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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Killing WoodsMax Boucherat|authortitle=Lucy ChristopherThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Popular girl Ashlee is dead. They’re saying We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the father of her lesshouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-popular classmate Emily is responsible. She cannot accept thisbreaking eleven year old, cannot accept that on her own father lonesome. What could do something like possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and thatis to log on to Voxminer, but all the evidence points world-building, critter-collecting game that way. Emily can’t stop thinking about itis a hit in Lori's world. She starts investigating what really happened in the woods But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy nightdoesn't find herself entirely on her own, but the and then she finds something even more she uncovers, spooky. For the more uneasy server she feelsand her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Could When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her father actually be safe place in the one who killed Ashlee? And should she stop digging before she unearths something really unpleasantgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906427720</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|title=She Is Not InvisibleFrontpage|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Laureth is used to her father's writerly obsessions and enthusiasms. She's accepted the fact that he will hare off across the world in search of some obscure information for a story, and the fact that he rarely asks her about herself and her life at school, preferring to lecture her instead about his latest theory. He even pays her to answer the fan mail on his website for him. And, like it or not, there's nothing she can do about the barely suppressed hostility that has grown in recent years between her parents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621094</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tone AlmhjellRachel Greenlaw|title=The Twistrose Key|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lin and her family are living in a rented house in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor of traditional songs at the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling in the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebush. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife Edge|author=Andrew Lane|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=All Sherlock's deductive powers are called into play as he struggles to find out exactly what is happening in a remote castle on the coast of Galway. How did the servant die, and why did she lose her shoes? Is there really a Dark Beast roaming the local beaches and caves as the villagers claim? And more significantly for world peace, is the self-proclaimed psychic Ambrose Albano a fraud, or can he really find out, and thus reveal, the secrets of international espionage from those beyond the grave?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fire With Fire|author=Siobhan Vivian Compass and Jenny HanBlade

|summary=With Reeve hospitalised after ''I can hear the terrible events at the end song of [[Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian|Burn for Burn]], Lillia, Kat and Mary must face the falloutsea. Mary is desperate for revenge despite The call of the other two starting to have cold feetdeep, but they agree to go through with their plan the answering beat in order to give her the satisfaction of seeing his my heart broken. As Lillia pretends to fall for the boy, though, she sees another side to Reeve and starts to wonder if he's as bad as Mary says he is. Can their friendship hold up under the strain of all the secrets and lies?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116905</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Wereworld: War of Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Werelords|author=Curtis Jobling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=With rocks and plundering the Catlords at each other's throatswrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, there appears is one of the seven who swim out to finally be survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a chance for Drew Ferran and his allies trap to win end the wrecking, they capture the war island's leader and bring peace Mira's father. Desperate to Lyssia. Stacked against save himfrom death, thoughMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, are still fearsome foes - including she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the dreadful Wyld Wolvessea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, mockeries as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of lycanthropes. Meanwhile Drewthe smuggler's adoptive brother Trentterritory, bitten by one of the vile creatures, knows that he is doomed Mira must be determined to become one but is determined stop at nothing to gain his revenge before he loses control. As the opposing forces gather, huge armies could decide save the fate future of her home and the Seven Realms... but in Icegarden, perhaps the ones she holds most deadly force of them all still has a part to play in this wardear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141345039</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Company of GhostsHarry Allen|authortitle=Berlie DohertyChildren of the Sun

|summary=Morag's family has its very own islandRa Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Tiny Life is hard and remote, it food is truly wild and wonderful. And the offer difficult to spend some time there with them couldn't have come at a better time for Ellieby, whose parents have just divorced. She'll be able to escape Mum so Seo and Angus. And she'll be able to paint for her father. But things don't work out quite as planned. To begin withfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, awkward, diffident Ellie has looking for tree bark and edible grasses to spend supplement the first night on the island alone with George, Morag's brusque older brother. And then George returns to the mainland to pick up supplies. He doesn't return. Abandoned, Ellie begins to see shadows. Hear footsteps. Feel icy kisses on her cheek each time she falls asleep..meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397295</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Model Misfit (Geek Girl 2)Alexia Casale|authortitle=Holly SmaleSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Harriet Manners has the opportunity of a lifetime. SheIt's been asked hard enough to go and model in Japannavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, a country shebut that's always wanted what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to visitchange her life. Struggling from a break-up with Nick But she comes back fighting, best friend Nat being sent abroad for desperate to avoid the summerpity stares, and her father and Annabel preparing for desperate to get back to a new baby, this should be exactly what life that's as normal as she needscan possibly manage. Of course Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, for Harriether music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, life is never quite that simple..and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489463</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=In BloomSimon Fox|authortitle=Matthew CrowDeadlock

