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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Cate Sampson|title=Splintered Light|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When she was just a child, Leah's face was horribly scarred in an attack in which her mother and another woman died. And it's all brought horribly back when the man convicted is released years later after new evidence has emerged. Charlie's father is that man. And Charlie wants more than anything to reunite with his exonerated father and help him get revenge on the people who falsely accused him. Then there's Linden, newly released from a young offenders institute, whose brother Victor has an inexplicable obsession with this years-old crime. All three teenagers are defined by a single calamity. But what really happened?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115836</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Pills and Starships|author=Lydia Millet|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ravaged by the effects of global warming, disease and an increasingly unsustainable population, the future in which Nat and her brother Sam live is a far cry from the world of their parents' youth. Corporations run the remains of their society, forbidding the birth of new children, using a ubiquitous supply of ''pharma'' drugs to keep the population in check, and perhaps most sinister of all, taking control of death itself. Riddled by depression Nat's parents have decided to buy a death contract to take their Final Week in a slickly engineered resort in what remains of Hawaii. As the days tick down, Nat finds herself following the lead of her more cynical and rebellious brother, and begins to genuinely question the system that she has previously accepted all her life; however, what chance do two teens possibly have against the all-seeing, all-powerful corps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1617752762</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ruin and RisingFrontpage|author=Leigh Bardugo|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Starkov, the Sun Summoner, has fallen. In her confrontation with the Darkling, she called on forbidden powers. Not only did she nearly die, but she didn't succeed in stopping him. Now he sits on Ravka's throne, ruling the country through fear, while she wastes away underground, weakened, and far from the light that would strengthen her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASIW7A</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Townsend|title=Death on Toast (Shades 2.0)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Freddy has the ultimate disadvantage of having rich parents. Well, actually, I guess it's not so much that they're rich as that they're far too busy doing what they want, have to do to take much if any notice of Freddy and what he's doing. He's left on his own - often overnight - to do exactly as he wants to do. And what Freddy wants to do is to watch horror DVDs. Who's to say whether it was the DVDs or his parents lack of interest which drove him to do what he did, but whichever it was, Freddy does something from which there is no return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276382</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The Eye Last Life of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) |author=Michelle PaverLori Mills

|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's been seven long months since Hylas got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Pirra were separated that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the wake server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the devastating eruption of Thalakreatampering. The eruption was followed by tsunami When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the coldest winter anyone can remember. There game has been doctored – well, where is no spring. No sun.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|title=Replica|author=Jack Heath|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There is a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fiction, but this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good story. ''Replica'' is a strange and compelling combination of action, mystery, thriller and science-fiction. Heath has even included a hint of a romance. There is something for everyone and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problems, the text is easy-to-read, immersive and unpretentious.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Apple and RainFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''A story about sad endings.''<br>''A story about happy beginnings.''<br>''A story to make you realise who is special.''<br> This is the blurb on the back jacket of ''Apple and Rain'' and it sums up the book just perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885306X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRachel Greenlaw|title=Between the Lives|author=Jessica Shirvington|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sabine lives two lives. Literally. Each night, at midnight, she shifts from one self to another. Time resets too; Sabine may be a teenager to her families and friends but in reality, she has thirty-odd years-worth of life experience. It's a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painful, and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately in each environment. And her lives are very different. In Wellesley, Sabine is wealthy and popular with two brothers Compass and a boyfriend other girls are jealous of. In Roxbury, she has one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation for rebelliousness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Runner|author=Tim BowlerBlade|rating=43.5

|summary=Strange men are watching Vinny's house but he doesn't know why. His mum is being disloyal to his dad but he doesn't know why. Something is up with his dad and his job but Vinny doesn't know whatI can hear the song of the sea. But Vinny does know that he's had enough The call of school, where he's being bullied. Everything is going wrong. And nowthe deep, the men who are watching the house are after Zinny too. Mum ends up answering beat in the hospital. Dad disappearsmy heart.''

