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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Time TrapFrontpage|author=Richard Smith|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who was Hector Lightfoot? And why did this 19th century soldier and engineer disappear in such mysterious circumstances? And who are the two ghosts inhabiting his house in 21st century London? Jamie and Todd are thrown into the mystery when they spend a weekend in London with Jamie's Uncle Simon who lives in the house that once belonged to Hector Lightfoot. Simon takes the two boys to see Hector's recently-discovered underground lab at the British Museum. When the building is struck by lightning, the two boys are sent back in time to the year 1862. They know that their only chance of returning home is to find Hector. But where is he? And can they avoid being sucked into a life of crime while they search for him? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780353855</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Endless Knight|author=Kresley Cole|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Evie has survived in the post Flash apocalyptic world in part because of the help of her Cajun boyfriend, Jack, and the other companions they've picked up along the way. But it's also because of Evie's impressive abilities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079212</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Tinder|author=Sally Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sally Gardner has followed her wonderful and haunting [[Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner|Maggot Moon]] with another story about a world at war, but although death and violence abound once again, the atmosphere here is very different. This time we are not in some alternate nineteen fifties Britain where the bad guys have won, but instead in the eerie, mist-filled world of the fairy tale. In this place wonders and magic lead the hero to his destiny, and love, power and greed are the catalysts for both joy and despair. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Curtsies and Conspiracies|author=Gail Carriger|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=With the end of her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality fast approaching, Sophronia is caught up in a conspiracy involving a mysterious trip to London, a prototype that everyone wants to get their hands on, and a potential threat to a friend. Can she save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411607</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Boy on the Porch|author=Sharon Creech|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Marta and John wake up one morning, there's a surprise in store. A little boy is asleep on their porch. He has an unsigned note asking the couple to care for him. And so they do. And they soon come to love him, even though he cannot talk. But they can't help but worry. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for him? And if they do, how will Marta and John bear to give him up - this little boy who paints blue trees, rides cows and can make music from anything?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397724</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The Ransom Last Life of Dond|author=Siobhan DowdLori Mills

|summary=Siobhan Dowd wrote just four novels before We meet Lori on the first evening she died from breast cancer in 2007. All four novels were wonderful and yet they weren't Siobhan's sole legacy got the house to herself – no neighbour to uspop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Patrick Ness took an idea of hers and What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, together with artist Jim Kayshe has one main intention, turned it into [[A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness|A Monster Calls]]and that is to log on to Voxminer, which won both the Carnegie and Greenaway prizes. And now we have ''The Ransom of Dond''world-building, Siobhancritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's last storyworld. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)|author=Jim Eldridge|rating=4|genre=Children But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's Non-Fiction|summary=Alan Turing was one of Britain's greatest thinkers of the last century. He did pioneering work t find herself entirely on computing her own, and artificial intelligencethen she finds something even more spooky. He was also a hero For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of World War IItampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, working and her safe place in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Parkgame has been doctored – well, cracking German naval codes used where is a girl to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was the man who beat the Enigma machine. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|title=Let It SnowFrontpage|author=John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren MyracleRachel Greenlaw|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=On Christmas Eve, the night of the worst storm in 50 years, Jubilee Dougal's parents are arrested after a riot over decorative houses. Sent to stay with her grandparents, her train gets stuck. She ditches the train, Compass and ends up in a waffle house with fourteen cheerleaders and various teen boys. Three best-selling authors team up to tell the story of this Christmas in a trio of interlinked novellas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141349174</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Letter for the King|author=Tonke DragtBlade

|summary=Gaby Winter's life used to be pretty ordinary. Apart 'I can hear the horrific nightmares she sometimes had about a guy and a nightclub and song of the death of her brother, Jude, things were going okaysea. Until the mysterious Rafa showed up and told her she was actually one The call of the Rephaim - a child of a fallen angel - and that she lived a whole other life that she can't rememberdeep, where she and Jude were warriors against demons, but on two opposite sidesthe answering beat in my heart. The other Rephaim thought she was dead. And now they think there's a chance Jude might be alive somewhere too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621590</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Butterfly Grave (Murder Notebooks)|author=Anne Cassidy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Just before ChristmasRosevear, Josh's uncle Stuart falls from a cliff in an horrific accidentremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Determined to helpMira, Joshlike her mother before her, Rose is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and friend Skeggsie head up any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Newcastle for end the festive season. Things are awkward between wrecking, they capture the threeisland's leader and Mira's father. Josh Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is becoming increasingly paranoid and is convinced they are being followed. Rose as charming as he is becoming more secretive and more withdrawnwith only coordinates to guide her, fixating on she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the deaths she has witnessedsea. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled in other peopleWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's problems when he has challenges territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of his ownher home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Close Your Pretty EyesHarry Allen|authortitle=Sally NichollsChildren of the Sun

