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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Nancy Werlin|title=Impossible|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Life is just as it should be for Lucy Scarborough. She lives with loving foster parents and at seventeen is looking forward to attending prom with her friends and her date, who has definite boyfriend potential. The only fly in the ointment is Miranda Scarborough, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her in the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy's life has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonMax Boucherat|title=The Prince Last Life of MistLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=During World War Two, MaxWe meet Lori on the first evening she's father decides got the house to move the whole family herself – no neighbour to a seaside retreat he knows of - a wooden house far away from the city he's grown his family up pop in. Nobody seems too keen on the idea, neither of Max's sistersbabysitter poorly, his motherat work, nor he just an avidly rule- and Max is gifted a pocket watch by his lovingbreaking eleven year old, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker of a father, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine"on her lonesome. But the house they move to, and its surroundings, are full of more successful time machines - a stash of early home videos, a public clock that runs backwards, a sunken shipwreck, a yard full of statues of a stone circus... What could possibly go wrong? And let's not forget the mysterious, spider-eating cat that joins Snuggled in with proceedings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James Rollins|title=Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts a terrifying chaseblanket fort, the discovery of fabulous Mayan artifactsshe has one main intention, and a shadowy enemy. And that gripping scene sets the tone for the rest of the book. After the strange disappearance of their parentsis to log on to Voxminer, who were on an archeological dig on the Mountain of Bonesworld-building, Jake Ransom and his sister Kady are sent critter-collecting game that is a parcel containing two halves of a Mayan coin, their mother's sketchbook and their fatherhit in Lori's notebookworld. There is no indication what these things mean or what to do with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lucy Jago|title=Montacute House|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Cess is the poultry girl at Montacute House. She and her mother live alone - Cess But first Lori has never met a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her father. In factown, and then she doesn't finds something even know who he ismore spooky. Shunned by For the other villagers because server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her illegitimacyphone screen, Cess and her safe place in the game has only two friendsbeen doctored – well, both also social outcasts. There's William, who has where is a club foot - thought of as a curse in Elizabethan England, and Edith, who's been chased out of the village for witchery by the woman-hating local priest. girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregory HughesRachel Greenlaw|title=Unhooking the Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Rat and Bob are prairie children. Winnipeg is a land ''so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days''. When their father dies Compass and they're orphaned, they are determined to avoid a children's home at all costs and embark upon a road trip to New York City, in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob is pretty much the hanger-on - he knows that the Rat is a special kid who would never make it in an institution and so he puts his fears aside to follow his singular sister. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849162956</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marcus Sedgwick|title=White CrowBlade

|summary=Rebecca is not happy to be leaving London. She's not happy with her dad, she's not happy with her boyfriendI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, and she just generally an unhappy personthe answering beat in my heart. Having to move to a dead-end place like Winterfold doesn't help at all. Her only friend there is a strange girl named Ferelith who one hot summer's day shows her an abandoned mansion where two hundred years ago a priest performed horrible experiments on human corpses. He wanted to learn something from the dead. But what was it? And what does Ferelith really want from Rebecca?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551876</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=Blood Ninja|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary="It makes perfect sense that ninjas should be vampires". So Taro is told early on in this bookRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the evidence here 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 statement is correctlies within. With But when the Council Watch lays a gutsytrap to end the wrecking, bloody opening they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to the adventure we see Taro being attacked by ninjassave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and rescued by with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a friendly vampire among them - having doubted family secret that lies buried deep in the existence of both from his corner of sixteenth century rural Japansea. The attack nearly leaves Taro an orphan, but opens himself up With only nine days to a whole unexpected destinyunearth what might save her father, as people seek her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to kidnap him - or worsethe heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and beyond that, an entirely unforseen existence as a teenage vampire when his saviour turns himthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848873875</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mari StrachanHarry Allen|title=The Earth Hums in B FlatChildren of the Sun

