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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In We meet Lori on the unnamed city of first evening she's got the futurehouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, all the adults are prettyworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. TheyBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn've had mental and physical surgery to make them calmt find herself entirely on her own, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beingsthen she finds something even more spooky. If they have any trouble as young adults it is For the problem of what to wear at parties, or how server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to get rid enter shows signs of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pmtampering. UnfortunatelyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, one of the few people and her safe place in the world game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldRachel Greenlaw|title=UgliesCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary="This city is a paradise, Tally. It feeds you, educates you, keeps you safe. It makes you pretty." And that's meant literally. As soon as they're sixteen years old, ugly people like Tally are completely rebuilt - no more freckles, dull eyes, rough skin, or ideas about biting their fingernails, and made a prettyI can hear the song of the sea. It's scientific, and obviously The call of benefitthe deep, considering the parties, status and love afforded to prettiesanswering beat in my heart. But is it essential? When her best friend is prettified Tally finds a new friend, Shay, who has secrets to share in the few weeks before the operation they're due to have on the same day. Secrets of another place, another way, and of people staying forever ugly - through choice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See Itisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, which she wrote at eighteensets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and which detailed as her journey takes her battles with cancer and from the watched streets of foreign islands to the loss heart of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her life that she gave us then, home and so we were really pleased to see that the ones she's written a second bookholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William HusseyHarry Allen|title=Witchfinder: Dawn Children of the DemontideSun|rating=45

|summary=Jake Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a rather solitary persontalented singer. He's bright but bored Life is hard and food is difficult to come by school , so Seo and he's obsessed with horror comics. He owns an amazing collection her friends Nari and he knows all the stories and myths and folklores off by heart. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is realMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Demontide is almost upon himmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellAlexia Casale|title=The Master of MisruleSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=In the Arcanum, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-altering game of chancechanging disability too, power and intelligence, based but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness middle of a dance performance that was going to this, then playerschange her life. But they'd found it wantingshe comes back fighting, and desperate to level avoid the playing fieldpity stares, had thrown out the rulebookand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. With thatMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, however, the referee is no moreher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the Lord day to day traumas of Misrule is in chargeall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. FreeSo even though she can't dance anymore, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might she be out of luck.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskSimon Fox|title=In the TreesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Since Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his mother diedshift on the force, Kid has been staying with Nadine and flipping burgers in a fast food joint after school. It's not an exciting lifethen suddenly rings Archie, but demanding he isn't unhappy. And then Nadine gets fetch something from a boyfriend secret place, and join him on the flat gets rather cramped. And then a box of his mother's possessions arrivesrun. Inside They get together, he finds a photo but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father he's never met and is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a copy of his birth certificate, which tells him that tin his father comes was determined to keep away from Belize. And suddenly, Kid makes a decision. He's going nowhere fast in Londonhis colleagues, so he's going to head out to Belize and find the man in the photo. He's on bearer of a plane within dayswhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene KempLex Croucher|title=No Way OutGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Lou is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a clevergay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, clever child with an IQ approaching 160it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She's thirteen In this story, but she's Gwen and Arthur have been moved up two years at school and she compares her flat chestedbetrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enoughyou see, her only real friend at school is Lucas, whoin love with Bridget (the kingdom's seventeen and such a rebel only female knight) - something that he's been moved down Art discovers from her private diaries. two years. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talksboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down to creating the bone subterfuge of falling in love with worry and Lou doesn't get each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a great deal of attention from him eitherway in which they can both truly be themselves, so distracted is he. or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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, 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 - 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenNick Brooks|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Promise Boys

|summary=If you want to know where TolkeinWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universitiesthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. In this book, at leastEach, Johnseemingly, Charles and Jack are guardians of has a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot grudge of secret, vital informationsome description against Principal Moore, and almost each could have been there at the soul time of the landhis murder. They might not get a surname so we know immediately But 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 catkilled him, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictionaland why, and moreif any of the boys are innocent, en route will they be able to a quest of Arthurian proportions.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Mayhew1919635017|title=MortlockA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in Solomon Klyne isn't a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying facesbad lad, they realize that it so why is cursed, and take he running around London committing a blood oath never series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, wait to get 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, answer to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarantsecond question because I avoid spoilers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Green|title=Drawing with Light|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Emily doesnBut I't remember her biological mother. She ran away with another man when Emily was just two. Now, her older sister Kat, her father, and her stepmother Cassy make up ll answer the family unit and Emily thinks it's just fine that wayfirst one: for his grandmother. She doesn't need a mother who didn't want her and has never even tried to get in touch. But then Kat goes off to university, her father buys a rundown house in the middle of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while it's being renovated, and Cassy gets pregnant. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Along Different for the RideBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=Auden 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 always felt like the odd been restructured, so his desk is one out amongst her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are of four with both academics and high achievershis 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, especially her motherstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, want the same talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for AudenAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Auden He's older brother is the rebel had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so Auden feels as though she needs to be has effectively progressed up the one who satisfies her motherladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's ambition. So she works hard and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even a momentset in stone, he can't be sure. But she And that's socially awkward and lacking in experience. Shemostly because of who he's never had a boyfriend, hates been having the colour pink relationship and can't even ride a bikethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{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 of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in the middle of it, and at night, everythings turns, well, 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 pranks, and win her the approval of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' Franklin? This is a novel written for teens – of course it can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabrielle Lord1800901232|title=January (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts him. ''They killed your father! They'll kill you! You must survive the next 365 days!'' The man is carted off in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off the incident but it's not easy. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing is, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detail, but is pretty sure he was on to something big. Could there be a connection? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Steve Feasey|title=Changeling: Blood Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Trey is the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost uncle, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches 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 Trey. But there is a pack out there, and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of control. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror StoryCole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to settle into be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her latest foster placement family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- Annette is really nice; she's warm dressed man and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacywoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet Some money changed hands and she finds it difficult Hanh was on the mini-bus to make lasting relationshipsHanoi. She's never had a boyfriend Only, Hanh and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to stick aroundwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her 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 shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing and she's developing powers quite possible that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason Hanh and the birds to behave oddlyher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenn DakinPatrice Lawrence|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance Needle|rating=4.53

