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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipMax Boucherat|title=The Opposite Last Life of AmberLori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''Jinn was quick and shining bright; Jinn was motors got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-mouthed and nurturingbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome... Actually What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she catered for my every whim has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the point where she anticipated it asked for itworld-building, spoke for me There was never any need for me to speak and I know I could never say anything as well as she did, so I didncritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori't bothers world. I didn But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't resent find herself entirely on her or anythingown, and then she finds something even more spooky. I was proud For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to be spoken for by Jinnenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, sparky and bold. I was spoiled voiceless.'' ''Spoiled voiceless'' - isn't that her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a whole world of meaning contained in just two wordsgirl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599920</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James BlackRachel Greenlaw|title=Robin Hood Vs the Plague Undead (Mash Ups) Compass and Blade

|summary=Nottingham and its victims are refusing to stay dead.''I can hear the song of the sea.The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

 Robin Hood vsRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The Plague Undead Mira, like her mother before her, is a 'mash up' one of the Robin Hood myth with contemporary zombie talesseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. All But when the usual Robin Hood characters are there - Friar TuckCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Little Johnthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, the Sheriff of Nottingham - but Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with loads only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of zombies thrown a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as well. It must be very difficult her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to bring the two strands together and I don't think heart of the author has quite succeeded. The problem is that both mythologies endure for different reasons and itsmuggler's hard territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to fuse them together without compromising save the strengths future of both – zombies may work better in an urban setting, her home and having Robin Hood fighting zombies rather than the rich tends to undermine his leftwing credentialsones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140831388X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerHarry Allen|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)Children of the Sun|rating=35

|summary=''Evercrossed'' picks up where ''Kissed by an Angel'' left off. After her boyfriend Tristan was killed Ra Eun Seo lives in a car accident, Ivy took up with Gregory, who turned out to be North Korean town and she is a serial murderer talented singer. Life is hard and all-round bad guy. She was saved from him food is difficult to come by a combination of Tristan in angel form, so Seo and her psychic best friend Beth friends Nari and stalwart admirer Will. Now Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the three meagre rations of them are working rice and kimchi at a holiday inn for the summer, alongside Beth's cousin Kelsey and her friend Dhanya. Will is now Ivy's boyfriend but it's almost a year since Tristan died and Ivy is finding herself thinking about him more and morehome. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389171</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreview|author=Lois Duncan|title=I Know What You Did Last Summer|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A year ago, four teenagers committed a shocking crime after a party where they all had too much to drink, and overwhelmed by indecision, fear and desperation they made a pact to keep the incidents of the fateful night a secret. However, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up to the consequences of their actions. Their binding pact has held together for a year, partly out of the friendship they shared and mostly out of guilt, but when it becomes apparent that there is someone who is looking for revenge, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up to the truth, for their own sakes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Hill|title=Department 19|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived a normal, happy, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived at his house and men in black combats with strange, ultra-violent weapons burst in and executed his father. Since then, Jamie and his mother have lived in a succession of miserable, dour little houses and Jamie has become less and less interested in a succession of miserable, dour little schools. He resents his mother, like all good disaffected teenagers do. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K M Grant|title=Belle's Song|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Chaucer was a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write the famous Canterbury Tales, but he also found the time and courage to be a spy for the king at a time of civil unrest and political intrigue in Britain. So a story set during one of his journeys, one which combines his secret work and some of the more memorable characters from the tales, is an intriguing proposition, metaphorically as well as literally. Add a dreamy, motherless girl whose guilt at causing her father's accident only reinforces her tendency to self-harm and obsessive behaviour, and a cracking good plot emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark RobsonAlexia Casale|title=The Devil's Triangle|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A rebellious boat journey into the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, prompted by Sam's annoyance at his father's obsession with the areaSing if you Can's notoriety, turns out to be very ill-advised as Sam and his friend, Callum, find themselves lost and stranded on an island that is terrifyingly different from anything they have witnessed before. Meanwhile, Sam's twin sister Niamh is caught up in the search for the boys, co-ordinated by their father, Matthew, who is desperate to rescue Sam and Callum from the same mysterious phenomenon that took his wife nine years ago. As the search for the boys threatens to disintegrate under allegations that Matthew may be responsible for their disappearance, Niamh goes on the run, desperate to keep searching for her brother, but with only their rather ambiguous twin bond to guide her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389783</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie Jordan|title=Firelightt Dance

