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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Worst Girlfriend In The WorldMax Boucherat|authortitle=Sarra ManningThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an acknowledged fact amongst the boys of Merrycliffeavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on-Seaher lonesome. Franny B's best friend Alice What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is the worst girlfriend in to log on to Voxminer, the world. She loses interest and dumps them-building, one at critter-collecting game that is a time, leaving a trail of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriendshit in Lori's world. But as first Lori has a friend to fashion-obsessed Frannytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she's greatfinds something even more spooky. Until For the server she gets bored and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of schoolboys tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and decides to set her sights on safe place in the lead singer of local band Thee Desperadoes, despite knowing that Franny game has been crushing on him for years. Can Alice get the guydoctored – well, or will Franny finally go for it? And where is their friendship strong enough a girl to copeturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AdaptationRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Malinda LoCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Flocks ''I can hear the song of suicidal birds are throwing themselves at planes right across North America. There are dozens of crashesthe sea. Thousands The call of people die and millions more are stranded or under curfew as the government moves to instil calm. Reese and David are drivingdeep, not flying, home along an empty highway the answering beat in the desert when another crazed bird flies into their carmy heart. They crash. And don't wake up for a month. Rescued by a medical military unit, Reese is told that her life was saved by experimental treatments and procedures. Both she and David are made to sign non-disclosure agreements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917943</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=The Edge Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Cloud|author=K M Peyton|rating=4seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First things first: this is But when the Council Watch lays a brilliant book trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and you could read it on its own but itMira's an extra-brilliant book if you've read the [[Flambards by K M Peyton|first book]] 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 a family secret that lies buried deep in the Flambards seriessea. ItWith 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 inevitable that there are going territory, Mira must be determined to be spoilers in this review so if you want stop at nothing to get save the best out future of this series, click away right now. I really won't be offendedher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736353</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=FlambardsFrontpage|author=K M Peyton|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Christina Parsons was orphaned as a child and since then had been shunted around between various relatives, but her Uncle Russell decided that she must come and live with him and his two sons. The twelve-year-old discovered accidentally (it sounds a little harsh to mention that she was reading someone else's correspondence, doesn't it?) that the the aunt with whom she was living suspected that the plan was that Christina would eventually marry Mark, the elder son and the money (quite a lot of it actually) which she would inherit on her twenty-first birthday would be used to prop up Flambards - the Russell's country estate - which was falling into disrepair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273637X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHarry Allen|title=The Year Children of the Rat|author=Clare FurnissSun|rating=4.5

|summary=Pearl couldn’t imagine life without her mother, but now she’s forced to face up to it. After her mum passes away giving birth to Ra Eun Seo lives in a new baby, Pearl is left devastated – North Korean town and her new sister, who she calls the Rat, is a constant painful remindertalented singer. Can she Life is hard and food is difficult to come to terms with by, so Seo and her grief? And has her mother really gone completelyfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, or does she keep seeing her?looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120279</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dark HorseAlexia Casale|authortitle=Rumer GoddenSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Dark Invader was It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a welllife-bred racehorse and had the looks to go with it but he was disappointing in his first season in England and his owner had better uses for the money his sale could bring. He was shipped out to India, which might sound rather extremechanging disability too, but was not uncommon that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the nineteen thirties and there were some benefits. The main one was middle of a dance performance that he was going to a good owner who cared for his welfare and a trainer who realised that he would get most out of his horses if they were contentedchange her life. His new owner But she comes back fighting, Mr Leventinedesperate to avoid the pity stares, even arranged for his lad and desperate to travel out get back to India with him and this was probably Dark Invadera life that's greatest piece of luckas normal as she can possibly manage. Ted Mullins not only loved the horse - he understood him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088529</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Love, Lies and Lemon Pies|author=Katy Cannon|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since her dadMeanwhile there's deatha new (cute!) boy in school, Lottie has struggled at schoolher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, especially socially. Given and just the choice day to day traumas of joining an activity or all the challenges her body continues to throw at her mum getting a home visit - something she's desperate to avoid - she signs up for Bake Clubnavigate. Initially, So even though shecan's a reluctant membert dance anymore, but as might she gets be able to know school bad boy Mac and a few other people who might become good friends, things look up. But with the Bake-Off ahead and Lottie telling lie after lie to protect her mother's secret, will Lottie's new happiness crumble around sing herway through instead?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847154891</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Goddess|author=Laura Powell|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After an economic collapse, Britain is close to breaking point. Citizens are going hungry and there are riots. But Aura is shielded from it all by her position as a handmaiden in the Cult of Artemis. In this Britain, the beliefs of the Ancient Greeks persevere and are followed by millions - the cult sits side by side with Christianity as a mainstream religion. Aura's thoughts aren't taken up by the suffering outside the sanctuary though - they're taken up by beating fellow handmaiden Callisto as favourite to take over the position of head priestess when Opis retires. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815265</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Forbidden LibrarySimon Fox|authortitle=Django WexlerDeadlock

