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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and the loss of her sight. We loved the warts <!-- Remove -and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Hussey|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jake is a rather solitary person. He's bright but bored by school and he's obsessed with horror comics. He owns an amazing collection and he knows all the stories and myths and folklores off by heart. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is real, and the Demontide is almost upon him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellMax Boucherat|title=The Master Last Life of MisruleLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the Arcanumhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworldbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just the slightest shift away from our ownan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, had been home to on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a life-altering game of chanceblanket fort, she has one main intention, power and intelligencethat is to log on to Voxminer, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to thisworld-building, then playerscritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But theyfirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'd found it wantingt find herself entirely on her own, and to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebookthen she finds something even more spooky. With that, however, For the referee is no more, server she and her bestie and the Lord nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Misrule is in chargetampering. FreeWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, tooand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskRachel Greenlaw|title=In the TreesCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Since his mother died, Kid has been staying with Nadine and flipping burgers in a fast food joint after school. It's not an exciting life, but he isn't unhappy. And then Nadine gets a boyfriend and I can hear the flat gets rather cramped. And then a box song of his mother's possessions arrivesthe sea. Inside, he finds a photo The call of the father he's never met and a copy of his birth certificatedeep, which tells him that his father comes from Belize. And suddenly, Kid makes a decision. He's going nowhere fast in London, so he's going to head out to Belize and find the man answering beat in the photomy heart. He's on a plane within days. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Gene Kemp|title=No Way Out|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Alex Rosevear, a remote and Adam are twinspartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and they're telepathic to bootplundering the wrecks. They're very closeMira, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adam's looking forward her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to their holiday on Uncle Ben survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Aunt Sadie's farm, but Alex can't think of anything worseany treasure that lies within. Adam is always happy But when the Council Watch lays a trap to read to their little sister Emmyend the wrecking, but Alex resents they capture the attention she gets (sheisland's disabled, yleader and Mira'see)s father. By and large, they're just ordinary kidsDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with ordinary grumbles. When the car they're in goes through thick fog a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and crasheswith only coordinates to guide her, they find themselves she sets off in search of a town 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 times pastthe watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, with inhabitants who don't want Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to let them leave, save the future of her home and who have an eye on Emmythe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganHarry Allen|title=No and MeChildren of the Sun

|summary=Lou is Ra Eun Seo lives in a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160. She's thirteen, but she's been moved up two years at school North Korean town and she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enough, her only real friend at school is Lucas, who's seventeen and such a rebel that he's been moved down two yearstalented singer. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago Life is hard and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father food is worn down difficult to the bone with worry and Lou doesn't get a great deal of attention from him eithercome by, so distracted is he. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=The Diary of a Dr Who Addict|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Davey, in his first term at secondary school, is horrified. Not only is his best friend trying to grow up through the use of a home gym, Seo and standing him up on the first morning of term, he also seems to be becoming dismissive of The Show. Still, he is trying to be esoteric - just like his sister, painting her face to look like Bowie album sleeves of all things - friends Nari and Davey knows better. He knows everyone should be enthralled with the spectacle of Tom Baker falling off a building and becoming Peter Davison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James A Owen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you want to know where TolkeinMin go foraging every evening, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost the soul of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search looking for the Amarant, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it is cursed, tree bark and take a blood oath never edible grasses to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, supplement the coward meagre rations of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, rice and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarantkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenAlexia Casale|title=Drawing with LightSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Emily doesnIt't remember her biological mother. She ran away s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with another man when Emily after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was just twogoing to change her life. Now But she comes back fighting, her older sister Kat, her fatherdesperate to avoid the pity stares, and her stepmother Cassy make up the family unit and Emily thinks itdesperate to get back to a life that's just fine that wayas normal as she can possibly manage. She doesn Meanwhile there't need s a mother who didn't want new (cute!) boy in school, her and has never even tried music A Level performance piece to get in touch. But then Kat goes off try to universitysort out, her father buys a rundown house in and just the middle day to day traumas of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while itall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's being renovatedt dance anymore, and Cassy gets pregnant. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenSimon Fox|title=Along for the RideDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Auden has always felt like Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the odd one out amongst her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics and high achieversforce, and theythen suddenly rings Archie, especially her motherdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, want the same for Auden. Auden's older brother is the rebel and so Auden feels as though she needs to be join him on the one who satisfies her mother's ambitionrun. So she works hard and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even a moment. But she's socially awkward and lacking in experience. She's never had a boyfriend They get together, hates but barely begin to smell the colour pink and can't even ride a bike. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rook Hastings|title=Nearly Departed|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At first sight, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabby. But it's pretty much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school and clump together in little peer groups whiff of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in Southern trains when the middle of itfather is arrested, and at night, everythings turns, wellleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you in. And there are odd noises too... ... and Emily thinks she's seen a ghost. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill|title=Star Crossed: Aries Rising|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers an old book called 'Fearless Astrology'. Can the book help her and her friends get the boys they want, catch the vandals who are shocking their school with prankstin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and win her the approval bearer of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' Franklin? This is a novel written for teens – whole heap of course it canquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle LordLex Croucher|title=January (Conspiracy 365)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts himWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. ''They killed your father In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! They'll kill Gwen, you! You must survive the next 365 days!'' The man see, is carted off in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off love with Bridget (the incident but itkingdom's not easyonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing isboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in creating the throes subterfuge of 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 fatal illness. His father was vague on detailway in which they can both truly be themselves, but is pretty sure he was on or are they destined to something big. Could there be live a connectionlie their whole lives? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve FeaseyNick Brooks|title=Changeling: Blood WolfPromise Boys

