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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanMax Boucherat|title=Love Hurts|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereft. Mixed in are enough moments of heartsease (and heart's joy!) to keep you believing in love. And we all want to believe in love, don't we? If you are one of the few who don't, you might as well look away now. The rest Last Life of us are in for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbag, and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows of love as it is experienced by young people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner|title=These Broken StarsLori Mills

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you havenWe meet Lori on the first evening she't read s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the [[Zomworld-B by Darren Shan|building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first book]] Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in this seriesthe game has been doctored – well, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Was HereRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Gayle FormanCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''I regret to inform you that I have had to take can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my own lifeheart.''

Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by email. A flatRosevear, formala remote and partially forgotten island, emailsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. We follow Mira, like her over the ensuing months as she searches for answers. How could she not have realised that mother before her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongings, Cody finds emails on her laptop is one of the seven who swim out to a boy survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that has broken her heartlies within. Is Ben McAllister But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the cause of Megisland's suicide? But thereleader and Mira's an encrypted filefather. Desperate to save him from death, too. And when Cody finally opens itMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she finds information sets off in search of a family secret that will take lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her on a journey, not only through Megtakes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's lifeterritory, but also Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her own..home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherman AlexieHarry Allen|title=The Absolutely True Diary Children of a Part-Time Indianthe Sun

|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior as he is known on the Spokane Indian Reservation where he Ra Eun Seo lives, is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challenges. He knows the decision to go to the rich all-white school, in the nearby a North Korean town of Reardan, and she is a necessary onetalented singer. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to a town where he's going to be even more of a target, even more out of place, than he already Life is on the rez. It means risking the wrath of the other Indians, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend hard and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it food is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishmentdifficult to come by, depression so Seo and her friends Nari and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservationMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and it is a path that he must walk for edible grasses to supplement the sake meagre rations of not just his future, but that of his triberice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve WatkinsAlexia Casale|title=Juvie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=With the title ''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book is going to be about, even before Sing if you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alike, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at a party and finds herself at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgement. The two girls end up at the wrong place at the wrong time, and before they know it they're in court trying to clear their names. Carla has a history and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some time, away from her young daughter in a way that no one wants. There is a way out, though. Sadie is, if not a good girl, then definitely the better sister. If she takes the blame, she'll likely get off with a caution for a first offence, no harm done. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's not ideal, but she can take one for the team. Except things donCan't go to plan, and Sadie gets sent to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for her supposed role in the crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3|author=Andy McNabDance|rating=45

|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce Platoon. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're going having to be an navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in-theatre intelligence gatherer for the British Armymiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, then you need desperate to be ready for anything. And despite his trainingavoid the pity stares, Liam is new and desperate to get back to this gamea life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. He still has a lot to learn and he Meanwhile there's going a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to have try to do it the hard way - in Kenyasort out, where and just the border with Somalia is subject day to incursions from the al-Shabaab militant group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Thompson Walker|title=The Age of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one day traumas of those much-talked about books that I never got all the time challenges her body continues to read on its first go aroundthrow at her to navigate. I So even though she can'm not sure how I managed thatt dance anymore, but I did. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided might she be able to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copy.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EveSimon Fox|title=SienaDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Siena Hamilton rules over Temperley HighLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, along with her clique demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Starletsrun. Nothing can stand in her way – not even They get together, but barely begin to smell the return whiff of ex-Starlet and her former best friend RomySouthern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, who spent toting a term in France after a shocking incident one night led tin his father was determined to the headmistress deciding the girl needed to spend some time keep away from their school. If you've read [[Stella by Helen Eve|Stella]]his colleagues, you know roughly what happens here, but you don't necessarily know why. If you haven’t read it, I'd definitely suggest going for that one first. (There may be spoilers here, although I've tried to avoid anything too specificand the bearer of a whole heap of questions.)|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447248503</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Frozen CharlotteLex Croucher|authortitle=Alex BellGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=When Sophie and Jay play around with a ouija board app Who knew that Jay has downloaded what I really needed to his phoneread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, things go awfully wrongit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Sophie asks In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to speak to Rebeccatheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a cousin boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of hers who died falling in mysterious circumstanceslove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But what Rebecca has to say is not good. And that very nightas their impending wedding draws ever closer, Jay drowns will they find a way in the canal after falling from his bike. A tragic accident. Or was itwhich they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154530</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardNick Brooks|title=Red QueenPromise Boys

