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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kim SlaterMax Boucherat|title=A Seven-Letter WordThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Finlay has We meet Lori on the first evening she's got more than one PROBLEMthe house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. He lives alone with his fatherWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, who chain-smokes in between trips out to do odd jobs for peopleshe has one main intention, and seems that is to have reduced his worth log on to just one recipe since his wifeVoxminer, the world-building, Finlaycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's motherworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, vanished two years agoand then she finds something even more spooky. Things are still bitter with him – he says For the server she might as well and her bestie and nobody else should be dead – but the issue manifests itself badly with Finlay, and he has grown into suffering quite a severe STUTTER, which leads able to no end enter shows signs of TEASING at schooltampering. His one way outWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, it seems, is for a change an eight-letter word, SCRABBLE – he can hide away from and her safe place in the mismanagement of words that his speaking implies he game has over a set of tiles and can play a decent game. But what happens when he is contacted online by a mysterious Alex been doctored – well, where is this possibly a way girl to combine his love of the word game with his quest for the truth about his mother's ABSENCEturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150980112X</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emery LordRachel Greenlaw|title=When We CollidedCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' 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 lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a 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 watched 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 home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=Harry Allen|title=Children of the Sun|rating=5

|summary=Jonah's father died. His mother has locked herself away Ra Eun Seo lives in grief, leaving Jonah a North Korean town and his two older siblings to not only run their own lives but also take care of their three younger siblingsshe is a talented singer. It's a lot Life is hard and Jonah food is grievingdifficult to come by, too. Unsurprisingly, he has fallen into the fog of depression. And then Vivi comes along. Vivi so Seo and her artist mother are spending the summer in Jonah's town. And Vivi is bright friends Nari and beautiful Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and vivid and amazing and ever-so-slightly eccentric. She bursts into Jonah's life like a shower edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of meteors rice and changes everything. But Vivi has her own problems..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408870088</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Darren ShanAlexia Casale|title= Zom-B Goddess (Zom B 12)Sing if you Can't Dance|rating= 45|genre= Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you haven't read re having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the first book pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in this seriesschool, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!  Go onher 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. Run along So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marisa ReichardtSimon Fox|title=UnderwaterDeadlock

|summary=Morgan has Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a post-gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it note lifted my spirits in her apartment: ''1a most delightful way. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3. You are not dying'' And if you had escaped a school shooting alive, you might need a note like In this toostory, right? People died. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwardsGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Morgan's school closed for a while. Morgan started attending a new school but it was just too much for her. She retreated to her apartmenttheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, enrolled at an online high school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn't crossed is in love with Bridget (the threshold for months. If she only stays inside then shekingdom's safeonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a shut-boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in's life has a rhythmlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Morgan's day is predictable: daytime TV But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, online schoolwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, grilled cheese and soup for lunch, visits from her therapist. And Mom and little brother Ben or are they destined to liven up the evenings. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fallout (Lois Lane)Nick Brooks|authortitle=Gwenda BondPromise Boys

|summary=Lois Lane When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is an army brat with a history ofmurdered, shall we say, oppositional behaviourthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Or at least Each, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injusticeseemingly, that's all. And if something unjust is happeninghas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, she can't let it slideand each could have been there at the time of his murder. But this timewho killed him, and why, her nth time in a new town and a new schoolif any of the boys are innocent, Lois has vowed to herself that things will they be different. She'll be good. She'll keep her mouth shut. She'll fly under the radar. Heck, she might even make a friend or two.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=CrushA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Eve AinsworthKitt Townsend

