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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=ZOM-B MissionFrontpage|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for the series so far. If you don't want any, then run along and read our review of the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]. Otherwise, read this review at your own risk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=Grasshopper Jungle|author=Andrew Smith|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Austin is confused. He's in love with both his girlfriend Shann and his best friend Robby. As if that wasn't a big enough problem, he and Robby have just managed to let loose an army of preying mantises which may bring about the end of the world. Who said Ealing, Iowa was boring?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405273410</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Eagle Trail|author=Robert Rigby|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Nazis have occupied Antwerp, where Paul lives with his English father and French mother. But Paul doesn't think things are too bad. Last Life is going on pretty much as normal if you are a teenaged boy, Paul feels. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoon, Paul's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front of him, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knew. The journey is a long and dangerous one - through Belgium and France for the Pyrenees and Spain and then, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final one - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley|author=Ben DavisLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Joe Cowley. HeWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the kind of doofus who will pretend house to herself – no neighbour to be from New Yorkpop in, when his life really revolves around a horrid existence in a secondary school near Birminghambabysitter poorly, a life shared with his mother and a visit to his dad and Russian mail-order bride every Sundayat work, and two friends – Harry, who speaks as if he is a member of just an ancient Gentleman's Club, and Ad, who's – wellavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, just thick as two short plankson her lonesome. He can barely get through the day without being tormented by his enemies at schoolWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, saying the wrong thing entirely or just cocking things upshe has one main intention, hence thisand that is to log on to Voxminer, his blogthe world-building, for him to vent and escape critter-collecting game that is a whilehit in Lori's world. But at least he knows his worth when it comes to getting first Lori has a snog off the school's most desirable girl – tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't he? find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. And at least he can keep For the torments server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of real life at arm's length tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – can't hewell, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736752</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kiss In The DarkRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Cat ClarkeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Alex and Kate meet online and there's an instant attraction between them. When they get together in person at a gig, they're just as right for each other as they are onlineI can hear the song of the sea. It seems like this could be a wonderful romanceThe call of the deep, but there's a secret at the answering beat in my heart of it which could destroy more than just their relationship. Will this seemingly fairytale romance have a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870477</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Daughters of Time|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens Rosevear, a remote and younger teens partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the subject rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island''some of historys leader and Mira's most remarkable women''father. It's an interesting ideaDesperate to save him from death, particularly 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 a family secret that lies buried deep in the usual suspects are perhaps avoidedsea. No Elizabeth IWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Mary Queen as her journey takes her from the watched streets of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get Boudica, Mary Seacole, Aphra Behn and Julian foreign islands to the heart of Norwichthe smuggler's territory, amongst others. It doesn't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to make it well worth a looksave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bone JackHarry Allen|authortitle=Sara CroweChildren of the Sun

|summary=15-year-old Ash has been waiting for his father to come back from the war. He's following in his dad's footsteps as the stag boy Ra Eun Seo lives in the traditional Stag Chase, a North Korean town and he knows his dad will be proud of himshe is a talented singer. Running through the mountains whenever he can Life is hard and food is difficult to train, he's not bothered come by the taunts of the other boys who he beat to become the stag, so Seo and who will take their places as hounds - he knows their hostility is traditional. But something is stirring in the countryside, her friends Nari and he sees strange visionsMin go foraging every evening, while his old friend Mark is behaving seriously creepily. Is Mark just grieving looking for his father, or is there something more sinister tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at work?home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440058</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Blood ListAlexia Casale|authortitle=Sarah NaughtonSing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5

|summary=In the midIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-seventeenth centurychanging disability too, the world but that's what Ven is filled dealing with tales after collapsing on stage in the middle of witches, murder and changelings. Sixteen-year-old Barnaby is strong and handsome. His father is a wealthy landowner who indulges his desires, and while his mother doesn't love him - believing him dance performance that was going to be merely a replacement for change her own babylife. But she comes back fighting, who desperate to avoid the villagers thought was pity stares, and desperate to get back to a changeling and who was mysteriously switched - helife that's popular with everyone else he knowsas normal as she can possibly manage. Until dark happenings start occurring, which will change Barnaby Meanwhile there's life - or possibly a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even end it.though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078666</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Far From YouSimon Fox|authortitle=Tess SharpeDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I have no idea where to begin Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on this one. I'm not even sure I should attempt the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a plot summarysecret place, and join him on the run. Ultra-condensed review They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is basically along arrested, leaving Archie on the lines late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of buy this right now - top five a whole heap of the last decade for me, maybe top threequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621655</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava LavenderLex