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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Natalie Hargrove is one half of the It couple of Palmetto High, destined to become Palmetto Princess. Her boyfriend Mike King should be a shoo <!-in for Prince alongside her - except Mike doesn't seem too bothered, in contrast to the loathsome Remove - but hunky - Justin Balmer. So when she's given a chance to knock JB out of the running for the crown, who can blame Natalie for pulling a harmless prank? Except when the prank turns out to be much less harmless than she'd have expected, the It couple are left frantically trying to cover their tracks before they lose everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563722</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maria V SnyderMax Boucherat|title=Inside OutThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Through We meet Lori on the narrative of the brilliantly gutsy, yet bitter Trella, 'first evening she'Inside Out'' describes s got the unlikely revolution provoked by the mission undertaken by our protagonists house to discover the legendary Gateway herself – a rumoured pathway between the selfno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-contained Inside and a utopia known only as Outsidebreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Originally reluctant to be drawn into what she considers to be What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a hoaxblanket fort, Trellashe has one main intention, due and that is to her particular proficiency when it comes log on to travelling through Voxminer, the piping and ventilation system world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that separates the various levels of Insidethis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, somehow becomes and then she finds something even more spooky. For the figurehead of the rebellion server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the Lowers against the Upperstampering. However When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, there are some people who don't approve of this newfound hopeand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, and are keen where is a girl to stifle the revolution before it even begins.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0778304116</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mike LancasterRachel Greenlaw|title=0.4Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Kyle Straker's taped testimony begins with an editor's note:I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

''The peculiar format that you are holding - Rosevear, a book - was still remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the dominant form wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of information storage at the time seven who swim out to survey the tapes were maderuins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. There is But when the Council Watch lays a reason why I insisted on this archaic format which willtrap to end the wrecking, I hopethey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, become apparent Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the narrative progressessea.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'' Kyle lives in s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the early 21st century in a quiet village full future of ordinary peopleher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405253045</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally KennenHarry Allen|title=QuarryChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Scrappy's life is going absolutely nowhere. His mother has left his father. His sister Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is saving like mad for the deposit on a flat so that she can move out tootalented singer. His grandfather Life is descending into senility. His school hard and food is about difficult to be demolished. His best friend Silva gets all the girls come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and he's worried about the school villainMin go foraging every evening, Judge, picking on him. His father, paranoid about a visit from tax inspectors, slaves over looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the scrapyard's books all night meagre rations of rice and so his temper is unpredictable. Very unpredictablekimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407111078</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie JonesAlexia Casale|title=CaptivateSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Zara, her werewolf boyfriend, Nick, and their friends Issie and Devyn think their pixie problems are over. TheyIt've trapped Zaras hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's dad, re having to navigate a pixie kinglife-changing disability too, and his followers but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a house surrounded by iron dance performance that was going to stop them getting out and killing more teenage boyschange her life. Butshe comes back fighting, Zara's dad is growing weak in his iron prisondesperate to avoid the pity stares, and his territory is ready for the taking. That's when Astley turns up, desperate to get back to a pixie king himself, when helife that's around Zaraas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's skin turns blue, the true colour of a pixie. Only being half pixienew (cute!) boy in school, and having not been turned, why is Zara reacting like this? But Astley isn't the only pixie king that's made his way her music A Level performance piece to Maine try to claim the territorysort out, and he's certainly not just the day to day traumas of all the most evilchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807416</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CremerSimon Fox|title=Witches War: NightshadeDeadlock

|summary=Franz isn't popular in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the village. It's 1939force, and the German boy is on an extended holiday in England. Unsurprisinglythen suddenly rings Archie, the local boys don't appreciate an enemy in their midst. Franz isn't happy at home either - demanding he mistrusts his Nazi parents fetch something from a secret place, and he remembers join him on the rounding up of the disabledrun. They get together, but barely begin to smell the gypsies and whiff of Southern trains when the Jewsfather is arrested, and leaving Archie on the smashing glass at night. Lonelylate express to Brighton, Franz spends toting a lot of time on the commontin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, observing the natural world and the wildlife, in all its beauty and crueltybearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729659</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=M T McGuireLex Croucher|title=K'Barthan Trilogy: Few Gwen and Art Are ChosenNot in Love

|summary=The Pan of Hamgee is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a relatively inconspicuous fellow living gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the world of K'Barth, the setting of the battle between the overbearinga most delightful way. In this story, alien Grongolian settlers Gwen and the fanatic Resistance, described aptly by The Pan as being 'The lesser, but only very slightly lesser of two evilsArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, possibly.' Naturally, The Pan wants nothing much to do with this political conflict but due to a number of unfortunate cases of wrong placetheir mutual disgust! Gwen, wrong time and disastrous luckyou see, he has somehow been drafted is in as love with Bridget (the getaway driver of kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a group of bank robbersboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and somehow come into possession creating the subterfuge of a magical thimble falling in love with the power to allow teleportationeach other, an object greatly desired by K'Barth's despot ruler Lord Vernonwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907809007</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleNick Brooks|title=Being BillyPromise Boys