|summary=AnnaSolomon Klyne isn's mother has left her father - and her brothert a bad lad, and Anna herself. That's how Anna sees it and although her mother wants contact, Anna so why is refusing it. It's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence he running around London committing a series of father and brother either: sherobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's fed up with them, tooll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Her father is always distracted and he isdefinitely favouring little brother Eddie, who, as Anna sees it, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on But I'll answer the fact that all is not right with Anna and has signed her up first one: for counselling sessionshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Secret Life of Daisy FitzjohnPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tania UnsworthDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother Ant is in the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is full one of antiques four with both his best buddy from the football team, and treasures and hoardings - because Daisytwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's mother does like to hoard re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Daisy is rarely at a loss for something out often turns to look at or investigatesex. Which is just confusing for Ant, as wellhe doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, because Daisy and so has never gone outside effectively progressed up the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisyladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's mother keeps her secluded - sheset in stone, he can't be sure. And that's terrified of loss mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a family tragedy fashion designer. Life in her own childhood. Despite this, Daisy has a loving relationship with her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: rural village where she lived with her pet ratfamily was happy, if not prosperous, with so when the peacocks smartly-dressed man and rabbits woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the gardensmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and also with paintings and topiary and the other creatures of her imaginationgirls were not going to work in a shop, all they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the knowledge ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's being kept safe from The Crazy quite possible that once ran in Hanh and her familyco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RosePatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=ElizaBrave. Charlene, the 's family isnheroine't as wealthy as it once was. And she is well aware that her duty of this piece is extremely hard for some people to marry well in order to repair the Camperdowne fortuneslike, characters and readers both. To this end Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Eliza is sent from and has taken up residence in her family home son Blake's old room while he's at Stoneton Castle to Trumpton Hall, to uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be educated in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the ways creation of noble ladies. Hereone such item is part of the plot here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too as Charlene is still a young girl. And from therewonder knitter, itand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's on allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to the Tudor court of Henry VIIIgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, who what exactly happens is currently married not for me to say, only to Anne of Clevesremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyAnn Sei Lin|title= Defender of the RealmRebel Skies

|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir to Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the throne. He's awkwardMidori, bullied and always a massive dining hall floating in the front page sky where soldiers of the news for his latest mishapEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. His brother RichardHowever, as the papers love when a man named Himura arrives to remind tell her that she is a Crafter like him, would be much better suited someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the partEmpire. But when their father the King suddenly diesHe asks her to come with him, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer to leave the heir, he life of dreary servitude that is the king and with that defender of the realmall she has known. Together with an unlikely ally Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the anti- royalist Hayleymatter, Alfie learns his true heritagebecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, protecting and she is forced to flee out into the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows existworld... Suddenly all She joins Himura aboard the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparison. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needsOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, or who knows what will be left and a whole world of the country? adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenMarcus Sedgwick|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how you shouldn't judge someone on a first impression and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voice. His family has been fragmented by the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses to talk about. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living with his dad in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but the road to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= Maladapted|rating= 3|genre=Teens|summary=Cillian isn't an average teenager. He knows he's a mathematical genius, he's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he is until he's the sole survivor of a train explosion. With his father is dead and his last words to Cillian a riddle, Cillian's existence is thrown in a whole new light. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346292</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Book of Lies|rating=3.5|genre=Paranormal|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all the usual themes -- confused sense of identity, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds... But it also has another element: the supernatural. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tommy Wallach|title=Thanks for the TroubleWrath