WhatRosevear, 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 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's leader and Mira's 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 sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's going on?territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doing ItHarry Allen|authortitle=Melvin BurgessChildren of the Sun

|summary=First published Ra Eun Seo lives in 2003, ''Doing It'' a North Korean town and she is the story of a group of teenagers discovering sex for the first timetalented singer. It's explicit. It's unflinching. And it caused a stir at the time. With high teen pregnancy ratesLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, is there such a thing as too much accuracy? Or are honest portrayals the best form of education? Reissued a decade laterso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, we can have that conversation all over again through looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the prism meagre rations of the three teenage boys this novel followsrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreview|title=RunawayFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenAlexia Casale|rating=4.5|genretitle=Teens|summary=After her father is brutally murdered, Charlotte escapes the city to try to find a new life, and to avoid the vicious killer who is surely tracking her down. Disguising herself as a boy, she puts her skill with horses to good use by finding employment at a grand country estate, drawing the notice of a kind man far above her station in life. But while Charlie tries to grasp happiness where she can find it, the shadow of the past looms over her. Will she ever be truly free of the terror of her fatherSing if you Can's death?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Noggin|author=John Corey Whaleyt Dance

|summary=It''Listen. I was alive once and then I wasn't. Simple as s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that. Now Iyou'm alive again. The inre having to navigate a life-between part is still a little fuzzychanging disability too, but I can tell you that, at some point or another, my head got chopped off and shoved into a freezer in Denver, Colorado.'' Erk! That's how ''Noggin'' begins and I defy you not to want to read what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on. Travis Coates stage in the middle of a dance performance that was terminally ill. In a last ditch Hail Mary, he consented going to cryogenic preservationchange her life. And now, he's But she comes backfighting, his head grafted onto a donor body. Of all desperate to avoid the original volunteerspity stares, Travis is one of only two patients successfully brought and desperate to get back to a lifethat's as normal as she can possibly manage. It Meanwhile there's a cause for celebrationnew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, rightand just the day to day traumas of all 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>1471122891</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShimmerSimon Fox|authortitle=Paula WestonDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gaby Late one night Graham Blake is still struggling late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to come to terms with smell the many major revelations that have been thrown at her in whiff of Southern trains when the past few days - not least that father is arrested, leaving Archie on the brother she's believed dead for late express to Brighton, toting a year is actually alive. Ohtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and they're both Rephaim, half-Angel children the bearer of a whole heap of the Fallen - angels that fell from grace after seducing human womenquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621876</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MintyLex Croucher|authortitle=Christina BanachGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Fourteen-year-old twins Minty and Jess are barely ever partedWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, until it lifted my spirits in a fateful trip to the coast ends in tragedymost delightful way. Minty tries In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to rescue her dog but their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is soon fighting for in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910153028</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sex and Violence|author=Carrie Mesrobian|rating=4private diaries.5|genre=Teens|summary=Seventeen-year-old Evan is a player who, And then when he moves to Gwen then catches Art kissing a new townboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, has always found it easy to find a girl to have sex with. Then he ends up creating the subterfuge of falling in the wrong place, love with the wrong girleach other, at the wrong timewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and suffers a brutal assault. Retreating to will they find a quiet community way in Minnesota with his fatherwhich they can both truly be themselves, he meets many new people, including or are they destined to live a girl who may be there for more than 'just' sex. But can he recover from the trauma he's sufferedlie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782432965</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=Head Over HeartFrontpage|author=Colette Victor|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Like many other British thirteen-year-olds, Zeyneb is struggling with her feelings as she grows up, and with juggling her friends and family. However, she has an extra dilemma - she's a Muslim girl who's attracted to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve of. Additionally, she needs to decide whether to wear a headscarf or not. What should she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=ZOM-B Clans|author=Darren ShanPromise Boys

|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read When the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriesprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go onthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Run along Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077805</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Winger1919635017|author=Andrew Smith|rating=2.5|genretitle=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West is at boarding school. His roommate is a bully, his closest male friends are idiots, and his best friend is an older girl he's madly in love with who doesn't seem A Thief to see him in the same way. But this could be Catch a year that changes everything for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging in daily is as much of a problem as a resource. 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