|summary=Mare When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a Red - a race kept in lives grudge of poverty some description against Principal Moore, and servitude by each could have been there at the Silverstime of his murder. But who killed him, and why, a race with wealth and mutant powers that allow them to live lives if any of luxury. Learning to survive amongst the slum like conditions that the Reds inhabitboys are innocent, Mare is swiftly thrown into the world of the Silvers - one that proves will they be able to be more dangerous than she had ever imagined, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Jekyll's MirrorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=William HusseyKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Sam Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is doing his best but he feels the Wrath inside him all the time. If your father had beaten your mother running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to death, wouldncrack safes? You't you? He tries ll have to wait to concentrate on schoolwork and his art and keep that anger locked away deep down inside, but it's not easy. His aunt Cora does her best get an answer to support him but his uncle Lionel is distrustful, sure that the (violent) apple in Sam hasnsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't fallen far from (ll answer the first one: for his father's) treegrandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273251X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen EvePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=StellaDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=What do you get when you mix up Cecily Von Ziegesar's delightfully trashy ''Gossip Girl'' series with Dickens's classic ''Great Expectations''Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and throw in a splash of ''Animal Farm'' by George Orwell? A really readable YA contemporary story is surprised to find his geography class (within which has surprising depth and it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one I've been thinking about a lot since originally reading it towards the start of four with both his best buddy from the yearfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. I read Stella for the first time after getting it out of the libraryAs they're all fired up, and straining at the time I was extremely impressed by leash only a single-sex school can form, the voices of lead characters Stella talk in class and Caitlinout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, but as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had issues with it. On rereadinga casual relationship, a secret one, to prepare myself for upcoming prequel several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'Siena, but whether that's set in stone, he can', I think itt be sure. And that's one mostly because of who he's been having the relatively few books I've read recently which works even better second time around, although those issues haven't vanished completelyrelationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447241711</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lisa Williamson1800901232|title=The Art of Being NormalStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=FourteenTwelve-year-old David has always known that he is Hanh wanted to be a transgender girlfashion designer. (Note: As David uses male pronouns Life in his internal dialogue I have continued the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to do so the village to offer Hahn a job in my reviewHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed.) However David has chosen a new girl's name Some money changed hands and collects feminine clothes Hanh was on the mini-bus to express that inner selfHanoi. This is a secret kept from everyone except his best friends Essie Only, Hanh and Felix. When Leo Denton, who also has the other girls were not going to work in a secretshop, moves they were to David's school Eden Park from work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the rougher Cloverdale, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the worlds of legs? The ones with the two collide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200328</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Margaret Wild|title=The Vanishing Moment|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book appealed to me on various grounds. artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It is teen fiction ('s quite possible that Hanh and, joy of joys, devoid of werewolves and dystopia), it is by an Australian author (underher co-represented on UK shelves), and it involves parallel universes (tantalising philosophical what-ifs). I was intrigued to see if the author could live up to my expectationsworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1743315902</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Sarah Benwell|title=The Last Leaves Falling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I have my usual problem attempting anything close to a plot summary of something I really love - this will probably make the maximum possible impact if you go into it, as I did, knowing barely anything about it. If you trust my recommendations enough to buy on one sentence, stop reading now and pre-order - this is a heart-breakingly gorgeous read which will almost definitely be one of the best books, YA or otherwise, published in 2015.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909531227</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel Cohn and David LevithanPatrice Lawrence|title=Dash and Lily's Book of DaresNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Just before ChristmasBrave. Charlene, sixteen-year-old Lily leaves a notebook on the shelf 'heroine' of her favourite bookshopthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, in an effort to find the kind characters and readers both. Kicked out of love that multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has made taken up residence in her brother so happyson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Dash finds it Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and follows the instructionscreation of one such item is part of the plot here, setting off as Charlene is a chain wonder knitter, and is making something full of passing the book back love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and forth trading their hopes and dreams. Could the then force people to give her two be just days off school, when she shouts someone down as right expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for each other in person as they are in writing?me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848451725</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie Perkins (Editor)Ann Sei Lin|title=My True Love Gave to MeRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I mentioned when reviewing [[Let It Snow by John GreenKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle]] that there was a real lack massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of festive YA around – at the time, I think the choice seemed to be pretty much limited Empire come to that or ''Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares'' by David Levithan drink and Rachel Cohnmake merry between their conquests. Both fantastic booksHowever, but when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a thin spread compared Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the amount out there for adults and for younger childrenEmpire. (If I’m missing obvious onesHe asks her to come with him, by to leave the waylife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, please let me know!) Thankfullysoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a dozen authorsshikigami, with Stephanie Perkins as and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the editorOrihime, have got together a sky-ship whose express purpose is to produce hunt down shikigami, and a perfect Christmas present here with twelve short stories set around the holidays.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144727279X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth KiemMarcus Sedgwick|title=Hider, Seeker, Secret KeeperWrath