|summary=Billy When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a 'lifer' - he's been in care for eight yearsmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He's angry Each, defensive and folded up inside himself. He's prone to vandalism and violence and barely seemingly, has a week goes by without his careworkers needing to restrain him. He doesn't really go to school grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and even when he does, Billy is so far behind that each could have been there seems little point. The only joy in his life comes from at the twins, time of his little brother and sistermurder. Louie and Lizzie can't keep But who killed him out of trouble, but they can provide an anchor and Billy delights in caring for them. He reads them bedtime stories why, and sits by if any of the door of boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their room until they fall asleep. names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141331356</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Vincent1919635017|title=Soul Screamers: My Soul A Thief to Take|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After Kaylee and her friend Emma sneak into an over18's club, Kaylee gets unnervingly distressed by the sight of Catch a girldancing, feeling as if she needs to scream. As Emma, along with themysterious Nash, try to calm her and remove her from the club, shetells them that she's convinced the girl is going to die. Waking upthe next day to turn on the news, she finds out she was right. Andthen it happens again… Kaylee's convinced she's a freak and there'ssomething deeply wrong with her, but Nash seems surprisingly unfazedby this, while her aunt and uncle are both acting strangely. What'swrong with her? And why does she know less about herself than theydo about her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778303551</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Keren David|title=When I Was JoeKitt Townsend|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We meet 14 year old Tyler and his young mother Nicki at the policestation as he gives a statement about a stabbing he witnessed.Unfortunately for them, some of the people involved would rather notallow him to testify against them and he's forced to flee for hislife, moving into the Witness Protection scheme 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 and is coachedby older teen Ellie. Not everyone's happy with the impact he makes,though, and he needs to worry about rivals in school nearly as much ashe does about the gangsters who are still trying to silence him. Andthen he meets a girl with a dark secret of her own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847801005</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Stead|title=When You Reach Me|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Miranda has quite a bit going on in her life. Since her best friend Sal was punched on the street for no reason, he's been distant, shutting Miranda out of his life. This loss leaves Miranda somewhat adrift, as she and Sal have been inseparable since they were at day care together. So she strikes up a friendship with Annemarie, but that involves coming between Annemarie and the stuck-up Julia. And then Colin joins the group, which adds yet more complications - Miranda likes Colin, but she's worried he might like Annemarie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849392129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lee Monroe|title=Dark Heart Forever|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jane Jonas has been troubled by dreams lately. Dreams so vivid, it's almost like they're real. In them is a green eyed boy who believes they are each other's destiny. But in the real world, Jane has met Evan. Charming, charismatic, damaged Evan – intoxicating, incredibly attractive and just a little frightening. Jane has never been the sort to have friends, let alone boyfriends. And Evan is perfect, isn't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu|title=The Shadow Speaker|rating=24.5

|summary=Set in Western Africa in 2070Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, in so why is he running around London committing a world which has been forever changed by Peace Bombs, released years ago by series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an environmental group answer 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 shadowssecond question because I avoid spoilers. But five years ago, I'll answer the warrior queen Jaa beheaded Eiji's tyrannical father, and Jaa has returned seeking Eiji's helpfirst one: for his grandmother.. 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 CollinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Tyme's EndDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Bibi feels like Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a fish out standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of waterfour 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. She As they's right in re all fired up, straining at the middle of the most difficult of teenage yearsleash only a single-sex school can form, the ones talk in which you donclass and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't feel as though you belong anywhereknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Bibi He's feelings are exacerbated because she is adopted. Friends of had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the family took her in after her parents died and they have done their best ladder headed by her. They love her and'experienced', despite everythingbut whether that's set in stone, Bibi loves themhe can't be sure. But she doesn And that't feel as though she belongs to this family and she thinks constantly s mostly because of her real parents who he's been having the relationship and her real home in the Middle Eastsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806479</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Godbersen1800901232|title=Bright Young ThingsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Right from Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the fantastic prologuerural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, which tells us this is so when the story of ''the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and bigsmartly-city dreams'', this is a book which had me completely dressed man and utterly hooked straight away. Cordelia Gray and her friend Letty Haubstadt run away from their small hometown in Ohio just after Cordelia's wedding, Letty determined woman came to the village to become offer Hahn a star job in New York while Cordelia seeks Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the infamous bootlegger Darius Grey, convinced he's her fathermini-bus to Hanoi. Meanwhile Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in the Big Apple itselfa shop, flapper Astrid Donal wants they were to get her boyfriend Charlie to commit to her but isn't sure if she can trust himwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. This first book in You know those jeans you really wanted: the Bright Young Things series follows ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the three girls over a few weeks which will change all of their liveslegs? 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335343</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sonya HartnettPatrice Lawrence|title=The Midnight ZooNeedle|rating=53

