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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally PrueMax Boucherat|title=Ice MaidenThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Franz isnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't popular s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the village, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. It's 1939 What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and the German boy that is to log on an extended holiday in England. Unsurprisinglyto Voxminer, the local boys donworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori't appreciate an enemy in their midsts world. Franz isn But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't happy at home either - he mistrusts his Nazi parents find herself entirely on her own, and he remembers then she finds something even more spooky. For the rounding up of the disabled, the gypsies server she and the Jews, her bestie and the smashing glass at nightnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Lonely, Franz spends a lot of time When malevolent eyes spark up on the commonher phone screen, observing the natural world and her safe place in the wildlifegame has been doctored – well, in all its beauty and cruelty. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729659</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M T McGuireRachel Greenlaw|title=K'Barthan Trilogy: Few Are ChosenCompass and Blade|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Pan of Hamgee is a relatively inconspicuous fellow living in the world of K'Barth, the setting of the battle between the overbearing, alien Grongolian settlers and the fanatic Resistance, described aptly by The Pan as being 'The lesser, but only very slightly lesser of two evils, possibly3.' Naturally, The Pan wants nothing to do with this political conflict but due to a number of unfortunate cases of wrong place, wrong time and disastrous luck, he has somehow been drafted in as the getaway driver of a group of bank robbers, and somehow come into possession of a magical thimble with the power to allow teleportation, an object greatly desired by K'Barth's despot ruler Lord Vernon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907809007</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michele Jaffe|title=Rosebush|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Firstly, I've got to say this book was incredibly hard to put down. The plot is so absorbing I found myself trying to read a page at every opportunity I got. I was late for work on a few occasions because I couldn't pull myself away. This is one of the best books I have read in the last few months.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410384</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=Forge|genre=Teens|rating=4|summary=We left Curzon and Isabel at the end of Chains, just after they'd escaped slavery in New York at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. We pick up again with Curzon - Isabel has run off to find her sister - stumbling slap bang into the middle of the Battle of Saratoga. Cornered into enlisting into the Patriot army, Curzon isn't blind to the ironies in his situation as a slave fighting for the freedom of white men. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803801</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Phil Earle|title=Being Billy|rating=4

|summary=Billy is a 'lifer' - he's been in care for eight years. He's angry, defensive and folded up inside himself. He's prone to vandalism and violence and barely a week goes by without his careworkers needing to restrain him. He doesn't really go to school and even when he does, Billy is so far behind that there seems little pointI can hear the song of the sea. The only joy in his life comes from call of the twinsdeep, his little brother and sisterthe answering beat in my heart. Louie and Lizzie can't keep him out of trouble, but they can provide an anchor and Billy delights in caring for them. He reads them bedtime stories and sits by the door of their room until they fall asleep. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141331356</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Rachel Vincent|title=Soul Screamers: My Soul to Take|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After Kaylee Rosevear, a remote and her friend Emma sneak partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into an over18's club, Kaylee gets unnervingly distressed by the sight of a girldancing, feeling as if she needs to screamrocks and plundering the wrecks. As Emma, along with themysterious NashMira, try to calm like her and remove mother before her from the club, shetells them that she's convinced is one of the girl is going seven who swim out to diesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Waking upBut when the next day Council Watch lays a trap to turn on end the newswrecking, she finds out she was right. Andthen it happens again… Kayleethey capture the island's convinced sheleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a freak bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and there'ssomething deeply wrong with only coordinates to guide her, but Nash seems surprisingly unfazedby thisshe 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, while as her aunt and uncle are both acting strangely. Whatjourney takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler'swrong with territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her? And why does home and the ones she know less about herself than theydo about her?holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778303551</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidHarry Allen|title=When I Was JoeChildren of the Sun

|summary=We meet 14 year old Tyler Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and his young mother Nicki at the policestation as he gives a statement about she is a stabbing he witnessedtalented singer.Unfortunately for them, some of the people involved would rather notallow him to testify against them Life is hard and he's forced food is difficult to flee for hislifecome by, moving into the Witness Protection scheme so Seo and starting afresh ina new school. Despite the vicious thugs on his trail, there arecertain compensations to life at his new school. Formerly just a facein the crowd at St Saviour's, the mysterious newcomer quickly becomespopular, especially when he gets involved in athletics her friends Nari and is coachedby older teen Ellie. Not everyone's happy with the impact he makes,thoughMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and he needs edible grasses to worry about rivals in school nearly as much ashe does about supplement the gangsters who are still trying to silence himmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. Andthen he meets a girl with a dark secret of her own…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847801005</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadAlexia Casale|title=When You Reach MeSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Jane