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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanMax Boucherat|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel PrinceLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=After spending We meet Lori on the entire of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], first evening she's got the excellent second book house to herself – no neighbour to pop in this series, looking for itbabysitter poorly, mother at work, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her childhood friend Prince Alberonlonesome. Can What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, shehas one main intention, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter- Alberoncollecting game that is a hit in Lori's brother - world. But first Lori has a tiny 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 bestie and Christopher Garronnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, persuade and her safe place in the Rebel Prince to make peace with his fathergame has been doctored – well, or where is their quest a girl to end in bloodshed and failureturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyRachel Greenlaw|title=Out For BloodCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head ''I can hear the song of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academysea. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one The call of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes in staking all vampiresdeep, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brenna Yovanoff|title=The Replacement|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mackie lives the answering beat in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and the trials and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recently, however, things have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop rainingmy heart. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning to fail. It's getting more and more difficult to avoid the truth...
Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. because Mackie Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is differentas charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannHarry Allen|title=GoneChildren of the Sun|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she's graduated from high school, has is a guaranteed job with the local police after collegetalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and a boyfriend who loves her like crazy. Her future should be brightfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - has looking for tree bark and edible grasses to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fighting, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll be blind supplement the meagre rations of rice and crippledkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny DownhamAlexia Casale|title=You Against MeSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It''If someone hurts s hard enough to navigate your sister and teenage years without suddenly finding that you're any kind of manhaving to navigate a life-changing disability too, you seek revenge, right? If you're brotherbut that's accused what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a terrible crime but says he didn't do itdance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, you defend himdesperate to avoid the pity stares, don't you?'' It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But itand desperate to get back to a life that's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellieas normal as she can possibly manage. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother Meanwhile there's an alcoholic a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and Mikey has just the day to shoulder most day traumas of all the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister challenges her body continues to throw at her to school, fending off periodic interest from social servicesnavigate. Meanwhile So even though she can't dance anymore, he's trying might she be able to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellySimon Fox|title=RevolutionDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet AndiLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a New York girl secret place, and join him on a trip to Paristhe run. She's a talented musician at a school for exceptional students. She's a wisecrackingThey get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, quick thinking girl who acts leaving Archie on impulse. She's the late express to Brighton, toting a brilliant people watchertin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and her descriptions the bearer of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out whole heap of controlquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Lynn BarnesLex Croucher|title=Raised by WolvesGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bryn has lived almost all her life around WerewolvesWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Ever In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – shethey were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's been under the care of only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her saviourprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Stone River Pack alphasubterfuge of falling in love with each other, Callumwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Marked But as Packtheir impending wedding draws ever closer, but Humanwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine it – to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true self. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedom. ?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldNick Brooks|title=BehemothPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=World War One looms and Europe's powers are getting ready their armiesWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacy Each, seemingly, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard has a gift for Sultan Mehmed Vgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Lord of and each could have been there at the Horizons and ruler time of the Ottoman Empirehis murder. But when things go drastically who killed him, and dramatically wrong Derynwhy, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard and if any of the Leviathan and Alekboys are innocent, the heir will they be able to the throne of Austria-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has clear their own secrets, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly war...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Stroud1919635017|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Barty is back! Well, he Solomon Klyne isn't actually back. But we do get to revisit him. Which is good. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don'ta bad lad, Bartimaeus so why is he running around London committing a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni and the star of a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies of world history, particularly that of London. In fact, robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's saved ll have to wait to get an answer to the day almost as many times as Doctor Who hassecond question because I avoid spoilers. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. HeI's a rude, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible ll answer the first one liner. And he usually comes through in the end. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=Furnace: Fugitives|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It has taken three books for Alex to get out of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murder, and he would have found it a better experience were it a regular prisonhis grandmother. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Warden, Mr Furnace, and the evil creatures they are both making, breeding and employing down there. But the whole experience has come at a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too much, and they are changing him too - making him one of their tools. It's only now, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl HiaasenPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=ScatDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Nick Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his friend Marta are ordinary kidsgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. They don As they't look re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for troubleAnt, and they donas he doesn't cause itknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. But when an unpopular teacher punishes He's had a difficult classmate casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by making him write an essay about his pimples'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, then trouble he can't be far awaysure. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, And that's mostly because of who he has a reputation for setting fires) gets 's been having the blame. But the evidence doesn't add up, relationship and our young heroes decide it's up to them to discover the truthsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Bowler1800901232|title=Blade: Risking AllStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a 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 woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Patrice Lawrence
|title=Needle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 's the final chapter. Thereheroine's nothing let now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left of this piece is extremely hard for some people to lose like, characters and at last revenge is in sightreaders both. Under pressure from the porkers Kicked out of multiple homes and the gangsschools, and she's fostering with his private empire crumblinga pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Hawk and has retreated to his remote hideouttaken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Blade Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is therepart of the plot here, waiting. But Hawk as Charlene is surrounded by a private army wonder knitter, and is making something full of securitylove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Dozens of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and getting past them isn't going then force people to be easygive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But Blade has his instinct back and nothing well, what exactly happens is going not for me to stand in his waysay, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Losing is not an option. But can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemption? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019275601X</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert MuchamoreAnn Sei Lin|title=Shadow Wave (CHERUB)Rebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=A shadow wave is Kurara has spent her entire life as a tidal flow that happens after servant on the Midori, a tsunami, and it can be deadly because it travels massive dining hall floating in the opposite direction sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and is often unexpectedmake merry between their conquests. Robert Muchamore's latest book in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenonHowever, and tells what happens when a bunch of young CHERUB secret agents and their teachers get caught up in man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the chaos in Malaysia which follows power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the 2004 earthquake and tsunamiEmpire. They rescue impoverished villagers and help them begin rebuilding their homesHe asks her to come with him, only to see leave the life of dreary servitude that is all their hard work she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by government officials who use the disaster a monstrous paper spirit known as an excuse a shikigami, and she is forced to take away flee out into the fishermen's land and use it world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to build hotels for rich foreigners. Muchamore pulls no punches as he shows how greed hunt down shikigami, and corruption win out over people's right to keep to their traditional lifestyles.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034095647X</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersMarcus Sedgwick|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood AlchemyWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on Meet Fitz, a prison planet, young Scottish lad full of frustration at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopershimself. Chess Lockdown is only just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee over, and languishes in a safe house, itching to he should be free. None of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess to do what he wants , to find out who she really is go where he wants and then to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box whom he wants to get back to Chess and help protect her. And Splinter, well, but he's got ideas of cannot stop himself from putting his own and they certainly don't include an agonising death at the hands of foot in it when he talks to his captorsbest friend, Cassie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nadia Aguiar|title=Secrets They were half of Tamarind|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The Island of Tamarind is once again under threata desultory school band, from the evils of the Red Coral. Once more Simon and his sisters Maya and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save Cassie was also one hundred per cent the island that only they can reach, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Triangle. For enigmatic – saying she could hear a second book running they must breach the barriers, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helix's legacy, and subhuman hum coming from the native magical element ophalla, and put the island to rightsearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas E Sniegoski|title=The Fallen: Fallen and Leviathan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thousands of years ago, a bunch of angels fell in love Is this connected with human women. For their sins, they were cast out one of Heaven. Their children are her eco-warrior parents saying the Nephilim. They are hunted by Verchiel, leader end 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 world is already a strange dream done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of weapons clanging and angels descending on a battlefield... and wakes up able to speak and understand any language, including that music she's dreaming of his dog Gabriel. We ? Is she just bonkers? And can see where this is goingFitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't we?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071211</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyTori Bovalino|title=The Dead of WinterDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Michael Vyner's father died when Michael was just a baby. He was a hero, sacrificing himself to save the life of Sir Stephen Clarendon whilst fighting for the British Empire in Afghanistan. This was precious little comfort to Michael and his mother, who resented the rich man's largesse over the years, wishing for the man they lost and not the charity of the man he saved. So, when Michael's mother dies too and he finds himself all alone in the world, he is not entirely overjoyed to discover that Sir Stephen is now his guardian and has invited him to spend Christmas at Hawton Mere.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800136</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Berlie Doherty