|summary=Member of Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a loving but dysfunctional familygay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, life has rarely been straightforward for Francis Wooton, and he is no stranger to heartbreakit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Despite In thisstory, he's always maintained sensible plansGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to get good grades in his GCSEs and A Levels, and get into Universitytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, where he'll finally meet his real friends and the girl of his dreams. Unfortunatelyyou see, a whole new world of worry presents itself when he is diagnosed in love with leukaemia. He knows his mother and brother will do everything and anything they can to support him, but even they can do little to ease Bridget (the constant nausea, the allkingdom's only female knight) -pervasive pain, the horror of imminent baldness and the general bleak agony something that cancer bringsArt discovers from her private diaries. But every cloud has And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a silver liningboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and it is at creating the hospital unit that Francis first sets eyes on Ambersubterfuge of falling in love with each other, a girl unlike anyone else he has met beforewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Amber makes Francis feel more alive than But as their impending wedding draws evercloser, and if anything will they find a way in which they can help cure the despair of cancerboth truly be themselves, first love might just be it.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472105516</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnbreakableNick Brooks|authortitle=Kami GarciaPromise Boys

|summary=Set up centuries ago to fight When the threat principal (headmaster) of a malevolent demon, the Legion Urban Promise Prep school is a secret society consisting of just five members at any one timemurdered, tasked with three boys find themselves called into the responsibility of fighting and exorcising spiritspolice station as suspects. When all five members are murdered on the same night Each, seemingly, their responsibility suddenly falls to five teenagers. Twins Jared and Lukashas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, Priest and Alara each could have been trained from a young age in there at the skills required to tracktime of his murder. But who killed him, fight and destroy vengeance spirits. Howeverwhy, for Kennedy, who knows nothing and if any of her mother's role in the Legionboys are innocent, everything is overwhelmingly new and highly dangerous. She will have to learn fast, as she cannot afford to they be a liability as the team prepares able to take on a mission with the utmost of stakes.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118533</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Dream ThievesA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Maggie StiefvaterKitt Townsend

|summary=With the ley lines wakingSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, things are changing so why is he running around Cabeswater. Ronan is getting more and more adept at bringing his dreams London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to life, Gansey is needed at home, and Adam has made some mysterious new friendsthe second question because I avoid spoilers. At But I'll answer the centre of it all, Blue has to try to cope with her curse and her feelings first one: for the Raven Boyshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136623</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Resist (Breathe)Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Sarah CrossanDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted Ant is in environmental catastrophe Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and the world is a ravaged place in surprised to find his geography class (within which there isn't enough oxygen to fully sustain human life. A corporationit seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Breathe, runs so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the Podfootball team, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough)two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Outside As they're all fired up, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to straining at the Pod leash only a single- The Grove - destroyed by sex school can form, the Pod Ministrytalk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, Alinaas he doesn't know what his score is, Bea and Quinnwhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, our three central charactersa secret one, set out on separatefor several months now, but equally perilous, journeys to find and so has effectively progressed up the otherladder headed by 'experienced', Sequoia. And back but whether that's set in the Podstone, Ronan is rethinking the world he thought can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he lived in but didn'ts been having the relationship and the sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)Stitched Up|author=Chris Bradford and Sonia LeongSteve Cole