|summary=Birthdays for Theo are not exactly how we would recognise themBrave. One blandCharlene, forgettable present from each the 'heroine' of the three this piece is extremely hard for some people who live in his householdto like, characters and readers both. Some pink cake at the best Kicked out of times. A trip to the cemeterymultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with the butler making sure nobody else is a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in sighther son Blake's old room while he's at uni. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break Such a tempestuous personality may be inneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and force Theo to leave the confines creation of his bedroom and find some one such item is part of the secrets of the houseplot here, it as Charlene is too late - Theo a wonder knitter, and is set on making something full of love for her younger sister – a nightmarish trail between younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two warring forcesdays off school, when she shouts someone down as the truths of his destinyexpletively ignorant. And then... well, his originswhat exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and his hands, come to the forepointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanAnn Sei Lin|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)Rebel Skies|rating=35|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which massive dining hall floating in the book graphically describes). The magical aspects sky where soldiers of the kingdom, its talking cats Empire come to drink and ghostsmake merry between their conquests. However, have been suppressed, while Alberonwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the heir power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the throneEmpire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has vanishedknown. WynterWell, along with Alberonsoon Kurara won's half brother Razi t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt she is forced to deal with this situationflee 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>1841498211</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip WomackMarcus Sedgwick|title=The LiberatorsWrath

|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on a South American expedition. As it's the school holidaysMeet Fitz, 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 goodyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Uncle Jago Lockdown is in finance and there isn't much about wheeling only just over, and dealing that he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely should be free to practise some benign neglectdo what he wants, so what Ivo is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - go where he intends to explore London wants 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 a trouser girl - a music hall performer. In Lorinarwith whom he wants, she's regarded as a faintly risque curiosity but at home he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in Tiansher it wasn't like thiswhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Performers like her mother They were feted and respected and Namira grew up in half of a palace. In Lorianardesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she lives in poverty, performing for drunken fools who don't understand could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her art. And then suddenly, she's freed from eco-warrior parents saying the end of the seedy music hall by Hollin Parry, world is already a wealthy man and a member done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of Lorinarmusic she's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automaton, a curiosity that plays dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the pianotruth? Well, and not when Cassie has gone missing he wants Namiracan's unique voice to accompany itt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{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>}} {{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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith MansfieldTori Bovalino|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star Blaze|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before 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 the review of that first and then go and read the book itself. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie |title=Legacy and Spellbound (Wicked)Devil Makes Three

|summary=Holly Cathers Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has returnedto deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and this timea man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's more powerful than everre never meant to reach him, of course. The war between the House of Cahors witches Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and House of Deveraux warlocks still rages onthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, and only one side will eventually triumphif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neal ShustermanPhilip Reeve|title=EverwildUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventureIn a word, part philosophical enquiry, and part coming-rich. There is certainly an abundance of-age story that began with Everlost riches in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost is story set on a kind of limbo and home to children - Afterlights - who have diedpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever way west, beyond the light actually isScillies. Adults never make There are troll people on it there, but significant or muchand sea-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightowerwitches, 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" legends of the Afterlights she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks Dark family that has to fill eternitykeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Returners|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Ducks current Darks are cool. Whatever happensthe Watcher, whatever gets thrown at themAndrewe, they just carry on, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling.' Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He who has precious little to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by keep notes of activity from the pondHidden Lands, he can't help but remember his mother brother Will who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger lives in a small town. They fall London with too much science in lovehis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, he finds out sheand Andrewe's harbouring a dark secretfoundling daughter, the pair of them try to find who washed up out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few sea one day eleven years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Mills|title=Blackout|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary='I am a murderer. 'I'm standing in a bookshop, 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 the floor. Blood begins 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 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 wants out of psychic summercampwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, so together with her pet ferret Shambles, she flees from the tea leaf readings both his sullen brother 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 his curious ward are thrust 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 world of handsome Lord Vincentprotecting their island, son of the Duke, who sets Ondine's heart flutteringlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=Chains|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will that said so. But Miss Mary Finch is dead and her greedy nephew Kiran Millwood Hargrave and heir denies all knowledge of the will. So Isabel and Ruth are sold to the Locktons and taken to New York. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but the patriots are in control of the city. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle HarrisonTom de Freston|title=The Thirteen Curses|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience with the fairy court, 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 challenge, twisted with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes on, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's home. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned to Elvesden Manor for half term Julia and let's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Farmer|title=The Islands of 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 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 simple existence is changed for himselfgood. But when the school he enrolled No longer can she spend her time writing novels in turns out to be a deserted building, his money is swindled from himsolitude, and he's framed for breaking into her life now has 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 boy in 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|genre=Teens|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from the World Ear in readiness she never asked for a mission that will last a lifetime. Sent to man a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar system, he will never be able to return. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wasted, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfully: 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]]