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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex ScarrowMax Boucherat|title=TimeRiders: Day The Last Life of the PredatorLori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=LiamWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house 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, Maddy and Sal were each about that is to die when an old man appeared log on to them Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and invited them to choose another fatethen she finds something even more spooky. And out of For the heartbreak of their decisions server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to bid farewell to their old existence and their loved ones is born a secret team enter shows signs of time riderstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, dedicated to putting right and her safe place in the chaos caused by those who meddle with time. It game has been doctored – well, where is a decision they will sometimes regret.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014132693X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon DogarRachel Greenlaw|title=AnnexedCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=There's been a bit of a kerfuffle over ''Annexed'' - I can hear the story song of Peter van Pels, who shared the Amsterdam annexe with Anne Frank during World War II, who fell in love with the teenaged diarist, and who perished in a Nazi death camp called Munthausen in 1945sea. Sharon Dogar has been accused The call of sexing it up, disrespecting the too-recently deceased, and thrusting twenty-first century sexualised mores into a time where this sort of thing just didn't go on. Sodeep, on the one hand, I was very keen to read it and see what I thoughtanswering beat in my heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391246</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Medusa Project: The Rescue|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Rosevear, a fascinating premise: four babies are implanted with a gene relating to psychic abilitiesremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and as they grow up it becomes clear they have each reacted differentlyplundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and developed different skillsany treasure that lies within. Then write four books (plus But when the Council Watch lays a short story for World Book Day) about their shared adventurestrap to end the wrecking, with each book focussing on one boy or girl in particularthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. In this bookDesperate to save him from death, Ed Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is the central character: as charming as he is able secretive and with only coordinates to read mindsguide her, but is forced to use his gift for evil she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in order the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save his friends. A high-octane tale about four teens struggling her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to stay alive when it seems every adult on the planet is out heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to use them for their own endssave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385273</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bree DespainHarry Allen|title=The Dark DivineChildren of the Sun

|summary=Grace Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Jude Divine have always been the poster-children for kindness and understandingshe is a talented singer. Their father Life is a pastor, a truly good man, hard and they’ve been brought up to set a good example food is difficult to those around them. They seem to have everything they could want – until Daniel Kalbi returns to their lives. Three years agocome by, Jude’s friend Daniel left unexpectedly. Jude was found lying covered in his own blood – so Seo and her friends Nari and no-one has ever told his younger sister Grace what happened. With the return of the boy she had a crush on Min go foraging every evening, looking for years, Grace needs to work out exactly what happened tree bark and how it’s linked edible grasses to some attacks on people supplement the meagre rations of rice and animals which have just started – could this be a dangerous attraction for her?kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405254580</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin ColferAlexia Casale|title=Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis ComplexSing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5

|summary=Artemis Fowl is trying It's hard enough to save the world. No wonder Holly Short and Foaly think henavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's not himself. He might stand re having to make another huge fortunenavigate a life-changing disability too, but hethat's thinking about global warmingwhat Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and technological cures for itdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But he Meanwhile there's also thinking about a lot of other things - new (cute!) boy in particularschool, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the patterns day to day traumas of all the number fivechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. His mind seems stuck making him tap things in multiples of five times So even though she can't dance anymore, and use sentences with five words in. But when his demonstration in Iceland goes wrong with a four-engined fairy space probe crashing, he certainly becomes something other than himself.