Jonas has been troubled by dreams lately. Dreams so vivid, itIt's almost like theyhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're real. In them is having to navigate a green eyed boy who believes they are each otherlife-changing disability too, but that's destinywhat Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But in she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the real worldpity stares, Jane has met Evanand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Charming Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, charismaticher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, damaged Evan – intoxicating, incredibly attractive and just a little frightening. Jane has never been the sort day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to have friends, let alone boyfriendsnavigate. And Evan is perfect, isn So even though she can't hedance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444901893</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu|title=The Shadow Speaker|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Set in Western Africa in 2070, in a world which has been forever changed by Peace Bombs, released years ago by an environmental group to counteract the effects of a US nuclear bomb, teenage heroine Eiji grows up knowing she is different. The Peace Bomb has given many people superpowers, hers being to communicate with shadows. But five years ago, the warrior queen Jaa beheaded Eiji's tyrannical father, and Jaa has returned seeking Eiji's help. While her mother forbids her from leaving her town, the shadows tell Eiji that if she doesn't go with Jaa war is inevitable. What can she do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423100360</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsSimon Fox|title=Tyme's EndDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Bibi feels like a fish out of water. She's right in the middle of Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the most difficult of teenage yearsforce, the ones in which you don't feel as though you belong anywhere. Bibi's feelings are exacerbated because she is adopted. Friends of the family took her in after her parents died and they have done their best by her. They love her andthen suddenly rings Archie, despite everythingdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, Bibi loves them. But she doesn't feel as though she belongs to this family and she thinks constantly of her real parents and her real home in join him on the Middle Eastrun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806479</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Godbersen|title=Bright Young Things|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Right from the fantastic prologue They get together, which tells us this is but barely begin to smell the story whiff of ''Southern trains when the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams'', this father is a book which had me completely and utterly hooked straight away. Cordelia Gray and her friend Letty Haubstadt run away from their small hometown in Ohio just after Cordelia's weddingarrested, Letty determined leaving Archie on the late express to become Brighton, toting a star in New York while Cordelia seeks the infamous bootlegger Darius Grey, convinced he's her tin his father. Meanwhilewas determined to keep away from his colleagues, in and the Big Apple itself, flapper Astrid Donal wants to get her boyfriend Charlie to commit to her but isn't sure if she can trust him. This first book in the Bright Young Things series follows the three girls over bearer of a few weeks which will change all whole heap of their livesquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141335343</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonya HartnettLex Croucher|title=The Midnight Zoo|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Eastern Europe during World War II and orphaned Roma brothers Andrej and Tomas are journeying through war-ravaged countryside carrying a precious and secret bundle. It's an odd kind of journey because they really don't have anywhere to go. They have a great deal to avoid, however, such as soldiers with rifles, bombs, Gwen and villagers who would decry them on sight. As Andrej trudges on, worrying about Tomas, he is thinking it's just another night, just another village Art Are Not in ruins. But he's wrong. The boys stumble across a zoo. The cages are still standing, intact and locked. And the animals have no food and water. But they are alive. And they can talk. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633149X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Jones|title=EnticeLove

|summary=When I got this book I didn't realise it was the third book in a series, and to start with this put me off; I thought I'd be the one stood outside the window watching everyone else at the party and not understand Who knew that what was going on. However, as I started really needed to read I started to feel more included than I thought I would (there is right now was a nice little reminder paragraph at the start that filled me on what I had missed). Sogay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, although I recommend you start with the first book it lifted my spirits in the series, Entice does have its own legs and is very capable of standing on them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408810441</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nina Grunfeld|title=How To Get What You Want|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do nextmost delightful way. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it In this story, Gwen and sets out to help the reader identify who Arthur have been betrothed since they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how were tiny, much to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Higson|title=The Dead|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm writing for two sets of readers here: those who have read the first book in the seriestheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, and those who have not. The Dead is a prequel to The Enemy but both books are set in love with Bridget (the same postkingdom's only female knight) -apocalyptic world in which the adult population has been decimated by a killer disease. Those something that survive roam the streets as zombies, looking for untainted human flesh to eatArt discovers from her private diaries. The only untainted flesh belongs to children who were fourteen or under And then when the disease struckGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and were somehow immune. The Enemy is set two years after creating the epidemicsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when it's getting more and more difficult for children to find food and shelter by scavenging and really they are beginning to realise that they need to band together to start forming the prototype for a new societyenabling their own other romantic attachments. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384654</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful Darkness|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Growing up there, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was a normal enough Southern town, if you could forgive the inhabitants' obsessions with the War of Northern Aggression. That was until he met Lena Duchannes and got plunged into her family's own civil war, But as her family fought to get the young Caster to chooseeither Light or Dark. If you've haven't read [[Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|Beautiful Creatures]]their impending wedding draws ever closer, the first novel in this sequence, break off from this review and go out and grab it now! If you have, you'll remember that Lena's 16th birthday left her with will they find a choice to make that would kill half of her family. This book follows Ethan as he tries to support her through that choice but watches her get pulled towards her Dark cousin Ridley and a new boy way in town, the mysterious John Breed. While the first novel was more of a romance, this is an adventure story which sees Ethanthey can both truly be themselves, his friend Link, new girl in town Liv, and or are they destined to live a variety of others embark on a journey to save the day.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Savita Kalhan|title=The Long Weekend|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam's just moved to a new school yet again, but this time he's made a good friend really quickly. 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 in a car speeding far away from their hometown, with a strange and creepy driver. 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GatwardNick Brooks|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) Promise Boys

|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off in this second book in David Gatward's The Dead series. Lazarus Stone has been killed When the principal (twiceheadmaster)of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, resurrected (twice), been to three boys find themselves called into the world of the Dead (don't ask)police station as suspects. Each, become a Keeper (dangerous job)seemingly, got himself has a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off)grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner of each could have been there at the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it)his murder. Along with best mate Craig But who killed him, and why, and ex-possessed nurse Clairif any of the boys are innocent, Lazarus has a mission. will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ally Condie1919635017|title=Matched|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When the Society Matches Cassia A Thief to her best friend Xander, she couldn't be more thrilled. Unlike the other girls, she knows her Match – doesn't need to read his details, go through the motions of dating as dictated by the Society, doesn't need to worry they won't get along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333057</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow: The Haunted|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In [[The Hollow by Jessica Verday|The Hollow]], Abbey tried to cope with thedisappearance of her best friend and her feelings for new boyfriend Caspian - only to find herself losing her grip on sanity when she discovered Caspian was dead, a Shade, rather than another real person. After Catch a summer away from Sleepy Hollow, she returns, trying to concentrate on making perfumes and getting science tuition from nice cute Ben - but then Caspian reappears. Will the two find true love? Why are there so many other weird strangers around Sleepy Hollow who Abbey keeps meeting? What exactly DID happen to Kristen? Where do Katrina Van Tassel and Nikolas, the famous Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, fit into all this? And does anyone who missed the first book have any hope of following what's going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384994</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Simone Elkeles|title=Rules of AttractionKitt Townsend

|summary=Carlos Fuentes Solomon Klyne isn't interested in living in America with his over-protective brother Alexa bad lad, but his mother sends him there for his senior year so why is he running around London committing a series of high school robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to try and keep him out of trouble. Kiara Westford is happy wait to get an answer to help a new guy settle in - at least until the shy stutterer actually meets second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the bad boyfirst one: for his grandmother.. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SilverwoodPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged SwordDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=When Fin's guardianAnt 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 been restructured, Judge Harlequin Brown so his desk is murderedone of four with both his best buddy from the football team, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting and dangeroustwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. In As they're all fired up, straining at the course of one lifeleash only a single-changing daysex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he learns that there doesn't know what his score is a pathway between , where his London achievements in that regard lie. He'Somewhere's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and an alternate London of a parallel world called so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'Nowhere, but whether that's set in stone, and he can't be sure. And that the fates of both worlds are now under threat from a group 's mostly because of rogue Knights, who have he's been having the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swordsrelationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Chandler1800901232|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 on past events. In this case, Anna is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return to the place where her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their family, but by the time she returns her uncle is dead, his body found in the boot of a burnt out car. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct is to get out as quickly as possible, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said to be psychic, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards a solution - but also further into danger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Lisi Harrison|title=Monster HighSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=I don't know about everyone elseTwelve-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, but I'm getting so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a bit fed up of all job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the vampiresmini-bus to Hanoi. Only, werewolves Hanh and the other creepies that seem girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to have popped up since work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. So, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when this book landed on my doorstep, I canyou touched them? It't say I held much hope for its quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Clare Chambers|title=Burning Secrets|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel, his mother and his sister Louie are escaping the city to spend six months on the isolated island of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniel's mother is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie is prone to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after a conviction for fire-setting resulting in the death of an old itinerant. There's plenty to leave behind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelPatrice Lawrence|title=Half BrotherNeedle|rating=53

