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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm BodiesFrontpage|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)|author=Emmy Laybourne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at the end The Last Life of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]. Niko, Alex and six others were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find the US military evacuation team. Dean, Astrid and three of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outside. And when we say poisoned, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skulk|author=Rosie BestLori Mills

|summary=Who was Hector Lightfoot? And why did this 19th century soldier and engineer disappear in such mysterious circumstances? And who are We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the two ghosts inhabiting his house to herself – no neighbour to pop in 21st century London, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Jamie Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Todd are thrown into that is to log on to Voxminer, the mystery when they spend world-building, critter-collecting game that is a weekend hit in London with JamieLori's Uncle Simon who lives in the house world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that once belonged to Hector Lightfootthis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Simon takes For the two boys server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to see Hector's recently-discovered underground lab at the British Museumenter shows signs of tampering. When the building is struck by lightningmalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, the two boys are sent back and her safe place in time to the year 1862. They know that their only chance of returning home is to find Hector. But game has been doctored – well, where is he? And can they avoid being sucked into a life of crime while they search for himgirl to turn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780353855</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Endless KnightRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Kresley ColeCompass and Blade

|summary=Evie has survived in ''I can hear the post Flash apocalyptic world in part because song of the help sea. The call of her Cajun boyfriendthe deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, Jacka remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the other companions they've picked up along wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the wayruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But itwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's also because father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of Eviea family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's impressive abilitiesterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857079212</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TinderHarry Allen|authortitle=Sally GardnerChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Sally Gardner has followed her wonderful and haunting [[Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner|Maggot Moon]] with another story about Ra Eun Seo lives in a world at war, but although death North Korean town and violence abound once again, the atmosphere here she is very differenta talented singer. 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 Life is hard and magic lead the hero food is difficult to his destinycome by, so Seo and loveher friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, power looking for tree bark and greed are edible grasses to supplement the catalysts for both joy meagre rations of rice and despairkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621493</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Curtsies and ConspiraciesAlexia Casale|authortitle=Gail CarrigerSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=With the end of her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality fast approachingIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Sophronia but that's what Ven is caught up dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a conspiracy involving a mysterious trip dance performance that was going to Londonchange her life. But she comes back fighting, a prototype that everyone wants desperate to get their hands onavoid the pity stares, and a potential threat desperate to get back to a friend. Can life that's as normal as she save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411607</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Boy on the Porch|author=Sharon Creech|rating=4can possibly manage.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Marta and John wake up one morning, Meanwhile there's a surprise new (cute!) boy in store. school, her music A little boy is asleep on their porch. He has an unsigned note asking the couple Level performance piece to care for him. And so they do. And they soon come try to love himsort out, 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 just the day to give him up - this little boy who paints blue trees, rides cows and can make music from anything?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ransom day traumas of Dond|author=Siobhan Dowd|rating=4all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Siobhan Dowd wrote just four novels before So even though she died from breast cancer in 2007. All four novels were wonderful and yet they werencan't Siobhan's sole legacy to us. Patrick Ness took an idea of hers anddance anymore, together with artist Jim Kay, turned it into [[A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness|A Monster Calls]], which won both the Carnegie and Greenaway prizes. And now we have ''The Ransom of Dond'', Siobhan's last story. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)|author=Jim Eldridge|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Alan Turing was one of Britain's greatest thinkers of the last century. He did pioneering work on computing and artificial intelligence. He was also a hero of World War II, working in the famous code-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used might she be able to lethal effect organising U-boat attacks. Turing was the man who beat the Enigma machine. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Let It SnowSimon Fox|authortitle=John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren MyracleDeadlock

|summary=It's midsummer Late one nightGraham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Tiuri is one of five young men locked up in then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a chapel with one more night of silent penance between them secret place, and join him on the ceremony that makes them knights of the realm, when a stranger lures him outsiderun. The elderly man gives Tiuri They get together, but barely begin to smell the task whiff of delivering a secret letter, and Southern trains when the chivalry and espionage father is too much for arrested, leaving Archie on the sixteen year old late express to ignore. The bad news beginsBrighton, however, when he finds the very experienced knight he toting a tin his father was determined to deliver the letter to dying alone on a forest floor, meaning Tiuri must accept the mantle unofficiallykeep away from his colleagues, and deliver the missive to its ultimate audience – the king bearer of the neighbouring country. The journey will bring the young man right to the cusp a whole heap of danger, international intrigue and morequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690107</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HazeLex Croucher|authortitle=Paula WestonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Gaby Winter's life used Who knew that what I really needed to be pretty ordinary. Apart the horrific nightmares she sometimes had about read right now was a guy and gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a nightclub most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and the death of her brotherArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, Judeyou see, things were going okay. Until is in love with Bridget (the mysterious Rafa showed up and told kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her she was actually one of private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Rephaim - a child subterfuge of a fallen angel - and that she lived a whole falling in love with each other life that she can't remember, where she and Jude were warriors against demons, but on two opposite sides. The when really they are enabling their own other Rephaim thought she was deadromantic attachments. And now But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they think there's find a chance Jude might way in which they can both truly be alive somewhere too.themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621590</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Butterfly Grave (Murder Notebooks)Nick Brooks|authortitle=Anne CassidyPromise Boys

