries ago to fight the threat of a malevolent demon, the Legion is a secret society consisting of just five members at any one time, tasked with the responsibility of fighting and exorcising spirits. When all five members are murdered on the same night, their responsibility suddenly falls to five teenagers. Twins Jared and Lukas, Priest and Alara have been trained from a young age in the skills required to track, fight and destroy vengeance spirits. However, for Kennedy, who knows nothing of her mother's role in the Legion, everything is overwhelmingly new and highly dangerous. She will have to learn fast, as she cannot afford to be a liability as the team prepares to take on a mission with the utmost of stakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118533</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The Dream Thieves|author=Maggie StiefvaterLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=With We meet Lori on the ley lines wakingfirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, things are changing around Cabeswaterjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Ronan What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is getting more and more adept at bringing his dreams to lifelog on to Voxminer, Gansey the world-building, critter-collecting game that is needed at homea hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and Adam has made some mysterious new friendsthen she finds something even more spooky. At For the centre server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of it alltampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Blue has to try to cope with her curse and her feelings for safe place in the Raven Boys.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407136623</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Resist (Breathe)Rachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Sarah CrossanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and I can hear the world is a ravaged place in which there isn't enough oxygen to fully sustain human life. A corporation, Breathe, runs song of the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough)sea. Outside, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to the Pod - The Grove - destroyed by call of the Pod Ministry, Alina, Bea and Quinn, our three central characters, set out on separate, but equally perilousdeep, journeys to find the other, Sequoiaanswering beat in my heart. And back in the Pod, Ronan is rethinking the world he thought he lived in but didn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)|author=Chris Bradford and Sonia Leong|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=If you are looking for adventureRosevear, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has a slow moment. But even as the story races along at breakneck speedremote and partially forgotten island, there is plenty to think about as well. This book has as much to offer survives on luring ships into the deep thinker as rocks and plundering the adrenaline junkywrecks. TataMira, a young Ninja in traininglike her mother before her, is desperate one of the seven who swim out to prove himselfsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. He has failed But when the test for his black belt three times, but this was just Council Watch lays a simple test. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen, and all of trap to end the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another testwrecking, but this time they capture the stakes are life island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, not Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only for himselfcoordinates to guide her, but for his clanshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. In order With only nine days to succeed Tata must learn unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to find victory in failure. Most the heart of all he the smuggler's territory, Mira must learn be determined to believe in himselfstop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=Tiger LilyFrontpage|author=Jodi Lynn AndersonHarry Allen|rating=4|genretitle=Teens|summary=''Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with a feather in her hair...'' ''Tiger Lily'' tells the story Children of Neverland after Peter Pan arrived but before Wendy came. Our narrator is Tink, the silent, sometimes jealous, fairy. And our heroine is Tiger Lily, the native girl who is strange even to her fellow villagers. Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories but when she meets Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland, her heart burns with a fire she had never expected. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833044X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=United We Spy (Gallagher Girls)|author=Ally CarterSun

|summary=The Circle of Cavan are still on the hunt for Cammie Morgan. Their other plans, though, might be even more terrible than their hunt for the young spy. Can Cammie and her friends save themselves, and take down the Circle before they carry out their deadly mission?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314754</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Skull Ra Eun Seo lives in the Woods|author=Sandra Greaves|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Dartmoor wasn't exactly Matt's first choice as a place to spend his school holidays. He barely knows his Uncle or cousins, North Korean town and there was obviously some bad blood between members of the family. But his father was away for the summer, as were most of his friends and he couldn't stand another day in the house with his mother's new boyfriend, especially as their relationship was dashing any hopes Matt might have held of his parents ever reuniting. But whatever the trouble may have been between Matt's mother and his now dead Aunt Rose, his Uncle Jack has welcomed Matt into his home and treated the boy with all the kindness one might expect for she is a prodigal sontalented singer. His youngest cousin Kitty seems delighted to have a new member of the family to play with as well, but Tilda, who Life is near his own age can't stand him hard and food is determined difficult to have this interloping city dweller out of the way as quickly as possible. Matt treats Tilda with same contemptcome by, with the two children carrying on where their feuding parents left off.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908435623</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Waking World (The Future King)|author=Tom Huddleston|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Many tales have been told of the boy who became our greatest king. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran is the son of one of the Island's wealthiest Laws. He lives in the underground farmstead of Hawk's Cross. He wants for nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere so Seo and the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning to attack further her friends Nari and further inlandMin go foraging every evening, burning homes looking for tree bark and taking slaves. Aran wants edible grasses to join supplement the fight against them but that task has been given to his older brother. Aran's future lies in overseeing the farmstead meagre rations of rice and it's not a future he wantskimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryAlexia Casale|title=Fire & AshSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=ALERTIt'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 dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute! Spoilers for early books ) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the Rot & Ruin series are scattered throughout this reviewday to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So if you haveneven though she can't read the othersdance anymore, get thee over might she be able to my words about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book one]]. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UntoldSimon Fox|authortitle=Sarah Rees BrennanDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Kami Glass' hometown Late one night Graham Blake is about to become ground zero for late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a sorcerer fight for supremacysecret place, and join him on the run. And They get together, but barely begin to smell the sorcerers aren't bothered about humans becoming collateral damage - in factwhiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, one faction wants toting a human sacrifice tin his father was determined to increase keep away from his colleagues, and the power bearer of a whole heap of their magicquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078097</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Coldest Girl in ColdtownLex Croucher|authortitle=Holly BlackGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=3.54

|summary=In the future, vampires existWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, and everyone knows itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. To try In this story, Gwen and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities Arthur have been given betrothed since they were tiny, much to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can entertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a dayyou see, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind is in love with Bridget (the glitz. Seventeenkingdom's only female knight) -year-old Tana is about to find outsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a vampire and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, and a mysterious vampire named Gavrielboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, she’s headed for creating the largest Coldtown subterfuge of them allfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Can But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they get there – and if find a way in which they docan both truly be themselves, will any of them surviveor are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HauntedNick Brooks|authortitle=William HusseyPromise Boys|rating=3.54

|summary=Emma Rhodes When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is haunted by murdered, three boys find themselves called into the memory of her younger brother Richiepolice station as suspects. Each, seemingly, whose death has torn apart her family and left Emma plagued by intense guilt. But when the arrival a grudge of a mysterious boysome description against Principal Moore, Nick Redway, heralds and each could have been there at the arrival of spirits time of the dead to Milton Lake, Emma finds herself being haunted by altogether more dangerous entitieshis murder. The 'unmade' are spirits of people But who died violent, unexpected deathskilled him, 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 the machine is usedwhy, the weaker the gates between life and death grow, until nothing can stop if any of the unmade being unleashed upon the town. Only Nick seems to know how to fight the ghostsboys are innocent, and Emma must help him will they be able to find the necromancer operating the Ghost Machine, before all hell breaks loose.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192732501</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=More Than ThisA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Patrick NessKitt Townsend

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''Here is the boyt a bad lad, drowning.'' And Seth does drown. He so why 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 of his final moments. His death consumes him with a heavy, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in running around London committing a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, starving and alive. This place looks familiar. It looks exactly like the English village where series of robberies? And how did he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident and his family’s move learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to America, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human lifethe second question because I avoid spoilers. It is as if But I'll answer the whole place was simply abandoned first one day: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Lord of OpiumPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Nancy FarmerDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTeens |summary=At last! A long-awaited sequel Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to Nancy Farmer's acclaimed ''House 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 Scorpion'football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, in which she explored straining at the life of leash only a little boy who was created solely single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to provide organs sex. Which is confusing for the failing body of a drug lordAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Matt He's story was exciting and heartbreaking - would you want to find out you were had a clone? It was also incredibly thought-provokingcasual relationship, exploring ideas of prejudicea secret one, powerfor several months now, courageand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', love and sacrificebut whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And it all took place in a dystopian future in which that's mostly because of who he's been having the drug trade was all but legitimised relationship and in which people are enslaved by microchips in the brainsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118290</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The 100Stitched Up|author=Kass MorganSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Nuclear war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable for centuriesTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. The remains of human society, a colony of people that managed to escape Life in the cataclysmrural village where she lived with her family was happy, live out their lives on massive city-like spaceships. Unfortunatelyif not prosperous, so when the spaceships are becoming unsustainable smartly-dressed man and as resources begin woman came to run out, the Council is forced village to introduce strict new plans and measures offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an attempt opportunity not to protect be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the remaining populationmini-bus to Hanoi. With options running out Only, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of Hanh and the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent other girls were not going to the Earth work in a shop, they were to test if work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the planet can once more sustain life. There is no telling what ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the remaining radiation will do to legs? The ones with the teenagers, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth takingartfully-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>1444766880</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperPatrice Lawrence|title=Ghost HawkNeedle|rating=53