|summary=I was caught up by this novel from the first pages and read it with absorption in Meet Fitz, a single sittingyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The young heroineLockdown is only just over, Lana Dukovskayaand he should be free to do what he wants, is a third generation ballerina to go where he wants and with the Bolshoi Ballet whom he wants, but the experiences he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of her mother and grandmother are shrouded and lost. Her grandmother's namea desultory school band, we discover, has been erased but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the records and earth. Is this connected with one of her mother eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a troubled secretive figure. Lana challenges the conventional notion done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of a ballerina: music she has close cropped hair, loves high speed motor bikes and most 's dreaming of all ? Is she wants to experiment with just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the repertoiretruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1616954124</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leanne HallTori Bovalino|title=This is ShynessThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''This s library is Shyness'' the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is an unusual and brilliant story about Wolfboy and Wildgirl, two strangers the man who meet in a pub in requested the town of Shynessbooks: Mr Birch. The teenagers are drawn togetherboarding school's headmaster, each adopting and a man Tess hates. As a different identity so petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the night they books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can be anyone but themselvesthink of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921656522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris OThey'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 re never meant to reach him crazy, he decides to get himself an imaginary friendof course. 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 Her plan is the customer services representative who comes to try and help you get her anger out?!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447270940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Magorian|title=Impossible!|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Josie is twelvelike this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would much rather be a boy. She attends a stage school and we first meet her being criticised by her Headmistress , if someone hadn't delivered them for having had her hair cut short, in the hope of playing a boy’s part in a show. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999104X</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyPhilip Reeve|title=The Last Utterly Dark and the Face of the SpiritsDeep

|summary=Teenage Sam and his little sister Lizzie are starving on the streets of LondonIn a word, which rich. There is gripped by terrible cold. Asking certainly an old businessman for moneyabundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, 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 beyond the old man, not caring whether his victim will live or dieScillies. But before he can do soThere are troll people on it, a strange spirit appears to himand sea-witches, and warns him about legends of the terrible path he will put himself on with this violent act. Can Sam resist the temptation Dark family that has to gain revenge? Several more spirits show him the possible consequences of his actionkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, as we see Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol from a new viewpointwhere no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408854139</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Zoe Sugg|title=Girl Online|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=I've been intrigued by The current Darks are the idea of Girl Online since I first heard about it - I love books about blogging and the internetWatcher, Andrewe, and obviously YouTube sensation Zoella who has had the experience to keep notes of becoming well known online herself. The backlash activity from certain quarters has intrigued me as well; the number of people Hidden Lands, his brother Will who've completely dismissed this as a bad book while admitting they haven't read it seems surprisingly high. I approached it lives in London with an open mind - I've never watched any of her YouTube videos too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and at the time of reading, hadnAndrewe't read her blogs foundling daughter, although I've just checked who washed up out a couple of her personal posts the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and I'm quite impressed by them. I think that people who do his curious ward are thrust into the same thing will enjoy world of protecting their island, like itor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357274</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MisdirectedKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Ali BermanJulia and the Shark

