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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WingerMax Boucherat|authortitle=Andrew SmithThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=24.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=FourteenWe 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 avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old Ryan Dean West is at boarding school, on her lonesome. His roommate is What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bullyblanket fort, his closest male friends are idiotsshe has one main intention, and his best friend that is an older girl heto log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's madly in love with who world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't seem find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to see him enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the same way. But this could be game has been doctored – well, where is a year that changes everything for him.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeRachel Greenlaw|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=The city has been rebuilt for war''I can hear the song of the sea. The waves call of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also deep, the flood of refugees surging answering beat in daily is as much of a problem as a resourcemy heart. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=Don't Even Think About It|author=Sarah Mlynowski|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Something weird happens after 10B get their flu shots - they develop telepathyRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. There are good points - they know what other people think of themMira, they can cheat on testslike 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 have capture the upper hand in conversations island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with others. But there are some drawbacks a wreck survivor who is as charming as well - not he is secretive and with only do they no longer have any secrets from each othercoordinates to guide her, but alsoshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, knowing what other people think as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of them can the smuggler's territory, Mira must be a two-edged sword! High school is hard enough determined to stop at nothing to survive when you're normal - will being an Espie make it even more difficult?save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Since You've Been GoneHarry Allen|authortitle=Morgan MatsonChildren of the Sun

|summary=Sloane Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Emily are best friendsshe is a talented singer. Until Sloane disappears. She Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her parents have vanished. There’s been no phone callfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, text, or e-mail. Then, two weeks later, Emily gets a list in looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the mail from Sloane, giving her tasks to domeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. If she does them all, can she find her way back to Sloane?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122662</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dragon ShieldAlexia Casale|authortitle=Charlie FletcherSing if you Can't Dance

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'"Dragons don't existre having to navigate a life-changing disability too,"whispered Jo. But even those three short words sounded more like a wish than a statement of fact.but that'' Something dark and sinister s what Ven is going dealing with after collapsing on at stage in the British Museummiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. An ancient power has awoken But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and his sister Jo are still moving. The only humans still moving, desperate to get back to a life that is's as normal as she can possibly manage. The dragons are moving. They Meanwhile there're spitting real fires a new (cute!) boy in school, too. And they're attacking Will and Jo. her music A glorious golden girl comes Level performance piece to try to their rescuesort out, followed by an angel and a muse. And Will and Joe are plunged into a world where statues are alive and where good battles evil. Why are they still moving? Who is behind just the stopping day to day traumas of time? And will they ever get Mum backall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917323</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)Simon Fox|authortitle=Marie RutkoskiDeadlock

|summary=Egypt – a land of mystery and beautyLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, where history surrounds you and death is always present. There are treasures to uncoverthen suddenly rings Archie, riddles to solve and demanding he fetch something from a colourful secret place, and exotic world to explorejoin him on the run. A perfect setting for this They get together, but barely begin to smell the first in a new series of thrillers which combines intriguing landscapes, archaeology and adventure. Much whiff of Southern trains when the architecture and scenery in this book really exists and can be visitedfather is arrested, including some of leaving Archie on the tombs and museumslate express to Brighton, and many readers will feel inspired toting a tin his father was determined to seek further information about this most exciting keep away from his colleagues, and dramatic the bearer of a whole heap of locationsquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010395</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=OMG! I'm Gwen and Art Are Not in Love with a Geek!|author=Rae Earl

|summary=Hattie Moore is determined Who 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. In this year she’ll find true story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love - could it be with Goose, Bridget (the boy next door who shekingdom's starting to think of as more than just a geek, or will he only ever see female knight) - something that Art discovers from her as private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a friend? If she finds another boythey find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will he get jealous? And now she's found her real dadthey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, will she get or are they destined to know him properlylive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=War GirlsNick Brooks|authortitle=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HousePromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=This collection of short stories written by some When the principal (headmaster) of the leading writers for young adults today Urban Promise Prep school is a moving and engaging account of an aspect of murdered, three boys find themselves called into the First World War not often covered in teen fictionpolice station as suspects. Each story explores how , seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the war changed the lives time of young women his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of that time forever as the boys are innocent, will they learned be able to cope with loss and grief.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Searching for SkyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jillian CantorKitt Townsend

