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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__  {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Blade: Cutting Loose|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Cutting Loose'' is the seventh book about Blade, the fourteen <!-year-old anti-hero who has unerring skill with a knife and a past that won't let him go. Blade is coming to the edge of his resources and he can't go on for much longer. He has done all he can to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jaz, talked to the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in the Beast. It's not enough, but it's the best he could do and now he just wants out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dyan Sheldon|title=My Worst Best Friend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Mooney and Savanna Zindle are, unlikely as it may seem, best friends. Savanna is popular, beautiful, loud, confident and, well, a little bit stupid. Gracie is short, plain, quiet, and an intelligent lizardRemove -loving environmentalist. Their friendship really shouldn't work, but somehow it does, and they spend hours and hours together, then when they're not together spend hours discussing everything on the phone with each other. You can tell already what's going to happen, can't you? Yes, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting to happen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenMax Boucherat|title=Paper TownsThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=WhatWe meet Lori on the first evening she's this that Jake is doing got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- breaking into a building? eleven year old, on her lonesome. Vandalising it with graffiti, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldn't have doneWhat could possibly go wrong? Three years ago he would have been doing this as Snuggled in a yobbish kickblanket fort, but now he's a teenage agent of a shadowy organisation called the Academyshe has one main intention, and people want him that is to succeed in his mission. But do they all want that? Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does log on to Voxminer, the Void have in store for his future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rhys Thomas|title=The Suicide Club|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Craig Bartlettworld-building, critter-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself collecting game that is nearly successful – except when he announces a hit in class that heLori's taken world. But first Lori has a whole bottle of pillstiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in and saves his lifethen she finds something even more spooky. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero, For the server she and her bestie and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone nobody else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kat Falls|title=Dark Life|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Climate change came. The oceans rose. Half the land mass disappeared uner the water. Some should be able to enter shows signs of what was left simply crumbled awaytampering. Now When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Topsiders live in giant tower blocks and her safe place in a society under an authoritarian regime with emergency powers. Time outside is limited because the sun game has been doctored – well, where is so strong it causes third degree burns. Status brings space, not money. Using space a girl to which you aren't entitled brings severe punishment crashing down upon you. It's no wonder Gemma wants to find her brother, who is living as Dark Life on the ocean floor. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesRachel Greenlaw|title=Perfect ChemistryCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=On ''I can hear the outside, Brittany is the flawless high-school girl. She has the perfect hair, the perfect outfit, and song of the perfect boyfriend. Any girl should be jealous of her, right? Wrongsea. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies a multitude The call of family problems, her despair at the thought of her severely disabled sister being bundled off to a nursing home never leaving her mind. She has to keep her hurt hidden to save her imagedeep, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more and more of her life refuses to live up to the expectations she has forced upon herselfanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Chris Higgins|title=Tapas Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Tears|rating=4plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's tough being fourteen. You're old enough to be getting to grips with who you are and what you Mira, likeher mother before her, but other people is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – parents, friendsrescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, teachers – often seem to think they know better than you do about what's best. Jaime is on capture the shy side. Sheisland's not a huge fan of meeting new people, leader and sheMira's never strayed far father. Desperate to save him from her mum's side beforedeath, so Mira makes a bargain with a fortnight alone in Spain wreck survivor who is the last thing she wants. But, a school exchange as charming as he is exactly what she finds herself signing up for secretive and before she knows itwith only coordinates to guide her, she's bundled sets off for two long weeks – but will it all be fun in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sun, orsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the booksmuggler's title seems territory, Mira must be determined to hint stop at, are ''Tapas nothing to save the future of her home and Tears'' on the horizon?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossHarry Allen|title=Where I BelongChildren of the Sun

