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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=The Ghosts of HeavenFrontpage|author=Marcus SedgwickMax Boucherat|ratingtitle=5|genre=Teens|summary=If anyone ever suggests to you that science and art (or philosophy) don't go together, give them this book! The Ghosts of Heaven presents four fabulous stories from different time frames linked by the natural constant of the spiral. The introduction provides a lyrical explanation Last Life of the birth of the universe, the Solar System and us and of the dimensional spiral we call the helix. It also explains that we can read the stories in any of the twenty-four possible orders we please.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621981</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 Stories|author=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and othersLori Mills

|summary=How long do you keep your birthday presents for? A weekWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a monthmother at work, a just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year – or lifeold, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Is that time-scale different Snuggled in a blanket fort, perhapsshe has one main intention, when you're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who and that isto log on to Voxminer, of coursethe world-building, both 51 (critter-collecting game that is a hit in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a characterLori's world. In 2013 we were given But first Lori has a great book tiny inkling that gave us a story for every Doctor Who wethis stormy night doesn've seen t find herself entirely on TVher own, in honour and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the 50th birthday proceedingstampering. But now is a year When malevolent eyes spark up onher phone screen, and we're a further Doctor down her safe place in the line. And so what was '11 Doctorsgame has been doctored – well, 11 Stories' where is now '12 Doctors, 12 Stories'. So while many of us would have cherished and kept said birthday present, the only addition is the last, which like the rest was available as an e-book. So it's worth revisiting what I said about the book last time, then chucking in the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the end.a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreview|title=Opal Plumstead|author=Jacqueline Wilson|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Living in Edwardian EnglandRosevear, Opal Plumstead is a fiercely intelligent girlremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. She has already won a scholarship Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to a public school survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and dreams of going to universityany treasure that lies within. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her 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 sent to prison as charming as he is secretive and Opal is forced with only coordinates to abandon guide her education for , she sets off in search of a job family secret that lies buried deep in the Fairy Glen sweet factorysea. The other workers there find Opal snobby and arrogant but 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 factorysmuggler's ownerterritory, Mrs Roberts, notices Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her artistic talent and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Roberts, Opal learns about the suffragette movement home and even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurstones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Lies We Tell OurselvesHarry Allen|authortitle=Robin TalleyChildren of the Sun

|summary=The year Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is 1959, and a small group of black students are attending Jefferson High, a previously all-white schooltalented singer. Barely anyone Life is happy that Sarah Dunbar hard and her friends are going food is difficult to Jeffersoncome by, so Seo and the group face a terrifying ordeal as they're surrounded by people who want to see them fail. Chief amongst them is Linda Hairston, daughter of one of the town's most vocal segregationalists. But when Sarah her friends Nari and Linda start working together on a school projectMin go foraging every evening, they start to realise they may have more in common than they think - and friendship might not be all they're looking for from each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Spark|author=John Twelve Hawks|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Jacob Underwood is dead. At least, he thinks he is. Suffering tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the after effects meagre rations of a traumatic accident, Jacob believes he is dead, just a spark existing inside a body, but unable to fully interact with anything around him. Emotionally detached rice and living in a shadowy, silent world, Jacob is the ideal assassin. When a new hit is assigned to him, Jacob must prepare himself - and his journey will change both his self, and how he sees the world around himkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Cure For DreamingAlexia Casale|authortitle=Cat WintersSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Olivia Mead is strong, independentlyIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-minded and unrepentant in her beliefschanging disability too, but there that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a certain natural vulnerability dance performance that was going to change her personality which makes her so appealinglife. She isn’t But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a ruthless, remorseless warriorlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. She is Meanwhile there's a human being who simply wants new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to be treated like onetry to sort out, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beauty, because this isn’t just the point day to day traumas of all the challenges her characterbody continues to throw at her to navigate. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held values So even though she can't dance anymore, which might she sticks by even at an age when it would be so easy able to go with the flow.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BelzharSimon Fox|authortitle=Meg WolitzerDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''I was sent here because of a boy. His name was Reeve MaxfieldLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and I loved him and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he diedfetch something from a secret place, and almost a year passed and no-one knew what to do with me.'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of join him and on the forty-one days of their relationship. She's not interested in school. friends, food, family, even therapy. And so, in desperation, Jam's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Atkins|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test at the first attempt and he ''knew'' it meant that he was a great driverrun. 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 possibleThey get together, 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 barely begin 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 Kerr|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s smell the winter whiff of 1941 and we are in Southern trains when the Ukraine. A fourteen year old girl father is hiding in a wood arrested, leaving Archie on the vast and bitter-cold steppe. Her name is Katinkalate express to Brighton, toting a name tin his father was determined to keep away from folk song and fairy talehis colleagues, and she has been befriended by two the bearer of the wild Przelowski’s horsesa whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsLex Croucher|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=She's MADDY, you know, not MADELEINE, but Who knew that's only one of the problems which she has with her parents. what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? They might be on holiday But honestly, it lifted my spirits in one of the a most beautiful places on earthdelightful way. In this story, but her mother simply will not lighten up. Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! She's always complaining about what Maddy doesGwen, you see, what she wears or doesn't wear is in love with Bridget (therethe kingdom's not ''nearly'' enough of only female knight) - something that bikini...) and Maddy has had enoughArt discovers from her private diaries. She slams out And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their bungalow and goes down to the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away and tragedy hitsown other romantic attachments. Will Maddy have the chance But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to apologise for all the hurtful things which she saidlive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanNick Brooks|title=ZOM-B FamilyPromise Boys

