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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldMax Boucherat|title=UgliesThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary="This city is a paradiseWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Tally. It feeds youmother at work, educates youjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, keeps you safeon her lonesome. It makes you pretty." What could possibly go wrong? And Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and thatis to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's meant literallyworld. As soon as theyBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn're sixteen years oldt find herself entirely on her own, ugly people like Tally are completely rebuilt - no and then she finds something even more freckles, dull eyes, rough skin, or ideas about biting their fingernails, and made a prettyspooky. It's scientific, For the server she and obviously of benefit, considering the parties, status her bestie and love afforded nobody else should be able to prettiesenter shows signs of tampering. But is it essential? When malevolent eyes spark up on her best friend is prettified Tally finds a new friendphone screen, Shay, who has secrets to share and her safe place in the few weeks before the operation they're due game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to have on the same day. Secrets of another place, another way, and of people staying forever ugly - through choice.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole DryburghRachel Greenlaw|title=Talk to the HandCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|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 can hear the loss song of her sightthe sea. We loved The call of the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us thendeep, and so we were really pleased to see that shethe answering beat in my heart.''s written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=William Hussey|title=Witchfinder: Dawn 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 Demontide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jake is seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a rather solitary person. Hetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's bright but bored by school leader and heMira's obsessed father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with horror comics. He owns an amazing collection and a wreck survivor who is as charming as he knows all the stories is secretive and myths and folklores with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off by 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. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is realof the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the Demontide is almost upon himones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreview|author=Laura Powell|title=The Master of Misrule|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the Arcanum, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to a life-altering game of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to this, then players. But they'd found it wanting, and to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebook. With that, however, the referee is no more, and the Lord of Misrule is in charge. Free, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pauline Fisk|title=In the Trees|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 the flat gets rather cramped. And then a box of his mother's possessions arrives. Inside, he finds a photo of the father he's never met and a copy of his birth certificate, 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 in the photo. He's on a plane within days. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene KempHarry Allen|title=No Way Out|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Alex and Adam are twins, and they're telepathic to boot. They're very close, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adam's looking forward to their holiday on Uncle Ben and Aunt Sadie's farm, but Alex can't think Children of anything worse. Adam is always happy to read to their little sister Emmy, but Alex resents the attention she gets (she's disabled, y'see). By and large, they're just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumbles. When the car they're in goes through thick fog and crashes, they find themselves in a town from times past, with inhabitants who don't want to let them leave, and who have an eye on Emmy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Delphine de Vigan|title=No and MeSun

|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 Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark 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 edible grasses to know where Tolkein, 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, supplement the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot meagre rations of secret, vital information, rice 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 proportionskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewAlexia Casale|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search 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, and take a blood oath never 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, the coward 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, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother heSing if you Can'd never told her about and destroy the Amarant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Green|title=Drawing with Lightt 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 uncle, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardiangrudge of some description against Principal Moore, 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best 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 a boyfriend and friendships the boys 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 innocent, will they be able to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Glenn Dakin1919635017|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=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 houseSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, it is too late - Theo so why is set on he running around London committing a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as the truths series of his destiny, his origins, and his hands, come robberies? And how did he learn to the fore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In crack safes? You''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, ll have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to wait to get an answer to the throne, has vanishedsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Wynter, along with AlberonBut I's half brother Razi and ll answer the first one: for his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situationgrandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip WomackPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The LiberatorsDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a South American expeditionstandard 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 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 itthey's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school holidayscan form, Ivo is off to London the talk in class and out often turns to stay with some glamorous relativessex. Aunt Lydia 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 socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties casual relationship, a secret one, for the great several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the good. Uncle Jago is in finance and there isnladder headed by 'experienced't much about wheeling and dealing , but whether that 's set in stone, he doesncan't knowbe sure. They And that're fond s mostly because of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglect, so what Ivo is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London 's been having the relationship and enjoy everything it has to offerthe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Dolamore|title=Magic Under Glass|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Namira is 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. 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 he wants Namira's unique voice 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 Meyer'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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P J Reece1800901232|title=Roxy|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maddie was at Aunt Gretchen's funeral when she got the phone call to tell her that her father was in a coma and likely 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 an opportunity to point out that she was an unwanted burden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580017</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Keith Mansfield|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star BlazeSteve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Before I get into Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the review of this bookrural village where she lived with her family was happy, I'd like to suggest that if you haven't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh booknot prosperous, [[Johnny Mackintosh so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|The Spirit of London]], you go off village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and read Hanh was on the review of that first mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and then go and read the book itself. It's other girls were not going to work in a fantastic read. But because this is a sequelshop, there are obviously going they were to be some SPOILERS aheadwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory.  So, done You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that have felt so soft when youtouched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