|summary=Khadija - although this is not her real name - is Ra Eun Seo lives in a young Somali girl, sent to Britain by her father. She's supposed to get an education North Korean town and earn some money and then return, equipped to help bring prosperity to both her family and her impoverished country. She's an illegal immigrant, posing as she is a sister to Abditalented singer. Abdi Life is a second generation Somali immigrant. He was born in the Netherlands hard and came food is difficult to Britain when he was very young. He feels a connection to the land of his parentscome by, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been to Somalia. Freya is the daughter of a world-famous fashion designer, Sandy Dexter. She's aware of so Seo and her privileged status, but she feels lonely friends Nari and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for a daughterMin go foraging every evening, and her father's abiding love looking for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Cole tree bark and Chris Hunter|title=Tripwire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died on Day Zero - the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow Airport, killing countless thousands of innocent people. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his father, Felix has signed up edible grasses to a training program for supplement the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit meagre rations of underage operatives. He knows the risks if he's successful, but what he doesn't know is that another, even more devasting, Orpheus attack is imminent..rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldAlexia Casale|title=Extras|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future city of this book, many people live with what is called a reputation economy. With everybody practically a cyborg, theySing if you Can're online permanently, using optical and brain implants to see everybody's status, output and more. Many people have hovercam companions, to make their own documentaries and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya is struggling to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Moriarty|title=Dreaming of Ameliat Dance

|summary=New scholarship students Riley and Amelia are so mysterious It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that everyone at Ashbury High School 's what Ven is talking about themdealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. Add But she comes back fighting, desperate to that avoid the creepy happenings around schoolpity stares, and Lydia Jaackson-Obermandesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's PC actually typing its own messages a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to hersort out, and it seems pretty appropriate that just the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering for much day to day traumas of all the book is on Gothic Fictionchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fridrik ErlingsSimon Fox|title=Fish in the SkyDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary='I've got a dad in a shoe box and a mum who's struggling for her life against a famished cannibalistic sewing machine.' Oh dear! Josh Stephenson Late one night Graham Blake is just thirteen. His father is separated late back from his mother and works away shift on a ship the force, and so then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's fetch something from a much-missed presence in Josh's life (secret place, and join him on the shoe box)run. Money They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is tight with only one parent at homearrested, so his mother works multiple jobsleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, some of them at home (the sewing machine). Josh occupies toting a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He and tin his father was determined to keep away from his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics colleagues, and they spend the bearer of a great deal whole heap of time watching documentaries on television, or planning their ownquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845393422</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa de la CruzLex Croucher|title=Blue BloodsGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=''Blue Bloods'' is the first book in Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a series aimed at teenagers and gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it's about vampires, currently lifted my spirits in a popular theme in young adult novelsmost delightful way. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on In this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since theywere tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom're part of the New York elites only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. They're richAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, youngcreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, beautiful and popularwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Thought to But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be immortalthemselves, or are they destined to live a lie their world is shattered as one of them is found murdered.whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldNick Brooks|title=SpecialsPromise Boys

|summary=In When the un-named city principal (headmaster) of the futureUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, all three boys find themselves called into the adults are living in the delusion that their city is rightpolice station as suspects. After a teenage life as an uglyEach, seemingly, they all undergo has a welter grudge of medical proceduressome description against Principal Moore, to make their minds and bodies conform to each could have been there at the bland, but gorgeous, society normtime of his murder. But one young woman is not like that. She is going to a partywho killed him, looking uglyand why, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is if any of most importance. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, Tally. The bad news is that her ugliness is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Before I Fall|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: the boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisters. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at schoolinnocent, as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about that. She knows she's part of a group who, by most definitions, would will they be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition of ''in''.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Guilt Trip|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Two years ago, Ali and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicide. They became local heroes and were looked up to as good examples of modern day teenagers. Ali was on her way to Cambridge, Stephen about to start his own business, Jackson getting ready to be reunited with his brother in Brighton where he'd also study history, and Hannah joining her mother's hairdressing business.  Then something dreadful happened. Five weeks later, Daniel was dead, and the gang of friends who had been adjusting to life as heroes were responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After years without seeing her grandmother, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps a summons - to visit the old lady at her house in the town of Wisteria. Reluctantly, she goes there to please her mother, but finds out that despite the invitation, her grandmother doesn't seem happy to see her, and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, who's currently living there. More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiar, because she's seen it many times in her dreams...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Enthoven1919635017|title=Crawlers|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are the men that want A Thief to take over the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupid. Ever since the Great Fire of London trapped her in an underground dungeon in 1666, the Queen has been neutralised. Even then, the great and the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves to kill her. She had too much potential. But they did have the sense to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule the world through the Queen and he's set her Catch a test. If she passes, he will set her free. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=PrettiesKitt Townsend