|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 's Eastern Europe during World War II heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and orphaned Roma brothers Andrej readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Tomas are journeying through war-ravaged countryside carrying schools, she's fostering with a precious pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and secret bundle. Ithas taken up residence in her son Blake's an odd kind of journey because they really donold room while he't have anywhere to gos at uni. They have Such a great deal to avoidtempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, howeveryou might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as soldiers with rifles, bombsCharlene is a wonder knitter, and villagers who would decry them on sight. As Andrej trudges on, worrying about Tomas, he is thinking itmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's just another night, just another village in ruinsallowed contact with no more. But he's wrong. The boys stumble across We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a zoo. The cages are still standingstore detective, intact and lockedthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And the animals have no food then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and waterpointy those knitting needles can be. But they are alive. And they can talk. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140633149X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie JonesAnn Sei Lin|title=EnticeRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=When I got this book I didn't realise it was Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the third book Midori, a massive dining hall floating in a series, and to start with this put me off; I thought I'd be the one stood outside sky where soldiers of the window watching everyone else at the party Empire come to drink and not understand what was going onmake merry between their conquests. However, as I started when a man named Himura arrives to read I started tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to feel more included than I thought I would (there is form paper into whatever she desires – a nice little reminder paragraph at power sought after all across the start Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that filled me on what I had missed)is all she has known. SoWell, although I recommend you start with soon Kurara won't have any say in the first book in matter, because the seriesMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Entice does have its own legs and she is very capable forced to flee 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 standing on them.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408810441</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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 next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'. Later on the book deals with how 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 series, and those who have not. The Dead is a prequel to The Enemy but both books are set in the same post-apocalyptic world in which the adult population has been decimated by a killer disease. Those that survive roam the streets as zombies, looking for untainted human flesh to eat. The only untainted flesh belongs to children who were fourteen or under when the disease struck, and were somehow immune. The Enemy is set two years after the epidemic, when it's getting more and more difficult for children to find food and shelter by scavenging and they are beginning to realise that they need to band together to start forming the prototype for a new society. |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, 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]], 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 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 in town, the mysterious John Breed. While the first novel was more of a romance, this is an adventure story which sees Ethan, his friend Link, new girl in town Liv, and a variety of others embark on a journey to save the day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{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 series. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been to the world of the Dead (don't ask), become a Keeper (dangerous job), got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off), and has gone some way to locating his father (prisoner of the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it). Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair, Lazarus has a mission. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ally Condie|title=Matched|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When the Society Matches Cassia 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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesMarcus Sedgwick|title=Rules of AttractionWrath

|summary=Carlos Fuentes isn't interested in living in America Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with his over-protective brother Alexwhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his mother sends him there for foot in it when he talks to his senior year best friend, Cassie. They were half of high a desultory school to try and keep him out band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of trouble. Kiara Westford the world is happy to help already a done deal? Is it some spooky new guy settle in - at least until kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the shy stutterer actually meets the bad boy. Despite their initial dislike of each othertruth? Well, they're thrown together not when Carlos Cassie has drugsplanted on him and her well respected father takes him in to stop him being sent back to Mexicogone missing he can't... Will these two headstrong youngsters find love?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SilverwoodTori Bovalino|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged SwordDevil Makes Three