 {{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie |title=Legacy and Spellbound (Wicked)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Holly Cathers has returned, and this time, she's more powerful than ever. The war between the House of Cahors witches and House of Deveraux warlocks still rages on, and only one side will eventually triumph.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=Everwild|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventure, part philosophical enquiry, and part coming-of-age story that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost is a kind of limbo and home to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever the light actually is. Adults never make it there, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightower, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place and she "saves" the Afterlights she finds by giving 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 a murderer. 'I'm standing in a bookshopMeet Fitz, a gun hot in my palmyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The bullet that sat in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced fleshLockdown is only just over, blown into brain tissue, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont the floor. Blood begins and he should be free to trickle from her head. It drips onto a pile of signed copies stacked on the floor.' Oh my word! What an explosive beginning to a book! But do what made a boy do something like this? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ebony McKenna|title=Ondine: The Summer of Shambles|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ondine de Groot he wants out of psychic summercamp, so together to go where he wants and with her pet ferret Shambleswhom he wants, she flees but he cannot stop himself from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classesputting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, back to her family's restaurantCassie. Only, as soon as she leaves summercampThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she starts hearing voices. Specifically could hear a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is in fact already 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 done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of handsome Lord Vincent, son music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the Duketruth? Well, who sets Ondinenot when Cassie has gone missing he can's heart flutteringt...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse AndersonTori Bovalino|title=ChainsThe Devil 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|genre=Teens|summary=Jane has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving from place to place, never staying in the same school for long, and always reminded of her mother's money worries, Jane longs for the kind of life where she can just be a kid, and not have to deal with adult problems.  When she's sent to stay at her sister's student digs, the Laurels, things go from bad to worse. The Laurels is a decrepit Victorian Townhouse, freezing cold, with no food, and to make matters worse, Jane's sister, Billa, doesn't even want her there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruno Vincent|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater with high hopes. He wants to study, become a surgeon, work hard and make a better life for himself. But when the school he enrolled in turns out to be a deserted building, his money is swindled from him, and he's framed for breaking into a shop, he's ready to turn round and go back to the country. His last hope is to collect a volume of local stories for a back-alley publisher. One by one, he hunts down the tellers of these grisly tales and records their words, but it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330479512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Dickinson|title=WE|rating=5

|summary=Paul Munro Gracie Welles has been disconnected from the World Ear in readiness for resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a mission that will last man with a lifetime. Sent "real" family, she is used to man not being a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense on priority in people's lives. But when she defends a desolate moon random boy in the outer reaches of our solar systemher class with her slingshot, he will never be able to returnher simple existence is changed for good. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wastedNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth for her life now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfullyhas a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerT L Huchu|title=Furnaces The Library of Forgethe Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and Ice (The Landa bit of Scottish pragmatism) by Alan Skinner|sequel]]to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using itto support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's almost as you were, except here an evil stalking the mysterious powers ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonistcity's children. Soon, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the Myrmidots, to fuel their industryrequest of his dead mother. We can predict this She will prove a bad thing, but end up discovering an occult library and realise that the breadth world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the journey missing children and bring an end to capture the flamethis evil, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saci LloydKristen O'Neal|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=It's Having recently been a year since we read a diary entry from Laura Brown. We left her diagnosed with a boyfriend and just about adjusted chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to a Britain terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the full throes rest of carbon rationingher life. Her nu-punk band, She joins ''dirty angelsOof Ouch My Bones'', hadnan online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their 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 quite made itrespond to the chat for a while, but things were looking rather promising Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for its futurethat werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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]]