|summary=Jacinda was singled out as special by her Pride when she manifested with the ability It's hard enough to breath fire. A fire-breather hasnnavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you't been born re having to the Draki for generationsnavigate a life-changing disability too, and there are those but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Pride who would use middle of a dance performance that was going to change her for their own endslife. Craving freedom But she comes back fighting, Jacinda takes desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a risk life that nearly costs her life's as normal as she can possibly manage. Now Jacinda Meanwhile there's mother has dragged a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and twin sister Tamra from their mountain home, sneaking away in just the middle day to day traumas of all the nightchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, leaving everything they knew behind.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756508</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin|title=Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Jenna and Jonah, Charlie and Fielding – they're the stars of the hit TV show 'Jenna and Jonah's How To Be A Rock Star'. On-screen they're next-door neighbours in a will they, won't they plot. Off-screen they're every bit the perfect couple they are on TV, romantic dinners, flowers – the lot. The problem is they hate each other. You heard me right, they loathe each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewSimon Fox|title=The Demon CollectorDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Edgy Taylor – a 19th century dog muck collector for a cruel masterLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Talon – wouldn't claim to have had the best of lives. His only enjoyment of his 13 years or so so far has been setting and solving riddlesthen suddenly rings Archie, while demanding he's spent most of his time avoiding the cruelty of his employer. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him fetch something from Talona secret place, revealing the tanner to be a demon called Thammuz and turning join him to stone, Edgy may have cause to look back on his old life with nostalgiathe run. Because inside the Royal Society of Daemonologie They get together, there are people who think Edgy can help them in their quest but barely begin to find smell the heart whiff of Southern trains when the legendary demon Molochfather is arrested, who turned against Satan. There are people who think he's a nuisance. And there are people who want him dead. Can Edgy figure out who's who? He'll have leaving Archie on the late express toBrighton, because toting a mistake could cost him tin his life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Mahoney|title=The Iron Witch|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Donna has always been an outcast. The arms she hides underneath long gloves are covered in iron tattoos that give her enhanced strength – strength she has tried father was determined to hide. Butkeep away from his colleagues, despite her best efforts, Donna was involved in an incident at school, an incident that means she's now homeschooled and the bearer of a social pariah.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan Chambers|title=The Kissing Game|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=You don't see that many short story collections in YA circles. But when they do appear, you often wonder why there aren't more of them. And this is absolutely the case with The Kissing Game. Ranging from short pieces whole heap of flash fiction to "proper" short stories, each one will incite, surprise and stimulatequestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brian FalknerLex Croucher|title=BrainjackGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Sam comes Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the attention of the CDD (Homeland Securitykingdom's Cyber Defence Divisiononly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when he crashes Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the entire American internet network because he wants a top spec laptop and one subterfuge of those super-cool new neural headsetsfalling in love with each other, but doesn't have the money to buy themwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Thinking he's been given But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a hacker network initiation testway in which they can both truly be themselves, Sam then successfully penetrates the White House's security system. It's all the CDD needs or are they destined to know, and Sam finds himself sprung from federal custody and recruited. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406329061</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Kate Brian|title=Private: The Book of Spells|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Following in her older sister's footsteps after May's return from the exclusive Billings School for Girls to marry the handsome George Thackery III, Eliza Williams is expecting that everyone at the school will remember her sister with affection. But Theresa Billings – as powerful as her name suggests – clearly wasn't a great friend of May's, and Eliza must navigate the rivalries and friendships of school as she tries to settle in. Then the girls find a spell book, and bond over frivolous magic as they help each other and embarrass people they dislike. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071297</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeNick Brooks|title=EntangledPromise Boys