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141328029</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellSimon Fox|title=Wyrmeweald: Returner's WealthDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=If you could imagine Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the frontier world of force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Wild West transported run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the Highlands whiff of ScotlandSouthern trains when the father is arrested, you would have leaving Archie on the setting for this first book in a new trilogy by the creators of the [[The Immortals (Edge Chronicles) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Edge Chronicles]]. Micahlate express to Brighton, toting a poor farmhand, longs tin his father was determined to make keep away from his fortune so he can marry the wealthy Seraphitacolleagues, so he sets off for and the Wyrmeweald, where riches beyond your wildest dreams can be had – if you survive. It is bearer of a harsh and unforgiving land, full whole heap of dangerous dragon-like creatures called wyrmes, but Micah soon learns that when it comes to violence and deceit, it is humans he needs to fear mostquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561733X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie ViguieLex Croucher|title=Wicked: ResurrectionGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=The eagerly-awaited conclusion Who knew that what I really needed to Nancy Holder read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Debbie ViguiéArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's ''Wicked'' series is finally hereonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. After over three years of wondering and waiting to And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find out how this enthralling supernatural series will endthemselves becoming reluctant allies, readers can finally dive straight into creating the war between good and evil subterfuge of falling in love with Resurrection and discover the answers each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to the secrets that have been kept from them.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387373</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vivian OldakerNick Brooks|title=The Killer's DaughterPromise Boys

|summary=Emma has just moved to Wessex with her Dad and JanWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, her Dad's girlfriendthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. But it's not just adjusting to Each, seemingly, has a new schoolgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, a new country that Emma has to deal with. Emma's Dad was accused and each could have been there at the time of murdering her famous Grandmother by pushing her off a cliff in Greecehis murder. No one wants to be her friend But who killed him, and why, and it's not long before she becomes if any of the newest victim boys are innocent, will they be able to bullies. Slashed swimming costumes, physical fights – being at her new school is difficult.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842708147</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kieran Scott1919635017|title=She's So Dead To UsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Ally Ryan had not expected Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to return wait to get an answer to Orchard Hill – ever. Less than two years previously she and her family had moved out in a hurry when her father’s business dealings had caused serious financial problems in the local communitysecond question because I avoid spoilers. But her mother has a job in I'll answer the local school and they move into a small house and try to rebuild their livesfirst one: for his grandmother.. Abby wasn’t exactly expecting a warm welcome but she was surprised when so many of her so called 'friends' cut her dead and it’s made obvious that she now lives on the wrong side of town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070444</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Firebrand (Rebel Angels)Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Seth lives Ant is in the land 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 been restructured, so his desk is one of the Sidhe, protected four with both his best buddy from the world of full-mortals by an ancient magical Veil. There's an uneasy but relatively settled peacefootball team, with only the occasional border fray and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to disturb their long livesprimary school days together. But things aren As they't easy for Seth - he's re all fired up, straining at the unwanted second son of leash only a Sidhe lordsingle-sex school can form, his mother interested only the talk in the corridors of power at the court of Kate NicNiven, class and his father with eyes only out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for his older brother Conal. The inhabitants of his dun don't trust himAnt, as hedoesn's half-feral, and t know what his only real tie score is to Conal, who has taken him under where his wing, and for whom Seth would gladly dieachievements in that regard lie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537190</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Webb|title=The Dream Thief (Horatio Lyle)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=When an orphan girl appears on Horatio Lyle He's doorstephad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, half-dead and apparently poisonedso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', the genius inventor finds himself drawn into a conspiracy but whether that reaches to the highest circles of London Society's set in stone, he can't be sure. Someone is kidnapping workhouse children and essentially turning them into zombies. Somone is stealing their dreams. With the help And that's mostly because of his young ward, the street-urchin Tess, who he sets out into 's been having the darkest parts of relationship and the city to stop themsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654251</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theresa Breslin1800901232|title=Prisoner of the InquisitionStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Don't read this book if you are of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a delicate disposition and prone to nightmaresfashion designer. Within Life in the first few pages a woman is burned at rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the stake, a smartly-dressed man is unjustly accused and hanged, his young son only just escapes woman came to the same fate and village to offer Hahn a woman dies job in childbirthHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. But this is no horror story, Some money changed hands and none of Hanh was on the violence is gratuitous: this is quite simply the world of fifteenth century Spainmini-bus to Hanoi. King Ferdinand Only, Hanh and Queen Isabella are fighting the Moors other girls were not going to work in Granadaa shop, Christopher Columbus is seeking royal funding for a voyage they were to prove the world is round, and work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the Inquisition is spreading terror ones with intricate embroidery and anguish throughout beading on the land. And against this background of momentous events, we have legs? The ones with the thrilling artfully-placed rips and beautiful account of the lives of two young people, bound together by hatred distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and loveher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617038</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=LJ AdlingtonPatrice Lawrence|title=The Burning MountainNeedle|rating=43

