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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RisingMax Boucherat|authortitle=Tom MoorhouseThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Strife and Kale are two young water voles who can sniff out trouble better than their careful sister Ivy and We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to the fury of their protective pop in, babysitter poorly, motherat work, Aven. They just can't help itan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. But Kale isn't telling Strife everything - he What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has a secret. When long-lost Uncle Sylvan arrives warning of danger one main intention, and the siblings eavesdrop that is to log on to Voxminer, the adults' conversationworld-building, Kalecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's secret is exposedworld. Even though she But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't fully understand itfind herself entirely on her own, Strife follows and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her brother into danger bestie and nobody else should be able to avert a bigger dangerenter shows signs of tampering. The quest When malevolent eyes spark up on which these two young water voles embark will test them to their limits her phone screen, and they'll need all her safe place in the help Uncle Sylvan and Fodur the rat can provide...game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734822</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|title=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient DarknessFrontpage|author=Michelle Paver|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Living six thousand years ago, after the Ice Age but before the spread of agriculture, Torak and his people understand the natural world. They revere the animals they hunt and never waste an ounce of prey. A deer provides them not only with food, but also with clothes, water carriers, shoes, rope, even needles. Torak and his people also understand spirituality. They see the sacred in the seasons and the cycle of the moon. And they believe in demons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015419</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRachel Greenlaw|title=Found|author=Harlan Coben|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's been eight months since Mickey watched his father die in a car accident. Since then, he's been drawn into the work of the mysterious Abeona Shelter, rescuing children Compass and young people from dangerous situations. The latest person to go missing is Ema's online boyfriend. Mickey isn't convinced he exists, but Ema's adamant they need to look for him. Meanwhile, Mickey's nemesis Troy has been taken off the basketball team after failing a steroid test. Troy isn't exactly Mickey's favourite person, but he knows the team won't play so well without him, so when Troy asks Mickey for help to prove his innocence, Mickey reluctantly agrees.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409124517</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=No Stone Unturned|author=Helen WattsBlade|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kelly doesn't have any friends at school3. People don't like travellers. So she's glad to find a new friend in Ben over the summer holidays. Even Kelly's dog, Tyson, likes Ben. Exploring the disused quarries local to their village of Wilmcote, they find some interesting treasures, including an old boot. So when school starts again and Mr Walker sets a local history project, Kelly decides to find out more about the old quarries, the coming of the railway and the use of Wilmcote limestone in the construction of the Houses of Parliament. Ben offers to help and soon the pair uncover worrying evidence about what really went on all that time ago... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472905407</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Counting By 7s|author=Holly Goldberg Sloan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Willow is not like other girls. She is not just smart, but certifiably gifted. She gets on better with adults than she does her peers. She loves patterns and plants, the colour red and the number 7. She is charming and adorable and quirky. She is one of the most real characters I've met in a book this year. And she is hurting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848124163</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The 100 Society|author=Carla Spradbery|rating=4

|summary=Grace and her friends at the Clifton Academy boarding school have a secret. They have resurrected ''I can hear the 100 Society and intend to complete the grafitti tagging song of a hundred locations around the citysea. A scandal involving a previous incarnation The call of the society means that this is an expulsion offence so Grace is playing with fire. But to herdeep, the 100 Society isnanswering beat in my heart.'t a game; it's an obsession. And she's determined to complete the mission. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920081</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Boundless|author=Kenneth Oppel|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=William Everett's father has risen high in Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the railwaywrecks. But it wasn't always thus. He spent many years working for Cornelius Van Horne as a manual labourerMira, like her mother before her, cutting and blasting through swathes is one of Canada the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and laying tracksany treasure that lies within. When Will and his father witness But when the laying of Council Watch lays a trap to end the last piece of trackwrecking, therethey capture the island's an avalanche. And Willleader and Mira's father saves Van Horne's life. Promotion and success followed Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and now Van Horne is deadwith only coordinates to guide her, Will's 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 is general manager and , as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the worldsmuggler's biggest train - the Boundlessterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at 987 carriages long - will carry his body in perpetuitynothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Impossible Knife of MemoryHarry Allen|authortitle=Laurie Halse AndersonChildren of the Sun

