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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Jenny Downham|title=You Against Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you?'' It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother's an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in the house <!-- Remove -- getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social services. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyMax Boucherat|title=RevolutionThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Andi, a New York girl We meet Lori on a trip to Paris. Shethe first evening she's a talented musician got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at a school for exceptional studentswork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. She's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a wisecrackingblanket fort, she has one main intention, quick thinking girl who acts and that is to log on impulse. Sheto Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a brilliant people watchertiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her descriptions bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of what she sees will make you smiletampering. She's also seriously depressed with When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Lynn BarnesRachel Greenlaw|title=Raised by WolvesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
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|summary=Bryn has lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under 'I can hear the care song of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callumsea. Marked as Pack, but Human, not Werewolf, Bryn is something The call of an oddity. She lives by Pack rulethe deep, but tries at every opportunity to undermine it – to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true selfthe answering beat in my heart. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Europe's powers are getting ready their armiesplundering the wrecks. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacyMira, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard a gift for Sultan Mehmed Vlike her mother before her, Lord is one of the Horizons seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and ruler of the Ottoman Empireany treasure that lies within. But when things go drastically the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and dramatically wrong DerynMira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a girl posing bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a male midshipman aboard family secret that lies buried deep in the Leviathan and Aleksea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the heir watched streets of foreign islands to the throne heart of Austria-Hungarythe smuggler's territory, find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secrets, but not everyone wants Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to spark a deadly war..save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudHarry Allen|title=The Ring Children of Solomon (Bartimaeus)the Sun|rating=4.5
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|summary=Barty Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is back! Well, he isn't actually backa talented singer. But we do get to revisit him. Which Life is good. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don't, Bartimaeus hard and food is a sarcasticdifficult to come by, wisecracking djinni so Seo and the star of a wonderful her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied edible grasses to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies supplement the meagre rations of world history, particularly that of London. In fact, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who has. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. He's a rude, sarcastic egomaniac rice and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible one liner. And he usually comes through in the endkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithAlexia Casale|title=Furnace: FugitivesSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45
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|summary=It has taken three books for Alex 's hard enough to get out of prison. He wouldnnavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you't have been there if the powersre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that-be hadn't framed him for murder, and he would have found it s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a better experience were it a regular prisondance performance that was going to change her life. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Wardenshe comes back fighting, Mr Furnace, and desperate to avoid the evil creatures they are both makingpity stares, breeding and employing down theredesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But the whole experience has come at Meanwhile there's a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too muchnew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and they are changing him too - making him one just the day to day traumas of their toolsall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. ItSo even though she can's only nowt dance anymore, on the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl HiaasenSimon Fox|title=ScatDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Nick and Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for troubleshift on the force, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimplesthen suddenly rings Archie, then trouble can't be far away. The teacher goes missing during demanding he fetch something from a wildfiresecret place, and Duane (nicknamed Smokejoin him on the run. They get together, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets but barely begin to smell the blame. But whiff of Southern trains when the evidence doesn't add upfather is arrested, and our young heroes decide it's up leaving Archie on the late express to them Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to discover keep away from his colleagues, and the truthbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerLex Croucher|title=Blade: Risking AllGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
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|summary=It's the final chapter. There's nothing let Who knew that what I really needed to read right now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left to lose and at last revenge is was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in sighta most delightful way. Under pressure from the porkers and the gangs In this story, Gwen and with his private empire crumblingArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Hawk has retreated much to his remote hideout. Blade is theretheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, waiting. But Hawk is surrounded by a in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private army of securitydiaries. Dozens And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis and getting past them isn't going to be easyfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But Blade has his instinct back and nothing is going to stand as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in his way. Losing is not an option. But which they can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemptionboth truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019275601X</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert MuchamoreNick Brooks|title=Shadow Wave (CHERUB)Promise Boys|rating=3.54
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|summary=A shadow wave When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a tidal flow that happens after a tsunamimurdered, and it can be deadly because it travels in three boys find themselves called into the opposite direction and is often unexpectedpolice station as suspects. Robert Muchamore's latest book in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenon Each, seemingly, and tells what happens when has a bunch grudge of young CHERUB secret agents some description against Principal Moore, and their teachers get caught up in each could have been there at the chaos in Malaysia which follows the 2004 earthquake and tsunamitime of his murder. They rescue impoverished villagers But who killed him, and help them begin rebuilding their homeswhy, only to see all their hard work destroyed by government officials who use and if any of the disaster as an excuse to take away the fishermen's land and use it to build hotels for rich foreigners. Muchamore pulls no punches as he shows how greed and corruption win out over people's right to keep boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their traditional lifestyles.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034095647X</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Benjamin J Myers1919635017|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood AlchemyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on Solomon Klyne isn't a prison planetbad lad, at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopers. Chess so why is just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee and languishes in he running around London committing a safe house, itching to be free. None series of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess wants robberies? And how did he learn to find out who she really is and then crack safes? You'll have to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box wants wait to get back an answer to Chess and help protect herthe second question because I avoid spoilers. And Splinter, well, he's got ideas of his own and they certainly donBut I't include an agonising death at ll answer the hands of first one: for his captors. