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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Cure For DreamingMax Boucherat|authortitle=Cat WintersThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Olivia Mead is strongWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, independentlyjust an avidly rule-minded and unrepentant in her beliefsbreaking eleven year old, but there is a certain natural vulnerability to her personality which makes on her so appealinglonesome. She isn’t What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a ruthlessblanket fort, she has one main intention, remorseless warrior. She and that is a human being who simply wants to be treated like onelog on to Voxminer, the world-building, rather than critter-collecting game that is a pethit in Lori's world. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beauty, because But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this isn’t the point of her character. Her beauty lies in in stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her firmly held valuesown, which and then she sticks by finds something even at an age when it would more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be so easy able to go with enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the flow.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BelzharRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Meg WolitzerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''I was sent here because can hear the song of a boythe sea. His name was Reeve Maxfield, and I loved him and then he diedThe call of the deep, and almost a year passed and no-one knew what to do with methe answering beat in my heart.''

Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of him Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the forty-wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one days of their relationshipthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. SheBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's not interested in schoolleader and Mira's father. friendsDesperate to save him from death, foodMira 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, even therapysecret that lies buried deep in the sea. And soWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, in desperation, Jamas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's parents send territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problemshome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsHarry Allen|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test at Children of the first attempt and he ''knew'' it meant that he was a great driver. There was just one snag: his mother wasn't exactly on board about this and wouldn't let him borrow her car. There was always an excuse as to why it just wasn't possible, even when he'd promised his friends that he could have the car so they could go off somewhere. Finally he got his Mum to admit that she was a bit worried about him using it - but she did offer to go out with him so that he could get some practice in. Ryan knew that the time for ''practicing'' was past. I mean, he'd ''passed'' his test, hadn't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Winter Horses|author=Philip KerrSun

|summary=It’s the winter of 1941 Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and we are in the Ukraine. A fourteen year old girl she is hiding in a wood on the vast and bitter-cold steppetalented singer. Her name Life is Katinka, a name from folk song hard and fairy talefood is difficult to come by, so Seo and she has been befriended by two of the wild Przelowski’s horses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Atkins|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=She's MADDY, you know, not MADELEINE, but that's only one of the problems which she has with her parents. They might be on holiday in one of the most beautiful places on earthfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, but her mother simply will not lighten up. She's always complaining about what Maddy does, what she wears or doesn't wear (there's not ''nearly'' enough of that bikini...) and Maddy has had enough. She slams out of their bungalow looking for tree bark and goes down edible grasses to supplement the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away meagre rations of rice and tragedy hitskimchi at home. Will Maddy have the chance to apologise for all the hurtful things which she said?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Family|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the LightAlexia Casale|authortitle=Derek LandySing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Everything comes down It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to this. The war between navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Sanctuaries middle of a dance performance that was merely a prelude going to the real battlechange her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the fight against Darquessepity stares, perhaps the most powerful sorcerer of all time. Prophesied and desperate to burn everyone and everything get back to ashesa life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her arrival heralds the end of the world as everyone knows itmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the stakes have never been higher, day to day traumas of all the need never greaterchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains of his allies might she be able to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the face.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ErenSimon Fox|authortitle=Simon P ClarkDeadlock

|summary=People - MumLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, mostly - are keeping secrets demanding he fetch something from Olia secret place, and join him on the run. Why have they had to leave London and come They get together, but barely begin to live in smell the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off whiff of Southern trains when the TV news every time it comes father is arrested, leaving Archie on? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli when he doesn't even know him? When will Dad come? When will life go back the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to normal? keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|title=Young Sherlock: Stone Cold|author=Andrew Lane|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Every human being is a mystery, even to themselves, so there's a particular pleasure to be found in tracing the roots of someone's interests and life's work. Just how did our hero develop his ability, for example, to tell a person's character, profession and history within minutes of meeting him or her? In this, the seventh volume in the series of books about the early years of the famous Sherlock Holmes, we see how events and a most intriguing couple of mentors combine to lead him down a path to his eventual role as a consulting detective. Well, if he survives till adulthood, that is. Of all his talents the most pronounced one does seem to be the knack of finding people who are determined to kill him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447272579</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The RisingFrontpage|author=Tom Moorhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Strife and Kale are two young water voles who can sniff out trouble better than their careful sister Ivy and to the fury of their protective mother, Aven. They just can't help it. But Kale isn't telling Strife everything - he has a secret. When long-lost Uncle Sylvan arrives warning of danger and the siblings eavesdrop on the adults' conversation, Kale's secret is exposed. Even though she doesn't fully understand it, Strife follows her brother into danger to avert a bigger danger. The quest on which these two young water voles embark will test them to their limits and they'll need all the help Uncle Sylvan and Fodur the rat can provide...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192734822</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLex Croucher|title=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient Darkness|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 Gwen and the cycle of the moon. And they believe Art Are Not in demons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015419</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Found|author=Harlan CobenLove

