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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=Read Me Like A BookThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she'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 world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first 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 the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Liz KesslerRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=''Read Me Like A Book'' is both a coming-I can hear the song of-age and a coming-out story. Ash feels as though everything is a mess. Her parents aren't getting on and Ash is terrified they're going to split up. She's struggling to keep up her relationships with her friends. She trying to decide whether or not to lose her virginity - and how exactly she even feels about the boy she might lose it withsea. She's falling behind in her grades at school and half The call of her is a rebellious teen who couldn't care less about itthe deep, while the other half is panicking that she might not get into universityanswering beat in my heart.''

And if all Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that wasnlies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't enoughs father. Desperate to save him from death, Ash Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is struck by secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a bolt family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the blue when she develops an almighty crush on Miss Murraywatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her English teacher..home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622090</amazonuk>0008664730

[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersHarry Allen|title=AlienatedChildren of the Sun

|summary=Two years ago, aliens made contact. Now, Cara Sweeney has been chosen to host Aelyx, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a L'eihr exchange studenttalented singer. The first exchange student. Cara gets a free ride Life is hard and food is difficult to any college she chooses out of the dealcome by, some excellent material for so Seo and her blogfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and a chance edible grasses to be a part supplement the meagre rations of history, helping in her own way to form an alliance between the two racesrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersAlexia Casale|title=InvadedSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= To save the alliance between Humans and the LIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'eihrre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, and save but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the planet from the deadly algae blooms middle of a dance performance that threaten was going to destroy all change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, Cara and Aeylx have desperate to persuade the L'eihr get back to a life that Humans and L'eihr s as normal as she can peacefully co-existpossibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges 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>1423169492</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon MayoFox|title= Itchcraft|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Third book in the Itch sequence about the audacious, intrepid teen obsessed with collecting elements from the Periodic Table to the detriment of his own life. Electrifying, explosive, punchy and action packed tour de force sizzling with surprising shocks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569062</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Keren David|title=This is not a Love StoryDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a perfect holiday read – secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but that doesn't mean you need barely begin to be smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on holiday the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to read it. ''This Is Not A Love Story'' will waft you keep away from your bed or your fireside or your tube train seat his colleagues, and relocate you to Amsterdamthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001405</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeLex Croucher|title=The Lie TreeGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerieWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, unreal atmosphere of her booksit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Mysteries lurk In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her charactersprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and creating the strange and the banal jostle subterfuge of falling in love with each other for space on the page, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. A world both familiar and outlandish is offered to us But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, where once again will they find a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces way in which threaten they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to overwhelm her at every turn.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael ByrneNick Brooks|title=Lottery BoyPromise Boys

|summary=Twelve year old Bully and his mongrel dogWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, Jackhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been living rough for almost six months – ever since Bully's mum died. The future holds no hope until, quite by accident, he finds there at the lottery ticket he purchased for time of his mum hidden inside the last birthday card she gave him. He checks the numbers and discovers he's won the jackpotmurder. But there's only days left before the ticket expires who killed him, and Bully's not old enough to claim the money. To make matters worsewhy, word and if any of his winning ticket has got out and every unsavoury character on the streets is now after him.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358290</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=PantherA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=David OwenKitt Townsend

|summary=Things have gone woefully wrong for Derrick. HeSolomon Klyne isn's binge eating and his weight has spiralled. He's fallen out with his best friend. The girl t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he likes doesnlearn to crack safes? You't like himll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. HeBut I's in trouble at school. And if it weren't ll answer the first one: for his sister Charlotte, none of this shiznit would be happeninggrandmother. If Charlotte wasn't depressed, if she hadn't tried to... well, you know... everything would be fine, just like it used to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472116429</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy BirchallPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The It GirlDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= Anna Ant is an awkward 14-year-old who is trying to fit in with people Year Eleven at her new quite a standard school – , and convince them that she wasn’t actually trying is surprised to set her popular classmate’s hair on firefind 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, it just happenedand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Her dad is As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a wellsingle-known journalist who’s just written a booksex school can form, the talk in class and they get on well - until out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he falls for doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a famous actress. With the paparazzi buzzing over the news of the engagementcasual relationship, Anna becomes a new target secret one, for them – but can this shyseveral months now, nerdy girl cope with and so has effectively progressed up the sudden attention?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Taran Matharu|title=The Novice|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=ladder headed by 'experienced'The Novice, but whether that's set in stone, he can', Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received a staggering five million readst be sure. This book doesn’t just survive And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the hype; it deserves itsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs1800901232|title= Exposure (Virals 4)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= In the fourth book of this electrifying sci-fi crime thriller series the resourceful teen Virals pit their wits against a cunning villain when two of their classmates go missing. An exciting adventure with a shocking twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099567245</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Lydia Syson|title=Liberty's Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paris in the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting for this tense, dramatic novel. ''Liberty's Fire'' is Lydia Syson's third work of fiction and certainly ensures that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical period. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=PersistSteve Cole

