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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlMax Boucherat|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful DarknessThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Growing up there, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was a normal enough Southern town, if you could forgive We meet Lori on the inhabitantsfirst evening she' obsessions with s got the War of Northern Aggressionhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. That was until he met Lena Duchannes What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and got plunged into her family's own civil war, as her family fought that is to get the young Caster log on to chooseeither Light or Dark. If you've haven't read [[Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|Beautiful Creatures]]Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first novel in Lori has a tiny inkling that this sequencestormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, break off from this review and go out then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and grab it now! If you have, you'll remember that Lena's 16th birthday left her with a choice bestie and nobody else should be able to make that would kill half enter shows signs of her familytampering. This book follows Ethan as he tries to support When malevolent eyes spark up on her through that choice but watches her get pulled towards phone screen, and her Dark cousin Ridley and a new boy safe place in town, the mysterious John Breed. While the first novel was more of a romancegame has been doctored – well, this where is an adventure story which sees Ethan, his friend Link, new a girl in town Liv, and a variety of others embark on a journey to save the day.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Savita KalhanRachel Greenlaw|title=The Long WeekendCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam's just moved to a new school yet again, but this time he's made a good friend really quicklyI can hear the song of the sea. He and Lloyd get on so well together that they're spending time with each other after school a lot - until they make one horrible mistake and end up trapped The call of the deep, the answering beat in a car speeding far away from their hometown, with a strange and creepy drivermy heart. Once they reach a big house, Sam is quickly separated from Lloyd - can he figure out a way to escape alive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708465</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off in this second book in David Gatward's The Dead seriesRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice)Mira, resurrected (twice)like her mother before her, been is one of the seven who swim out to survey the world of 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 Dead (donisland's leader and Mira't ask)s father. Desperate to save him from death, become Mira makes a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself bargain with a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic)wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a Dead guide (Redfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, whose skinas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's fallen off)territory, and has gone some way Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to locating his father (prisoner of save the Dark and seriously not having a good time future of it). Along with best mate Craig her home and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a missionthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally CondieHarry Allen|title=MatchedChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When the Society Matches Cassia to her best friend Xander, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she couldn't be more thrilledis a talented singer. Unlike the other girlsLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, she knows so Seo and her Match – doesn't need friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to read his details, go through supplement the motions meagre rations of dating as dictated by the Society, doesn't need to worry they won't get alongrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141333057</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayAlexia Casale|title=The Hollow: The HauntedSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In [[The Hollow by Jessica Verday|The Hollow]]It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Abbey tried to cope but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in thedisappearance middle of her best friend and her feelings for new boyfriend Caspian - only a dance performance that was going to find herself losing change her grip on sanity when life. But she discovered Caspian was deadcomes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a Shade, rather than another real personlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. After Meanwhile there's a summer away from Sleepy Hollownew (cute!) boy in school, she returnsher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, trying to concentrate on making perfumes and getting science tuition from nice cute Ben - but then Caspian reappears. Will just the two find true love? Why are there so many other weird strangers around Sleepy Hollow who Abbey keeps meeting? What exactly DID happen day to Kristen? Where do Katrina Van Tassel and Nikolas, the famous Headless Horseman day traumas of Sleepy Hollow, fit into all this? And does anyone who missed the first book have any hope of following whatchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's going ont dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384994</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesSimon Fox|title=Rules of AttractionDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Carlos Fuentes isn't interested in living in America with Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his over-protective brother Alex, but his mother sends him there for his senior year of high school to try and keep him out of trouble. Kiara Westford is happy to help a new guy settle in - at least until shift on the shy stutterer actually meets the bad boy. Despite their initial dislike of each other, they're thrown together when Carlos has drugsplanted on him and her well respected father takes him in to stop him being sent back to Mexico. Will these two headstrong youngsters find love?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Silverwood|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged Sword|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Fin's guardianforce, Judge Harlequin Brown is murdered, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting and dangerous. In the course of one life-changing daythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he learns that there is a pathway between his London in 'Somewhere', and an alternate London of a parallel world called 'Nowhere', and that the fates of both worlds are now under threat fetch something from a group of rogue Knightssecret place, who have the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swords.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of Midnight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Like the first four novellas in the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two 'bind-up' editions - this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisteria, Maryland and trying to find closure join him on past eventsthe run. In this case They get together, Anna is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return but barely begin to smell the place where her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their family, but by whiff of Southern trains when the time she returns her uncle father is deadarrested, his body found in leaving Archie on the boot of a burnt out car. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct is late express to get out as quickly as possibleBrighton, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said toting a tin his father was determined to be psychickeep away from his colleagues, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards the bearer of a solution - but also further into dangerwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisi HarrisonLex Croucher|title=Monster High|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting a bit fed up of all the vampires, werewolves Gwen and other creepies that seem to have popped up since the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. So, when this book landed on my doorstep, I can't say I held much hope for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clare Chambers|title=Burning SecretsArt Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Daniel, his mother and his sister Louie are escaping the city Who knew that what I really needed to spend six months on the isolated island of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniel's mother is still getting over read right now was a broken marriage; Louie is prone to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a youth offenders institution after a conviction for fire-setting resulting in the death of an old itinerantmost delightful way. There's plenty to leave behind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|title=Half Brother|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ben's thirteen In this story, Gwen and an only child. You'd think he was entirely used Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to being the centre of attentiontheir mutual disgust! Gwen, thenyou see, wouldn't you? But this isn't really is in love with Bridget (the case. Benkingdom's parents are academicsonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. His father is And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as her husband's research assistant. Ben is used to coming second to boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the advance subterfuge of science. He can cope falling in love with that. Usuallyeach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But then his parents up sticks and move him all the as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way across Canada. Why? Because his father's new university is prepared in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to underwrite his new project - raising live a chimpanzee as human and trying to teach it American Sign Language. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenNick Brooks|title=Sigrun's SecretPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=It must have seemed to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in IcelandWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, breaking and training three boys find themselves called into the colts on the family farm or helping her motherpolice station as suspects. Each, Thoraseemingly, who was has a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her father's ship returned home grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the family was together againtime of his murder. It was not to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding a dreadful secret and when it caught up with them, SigrunBut who killed him, her father and Asgrimwhy, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik for three years. She was completely unused to the busy city life and disliked if any of the violence and cruelty she found around her. But – at the same time – her own skills as a healer and midwife began boys are innocent, will they be able to blossom.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1919635017|title=Birth of A Thief to Catch a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Larten Crepsley leads Solomon Klyne isn't a hard, hard life. One child amongst many, born during an industrial revolutionbad lad, so why is he works horrendously long and dangerous hours in running around London committing a silk factory even though series of robberies? And how did he's yet learn to see his teens. If the family is to eat, there is little choice. The foreman is a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, and nobody dares challenge him and if it wasncrack safes? You't for his orphan cousin, Vur, Larten's life would be grim indeed. But things never seem quite so dark when you ll have a true friend, do they? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Beate Teresa Hanika|title=Learning to Scream|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Malvina is thirteen years old, the youngest of three children in a dysfunctional family. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems wait to get an answer to suffer permanently from migraine. She has a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united in their dislike of the 'boys from the estate'. Her grandmother died last year, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job to go and visit him and take him his meals. The family think this is a great arrangement second question because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visitsI avoid spoilers. There's a problem though. Malvina doesnBut I't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on ll answer the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Bracegirdle|title=The Joy of Spookingfirst one: Unearthly Asylum|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The district of Spooking is still a problem for the evil diplomats from Darlington, the city that surrounds ithis grandmother. It was in the way of their waterpark [[The Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P J Bracegirdle|last time]], and now puts a stop to a new sewage plant. Actually, chiefly in the way last time was Joy, who still calls it home. A cold, decrepit, run-down and gothic home in her instance, but home nevertheless. But the evil diplomats are still making their plans to redevelop the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige for it with her beloved author E A Peugeot as a son of Spooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leila Rasheed|title=The World Turned Upside Down|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Stratford upon Avon 1642 – The English Civil War has come to the town. Mary is a young Catholic at a time when her religion was regarded with deep suspicion. She is drawn to Jack, even though he is a Roundhead soldier with no money, land or status, and he is from an inferior background to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956506402</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the WendigoDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop Ant is in 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 spent been restructured, so his life tracking down dark desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and mysterious creaturestwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the existence of some of these fiends talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is too much confusing for him to believeAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. In fact, there He's had a split between Warthropcasual relationship, his former close friend John Chanlera secret one, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampires, werewolvesfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predator. Warthrop scoffs at the other menladder headed by 's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why itexperienced's impossible for it to exist - , but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when he disappears searching for it. Itwhether that's not just friendship that drives him to look for his colleague thoughset in stone, as hecan's asked by Chanlert be sure. And that's wife Muriel - mostly because of who is Warthrophe's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes been having the monstrumologist relationship and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wilderness, but when they return to New York they bring back someone - or something - that can endanger their livessex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Celine Kiernan1800901232|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel PrinceStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyDyslexia Friendly|summary=After spending the entire of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], the excellent second book Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in this series, looking for it, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can rural village where she, along lived with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- dressed man and Christopher Garron, persuade woman came to the Rebel Prince village to make peace with his father, or is their quest offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to end in bloodshed be missed. Some money changed hands and failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=Out For Blood|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head of her class at Hanh was on the Heliosmini-Ra Vampire Hunter Academybus to Hanoi. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter Only, after all – Hanh and her Grandpa is one of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes other girls were not going to work in staking all vampiresa shop, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter they were to cut off all her long blonde hairwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Hunter isn't so sure You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on either count.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brenna Yovanoff|title=the legs? The Replacement|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mackie lives in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and ones with the trials artfully-placed rips and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recently, however, things have distressed seams that felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop raining. 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. so soft when you touched them? It's getting more quite possible that Hanh and more difficult to avoid the truthher co-workers made them... ... because Mackie is different. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannPatrice Lawrence|title=GoneNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's made it through so muchBrave. And now she's graduated from high schoolCharlene, has a guaranteed job with the local police after college'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and a boyfriend who loves her like crazyreaders both. Her future should be bright Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, but it isn't. Because Janieshe's fostering with a dreamcatcher. She can - pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has to - inhabit other peopletaken up residence in her son Blake's dreams. Itold room while he's great for at uni. Such a career tempestuous personality may be in crime fightingneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, but itas Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's burning allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her out. Janie knows that within just belligerence with a few years store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she'll shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be blind and crippled. ..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny DownhamAnn Sei Lin|title=You Against MeRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''If someone hurts your sister 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 drink and you're any kind of make merry between their conquests. However, when a mannamed Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, don't you?'' It to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all seems so straightforwardshe has known. Well, doesnsoon Kurara won'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 have any say in the house - getting food on matter, because the tableMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, getting his littlest sister and she is forced to school, fending off periodic interest from social servicesflee out into the world. MeanwhileShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, he's trying a sky-ship whose express purpose is to make something of himselfhunt down shikigami, training as and a chef at a seaside pub. whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyMarcus Sedgwick|title=RevolutionWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet AndiFitz, a New York girl on a trip to Paris. She's a talented musician young Scottish lad full of frustration at a school for exceptional studentshimself. She's a wisecrackingLockdown is only just over, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. She's a brilliant people watcherand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Raised by Wolves|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Packwhom he wants, but Human, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true selfhis best friend, Cassie. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece They were half of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms and Europe's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacydesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard enigmatic – saying she could hear a gift for Sultan Mehmed V, Lord subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Horizons and ruler end of the Ottoman Empire. But when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn, world is already a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan and Alek, the heir to the throne done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of Austria-Hungary, ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secretsout the truth? Well, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly warwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudTori Bovalino|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Barty is back! Well, he 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 Working all summer in case you donher boarding school't, Bartimaeus s library is a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni and the star of last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had request for over a finger in many pies of world history, particularly hundred books that of London. In fact, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who she hasto deliver herself. But Bartimaeus What makes it worse is no Doctor Whothe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. HeThe boarding school's a rudeheadmaster, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isn't his byworda man Tess hates. But he cracks an irresistible 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 As a petty act of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him revenge for murder, and he would have found it a better experience were it a regular prison. 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 her find and employing down there. But the whole experience has come at deliver such a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too muchlarge request, and they are changing him too Tess sticks post- making him one it notes on each of their tools. It's only nowthe books, on scribbled with the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture ugliest insults she can think of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carl Hiaasen|title=Scat|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Nick and his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for troublere never meant to reach him, and they don't cause itof course. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimplesHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and then trouble can't take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be far away. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blame. But the evidence doesnif someone hadn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to delivered them to discover the truthfor her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerPhilip Reeve|title=Blade: Risking AllUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's the final chapter. There's nothing let now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left to lose and at last revenge is in sight. Under pressure from the porkers and the gangs, and with his private empire crumbling, Hawk has retreated to his remote hideout. Blade is there, waiting. But Hawk is surrounded by a private army of security. Dozens of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis and getting past them isn't going to be easy. But Blade has his instinct back and nothing is going to stand in his way. Losing is not an option. But can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemption?