|summary=Hayley Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is back in difficult to come by, so Seo and her childhood home after years on the road with her fatherfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, trying looking for tree bark and edible grasses to outrun supplement the past. She doesn't really remember living here, nor does she really want to. Not when her father can't drive under bridges for fear meagre rations of snipers. Not when he's self medicating with alcohol rice and drugs. Not when he refuses help from the VAkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407147668</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Witch of Salt and StormAlexia Casale|authortitle=Kendall KulperSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Avery wants just one thing: It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to take her place as navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the witch middle of Prince Islanda dance performance that was going to change her life. The witch who controls But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the winds pity stares, and helps the whalers on their waydesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. The witch whose charms on which the whole island relies. But Avery Meanwhile there's mothera new (cute!) boy in school, who has rejected magicher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, came and stole just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her away. Avery's prison in body continues to throw at her mother's house is a luxurious one - there are dresses and trinkets and ponies most girls would die forto navigate. But Avery doesn So even though she can't care. All dance anymore, might she wants is to get back be able to sing her grandmother and to continue her witch's apprenticeship.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408335190</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|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 Rising|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>}} {{newreview|title=The Eye of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) |author=Michelle PaverDeadlock

|summary=It's been seven long months since Hylas Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and Pirra were separated in join him on the wake run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the devastating eruption of Thalakrea. The eruption late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was followed by tsunami determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the coldest winter anyone can remember. There is no spring. No sunbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ReplicaLex Croucher|authortitle=Jack HeathGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=There is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictiongay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, but it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In 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 , Gwen and compelling combination of actionArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, mysteryyou see, thriller and scienceis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -fictionsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Heath has even included And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a hint boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of a romancefalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. There is something for everyone and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problemsBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, the text is easy-or are they destined to-read, immersive and unpretentious.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=Between the Lives|author=Jessica ShirvingtonPromise Boys

|summary=Sabine lives two lives. LiterallyWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each night, at midnightseemingly, she shifts from one self to another. Time resets too; Sabine may be has a teenager to her families and friends but in reality, she has thirty-odd years-worth grudge of life experience. It's a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painfulsome description against Principal Moore, and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately in each environment. And her lives are very differentcould have been there at the time of his murder. In Wellesley But who killed him, Sabine is wealthy and popular with two brothers why, and a boyfriend other girls if any of the boys are jealous of. In Roxburyinnocent, she has one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation for rebelliousness.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Night RunnerA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Tim BowlerKitt Townsend