|summary=Olivia is trapped, Ra Eun Seo lives in a world somewhat of her own making. She North Korean town and she is living a life of endless switching from a set of foster parents, to would-be adoptive parents, to care homestalented singer. Whenever she fetches up with nice adults, she worries too much about making mistakes, being too violent, clumsy, needy, noisy, spiteful – Life is hard and prefers then food is difficult to go the whole hog and make them despair of ever liking her, of losing all kind of sympathy with her. That way she can relax, knowing the truthcome by, knowing the hatred is there – just as it was when her alcoholic mother was abusing so Seo and abandoning her friends Nari and her baby siblings. Olivia is eleven. But in this one new house, with Jim, and his childrenMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the fostered young-mother-meagre rations of-a-babe-in-arms, something is different. Something is definitely older than Olivia, rice and certainly more evil, and most assuredly better kimchi at getting its own way…home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407124323</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ConquestAlexia Casale|authortitle=John Connolly and Jennifer RidyardSing if you Can't Dance

|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=The Earth has been invaded by the IllyriIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, a vaguely humanoid race far but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in advance the middle of humankind, who were able a dance performance that was going to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resistchange her life. They are keen But she comes back fighting, desperate to ensure avoid the human race remains compliantpity stares, but are mostly keen and desperate to get back to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying downlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. There is Meanwhile there's a very active resistancenew (cute!) boy in school, particularly in Scotlandher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, where and just the Scots come out day to day traumas of all the Highlands challenges her body continues to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburghthrow at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Saving SilenceSimon Fox|authortitle=Gina BlaxillDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sam moved to London fairly recently Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and has struggled to settle in. Imogen has never had problems making friendsthen suddenly rings Archie, she's demanding he fetch something from a former head girl secret place, and a school sports starjoin him on the run. She's tried to make friends with Sam, however They get together, but he doesn't seem interested - until one night barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when he approaches her out of the bluefather is arrested, only for someone leaving Archie on the late express to speed towards him and try Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to knock him over. Imogen saves keep away from his life - but why would anyone try to kill him? And has she put herself in danger by getting involved? With Sam reluctantly telling Imogen a secretcolleagues, and the pair are left frantically trying to save themselves from some seriously nasty peoplebearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447208846</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The TrapLex Croucher|authortitle=Andrew FukudaGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=''The Trap'' is the third and final book Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepers, eaten almost to extinctionmost delightful way. We left Gene and Sissy In this story, along with Epap Gwen and DavidArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission much to the Citytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, destined for the Ruler's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Originyou see, is in love with Bridget (the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Genekingdom's missing scientist father. But is only female knight) - something that all there is to it? Where did the Duskers come Art discovers from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley Junefind themselves becoming reluctant allies, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shadowlark|author=Meagan Spooner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark escaped creating the city subterfuge of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architectsfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will replenish after it is drained - are they find a way in demand - not as people but as a resource. But the architects have made Lark different. She which they can drain the magic of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basil. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Debutantes: In Love|author=Cora Harrison|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy and Daisy Derrington leave Beech Green Manor to launch both truly be themselves in London. The pair know , or are they need destined to marry well as their father is in dire financial straits - but marriage is something of live a distraction to lie their real dreams of films and music. Can they find themselves love and happiness in the Roaring Twentieswhole lives?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205952</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Naturals|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie Hobbes doesn't feel like an average teenager. Average teenagers don't lose their mothers to unsolved murders. Average teenagers can't profile other people within minutes of acquaintance. Average teenagers aren't headhunted by the FBI to train as specifically-talented crimefighters. Cassie Hobbes is special. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780876823</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B BabyNick Brooks|authortitle=Darren ShanPromise Boys

|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriesboys are innocent, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Gonewill they be able to clear their names? Good. The story so far|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077686</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=How A Thief to LoveCatch a Killer|author=Katie CotugnoKitt Townsend

|summary=Katie CotugnoSolomon Klyne isn's debut novel t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You''How ll have to wait to get an answer to Lovethe second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'' is, unsurprisingly, all about lovell answer the first one: for his grandmother. It has at its centre Reena and Sawyer, a gritty portrayal of first love. But it also has family love, friendship, and all those other kinds of loves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782060006</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Killing WoodsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Lucy ChristopherDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Popular girl Ashlee Ant is deadin Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. They’re saying As they're all fired up, straining at the father of her lessleash only a single-popular classmate Emily sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is responsible, where his achievements in that regard lie. She cannot accept this He's had a casual relationship, cannot accept that her own father could do something like thata secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but all the evidence points whether that way's set in stone, he can't be sure. Emily can’t stop thinking about it. She starts investigating what really happened in the woods And that night, but 's mostly because of who he's been having the more she uncovers, relationship and the more uneasy she feelssex with. Could her father actually be the one who killed Ashlee? And should she stop digging before she unearths something really unpleasant?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906427720</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=She Is Not InvisibleStitched Up|author=Marcus SedgwickSteve Cole