|summary=The story starts on day When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three of Grace's imprisonment by a kidnapperboys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She's been given pen and paper to explain her recent actions Each, including falling in love with her boyfriend Natseemingly, the ups and downs has a grudge of her friendship with Sal, her self-harmingsome description against Principal Moore, and her attempted suicideeach could have been there at the time of his murder. As we learn more But who killed him, and more about Grace's lifewhy, the one thing we're never quite sure and if any of is where the mysterious Ethanboys are innocent, herkidnapper, fits into things…will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849163944</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander Gordon Smith1919635017|title=Furnace: Execution|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=And so A Thief to the end. Alex and his closest friends have escaped the Furnace Penitentiary, that mile-deep hell-hole cum nightmare scientific experiment writ large. He's arisen to find the country in tatters, as the nasty creatures born there are in charge and decimating the population. There is only one thing to do - kill the man responsible. And Alex, eight feet tall, with an obsidian blade for an arm and muscles upon his muscles, will still face his hardest battle yet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259405</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Fairfield|title=Tyranny|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of Catch a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf to the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Helen Bailey|title=Running in Heels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=You'd like Daisy Davenport. Her father might be rich but she's a lot nicer than most fourteen year old girls. She's perhaps a little too attached to the good things in life, such as her mother's Louboutins and her own cracked silver Mulberry bag, but as she's always had that sort of lifestyle it's easy to understand why she sees nothing wrong in them. And besides everyone else at her private school has the same sort of lifestyle: some girls don't even look the side you're on unless you have a swimming pool at home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Nix and Sean Williams|title=Troubletwisters|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jack and Jaide Shield, twins, are living perfectly normal lives until a brief visit from their elusive father sparks an unexplainable, chaotic, reality-bending storm that destroys their home and introduces them to the mysterious world of the Wardens, a group gifted with diverse powers, and their perpetual struggle against a force known only as The Evil. As young Wardens, or Troubletwisters, just growing into their Gifts, the pair struggle to make sense of the chaos that surrounds them and discover the true nature of their heritage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Mulligan|title=Return to RibblestropKitt Townsend

|summary=Before they even get back to Ribblestrop, Millie and her friends singularly or together hitchhike, pay their bus drivers the fare in fags, survive Solomon Klyne isn't a car crashbad lad, set fire to a hotel, survive being eaten by a lion and other big cats, and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals to Ribblestrop. And what so why is Ribblestrop, you may ask? "Ribblestrop's he running around London committing a schoolseries of robberies?" said Flavio.<br>"Kind of", said Ruskin. "It's trying to be."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ali Lewis|title=Everybody Jam|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Danny lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. His brother Jonny died in an horrific accident last year and the subject is absolutely taboo. Nobody even mentions his name. But Danny keeps Jonny's room just as it was when he died, and And how did he touches his picture every day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939248X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eve Edwards|title=The Queen's Lady|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Although it's not long since Lady Jane Rievaulx's husband died she's already beginning a new life in service learn to the Queen at Richmond Palace. Itcrack safes? You's not enthusiasm which is driving her ll have to this but her late husband's children are disputing her dower rights and her own father finds it difficult wait to accept that she is now get an independent woman. In the Queen's service she has a degree of protection. The man she loves – James Lacy – has demons of his own to conquer and he's about to set sail answer to the Americassecond question because I avoid spoilers. When JaneBut I's family force her into a dreadful situation it looks as though ll answer the first one man who can save her is at the other side of the world: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sandra GloverPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=FalloutDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Hannah tries Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to object when her find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so-called friends throw an impromptu party at her house during her parents' absencehis desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, but she simply doesn't know how and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to stand up to themprimary school days together. At first things aren As they't too bad: her parents will go ballistic when they see re all fired up, straining at the spilt beer on leash only a single-sex school can form, the carpets, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. Then drink talk in class and drugs begin out often turns to take their tollsex. A window Which is smashed during a fightconfusing for Ant, all manner of things are damaged beyond repair, and the house is burgled. And something terrible, something so bad she canas he doesn't face it or admit itknow what his score is, happens to Hannah during where his achievements in that eventful nightregard lie. And it will destroy lives in more than one family.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniel H Wilson|title=Code Lightfall and the Robot King|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Code Lightfall is on He's had a school trip to casual relationship, a prehistoric mound when he falls through a trap into another worldsecret one, where everything is made of crystal, or metalfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the only living ladder headed by 'animalsexperienced' are all robotic. It, but whether that's a world under threatset in stone, so he can he journey across its bizarre landscapes and save it all? 't be sure. And what is that's mostly because of who he's been having the truth of relationship and the mound, where his grandfather disappeared a year ago?