|title=Deep Secret
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Every now and again them there publisher people do this reviewer a big favour and reissue a book that she missed first time around. This is one of those now and thens. Anybody who loves words - child or adult - will love the way Berlie Doherty writes. Her graceful, lyrical prose just floats from the page and you lose yourself in the worlds she creates. She's known for her versatility too - writing realistic books about contemporary issues, fantasies and, as here with Deep Secret, historical novels.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392358</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=L A Weatherly
|title=Angel
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you loved the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series, you will also love ''Angel'', the first book in a new paranormal trilogy. However, even if you are among those who didn't see the attraction of Ms Meyer's books, there's a very good chance you will enjoy this: L A Weatherly is a gifted writer, and her take on paranormal romance is expertly crafted, full of exciting plot twists and well-rounded characters.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409521966</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie McKenzie
|title=Blood Ransom
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
It's not enough to find out you're a clone and to have both a renegade scientist and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill you. Oh no. Because when MI5 and the FBI relocate you, they condemn you to living thousands of miles away from the only other person in the world that might understand what you've been through. It's safer that way, apparently.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Celine Kiernan
|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=At the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the first book]] of the Moorehawke Trilogy, The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorhawke, her childhood friend Razi, and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperately
trying to find Razi's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared to be driven insane. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from this second novel in the sequence, but was thrown sideways by the massive detour taken.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=David Whitley
|title=The Children of the Lost
|rating=3.5
|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>
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{{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.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619014</amazonuk>
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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 the sea and rescued by the pirate ship belonging to Fleur's uncle Williampeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, it seems bad news might be on beyond the wayScillies. The girl turns out to have psychic abilities - There are troll people on it, and they're just about to hit landfall at Salem, right in time for the witchsea-hunts. But worse is to come. William gets captured therewitches, and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board instead. Fleur then legends of the Dark family that has to skipper the craft herselfkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, on a rescue mission, in a very tense domestic situationwhere no ship dare sail. That's hard enough when you're a mere teenaged girlThe current Darks are the Watcher, against ruffians and piratesAndrewe, but when the ship who has secrets to keep notes of her own to be revealed...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ken Howard|title=The Young Chieftain|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=One minuteactivity from the Hidden Lands, Jamie Doran is playing basketball with his friends brother Will who lives in downtown LA, the next he's en route to the island of Doran London with too much science in Scotland his head to bury his father. James Doranworry about such local yokel superstitions, you see, had been Doran's clan chieftain. The island proves a culture shock for cosmpolitan Jamie. It's remote and dilapidated, thereAndrewe's no internet or mobile phone accessfoundling daughter, and who washed up out of the only TV is in the community centresea one day eleven years ago. Jamie's grandmother isn't welcoming either - in factBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, she barely bothers to hide her distate for her black daughter-in-law both his sullen brother and mixed race grandsonhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848530331</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Lies (Gone)Julia and the Shark
|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...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254297</amazonuk>
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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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|summary=Runaway Chap walks into a hostel off Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the street. He's fact that she may be in need of a meal and a bed constant pain for the nightrest of her life. As the workers question himShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', trying an online support group where she talks to get a historybunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, they notice his resemblance while also providing an escape to a poster just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of a boy whoher closest friends—doesn's been missing t respond to the chat for two yearsa while, Priya becomes concerned. Chap isnShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid't Cassiel Roadnights house to check up on her. Chap isnBut what she doesn't anyone. But the temptation expect to find there is there: become Cassiel. Get a family. Live werewolf in a home. Become ''someone''. And so he takes the chance basement – and for that werewolf to be the new identity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>000728361X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Crescendo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We last saw Nora and Patch at the end of ''Hush, Hush'' - lovely title, that! - battered after a Nephilim conflict, but very much together. Patch is no longer fallen, girl she has been given back guardian angel status and talking to online for the threat to Nora is no more. You'd think everything would go swimmingly after that, wouldn't you? But you know and I know that falling in love with any kind of angel, fallen or otherwise, isn't conducive to a normal lifepast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387195</amazonuk>1683692349
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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>}}