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{{newreview
|author=Robert Muchamore
|title=Shadow Wave (CHERUB)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A shadow wave is a tidal flow that happens after a tsunami, and it can be deadly because it travels in the opposite direction and is often unexpected. Robert Muchamore's latest book in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenon, and tells what happens when a bunch of young CHERUB secret agents and their teachers get caught up in the chaos in Malaysia which follows the 2004 earthquake and tsunami. They rescue impoverished villagers and help them begin rebuilding their homes, only to see all their hard work destroyed by government officials who use 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 to their traditional lifestyles.
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{{newreview
|author=Benjamin J Myers
|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood Alchemy
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on a prison planet, at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopers. Chess is just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee and languishes in a safe house, itching to be free. None of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess wants to find out who she really is and then to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box wants to get back to Chess and help protect her. And Splinter, well, he's got ideas of his own and they certainly don't include an agonising death at the hands of his captors.
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{{newreview
|author=Nadia Aguiar
|title=Secrets of Tamarind
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The Island In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of Tamarind is once again under threatriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, from the evils of beyond the Red CoralScillies. Once more Simon There are troll people on it, and his sisters Maya sea-witches, and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save legends of the island Dark family that only they can reachhas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Trianglewhere no ship dare sail. For a second book running they must breach The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the barriersHidden Lands, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helixhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's legacyfoundling daughter, and who washed up out of the native magical element ophallasea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and put his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island to rights, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas E SniegoskiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Fallen: Fallen Julia and Leviathanthe Shark
|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?
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Priestley
|title=The Dead of Winter
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Michael Vyner's father died when Michael was just a baby. He was a heroJulia, our pre-teen heroine, sacrificing himself to save the life of Sir Stephen Clarendon whilst fighting for has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the British Empire family home in Afghanistan. This was precious little comfort SW England to Michael and his motherbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who resented in the rich man's largesse over far NE of the yearsScottish islands. Here be Vikings, wishing for the man they lost and not the charity that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the man he saved. Solantern, which is his specialist thing, when Michael's mother dies too and he finds himself all alone while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the worldelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, he is not entirely overjoyed to discover that Sir Stephen is now his guardian well, she will be homesick and has invited him to spend Christmas at Hawton Merealone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800136</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Berlie DohertyJonathan Stroud|title=Deep SecretThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Every now Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and again them there publisher people do this reviewer shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a big favour dark boy with dark powers and reissue a book that she missed first time arounddarker past. This is one With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of those now and thensthe London Lagoon. Anybody who loves words Together, they must brave man- child or adult - will love the way Berlie Doherty writes. Her gracefuleating wildlife, lyrical prose just floats from the page cannibalistic Tainted and you lose yourself in all the worlds she creates. She's known for her versatility too horrors of post- writing realistic books about contemporary issuesapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, fantasies and, as here with Deep Secret, historical novels. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849392358</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L A WeatherlyMercedes Helnwein|title=AngelSlingshot|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you loved the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series, you will also love ''Angel'', the first book in Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a new paranormal trilogy. However, even if you are among those who didn't see the attraction secret illegitimate daughter of Ms Meyer's booksa man with a "real" family, thereshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a very good chance you will enjoy this: L A Weatherly is a gifted writerrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, and her take on paranormal romance simple existence is expertly craftedchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, full of exciting plot twists and well-rounded charactersfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409521966</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieT L Huchu|title=Blood RansomThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's not enough Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to find take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out youof school, she're a clone and s been using it to have both a renegade scientist support not only herself, but her younger sister and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill youher aging grandmother. Oh noHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Because when MI5 and Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the FBI relocate you, they condemn you to living thousands request of miles away from the only other person in his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world that might understand what youof magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've been throughimagined. It's safer that wayWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, apparently. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanKristen O'Neal|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=At Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|fact that she may be in constant pain for the first book]] rest of the Moorehawke Trilogyher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', The Poison Thronean online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, Wynter Moorhawkewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her childhood friend Razi, parents' car and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperatelytrying drive to find RaziBrigid's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared house to be driven insanecheck up on her. I thought I knew exactly But what she doesn't expect to expect from this second novel find there is a werewolf in the sequence, but was thrown sideways by basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the massive detour takenpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>1683692349
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