|summary=Just before ChristmasWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Josh's uncle Stuart falls from a cliff in an horrific accidentthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Determined to help Each, Joshseemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, Rose and friend Skeggsie head up to Newcastle for each could have been there at the festive seasontime of his murder. Things are awkward between But who killed him, and why, and if any of the three. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid and is convinced they boys are being followed. Rose is becoming more and more withdrawninnocent, fixating on the deaths she has witnessed. And Skeggsie is resentful at being forever embroiled in other people's problems when he has challenges of his own. will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Close Your Pretty EyesA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Sally NichollsKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Olivia is trappedSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, in a world somewhat of her own making. She so why is living he running around London committing a life series of endless switching from a set of foster parents, robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to would-be adoptive parents, wait to care homes. Whenever she fetches up with nice adults, she worries too much about making mistakes, being too violent, clumsy, needy, noisy, spiteful – and prefers then get an answer to go the whole hog and make them despair of ever liking her, of losing all kind of sympathy with hersecond question because I avoid spoilers. That way she can relax, knowing But I'll answer the truth, knowing the hatred is there – just as it was when her alcoholic mother was abusing and abandoning her and her baby siblingsfirst one: for his grandmother. Olivia is eleven. But in this one new house, with Jim, and his children, and the fostered young-mother-of-a-babe-in-arms, something is different. Something is definitely older than Olivia, and certainly more evil, and most assuredly better at getting its own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124323</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=ConquestFrontpage|author=John Connolly Patrick Ness and Jennifer Ridyard|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resist. They are keen to ensure the human race remains compliant, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying down. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburgh.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTea Bendix|title=Saving Silence|author=Gina BlaxillDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Sam moved to London fairly recently Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and has struggled is surprised to settle in. Imogen find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has never had problems making friendsbeen restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, she's a former head girl and a two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school sports stardays together. She As they's tried re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to make friends with Samsex. Which is confusing for Ant, however, but as he doesn't seem interested - until know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one night when he approaches her out of the blue, only for someone to speed towards him several months now, and try to knock him over. Imogen saves his life - so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but why would anyone try to kill him? And has she put herself whether that's set in danger by getting involved? With Sam reluctantly telling Imogen a secretstone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the pair are left frantically trying to save themselves from some seriously nasty peoplesex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447208846</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|title=The Trap|author=Andrew Fukuda|rating=4|genre=TeensFrontpage|summaryisbn=''The Trap'' is the third and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepers, eaten almost to extinction. We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin, the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist father. But is that all there is to it? Where did the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, 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 the city of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - not as people but as a resource. But the architects have made Lark different. She 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>}} {{newreview1800901232|title=Debutantes: In LoveStitched Up|author=Cora HarrisonSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Poppy Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and Daisy Derrington leave Beech Green Manor woman came to the village to launch themselves offer Hahn a job in LondonHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. The pair know they need Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to marry well as their father is work in dire financial straits - but marriage is something of a distraction shop, they were to their real dreams of films and musicwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Can they find themselves love You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and happiness in beading on the legs? The ones with the Roaring Twentiesartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205952</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The NaturalsPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Jennifer Lynn BarnesNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Cassie Hobbes doesnBrave. Charlene, the 't feel heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like an average teenager, characters and readers both. Average teenagers don 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't lose their mothers to unsolved murderss at uni. Average teenagers canSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might 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't profile other s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people within minutes of acquaintance. Average teenagers aren't headhunted by the FBI to train give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as specifically-talented crimefightersexpletively ignorant. Cassie Hobbes And then... well, what exactly happens is specialnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780876823</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B BabyAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Darren ShanRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you havenKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't read have any say in the [[Zom-B matter, because the Midori is destroyed by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriesa monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Gone? Goodand she is forced to flee out into the world. The story so farShe 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>0857077686</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How to LoveMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Katie CotugnoWrath