|summary=In AD79Brave. Charlene, Gaius Justinius Aquila the 'heroine' of this piece is drenched extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in grey ashher son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, trying desperately to help and the citizens creation of Herculaneum one such item is part of the plot here, as Vesuvius erupts around them. In 1943Charlene is a wonder knitter, German paratrooper Peter Schafer finds himself in Naples. Peter has and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a secret - heyounger sister she's underageallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, having run away and then force people to sign upgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Within the year, Peter will find himself defending Monte Cassino against a huge Allied bombardment. Throughout his time in Italywell, Peter will have many encounters with Vittoriawhat exactly happens is not for me to say, an impoverished Neapolitan who steals only to keep herself remark how sharp and a ragbag bunch of orphans alivepointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340956828</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyAnn Sei Lin|title=Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles)Rebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Isabeau St. Croix Kurara has no care for politics and royalty, and would really rather not spend spent her time among entire life as a servant on the newly royal Drake familyMidori, attempting a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to negotiate peace drink and make merry between them and the Hounds, her vampire clan. The Hounds are not well thought of among vampires, who fear their dual fangs and strange ritualsconquests. But the Drakes are like no vampires Isabeau has ever metHowever, and they aren't like royalty either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880705X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vanessa Curtis|title=Zelah Green: One More Little Problem|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Zelah when a man named Himura arrives to tell her OCD got so bad that she was sent off is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a live-in centre for treatmentpower sought after all across the Empire. She's at home nowHe asks her to come with him, with to leave the OCD still around but not totally debilitatinglife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. SheWell, soon Kurara won's still jumping on t have any say in the matter, because the stairs - but not so many jumps Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and not so oftenshe is forced to flee out into the world. She's still scrubbing her facejoins Himura aboard the Orihime, but it isn't quite red raw. You'd call her overly fastidious rather than ill. And her therapist a sky-ship whose express purpose is pleased with her progress. But then... to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405240547</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Chosen OneWrath

|summary=Thirteen-year-old Kyra has one fatherMeet Fitz, three mothersa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and twenty siblings - yeshe should be free to do what he wants, twenty - to go where he wants and with another two on the waywhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. She lives on They were half of a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. His father had been Prophet before himdesultory school band, but since his father's death and Prophet Childs' accession, things have taken Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a turn for subhuman hum coming from the worseearth. A fence has gone up around Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the compound. Adolescent boys are driven off, and end of the Prophet seems to be choosing younger and younger girls to marry older and older men. And now, world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's Kyradreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's turnt. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. And her father is afraid to refuse him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By Midnight|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=April Dunne doesn't really consider herself to be a genius, and her family certainly aren't rich - so how did she get accepted by the ultra-prestigious Ravenwood school when her family moved from Scotland to Highgate? She can't work it out but has other problems to worry about, in any case, such as the two local murders and the way people at her school get angry when she tries to take their photograph. On the plus side, there's a seriously stunning boy she's drawn to straight away, Gabriel Swift, and she thinks he likes her, although his behaviour is weird at times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095520</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Secret Hour (Midnighters)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you do have to move into a small American town, make sure it isn't Bixby, Oklahoma. Jessica does, and finds it perhaps more trouble than it's worth. She quickly bonds with some of the more goth-seeming kids at her high school, but it's the night-time activities that intrigue her. She thinks she's in a dream when she walks through a dazzling forest of raindrops, suspended in a moment of frozen time - that moment being exactly midnight. But wouldn't you know? - her goth-seeming friends are active at midnight too - and so are some very dangerous creatures of the terrible kind...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pittacus Lore|title=I am Number Four|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet John Smith. By all appearances he is the usual fifteen year old American kid, except for the fact he and his 'father' shift location every few months. John is certainly not his real name, but has to face up to reality - school bullies, hot girls and in fact any friends being unattainable with such a peripatetic lifestyle. 'Dad' stays at home, scanning the internet and all news sources, in order to protect the pair - for they are among the remaining dozen or so inhabitants of Lorien, living in hidden exile on Earth, but hunted by their enemies from yet another alien race. Can the fact they are permanently pursued grant them any peace - especially when 'John' is about to undergo some rather prominent alien-style puberty?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332476</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerTori Bovalino|title=Dark Secrets 2The Devil Makes Three

