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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreview|author=Chris O'Dowd and Nick Vincent Murphy|title=Moone Boy: the Blunder Years|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Poor Martin Moone, surrounded by his sisters who drive him crazy, he decides to get himself an imaginary friend. He enlists the help of his friend who already has an imaginary friend, and thus begins a wild adventure because what happens when the imaginary friend you imagine isn't any good at being your imaginary friend, and who you'd really like to be your imaginary friend is the customer services representative who comes to try and help you out?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle Magorian|title=Impossible!|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Josie is twelve, and would much rather be a boy. She attends a stage school and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress for having had her hair cut short, in the hope of playing a boy’s part in a show. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris PriestleyMax Boucherat|title=The Last Life of the Spirits|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of London, which is gripped by terrible cold. Asking an old businessman for money, a man who looks at them with such sheer contempt that Sam's heart fills with hate. He swears that he will seek vengeance and rob the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or die. But before he can do so, a strange spirit appears to him, and warns him about the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his action, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpoint.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Zoe Sugg|title=Girl Online|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=I've been intrigued by the idea of Girl Online since I first heard about it - I love books about blogging and the internet, and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella has had the experience of becoming well known online herself. The backlash from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number of people who've completely dismissed this as a bad book while admitting they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it with an open mind - I've never watched any of her YouTube videos and at the time of reading, hadn't read her blog, although I've just checked out a couple of her personal posts and I'm quite impressed by them. I think that people who do the same thing will enjoy it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Misdirected|author=Ali Berman|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Ben's family are moving from cosmopolitan, multi-faith Boston to a small town in America's Bible Belt, much to Ben's disgust. He's not looking forward to attending a conservative Christian high school and it doesn't take more than a few days before all his fears are realised. Open about his atheism, Ben meets shock and disgust from teachers and pupils alike. When he meets a girl, Tess, her parents forbid the relationship: as a non-believer Ben, to them, is a dangerous and pernicious influence. With his brother on a tour of Iraq with the military, a sister away at college and two Boston friends who won't talk to him, Ben has only a few stolen moments with Tess to make life bearable. And then even that goes wrong...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1609805739</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Morpurgo|title=Listen to the Moon|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's May, 1915. World War I is underway and the Scillionians have already seen losses. Like the rest of Britain, they are beginning to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one day, they hear a child's cries. On one of the archipelago's uninhabited islands, they find a half-starved little girl, abandoned and in a terrible state. She can only speak one word: Lucy. Who is this foundling? Is she a ghost? A mermaid? Or, more worryingly, could she be a German spy? The name Wilhelm is on the label of her blanket, after all. And why does she gaze at the moon with such longing in her eyes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007339631</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Betsy Tobin|title=Things We Couldn't ExplainLori Mills

|summary=Katie is back, and once more We meet Lori on the first evening she's back got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Victorian England. This time, howeverbabysitter poorly, she isn't quite sure who called her back in time or for what purpose andmother at work, unfortunatelyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, something went on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong as she came and she brought someone else along with her! ? In the final episode of the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's lifeSnuggled in a blanket fort, trying to prevent Britain messing up the outcome of the American Civil Warshe has one main intention, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darragh McManus|title=Shiver the Whole Night Through|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aidan Flood's life that is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend to someone who works at log on to Voxminer, the local carnival and even heard world-building, critter-collecting game that from someone else. Life is just rubbish and needs ending totally. This is something he almost manages to accomplish as well if it wasn't for a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact hehit in Lori's still alive, he hears that Slaine McAuley, a girl he knows vaguely, has killed herselfworld. The only thing is But first Lori has a tiny inkling that Aidan knows she hasnthis stormy night doesn't – she told him find herself after entirely on her own, and then she'd diedfinds something even more spooky. What did happen to For the server she and her bestie and why does she choose nobody else should be able to tell him, enter shows signs of all people? tampering. Aidan When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is on a mission: he ''will'' find out.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonRachel Greenlaw|title=The PiperCompass and Blade