|summary=Laureth Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is used extremely hard for some people to her fatherlike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's writerly obsessions fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and enthusiasms. Shehas taken up residence in her son Blake's accepted the fact that old room while he will hare off across the world 's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in search need of some obscure information for a storycomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the fact that he rarely asks 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. We see Charlene prove her about herself belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her life at two days off school, preferring to lecture her instead about his latest theorywhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. He even pays her to answer the fan mail on his website for him. Andwell, like it or what exactly happens is notfor me to say, there's nothing she only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can do about the barely suppressed hostility that has grown in recent years between her parentsbe...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621094</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellAnn Sei Lin|title=The Twistrose KeyRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Lin and Kurara has spent her family are living in entire life as a servant on the Midori, a rented house massive dining hall floating in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor sky where soldiers of traditional songs at the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write Empire come to drink and play at riddling in the city as well as anywheremake merry between their conquests. But Lin hates it. She misses However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the farm where power to form paper into whatever she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with her friend Niklas. But most him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all, she misses her pet volehas known. Well, Rufussoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, who because the Midori is buried under destroyed by a rosebushmonstrous 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…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife EdgeMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Andrew LaneWrath

|summary=All Sherlock's deductive powers are called into play as Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he struggles should be free to find out exactly do what is happening he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a remote castle on desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the coast 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 Galway. How did the servant die, and why did world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she lose her shoes's dreaming of? Is there really a Dark Beast roaming the local beaches and caves as the villagers claimshe just bonkers? And more significantly for world peace, is the self-proclaimed psychic Ambrose Albano a fraud, or can he really Fitz find out, and thus reveal, the secrets of international espionage from those beyond the gravetruth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230758878</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Catherine FisherThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost Working all summer in time. Vennher boarding school's wife library is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husbandlast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Sarah still hasn't prevented What makes it worse is the destruction of man who requested the future by Janusbooks: Mr Birch. And the Scarred Man still hasnThe boarding school't dones headmaster, well, whatever it is that he's trying to doand a man Tess hates. The Chronoptika, As a mirror made petty act of black obsidian revenge for making her find and deliver such a time travel devicelarge request, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the restbooks, 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 and Jenny Han|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=With Reeve hospitalised after scribbled with the terrible events at the end ugliest insults she can think of [[Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian|Burn for Burn]], Lillia, Kat and Mary must face the fallout. Mary is desperate for revenge despite the other two starting They're never meant to have cold feetreach him, but they agree to go through with their of course. Her plan in order is to give get her the satisfaction of seeing his heart brokenanger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. As Lillia pretends to fall for the boyNo harm done… Or it would be, though, she sees another side to Reeve and starts to wonder if hesomeone hadn's as bad as Mary says he ist delivered them for her. Can their friendship hold up under the strain of all the secrets and lies?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116905</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Wereworld: War Utterly Dark and the Face of the Werelords|author=Curtis JoblingDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=With In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Catlords at each other's throatsScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, there appears and legends of the Dark family that has to finally be a chance keep watch for Drew Ferran magical islands and his allies to win their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the war and bring peace to Lyssia. Stacked against himWatcher, thoughAndrewe, are still fearsome foes - including who has to keep notes of activity from the dreadful Wyld WolvesHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, mockeries of lycanthropes. Meanwhile Drewand Andrewe's adoptive brother Trentfoundling daughter, bitten by one who washed up out of the vile creatures, knows that he is doomed to become sea one but is determined to gain his revenge before he loses controlday eleven years ago. As the opposing forces gatherBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, huge armies could decide both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the fate world of the Seven Realms... but in Icegardenprotecting their island, perhaps the most deadly force of them all still has a part to play in this warlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141345039</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Company of GhostsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Berlie DohertyJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Morag's family Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has its very own island. Tiny and remote, it is truly wild been packed off with her parents and wonderful. And their cat from the offer family home in SW England to spend some time there with them couldn't have come at be lighthousekeepers for a better time for Elliesummer, whose parents have just divorcedin the far NE of the Scottish islands. She'll Here be able Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to escape Mum and Angus. And she'll be able to paint for her father. But things don't work out quite as planned. To