|summary=In the unnamed city of the future, all the adults are pretty. TheySolomon Klyne isn've had mental and physical surgery to make them calmt a bad lad, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beings. If they have any trouble as young adults it so why is the problem he running around London committing a series of what robberies? And how did he learn to wear at parties, or how crack safes? You'll have to wait to get rid of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pman answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Unfortunately, But I'll answer the first one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, one of the few people in the world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=UgliesDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary="This city Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a paradisestandard school, Tally. It feeds youand is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, educates youso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, keeps you safe. It makes you pretty." And that's meant literallyand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As soon as they're sixteen years oldall fired up, ugly people like Tally are completely rebuilt straining at the leash only a single- no more frecklessex school can form, dull eyesthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, rough skinas he doesn't know what his score is, or ideas about biting their fingernails, and made a prettywhere his achievements in that regard lie. ItHe's scientifichad a casual relationship, and obviously of benefita secret one, considering the partiesfor several months now, status and love afforded to pretties. But is it essential? When her best friend is prettified Tally finds a new friendso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', Shaybut whether that's set in stone, who has secrets to share in the few weeks before the operation theyhe can're due to have on the same dayt be sure. Secrets And that's mostly because of another place, another way, who he's been having the relationship and of people staying forever ugly - through choicethe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicole Dryburgh1800901232|title=Talk to the HandStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her book ''The Way I See It''family was happy, which she wrote at eighteenif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and which detailed her battles with cancer and woman came to the loss of her sightvillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. We loved Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the wartsmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and-all picture of her life that she gave us thenthe other girls were not going to work in a shop, and so we they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really pleased to see 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 written a second bookquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William HusseyPatrice Lawrence|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of the DemontideNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Jake Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is a rather solitary personextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. He Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's bright but bored by school fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's obsessed with horror comicsat uni. He owns an amazing collection Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and he knows all the stories creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and myths is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and folklores then force people to give her two days off by heartschool, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Little does he realise that everything he reads about . well, what exactly happens is realnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the Demontide is almost upon himpointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellAnn Sei Lin|title=The Master of MisruleRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the ArcanumMidori, fortunes could be won a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and lostmake merry between their conquests. The bizarre otherworldHowever, just when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the slightest shift away from our own, had been home power to form paper into whatever she desires – a life-altering game of chance, power and intelligence, based on sought after all across the tarotEmpire. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness He asks her to thiscome with him, then players. But they'd found it wanting, and to level leave the playing fieldlife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, had thrown out soon Kurara won't have any say in the rulebook. With that, howevermatter, because the referee Midori is no moredestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Lord of Misrule is in chargeworld. FreeShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, tooa sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, to smother all and a whole world of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskMarcus Sedgwick|title=In the TreesWrath

|summary=Since his mother diedMeet Fitz, Kid has been staying with Nadine and flipping burgers in a fast food joint after schoolyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. It's not an exciting lifeLockdown is only just over, but and he should be free to do what 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. Insidewants, to go where he finds a photo of the father wants and with whom he's never met and a copy of his birth certificatewants, which tells him that but he cannot stop himself from putting his father comes from Belize. And suddenly, Kid makes a decision. He's going nowhere fast foot in London, so it when he's going talks to head out to Belize and find the man in the photo. 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 and Adam are twinshis best friend, and they're telepathic to bootCassie. They're very closewere half of a desultory school band, but are Cassie was 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 one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of anything worse. Adam the world is always happy to read to their little sister Emmy, but Alex resents the attention she gets (already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's disabled, y'see). By and large, they're dreaming of? Is she just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumbles. When bonkers? And can Fitz find out the car they're in goes through thick fog and crashestruth? Well, they find themselves in a town from times past, with inhabitants who donnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't want to let them leave, and who have an eye on Emmy...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de Vigan|title=No and Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lou is a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160. She's thirteen, but she's been moved up two years at school 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 years. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down to the bone with worry and Lou doesn't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted is he. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul MagrsTori Bovalino|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>}} {{newreview|author=James A Owen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you want 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, 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=MortlockDevil Makes Three