|summary=If you are looking for adventure, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slow momentfashion designer. But even as Life in the story races along at breakneck speedrural village where she lived with her family was happy, there is plenty if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to think about as well. This book has as much the village to offer the deep thinker as the adrenaline junky. Tata, Hahn a young Ninja job in training, is desperate Hanoi it was an opportunity not to prove himselfbe missed. He has failed Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the test for his black belt three times, but this was just a simple testmini-bus to Hanoi. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen Only, Hanh and all of the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another test, but this time the stakes are life and death, other girls were not only for himselfgoing to work in a shop, but for his clan. In order they were to succeed Tata must learn to find victory work in virtual slavery in failurean illegal garment factory. Most of all he must learn to believe in himself You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Tiger LilyFrontpage|author=Jodi Lynn Anderson|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Before Peter Pan belonged to Wendy, he belonged to the girl with a feather in her hair...'' ''Tiger Lily'' tells the story 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>}} {{newreviewPatrice Lawrence|title=United We Spy (Gallagher Girls)|author=Ally CarterNeedle|rating=53

|summary=The Circle Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of Cavan are still on the hunt this piece is extremely hard for Cammie Morgansome people to like, characters and readers both. Their other plans Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, thoughAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might be even perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more terrible than their hunt for the young spy. Can Cammie We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her friends save themselvestwo 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 take down the Circle before they carry out their deadly mission?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408314754</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Skull in the WoodsAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Sandra GreavesRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Dartmoor wasn't exactly Matt's first choice Kurara has spent her entire life as a place to spend his school holidays. He barely knows his Uncle or cousins, and there was obviously some bad blood between members of servant on the family. But his father was away for the summerMidori, as were most of his friends and he couldn't stand another day a massive dining hall floating in the house with his mother's new boyfriend, especially as their relationship was dashing any hopes Matt might have held sky where soldiers of his parents ever reuniting. But whatever the trouble may have been Empire come to drink and make merry between Matt's mother and his now dead Aunt Rosetheir conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, his Uncle Jack has welcomed Matt into his home and treated the boy someone with all the kindness one might expect for a prodigal son. His youngest cousin Kitty seems delighted power to have form paper into whatever she desires – a new member of power sought after all across the family Empire. He asks her to play come with as wellhim, but Tildato leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, who is near his own age cansoon Kurara won't stand him have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is determined forced to have this interloping city dweller flee out of into the way as quickly as possibleworld. Matt treats Tilda with same contemptShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, with the two children carrying on where their feuding parents left off.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908435623</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Waking World (The Future King)Marcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Tom HuddlestonWrath