|summary=I loved Susan CooperBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's [[The Dark at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]]part of the plot here, but as surprised as I am to say this - this book Charlene is far better. While still suitable for older childrena wonder knitter, this and is definitely making something full of love for her younger sister – a book that adults will want to read as wellyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. The book is more mature than We see Charlene prove her early worksbelligerence with a store detective, and while obviously gifted from the startthen force people to give her two days off school, Cooper's talents have matured 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.. This book is nothing short of a masterpiece.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead MenAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Derek LandyRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Kingdom of the Wicked'' left the magical world reeling and Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the precipice of conflictMidori, a conflict that erupts into full out war between Sanctuaries. Although the Supreme Council has vastly superior numbers, Ireland is home to some of the most powerful sorcerers massive dining hall floating in the world, including the legendary Dead Men, creating a formula for endless violence. But this is no straightforward war. Friends and former allies suddenly find themselves on opposing sides sky where soldiers of the conflict, Empire come to drink and not everyone is prepared to follow ordersmake merry between their conquests. Then there is the threat of an army of WarlocksHowever, gathering when a man named Himura arrives to attack the mortal populationtell her that she is a Crafter like him, and thereby reveal someone with the magical population power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the worldEmpire. And despite Roarhaven being the new site for the Irish SanctuaryHe asks her to come with him, can its population, including to leave the secretive Children life of The Spider, really be trusted? And looming above all this chaos dreary servitude that is the greatest threat of all: Darquesseshe has known. Valkyrie knows that she doesnWell, soon Kurara won't have any more second chances. If she succumbs to that sinister voice say in her headthe matter, because the lure of that incredible powerMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she will watch everyone she cares about die by her own handis 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000748920X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HurtMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Tabitha SuzumaWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Matheo is Meet Fitz, a golden boyyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. His family Lockdown is wealthy only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants for nothing, 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. He goes to They were half of a prestigious private desultory school. Oxbridge beckons. He is band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a champion diver and a hot prospect for subhuman hum coming from the upcoming Olympicsearth. He moves in Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the most desirable circles. world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he has a beautiful, hot girlfriend in Lolacan't.. Most boys would give their eye teeth to be Matheo. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300201</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boy Meets BoyTori Bovalino|authortitle=David LevithanThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Paul Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is gaythe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and confident in his sexualitya man Tess hates. With As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a lovinglarge request, supportive familyTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, he doesnscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They't have re never meant to hide his feelingsreach him, of course. Life seems pretty good Her plan is to him - but falling in love can change everythingget her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007533039</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OstrichPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Matt GreeneUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Alfie In a word, rich. There is just five years old when the Great War breaks out certainly an abundance of riches in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come from Georgie for this story set on a while and Alfie's mother reads them to him. But then peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the letters grow miserable and frighteningScillies. Alfie's mother stops reading them aloud There are troll people on it, and hides them away sea- but Alfie finds them anyway. And then witches, and legends of the letters stop altogether. Alfie is told Dark family that his father is on a secret mission has to keep watch for magical islands and can't writetheir monster approaching from even further west, but he sees through where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the lie immediately. And thenWatcher, one dayAndrewe, a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what who has happened to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his father. Hehead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's home from foundling daughter, who washed up out of the front but he's in hospitalsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, suffering from a condition nobody understood at both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the time: shell shockworld of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{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 Kiran Millwood Hargrave and a potential new love, can Ezra rebuild his life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115461</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTom de Freston|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 Julia and the terrible price of a secret within his family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471119033</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Summer of Telling Tales|author=Laura SummersShark|rating=54