Croucher|authortitle=Leslye WaltonGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Ava Lavender is the youngest in Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a long line of strange women. Her mother is strange. Her grandmother is strange. Her aunts were strange. gay Arthurian RomCom? But Avahonestly, perhaps, is the strangest of all. Because she was born with wingsit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, this winged girl narrates the story of her family , Gwen and how Arthur have been betrothed since they came were tiny, much to live their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the magical Seattle neighbourhood where kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her grandmother runs a bakeryprivate diaries. It's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a tale boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of magic but it's also a tale of tragedy and disaster and death and lost falling in lovewith each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Girls turn into canaries. Ghosts follow living siblings. Pastries cause shared emotions. And But as she tells the storytheir impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, Ava tries or are they destined to make sense of herself. She isn't normal. Is normal better? Or do her wings come with live a special destinylie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348082</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Never EndingNick Brooks|authortitle=Martyn BedfordPromise Boys|rating=3.54

|summary=Sent to 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 clinic which specialises in using unconventional methods to help people get over griefgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Shiv is forced to confront and each could have been there at the death time of her beloved younger brother Declanhis murder. Like everyone else in the clinic But who killed him, and why, she’s convinced that she caused and if any of the death herself. Will she finally find the peace that her parents boys are seeking for herinnocent, even if she doesn't think she deserves it herselfwill they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329924</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Going OverA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Beth KephartKitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Ada Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is someone whom many he running around London committing a series of the readers of this book would aspire robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to be – only fifteen but working at a Kindergarten, changing her appearance at whim with fake beauty spots and punky hair-dye, spending far too many midnight hours creating politicised graffiti. She also lives in one of the most libertarian and Bohemian areas of Berlinsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Or, But I should say, West Berlin – 'll answer the first one: for this is the early 1980s and the Wall is still standinghis grandmother.. And unfortunately for her the love of her life is Stefan, a friend since toddler-age due to their grandmothers being best friends, and she can only see him three or four times a year as he lives in Communist East Berlin. Can her patience with what she sees as his reluctance to risk his life to escape last long enough?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452124574</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Curses Patrick Ness and SmokeTea Bendix|authortitle=Vicky Alvear ShecterDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Medical slave Tag Ant is desperate to win his freedom by fighting in the arena instead of just treating the gladiators he longs to beat. LuciaYear Eleven at quite a standard school, his owner's daughter and is surprised to find his childhood friendgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, wants to be so his desk is one of four with him instead of both his best buddy from the rich man she doesn't love but is betrothed football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back toprimary school days together. When Quintus As they're all fired up, an arrogant younger son of straining at the leash only a noblemansingle-sex school can form, joins the gladiatorial school to train - talk in class and out often turns to infuriate his father - we see the beginning of a love triangle which could have devastating consequencessex. But the year Which is 79 ADconfusing for Ant, the place as he doesn't know what his score is Pompeii, and therewhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's something even worse on its way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146629</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Scavenger 1: Zoid|author=Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Somewhere out in the further reaches of the galaxy is had a spherical constructioncasual relationship, speeding the last few surviving Earth humans on their way to a differentsecret one, new home, a giant biosphere acting as the one remaining Ark for what's left of humankind. And its purpose is even more important as, somewhenseveral months now, somewhere and somehow, during its flight, so has effectively progressed up the robot inhabitants – the cleanersladder headed by 'experienced', butlersbut whether that's set in stone, farmers and mechanics – rebelledhe can't be sure. Since then they have evolved themselves, and ignored all their original programming, and are intent on wiping out humans instead. We, And that's mostly because of course, are fighting back, but when who he's been having the tiny community of little more than a hundred that serves as relationship and the whole world for the young worker known as York gets wiped out, he gets the clearest picture yet of how difficult that battle will be…sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447231481</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Urban OutlawsStitched Up|author=Peter Jay BlackSteve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=What skills would you need Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to trick be a fashion designer. Life in the rich and powerful out of their illrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-gotten gains? A posse of brilliant lawyers dressed man and accountants with elastic consciences? A cache of guns woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and bombs? WellHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, maybeHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, although it is very possible that all that will do is they were to turn you into villains as dirty as your markswork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And, if You know those jeans you'll forgive really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the sudden descent into streetartfully-speak, placed rips and distressed seams thatfelt so soft when you touched them? It's not the way these five young Urban Outlaws rollquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408851415</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=White SpacePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Ilsa J BickNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Emma has problemsBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. The metal plates in her head may be holding her skull together Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, but they donshe't stop the headachess fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, or the and has taken up residence in her son Blake'blinkss old room while he' - periods of time that Emma losess at uni. When Emma wakes from Such a blink tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the middle creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a snowstormwonder knitter, driving in and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a valley younger sister she doesn't recognises allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and crashes into a snow mobilethen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, it doesn't take long what exactly happens is not for things me to say, only to start getting weirdremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00I0LY8ZO</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=IronheartAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Allan BoroughsRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=India Bentley's father went missing looking for oil Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in Siberiathe sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Except it wasn't just oil he was searching for - ratherHowever, he was trying when a man named Himura arrives to find tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the lost fortress of Ironheart, whose old world secrets could save humanity - or destroy power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the worldEmpire. When she meets tech-hunter Verity Brown and He asks her android bodyguard Calculusto come with him, India manages to become involved leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a daring adventure with some seriously unsavoury charactersmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. Can she save her fatherShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and the a whole world?of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447235991</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PanicMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Lauren OliverWrath

|summary=Every summerMeet Fitz, a game takes place in Carpyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The stakes are high and the prize Lockdown is bigonly just over, a life changing amount of money for the person who can hold their own the longest and outlast their competitors. Anyone from the graduating class of high school can enterhe should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and many dowith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the endit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, only but Cassie was also one can win. Along hundred per cent the way enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the contestants’ limits are tested, pacts made and broken, and secrets revealedearth. From some Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the challenges, there may be injuries, traumatic or even fatal, but the lure end of the prize money world is so great that many choose to ignore already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the riskstruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444723022</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=Half BadFrontpage|author=Sally Green|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before I start, I'll declare an uninterest. I'm not really into the paranormal genre, and I'm definitely not into paranormal romances. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. It's just the predictability of the paranormal genre that puts me off. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect. So, you realise, I'm coming at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective of an ''un''-fan. And I loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The Facts of Life (Rachel Riley)|author=Joanna Nadin|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Never let it be said that we here at The Bookbag do not try and give you the reviews nobody else can. This is a case in point – the review of the sixth and final Rachel Riley book from someone who has never read any of the other five. As such a person I can add to all the superlatives the series has got from elsewhere the bonus information that should your tastes in books be as fickle as those of the reviewing gods, you can start this brilliant series at the end and not really suffer a jot. You would be patently bonkers to choose to do so, but the option's there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273380X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rock War|author=Robert MuchamoreDevil Makes Three

|summary=Jay comes from a large family - heWorking all summer in her boarding school's one of eight kids squashed into library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a flat above hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the chip shop that his mother runsbooks: Mr Birch. Jay isnThe boarding school't really like his brotherss headmaster, who are tough and always in troublea man Tess hates. Jay is skinny As a petty act of revenge for making her find and weedy and consumed deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with musical ambitionthe ugliest insults she can think of. But his band, Brontobyte, just doesnThey't have what it takesre never meant to reach him, largely thanks of course. Her plan is to its spoiled bratget her anger out like this, hopeless drummer, Tristanand then take them all off before delivering them. If he wants a future in musicNo harm done… Or it would be, some major changes are in orderif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914537</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Infinity Drake: The Sons of ScarlattiPhilip Reeve|authortitle=John McNallyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Finn (real name Infinity) Drake In a word, rich. There is off for a week away certainly an abundance of riches in the Pyrenees with his Uncle Al. He's supposed to be at school but Grandma has gone off this story set on a knitting cruisepeculiar island called Wildsea, so she will never knowBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. But before they can be There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their waymonster approaching from even further west, Al is summoned to a crisis meeting with secret government officialswhere no ship dare sail. A lethal bio-weapon - The current Darks are the Scarlatti wasp - Watcher, Andrewe, who has been stolen to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and released by an uber-villain (Andrewe's foundling daughter, who else but an uber-villain) washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world's only chance is to use Al's top secret invention to shrink a combat team to destroy of protecting their island, like itor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007521588</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sleuth or Dare: An AKA NovelKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Robin BenwayJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When safecracker Maggie Silver's parents are falsely accused of a crimeJulia, she's uprooted from her newly peaceful existence as a normal highour pre-school girl and forced to fleeteen heroine, along has been packed off with best friend Roux her parents and boyfriend Jessietheir cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, to Paris. Can in the three far NE of themthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, aided by some new friends and honorary uncle Angelo, clear her family's name?