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Bowler1800901232|title=Buried ThunderStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=On Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a walk fashion designer. Life in the woods near the rural village where she lived with her family's new homewas happy, if not prosperous, Maya is suddenly compelled by so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a glinting pair of yellow eyes job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to run away from her brother be missed. Some money changed hands and deep into Hanh was on the trees. What she finds is shocking mini- three dead bodies with a figure standing over the thirdbus to Hanoi. Terrified Only, Maya stumbles back Hanh and recounts the horror other girls were not going to her parentswork in a shop, who call the policethey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But You know those jeans you really wanted: the police can't find any bodies, ones with intricate embroidery and it's clear they think she's a prankster. Even Maya's parents don't really believe her. They think she's seeing things beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and they're worried distressed seams that shefelt so soft when you touched them? It's illquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Berlie Doherty|title=Treason|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Forced by his power-hungry aunt and uncle to leave the comfort of his modest family home, Will Montague finds himself utterly overwhelmed, as he works as a page to Prince Edward under the keen eye of the temperamental King Henry, just as prone to unexpected bursts of compassion as he is to brutal cruelty. Just as he begins to find his feet in this new position, Will finds himself suddenly on the run, desperately trying to clear the name of his father, convicted of treason for failing to revert to the Protestantism led by the King, and simultaneously gaining more awareness of the world he lives in and the plights of the working class. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ally Carter|title=Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover (Gallagher Girls)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When your average girl wonders what a boy is really like, she and her friends will maybe ask around among brothers and lab partners, or even, if he is majorly good-looking, try to trail him around town on a Saturday morning. But the girls of the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women do things differently. They have access to top-secret files. They have been trained to disguise themselves for covert operations. They know how to read the slightest hints drawn from a person's body language. When they get curious about something, there's very little chance it will stay hidden. But now their skills are really being put to the test. Cammie's room-mate Macey, the daughter of a senator on the campaign trail, has been attacked. It will take everything her friends have learned, and more, to protect her and solve the mysteries which surround them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140830953X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexandra Adornetto |title=Halo|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=When three angels – Gabriel, Ivy and Bethany – arrive in a quiet town, their mission is to bring good to a world in danger of falling into darkness. They have to conceal their true nature – hiding the glow of their skin, their wings – a task not easy for Bethany, the least experienced of the trio. She's overwhelmed by human life, fascinated by all the experiences available to her in human form. A fascination that leads to a dangerous attraction to human boy, Xavier. Falling in love was not part of the holy mission, and Gabriel and Ivy fear Bethany won't be in the position to save anybody if she continues down the path she's on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410759</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tricia Rayburn|title=Siren|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=17-year old Vanessa has always been looked after by her more adventurous, outgoing older sister Justine. So when her sister is found dead while they're on vacation in Winter Harbor, and Justine's boyfriend Caleb goes missing, she's devastated. Desperately searching for answers to Justine's demise, she returns to Harbor seeking answers, and teams up with Caleb's brother Simon to find them. Then the weather gets strange, and other bodies start turning up… can they solve the mystery?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571260063</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul HoffmanPatrice Lawrence|title=The Left Hand of GodNeedle

|summary=Cale is fourteen and his life so far has not been one to envyBrave. Brought to Charlene, the Redeemers' Sanctuary as just a toddler, heheroine's lived within its militant religious fanaticism of this piece is extremely hard for all the years he can remember. Beatensome people to like, brutalised characters and half-starved, Cale and his fellow acolytes are being raised to fight an ongoing and bloody war against hereticsreaders both. Cale is Kicked out of special interest to Boscomultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a Redeemer Lord Militantpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and we soon realise whyhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Cale is intelligentSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, ruthless, quickyou might perhaps think, and has the ability to kill without remorse. He creation of one such item is an asset. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333553</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julie Hearn|title=Wreckers|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The story part of Pandora, whose actions are the cause of all the ills in our worldplot here, as Charlene is well-known. As Julie Hearn has one of her characters say, men remember it because they feel better if they can blame hera wonder knitter, and that other female villain, Eve, is making something full of love for all their woes and crimesher younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. But supposing Hope wasn't the last thing in that plain wooden box? What if something elseWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, something slow and ugly and steeped in evilthen force people to give her two days off school, skulked in the shadows right at the bottom? And what if when she shouts someone today lifted the lid, down as Pandora didexpletively ignorant. And then... well, and allowed that lastwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, terrible evil only to escape?remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729292</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David PetersenAnn Sei Lin|title=Mouse Guard: Legends of The GuardRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=To start withKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, I have never heard a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of Mr Petersen the Empire come to drink and his Mouse Guard franchisemake merry between their conquests. But I'm often up for an introduction However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a fantasy cycleCrafter like him, and I always relish being welcomed someone with the power to an author by form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the most esoteric, unusualEmpire. He asks her to come with him, quirky and short route. My first entry to leave the His Dark Materials world was [[Once Upon a Time life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the North matter, because the Midori is destroyed by Philip Pullman|a collector's spin-off]]monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and I'm just as likely she is forced to start flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Twilight series, if everOrihime, with the latest brief whimsy. And for those of a similar mindsky-setship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, this collection of tales from the pens and a whole world of guest writers and illustrators, serves as an odd-shaped doorway on to this particular universe.