|summary=''Many tales have been told Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of the boy who became our greatest kingfrustration at himself. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran Lockdown 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 only just over, and the Island is under threat. Bands of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning he should be free to attack further and further inlanddo what he wants, burning homes to go where he wants and taking slaves. Aran with whom he wants to join the fight against them , but that task has been given he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his older brotherbest friend, Cassie. Aran's future lies in overseeing They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the farmstead and world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not a future when Cassie has gone missing he wantscan't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryTori Bovalino|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]]. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Untold|author=Sarah Rees BrennanThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Kami GlassWorking all summer in her boarding school' hometown s library is about the last thing Tess Matheson wants to become ground zero do — especially when she gets a request for over a sorcerer fight for supremacyhundred books that she has to deliver herself. And What makes it worse is the sorcerers arenman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school't bothered about humans becoming collateral damage s headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post- in factit notes on each of the books, one faction wants a human sacrifice scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to increase the power reach him, of their magiccourse. Her plan is to get 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>0857078097</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|title=The Coldest Girl in ColdtownFrontpage|author=Holly Black|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with the problem of vampirism, cities have been given to the monsters and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a day, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see the deadliness behind the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about to find out. Along with her ex-boyfriend Aiden, who’s just been infected by a vampire and 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 her younger brother Richie, 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 finds herself being haunted by altogether more dangerous entities. 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 the machine is used, the weaker the gates between life and death grow, until nothing can stop the unmade being unleashed upon the town. Only Nick seems to know how to fight the ghosts, and Emma must help him to find the necromancer operating the Ghost Machine, before all hell breaks loose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192732501</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPhilip Reeve|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 Utterly Dark and breaking, skull dashed against the rocks whilst the icy water constricts his muscles and breath. Seth is consciously aware Face of his final moments. His death consumes him with a heavy, confusing blur until… he awakens and finds himself in a desolate, shattered world; naked, alone, 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 to America, but it is now overgrown and devoid of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Lord of Opium|author=Nancy Farmer|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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118290</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The 100|author=Kass MorganDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Nuclear war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable for centuriesIn a word, rich. The remains There is certainly an abundance of human societyriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, a colony of beyond the Scillies. There are troll people that managed to escape the cataclysmon it, live out their lives on massive cityand sea-like spaceships. Unfortunatelywitches, and legends of the spaceships are becoming unsustainable Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and as resources begin to run outtheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Council is forced Watcher, Andrewe, who has to introduce strict new plans and measures keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in an attempt his head to protect the remaining population. With options running worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of the dice: sea one hundred juvenile delinquents day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are sent to thrust into the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain life. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagersworld of protecting their island, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth takinglike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Ghost HawkJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]]Julia, our pre-teen heroine, but as surprised as I am has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to say this - this book is be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far betterNE of the Scottish islands. While still suitable for older children Here be Vikings, this that kind of Scottish island. Dad is definitely a book that adults will want going to read as well. The book be automating the lantern, which is more mature than her early workshis specialist thing, and while obviously gifted from mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the startelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, Cooper's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpiece, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead MenJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Derek LandyThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=''Kingdom Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Wicked'' left the magical world reeling Surviving Towns and on Faith Houses to wander the precipice of conflict, a conflict that erupts into full out war wildlands between Sanctuaries. Although the Supreme Council has vastly superior numbersSeven Kingdoms of Britain, Ireland is home robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to some of the most powerful sorcerers in the world, including the legendary Dead Men, creating a formula for endless violencekeep herself alive. But this is no straightforward war. Friends and former allies suddenly find themselves on opposing sides of the conflictthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and not everyone is prepared to follow ordersa darker past. Then there is the threat of an army of WarlocksWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, gathering they plan to flee to attack the mortal population, and thereby reveal the magical population to mythical Free Isles of the worldLondon Lagoon. And despite Roarhaven being the new site for the Irish SanctuaryTogether, can its populationthey must brave man-eating wildlife, including the secretive Children cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of The Spiderpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, really but will they 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 accepted there than they are in her head, the lure rest of that incredible power, she will watch everyone she cares about die by her own hand.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000748920X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HurtMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Tabitha SuzumaSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Matheo is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a golden boy. His "real" family , she is wealthy and he wants for nothing. He goes used to not being a prestigious private schoolpriority in people's lives. Oxbridge beckons. He But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is a champion diver and a hot prospect changed for the upcoming Olympicsgood. He moves No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the most desirable circles. And he solitude, for her life now has a beautiful, hot girlfriend boy in Lola. Most boys would give their eye teeth to be Matheoit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782300201</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boy Meets BoyT L Huchu|authortitle=David LevithanThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paul Ropa Moyo is gaya 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 using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and confident in his sexualityher aging grandmother. With a lovingHowever, supportive familythere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, he doesntargeting the city't have to hide s children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his feelingsdead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Life seems pretty good Will she find the missing children and bring an end to him - but falling in love can change everything.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007533039</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OstrichKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Matt GreeneLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Many years into the futureHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, after terrifying monsters called Priya has to come to terms with the Fade have taken over most of our world, the survivors have banded together fact that she may be in constant pain for the refuge rest of the Arclighther life. With nowhere She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to go, they stay within their wall of light - until a teenage girl Marina comes out bunch of the Dark other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and finds them. Marinahelp each other out, though, has lost her memorywhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. What is When Brigid—one of her secret, why are closest friends—doesn't respond to the Fade taking such chat for a special interest in herwhile, and can she help Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her rescuers fight back against them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405263946</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Stay Where You Are And Then Leave|author=John Boyne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Alfie is just five years old when the Great War breaks out in 1914. His father joins up straightaway. Cheerful letters come from Georgie for a while parents' car and Alfiedrive to Brigid's mother reads them house to himcheck up on her. But then the letters grow miserable and frightening. Alfiewhat she doesn's mother stops reading them aloud and hides them away - but Alfie finds them anyway. And then the letters stop altogether. Alfie t expect to find there is told that his father is on a secret mission werewolf in the basement – and can't write, but he sees through for that werewolf to be the lie immediately. And then, one day, a chance meeting tells Alfie exactly what girl she has happened been talking to his father. He's home from the front but he's in hospital, suffering from a condition nobody understood at online for the time: shell shockpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532936</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|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 Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]