|summary=Strange men are watching Vinny's house but he doesnSolomon Klyne isn't know a bad lad, so 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 what. But Vinny does know that he's had enough running around London committing a series of school, where robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's being bullied. Everything is going wrong. And now, the men who are watching ll have to wait to get an answer to the house are after Zinny toosecond question because I avoid spoilers. Mum ends up in the hospital. Dad disappears. What's going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Doing It|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=First published in 2003, But I''Doing It'' is ll answer the story of a group of teenagers discovering sex first one: for the first timehis grandmother. It's explicit. It's unflinching. And it caused a stir at the time. With high teen pregnancy rates, is there such a thing as too much accuracy? Or are honest portrayals the best form of education? Reissued a decade later, we can have that conversation all over again through the prism of the three teenage boys this novel follows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RunawayPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Marie-Louise JensenDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=After her father Ant is brutally murderedin Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Charlotte escapes the city to try and is surprised to find a new lifehis 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 other old muckers – in fact they all go back to avoid the vicious killer who is surely tracking her downprimary school days together. Disguising herself as a boy As they're all fired up, she puts her skill with horses to good use by finding employment straining at the leash only a grand country estatesingle-sex school can form, drawing the notice of a kind man far above her station talk in lifeclass and out often turns to sex. But while Charlie tries to grasp happiness Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where she can find ithis achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the shadow of the past looms over herladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Will she ever be truly free And that's mostly because of the terror of her fatherwho he's death?been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=NogginStitched Up|author=John Corey WhaleySteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''ListenTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. I Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was alive once and then I wasn't. Simple as that. Now I'm alive again. The in-between part is still a little fuzzyhappy, but I can tell you thatif not prosperous, at some point or another, my head got chopped off so when the smartly-dressed man and shoved into woman came to the village to offer Hahn a freezer job in Denver, Colorado.'' Erk! That's how ''Noggin'' begins and I defy you Hanoi it was an opportunity not to want to read onbe missed. Travis Coates Some money changed hands and Hanh was terminally illon the mini-bus to Hanoi. In a last ditch Hail Mary Only, he consented Hanh and the other girls were not going to cryogenic preservation. And now, he's back, his head grafted onto work in a donor body. Of all the original volunteersshop, Travis is one of only two patients successfully brought back they were to lifework in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a cause for celebration, right? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122891</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShimmerPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Paula WestonNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Gaby Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is still struggling extremely hard for some people to come to terms like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with the many major revelations that have been thrown a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at her uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the past few days - not least that creation of one such item is part of the brother plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's believed dead for allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a year store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is actually alive. Ohnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and they're both Rephaim, half-Angel children of the Fallen - angels that fell from grace after seducing human womenpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621876</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MintyAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Christina BanachRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old twins Minty 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 drink and Jess are barely ever partedmake merry between their conquests. However, until when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a fateful trip Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the coast ends in tragedyEmpire. Minty tries He asks her to rescue her dog but come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon fighting for her lifeKurara 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 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>1910153028</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sex and ViolenceMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Carrie MesrobianWrath

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Evan Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a player whoonly just over, when and he moves should be free to a new towndo what he wants, has always found it easy to find a girl to have sex go where he wants and with. Then whom he wants, but he ends up cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the wrong place, with the wrong girl, at the wrong timeit when he talks to his best friend, and suffers a brutal assaultCassie. Retreating to They were half of a quiet community in Minnesota with his fatherdesultory school band, he meets many new people, including but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a girl who may be there for more than 'just' sex. But can he recover subhuman hum coming from the trauma he's suffered?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432965</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Head Over Heart|author=Colette Victor|rating=3earth.5|genre=Teens|summary=Like many other British thirteen-year-olds, Zeyneb is struggling Is this connected with one of her feelings as she grows up, and with juggling her friends and family. However, she has an extra dilemma eco- warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's a Muslim girl who's attracted to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve dreaming of. Additionally, ? Is she needs to decide whether to wear a headscarf or not. What should she dojust bonkers?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ZOM-B Clans|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read And can Fitz find out the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriestruth? Well, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go on. Run along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077805</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Winger|author=Andrew Smith|rating=2.5|genre=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 not when Cassie has gone missing he's madly in love with who doesncan't seem to see him in the same way. But this could be a year that changes everything for him..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)|rating=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|genre=Teens|summary=Something weird happens after 10B get their flu shots - they develop telepathy. There are good points - they know what other people think of them, they can cheat on tests, and they have the upper hand in conversations with others. 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 you're normal - will being an Espie make it even more difficult?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Since You've Been Gone|author=Morgan Matson|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sloane and Emily are best friends. Until Sloane disappears. She 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>}} {{newreview|title=Dragon ShieldFrontpage|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>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie RutkoskiDevil Makes Three