|summary=Peter and Daisy are evacuated on ''I can hear the eve song of World War Two to the sea. The Grange at Romney Marsh. Something seems wrong from call of the moment they get there: there are children dancing in deep, the garden and strange music that plays at night. When Peter realises that Daisy might be answering beat in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill the promise he made to his mother, keep his sister safemy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Murdstone Trilogy|author=Mal Peet|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Philip Murdstone is becoming Rosevear, a bit of a has-beenremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The once-acclaimed children's author has won ''literary'' awardsMira, like her mother before her, dontchaknow. Literaryis one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels about young outsiders are no longer anything new. In factwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, his agent canthey capture the island's leader and Mira't even sell his latests father. And Minerva Finch, said agentDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is all about what she can sell. There's nothing for itsecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she tells Philip, but sets off in search of a foray into fantasyfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He's going With only nine days to have unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to write a sword-and-sorcery epic. She's even got an A4 blueprint the heart of whatthe smuggler's required: realmsterritory, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, and all Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the rest future of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by her home and the ''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=TeensFrontpage|summary=''Shoot to Kill'' may be the sixth Young Bond in the series, but it is the first to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over the reins from the highly capable Charlie Higson. Like the adult Bond books, the character has seen many people write about him since Ian Fleming’s death, so there is no reason to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on board. In fact, Cole is able to inject a little more energy into a series that was starting to flag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewHarry Allen|title=Misty Falls|author=Joss Stirling|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Misty is always getting into trouble thanks to the Savant ability which means she can't lie and causes people around her to be brutally honest if she's not careful. Can she find happiness? Or will the serial killer stalking Children of the Savant community strike at Misty or one of her friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Unmade|author=Sarah Rees BrennanSun

|summary=Sorry-Ra Eun Seo lives in-the-Vale has been taken over by Rob Lynburn a North Korean town and his merry band of evil sorcerersshe is a talented singer. But Kami Glass has never been one to let danger of death Life is hard and dismemberment stop her on her quest for truth. And Kami has food is difficult to know the truth about what happened to Jaredcome by, Jared who rescued so Seo and her brother and hasn't been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rebecca Is Always Right|author=Anna Carey|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=First things first: I must admit that I chose to review this book entirely based on its title. After all, what better book to keep on the coffee table friends Nari and brandish at my husband when I'm making a point? What I did not realise when I volunteered is that it is the fourth book in a series that began in 2011 with ''The Real Rebecca''Min go foraging every evening, looking for which Anna Carey won the Senior Children's Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. This has its advantages tree bark and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can tell that the characters are established and well-rounded. On the other hand, there are such frequent references edible grasses to past events – presumably, adventures from supplement the previous three books – that it is clear this is an instalment in an ongoing story meagre rations of rice and not a stand-alone bookkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847175651</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Ghosts of HeavenAlexia Casale|authortitle=Marcus SedgwickSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=If anyone ever suggests It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you 're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but 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 s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the natural constant middle of the spirala dance performance that was going to change her life. The introduction provides a lyrical explanation of the birth of But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the universepity stares, the Solar System and us and of the dimensional spiral we call the helix. It also explains desperate to get back to a life that we 's as normal as she can read possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the stories in any day to day traumas of all the twenty-four possible orders we pleasechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621981</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 StoriesSimon Fox|authortitle=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and othersDeadlock

|summary=How long do you keep your birthday presents for? A weekLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, a monthand then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a year – or life? Is that time-scale differentsecret place, perhaps, when you're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who is, of course, both 51 (in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a character. In 2013 we were given a great book that gave us a story for every Doctor Who we've seen join him on TV, in honour of the 50th birthday proceedingsrun. But now is a year on They get together, and we're a further Doctor down but barely begin to smell the line. And so what was '11 Doctors, 11 Stories' is now '12 Doctors, 12 Stories'. So while many whiff of us would have cherished and kept said birthday present, Southern trains when the only addition father is arrested, leaving Archie on the lastlate express to Brighton, which like the rest toting a tin his father was available as an e-book. So it's worth revisiting what I said about the book last timedetermined to keep away from his colleagues, then chucking in and the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the endbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|title=Opal PlumsteadFrontpage|author=Jacqueline WilsonLex Croucher|ratingtitle=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Living in Edwardian England, Opal Plumstead is a fiercely intelligent girl. She has already won a scholarship to a public school and dreams of going to university. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her father is sent to prison Gwen and Opal is forced to abandon her education for a job Art Are Not in the Fairy Glen sweet factory. The other workers there find Opal snobby and arrogant but the factory's owner, Mrs Roberts, notices her artistic talent and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Roberts, Opal learns about the suffragette movement and even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurst. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lies We Tell Ourselves|author=Robin TalleyLove|rating=54