|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the Amarant, last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a mythical flower with the power request for over life and death, in a strange desert oasishundred books that she has to deliver herself. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that What makes it worse is cursedthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and take a blood oath never to remove man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it. Londonnotes on each of the books, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs scribbled with her guardian the Great Cardamomugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmencourse. Their relatively peaceful existence Her plan is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letterto get her anger out like this, never a good sign…) descend on and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother heif someone hadn'd never told t delivered them for her about and destroy the Amarant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenPhilip Reeve|title=Drawing with LightUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Emily doesn't remember her biological motherIn a word, rich. She ran away with another man when Emily was just twoThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. NowThere are troll people on it, her older sister Kat, her fatherand sea-witches, and her stepmother Cassy make up legends of the Dark family unit that has to keep watch for magical islands and Emily thinks it's just fine that waytheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. She doesn't need a mother The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who didn't want her and has never even tried to get keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in touch. But then Kat goes off London with too much science in his head to universityworry about such local yokel superstitions, her father buys a rundown house in the middle of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while itAndrewe's being renovatedfoundling daughter, and Cassy gets pregnant. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Dessen|title=Along for who washed up out of the Ride|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Auden has always felt like the odd sea one out amongst her peersday eleven years ago. Her parents - now divorced - are But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both academics and high achievers, and they, especially her mother, want the same for Auden. Auden's older his sullen brother is the rebel and so Auden feels as though she needs to be his curious ward are thrust into the one who satisfies her mother's ambition. So she works hard and never lets her diligence world of protecting their island, like it or conscientiousness slip for even a moment. But she's socially awkward and lacking in experience. She's never had a boyfriend, hates the colour pink and can't even ride a bikenot. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook HastingsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Nearly DepartedJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At first sightJulia, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown our pre- it teen heroine, 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 been packed off with her parents and clump together their cat from the family home in little peer groups of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a strangely abundant wood right summer, in the middle far NE of itthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, and at nightthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, everythings turns, wellwhich is his specialist thing, a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you while mum will be leaving her career inalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And there are odd noises too... ... Julia, well, she will be homesick and Emily thinks alone – until she's seen a ghostsuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bonnie Hearn HillJonathan Stroud|title=Star Crossed: Aries RisingThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers Scarlett McCain is an old book called 'Fearless Astrology'outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Can With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the book help her and her friends get mythical Free Isles of the boys London Lagoon. Together, they wantmust brave man-eating wildlife, catch the vandals who cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are shocking their school with pranks, and win her in the approval rest of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' FranklinBritain? This is a novel written for teens – of course it can.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle LordMercedes Helnwein|title=January (Conspiracy 365)Slingshot|rating=43

|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts himGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. ''They killed your father! They'll kill you! You must survive the next 365 days!'' The As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is carted off used to not being a priority in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off the incident but itpeople's not easylives. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill But when she defends 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 random boy in the throes of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detailher class with her slingshot, but her simple existence is pretty sure he was on to something bigchanged for good. Could there be No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a connection? boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve FeaseyT L Huchu|title=Changeling: Blood WolfThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Trey Ropa Moyo is the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost uncleghostalker, he shrugs off all objections using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches the first available plane to Canadadead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. When he arrivesEver since she dropped out of school, he finds that she's been using it to support not all werewolves are fearsomeonly herself, forbidding but her younger sister and courageous creaturesher aging grandmother. And theyHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city're certainly not all family-friendlys children. His uncle Soon, Ropa is old, half-blind pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and alcoholic. He lives in filth realise that the world of magic is far bigger and he couldnmore dangerous than she ever could't give a fig for Treyve imagined. But there is a pack out thereWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, and or will it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of control. claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cliff McNishKristen O'Neal|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror StoryLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to settle into terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; shelife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and , an online support group where she finds it difficult talks to make lasting relationshipsa bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. She's never had a boyfriend They talk about their troubles and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems help each other out, while also providing an escape to stick just joke and mess around. Then When Brigid—one of her throat gets soreclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Then Annette tells She decides to steal her that sheparents's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing car and shedrive to Brigid's developing powers that house to check up on her. But what she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start expect to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Glenn Dakin|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 find there is a werewolf in sight. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break in, basement – and force Theo for that werewolf to leave be 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 girl she has been talking to online for the forepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move 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 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 neglect, so what Ivo is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London and enjoy everything it has to offer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]