|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confusedTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. People keep coming and looking at Life in the rural village where she lived with herfamily was happy, if not prosperous, but they don't seem so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to see ''her''be missed. She wonders if she's something shiny, such as a mirrorSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a coma for so long that even her mother is beginning shop, they were to doubt that she can surface from wherever she iswork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The doctors are sure that there's no hope for ones with the girl artfully-placed rips and they're talking about switching off the machines which are keeping her alive, allowing her to fade away painlessly... distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthdayquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellPatrice Lawrence|title=BomberNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Harry Friedman is only 17Brave. But WWII Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is raging all across Europe and Harry felt the call extremely hard for some people to serve his country like, characters and the Allied causereaders both. And that 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 how old room while he became 's at uni. Such a gunner on tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the ''Macey May''plot here, an American Flying Fortress stationed in East Angliaas Charlene is a wonder knitter, far away from Harryand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's New York homeallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858495</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisAnn Sei Lin|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the GeekRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary= Joe Cowley Kurara has got it badspent 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. Whatever ''it'' However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she isa Crafter like him, he's got it bad. The hots for his girlfriend, Natalie? Bad. Living arrangements someone with his ex-school-bullying-nemesis-turned-step-brother? Very badthe power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Some greasy swazz trying He asks her to take his girlfriend from come with him, at to leave the same time as sucking up to her father who life of dreary servitude that is also his business mentor? Pretty awfulall she has known. An attitude that means Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a devil-may-care voice in his head leads him to support his oddball friends through monstrous paper spirit known as a dance music competition just shikigami, and she is forced to get one over on flee out into the swazz? You can guess, what with that being the main thrust of world. She joins Himura aboard the plot hereOrihime, that that too a sky-ship whose express purpose is B A D bad.to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736965</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole BursteinMarcus Sedgwick|title=Othergirl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Imagine a world where superheroes are real and very much awesome. Imagine a teenage girl who discovers she has amazing powers, that she can fly and toss fire. And then imagine that you aren’t this girl, but rather her very normal best friend. The one who patches up her friend's costume and covers for her at school, who worries and frets about her GCSEs while simultaneously planning how to get her friend noticed by the worldwide network of heroes, the Vigils. This isn't the story of Erica the superhero, but rather the story of Louise, loyal friend and sidekick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440619</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Curtis Jobling|title=Haunt: Dead WrongWrath

|summary= Will and Dougie have been friends for agesMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. They each understand how the other thinks (wellLockdown is only just over, most of the time) and they stick together through thick he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and thinwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. LiterallyThey were half of a desultory school band, in fact: Will's dead but somehow heCassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not only unable to move on to whatever comes next, when Cassie has gone missing he actually can't stray more than a few feet away from his best friend. The possibilities for embarrassment are endless..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115798</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HendrickTori Bovalino|title=The Accident|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Accident alternates between three characters telling their story before, just after and much later than the day of the accident which connects them. Before the car crash, Eliat is a teenage mum knowing she needs to be an adult whilst never feeling more like a kid. Just after the car crash, Will is struggling to hold his dysfunctional family together when his oldest sister moves back home. Later, Sarah is struggling to move on with her life with the injuries and grief the accident has left her with. It’s a story about, whether we realise it or not, how we’re all connected by split-second decisions and we can’t control the impact they have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921922850</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jandy Nelson|title=I'll Give You The SunDevil Makes Three