|summary=Parker hasn't spoken Meet Fitz, a single, solitary word for the last five yearsyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He hasn't started applying for college yetLockdown is only just over, either. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish and he spends as much time skipping school as should be free to do what he does attending class. He has also developed a petty theft habitwants, which to go where he indulges in well-heeled hotels. Oh dear, I hear you saying. It's not as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviour, there arewants and with whom he wants, but reasons don't help much.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=13 Minutes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you think about he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it, you can count several things in 13s. It probably took me 13 months when he talks to find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous releasehis best friend, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]Cassie. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email the chance to read this title. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes They were half of fame'a desultory school band, considering that the Internet he would never have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, and but Cassie was also one of those social media starlets – as far as ''hundred per cent the hive'' of Brackston Community School is concerned enigmatic – Natasha Howland, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before saying she was fished out of could hear a frozen river one pre-dawn January morningsubhuman hum coming from the earth. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned Is this connected with the fight for one of her to work out why she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from eco-warrior parents saying the point end of view of a girl on the edge of her circle, Becca.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=Afterlight|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents world is really all already a done deal? Is it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a some spooky new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets the chance to bonkers? And can Fitz find outthe truth? Well, she is visited by Evenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girl. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is a ghost and dealing with the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Beautiful Broken ThingsTori Bovalino|authortitle=Sara BarnardThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Caddy and Rosie have been best friends for years and even going to different schools hasnWorking all summer in her boarding school't parted them. And this s library is the summer that Rosie intends last thing Tess Matheson wants to be different. She'll get do — especially when she gets a boyfriend, finally. Perhaps even lose her virginity. And experience request for over a Significant Life Event. But the best laid plans and all hundred books thatshe has to deliver herself...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jo Cotterill and Cathy Brett|title= Electrigirl|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Holly Sparkes What makes it worse is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirl, until she is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of the characters in her brotherman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowersheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. Holly can generate As a massive amount petty act of electricity in seconds, a skill that can, as Holly discovers, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control it. Her brother Joe, an expert in these things, decides to become revenge for making her mentor find and together they resolve to use Holly's new powers to good effect. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town of the company CyberSky and the sinister Professor Macavity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Daniel Whelan|title=The Box of Demons|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning deliver such a Box of Demonslarge request, which like those TVTess sticks post-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says notes on each of the tin. It contains three demonsbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of different kinds. They're never meant to reach him, that have hampered his concentration at school, caused no end of mischief he has had course. Her plan is to take the blame forget her anger out like this, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospitalthen take them all off before delivering them. But is that all No harm done… Or it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might would be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and someone hadn't delivered them for all?her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mimi TheboPhilip Reeve|title=Dreaming Utterly Dark and the BearFace of the Deep

|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Darcy's In a typical teenager whose natural habitat 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 shopping mall Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the multiplexDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. It'sThe current Darks are the Watcher, thereforeAndrewe, not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible who has to adjust keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to living in a snowy wilderness without televisionworry about such local yokel superstitions, a phone signal or wifi. It doesn't help that sheand Andrewe's also recovering from pneumonia and tires quicklyfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But it is this very weakness that changes her life whenAndrewe Dark drowns himself, exhausted, she stumbles both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the shelter world of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterJulia and the Shark

|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He livesJulia, unknowinglyour pre-teen heroine, among a has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a mind palace to store anything and everythingsummer, and could tell you what happened on every day in the far NE of his life, and take himself back with his thoughtsthe Scottish islands. His father knows the starlight at night is years oldHere be Vikings, and is a snapshot that kind of a sun that is remote both in time and spaceScottish island. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time traveller, and Dad is going to speak from beyond be automating the gravelantern, and send Al on a true mission through timewhich is his specialist thing, one that while mum will either save his lifebe leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, or completely ruin all Al's foreverswell, for, er, for evershe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreview|title=Anna and the Swallow ManFrontpage|author=Gavriel SavitJonathan Stroud|rating=5|genretitle=Teens|summary=It's Poland in 1939. And Anna's linguistics professor father is about to be rounded up in the Nazi purge of intellectuals. Knowing this is likely to happen, he leaves her in the care of a friend for the day. When her father doesn't return to collect her, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna to a new and dangerous world. Anna is just seven years old The Outlaws Scarlett and will never see her father again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Michael Grant|title= Front LinesBrowne|rating= 54

|summary=1942: Hitler Scarlett McCain is pushing his way ever furtheran outlaw, rejecting the USA adds its strength to draconian conformity of the Alliance Surviving Towns and women are allowed Faith Houses to fight in wander the military for wildlands between the first timeSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Rio Richlin’s sister has already died in the warBut then she meets Albert Browne, Frangie Marr is desperate for a way dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to keep her family’s heads above water and Rainy Schulterman wants flee to kill the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man who is murdering Jews. All three go to war -eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start togetherthe horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, their paths intersect as but will they all take on roles that leave be any more scars accepted there than expected.they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney SummersMercedes Helnwein|title=All The RageSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=In Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone else, man with a teenage girl is raped. ''All The Rage'' is as simple as that"real" family, and yet it she is so much more complicated too. It touches upon the blame that is laid at the victimused to not being a priority in people's feet; the ways lives. But when she defends a random boy in which survivors cope her class with the days and weeks and years after such an ordeal; the idea thather slingshot, while it changes youher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it cannot fully erase what makes you youthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonT L Huchu|title=Mind Your Head|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasn't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This is a frank and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards to mental ill health. It covers the various types Library of illness, the treatments available, how to manage them. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawson. She's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help her. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alyssa Sheinmel|title=FacelessDead