begin withautomating the lantern, awkwardwhich is his specialist thing, diffident Ellie has while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to spend hunt the first night on the island alone with George, Morag's brusque older brotherelusive Greenland shark. And then George returns to the mainland to pick up supplies. He doesn't return. AbandonedJulia, well, Ellie begins to see shadows. Hear footsteps. Feel icy kisses on her cheek each time she falls asleep..will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397295</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Model Misfit (Geek Girl 2)Jonathan Stroud|authortitle=Holly SmaleThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners has Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the opportunity draconian conformity of a lifetime. She's been asked the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to go wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and model in Japan, a country she's always wanted shooting other outlaws to visitkeep herself alive. Struggling from But then she meets Albert Browne, a break-up dark boy with Nick, best friend Nat being sent abroad for the summer, and her father dark powers and Annabel preparing for a new baby, this should be exactly what she needsdarker past. Of courseWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, for Harriet, life is never quite that simple...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489463</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=In Bloom|author=Matthew Crow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Member of a loving but dysfunctional family, life has rarely been straightforward for Francis Wooton, and he is no stranger they plan to heartbreak. Despite this, he's always maintained sensible plans, flee to get good grades in his GCSEs and A Levels, and get into University, where he'll finally meet his real friends and the girl mythical Free Isles of his dreamsthe London Lagoon. UnfortunatelyTogether, a whole new world of worry presents itself when he is diagnosed 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 the constant nauseamust brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all-pervasive pain, the horror horrors of imminent baldness and post-apocalyptic society to reach the general bleak agony that cancer brings. But every cloud has a silver liningFree Isles, and it is at the hospital unit that Francis first sets eyes on Amber, a girl unlike anyone else he has met before. Amber makes Francis feel but will they be any more alive accepted there than ever, and if anything can help cure they are in the despair rest of cancer, first love might just be it.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472105516</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnbreakableMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Kami GarciaSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Set up centuries ago Gracie Welles has resigned herself to fight the threat of a malevolent demon, the Legion is being lonely. As a secret society consisting illegitimate daughter of just five members at any one time, tasked a man with the responsibility of fighting and exorcising spirits. When all five members are murdered on the same nighta "real" family, their responsibility suddenly falls she is used to five teenagersnot being a priority in people's lives. Twins Jared and Lukas, Priest and Alara have been trained from But when she defends a young age random boy in the skills required to trackher class with her slingshot, fight and destroy vengeance spiritsher simple existence is changed for good. HoweverNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for Kennedy, who knows nothing of her mother's role life now has a boy in the Legion, everything is overwhelmingly new and highly dangerous. She will have to learn fast, as it that she cannot afford to be a liability as the team prepares to take on a mission with the utmost of stakesnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118533</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dream ThievesT L Huchu|authortitle=Maggie StiefvaterThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=With the ley lines wakingRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, things are changing around Cabeswater. Ronan is getting more using Zimbabwean magic (and more adept at bringing his dreams a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to lifetake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, Gansey is needed at homeshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and Adam has made some mysterious new friendsher aging grandmother. At However, there's an evil stalking the centre ruined streets of it allEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Blue has to try to cope with her curse Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and her feelings for realise that the Raven Boysworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407136623</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|title=Resist (Breathe)Frontpage|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Kristen O''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted in environmental catastrophe and the world is a ravaged place in which there isn't enough oxygen to fully sustain human life. A corporation, Breathe, runs the Pod, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough). Outside, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to the Pod - The Grove - destroyed by the Pod Ministry, Alina, Bea and Quinn, our three central characters, set out on separate, but equally perilous, journeys to find the other, Sequoia. And back in the Pod, Ronan is rethinking the world he thought he lived in but didn't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)|author=Chris Bradford Lycanthropy and Sonia LeongOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=''Before Peter Pan belonged Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to Wendy, he belonged come to terms with the girl with a feather fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her hair..life.She joins '' Oof Ouch My Bones''Tiger Lily'' tells the story , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of Neverland after Peter Pan arrived but before Wendy cameother teens living with chronic illnesses. Our narrator is TinkThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the silent, sometimes jealouschat for a while, fairyPriya becomes concerned. And our heroine is Tiger Lily, the native girl who is strange even She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her fellow villagers. Tiger Lily But what she doesn't believe expect to find there is a werewolf in love stories but when the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she meets Peter Pan in has been talking to online for the forbidden woods of Neverland, her heart burns with a fire she had never expectedpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833044X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=United We Spy (Gallagher Girls)|author=Ally Carter|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The Circle of Cavan are still Move 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>}}to [[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]