|summary= Alice Late one night Graham Blake is a little girls whose feet are planted firmly in late back from his shift on the here and now. She's sensible. And studious. And practical. So whenforce, one night, she overhears a conversation between her father and a vicious little fairythen suddenly rings Archie, she's more than demanding he fetch something from a little shaken. But before she has had time to process this worrying eventsecret place, Alice's father has rushed away and join him on a business tripthe run. Within days They get together, the news comes that his ship has foundered and there are no survivors. Alice finds herself packed off but barely begin to stay with a mysterious uncle her father never told her about. Geryon is a strange man and his house is even stranger. Never-seen servants prepare food and clear it away. And smell the servants you can see are strange - Mr Black sinister, Emma an automaton. There's only one rule: Alice must not enter the Library...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hate|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Six months ago, Rosie, Eve's beloved older sister, died after an unprovoked hate crime. One whiff of Southern trains when the witnessesfather is arrested, who didn't intervene, was Anthony. Now he's moved school and ended up meeting Eve. Can she ever forgive him for his cowardice? Can he even forgive himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621760</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Stories of World War One|author=Tony Bradman|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=World War One, or leaving Archie on the Great War as it was known at the timelate express to Brighton, was toting a cataclysmic war. Millions died and life tin his father was changed forever for the survivors - for the women of Britaindetermined to keep away from his colleagues, and for the working classes and ruling classes alike. 2014 is the centenary bearer of its outbreak and the redoubtable Tony Bradman has gathered together a dozen of our best writers for young people to create an anthology whole heap of short stories to commemorate the anniversaryquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B MissionLex Croucher|authortitle=Darren ShanGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=OkWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for the series so far. If In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you don't want anysee, then run along and read our review of is in love with Bridget (the [[Zomkingdom's only female knight) -B by Darren Shan|first book]]something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Otherwise And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, read this review at your when really they are enabling their own riskother romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=Grasshopper JungleFrontpage|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>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=The Eagle Trail|author=Robert RigbyPromise Boys

|summary=The Nazis have occupied AntwerpWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, where Paul lives with his English father and French motherthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. But Paul doesn't think things are too bad. Life is going on pretty much as normal if you are a teenaged boy Each, Paul feels. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoonseemingly, Paul's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front has a grudge of himsome description against Principal Moore, having and each could have been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life, hunted by there at the Nazis for what time of his father knewmurder. The journey is a long But who killed him, and dangerous one - through Belgium why, and France for if any of the Pyrenees and Spain and thenboys are innocent, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final one - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilous.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Private Blog of Joe CowleyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Ben DavisKitt Townsend

|summary=Meet Joe Cowley. HeSolomon Klyne isn's the kind of doofus who will pretend to be from New York, when his life really revolves around t a horrid existence in a secondary school near Birminghambad lad, a life shared with his mother and a visit to his dad and Russian mail-order bride every Sunday, and two friends – Harry, who speaks as if so why is he is running around London committing a member series of an ancient Gentlemanrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's Club, and Ad, who's – well, just thick as two short planks. He can barely ll have to wait to get through an answer to the day without being tormented by his enemies at school, saying the wrong thing entirely or just cocking things up, hence this, his blog, for him to vent and escape a whilesecond question because I avoid spoilers. But at least he knows his worth when it comes to getting a snog off the schoolI's most desirable girl – doesn't he? And at least he can keep ll answer the torments of real life at arm's length – can't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736752</amazonuk>first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=A Kiss In The DarkPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Cat ClarkeDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Alex Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Kate meet online 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 there's an instant attraction between themtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. When As they get together in person 're all fired up, straining at the leash only a gigsingle-sex school can form, they're just as right the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for each other Ant, as they are onlinehe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. It seems like this could be He's had a casual relationship, a wonderful romancesecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but therewhether that's a secret at set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the heart of it which could destroy more than just their relationshipand the sex with. Will this seemingly fairytale romance have a happy ending?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870477</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|title=Daughters of Time|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)Frontpage|ratingisbn=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens and younger teens on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get Boudica, Mary Seacole, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwich, amongst others. It doesn't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories to make it well worth a look.