|summary=Maisie Ropa Moyo is a normal high school student. She's the star of the school running team, has a wonderful boyfriendghostalker, a great best friend using Zimbabwean magic (and she's all set to go to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedy, Maisie finds herself in hospital in the serious burns unit and without most bit of her face. When a donor appears, Maisie is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctors, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist all keep telling her how lucky she is... But Maisie doesn't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarring, she has no idea who she is anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=How not Scottish pragmatism) to Disappear|author=Clare Furniss|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie is having rather a miserable summer. Both her best friends, Reuben and Nat, are away, living it up in take messages from the south dead of France and Edinburgh respectivelyfor their living relatives. HattieEver since she dropped out of school, meanwhile, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at a burger joint. Itshe's hardly glamorous and been using it's very dispiriting to be the one waiting at home for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of their lives. Ho hum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=Queen of the Silver Arrow|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=King Metabus had support not been a good king and his escape from his kingdom was hurried and pursued. When he reached the river he had to make a decision and he thought first of the safety of the baby daughter he carried in his arms and tied her to his javelinonly herself, which he threw across the torrent, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown up as a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with her father younger sister and ran wild in the foresther aging grandmother. In nearby LaurentumHowever, Acca had grown up hearing there's an evil stalking the story ruined streets of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground and dreamed of meeting herEdinburgh, but this didn't happen until after targeting the death of Camillacity's father, when the girls became firm friendschildren.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=A Dark Trade|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Georgina FridaySoon, known to everyone as Gina, grew up in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went to be a servant Ropa is pulled into the search for a big house in central London. There were seven members of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one missing boy at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt request of practical jokeshis dead mother. She could cope with will end up discovering an occult library and realise that, but what the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she couldnever could't cope with was the attentions of one of the young men of the familyve imagined. She'd already heard Will she find the stories of what had happened missing children and bring an end to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on the streets to fend for herself and this evil, or will it claim her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run away.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn Evans Kristen O'Neal|title=More of Me Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=At schoolHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalPriya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. But at home TevaShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s life is , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about as far from normal as ittheir troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's possible house to getcheck up on her. Locked away in But what everyone outside thinks she doesn't expect to find there is a haunted house are eleven other Tevas, all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates werewolf in two with the new Teva going out in basement – and for that werewolf to be the world while girl she has been talking to online for the previous Teva is kept inside, trapped as her younger selfpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1683692349

Ethan, who is 14, is just hoping to wake up in time to begin his high school career in a brand new town. Imagine his shock when he wakes up AS A GIRL. What the what? How can this happen? It turns out that Ethan, now Drew, is a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankind, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one for each year of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=River of Ink 1: Genesis|author=Helen Dennis|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Some people believe that when you drown, your whole life flashes before you. The boy in the river saw only bottles, driftwood and the dented licence plate of a foreign car. Not his life. But he knew for certain that he was drowning.'' But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up Move on the banks of the Thames, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively draws?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite the name, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birds, everything is feminine – the island is a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone is female, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of life. The novices there are on the cusp, in several ways – of girls turning to women, of students turning to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means for them starting to practise it with a duty to others. And, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famine, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Keil|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide what to do with the rest of their lives. Move to the city? Enrol at university? Get a job and make a life in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career in art and comic books is possible. And if it is, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? It's a frightening choice. Is she good enough? And in any case, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member of it has the same choice before them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]