|summary=Something weird happens after 10B get their flu shots - they develop telepathy. There are good points - they know what other people think Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of them, they can cheat on tests, and they robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the upper hand in conversations with otherssecond question because I avoid spoilers. But there are some drawbacks as well - not only do they no longer have any secrets from each other, but also, knowing what other people think of them can be a two-edged sword! High school is hard enough to survive when youI're normal - will being an Espie make it even more difficult?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreview|title=Since You've Been GoneFrontpage|author=Morgan Matson|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sloane and Emily are best friends. Until Sloane disappears. She Patrick Ness and her parents have vanished. There’s been no phone call, text, or e-mail. Then, two weeks later, Emily gets a list in the mail from Sloane, giving her tasks to do. If she does them all, can she find her way back to Sloane?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122662</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTea Bendix|title=Dragon Shield|author=Charlie Fletcher|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''"Dragons don't exist,"whispered Jo. But even those three short words sounded more like a wish than a statement of fact.'' Something dark and sinister is going on at the British Museum. An ancient power has awoken and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and his sister Jo are still moving. The only humans still moving, that is. The dragons are moving. They're spitting real fire, too. And they're attacking Will and Jo. A glorious golden girl comes to their rescue, 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 the stopping of time? And will they ever get Mum back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie RutkoskiDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Kestrel Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two alternative futures ahead of herother old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the daughter of leash only a general of a vastsingle-sex school can form, expansionist empire, she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist the talk in the militaryclass and out often turns to sex. Kestrel Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't want either and her life know what his score is spent , where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a delicate game secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of manoeuvres who he's been having the relationship and the sex with her father as she tries to put off the decision.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Boy In The TowerStitched Up|author=Polly Ho-YenSteve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Wonderful, wonderful story about a lonely boy, his agoraphobic mother and buildingTwelve-year-eating plants. That could never work, right? Wrong! It's old Hanh wanted to be a must read and you won't ever have read anything quite like it beforefashion designer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Secrets of Life in the Tombs: The Phoenix Code|author=Helen Moss|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Egypt – a land of mystery and beautyrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, where history surrounds you so when the smartly-dressed man and death is always present. There are treasures woman came to uncover, riddles the village to solve and offer Hahn a colourful job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and exotic world Hanh was on the mini-bus to exploreHanoi. A perfect setting for this Only, Hanh and the first other girls were not going to work in a new series of thrillers which combines intriguing landscapesshop, archaeology and adventurethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Much of You know those jeans you really wanted: the architecture ones with intricate embroidery and scenery in this book really exists and can be visited, including some of beading on the legs? The ones with the tombs artfully-placed rips and museums, distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and many readers will feel inspired to seek further information about this most exciting and dramatic of locationsher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010395</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek!Patrice Lawrence|authortitle=Rae EarlNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Hattie Moore Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is determined that this year she’ll find true love - could it be extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with Goosea pleasant yoga tutor, the boy next door who sheAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's starting to 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 more than just Charlene is a geekwonder knitter, or will he only ever see and is making something full of love for her as younger sister – a friend? If she finds another boy, will he get jealous? And now younger sister she's found allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her real dadtwo days off school, will when she get shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to know him properly?remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=War GirlsAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HouseRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=This collection of short stories written by some Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the leading writers for young adults today Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a moving and engaging account of an aspect of Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the First World War not often covered in teen fictionEmpire. Each story explores how the war changed He asks her to come with him, to leave the lives of young women life of dreary servitude that time forever 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 they learned a shikigami, and she is forced to cope with loss flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and grief.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Searching for SkyMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Jillian CantorWrath