|summary=Those of you 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 to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who read my review of requested the [[Dark Secretsbooks: Legacy of Lies Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|first Dark Secrets]] bind-up will know I absolutely loved that booka man Tess hates. This is As a similar proposition – two average-sized teen novels packaged together in petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a very good value volume. Both are set in Wisterialarge request, Maryland. Both feature teenage girls looking for closure Tess sticks post-it notes on past eventseach of the books, scribbled with dark secrets buried in their past – and both are guaranteed to capture the imagination ugliest insults she can think of their target audience . They're never meant to reach him, of teen girlscourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and of a fair few other readers besidesthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416994629</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L J SmithPhilip Reeve|title=Forbidden GameUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=While looking for In a game to play for her boyfriend's birthdayword, Jenny Thorn comes across a strange shop she's never seen beforerich. Going There is certainly an abundance of riches inthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, she talks to a handsome boy who sells her a mysterious game in a plain boxBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. But when she There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and her friends open legends of the game Dark family that has to play itkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, they're transported to a world where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the boy is Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Shadow ManHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and the consequence Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of losing the game can be deadlysea one day eleven years ago. The group of teens But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are left fighting against their worst nightmares as they try to defeat thrust into the sinister Shadow Man and escape – but when some world of them finally do get outprotecting their island, they realise that like it's just the beginning of the nightmare for themor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387381</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tabitha SuzumaKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Forbidden|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maya is sixteen, pretty, sociable Julia and wise beyond her years. But she's never been kissed. Lochan is seventeen, drop-dead gorgeous and most of the girls at his school have crushes on him. He's also highly intelligent, at the top of his class and heading off to a good London university and on the cusp of a bright future. But he's never kissed a girl. You'd think then, that when these two teenagers kiss for the first time, it would be the beginning of a gorgeous first love affair, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong. Because Maya and Lochan are brother and sister... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862308160</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda Strachan|title=Dead Boy TalkingShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''They say it takes about 25 minutes to bleed to death. I want to scream Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and yell but there's no one here their cat from the family home in SW England to hear me and I... I can't breath enough to yell anyway. I'm going to die herebe lighthousekeepers for a summer, all on my own.'' Josh is lying in the snow in an alleyway in a pool far NE of his own bloodthe Scottish islands. He stabbed one Here be Vikings, that kind of his best mates yesterday, and now it's happened to himScottish island. He knows he's dying and his thoughts turn Dad is going to how this could possibly have happened. He wonders where Skye is and what she's doing. He hopes Danny is ok. And, as he goes over the events of be automating the day beforelantern, which culminated in is his stabbing Ranjspecialist thing, his missing brother Gary keeps intruding into while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the pictureelusive Greenland shark. Why did he go? And did his parents' obsession with Gary's disappearance play a part in what's happened? Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537204</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshJonathan Stroud|title=Kisses for LulaThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=Girls do worryScarlett McCain is an outlaw, about all sorts of things. And one rejecting the draconian conformity of the things they enjoy worrying about most is whether or not they are passing Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the milestones on life's journey at wildlands between the same time as everyone elseSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The fact that But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they combine this with loud demands plan to be treated flee to be an individual is a major reason for stressthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-related haireating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-loss and gibbering in parents. Lula is no exception here. Her sixteenth birthday is approaching fastapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, and