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1800901232|title=Bone JackStitched Up|author=Sara CroweSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=15Twelve-year-old Ash has been waiting for his father Hanh wanted to come back from the warbe a fashion designer. He's following Life in his dad's footsteps as the stag boy in rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the traditional Stag Chase, smartly-dressed man and he knows his dad will woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be proud of himmissed. Running through Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mountains whenever he can mini-bus to trainHanoi. Only, he's not bothered by the taunts of Hanh and the other boys who he beat girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to become work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the stag, ones with intricate embroidery and who will take their places as hounds beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully- he knows their hostility is traditional. But something is stirring in the countryside, placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and he sees strange visions, while his old friend Mark is behaving seriously creepilyher co-workers made them. Is Mark just grieving for his father, or is there something more sinister at work?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440058</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Blood ListPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Sarah NaughtonNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=In the mid-seventeenth centuryBrave. Charlene, the world 'heroine' of this piece is filled with tales of witchesextremely hard for some people to like, murder characters and changelingsreaders both. Sixteen-year-old Barnaby is strong Kicked out of multiple homes and handsome. His father is schools, she's fostering with a wealthy landowner who indulges his desirespleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while his mother doesnhe't love him - believing him to s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be merely in need of a replacement for her own babycomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, who and the creation of one such item is part of the villagers thought was plot here, as Charlene is a changeling wonder knitter, and who was mysteriously switched - heis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's popular allowed contact with everyone else he knowsno more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Until dark happenings start occurringwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, which will change Barnaby's life - or possibly even end itonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078666</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Far From YouAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Tess SharpeRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I have no idea Kurara 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 begin on this onedrink and make merry between their conquests. I'm not even sure I should attempt 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 plot summarypower sought after all across the Empire. Ultra-condensed review He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is basically along all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the lines of buy this right now - top five of matter, because the last decade for meMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, maybe top threeand 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>1780621655</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava LavenderMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Leslye WaltonWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Ava Lavender is the youngest in Meet Fitz, a long line young Scottish lad full of strange womenfrustration at himself. Her mother Lockdown is strangeonly just over, and he should be free to do what 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. Her grandmother is strange. Her aunts They were strange. But Avahalf of a desultory school band, perhaps, is but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the strangest of allearth. Because she was born Is this connected with wings. In The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows one of Ava Lavender, this winged girl narrates her eco-warrior parents saying the story end of her family and how they came to live in the magical Seattle neighbourhood where her grandmother runs world is already a bakery. It's a tale done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of magic but itmusic she's also a tale dreaming of tragedy and disaster and death and lost love. Girls turn into canaries. Ghosts follow living siblings. Pastries cause shared emotions. ? Is she just bonkers? And as she tells can Fitz find out the storytruth? Well, Ava tries to make sense of herself. She isnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't normal. Is normal better? Or do her wings come with a special destiny?..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406348082</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=Never EndingFrontpage|author=Martyn Bedford|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sent to a clinic which specialises in using unconventional methods to help people get over grief, Shiv is forced to confront the death of her beloved younger brother Declan. Like everyone else in the clinic, she’s convinced that she caused the death herself. Will she finally find the peace that her parents are seeking for her, even if she doesn't think she deserves it herself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329924</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=Going Over|author=Beth KephartThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ada is someone whom many of the readers of this book would aspire 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 Berlin. Or, I should say, West Berlin – for this is the early 1980s and the Wall is still standing. 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>}} {{newreview|title=Curses and Smoke|author=Vicky Alvear Shecter|rating=4

|summary=Medical slave Tag Working all summer in her boarding school's library is desperate the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to win his freedom by fighting in deliver herself. What makes it worse is the arena instead of just treating man who requested the gladiators he longs to beatbooks: Mr Birch. Lucia, his ownerThe boarding school's daughter headmaster, and his childhood friend, wants to be with him instead of the rich a man she doesn't love but is betrothed toTess hates. When Quintus, an arrogant younger son As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a noblemanlarge request, joins the gladiatorial school to train Tess sticks post- and to infuriate his father - we see the beginning it notes on each of a love triangle which could have devastating consequences. But the year is 79 ADbooks, scribbled with the place is Pompeii, and thereugliest insults she can think of. They'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 a spherical construction, speeding the last few surviving Earth humans on their way re never meant to a differentreach him, new home, a giant biosphere acting as the one remaining Ark for what's left of humankindcourse. And its purpose Her plan is even more important asto get her anger out like this, somewhen, somewhere and somehow, during its flight, the robot inhabitants – the cleaners, butlers, farmers and mechanics – rebelled. Since then they have evolved themselves, and ignored take them all their original programming, and are intent on wiping out humans insteadoff before delivering them. WeNo harm done… Or it would be, of course, are fighting back, but when the tiny community of little more than a hundred that serves as the whole world if someone hadn't delivered