|summary=Katie Cotugno's debut novel ''How Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to Love'' isgo where he wants and with whom he wants, unsurprisinglybut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, all about loveCassie. It has at its centre Reena and SawyerThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a gritty portrayal subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of first love. But her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it also 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 family love, friendship, and all those other kinds of lovesgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782060006</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Killing WoodsTori Bovalino|authortitle=Lucy ChristopherThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Popular girl Ashlee Working all summer in her boarding school's library is deadthe last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. They’re saying What makes it worse is the father man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her lessfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-popular classmate Emily is responsibleit notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. She cannot accept thisThey're never meant to reach him, cannot accept that of course. Her plan is to get her own father could do something anger out like thatthis, but and then take them all the evidence points that wayoff before delivering them. Emily can’t stop thinking about No harm done… Or it. She starts investigating what really happened in the woods that nightwould be, but the more she uncovers, the more uneasy she feelsif someone hadn't delivered them for her. 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>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=She Is Not InvisiblePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Laureth In a word, rich. There is used to her father's writerly obsessions and enthusiasms. She's accepted the fact that he will hare off across the world certainly an abundance of riches in search of some obscure information for this story set on a storypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the fact Dark family that he rarely asks her about herself has to keep watch for magical islands and her life at schooltheir monster approaching from even further west, preferring where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to lecture her instead about keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his latest theory. He even pays her head to answer worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the fan mail on sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his website for him. Andcurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not, there's nothing she can do about the barely suppressed hostility that has grown in recent years between her parents.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621094</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tone AlmhjellKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Twistrose KeyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lin Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and her their cat from the family are living home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a rented house summer, in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor far NE of traditional songs at the universityScottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the city as elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where , she was brought up will be homesick and alone – until 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 rosebushsuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife EdgeJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Andrew LaneThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=All Sherlock's deductive powers are called into play as he struggles to find out exactly what Scarlett McCain is happening in a remote castle on an outlaw, rejecting the coast draconian conformity of Galway. How did the servant dieSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and why did shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she lose her shoes? Is there really meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a Dark Beast roaming darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the local beaches and caves as mythical Free Isles of the villagers claim? And more significantly for world peaceLondon Lagoon. Together, is the selfthey must brave man-proclaimed psychic Ambrose Albano a fraud, or can he really find outeating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and thus revealall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the secrets rest of international espionage from those beyond the graveBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230758878</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Catherine FisherSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=OkGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Let's catch you up. Jake's father As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is still lost used to not being a priority in time. Vennpeople's wife is still deadlives. Summer, the Queen of the SheeBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, 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 simple existence is that he's trying to dochanged for good. The ChronoptikaNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has 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 boy in it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likelythat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fire With FireT L Huchu|authortitle=Siobhan Vivian and Jenny HanThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=With Reeve hospitalised after Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the terrible events at the end dead of [[Burn Edinburgh for Burn by Jenny Han 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 Siobhan Vivian|Burn for Burn]]her aging grandmother. However, Lilliathere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, Kat and Mary must face targeting the falloutcity's children. Mary Soon, Ropa is desperate pulled into the search for revenge despite a missing boy at the other two starting to have cold feet, but they agree to go through with their plan in order to give her the satisfaction request of seeing his heart brokendead mother. As Lillia pretends to fall for She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the boy, though, world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she sees another side to Reeve and starts to wonder if heever could's as bad as Mary says he isve imagined. Can their friendship hold up under Will she find the strain of all the secrets missing children and liesbring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471116905</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Wereworld: War of the WerelordsKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Curtis JoblingLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=With the Catlords at each other's throatsHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, there appears Priya has to come to finally terms with the fact that she may be a chance in constant pain for Drew Ferran and his allies to win the war and bring peace to Lyssia. Stacked against him, though, are still fearsome foes - including the dreadful Wyld Wolves, mockeries rest of lycanthropesher life. Meanwhile DrewShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s adoptive brother Trent, bitten by one of the vile creatures, knows that he is doomed to become one but is determined an online support group where she talks to gain his revenge before he loses control. As the opposing forces gather, huge armies could decide the fate of the Seven Realms... but in Icegarden, perhaps the most deadly force of them all still has a part to play in this war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141345039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Company bunch of Ghosts|author=Berlie Doherty|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Morag's family has its very own islandother teens living with chronic illnesses. Tiny They talk about their troubles and remotehelp each other out, it is truly wild while also providing an escape to just joke and wonderfulmess around. And the offer to spend some time there with them couldnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't have come at respond to the chat for a better time for Elliewhile, whose parents have just divorcedPriya becomes concerned. She'll be able to escape Mum and Angus. And she'll be able decides to paint for steal her father. But things donparents't work out quite as planned. To begin with, awkward, diffident Ellie has car and drive to spend the first night on the island alone with George, MoragBrigid's brusque older brother. And then George returns house to the mainland to pick check up supplieson her. He But what she doesn't return. Abandoned, Ellie begins expect to see shadows. Hear footsteps. Feel icy kisses on her cheek each time she falls asleep... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849397295</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Model Misfit (Geek Girl 2)|author=Holly Smale|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners has the opportunity of find there is a lifetime. She's been asked to go and model werewolf in Japan, a country she's always wanted to visit. Struggling from a break-up with Nick, best friend Nat being sent abroad for the summer, and her father basement – and Annabel preparing for a new baby, this should that werewolf to be exactly what the girl she needs. Of course, 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 talking to online for Francis Wooton, and he is no stranger to heartbreak. Despite this, he's always maintained sensible plans, 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 of his dreams. Unfortunately, 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 nausea, the all-pervasive pain, the horror of imminent baldness and the general bleak agony that cancer brings. But every cloud has a silver lining, 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 more alive than ever, and if anything can help cure the despair of cancer, first love might just be itpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472105516</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Unbreakable|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 Move on a mission with the utmost of stakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118533</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Dream Thieves|author=Maggie Stiefvater|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=With the ley lines waking, things are changing around Cabeswater. Ronan is getting more and more adept at bringing his dreams to life, Gansey is needed at home, and Adam has made some mysterious new friends. At the centre of it all, Blue has to try to cope with her curse and her feelings for the Raven Boys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136623</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Resist (Breathe)|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|BreatheNewest Thrillers Reviews]] 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>}}