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nadia Aguiar|title=Secrets of Tamarind|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The Island of Tamarind is once again under threat, from the evils of the Red Coralgrandmother. Once more Simon and his sisters Maya and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save the island that only they can reach, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Triangle. For a second book running they must breach the barriers, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helix's legacy, and the native magical element ophalla, and put the island to rights.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas E Sniegoski|title=The Fallen: Fallen Patrick Ness and Leviathan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thousands of years ago, a bunch of angels fell in love with human women. For their sins, they were cast out of Heaven. Their children are the Nephilim. They are hunted by Verchiel, leader of the Powers, hell-bent (excuse the pun!) on destroying them, especially the leader who prophecy says will lead them. On his 18th birthday, Aaron Corbet has a strange dream of weapons clanging and angels descending on a battlefield... and wakes up able to speak and understand any language, including that of his dog Gabriel. We can see where this is going, can't we?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris PriestleyTea Bendix|title=The Dead of WinterDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Michael Vyner's father died when Michael was just a baby. He was Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a herostandard school, sacrificing himself and is surprised to save the life find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of Sir Stephen Clarendon whilst fighting for four with both his best buddy from the British Empire football team, and two other old muckers – in Afghanistanfact they all go back to primary school days together. This was precious little comfort As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to Michael and sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his motherscore is, who resented the rich manwhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's largesse over the yearshad a casual relationship, a secret one, wishing for the man they lost several months now, and not so has effectively progressed up the charity of the man he saved. Soladder headed by 'experienced', when Michaelbut whether that's mother dies too and he finds himself all alone set in the worldstone, he is not entirely overjoyed to discover can't be sure. And that Sir Stephen is now his guardian 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and has invited him to spend Christmas at Hawton Merethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800136</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Berlie Doherty1800901232|title=Deep SecretStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Every now and again them there publisher people do this reviewer Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a big favour fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and reissue woman came to the village to offer Hahn a book that she job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed first time around. This is one of those now Some money changed hands and thensHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Anybody who loves words - child or adult - will love Only, Hanh and the way Berlie Doherty writesother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Her graceful, lyrical prose just floats from You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the page artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you lose yourself in the worlds she creates. Shetouched them? It's known for quite possible that Hanh and her versatility too co- writing realistic books about contemporary issues, fantasies and, as here with Deep Secret, historical novelsworkers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392358</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L A WeatherlyPatrice Lawrence|title=AngelNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you loved Brave. Charlene, the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series, you will also love ''Angel'heroine'of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, the first book in a new paranormal trilogycharacters and readers both. However Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, even if you are among those who didnshe't see the attraction of Ms Meyers fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's books, thereold room while he's at uni. Such a very good chance tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you will enjoy this: L A Weatherly might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a gifted writerwonder knitter, and her take on paranormal romance is expertly crafted, making something full of exciting plot twists 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 then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well-rounded characters, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409521966</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieAnn Sei Lin|title=Blood RansomRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=It's not enough Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to find out you're drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a clone and man named Himura arrives to have both tell her that she is a renegade scientist and Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a fundamentalist terrorist group trying power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to kill youcome with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Oh no. Because when MI5 and Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the FBI relocate youMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, they condemn you and she is forced to living thousands of miles away from the only other person in flee out into the world that might understand what you've been through. It's safer that wayShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, apparently. and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanMarcus Sedgwick|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsWrath|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=At the end Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the first book]] of the Moorehawke Trilogyfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, The Poison Throneand he should be free to do what he wants, Wynter Moorhawketo go where he wants and with whom he wants, her childhood but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend Razi, and her romantic interest Christopher Cassie. They were all desperatelytrying to find Razi's half-brother Alberonof a desultory school band, whose father Jonathon appeared to be driven insanebut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from Is this second novel in 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 music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the sequencetruth? Well, but was thrown sideways by the massive detour takennot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David WhitleyTori Bovalino|title=The Children of the LostDevil Makes Three|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Mark and Lily have left Agora and they have no idea what to expect from the land beyond the city walls. They have been brought up within a rigid system based on barter in a city where everything can be traded: goods, services, people, even emotions are up for sale. They have also been taught that outside the city walls is a wilderness, with no civilised life. Do bear in mind here that their idea of civilisation is Agora…They are ill equipped to survive, and immediately make things worse by arguing with one another. Mark is furious with Lily for her part in their banishment and his actions lead to Lily being placed in great danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rook Hastings|title=Immortal Remains (Weirdsville)|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Welcome back 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 Weirdsville, sorry Woodsville, deliver herself. What makes it worse is the town set in a truly creepy hollow, whose forest contains man who requested the greatest concentration of ghosts youbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school'll find anywhere in Englands headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Fresh from vanquishing As a ghost army petty act of revenge for making her find and enabling Emily to pass deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on to each of the other side and be reunited books, scribbled with her mother, our four reluctant ghosthunters have a new mystery to solve. Freak accidents have killed four local girls in the last four months, and Charlotte is convinced ugliest insults she will be nextcan think of. SheThey's the only one left alive from a seance she and re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her friends took part inanger out like this, and she is certain that death is stalking then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganPhilip Reeve|title=TrashUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Raphael lives in Behala, a slum that's grown up around a landfill site in an unnamed South American country. He's a dumpsite boy - this means he and his family scrape a living by combing through the detritus of richer people's lives. Behala replaced Smoky Mountain, another slum that got so dangerous that landslides killed dozens of people and the authorities closed it. What a home, eh? But Raphael has a smile that lights up his whole face and lifts the spirits of all those upon whom he bestows it. And he has good things in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secret.