|summary=BenBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine's thirteen of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and an only childreaders both. You Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she'd think he was entirely used to being the centre of attentions fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, thenAnnie, wouldnand has taken up residence in her son Blake't you? But this isn't really the case. Bens old room while he's parents are academicsat uni. His father Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist wonder knitter, and his mother is both completing making something full of love for her doctorate and acting as her husbandyounger sister – a younger sister she's research assistantallowed contact with no more. Ben is used We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to coming second to the advance of sciencegive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. He can cope with thatAnd then. Usually. But then his parents up sticks and move him all the way across Canada. Why? Because his father's new university well, what exactly happens is prepared not for me to say, only to underwrite his new project - raising a chimpanzee as human remark how sharp and trying to teach it American Sign Languagepointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenAnn Sei Lin|title=Sigrun's SecretRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=It must have seemed to Sigrun that she had an ideal Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in Iceland, breaking and training the colts on sky where soldiers of the family farm or helping her motherEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Thora, who was when a healer. Life seemed man named Himura arrives to be complete when tell her father's ship returned home and that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the family was together againEmpire. It was not He asks her to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding a dreadful secret and when it caught up come with them, Sigrunhim, her father and Asgrim, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik for three years. She was completely unused to leave the busy city life and disliked the violence and cruelty of dreary servitude that is all she found around herhas known. But – at Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the same time – her own skills Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a healer shikigami, and midwife began she is forced to blossomflee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanMarcus Sedgwick|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)Wrath

|summary=Larten Crepsley leads Meet Fitz, a hard, hard lifeyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. One child amongst manyLockdown is only just over, born during an industrial revolutionand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he works horrendously long wants and dangerous hours with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in a silk factory even though it when he's yet talks to see his teensbest friend, Cassie. If They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the family is to eat, there is little choiceearth. The foreman Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, and nobody dares challenge him and if done deal? Is it wasnsome spooky new kind of music she't for his orphan cousins dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Vur, Lartennot when Cassie has gone missing he can's life would be grim indeedt... But things never seem quite so dark when you have a true friend, do they? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beate Teresa HanikaTori Bovalino|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 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 because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visits. There's a problem though. Malvina doesn't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Bracegirdle|title=The Joy of Spooking: 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 it. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Rick Yancey|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the WendigoDevil Makes Three

|summary=While Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has spent his life tracking down dark and mysterious creatures, to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the existence of some of these fiends is too much for him to believebooks: Mr Birch. In fact, thereThe boarding school's headmaster, and a split between Warthrop, his former close friend John Chanler, man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are deliver such things as vampiresa large request, werewolves, and Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the terrifying wendigobooks, rumoured to be scribbled with the ultimate predatorugliest insults she can think of. Warthrop scoffs at the other menThey's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why it's impossible for it re never meant to exist - but nevertheless goes in search reach him, of Chanler when he disappears searching for itcourse. It's not just friendship that drives him Her plan is to look for his colleague thoughget her anger out like this, as he's asked by Chanler's wife Muriel - who is Warthrop's former fianceeand then take them all off before delivering them. The search for Chanler takes the monstrumologist and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wildernessNo harm done… Or it would be, but when they return to New York they bring back if someone - or something - that can endanger their liveshadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanPhilip Reeve|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel PrinceUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=After spending the entire In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], the excellent second book riches in this seriesstory set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, looking for itBritish but way west, beyond the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince AlberonScillies. Can sheThere are troll people on it, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother and sea- witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and Christopher Garrontheir monster approaching from even further west, persuade where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Rebel Prince Watcher, Andrewe, who has to make peace keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his fatherhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, or is their quest to end in bloodshed 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 Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academysea one day eleven years ago. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called HunterBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, after all – both his sullen brother and her Grandpa is one of his curious ward are thrust into the most infamous vampire hunters world of his generation. He believes in staking all vampiresprotecting their island, no questions asked. But then, he also believes like it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either countor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brenna YovanoffKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The ReplacementJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Mackie lives Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in GentrySW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and in the trials and tribulations far NE of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentrythe Scottish islands. Recently Here be Vikings, however, things have felt less securethat kind of Scottish island. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop raining. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies Dad is going to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and be automating the lantern, which is his health is beginning specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to failhunt the elusive Greenland shark. It's getting more And Julia, well, she will be homesick and more difficult to avoid the truth... ... because Mackie is differentalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannJonathan Stroud|title=GoneThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Janie's made it through so muchScarlett 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 shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. And now But then she's graduated from high schoolmeets Albert Browne, has a guaranteed job dark boy with the local police after college, dark powers and a boyfriend who loves her like crazydarker past. Her future should be brightWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, but it isn'tthey plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post- has apocalyptic society to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fightingreach the Free Isles, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll will they be blind and crippled. any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny DownhamMercedes Helnwein|title=You Against MeSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a manwith a "real" family, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of she is used to not being 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 itpriority in people's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellielives. Mikey comes from But when she defends a tower block. His mother's an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility random boy in the house - getting food on the tableher class with her slingshot, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social servicesher simple existence is changed for good. MeanwhileNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, he's trying to make something of himself, training as for her life now has a chef at a seaside pubboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyT L Huchu|title=RevolutionThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet AndiRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a New York girl on a trip bit of Scottish pragmatism) to Paristake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's a talented musician at a school for exceptional studentsbeen using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. SheHowever, there's a wisecrackingan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. Shetargeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a brilliant people watcher, and her descriptions missing boy at the request of what she sees will make you smilehis dead mother. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is spiralling out of controlfar 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>1408801523</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Lynn BarnesKristen O'Neal|title=Raised by WolvesLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Bryn Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has lived almost all to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life . She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an 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, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed When Brigid—one of her family – only narrowly escaping herself – sheclosest friends—doesn's been under t respond to the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Pack, but Human, not Werewolfchat for a while, Bryn is something of an oddityPriya becomes concerned. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine it – decides to keep steal her distance parents' car and maintain that piece of her that is drive to Brigid's house to check up on her true self. She But what she doesn't want expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to submit be the girl she has been talking to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedomonline for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 diplomacy, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard a gift for Sultan Mehmed V, Lord of the Horizons and ruler of the Ottoman Empire. But when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan and Alek, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secrets, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly war...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Stroud|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)|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 in case you don't, Bartimaeus is 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, 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 and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. 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 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 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 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, Move 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>}} {{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 trouble, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimples, then trouble can't 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 doesn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to them to discover the truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]