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read When the first book in this seriesprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of three boys find themselves called into the Light|author=Derek Landy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Everything comes down to thispolice station as suspects. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely a prelude to the real battle Each, the fight against Darquesseseemingly, perhaps the most powerful sorcerer has a grudge of all time. Prophesied to burn everyone and everything to ashes, her arrival heralds the end of the world as everyone knows itsome description against Principal Moore, and the stakes each could have never been higher, there at the need never greater, for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains time of his allies to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the facemurder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Eren|author=Simon P Clark|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=People - Mum But who killed him, and why, mostly - are keeping secrets from Oli. Why have they had to leave London and come to live in if any of the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes on? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli when he doesn't even know him? When boys are innocent, will Dad come? When will life go back they be able to normalclear their names? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Young Sherlock: Stone ColdA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Andrew LaneKitt Townsend

|summary=Every human being is Solomon Klyne isn't a mystery, even to themselvesbad lad, so there's why is he running around London committing a particular pleasure to be found in tracing the roots series of someone's interests and life's work. Just robberies? And how did our hero develop his ability, for example, he learn to tell a personcrack safes? You's character, profession and history within minutes of meeting him or her? In this, ll have to wait to get an answer to the seventh volume in second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer 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 first one: for his eventual role as a consulting detectivegrandmother. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RisingPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tom MoorhouseDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Strife 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 Kale are two young water voles who other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can sniff form, the talk in class and out trouble better than their careful sister Ivy and often turns to the fury of their protective mothersex. Which is confusing for Ant, Aven. They just canas he doesn't help itknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. But Kale isn He't telling Strife everything - he has s had a casual relationship, a secret. When long-lost Uncle Sylvan arrives warning of danger one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the siblings eavesdrop on the adultsladder headed by 'experienced' conversation, Kalebut whether that's secret is exposed. Even though she doesnset in stone, he can't fully understand it, Strife follows her brother into danger to avert a bigger dangerbe sure. The quest on which these two young water voles embark will test them to their limits and they And that's mostly because of who he'll need all s been having the help Uncle Sylvan relationship and Fodur the rat can provide..sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734822</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient DarknessStitched Up|author=Michelle PaverSteve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Living six thousand years agoTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, after so when the Ice Age but before smartly-dressed man and woman came to the spread of agriculture, Torak village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and his people understand Hanh was on the natural worldmini-bus to Hanoi. They revere Only, Hanh and the animals other girls were not going to work in a shop, they hunt and never waste were to work in virtual slavery in an ounce of preyillegal garment factory. A deer provides them not only with food, but also You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with clothes, water carriers, shoes, rope, even needles. Torak intricate embroidery and his people also understand spirituality. They see beading on the sacred in legs? The ones with the seasons artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and the cycle of the moonher co-workers made them. And they believe in demons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015419</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FoundPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Harlan CobenNeedle|rating=43