|summary=The year is 1959, and Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a small group of black students are attending Jefferson Highgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a previously all-white schoolmost delightful way. Barely anyone is happy that Sarah Dunbar and her friends are going to Jefferson In this story, Gwen and the group face a terrifying ordeal as Arthur have been betrothed since they're surrounded by people who want were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see them fail. Chief amongst them , is Linda Hairston, daughter of one of in love with Bridget (the townkingdom's most vocal segregationalistsonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But And then when Sarah and Linda start working together on Gwen then catches Art kissing a school projectboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they start to realise are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they may have more find a way in common than which they think - and friendship might not can both truly be all themselves, or are they're looking for from each other.destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SparkNick Brooks|authortitle=John Twelve HawksPromise Boys

|summary=Olivia Mead When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is strongmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, independently-minded and unrepentant in her beliefsseemingly, but there is has a certain natural vulnerability to her personality which makes her so appealing. She isn’t a ruthlessgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, remorseless warriorand each could have been there at the time of his murder. She is a human being But who simply wants to be treated like onekilled him, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beautywhy, because this isn’t and if any of the point of her character. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held valuesboys are innocent, which she sticks by even at an age when it would will they be so easy able to go with the flow.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=BelzharA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Meg WolitzerKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''I was sent here because of t a boy. His name was Reeve Maxfieldbad lad, and I loved him and then so why is he died, and almost running around London committing a year passed and no-one knew what series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to do with methe second question because I avoid spoilers.But I'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of him and ll answer the forty-first one days of their relationship: for his grandmother. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0)Different for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test Ant is in Year Eleven at the first attempt and he ''knew'' it meant that he was quite a great driver. There was just one snag: his mother wasn't exactly on board about this standard school, and wouldn't let him borrow her car. There was always an excuse as is surprised to why find his geography class (within which it just wasn't possibleseems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, even when he'd promised so his desk is one of four with both his friends that he could have best buddy from the car so football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they could all go off somewhereback to primary school days together. Finally he got his Mum to admit that she was As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a bit worried about him using it single- but she did offer sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to go out with him so that he could get some practice insex. Ryan knew that the time Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn''practicing'' was pastt know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. I meanHe's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, heand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'd experienced', but whether that'passed'' his tests set in stone, hadnhe can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he?'s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The Winter HorsesStitched Up|author=Philip KerrSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=It’s Twelve-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, so when the winter of 1941 smartly-dressed man and we are woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in the UkraineHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. A fourteen year old girl is hiding in a wood Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the vast and bittermini-cold steppebus to Hanoi. Her name is Katinka Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a name from folk song and fairy taleshop, 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 she has been befriended by two of beading on the legs? The ones with the wild Przelowski’s horsesartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|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 earth, 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 and goes down to the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away and tragedy hits. Will Maddy have the chance to apologise for all the hurtful things which she said?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanPatrice Lawrence|title=ZOM-B FamilyNeedle|rating=43

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you havenmight perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she't read the first book in this seriess 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, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the LightAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Derek LandyRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Everything comes down 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 thisdrink and make merry between their conquests. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely However, when a prelude man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the real battle, power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the fight against DarquesseEmpire. He asks her to come with him, perhaps to leave the most powerful sorcerer life of dreary servitude that is all timeshe has known. Prophesied to burn everyone and everything to ashesWell, her arrival heralds soon Kurara won't have any say in the end of matter, because the world Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as everyone knows ita shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the stakes have never been higherOrihime, the need never greatera sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains a whole world of his allies to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the face.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ErenMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Simon P ClarkWrath