|summary=River is everything to Sky. Since her mother and Helmut diedSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, this girl and boy are the only two human beings on the Island. River is the only boy Sky has ever known. Their life so why is simple, calm and fulfilling. Until, one day, he running around London committing a boat comes and everything changes. Taken back series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to civilisation, get an answer to the world her mother left behind, Sky is separated from Riversecond question because I avoid spoilers. Sky hates everything about California - its houses, its rules, its people who donBut I't tell her ll answer the truthfirst one: for his grandmother. And so she sets out to find River. But when she does, she discovers the truth and why it is keeping them apart. Can anything make it right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408846640</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=Department 19: Zero HourFrontpage|author=Will Hill|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risen, betrayal has left Department 19 and their allies from across the world not knowing who they can trust, and rightly or wrongly, every hero seems to have at least one secret to keep. Valentin is away searching for his brother and Dracula, Frankenstein is coming to terms with lycanthropy, Patrick Ness and the secrecy which the department has always relied on is becoming a thing of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTea Bendix|title=High and Dry|author=Sarah SkiltonDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Dixon Ant is having in Year Eleven at quite a bad week. Still struggling standard school, and is surprised to get over being dumped by find his girlfriendgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, he’s turned to alcoholso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and now finds himself the lead suspect two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the near-fatal drug overdose of leash only a schoolmate. Offered an alibi by an exsingle-girlfriend who needs him sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to find her sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a missing flash drivesecret one, for several months now, he takes and so has effectively progressed up the chance to investigate – ladder headed by 'experienced', but quickly finds whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that the truth is hard to come by and a lot 's mostly because of people seem to have who he's been doing some dark dealings. Can he solve having the case relationship and win the girl back?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyStitched Up|author=Natasha FarrantSteve Cole

|summary=After a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s familyBrave. Charlene, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside down. She’s desperate the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for au pair Zoran some people to come back to them but Zoran like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has problems taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might 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 his own love for her younger sister – including new guitar protégé Zacha younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and the then force people to give her two immediately hit it days offschool, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting her foot in itwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Will Flora ever talk well, what exactly happens is not for me to her againsay, only to remark how sharp and when Zach goes missing, pointy those knitting needles can the sisters and the rest of their family help find him?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Geek Girl: Picture PerfectAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Holly SmaleRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners is moving 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 New Yorkdrink and make merry between their conquests. Her head However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is full of facts about a Crafter like him, someone with the Big Apple, but will this be enough power to allow form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to cope come with him, to leave the life across 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 monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Atlanticworld. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?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>0007574568</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=L M MontgomeryWrath