|summary=Trey When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinkspolice station as suspects. So when he discovers he Each, seemingly, has a long-lost unclegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches each could have been there at the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is old, half-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Treytime of his murder. But there is a pack out therewho killed him, and it's viciouswhy, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out if any of control. the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cliff McNish1919635017|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best Thief to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had Catch a boyfriend and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems to stick around. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Glenn Dakin|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance Kitt Townsend

|summary=Birthdays for Theo are not exactly how we would recognise them. One bland, forgettable present from each of the three people who live in his household. Some pink cake at the best of times. A trip to the cemetery, with the butler making sure nobody else is in sight. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break in, and force Theo to leave the confines of his bedroom and find some of the secrets of the house, it is too late - Theo is set on a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as the truths of his destiny, his origins, and his hands, come to the fore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Womack|title=The Liberators|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on a South American expedition. As it's the school holidays, Ivo is off to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for the great and the good. Uncle Jago is in finance and there Solomon Klyne isn't much about wheeling and dealing that he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglecta bad lad, so what Ivo why is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore running around London and enjoy everything it has to offer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Dolamore|title=Magic Under Glass|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Namira is committing a trouser girl - a music hall performer. In Lorinar, she's regarded as a faintly risque curiosity but at home in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted and respected and Namira grew up in a palace. In Lorianar, she lives in poverty, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her art. series of robberies? And then suddenly, she's freed from the seedy music hall by Hollin Parry, a wealthy man and a member of Lorinar's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automaton, a curiosity that plays the piano, and how did he wants Namira's unique voice learn to accompany it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|title=In My Sky at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyercrack safes? You's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Reece|title=Roxy|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maddie was at Aunt Gretchen's funeral when she got the phone call ll have to tell her that her father was in a coma and likely wait to die. This might sound like a double whammy but Maddie's father had deserted her soon after her birth (during which her mother died) and she was brought up by Aunt Gretchen, who never missed get an opportunity answer to point out that she was an unwanted burdenthe second question because I avoid spoilers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Mansfield|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star Blaze|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before But I get into the review of this book, I'd like to suggest that if you haven't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh book, [[Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|The Spirit of London]], you go off and read ll answer the review of that first and then go and read the book itselfone: for his grandmother. It's a fantastic read. But because this is a sequel, there are obviously going to be some SPOILERS ahead.  So, done that have you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder Patrick Ness and Debbie Viguie Tea Bendix|title=Legacy and Spellbound (Wicked)Different for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Holly Cathers Ant is in 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 returnedbeen restructured, so his desk is one of four 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. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-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 secret one, for several months now, and this timeso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', shebut whether that's more powerful than everset in stone, he can't be sure. The war between And that's mostly because of who he's been having the House of Cahors witches relationship and House of Deveraux warlocks still rages on, and only one side will eventually triumphthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal Shusterman1800901232|title=EverwildStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventure, part philosophical enquiry, and part comingTwelve-ofyear-age story that began old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with Everlost in this followher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost is dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a kind of limbo and home job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow be missed the tunnel . Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the light mini- wherever and whatever the light actually isbus to Hanoi. Adults never make it there Only, but significant or much-loved objects Hanh and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightowerthe other girls were not going to work in a shop, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence they were to work in New York virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place ones with intricate embroidery and she "saves" beading on the legs? The ones with the Afterlights she finds by giving artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gemma MalleyPatrice Lawrence|title=The ReturnersNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Ducks are coolof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Whatever happens Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, whatever gets thrown at themshe's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, they just carry onAnnie, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like theyand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he're smilings at uni.' Will almost wishes he could Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a duckcomfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. He has precious little We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to smile aboutgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then. Sitting watching .. well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he knitting needles can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny ladbe... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlAnn Sei Lin|title=Beautiful CreaturesRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in a small townthe sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. They fall in loveHowever, he finds out when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she's harbouring is a dark secretCrafter like him, someone with the pair of them try power to find out if their relationship can work while form paper into whatever she tries desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to keep come with him safe from her world, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the past few years has it been done matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as well as it has in Beautiful Creaturesa shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam MillsMarcus Sedgwick|title=BlackoutWrath