|summary=It's been eight months since Mickey watched his father die in Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a car accident. Since then, he's been drawn into the work of the mysterious Abeona Shelter, rescuing children and young people from dangerous situations. gay Arthurian RomCom? The latest person to go missing is Ema's online boyfriend. Mickey isn't convinced he existsBut honestly, but Ema's adamant they need to look for him. Meanwhile, Mickey's nemesis Troy has been taken off the basketball team after failing it lifted my spirits in a steroid testmost delightful way. Troy isn't exactly Mickey's favourite person In this story, 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 Watts|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kelly doesn't Gwen and Arthur have any friends at school. People don't like travellers. So she's glad to find a new friend in Ben over the summer holidays. Even Kelly's dogbeen betrothed since they were tiny, Tyson, likes Ben. Exploring the disused quarries local much to their village of Wilmcotemutual disgust! Gwen, they find some interesting treasuresyou see, 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 is 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 love with adults than she does her peers. She loves patterns and plants, Bridget (the colour red and the number 7. She is charming and adorable and quirky. She is one of the most real characters Ikingdom'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|genre=Teens|summary=Grace and her friends at the Clifton Academy boarding school have a secret. They have resurrected the 100 Society and intend to complete the grafitti tagging of a hundred locations around the city. A scandal involving a previous incarnation of the society means s only female knight) - something that this is an expulsion offence so Grace is playing with fire. But to Art discovers from her, the 100 Society isn't a game; it's an obsessionprivate diaries. 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 the railway. But it wasn't always thus. He spent many years working for Cornelius Van Horne as then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a manual labourerboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, cutting and blasting through swathes of Canada and laying tracks. When Will and his father witness creating the laying subterfuge of the last piece of track, there's an avalanche. And Will's father saves Van Horne's life. Promotion and success followed and now Van Horne is dead, Will's father is general manager and the world's biggest train - the Boundless, at 987 carriages long - will carry his body falling in perpetuity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Impossible Knife of Memory|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hayley is back in her childhood home after years on the road love with her fathereach other, trying to outrun the past. She doesn't when really remember living here, nor does she really want tothey are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Not when her father can't drive under bridges for fear of snipers. Not when he's self medicating with alcohol and drugs. Not when he refuses help from the VA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147668</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Witch of Salt and Storm|author=Kendall Kulper|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Avery wants just one thing: to take her place But as the witch of Prince Island. The witch who controls the winds and helps the whalers on their way. The witch whose charms on which the whole island relies. But Avery's motherimpending wedding draws ever closer, who has rejected magic, came and stole her away. Avery's prison in her mother's house is will they find a luxurious one - there are dresses and trinkets and ponies most girls would die for. But Avery doesn't care. All she wants is to get back to her grandmother and to continue her witch's apprenticeship.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408335190</amazonuk>}} {{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 way 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 institutethey can both truly be themselves, whose brother Victor has an inexplicable obsession with this years-old crime. All three teenagers or 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 they destined to live is a far cry from the world of lie 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 corpswhole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1617752762</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John TownsendNick Brooks|title=Death on Toast (Shades 2.0)Promise Boys

|summary=Freddy has When the ultimate disadvantage principal (headmaster) of having rich parentsUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. WellEach, actuallyseemingly, I guess it's not so much that they're rich as that they're far too busy doing what they wanthas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have to do to take much if any notice been there at the time 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 DVDsmurder. Who's to say whether it was the DVDs or his parents lack of interest which drove But who killed him to do what he did, but whichever it wasand why, and if any of the boys are innocent, Freddy does something from which there is no return.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276382</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Eye of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Michelle PaverKitt Townsend