|summary=It's been eight months since Mickey watched his father die in a car accidentBrave. Since thenCharlene, hethe 'heroine's been drawn into the work of the mysterious Abeona Shelterthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, rescuing children characters and young people from dangerous situationsreaders both. The latest person to go missing is EmaKicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's online boyfriend. Mickey isnfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake't convinced s old room while he exists, but Ema's adamant they at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need to look for him. Meanwhileof a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, Mickey's nemesis Troy has been taken off and the creation of one such item is part of the basketball team after failing plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a steroid test. Troy isn't exactly Mickeyyounger sister she's favourite personallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, but he knows the team won't play so and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well without him, so when Troy asks Mickey what exactly happens is not for help me to prove his innocencesay, Mickey reluctantly agreesonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409124517</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title=No Stone UnturnedRebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= 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 make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the 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…|isbn=1406399590}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen WattsMarcus Sedgwick|title=Wrath

|summary=Kelly doesn't have any friends Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at school. People don't like travellershimself. So she's glad to find a new friend in Ben Lockdown is only just over the summer holidays. Even Kelly's dog, Tysonand he should be free to do what he wants, likes Ben. Exploring the disused quarries local to their village of Wilmcotego where he wants and with whom he wants, they find some interesting treasuresbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, including an old bootCassie. So when They were half of a desultory school starts again and Mr Walker sets a local history projectband, Kelly decides to find out more about but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the old quarries, enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the coming earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the railway and the use end of Wilmcote limestone in the construction world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the Houses music she's dreaming of Parliament. Ben offers to help and soon ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the pair uncover worrying evidence about what really went on all that time agotruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472905407</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=Counting By 7sFrontpage|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>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The 100 Society|author=Carla SpradberyDevil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Grace and Working all summer in her friends at the Clifton Academy boarding school have 's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a secretrequest for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. They have resurrected What makes it worse is the man who requested the 100 Society books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and intend to complete the grafitti tagging of a hundred locations around the cityman Tess hates. A scandal involving As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a previous incarnation large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the society means that this is an expulsion offence so Grace is playing books, scribbled with firethe ugliest insults she can think of. But They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get heranger out like this, the 100 Society isnand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't a game; it's an obsession. And she's determined to complete the missiondelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444920081</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The BoundlessPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Kenneth OppelUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|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 In a manual labourerword, cutting and blasting through swathes of Canada and laying tracksrich. When Will and his father witness the laying There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the last piece of track, there's an avalancheScillies. And Will's father saves Van Horne's life. Promotion and success followed and now Van Horne is deadThere are troll people on it, Will's father is general manager and the world's biggest train sea- the Boundlesswitches, at 987 carriages long - will carry his body in perpetuity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Impossible Knife and legends of Memory|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hayley is back in her childhood home after years on the road with her father, trying Dark family that has to outrun the past. She doesn't really remember living here, nor does she really want to. Not when her father can't drive under bridges keep watch for fear of snipers. Not when he's self medicating with alcohol magical islands and drugs. Not when he refuses help their monster approaching from the VAeven further west, where no ship dare sail.|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: current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to take her place as the witch keep notes of Prince Island. The witch who controls the winds and helps the whalers on their way. The witch whose charms on which activity from the whole island relies. But Avery's motherHidden Lands, his brother Will who has rejected magiclives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, came and stole her away. AveryAndrewe's prison in her mother's house is a luxurious foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one - there are dresses and trinkets and ponies most girls would die forday eleven years ago. But Avery doesn't care. All she wants is to get back to her grandmother when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and to continue her witch's apprenticeshiphis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408335190</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{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 Kiran Millwood Hargrave 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>}} {{newreviewTom de Freston|title=Pills Julia 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)Shark