unless she gets kissed before then (by pretty well anyone: she's desperate) she is convinced she but will they be jinxed for life.any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249625</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksMercedes Helnwein|title=iBoySlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Tom Harvey Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is wandering along after school on his way used to meet up with his friend Lucy not being a priority in people's lives. But when he hears his name called from up high she defends a random boy in one of the tower blocks on his estateher class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. He doesn't have No longer can she spend her time to look up before everything goes up. Waking up writing novels in hospital days latersolitude, Tom discovers he for her life now has fragments of a shattered iPhone embedded boy in his brain. And still worse, his friend Lucy has been gang-raped in a brutal attack it that Tom had been so closed to walking in onshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WatersT L Huchu|title=Passing Strange (Generation The Library of the Dead)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Karen DeSonneRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the sexiest zombie amongst the many differently biotic teenagers in Oakvaledead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, gets a turn at centre stage in the latest in Daniel Watersshe's ''Generation Dead'' series. Karen has always worn a disguise. When she was alivebeen using it to support not only herself, but her various camouflages hid the crippling depression that engulfed her so often younger sister and eventually led to her suicideaging grandmother. Now sheHowever, there's deadan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, make uptargeting the city's children. Soon, hair dye and blue contact lenses enable her to "pass" as Ropa is pulled into the search for a living girlmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. She talks fluently will end up discovering an occult library and her movements are fluid, unlike most realise that the world of her differently biotic peers, whose pauses, stutters magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and jerky movements mark them out for all bring an end to see. this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389600</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith GrayKristen O'Neal|title=Losing ItLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Doing it Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the first timerest of her life... you know, She joins ''LosingOof Ouch My Bones'' It. It. Sex, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about it a lottheir troubles and help each other out, teenagers. And eventually, they do itwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. But when is the right time? Where is the right place? Who is the right person? Is everyone else doing it already? Will they be cheap if they do it too? Or will they be left behind on the peripheries When Brigid—one of all thather closest friends—doesn's important in life? And there's so much eagerness in teenagers - not just t respond to the chat for sexa while, but for everythingPriya becomes concerned. They sure do hate She decides to wait. But sometimes, it's better to wait. The trick for the poor things, I suppose, is knowing when exactly to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?! Stepping into the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today's teen market, each with a story about virginity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Hopkins|title=Million Dollar Mates|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's nine months since Jess Hallsteal her parents's mother died car and she's still finding it difficult to come drive to terms with whatBrigid's happened. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran but all that's about house to change. Jess' Dad has got the job of general manager at Number 1, Porchester Park. These apartments are not just check up-market they're where the A-listers live and after some initial reluctance about leaving Gran Jess is excitedon her. ThereBut what she doesn's an Olympic-size pool where she can swim and both she and Charlie will be able t expect to have their own rooms find there is a werewolf in the house basement – and for that goes with werewolf to be the job. Everyone at school envies here and it looks as though girl she's living has been talking to online for the dreampast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon|title=Infinity|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre is a massive understatement. Nick goes Move on to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home of New Orleans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Rees Brennan|title=The Demon's Covenant|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A few weeks after the events of [[The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan|The Demon's LexiconNewest Thrillers Reviews]] and Mae is finally ungrounded. Determined to get on with 'normal' life and forget the magic she's lost since brothers Nick and Alan Ryves left, Mae is only interested in hitting the town and meeting up with Seb. Nice, normal Seb.Then Mae learns her brother Jamie has been secretly meeting up with Gerald, the new leader of the Obsidian Circle. Afraid that Jamie is getting involved in dangerous things, Mae does the only thing she can and calls Alan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Smiley|title=Nobody's Horse|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Abby lives on her family's farm in California. They specialise in taking horses and ponies which are not at their peak and bringing them on so that they can be sold at a profit. Abby's father is determined that she won't get attached to any of the horses, because that only increases the pain when they inevitably go, but two are going to make an impact on her that she could not have expected. The first is a foal whose dam dies when he's a matter of weeks old and he takes Abby's heart. The second has the opposite effect because every time that Abby rides him he's determined to buck her off. She's frightened of him and it's a tribute to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>}}