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857681427</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Curtis Jobling|title=Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Drew Ferran knows there's a monster roaming the land where his family farm – he just doesn't realise it could be inside him. Until a terrible creature attacks his beloved mother, triggering a transformation in him, and leading his father and brother to believe he’s responsible for her death. Forced to flee to the most godforsaken parts of Lyssia, Drew becomes quickly embroiled in the world of the Werelords. Can he survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333391</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ivy DevlinMarcus Sedgwick|title=Low Red MoonWrath|rating=34.5

|summary=Avery's parents have been murderedMeet Fitz, they’ve been literally torn apart, and Avery saw the whole thinga young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. But her minds blocked it out, all she remembers Lockdown is seeing something inhumanly fastonly just over, flashes of silverand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and bloodwith whom he wants, lots but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of blooda desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Whatever killed Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is still already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out therethe truth? Well, and is trying to kill hernot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881398X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patricia ElliottTori Bovalino|title=The Traitor's Smile (Pimpernelles)Devil Makes Three

|summary=Usual spoiler warning for [[The Pale Assassin (Pimpernelles) by Patricia Elliott|Pimpernelles book one, The Pale Assassin]]: at the end of that book, heroine Eugenie and love interest Julien had escaped the French Revolution but been forced to leave behind EugenieWorking all summer in her boarding school's brother Armand library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to face the wrath of the government do — especially when she gets a request for over the failed attempt a hundred books that she has to rescue the Kingdeliver herself. Eugenie What makes it worse is being followed by Guy Deschamps, the man who she still trusts, despite Julienrequested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's duel with him at the end of the first bookheadmaster, not knowing that he's working for the Pale Assassin himself Raoul Goulletand a man Tess hates.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340956771</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Hussey|title=Witchfinder: Gallows at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After turning from horror comic geek to As a cloned Witchfinder petty act of revenge for making her find and saviour deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of humanity in the space of a few short weeks, Jake Harker's magic is understandably depleted. Try as he mightbooks, scribbled with the blue light fails to ingite in his handugliest insults she can think of. But Jake has no time for recuperation or for coming They're never meant to terms with the loss reach him, of his mothercourse. His father Her plan is dyingto get her anger out like this, hexed by the evil witch Marcus Crowdenand then take them all off before delivering them. And the Demon Father is at largeNo harm done… Or it would be, summoning a universal coven that will threaten everything Jake has already fought to saveif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731912</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryPhilip Reeve|title=Rot & RuinUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's been fourteen years since First Night and the zombie apocalypseIn a word, rich. Those humans who survived the disease that created the undead live There is certainly an abundance of riches in pocket communitiesthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, fenced off from beyond the horrors of the outside worldScillies. Resources There are scarce troll people on it, and all citizens must find a job as soon as they turn fifteensea-witches, else their rations are cut in half. Benny Imura and legends of the Dark family that has just turned fifteen to keep watch for magical islands and so he needs work badlytheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. He tries out as a locksmithThe current Darks are the Watcher, a fence technicianAndrewe, a portraitist and a carpet coat salesman. Nothing works out and so Benny who has no option but to keep notes of activity from the last resort - an apprenticeship 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 out of the family business of zombie huntingsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, under both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the tutelage world of his older brother Tomprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070959</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhiannon LassiterKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Ghost of a ChanceJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Eva Chance is used to being ignored by Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family, apart from her frail grandfather, who she adores. So she's barely even surprised when they don't set a place home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for her at a dinner partysummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. But when nearly everyone is ignoring her she grows increasingly concerned – and Here be Vikings, that's when she realises she's deadkind of Scottish island. Can she solve Dad is going to be automating the mystery of lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her murder before either malevolent ghosts or human criminals can do any more damage career in algae behind to her familyhunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, aided