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=People - MumMeet Fitz, mostly - are keeping secrets from Olia young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Why have they had Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to leave London go where he wants and come with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to live in his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the country earth. Is this connected with Uncle Robone of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Why hasnIs it some spooky new kind of music she't Dad come toos dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? Why does everyone keep turning off And can Fitz find out the TV news every time it comes ontruth? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he doesncan't even know him? When will Dad come? When will life go back to normal? ...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Young Sherlock: Stone ColdTori Bovalino|authortitle=Andrew LaneThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Every human being Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a mystery, even to themselves, so there's request for over a particular pleasure hundred books that she has to be found in tracing deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the roots of someonebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's interests headmaster, and life's worka man Tess hates. Just how did our hero develop his ability, As a petty act of revenge for example, to tell making her find and deliver such a person's characterlarge request, profession and history within minutes Tess sticks post-it notes on each of meeting him or her? In this, the seventh volume in the series of books about , scribbled with the early years ugliest insults she can think of the famous Sherlock Holmes. They're never meant to reach him, we see how events and a most intriguing couple of mentors combine course. Her plan is to lead him down a path to his eventual role as a consulting detectiveget her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. WellNo harm done… Or it would be, 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 himsomeone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447272579</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RisingPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Tom MoorhouseUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=Strife In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and Kale are two young water voles who can sniff out trouble better than their careful sister Ivy sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to the fury of keep watch for magical islands and their protective mothermonster approaching from even further west, Avenwhere no ship dare sail. They just can't help it. But Kale isn't telling Strife everything - he The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has a secret. When long-lost Uncle Sylvan arrives warning to keep notes of danger and activity from the siblings eavesdrop on the adults' conversationHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, Kaleand Andrewe's secret is exposedfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Even though she doesn't fully understand itBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Strife follows her both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into danger to avert a bigger danger. The quest on which these two young water voles embark will test them to the world of protecting their limits and they'll need all the help Uncle Sylvan and Fodur the rat can provide..island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734822</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient DarknessKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Michelle PaverJulia and the Shark|rating=54

|summary=Living six thousand years agoJulia, our pre-teen heroine, after has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the Ice Age but before family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the spread far NE of agriculturethe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, Torak and that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his people understand specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the natural worldelusive Greenland shark. They revere And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the animals they hunt draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and never waste an ounce Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of preyBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. A deer provides them not only with foodBut then she meets Albert Browne, but also a dark boy with clothesdark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, water carriersthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, shoes, ropethey must brave man-eating wildlife, even needles. Torak and his people also understand spirituality. They see the sacred in the seasons cannibalistic Tainted and all the cycle horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the moon. And Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they believe are in demons.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444015419</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FoundMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Harlan CobenSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=It's been eight months since Mickey watched his father die in Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a car accident. Since then, he's been drawn into the work secret illegitimate daughter of the mysterious Abeona Sheltera man with a "real" family, rescuing children and young she is used to not being a priority in people from dangerous situations. The latest person to go missing is Ema's online boyfriendlives. Mickey isn't convinced he existsBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, but Ema's adamant they need to look her simple existence is changed for himgood. MeanwhileNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Mickey's nemesis Troy for her life now 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 boy in it that she never asked for help to prove his innocence, Mickey reluctantly agrees: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409124517</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No Stone UnturnedT L Huchu|authortitle=Helen WattsThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kelly doesn't have any friends at Ropa 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. People don't like travellers. So , she's glad been using it to find a new friend in Ben over the summer holidayssupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Even KellyHowever, there's dog, Tyson, likes Ben. Exploring an evil stalking the disused quarries local to their village ruined streets of WilmcoteEdinburgh, they find some interesting treasures, including an old boottargeting the city's children. So when school starts again and Mr Walker sets a local history projectSoon, Kelly decides to find out more about Ropa is pulled into the old quarries, search for a missing boy at the coming request of the railway his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the use world of Wilmcote limestone in magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the construction of the Houses of Parliament. Ben offers missing children and bring an end to help and soon the pair uncover worrying evidence about what really went on all that time ago... this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472905407</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Counting By 7sKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Holly Goldberg SloanLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Willow is not like other girls. She is not just smartHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, but certifiably gifted. She gets on better Priya has to come to terms with adults than the fact that she does may be in constant pain for the rest of her peerslife. She loves patterns joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and plantshelp each other out, the colour red while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the number 7chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She is charming decides to steal her parents' car and adorable and quirkydrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. She But what she doesn't expect to find there is one of a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the most real characters I've met in a book this year. And girl she is hurtinghas been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124163</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on to complete the grafitti tagging of a hundred locations around the city. A scandal involving a previous incarnation of the society means that this is an expulsion offence so Grace is playing with fire. But to her, the 100 Society isn't a game; it's an obsession. And she's determined to complete the mission. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920081</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]