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111676X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Trouble|author=Non Pratt|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hannah that kind of Scottish island. Dad is 15 and pregnant. She can't tell anyone who going to be automating the father lantern, which is - but new boy at school Aaron steps up to offer his services as a fake father. Hannah acceptsspecialist thing, and while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the pair start their journey to parenthoodelusive Greenland shark. But who really is the dad And Julia, well, she will be homesick and why is Aaron willing to make such a massive commitment to a girl he doesn't even know that well?alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406347698</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RooftoppersJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Katherine RundellThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Sophie Scarlett McCain is shipwrecked in an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the English Channel on her 1st birthdaySeven Kingdoms of Britain, with her mother presumed dead, but she's lucky enough robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to be found by scholar Charleskeep herself alive. He raises her as his ward But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and they have a happydarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, if seriously unconventional, existence until they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the authorities intervene on her 12th birthdayLondon Lagoon. With Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the orphanage beckoning, Sophie cannibalistic Tainted and Charles run away all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to France reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the hope that her mother may be alive after all.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571280595</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead and Buried (Murder Notebooks) Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Anne Cassidy Slingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=It's been five years since Rose's and Josh's parents disappeared and Rose is determined finally Gracie Welles has resigned herself to start getting on being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with her life. She hasn't seen Josh for a few weeks and although she misses him"real" family, she canis used to not being a priority in people't but help feeling a sense of reliefs lives. But then policeman Henry turns up at her door with more bad news: the body of when she defends a teenage girl has been found buried random boy in the garden of her old home, the one she shared class with her motherslingshot, Josh, and his father Brendanher simple existence is changed for good. With their parents implicatedNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Rose and Josh have no choice but to try to solve one last murder..for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815532</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Shattered (Slated Trilogy) T L Huchu|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian FictionTeens|summary=Kyla - or Ropa Moyo is she Lucy? or Rain? or Riley? - was ''slated'' as a teen criminal in Lorder-run Britainghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. All memory Ever since she dropped out of her past life was erased and school, she was sent 's been using it to live with a new foster familysupport not only herself, controlled by a wrist bracelet that could kill but her younger sister and her if she stepped out of line. But that was some time agoaging grandmother. Since thenHowever, some there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of KylaEdinburgh, targeting the city's memories have resurfaced children. Soon, 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 she has discovered realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she isnever could't a run-of-ve imagined. Will she find the-mill Slated. Used as a weapon by missing children and bring an anti-Lorder terrorist groupend to this evil, Kyla's brain has been messed with in more than one way.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319500</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|title=The God Beneath the SeaFrontpage|author=Leon Garfield and Edward BlishenKristen O'Neal|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When a baby falls from the sky into the sea, Thetis, goddess of the sea, takes him into her care and names him Hephaestus. Raised lovingly by Thetis and her sister Eurynome, Hephaestus still grows to question who he is and where he came from. The sisters tell him he was born on Olympus, Lycanthropy and so begins the twisting turning tales of the Titans and the Gods - their battles for supremacy, their betrayals, their vengeance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533118</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Spectacular Now |author=Tim TharpOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Sutter Keely, The SuttermanHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life pretty good. Sure, heShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s got no long-term plan and may spend his life folding shirts, but he's having an online support group where she talks to a ton bunch of funother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, he's hugely popular - even his ex-girlfriends still like him - while also providing an escape to just joke and his relationship with the wonderful Cassidy will get back on track soon enoughmess around. Then he meets When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the sci-fi obsessedchat for a while, shy, put-upon Aimee, and Priya becomes concerned. She decides he can make a difference in her life. The plan is to help steal her gain some confidence, become popular, parents' car and find a nice guy - but Sutter doesndrive to Brigid't bargain on things going further than he was planning s house to check up onher. Will he change AimeeBut what she doesn's life t expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the better, or girl she has been talking to online for the worse?past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146459</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Megan Miranda|title=Vengeance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Vengeance'' is a follow-up Move on to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|FractureNewest Thrillers Reviews]], in which Delaney almost died, drowned under the ice of a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She is irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die. And people take a long time to get over the accident. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under the ice - how was this possible? And Carson, the boy who pulled her out, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied her, is now taking others in some kind of freakish revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Children of the King|author=Sonya Hartnett|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a prosperous area of London during World War II the two Lockwood children, twelve year old Cecily and her older brother Jeremy, are dispatched, together with their socialite mother, to stay with family in the north to keep them safe. On their arrival, at Cecily’s insistence, they take in a young evacuee, ten year old May. As they wander the countryside close to Cecily’s Uncle Peregrine’s country estate the two girls find two strange boys hiding in the ruins of Snow Castle and do not tell the rest of the family about their discovery. As the children attempt to cope with their changed circumstances and the fear of an approaching enemy, each evening Uncle Peregrine tells the children a dark and sinister story of intrigue in the Royal courts of long ago and so begins the story within a story. This intriguing book then goes on to combine two periods of English history in an extraordinary adventure that is not only an historical novel but a moving coming of age story too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137514</amazonuk>}}