|summary=It's Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been seven long months since Hylas packed off with her parents and Pirra were separated their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the wake far NE of the devastating eruption Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of ThalakreaScottish island. The eruption was followed by tsunami and Dad is going to be automating the coldest winter anyone can remember. There lantern, which is no springhis specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. No sun And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ReplicaJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Jack HeathThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There Scarlett McCain is a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictionan outlaw, 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 rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and compelling combination Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of actionBritain, mystery, thriller robbing banks and science-fictionshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Heath has even included But then she meets Albert Browne, a hint of dark boy with dark powers and a romancedarker past. There is something for everyone and although With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the book raises some challenging and thoughtLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-provoking problemseating wildlife, the text is easycannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to-readreach the Free Isles, immersive and unpretentious.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{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>}} {{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=Between the Lives|author=Jessica ShirvingtonSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Sabine lives two livesGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Literally. Each night, at midnightAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she shifts from one self is used to another. Time resets too; Sabine may be not being a teenager to her families and friends but priority in reality, she has thirty-odd years-worth of life experience. Itpeople's lives. But when she defends a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painful, and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately random boy in each environment. And her lives are very different. In Wellesleyclass with her slingshot, Sabine her simple existence is wealthy and popular with two brothers and a boyfriend other girls are jealous ofchanged for good. In RoxburyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, she for her life now has one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation boy in it that she never asked for rebelliousness: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Night RunnerT L Huchu|authortitle=Tim BowlerThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Strange men are watching VinnyRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's house but he doesn't know why. His mum is being disloyal been using it to his dad support not only herself, but he doesn't know why. Something is up with his dad her younger sister and his job but Vinny doesn't know whather aging grandmother. But Vinny does know that heHowever, there's had enough an evil stalking the ruined streets of schoolEdinburgh, where hetargeting the city's being bulliedchildren. Everything Soon, Ropa is going wrong. And now, pulled into the men who are watching search for a missing boy at the house are after Zinny toorequest of his dead mother. Mum ends She will end up in discovering an occult library and realise that the hospitalworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Dad disappears. What's going onWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doing ItKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Melvin BurgessLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=First published Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in 2003, constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Doing ItOof Ouch My Bones'' is the story , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of a group other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of teenagers discovering sex her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for the first timea while, Priya becomes concerned. ItShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's explicithouse to check up on her. ItBut what she doesn's unflinching. And it caused a stir at the time. With high teen pregnancy rates, t expect to find there is there such a thing as too much accuracy? Or are honest portrayals werewolf in the best form of education? Reissued a decade later, we can have basement – and for that conversation all over again through werewolf to be the prism of girl she has been talking to online for the three teenage boys this novel followspast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Runaway|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|rating=4.5|genre=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 father's death?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Noggin|author=John Corey Whaley|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Listen. I was alive once and then I wasn't. Simple as that. Now I'm alive again. The in-between part is still a little fuzzy, 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 Move on. Travis Coates was terminally ill. In a last ditch Hail Mary, he consented to cryogenic preservation. And now, he's back, his head grafted onto a donor body. Of all the original volunteers, Travis is one of only two patients successfully brought back to life. It's a cause for celebration, right? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122891</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shimmer|author=Paula Weston|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Gaby is still struggling to come to terms with the many major revelations that have been thrown at her in the past few days - not least that the brother she's believed dead for a year is actually alive. Oh, and they're both Rephaim, half-Angel children of the Fallen - angels that fell from grace after seducing human women.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621876</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Minty|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>}} {{newreview|title=Sex and Violence|author=Carrie Mesrobian|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Seventeen-year-old Evan is a player who, when he moves to a new town, has always found it easy to find a girl to have sex with. Then he ends up in the wrong place, with the wrong girl, at the wrong time, and suffers a brutal assault. Retreating to a quiet community in Minnesota with his father, he meets many new people, including a girl who may be there for more than 'just' sex. But can he recover from the trauma he's suffered?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432965</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]