|summary=Twins Noah and Jude used Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to be inseparable until tragedy tore them apartdeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Now NoahThe boarding school's changed utterly from the boy he used to beheadmaster, and Jude is reduced to spying a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on him through his friend as she struggles each of the books, scribbled with her own issues at the exclusive art school Noah was always supposed ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to go reach him, of course. Her plan is toget her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, but Jude ended up at insteadif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406326496</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G HarrisPhilip Reeve|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black HorizonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=Life is changing very fast for Ben CarringtonIn a word, rich. He There is at the opening certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the chap is hardly cold in his grave when Ben's mum Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the lad have Dark family that has to prove how adept they are at her old jobkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, of mountain rescuewhere no ship dare sail. She feels like setting up a new rescue agency with her nous and The current Darks are the family fortunesWatcher, Andrewe, but someone who can just amble into has to keep notes of activity from the opening/memorial ceremony is Jason TrubyHidden Lands, a monumentally rich Internet magnatehis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, who actually has a modern-day and Andrewe''Thunderbirds'' entity alreadys foundling daughter, who washed up out of the top secret Gemini Forcesea one day eleven years ago. Truby starts to get close to But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the family world of twoprotecting their island, but the school-aged Ben isn't going to be allowed to learn just what dramatic escapades the agency has to cover – is he?like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy CannonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Secrets, Schemes Julia and Sewing Machinesthe Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Grace is looking forward Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to being the star be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the upcoming school production far NE of Much Ado About Nothing, but after missing the auditionScottish islands. Here be Vikings, she's relegated that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to understudy and making costumes in sewing club. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't be automating the planlantern, but it may leave which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in a position algae behind to step into hunt the lead role if needed - and there's a compensation in the form of new boy Connorelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, who's stage managing she will be homesick and after initially appearing to dislike Grace starts to warm to heralone – until she suddenly finds company one night. Will Grace get the part and the boy?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersJonathan Stroud|title=The Grindle WitchOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Deep in Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the woods something evil is stirringSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father is But then she meets Albert Browne, a pathologist dark boy with dark powers and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's bodya darker past. Whoever or whatever killed With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the old man has carried out mythical Free Isles of the most savage attack anyone has ever seenLondon Lagoon. And JackTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, who has just moved to the remote village cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of Grindle from post-apocalyptic society to reach the cityFree Isles, had thought it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happens. How wrong could he have beenbut will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SmaleMercedes Helnwein|title=Geek Girl: All That Glitters|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you're a bright, enthusiastic teen but not top of the popularity polls at school then this series of books by Holly Smale is absolutely made for you. Harriet Manners is, according to your point of view, either beautiful enough to travel the world modelling fabulous clothes, or a girl with a very ordinary face who got very, very lucky. She's clumsy and accident-prone, her dress sense leaves a lot to be desired, and she's far more inclined to research the fine art of making friends in a book (or ten) than go out there and have a go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Falkoff|title=Playlist For The DeadSlingshot