|summary=It's MayJulia, 1915. World War I is underway our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the Scillionians have already seen losses. Like the rest of Britain, they are beginning family home in SW England to realise that this war won't be over any time soon. When Alfie and his father are out fishing one day, they hear lighthousekeepers for a child's cries. On one of the archipelago's uninhabited islandssummer, 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 far NE 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 Explain|rating=4Scottish islands.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jericho Here be Vikings, Ohio - 1979that kind of Scottish island. Annemarie Dad is a clevergoing to be automating the lantern, funny and spirited girl. Born with sightwhich is his specialist thing, she turned blind as a child, but more than compensates for while mum will be leaving her disability. Living amongst the small-town folk of Jericho, she has a relatively standard, suburban life, schooled at home but more than friendly with many career in algae behind to hunt the town - especially her charming neighbour Ethanelusive Greenland shark.  All is calm And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one day Annemarie finds herself pregnantnight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783753080</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K A S QuinnJonathan Stroud|title=The Queen Alone (Chronicles of the Tempus)Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Katie Scarlett McCain is backan 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 once more shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she's back in Victorian Englandmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. This timeWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, howeverthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, she isn't quite sure who called her back in time or for what purpose andthey must brave man-eating wildlife, unfortunately, something went wrong as she came the cannibalistic Tainted and she brought someone else along with her! In all the final episode horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Chronicles of the Tempus we see Katie trying to save Prince Albert's lifeFree Isles, trying to prevent Britain messing up but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the outcome rest of the American Civil War, and rescuing Queen Victoria from an asylum!Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848870566</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darragh McManusMercedes Helnwein|title=Shiver the Whole Night ThroughSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Aidan Flood's life is miserable; he's not only bullied but he lost his girlfriend Gracie Welles has resigned herself to someone who works at the local carnival and even heard that from someone elsebeing lonely. Life As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is just rubbish and needs ending totally. This is something he almost manages used to accomplish as well if it wasn't for not being a do-gooder passer-by. The next morning while coming to terms with the fact hepriority in people's still alive, he hears that Slaine McAuley, lives. But when she defends a girl he knows vaguelyrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, has killed herselfher simple existence is changed for good. The only thing is that Aidan knows No longer can she hasn't – she told him herself after she'd died. What did happen to spend her and why does she choose to tell himtime writing novels in solitude, of all people? Aidan is on for her life now has a missionboy in it that she never asked for: he ''will'' find outWade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404099</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danny WestonT L Huchu|title=The PiperLibrary of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Daisy are evacuated on a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the eve dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of World War Two school, she's been using it to The Grange at Romney Marshsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Something seems wrong from However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the moment they get there: there are city's children dancing in . Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the garden request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and strange music realise that plays at nightthe world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. When Peter realises that Daisy might be in danger he’s willing to do anything he can to fill Will she find the promise he made missing children and bring an end to his motherthis evil, keep his sister safe.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440511</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Murdstone TrilogyKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Mal PeetLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Philip Murdstone is becoming a bit Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of a has-beenher life. The once-acclaimed childrenShe joins 's author has won 'Oof Ouch My Bones'literary'' awards, dontchaknow. Literaryan online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Got that? But these are past glories. His novels They talk about young outsiders are no longer anything newtheir troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. In fact, his agent canWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't even sell his latest. And Minerva Finchrespond to the chat for a while, said agent, is all about what she can sellPriya becomes concerned. ThereShe decides to steal her parents's nothing for it, she tells Philip, but a foray into fantasy. Hecar and drive to Brigid's going house to have to write a sword-and-sorcery epiccheck up on her. She's even got an A4 blueprint of But whatshe doesn's required: realms, minions, dark lords, dwarves, elves, swords, t expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and all for that werewolf to be the rest of it. Fantasy, you see, is selling by girl she has been talking to online for the ''bucketloads, containerloads, downloads''past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200158</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Young Bond: Shoot to Kill|author=Steve Cole|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 Move 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>}} {{newreview|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 the Savant community strike at Misty or one of her friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]