|summary=Grace Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Ellie are at their cat from the seaside with their mum. They're not on family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a holidaysummer, though - they've escaped from their domineering and abusive fatherin the far NE of the Scottish islands. As the two settle into a new school and make new friends Here be Vikings, Grace - who only ever speaks that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to Ellie - meets someone she can be herself aroundautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while Ellie reinvents herself as Ellemum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, a confident and popular girl instead of the shy well, she will be homesick and scared youngster alone – until she used to besuddenly finds company one night. But can they ever be free of the shadow of her father?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848122314</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AntigoddessJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Kendare BlakeThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=ParanormalTeens|summary=Athena Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and her brother Hermes are a lot less godlike than darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they used plan to flee to bethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. In factTogether, they are dying. Athena is being slowly suffocated by feathers growing inside her and Hermes's body is must brave man-eating itself. Literally. They are on a road trip to find out exactly what it is killing wildlife, the gods cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to save themselves if reach the Free Isles, but will they can. No matter be any more accepted there than they are in the cost to themselves or others. Gods don't count costs. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833075X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|title=Split SecondFrontpage|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>}} {{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=Tregarthur's Promise|author=Alex MellanbySlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Mrs Tregarthur Gracie Welles has assembled a very strange assortment of children for her hiking trip on Dartmoor. She seems resigned herself to have collected the misfits, the trouble makers, and the unwantedbeing lonely. In other words, the children that will not be missed. This is As a secret illegitimate daughter of course more than a simple day trip. Mrs Tregarthur has made man with a dreadful promise which can only be fulfilled by the children. The children are more of a handful than "real" family, she expects though and fail is used 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 not being a cave-priority in leaves the group trappedpeople's lives. 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 But when she defends 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>}} {{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 random boy in the Barrington Stoke range. The book reminded me a bit of a cross between the old Commando comic books and Action Man books her class with heroes blazing to the rescueher slingshot, but sadly I found something lacking. It is a very short story and packed with action, but there really does not seem to be any character development. The story itself is very her simple but flat. The Taliban attacks a hospital repeatedly and the British Army comes to the rescue. A very small child existence is shot and the doctor elects to perform emergency surgery on a kitchen table rather than waiting changed for the helicopter to arrive, but the Taliban haven't given upgood. The doctor valiantly tries to operate to remove a bullet next to the child's heart under the most desperate of circumstancesNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, 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'' is written for the child who would rather be her life now has a boy in front of a console than reading book. Even the cover depicts action with a scene it that changes to depict fighting if you tilt the book. This isn't to say it lacks depth. This has a well developed plot, and very good characterisation, but the action she never stops. It is perfect asked for children who are used to the high adrenaline experience of a video game, but it has plenty to offer the child who loves books as well: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781121389</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Have a Little FaithT L Huchu|authortitle=Candy HarperThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Faith has Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been moved into a different form using it to separate support not only herself, but her from younger sister and her friend Megsaging grandmother. However, as there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the teachers seem to think theycity're a bad combinations children. On the plus sideSoon, Ropa is pulled into the school are bussing in cute boys search for their choir - a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and Faith realise that the world of magic is ready to get to know the dreamy Finn a lot better. Until far bigger and more dangerous than she realises heever could's singing a duet with her sworn enemy, at leastve imagined. Can Faith get Will she find the boy? And missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will she be able to move back into the same form as Megs by impressing Miss Ramsbottom with it claim her new found maturitytoo?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078232</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dead Men Stood TogetherKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Chris PriestleyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=A young boy lives in a harbour town Having recently been diagnosed with his mother. It's a happy lifechronic Lyme disease, but Priya has to come to terms with the boy misses his father, a sailor who left fact that she may be in constant pain for the sea a year ago and died far from home. He also dreams of the sea and rest of adventureher life. So when his uncle comes to visit, full of stories of faraway lands and treasure, he is entranced. He ignores the warning from the pilotShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's son. How could his uncle be the devil? And, despite his mother's tears, he follows his uncle an online support group where she talks to sea. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408841738</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shine|author=Candy Gourlay|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''This is not a ghost story even though there are plenty bunch of ghosts in itother teens living with chronic illnesses. And it's not a horror story though some people might be horrified. It's not a monster story eitherThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, even though there is a monster in it while also providing an escape to just joke and that monster happens to be memess around.'' Thirteen-year-old Rosa doesnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't get out muchrespond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She lives with decides to steal her father, a doctor, parents' car and their housekeeper-come-governess in the remote island community of Mirasol. Itdrive to Brigid's always raining house to check up on Mirasolher. And itBut what she doesn's t expect to find there is a superstitious place. People believe werewolf in the basement – and for that if werewolf to be the rain stops, evil will come. And they also believe that monsters can stop girl she has been talking to online for the rain. Monsters like Rosapast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619200</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]