|summary=This book markets itself as a mystery with Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a bit secret illegitimate daughter of a love story thrown in but it is more than that. It is about loss, anger, confusion, the pain caused by bullying and the desire to fit into a social group by connecting man with other people. It addresses how people can change after a tragedy"real" family, the dangers of isolating oneself and how teens focus on pursuits such as gaming, science fiction, graphic novels, art, music and popular culture to express themselves and try to make sense of their world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008110662</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lance Rubin|title=Denton Little's Deathdate|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Tomorrow she is the day I'm going used to die. I don't mean to get all dramatic about it. I've known that tomorrow is the day I will die since I was born.. Just like almost everyone else not being a priority in the world knows their deathdate. But do I need to get movie-preview-voice-over-guy intense about it? Probably not.people'' Oh! I think I would want to get intense about impending deaths lives. Don't you think you would, too? But imagine what it's like to live in a world where everyone knows the day they will die. Rituals and conventions spring up. You get to go to your own funeral. You could even get to make the most of your life if you know when it ends. You won't pass up so many opportunities, perhaps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124231</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=We All Looked Up|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter, Eliza, Andy and Anita are all about to graduate high school. They all have plans and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about to be thrown into disarray. An asteroid is approaching Earth and there's she defends a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just a few weeks before a possiblerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, no a likely, end of the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ''do''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner|title=This Shattered World|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Stone-faced Captain Jubilee Chase her simple existence is the best soldier on Avon, a planet in the midst of a rebellion, where the terraforming won’t take, and the mysterious Fury infects soldiers and turns them into mindless killerschanged for good. Only Lee is immune, and No longer can she doesn’t understand why.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Wein|title=Black Dove, White Raven|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The essential role of aviators spend her time writing novels in the success or failure of modern war is a givensolitude, and fiction is full of the derring-do and dog-fight exploits of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves as they land their frail and battered craft at a friendly airstrip. But what if the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundreds, if not thousands, and you, the pilot, are barely out of your childhood?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405271361</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Donald Hounam|title=Gifted|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is for her life now has a forensic sorcerer, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes boy in a world where adults get the blur and lose their eyesight by their mid-twenties, and only the young have enough sorcerous power to summon demons and angels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Diana Sweeney|title=The Minnow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed at Young Adults that features death, grief, abuse, fear and loneliness. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavement, and trying to come to terms with loss, bubbles just under the surface, constantly. But don't be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding from the reader. What rescues it from mawkishness is the beautiful voice of the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pity. She simply describes her world as she sees it, matter-of-fact. And the fact that her view is rather unusual (she talks to fish, dead people and her unborn child - and they talk back) doesn't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism of her voice. As a reader, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ridenever asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnT L Huchu|title=The GloryLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alex Ropa Moyo is what you might call a disruptive teenagerghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's always getting into trouble been using it to support not only herself, but the latest trouble is the worst yet her younger sister and her mum and step-dad have had enoughaging grandmother. Even her fatherHowever, far away in Australia with his new familythere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, thinks something must be donetargeting the city's children. So Alex Soon, Ropa is sent all pulled into the way out to search for a missing boy at the States to a teenage boot camprequest of his dead mother. But even naughty teenagers have their plus points, She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and Alexmore dangerous than she ever could's is her love of horsesve imagined. She'll do anything Will she find the missing children and bring an end to save the mustang scout from the slaughterhouse.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012754</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa TotenKristen O'Neal|title=The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen year old Adam has a list. He needs to get better, grow taller Lycanthropy and marry the love of his life, Robyn. But while Adam develops a metaphorical tunnel vision so that he can focus only on winning Robyn’s love, everything he is ignoring in the periphery is unravelling. How can Adam help his own overwhelming OCD when he’s so focussed on fixing everyone around him? When is it ok to hang up your own superhero cloak and admit that you might need saving?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406362999</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Game Changer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mikey is afraid of open spaces. He would much rather hide in his room - in his wardrobe, actually - than face the world outside. But his family, in particular his sister Meggie, are very supportive. And with Meggie's help, Mikey is gradually beginning to face that world outside. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Mikey sees something he shouldn't have seen. And the gang knows what he saw. The gang knows where he lives. And the gang wants to talk to him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794159</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=The Death HouseOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Toby would appear Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be lucky, having in constant pain for the run rest of an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast of Britainher life. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses to take the She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of , an evening. He is a captive of a mansion that works as online support group where she talks to a place bunch of exile for teenagers other teens living with the Defective genechronic illnesses. Whatever it would normally lead They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, just joke and being the cause mess around. When Brigid—one of the night-time lift ride on the one way route her closest friends—doesn't respond to the top floor Sanatoriumchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. But Toby has it good as these things go, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only one not She decides to have suffered a loss of life. But things are about steal her parents' car and drive to change – new inmates arrive Brigid's house to bulk check up the numbers, and one of them, Clara, is the agent of that changeon her. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits But what she doesn't want expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to sleep either…online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>1683692349

That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddess, freed from thousands of years imprisonment, has unleashed her magic. Time has stopped. All the humans are frozen in suspended animation. All the humans except, that is, brother and sister Will and Jo, who are protected by the scarab bracelets they wear. And now, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some of the Spits (good statues) and has sent the bad statues (Taints) Move on to find the two children who are threatening her plans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melinda Salisbury|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged to the prince. But this is no fairytale – he is one of the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemies. Can she survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]