|summary=When FinWorking all summer in her boarding school's guardian, Judge Harlequin Brown library is murdered, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting and dangerous. In the course of one life-changing day, he learns that there is last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a pathway between his London in 'Somewhere', and an alternate London of request for over a parallel world called 'Nowhere', and hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the fates of both worlds are now under threat from a group of rogue Knights, man who have requested the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swordsbooks: Mr Birch.|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 boarding school'bind-up' editions - this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisterias headmaster, Maryland and trying to find closure on past eventsa man Tess hates. In this case, Anna is summoned there by As a letter from petty act of revenge for making her uncle asking her to return to find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the place where her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their familybooks, but by scribbled with the time ugliest insults she returns her uncle is deadcan think of. They're never meant to reach him, his body found in the boot of a burnt out carcourse. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct plan is to get her anger out as quickly as possiblelike this, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zackand then take them all off before delivering them. The O'Neill women have always been said to No harm done… Or it would be psychic, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw if someone hadn't delivered them for her towards a solution - but also further into danger.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisi HarrisonPhilip Reeve|title=Monster HighUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=I don't know about everyone elseIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but I'm getting a bit fed up of all way west, beyond the vampiresScillies. There are troll people on it, werewolves and other creepies sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that seem has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to have popped keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up since out of the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]sea one day eleven years ago. SoBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, when this book landed on my doorstepboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, I can't say I held much hope for like itor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare ChambersKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Burning SecretsJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=DanielJulia, his mother our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and his sister Louie are escaping their cat from the city family home in SW England to spend six months on be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the isolated far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniel's mother Dad is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie going to be automating the lantern, which is prone his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after a conviction for fire-setting resulting in hunt the death of an old itinerantelusive Greenland shark. There's plenty to leave behind And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelJonathan Stroud|title=Half BrotherThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Ben's thirteen Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and an only child. You'd think he was entirely used Faith Houses to being wander the wildlands between the centre Seven Kingdoms of attentionBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But thenshe meets Albert Browne, wouldn't you? But this isn't really the case. Ben's parents are academics. His father is a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist dark boy with dark powers and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as her husband's research assistanta darker past. Ben is used With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to coming second flee to the advance mythical Free Isles of sciencethe London Lagoon. He can cope with that. Usually. But then his parents up sticks Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and move him all the way across Canada. Why? Because his father's new university is prepared to underwrite his new project horrors of post- raising a chimpanzee as human and trying apocalyptic society to teach it American Sign Language. reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenMercedes Helnwein|title=Sigrun's SecretSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=It must have seemed Gracie Welles has resigned herself to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in Iceland, breaking and training the colts on the being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family farm or helping her mother, Thora, who was she is used to not being a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her fatherpriority in people's ship returned home and the family was together againlives. It was not to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding But when she defends a dreadful secret and when it caught up random boy in her class with them, Sigrun, her father and Asgrimslingshot, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik simple existence is changed for three yearsgood. She was completely unused to the busy city life and disliked the violence and cruelty No longer can she found around spend her. But – at the same time – writing novels in solitude, for her own skills as life now has a healer and midwife began to blossomboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanT L Huchu|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga Library of Larten Crepsley)the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Larten Crepsley leads Ropa Moyo is a hardghostalker, hard lifeusing Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. One child amongst manyEver since she dropped out of school, born during an industrial revolutionshe's been using it to support not only herself, he works horrendously long but her younger sister and dangerous hours in a silk factory even though heher aging grandmother. However, there's yet to see his teens. If an evil stalking the family is to eatruined streets of Edinburgh, there is little choicetargeting the city's children. The foreman Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and nobody dares challenge him realise that the world of magic is far bigger and if it wasn't for his orphan cousin, Vur, Lartenmore dangerous than she ever could's life would be grim indeedve imagined. But things never seem quite so dark when you have a true friendWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, do theyor will it claim her too? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beate Teresa HanikaKristen O'Neal|title=Learning to ScreamLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Malvina is thirteen years oldHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the youngest of three children fact that she may be in a dysfunctional family. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding constant pain for the rest of children, whilst her mother seems to suffer permanently from migrainelife. She has a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united in their dislike of the joins 'boys from the estate'. Her grandmother died last year, leaving her granddad on his own and itOof Ouch My Bones'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 , an online support group where she talks 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 bunch of Spooking: Unearthly Asylum|rating=3other teens living with chronic illnesses.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 They talk about their waterpark [[The Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P J Bracegirdle|last time]]troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and now puts a stop to a new sewage plantmess around. Actually, chiefly in the way last time was Joy, who still calls it home. A cold, decrepit, run-down and gothic home in When Brigid—one of her instance, but home nevertheless. But the evil diplomats are still making their plans closest friends—doesn't respond to redevelop the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige chat 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 suspicionwhile, Priya becomes concerned. 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 decides to steal her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956506402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rick Yancey|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the Wendigo|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop has spent his life tracking down dark parents' car and mysterious creatures, the existence of some of these fiends is too much for him drive to believe. In fact, thereBrigid's a split between Warthrop, his former close friend John Chanler, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampires, werewolves, and the terrifying wendigo, rumoured house to be the ultimate predatorcheck up on her. Warthrop scoffs at the other menBut what she doesn's belief t expect to find there is a werewolf in this creature - the basement – and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why it's impossible for it that werewolf to exist - but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when he disappears searching for it. It's not just friendship that drives him be the girl she has been talking to look online for his colleague though, as he's asked by Chanler's wife Muriel - who is Warthrop's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes the monstrumologist 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 livespast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After spending the entire of Move on to [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded ShadowsNewest Thrillers Reviews]], the excellent second book in this series, looking for it, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can she, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince to make peace with his father, or is their quest to end in bloodshed and failure?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>}}