|summary=Kestrel has two alternative futures ahead of Working all summer in her. As boarding school's library is the daughter of last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a general of request for over a vast, expansionist empire, hundred books that she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the militarybooks: Mr Birch. Kestrel doesnThe boarding school't want either s headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her life is spent in find and deliver such a delicate game large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of manoeuvres the books, scribbled with her father as the ugliest insults she tries can think of. They're never meant to put reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off the decisionbefore delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boy In The TowerPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Polly Ho-YenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=WonderfulIn a word, wonderful rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story about set on a lonely boypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, his agoraphobic mother and buildingsea-eating plantswitches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. That could never workThe current Darks are the Watcher, right? Wrong! ItAndrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's a must read foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and you won't ever have read anything quite his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it beforeor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Secrets of the Tombs: The Phoenix CodeKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Helen MossJulia and the Shark|rating=54

|summary=Egypt – a land of mystery and beautyJulia, where history surrounds you and death is always present. There are treasures to uncoverour pre-teen heroine, riddles to solve has been packed off with her parents and a colourful and exotic world their cat from the family home in SW England to explore. A perfect setting be lighthousekeepers for thisa summer, in the first in a new series far NE of thrillers which combines intriguing landscapes, archaeology and adventurethe Scottish islands. Much of the architecture and scenery in this book really exists and can Here be visitedVikings, including some that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the tombs and museumslantern, which is his specialist thing, and many readers while mum will feel inspired be leaving her career in algae behind to seek further information about this most exciting hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and dramatic of locationsalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010395</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek!Jonathan Stroud|authortitle=Rae EarlThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore Scarlett McCain is determined that this year she’ll find true love - could it be with Goosean outlaw, rejecting the boy next door who she's starting draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to think wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of as more than just a geekBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, or will he only ever see her as a friend? If she finds another dark boywith dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, will he get jealous? And now she's found her real dadthe cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will she get to know him properlythey be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=War GirlsMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HouseSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=This collection Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of short stories written by some of the leading writers for young adults today a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a moving and engaging account of an aspect of the First World War not often covered priority in teen fictionpeople's lives. Each story explores how the war But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed the lives of young women of for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that time forever as they learned to cope with loss and griefshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Searching for SkyT L Huchu|authortitle=Jillian CantorThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=River Ropa Moyo is everything a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to Skytake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Since Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her mother younger sister and Helmut diedher aging grandmother. However, this girl and boy are there's an evil stalking the only two human beings on ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Islandcity's children. River Soon, Ropa is pulled into the only search for a missing boy Sky has ever known. Their life is simple, calm and fulfillingat the request of his dead mother. Until, one day, a boat comes She will end up discovering an occult library and everything changes. Taken back to civilisation, to realise that the world her mother left behind, Sky of magic is separated from River. Sky hates everything about California - its houses, its rules, its people who donfar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could't tell her the truthve imagined. And so Will she sets out to find River. But when she does, she discovers the truth missing children and why bring an end to this evil, or will it is keeping them apart. Can anything make it rightclaim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408846640</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Department 19: Zero HourKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Will HillLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risenHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, betrayal Priya 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 come to terms with lycanthropy, and the secrecy which fact that she may be in constant pain for the department has always relied on is becoming rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a thing bunch of the pastother teens living with chronic illnesses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=High They talk about their troubles and Dry|author=Sarah Skilton|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Dixon is having a bad week. Still struggling to get over being dumped by his girlfriendhelp each other out, he’s turned while also providing an escape to alcohol, just joke and now finds himself mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the lead suspect in the near-fatal drug overdose of chat for a schoolmatewhile, Priya becomes concerned. Offered an alibi by an ex-girlfriend who needs him She decides to find steal her a missing flash parents' car and drive, he takes the chance to investigate – but quickly finds that the truth Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is hard to come by and a lot of people seem to have been doing some dark dealings. Can he solve werewolf in the case basement – and win for that werewolf to be the girl back?she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby|author=Natasha Farrant|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s family, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside down. She’s desperate for au pair Zoran Move on to come back to them but Zoran has problems of his own – including new guitar protégé Zach. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora and the two immediately hit it off, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting her foot in it. Will Flora ever talk to her again, and when Zach goes missing, can the sisters and the rest of their family help find him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]