|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. ItSolomon Klyne isn's t a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painfulbad lad, and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately in each environment. And her lives are very different. In Wellesley, Sabine so why is wealthy and popular with two brothers and he running around London committing a boyfriend other girls are jealous series ofrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. In Roxbury, she has But I'll answer the first one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation : for rebelliousnesshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night RunnerPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tim BowlerDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Strange men are watching VinnyAnt 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 other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's house but he doesn't know whyre all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. His mum Which is being disloyal to his dad but confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know why. Something what his score is up with , where his dad achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and his job so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but Vinny doesnwhether that's set in stone, he can't know whatbe sure. But Vinny does know And that he's had enough mostly because of school, where who he's being bullied. Everything is going wrong. And now, been having the men who are watching relationship and the house are after Zinny too. Mum ends up in the hospitalsex with. Dad disappears. What's going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Doing ItStitched Up|author=Melvin BurgessSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=First published Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in 2003the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, ''Doing It'' is if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the story of village to offer Hahn a group of teenagers discovering sex for the first timejob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. It's explicit. It's unflinching. And it caused a stir at Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the timemini-bus to Hanoi. With high teen pregnancy rates Only, is there such Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a thing as too much accuracyshop, they were to work 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? Or are honest portrayals The ones with the best form of educationartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Reissued a decade later, we can have It's quite possible that conversation all over again through the prism of the three teenage boys this novel followsHanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RunawayPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Marie-Louise JensenNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=After her father is brutally murderedBrave. Charlene, Charlotte escapes the city 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to try to find a new lifelike, characters and to avoid the vicious killer who is surely tracking her downreaders both. Disguising herself as Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a boypleasant yoga tutor, she puts Annie, and has taken up residence in her skill with horses to good use by finding employment son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a grand country estate, drawing the notice tempestuous personality may be in need of a kind man far above her station in life. But while Charlie tries to grasp happiness where she can find itcomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the shadow creation of the past looms over her. Will she ever be truly free one such item is part of the terror plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her fatheryounger sister – a younger sister she's death?allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=NogginAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=John Corey WhaleyRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Listen. I was alive once and then I wasn't. Simple Kurara has spent her entire life as that. Now I'm alive again. The a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in-the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between part is still their conquests. However, when a little fuzzy, but I can man named Himura arrives to tell you her thatshe is a Crafter like him, at some point or another, my head got chopped off and shoved someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a freezer in Denver, Coloradopower sought after all across the Empire.'' Erk! That's how ''Noggin'' begins and I defy you not He asks her to want to read on. Travis Coates was terminally ill. In a last ditch Hail Marycome with him, he consented to cryogenic preservationleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. And nowWell, hesoon Kurara won's backt have any say in the matter, his head grafted onto because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a donor bodyshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. Of all She joins Himura aboard the original volunteersOrihime, Travis a sky-ship whose express purpose is one of only two patients successfully brought back to life. It's hunt down shikigami, and a cause for celebration, right? whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122891</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShimmerMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Paula WestonWrath

|summary=Gaby Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is still struggling only just over, and he should be free to come do what he wants, to terms go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the many major revelations that have been thrown at enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her in eco-warrior parents saying the past few days - not least that end of the brother world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's believed dead for a year is actually alive. Ohdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, and theynot when Cassie has gone missing he can're both Rephaim, half-Angel children of the Fallen - angels that fell from grace after seducing human woment...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621876</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=MintyFrontpage|author=Christina Banach|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old twins Minty and Jess are barely ever parted, until a fateful trip to the coast ends in tragedy. Minty tries to rescue her dog but is soon fighting for her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910153028</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=Sex and Violence|author=Carrie MesrobianThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Evan Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a player who, when he moves to request for over a new town, hundred books that she has always found it easy to find a girl to have sex withdeliver herself. Then he ends up in What makes it worse is the wrong place, with man who requested the wrong girl, at the wrong timebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and suffers a brutal assaultman Tess hates. Retreating to As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a quiet community in Minnesota large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with his fatherthe ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, he meets many new peopleof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, including a girl who may and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be there , if someone hadn't delivered them for more than 'just' sexher. But can he recover from the trauma he's suffered?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782432965</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Head Over HeartPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Colette VictorUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=3.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Like many other In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British thirteen-year-oldsbut way west, Zeyneb is struggling with her feelings as she grows upbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and with juggling her friends sea-witches, and legends of the Dark familythat has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. HoweverThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, she who has an extra dilemma - sheto 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 Muslim girl foundling daughter, who's attracted to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve washed up out ofthe sea one day eleven years ago. AdditionallyBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, she needs to decide whether to wear a headscarf like it or not. What should she do?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B ClansKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Darren ShanJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in this seriesthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go onthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Run along And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077805</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=WingerJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Andrew SmithThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=2.54|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West Scarlett McCain is at boarding schoolan outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. His roommate is But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a bullydarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, his closest male friends are idiotsthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and his best friend is an older girl he's madly in love with who doesn't seem all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to see him reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the same way. But this could be a year that changes everything for him.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMercedes Helnwein|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Slingshot|rating=53

|summary=The city Gracie Welles has been rebuilt for warresigned herself to being lonely. The waves As a secret illegitimate daughter of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows a man with a "real" family, she is more devastatingused to not being a priority in people's lives. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging But when she defends a random boy in daily her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is as much of a problem as a resourcechanged for good. Actually No longer can she spend her time writing novels in one or two cases the word 'problem' is solitude, for her life now has 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 cyborgsboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>152905818X

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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dragon ShieldKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Charlie FletcherLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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