|summary=If ever there were Ra Eun Seo lives in a new series chock full of characters to make Harry, Ron, Hermione et al look like wimps, then this is it. Virginia might not be the most exciting of States, North Korean town and sleepy Roseville may not be the most thrilling of towns, but for our purposes that's good. Boring and ordinary she is gooda talented singer. Flying under the radar Life is good. To the town's residents, the Gallagher Academy hard and food is just your typical all girls private school. They don't know much about it, but then who would want difficult to when it's clearly housing a group of snootycome by, snobby rich kids? Except...it's not. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is not the place it makes out it is – this is an elite institution with a differenceso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for all its boarders are spies in training, with a curriculum in lethal weapons tree bark and covert operations as well as exquisite twists on edible grasses to supplement the usual subjects: foreign languages here mean dedicated days where the whole school converses in any one meagre rations of the FOURTEEN languages the girls have to masterrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408309513</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriana TrigianiAlexia Casale|title=Viola in Reel LifeSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=It definitely wasn't Violas hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's choice what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to go change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to boarding school avoid the pity stares, and she really would have preferred not desperate to have get back to share a room with three other girls life that's as normal as shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there'd never met befores a new (cute!) boy in school, but her parents – both film makers - were going music A Level performance piece to try to be abroad for a year sort out, and single rooms were in short supply. And that was how, at just the beginning day to day traumas of all the school year, Viola came challenges her body continues to be throw at the Prefect Academy in South Bend, Indiana rather than in her native New Yorkto navigate. SheSo even though she can'd left behind her best friendt dance anymore, Andrew (no – he's not might she be able to sing her boyfriend, he's a best friend who happens to be a boy) and is sharing a room with Marisol Carreras, Romy Dixon and Suzanne Santry.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389260</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor UpdaleSimon Fox|title=Johnny SwansonDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary='Strength in What Remains' Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the inspirational account of Deogratiasforce, a man who has fled from the genocide and civil war in Burundi (just south of the equator in East Central Africathen suddenly rings Archie, bordering Rwanda). He escapes to New Yorkdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, out of fear and want of a safer life; only his new found American life isn't quite what it promised.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385616422</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celia Rees|title=The Fool's Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Illyria is sacked, join him on the fool Feste spirits theDuke's daughter, Violetta, to London, to chase the evil Malvolio andreclaim an ancient relicrun. There they meet William Shakespeare They get together, whothey persuade but barely begin to help them in an exciting quest which builds to aclimax in smell the Forest whiff of Arden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=April (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's April and Cal has survived three months of his year Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the run. Will the fourth bring him any closer late express to answers about the Ormond Singularity? And can he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in JanuaryBrighton, feeling rather shell-shocked after toting a tin his father's death was determined to keep away from a mysterious disease and his brush with a crazed lunatic who told him that his father was murdered colleagues, and he'd be next unless he could hold out until next New Year's Eve. Within days, Cal found himself on the run, accused bearer of battering his own sister, and in search a whole heap of something called the Ormond Singularityquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996471</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hayley LongLex Croucher|title=Lottie Biggs is (Gwen and Art Are Not) Desperatein Love

|summary=Lottie BiggsWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, who's it lifted my spirits in her mid-teens is recovering from what's described as a 'mental disorder of a reasonably significant nature'most delightful way. She's having counselling from Blake (from New Zealand) who has some rather unusual turns of phrase In this story, Gwen and looks like Johnny DeppArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, but without the pirate make-up. much to their mutual disgust! All Gwen, you see, is in all shelove with Bridget (the kingdom's doing quite wellonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Gareth Stingecombe is still And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the love subterfuge of her life and to seal the bond even tighter she gets a Saturday job falling in his mother's hairdressing salonlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. This mightBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, or might not, turn out to be will they find a mistake given what the mother-way in-law-which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to-be thinks constitutes live a trendy hairstyle.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>033047975X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HawkinsNick Brooks|title=Hex HallPromise Boys