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{{newreview
|author=Sara Starbuck
|title=Dread Pirate Fleur and the Hangman's Noose
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When In a mysterious young girl word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a barrel is fished from peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea -witches, and rescued by legends of the pirate ship belonging Dark family that has to Fleur's uncle Williamkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, it seems bad news might be on the waywhere no ship dare sail. The girl turns out to have psychic abilities - and they're just about to hit landfall at Salemcurrent Darks are the Watcher, right in time for the witch-hunts. But worse is to come. William gets captured thereAndrewe, and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board instead. Fleur then who has to skipper keep notes of activity from the craft herselfHidden Lands, on a rescue missionhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, in a very tense domestic situation. Thatand Andrewe's hard enough foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when you're a mere teenaged girlAndrewe Dark drowns himself, against ruffians both his sullen brother and pirates, but when his curious ward are thrust into the ship has secrets world of her own to be revealed..protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken HowardKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Young ChieftainJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=One minute, Jamie Doran is playing basketball with his friends in downtown LA, the next he's en route to the island of Doran in Scotland to bury his father. James Doran, you see, had been Doran's clan chieftain. The island proves a culture shock for cosmpolitan Jamie. It's remote and dilapidated, there's no internet or mobile phone access, and the only TV is in the community centre. Jamie's grandmother isn't welcoming either - in fact, she barely bothers to hide her distate for her black daughter-in-law and mixed race grandson.
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Grant
|title=Lies (Gone)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam is tired of being heroic. Tired of being relied upon. But he resents being sidelined by his own girlfriend. Astrid's Town Council is busy bringing bureaucracy and officialdom to the FAYZ, but will it ever do anything other than procrastinate? Sam doesn't think so and he's painfully aware that danger lurks around every corner. Zil's band of freak-haters are gearing up to cause some damage, Caine is down but not out, and food is still in short supply. Tensions are growing and the Town Council isn't up to the job. And what's worse is that Sam doesn't think he is, either...