them for the young worker known as York gets wiped out, he gets the clearest picture yet of how difficult that battle will be…her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447231481</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Urban OutlawsPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Peter Jay BlackUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=What skills would you need to trick 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 rich Scillies. There are troll people on it, and powerful out of their illsea-gotten gains? A posse of brilliant lawyers witches, and accountants with elastic consciences? A cache legends of guns the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and bombs? Welltheir monster approaching from even further west, maybewhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, although it is very possible that all that will do is his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to turn you into villains as dirty as your marks. Andworry about such local yokel superstitions, if youand Andrewe'll forgive s foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sudden descent sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into street-speakthe world of protecting their island, that's like it or not the way these five young Urban Outlaws roll.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408851415</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=White SpaceKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Ilsa J BickJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=SeventeenJulia, our pre-year-old Emma teen heroine, has problems. The metal plates been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in her head may SW England to be holding her skull togetherlighthousekeepers for a summer, but they don't stop in the far NE of the headachesScottish islands. Here be Vikings, or the 'blinks' - periods that kind of time that Emma losesScottish island. When Emma wakes from a blink 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 middle of a snowstormelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, driving in a valley she doesn't recognise, will be homesick and crashes into a snow mobile, it doesn't take long for things to start getting weirdalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00I0LY8ZO</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=IronheartJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Allan BoroughsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=India Bentley's father went missing looking for oil in Siberia. Except it wasn't just oil he was searching for - ratherScarlett McCain is an outlaw, he was trying rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to find wander the wildlands between the lost fortress Seven Kingdoms of IronheartBritain, whose old world secrets could save humanity - or destroy the worldrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. When But then she meets tech-hunter Verity Brown Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and her android bodyguard Calculusa darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, India manages they plan to flee to become involved in a daring adventure with some seriously unsavoury charactersthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Can she save her fatherTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the worldFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447235991</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PanicMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Lauren OliverSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Every summerGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a game takes place priority in Carppeople's lives. The stakes are high and the prize But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is big, a life changing amount of money changed for the person who can hold their own the longest and outlast their competitorsgood. Anyone from the graduating class of high school No longer can entershe spend her time writing novels in solitude, and many do, but for her life now has a boy in the end, only one can win. Along the way the contestants’ limits are tested, pacts made and broken, and secrets revealed. From some of the challenges, there may be injuries, traumatic or even fatal, but the lure of the prize money is so great it that many choose to ignore the risksshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444723022</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Half BadT L Huchu|authortitle=Sally GreenThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Before I startRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, I'll declare an uninterestusing Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. IEver since she dropped out of school, she'm s been using it to support not really into the paranormal genreonly herself, but her younger sister and I'm definitely not into paranormal romancesher aging grandmother. I like fantasy and I've nothing against the supernatural. ItHowever, there's just an evil stalking the predictability ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the paranormal genre that puts me offcity's children. I prefer books that surprise me rather than books that comfort me by giving me what I expect. SoSoon, you realise, I'm coming Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at ''Half Bad'' from the perspective request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could''un''-fanve imagined. And I loved Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it!claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141350865</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Facts of Life (Rachel Riley)Kristen O'Neal|authortitle=Joanna NadinLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=Never let it Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be said that we here at The Bookbag do not try and give you in constant pain for the reviews nobody else canrest of her life. This is She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a case in point – the review bunch of the sixth other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and final Rachel Riley book from someone who has never read any of the help each other fiveout, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. As such a person I can add When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond 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 godschat for a while, you can start this brilliant series at the end and not really suffer a jotPriya becomes concerned. You would be patently bonkers She decides to choose steal her parents' car and drive to do so, but the optionBrigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find thereis a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273380X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Rock War|author=Robert Muchamore|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jay comes from a large family - he's one of eight kids squashed into a flat above the chip shop that his mother runs. Jay isn't really like his brothers, who are tough and always in trouble. Jay is skinny and weedy and consumed with musical ambition. But his band, Brontobyte, just doesn't have what it takes, largely thanks Move on to its spoiled brat, hopeless drummer, Tristan. If he wants a future in music, some major changes are in order.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914537</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]