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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz Max Boucherat|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
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|summary=Fans of Anthony HorowitzWe meet Lori on the first evening she' Alex Rider series have had a twos got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year wait for this installment of our young hero's escapades and they are not going to be disappointedold, on her lonesome. He's fourteen year old now What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and not only that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is he being targeted by a hitman, hehit in Lori's also being pursued by a journalist who wants to tell the nation all about the fact that MI6 are using one of his tender years to do their dirty workworld. The trouble is But first Lori has a tiny inkling that he canthis 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 positive that it was a sniper that caused the car he was in able to skid off a Scottish road and land at the bottom enter shows signs of a Lochtampering. And MI6 don't seem all that bothered about When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the journalistgame has been doctored – well, unless, that where is, Alex might be willing to find some simple information from a GM crop research centre, in which case they might be able girl to have a quiet word with the gentleman.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary BlackwoodHarry Allen|title=Mysterious Messages - A History Children of Codes and Ciphersthe Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Welcome to Viking times. The land is ruled by Ra Eun Seo lives in a pitiless North Korean town and greedy Chieftain, Bjorn Svanson, who always gets what he wants. And what he wants is Thora. She she is a healer – very useful when you're going to set out on a voyage, and also very prettytalented singer. The Chieftain's destination Life is the land of fire hard and ice, also known as Iceland. Impatiently, the Chieftain kidnaps Thora, but what he doesn't know food is that Thora has powers. Yesdifficult to come by, a historical fantasy where the heroine has powers – didn't see that coming did you? She can read auras so Seo and at times, see the future. And what she sees is her new master's murder. Before you know itfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, he has been stabbed looking for tree bark and Thora and a mysterious male slave are free. What is their destination still? The land edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of fire rice and icekimchi at home. Impersonating Bjorn Svanson, the male slave commandeers his ships and they sail away to Iceland, where a precarious future awaits. Will Svanson's men follow them across the oceans for revenge? Can they live with what they have done? Will they ever get a chance to be together? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728814</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lili St CrowAlexia Casale|title=Betrayals: A Strange Angels NovelSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=To startIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, I have to cover but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the ground middle of the mythology of this seriesa dance performance that was going to change her life. HumansBut she comes back fighting, vampires and werewolves all live in this worlddesperate to avoid the pity stares, and both species of desperate to get back to a life that'the other' have people halfway turneds as normal as she can possibly manage. Vampires and werewolves arenMeanwhile there't exactly the sort s a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to mix with each other - one liking try to spill bloodsort out, and just the others going into feeding frenzies every time they smell itday to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. In a previous book, our heroine Dru, has realised her best friend So even though she can become semi-wolf in a shape-changing way't dance anymore, and might she's tending be able to the vampire side of things. She's also discovered a very strong threat against sing her life.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161283</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantSimon Fox|title=HungerDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Things are pretty grim for Picky. She Late one night Graham Blake is thirteen years old, being bullied at schoollate back from his shift on the force, and has to spend her weekends helping her singlethen suddenly rings Archie, working mum to take care of her little brother and her senile grandmother. One evening, at her Gran's housedemanding he fetch something from a secret place, she goes up into the attic and tries join him on an old dress that she finds inside an old chestthe run. The dress turns out to be magicThey get together, and she suddenly finds herself back in 17th Century London, struggling with a strange man who is calling her 'Amelia' and is trying but barely begin to kill her. Picky ends up embroiled in Amelia's 17th century life as she tries to find out smell the truth whiff of who Southern trains when the father is attempting to murder herarrested, at leaving Archie on the same time as trying late express to avoid arousing suspicion with her strange behaviour whenever she returns Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the present daybearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956122280</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyLex Croucher|title=The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In late 19th century America, young Will Henry has been the apprentice of the stern, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his parents, who were also employed by the doctor. The twelve year old boy has seen many things in his service to the monstrumologist - a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor the twin corpses of a young girl Gwen and the headless creature with fangs Art Are Not in his chest who had tried to feast on her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Delaney |title=The Spook's Stories: WitchesLove
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary='Warning: Not Who knew that what I really needed to be read after darkright now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly,' are the only words on the back of ''The Spook's Stories''it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and on the inside flapArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, 'The Times' warns us that this book is 'seriously scary'... The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamelymuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, thoughyou see, is in love with a story about a young Spook Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a sort boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of monster-hunter) who falls falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a witch and is forced way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to bear the consequences when the witch's sister comes to stay and exhibits live a taste for the neighbor-children.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannNick Brooks|title=WakePromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeen and studying hard for collegemurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She's also working lots Each, seemingly, has a grudge of hours some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way time of resourceshis murder. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far But who killed him, and why, and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in if any of the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaclyn Moriarty 1919635017|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Listen TaylorSolomon Klyne isn's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing familyt a bad lad, with all so why is he running around London committing a series of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to work on the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'Zing Family Secret'll answer the first one: for his grandmother. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break up. The stories of these people come together to create a tale of life, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BerkeleyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)Different for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=I shall start with Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a word standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of advicefour with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. When youAs they're being hounded by all fired up, straining at the leash only a circus mastersingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a magiciansecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the soul of a tiger thatladder headed by 's contained in a tigerexperienced's egg , but whether that's contained set in the brain of your teddy bearstone, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make he can't be sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogy. Still - never mind, the angelAnd that's efforts will involve you entering a dream world mostly because of flight who he's been having the relationship and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world to desert oases and back, and friends new and old will be on board to helpsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Kate1800901232|title=FallenStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=A 17 Twelve-year -old girl at Hanh wanted to be a new school meets fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a mysterious job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and impossibly goodHanh was on the mini-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn bus toHanoi. He seems determined Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to either ignore her or be outright rude work in a shop, they were to her, until he saves her life, work 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 ones with the two of artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer? It's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similaritiesquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsPatrice Lawrence|title=King LearNeedle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in AlaskaBrave. She loves Charlene, the ice 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and the wilderness readers both. Kicked out of her remote home multiple homes and schools, she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing s fostering with her peers a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and enjoying college and home comforts back has taken up residence in Fairbanks. However, things arenher son Blake't all rosy. Cassies old room while he's mother died when she was just at uni. Such a 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 plot here, as Charlene is a baby wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she can't help feeling s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a huge hole in store detective, and then force people to give her hearttwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Her scientist father . well, what exactly happens is remote not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very youngpointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A J HealyAnn Sei Lin|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic KnightsRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to be tell her that she is a gang of heroic detectives charged Crafter like him, someone with rescuing EVERYTHING from destruction. Not just the planet, or power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the solar systemEmpire. He asks her to come with him, or even to leave the galaxylife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know whatsoon Kurara won's going to cause this destructiont have any say in the matter, or whenbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, but he and his friends and their ship seem she is forced to be flee out into the only people proactively going about saving world. She joins Himura aboard the day. So it's Orihime, a pity that they start this book strung up by sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a nasty loony who's about to kill them.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>1406399590
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novelMeet Fitz, but a brief browse young Scottish lad full of frustration at the juvenile titlehimself. Lockdown is only just over, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised languagehe should be free to do what he wants, music scene setting to go where he wants and media heroine are aspirational stuff with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when you're stuck in the pre-scene yearshe talks to his best friend, Cassie. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a They were half stars based on its appeal as of a girlie book. That saiddesultory school band, I'm well over eighteen, read but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the story avidly, and enjoyed enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the ironyearth. So well Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a donedeal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly toldnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithTori Bovalino|title=Furnace: Death SentenceThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Alex Sawyer. Framed for a murder he certainly didnWorking all summer in her boarding school't do, the lad s library is given life (of a kind) in the Furnace, last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a literal hellhole of request for over a private prison, buried a mile under Englandhundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's a vicious existence, with tribal gangs among the inmatesheadmaster, and worse on the staff - the warden is helped by his malevolent blacksuits, nasty medical aides called wheezers, a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and there are mutateddeliver such a large request, feral creatures Tess sticks post-it notes on each of all kinds collectively called rats. After two previous the books of failed break-outs, Alex is under scribbled with the knife ugliest insults she can think of the warden, who has a new tactic. He does not want to break Alex - he aims They're never meant to remake reach him, with medicineof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashingthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, as one of his ownif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyPhilip Reeve|title=Tales Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of Terror activity from the TunnelHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's Mouthfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Young Robert is put on Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a train back to school by his stepmother. It's summer, in the far NE of the first journey he's made on his ownScottish islands. It turns out to Here be more Vikings, that kind of a challenge than he could ever have imaginedScottish island. The train stalls at Dad is going to be automating the mouth of a tunnel and lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the other passengers sleep through the waitelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a differenceshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris GrimlyJonathan Stroud|title=Tales of Death The Outlaws Scarlett and DementiaBrowne|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan PoeScarlett McCain is an outlaw, master rejecting the draconian conformity of the gothic horror short storySurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and Gris Grimlyshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman a dark boy with dark powers and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]a darker past. Poe's ''Tales With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of Death the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Dementia'' all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are shown off at their very best in this edition.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayMercedes Helnwein|title=The HollowSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Abbey's best friend, Kristen, disappears and is assumed dead, Abbey feels as though she Gracie Welles has no-one left to talk resigned herself tobeing lonely. Refusing to believe that Kristen As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is really gone, while struggling used to come to terms with life on her own, Abbey meets the mysterious Caspian, not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a young man who appears to be the perfect gentleman, showering random boy in her class with hand-crafted gifts and words of wisdom within weeks of meeting her. But beneath those piercing green eyes and soft-spoken mannerslingshot, Caspian has secrets of his ownher simple existence is changed for good. Hoping to uncover those, and determined to find out what really happened to No longer can she spend her best friendtime writing novels in solitude, Abbey begins to question for her sanity, as the truth proves more frightening than life now has a boy in it that she thoughtnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael P. SpradlinT L Huchu|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail Library of Fatethe Dead|rating=4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After his ship is lost 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 her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a storm as he is returning bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to England, Tristan is washed up on some foreign shore, completely lost just joke and with no sign of his companionsmess around. When he wakesBrigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, hePriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents's surrounded by four men car and two women, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises hedrive to Brigid's in Francehouse to check up on her. He explains his situation But what she doesn't expect to Celia, one of find there is a werewolf in the young women, basement – and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly for that werewolf to be a spy, the girl she ignores his pleas has been talking to online for directions to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with thempast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>1683692349
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