|summary=Sophie Mercer has been sent to a boarding When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school for monsters after a little love spell goes horribly wrongis murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Hecate Hall Each, seemingly, has been set up 'to protect and instruct shapeshiftera grudge of some description against Principal Moore, witch and fae children who each could have risked exposure been there at the time of their abilities'his murder.  As in any good school story But who killed him, she soon makes new friends and enemies. Her room mate is a 15 year old vampire with an obsession with everything pinkwhy, and Sophie must struggle to hide her disgust at Jenna’s blood consumption, as they quickly become good friends. She faces more difficulty with a trio if any of glamorous witches. Anna, Chaston and Elodie hate Jenna and they the boys are frequently sarcastic and nasty at Sophie’s expense. At the same time thoughinnocent, will they approach her be able to join clear their coven, and her reluctance to get involved makes her more unpopular.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387225</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Claudia Gray1919635017|title=EvernightA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=ISolomon Klyne isn'm at t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a complete loss series of robberies? And how did he learn to review this book. Icrack safes? You'm very tempted ll have to take a tip from my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert who, on occasion, has been known wait to suggest that you should watch a film '''then''' read his review if it's full of twists and hard get an answer to describe without the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'm actually thinking that's not a bad idea here – but will try my best to provide a review with as few clues as possible to ll answer the twists and turns, just in case two sentences aren't enough to convince youfirst one: for his grandmother... This may not be easy, so bear with me!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007355319</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Inside My HeadDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe has moved from London to rural Norfolk - her parents are expecting Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a late baby standard school, and they want is surprised to downsizefind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, get out so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the cityfootball team, and live two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a more sustainable waysingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Unsurprisingly Which is confusing for Ant, Zoe isnas he doesn't big on this planknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Wrenched from her school and friends He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the vibrancy of the capitalladder headed by 'experienced', shebut whether that's convinced set in stone, he can't be sure. And that her life has just taken a socking great turn for 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the worsesex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802716</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Nicholson1800901232|title=Rich and Mad|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Maddy Fisher goes for something, she goes all out. She has decided to fall in love, but not just any kind of love – it has to be the can't-eat-can't-sleep, crazy kind. But then once you get to know Maddy, you'd expect nothing less, for this is a girl who lives with a camel and thinks nothing of choosing her parents' shop over her own well equipped room when she wants to find a bed to curl up in for a think.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247398</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Ann Kelley|title=Koh TabuSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Bonnie MacDonald is thrilled Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be going to a beautiful tropical island fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with the rest of the Amelia Earhart Cadetsher family was happy, especially as the only adult present will be the incredibly glamorous Layla Campbellif not prosperous, nicknamed so when the Duchess, who treats them all like adults. But smartly-dressed man and woman came to the dream holiday becomes village to offer Hahn a nightmare - after landing job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the wrong island despite dire warnings from the boatman who took them theremini-bus to Hanoi. Only, a storm kills him Hanh and one of Bonnie's friends and wrecks the boatother girls were not going to work in a shop, leaving them trapped with no-one knowing where they arewere to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. With You know those jeans you really wanted: the Duchess shining rather less brightly as she’s revealed to be practically useless in ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the face of danger, itartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's left to Bonnie quite possible that Hanh and her friend Jas to try and keep the remaining girls alive and find a way to be rescuedco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756044</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=The Red Necklace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Paris's streets are already humming with talk of revolution, when the young gypsy Yann Margoza is summoned to perform his magic at the chateau of a selfish, debt-ridden marquise. He is to tell the assembled aristocracy their future. But what he hoped would be the ticket to a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision of the richly-dressed crowd drowning in a sea of blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonPatrice Lawrence|title=The IslandNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Otto has arrived in Goa a couple of days ahead of Charlotte and JenBrave. Charlene, his gap year companions. Itthe 'heroine's typical of Otto this piece is extremely hard for some people to steal what should be shared thunderlike, characters and readers both. He Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a lovely ladpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, but and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tad selfish tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and he does like to be first for everything. Each the creation of one such item is part of the three has plot here, as Charlene is a different reason wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for the trip: Otto wants her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to get some experience give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for a hoped-for career in photo-journalism; Charlie wants me to say, only to volunteer remark how sharp and beef up her environmental credentials; Jen has dreamed of journeying to India for as long as she pointy those knitting needles can rememberbe... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsAnn Sei Lin|title=The Chamber of ShadowsRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's LondonKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, 1886a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a hidden vault at impossible depth - and seems Crafter like him, someone with the power to release form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the world The Lord Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of Fliesdreary servitude that is all she has known. A mysterious masked stage magician does Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks matter, because the streetsMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and a street gang of ruffians-on-the-up decides she is forced to solve flee out into the mysteryworld. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at She joins Himura aboard the British Museum has Orihime, a new employersky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, asking something much more evil from him. Surely all of that cannot be connected in some way? Surely one book can not have all those dark and mysterious elements we can probably all recognise, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge whole world of parody?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin WassermanMarcus Sedgwick|title=CrashedWrath

|summary=Lia lives in Meet Fitz, a future where minds can be saved even if bodies can'tyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. After a fatal car crashLockdown is only just over, her brain has been scannedand he should be free to do what he wants, mapped, saved, and transferred into a machine designed to look go where he wants and feel human. She'll live forever. We last saw her with her new mech "life" whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in tatters after Auden's terrible accident and her family's rejectionit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. She can't see They were half of a future for herself amongst desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the orgs any more and so enigmatic – saying she rejoins Jude and his group could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinnmusic she's mansion. It's a life dreaming of extreme thrill-seeking? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, backed up by Quinnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's unlimited credit and Jude's shady contact at Bio Max, who supplies them with dangerous and untested, but exciting and cutting edge mods and updatest... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387659</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David YellandTori Bovalino|title=The Truth About LeoDevil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Leo lives inside his own head for much of the time. You can't really blame him. HeWorking all summer in her boarding school's always tired library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a starthundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. That's because heThe boarding school's often up earlyheadmaster, tidying up the house after one and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of his father's rampages. His father drinks too muchrevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, you seeTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, and sometimes he smashes up scribbled with the houseugliest insults she can think of. Leo canThey't risk this being discovered because his father's the only person he's got since his mother died re never meant to reach him, of cancercourse. He misses Her plan is to get her anger out like crazythis, and he's afraid he'll then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be taken into care , if anyone finds out about his dadsomeone hadn's drinkingt delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningPhilip Reeve|title=Tomorrow's GuardianUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5