|summary='I am Meet Fitz, a murdereryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. 'I'm standing Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a bookshopdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a gun hot in my palm. The bullet that sat in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced flesh, blown into brain tissue, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont subhuman hum coming from the floorearth. Blood begins to trickle from Is this connected with one of her head. It drips onto eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a pile done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of signed copies stacked on ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the floortruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...' Oh my word! What an explosive beginning to a book! But what made a boy do something like this? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ebony McKennaTori Bovalino|title=Ondine: The Summer of Shambles|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ondine de Groot wants out of psychic summercamp, so together with her pet ferret Shambles, she flees from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classes, back to her family's restaurant. Only, as soon as she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voices. Specifically a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be coming from her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, is in fact a man, turned into a ferret by a witch. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man, but her imaginings are soon interrupted by the arrival of handsome Lord Vincent, son of the Duke, who sets Ondine's heart fluttering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=ChainsDevil Makes Three

|summary=Isabel and Working all summer in her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a will hundred books that said soshe has to deliver herself. But Miss Mary Finch What makes it worse is dead the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her greedy nephew find and heir denies all knowledge deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the willbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. So Isabel and Ruth are sold They're never meant to the Locktons and taken to New Yorkreach him, of course. The Revolutionary War Her plan is underway to get her anger out like this, and New York is a dangerous placethen take them all off before delivering them. The Locktons are loyalistsNo harm done… Or it would be, but the patriots are in control of the cityif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HarrisonPhilip Reeve|title=The Thirteen CursesUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Red is backIn a word, but she's trapped in the fairy realmrich. Having swapped places with Tanya, she There is bound therecertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into way west, beyond the human worldScillies. She must seek an audience with the fairy courtThere are troll people on it, but the realm is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challengesea-witches, twisted with the cruelty and legends of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) courtDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Whilst The current Darks are the journey goes onWatcher, Andrewe, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at who has to keep notes of activity from the children's home. MeanwhileHidden Lands, Tanya has returned his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to Elvesden Manor for half term worry about such local yokel superstitions, and letAndrewe's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and the whole Manor crew his curious ward are thrust into trouble with the little peopleworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy FarmerKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Islands of Julia and the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy) Shark

|summary=In this third adventureJulia, Jack, a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bardour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Thorgil, their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a bad-tempered shield maidensummer, follow in the far NE of the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to quell be automating the draugr - lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the malevolent spirit of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned elusive Greenland shark. to Jack's village And Julia, well, she will be homesick and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human handsalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieJonathan Stroud|title=The Hostage (Medusa Project)Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=Teenagers NicoScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Kittyrejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Ed robbing banks and Dylan were implanted shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the Medusa gene when they were babiesmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Now Together, they're adolescentsmust brave man-eating wildlife, the intended psychic abilities are coming cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the fore. Nico has Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the power rest of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mind. Ed can read other people's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield and no weapon can harm her. Kitty has visions that predict the future. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane HarkerMercedes Helnwein|title=House of SecretsSlingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=Jane Gracie Welles has had resigned herself to grow up fastbeing lonely. Constantly moving from place to place, never staying in the same school for long, and always reminded As a secret illegitimate daughter of her mother's money worries, Jane longs for the kind of life where she can just be a kidman with a "real" family, and not have to deal with adult problems.  When she's sent is used to stay at her sisternot being a priority in people's student digs, the Laurels, things go from bad to worselives. The Laurels is But when she defends a decrepit Victorian Townhouse, freezing cold, random boy in her class with no foodher slingshot, and to make matters worseher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Jane's sister, Billa, doesn't even want for her therelife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentT L Huchu|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater with high hopes. He wants to study, become Ropa Moyo is a surgeonghostalker, work hard using Zimbabwean magic (and make a better life bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for himselftheir living relatives. But when the Ever since she dropped out of school he enrolled in turns out , she's been using it to be a deserted buildingsupport not only herself, his money is swindled from himbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, and hethere's framed for breaking into a shopan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, hetargeting the city's ready to turn round and go back to the countrychildren. His last hope Soon, Ropa is to collect pulled into the search for a volume missing boy at the request of local stories for a back-alley publisherhis dead mother. One by one, he hunts down She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the tellers world of these grisly tales magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and records their wordsbring an end to this evil, but or will it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330479512</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John DickinsonKristen O'Neal|title=WELycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Paul Munro Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has been disconnected from to come to terms with the World Ear fact that she may be in readiness constant pain for a mission that will last a lifetimethe rest of her life. Sent She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to man a tiny station built at enormous effort bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar systemhelp each other out, he will never be able while also providing an escape to returnjust joke and mess around. Gravity is one-tenth that When Brigid—one of Earth and his flesh has wastedher closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calciumPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid'If he stood s house to check up on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weighther.But what she doesn' It took eight years t expect to get find there and is a werewolf in the rest of his life stretches before him fearfully. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire basement – and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here for that werewolf to be the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have girl she has been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, talking to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, and online for the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprisepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Saci Lloyd|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's been a year since we read a diary entry from Laura Brown. We left her with a boyfriend and just about adjusted Move on to a Britain in the full throes of carbon rationing. Her nu-punk band, ''dirty angels'', hadn't quite made it, but things were looking rather promising for its future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=My Love Lies Bleeding|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Solange Drake hates being the only born female vampire. Not only does she have to put up with her pheromones making her irresistible to male vampires, who all want to use her to start their own vampire families, she has a prophecy looming over her head, one that states a female Drake vampire will overthrow the current ruler to become Queen of the Vampires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803402</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]