only by Kyrawell, who bullied her when she was alive, Kyra's brother Kyle, will be homesick and a ghost called Maggie alone – until she may or may not be able to trust?suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755625</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richmal CromptonJonathan Stroud|title=Just WilliamThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Whether it's a trip Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the cinemaSeven Kingdoms of Britain, babysitting a youngsterrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, being a page dark boy at with dark powers and a weddingdarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, or running away from home they plan to take a job below stairsflee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the 11cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-year old William Brown can always apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be relied on to create chaos and havoc wherever he goes. This short story collection (any more accepted there than they are in the first rest of 38 books) is a wonderful introduction to a classic character.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330507451</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jason WallaceMercedes Helnwein|title=Out of ShadowsSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Robert Jacklin arrives at his new boarding school as Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a very reluctant pupil. He"real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a reluctant Africanrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, too - his family has just moved to Zimbabwe after his father her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has been given a diplomatic placing there. More than anything else, Robert wants to return to Englandboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849390487</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Heather BrewerT L Huchu|title=The Chronicles Library of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bitesthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=High school Ropa Moyo is hard enough for most kidsa ghostalker, but using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for half vampire Vladtheir living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it really bitesto support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. First However, there's his blood cravings – how exactly do you sneak a pint an evil stalking the ruined streets of O neg into your lunchbox? Then thereEdinburgh, targeting the city's his enlarged fangschildren. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his ever developing powers dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that Vlad doesn't know the extent world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the fact that his crush seems missing children and bring an end to have a thing for his best mate.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0142411876</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jandy NelsonKristen O'Neal|title=The Sky is EverywhereLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary='There were once two sisters who were not afraid of Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the dark because fact that she may be in constant pain for the dark was full rest of the others voice around the room..her life.She joins ' But now there's only one, because 19 year old Bailey has died and her17 year old sister Lennie is left alone in her grief, apart from herGram and Uncle Big.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406326305</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Irfan Master|title=A Beautiful Lie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Bedridden with cancer, BilalOof Ouch My Bones's bapuji, or father, doesn't realise how far the plan for the Partition of India has progressed. Bilal has kept the news from him as he was worried that it would kill him – but when he accepts that death is imminent, Bilal swears an online support group where she talks to at least save him the pain a bunch of having his heart broken before he passes awayother teens living with chronic illnesses. Along with his friends Chota, Manjeet They talk about their troubles and Saleemhelp each other out, Bilal swears while also providing an escape to stop him from ever finding outjust joke and mess around. 1947 India, though, is a dangerous place for everyone, and there are people in their town who donWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't think that Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus should be doing anything together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408805758</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=J P Buxton|title=I Am The Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In respond to the Dark Ageschat for a while, Tog is brought up by a woodcutterPriya becomes concerned. Strangely, heShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's being taught rather more than youhouse to check up on her. But what she doesn'd t expect to find there is a woodcutter's apprentice werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be learning, including how the girl she has been talking to read and write Latinonline for the past few months. Why?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970057</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Katherine Rundell|title=The Girl Savage|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In Zimbabwe, Nice Will Silver has lived all her life with her father Nice William Silver, his employer Nice Captain Browne, and her friend Nice Simon. But when Nice Captain Browne falls in love with Nasty Cynthia Vincy, Nice Will is uprooted from her roots and sent Move on to an English boarding school, run by Nice Miss Blake and her assistant Nasty Mrs Robinson. How will she cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571254314</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julie Kagawa|title=The Iron Fey: The Iron King|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meghan Chase has always found her life slightly odd. She's never fitted in at school, where bullies relentlessly target her, nor at home, where her family always seem slightly surprised to find her there – except her little brother, Ethan, they barely remember her as soon as she leaves the room. Her only friend in the world is Robbie, her happy-go-lucky next door neighbour, who can always make her laugh. Meghan thinks turning sixteen will signal a change in their fortunes – she'll be able to drive, get them out of hickville once in a while.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0778304345</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]