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{{newreview
|author=L J Smith
|title=The Night of the Solstice
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Claudia knew she wasn't really supposed to follow the fox Julia, our pre- not on teen heroine, has been packed off with her ownparents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, to in the old, forbidden house on far NE of the hillScottish islands. But she did. And it will change everything Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. The fox Dad is the familiar of Morgana Shee, powerful sorceress and only guardian of the passageway going to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing and she must be found before automating the solsticelantern, which is his specialist thing, for then the gateway while mum will be open leaving her career in algae behind to all, including Cadal Forge, an evil magician dedicated to conquering Earthhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Claudia And Julia, and her siblingswell, Charles, Jane she will be homesick and leader Alys, must find her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in the balance on the alone – until she suddenly finds company one night of the Winter Solstice.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070509</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyJonathan Stroud|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box GirlsOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=When Cherry Costello told her teachers that she was leaving Glasgow Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and moving Faith Houses to live in a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of her tall talesBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But this one was truethen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. Not only was Cherry moving With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to Somerset the Costellosmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, father and daughterthey must brave man-eating wildlife, were going to live with his girlfriend the cannibalistic Tainted and her four daughters. From it just being all the two horrors of them post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there would be seven altogether. How will Cherry cope? And how will than they are in the Tanberry family cope with two new membersrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelly McKainMercedes Helnwein|title=Half a SisterSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Hannah's parents begin Gracie Welles has resigned herself to have whisperedbeing lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, but obviously heated discussions about something her immediate thought she is that they're splitting up. Thereused to not being a priority in people's quite a bit of that at school and Hannah would hate it to happen to herlives. But when it all comes out the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has she defends a fifteen year old daughter living random boy in Paris and that her mother has been in a serious car accident. Sam sees no alternative but to bring Ellie to live class with themher slingshot, but Charlotte her simple existence is worried about how this will affect their daughterchanged for good. When it's put to Hannah No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has visions of long girly chats and swopping clothes and makeup and agrees without further thought. To begin with a boy in it's everything that she hoped it would be but then a darker side of Ellie emerges and life turns into a nightmare never asked for Hannah: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tricia Telep (Editor)T L Huchu|title=Kiss Me DeadlyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=What do Peter PanRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, werecatsusing 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, vampires, teenage zombiesshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and unicorn hunters have in common? Possibly very littleher aging grandmother.However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children.Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. but they all appear as central characters in stories in this often enchanting anthology She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of stories of supernatural romancemagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762439491</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny ValentineKristen O'Neal|title=The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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{{newreview|author=Garrett Carr|title=Lost Dogs|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Some extraordinary children are to be found in the Northern Irish port-town of Hardglass. One, Akeem, has in fact just arrived - a stowaway on a cargo ship. Elsewhere, friends Andrew and Ewan are waiting to see the result of Ewan's father's trial for being a weapons dealer. While their friend May is newly residing at a most unusual school, one whose pupils have talents to match her singular one of sensing and empathising with the thoughts of animals. It's a gang of people brought together in a natural, realistic way, with some fantastic factors to their lives that are only going to get heightened. For said weapons, allegedly going Move on their way to be decommissioned, will soon be on the same cargo boat Akeem has just left - and they're weapons from the darker side of horror...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385990</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=A Trick of the Dark|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=What if you found a way to cheat death? What if it left you pain-free forever, both physically and emotionally? But what if it also meant you had to split your soul, and that left you unable to touch anyone ever again? After Zach and Annis are dragged to France for a family reconciliation events are set in motion that cannot be undone. Annis sees Zach killed by a the tumbling wall of an old ruined house, yet moments later he is standing, unharmed, in front of her. As she tries to help Zach, and appease her bitter, broken parents, she is dragged deeper and deeper into the horror of Zach's situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880915X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Legacy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Longevity isn't working. The drug that prolongs life expectancy indefinitely appears to have reached its own life expectancy. A terrible virus is wreaking havoc across Britain and the sluggish immune systems of the Legals simply can't cope. Consumed by a desperate thirst, they're dying horrible deaths, leaving behind shrivelled and desiccated corpses. It's Richard Pinsent's worst nightmare. Not that Richard cares about people dying, of course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800896</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Torment|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Right, first things first. If you haven't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]], go read it - or at least read a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|reviewNewest Thrillers Reviews]] to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea - because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers for the earlier Lauren Kate novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Brindley|title=Blood Crime|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is lying in hospital in a meningitis-induced coma. It's the last straw for his mother - Joe has been unable to cope ever since his father died, refusing to believe in a tragic laboratory accident and accusing his ex-research partner and her new boyfriend of murder. Before he became ill, Joe's state of mind had become dangerously unstable, and now it's up to his uncle Frank, a hospital consultant, to save him. But Joe isn't lying there insensible: he's fighting the greatest battle of his life - rushing through his veins and arteries evading the aggressive bacteria, rousing his body to fight back, and trying to work out what really happened to his father and whether his own illness has anything to do with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255719X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice Henderson|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through Time|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: the prospect of settling down for hours and hours of reading pleasure is very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety to the mix. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Pan|title=Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views on the Twilight Series|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=I'm sure die hard (Twi-hard) fans will love this book, since it gives them a little bit more about Bella and Edward and Jacob. All those things they've mulled over since the series ended are encapsulated in the topics raised here. Team Edward need not shake their heads in dismay at the book's title - it's controversial on purpose - and the question of who Bella should have ended up with is looked at from both points of view, along with other issues such as whether she should have become a vampire, the faithfulness of the films to the books and which character readers would most like to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1569758220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shade|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Aura. She was one of the first people in the world to be born after The Shift, beyond which every newborn was opened to the world of the ghosts, hearing and seeing them whether they liked to or not. Her boyfriend, Logan, who she wants to make love to for the first time on the night of his seventeenth birthday, suddenly dies first instead - making him one of the many ghosts Aura might be able to help. But is something of greater help buried in a school project, touching on standing stone circles, the solstices, the mysteries of her own family's past - and a new young man in her life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>}}