|summary=Rilla Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of Ingleside frustration at himself. Lockdown is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the warover, and he should be free to do what he wants, about the warto go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is an incredibly important work. It tells of what happened when he talks to the women who stayed at homehis best friend, the limited aspects Cassie. They were half of war work that they were able to doa desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened timeearth. The novel begins as Europe is on Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the brink end of war, and Rilla the world is only 15 years old and, still, already a rather silly young girl. I have to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this one, done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just a spoilt baby and at bonkers? And can Fitz find out the start of this story it seems that nothing much truth? Well, not when Cassie has changedgone missing he can't.. However, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of time, Rilla herself grows from a child to a woman.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=LobstersFrontpage|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of teen fiction and I think it does an awful lot of things really well. Amongst other things, it can transport the reader to faraway times and places. It can also let them empathise with people in situations that they’ll probably – and in many cases hopefully – never be in themselves. I think it’s fair to say, looking at the recent Carnegie longlist as just one example, that books which do either of the above things tend to be the most critically-acclaimed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)|author=Robin StevensThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Kieran sees Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the world in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a different way from most 14-year-old boyshundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. He’s an artist, inspired by LowryThe boarding school's headmaster, and a boy with man Tess hates. As a strong sense petty act of right revenge for making her find and wrong. So when deliver such a homeless man called Colin is killedlarge request, and Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the police don’t seem interestedbooks, Kieran decides scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to investigate himselfreach him, of course. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantlyHer plan is to get her anger out like this, can he survive his home life with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying him?then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Predict a RiotPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Catherine BrutonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Aspiring film-maker Maggie lives In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on Coronation Road with her mum, a politicianpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but without her dadway west, who's left thembeyond the Scillies. Tokes is another teen living without a father There are troll people on it, and sea- new to the neighbourhoodwitches, he and his mother are trying not legends of the Dark family that has to be found by his dadkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The pair meet and become friendscurrent Darks are the Watcher, but fury is brewing in their townAndrewe, and a young boy called Little Pea is about who has to unwittingly set things keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in motion that will lead his head to terrible eventsworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Will Maggie But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and Tokes survive as his curious ward are thrust into the streets turn to violence?world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405267194</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|title=Seven Second DelayFrontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom Eastonde Freston|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=In the future, the difference between West Julia and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Code Red Lipstick|author=Sarah SkyShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jessica Cole is a schoolgirl model with an exJulia, our pre-spy for a father. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpfulteen heroine, she's forced to use has been packed off with her talents for both modelling parents and spying to try and mount her own rescue mission. But their cat from the bad guys here have some really evil plans, and if Jessica's not able to stop them, she could find that she's not only lost her father, but she's missed the chance to save many more people. With danger seeming to lurk around every corner, she'll need not only all her resourcefulness but also help from her allies. If she can only work out who she can trust...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year!|author=Rae Earl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore has got a nightmare family with an evil brother, a gran who’s a ‘total mental’, and a father who she knows nothing about. As well, she wants home in SW England to be a total hotness goddess and take down rival Miss Gorgeous Knickers but there’s no boy interested in her (or is there?) Hattie’s diary tells the story of a year that could just change her life. As long as her stepfather doesn’t hate her too much lighthousekeepers for throwing up in his fish tank, that is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fools' Gold|author=Philippa Gregory|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sent to Venice, the world's biggest marketplace, Luca Vero and his friends are given strange instructions - to make money for the church by trading and even gambling. It's the only way to expose a possible coin counterfeiting schemesummer, but it also opens them up to participating in Venice's famous Carnival, where romance and excitement are at a high. While Brother Peter is distressed by the thought far NE of committing usury, Luca has other things on his mind - both his growing feelings for Isolde and the possibility of finally finding his father, who he'd given up for dead. But with dark forces at work, the five friends will need all of their willpower and ingenuity to survive in Venice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077406</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=The Night Raid|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The Trojan War is over and the few survivors have to find somewhere else to liveScottish islands. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children at the end of the war and both with their own burden of guilt and horror - are obsessed by the need to seek vengeance and protect the land on which they have now settled.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for years. They were scampsHere be Vikings, mischief makers - lads having a bit that kind of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who was a year or two olderScottish island. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst one or two of the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - Dad is going to hurt people. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, you see) happened the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in be automating the town of Felling. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for the Bad Lads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jane of Lantern Hill|author=L M Montgomery|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Canadian authorlantern, which is best known for her classic storyhis specialist thing, ''Anne of Green Gables'', but in while mum will be leaving her lifetime she wrote a large number of books that are not so well known. This story is one of them, and is, career in fact, one of my favourite stories. Jane Stuart is a wonderful heroine. She is straight-talking, down-algae behind to-earth, and funny toohunt the elusive Greenland shark. This book follows her journey from a life of miseryAnd Julia, closeted in a home lacking in lovewell, through to a joyous happy ending.