|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he seems to relive short periods of his lifeIn a word, and dreams about other people from different timesrich. The reality There is far stranger – he's a Walker, with the power to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to the battle certainly an abundance of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of London, and riches in this story set on a German U-Boatpeculiar island called Wildsea, guided by the mysterious ProfessorBritish but way west, Tom saves beyond the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powersScillies. There are otherstroll people on it, howeverand sea-witches, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new friends – and the four legends of them, allied with the Professor Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and his roguish helper Septimustheir monster approaching from even further west, are pitched into a battle to save the worldswhere no ship dare sail. That's intentionally plural – there The current Darks are two parallel universes at stake here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Blade: Cutting Loose|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Cutting Loose'' is the seventh book about BladeWatcher, Andrewe, 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 keep notes of activity from the edge of Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his resources head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and he canAndrewe't go on for much longer. He has done all he can to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jazs foundling daughter, talked to who washed up out of the policesea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, given up both his sullen brother and his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in curious ward are thrust into the Beast. It's not enoughworld of protecting their island, but like it's the best he could do and now he just wants outor not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 Kiran Millwood Hargrave and, well, a little bit stupid. Gracie is short, plain, quiet, and an intelligent lizard-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>}} {{newreview|author=John GreenTom de Freston|title=Paper Towns|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=17-year-old Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since he can remember. It's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they may be, but their respective places in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Margo is one of the beautiful ones. She's cool, clever Julia and a trendsetter. Q languishes in the middle ranks with his band member mates, Radar, who's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia), and Ben, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks the status to get one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806592</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alec Sillifant|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos UnleashedShark

|summary=What's this that Jake is doing Julia, our pre- breaking into a building? Vandalising it teen heroine, has been packed off with graffiti, having ruined someone's privacy her parents and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a yobbish kicksummer, but now he's a teenage agent in the far NE of a shadowy organisation called the Academy, and people want him to succeed in his missionScottish islands. But do they all want Here be Vikings, that? kind of Scottish island. Who are Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his taskmasters after all? specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And what does the Void have in store for his future?Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhys ThomasJonathan Stroud|title=The Suicide ClubOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself Scarlett McCain is nearly successful – except when he announces in class that he's taken a whole bottle an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of pillsBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, new a dark boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in with dark powers and saves his lifea darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a heroTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone else.all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{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 of what was left simply crumbled away. Now, Topsiders live in giant tower blocks in a society under an authoritarian regime with emergency powers. Time outside is limited because the sun is so strong it causes third degree burns. Status brings space, not money. Using space 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesMercedes Helnwein|title=Perfect ChemistrySlingshot|rating=43

|summary=On the outside, Brittany is the flawless high-school girl. She Gracie Welles has the perfect hair, the perfect outfit, and the perfect boyfriendresigned herself to being lonely. Any girl should be jealous As a secret illegitimate daughter of hera man with a "real" family, right? Wrongshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies But when she defends a multitude of family problems, random boy in her despair at the thought of class with her severely disabled sister being bundled off to a nursing home never leaving slingshot, her mindsimple existence is changed for good. She has to keep No longer can she spend her hurt hidden to save her imagetime writing novels in solitude, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more and more of for her life refuses to live up to the expectations now has a boy in it that she has forced upon herselfnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsT L Huchu|title=Tapas and TearsThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's tough being fourteen. You're old enough been using it to be getting to grips with who you are and what you likesupport not only herself, but other people – parentsher younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, friendsthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, teachers – often seem to think they know better than you do about whattargeting the city's bestchildren. Jaime Soon, Ropa is on pulled into the shy sidesearch for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She's not a huge fan will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of meeting new people, magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's never strayed far from her mum's side before, so a fortnight alone in Spain is the last thing she wantsve imagined. But, a school exchange is exactly what Will she finds herself signing up for find the missing children and before she knows itbring an end to this evil, she's bundled off for two long weeks – but or will it all be fun in the sun, or, as the book's title seems to hint at, are ''Tapas and Tears'' on the horizonclaim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossKristen O'Neal|title=Where I BelongLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Khadija - although this is not her real name - is a young Somali girlHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, sent Priya has to Britain by come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her fatherlife. Shejoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s supposed to get an education 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 a sister online support group where she talks to Abdi. Abdi is a second generation Somali immigrantbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. He was born in the Netherlands They talk about their troubles and came help each other out, while also providing an escape to Britain when he was very youngjust joke and mess around. He feels a connection to the land When Brigid—one of his parents, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been her closest friends—doesn't respond to Somalia. Freya is the daughter of chat for a world-famous fashion designerwhile, Sandy DexterPriya becomes concerned. Shedecides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's aware of house to check up on her privileged status, but . But what she feels lonely and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for expect to find there is a daughter, werewolf in the basement – and her father's abiding love for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choicepast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Steve Cole and Chris Hunter|title=Tripwire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died Move 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 to a training program for the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit 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... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]