|summary=River is everything to Sky. Since her mother and Helmut diedMeet Fitz, this girl and boy are the only two human beings on the Islanda young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. River Lockdown is the only boy Sky has ever known. Their life is simplejust over, calm and fulfilling. Untilhe should be free to do what he wants, one day, a boat comes to go where he wants and everything changes. Taken back to civilisationwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to the world her mother left behindhis best friend, Sky is separated from RiverCassie. Sky hates everything about California - its housesThey were half of a desultory school band, its rules, its people who don't tell her but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the truth. And so enigmatic – saying she sets out to find Rivercould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. But when Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she does, 's dreaming of? Is she discovers just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth and why it is keeping them apart. Can anything make it right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408846640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Department 19: Zero Hour|author=Will Hill|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risenWell, betrayal not when Cassie has left Department 19 and their allies from across the world not knowing who they gone missing he can trust, and rightly or wrongly, every hero seems to have at least one secret to keep't.. Valentin is away searching for his brother and Dracula, Frankenstein is coming to terms with lycanthropy, and the secrecy which the department has always relied on is becoming a thing of the past.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High and DryTori Bovalino|authortitle=Sarah SkiltonThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Charlie Dixon Working all summer in her boarding school's library is having the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a bad week. Still struggling to get request for over being dumped by his girlfriend, he’s turned a hundred books that she has to alcoholdeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and now finds himself the lead suspect in the near-fatal drug overdose of a schoolmateman Tess hates. Offered an alibi by an ex-girlfriend who needs him to As a petty act of revenge for making her find her and deliver such a missing flash drivelarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, he takes scribbled with the chance ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to investigate – but quickly finds that the truth reach him, of course. Her plan is hard to come by get her anger out like this, and a lot of people seem to have been doing some dark dealingsthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. Can he solve the case and win the girl back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Natasha FarrantUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After In a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s familyword, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside downrich. She’s desperate for au pair Zoran to come back to them There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but Zoran way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has problems of his own – including new guitar protégé Zachto keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora and The current Darks are the two immediately hit it offWatcher, Andrewe, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads who has to her putting her foot keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in it. Will Flora ever talk London with too much science in his head to her againworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Zach goes missingAndrewe Dark drowns himself, can the sisters both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the rest world of protecting their family help find him?island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Geek Girl: Picture PerfectKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Holly SmaleJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Harriet Manners is moving Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to New Yorkbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Her head Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is full of facts about going to be automating the Big Applelantern, but which is his specialist thing, while mum will this be enough to allow leaving her career in algae behind to cope with life across hunt the Atlanticelusive Greenland shark. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideJonathan Stroud|authortitle=L M MontgomeryThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rilla of Ingleside Scarlett McCain is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the waroutlaw, about rejecting the war, it is an incredibly important work. It tells draconian conformity of what happened to the women who stayed at home, the limited aspects of war work that they were able Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to do, wander the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all of wildlands between the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened time. The novel begins as Europe is on the brink Seven Kingdoms of warBritain, robbing banks and Rilla is only 15 years old and, still, a rather silly young girl. I have shooting other outlaws to say, I never much cared for Rillakeep herself alive. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this one, But then she's just a spoilt baby and at the start of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. Howevermeets Albert Browne, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of time, Rilla herself grows from a child to a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lobsters|author=Tom Ellen dark boy with dark powers 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 welldarker past. Amongst other thingsWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, it can transport the reader they plan 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 flee to say, looking at the recent Carnegie longlist as just one example, that books which do either mythical Free Isles of the above things tend to be the most criticallyLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-acclaimed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)|author=Robin Stevens|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=How do you solve a murder with no body when nobody even realises that a murder has taken place? Such is eating wildlife, the task facing cannibalistic Tainted and all the Wells & Wong Detective Society horrors of post- Deepdean School's most secret apocalyptic society. Society Secretary Hazel Wong found mistress Miss Bell's dead body in to reach the gym. But by the time she returned with President Daisy WellsFree Isles, Miss Bell's body had disappeared. It's the first decent case the Society has had - who really cared about Lavinia's Missing Tie? - and Daisy has at it with gusto. Hazel follows along at a slower pace but with, it must will they be said, a great deal any more attention to detail. Of course, school life continues unhindered and Daisy and Hazel must conduct their investigation while avoiding Latin prep and lacrosse practice, and enjoying midnight feasts and buntime biscuits.accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552570729</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Apple Tart of HopeMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Meg's parents think six months away in New Zealand Gracie 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 great idea. Meg isnpriority in people't convinceds lives. A big part of the reason But when she doesn't want to go defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is Oscarchanged for good. Oscar Dunleavey is Meg's best friendNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the for her life now has a boy next door who makes perfect apple tartsin it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006924</amazonuk>152905818X

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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Predict a RiotKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Catherine BrutonLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Aspiring film-maker Maggie lives on Coronation Road Having recently been diagnosed with her mumchronic Lyme disease, a politician, but without her dad, who's left them. Tokes is another teen living without a father - new Priya has to come to terms with the neighbourhood, he and his mother are trying not to fact that she may be found by his dad. The pair meet and become friends, but fury is brewing in their town, and a young boy called Little Pea is about to unwittingly set things in motion that will lead to terrible events. Will Maggie and Tokes survive as constant pain for the streets turn to violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405267194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3rest of her life.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the futureShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by an online support group where she talks to a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world bunch of the latter to the first world of the formerother teens living with chronic illnesses. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, They talk about their troubles and as she falls into the hands of the Agentshelp each other out, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Code Red Lipstick|author=Sarah Sky|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jessica Cole is a schoolgirl model with while also providing an ex-spy for a fatherescape to just joke and mess around. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpful, sheBrigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's forced t respond to use her talents the chat for both modelling and spying a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to try and mount steal her own rescue mission. But the bad guys here have some really evil plans, parents' car and if Jessica's not able drive to stop them, she could find that she's not only lost her father, but sheBrigid's missed the chance house 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 check up on her allies. If she can only work out who But what she can trust...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Mooredoesn's Unbelievable Year!|author=Rae Earl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore has got t expect to find there is a nightmare family with an evil brother, a gran who’s a ‘total mental’, werewolf in the basement – and a father who for that werewolf to be the girl she knows nothing about. As well, she wants has been talking 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 online for the story of a year that could just change her lifepast few months. As long as her stepfather doesn’t hate her too much for throwing up in his fish tank, that is…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 scheme, 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 of committing usury, Luca has other things Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]