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)|author=Maya Van Wagenen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At the age of 13, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide to popularity, written by teen model Betty Cornell. Unhappy at school she will be homesick and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas'', alone – until she secretly decides to try and change her life by putting the book into practice, a chapter a monthsuddenly finds company one night. But surely her dad is right, and Betty's words have no place in the modern world? Read this and find out!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353252</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Serpent HouseJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Bea DavenportThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1898 Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Annie is living Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a miserable existence dark boy with her aunt dark powers and cousinsa darker past. Not long orphanedWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she misses her mam every day. So Annie is overjoyed when her brother's employer Lady Hexer allows him they plan to bring his sister flee to live with him on a cottage on the estate at Hexer Hallmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Lady Hexer takes an interest Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in both brother and sister. But whythe rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)Mercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Helen DouglasSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=''Chasing Stars'' is the follow-up Gracie Welles has resigned herself to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - in which Ryan travels back in time to save the world from disaster by preventing the discovery being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a far-off planet. In so doing, he falls in love man with Eden. In this second storya "real" family, Ryan travels back once again - this time she is used to save Edennot being a priority in people's lifelives. And now Eden must make But when she defends a sacrificerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, tooher simple existence is changed for good. The boy No longer can she loves has given up everything to save spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her and life now has a boy in it that she must give up everything to save him..never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408828707</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SentinelT L Huchu|authortitle=Joshua WinningThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=In many ways this book Ropa Moyo is not as typical a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of fantasy and mild horror as Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the summary might suggestdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Unlike a lot Ever since she dropped out of stories where we join school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the main character in ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the aftermath of a major eventcity's children. Soon, this one begins before Nicholas Ropa is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave pulled into the search for a train journey, coming so soon after a menacing missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and mysterious prologue, makes it pretty clear to us realise that they wonthe world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could't be returningve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, and that Nicholas or will soon be in deadly danger himself.it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two Boys KissingKristen O'Neal|authortitle=David LevithanLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Two boys - no longer a coupleHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, but still friends - are kissing outside their high school. But this is no ordinary kiss. This is a kiss which they intend Priya has to come to last over 32 hours, breaking terms with the world record fact that she may be in constant pain for longest kissthe rest of her life. Their friend will document itShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', spreading the world an online support group where she talks to, and beyond, their community, some a bunch of whom will be supportive, others of whom will be disgustedother teens living with chronic illnesses. Two They talk about their troubles and help each other boys are in a relationshipout, while two more may be about also providing an escape to start onejust joke and mess around. An eighth is looking When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for something he may never finda while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents'car and drive to Brigid'Two Boys Kissings house to check up on her. But what she doesn'' tells t expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the story of all these different boys, at different stages of lovepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Fifteen Bones|author=R J Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I'm going to break from my usual habits here, and just use the blurb on the back as a summary of this book. This isn't out of laziness, honestly. Partly it's because I'm worried I'll give too much away otherwise, and partly because the blurb itself deserves praise as an absolutely masterful example of how to draw a reader in without spoiling anything at all. 'Things haven't been the same for Jake since the accident. Then he meets Robin and finds hope. She is exciting, fearless... and the most dangerous girl in London.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140713826X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Episode of Sparrows|author=Rumer Godden|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It is post war London and in a private garden in a prosperous square someone has been digging up the earth. The formidable Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is convinced that a gang of local boys from nearby Catford Street is to blame. Her sister Olivia, a more thoughtful and kindly woman, worries about these children, ‘the sparrows’ and believes that there is more to this than petty theft. Meanwhile in Catford Street a little girl named Lovejoy Mason, abandoned by her mother to the care of restaurant owner Vincent and his wife, nurtures hopes and dreams of her own. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none of them could have anticipated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088510</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Valentine Joe|author=Rebecca Stevens|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Rose’s grandfather Brian takes her to Ypres to pay their respects to his dead brother, but while there she notices the grave of a 15-year-old boy, Valentine Joe. Tormented by thoughts of such a young lad dying so tragically, she wakes up that night and looks out of the window to see the strange sight of a 1910s town, and a soldier marching. Slipping back in time, she meets Valentine Joe himself – but why has this happened, and what will the future be for these two children?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Childish Spirits|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ellie and her mum and brother Charlie have moved into Inchwood Manor. Ellie's mum is going to transform the old house into a heritage visitor attraction. Ellie doesn't mind this but she does wish her dad had come too. But for some reason, he hasn't. And if Ellie wasn't texting him, he wouldn't even know how they were getting Move on. There's a great deal of work to be done to get Inchwood Manor ready and mum is busy with manager Marcus. Charlie is busy being fed up at being stuck in the back end of beyond. And so neither of them notice the strange things that Ellie does...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783064617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Playlist For A Broken Heart|author=Cathy Hopkins|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Paige’s dad loses his job and she and her parents are forced to move in with her aunt, uncle and cousins in an already crowded house, it feels like the end of the world to her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush in the school play, so being torn away from him and taken out of school might break her heart. But then she finds a mixtape of local bands made for a girl, and as she listens to it, starts wondering about the boy who made it. Making new friends, she decides to try and track the boy down – but will he be who she’s expecting?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]