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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellMax Boucherat|title=Sektion 20The Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the early 1970s and Alex is living with his family house to herself – no neighbour to pop in East Berlin, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, fashion and rock music, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time that is spent at school listening to endless lectures log on to Voxminer, the superiority of the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinksworld-building, even when hecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's with his family world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and closest friendsthen she finds something even more spooky. Nobody in East Berlin wants For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to come to the attention enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the Stasigame has been doctored – well, the state security service. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808633</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard BeckettRachel Greenlaw|title=AugustCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=In an alternate world, Tristan and Grace come from The City, a closed and enclosed society in which religion dominates. Tristan had been an acolyte at St Augustine's'I can hear the song of the sea. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion The call of free will by the Rector. A star pupildeep, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent the first part of her childhood answering beat in the convent, but a single act of kindness led to her excommunicationmy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Forgive My Fins|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=You think you've got problems with your love life? Spare Rosevear, a thought for Lily Sandersonremote and partially forgotten island, who has a huge crush survives on swimming god Brody Bennettluring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, an obnoxious biker-boy neighbour Quince Fletcherlike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a serious deadline problem. Shetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's totally convinced that Brody is the right man for her, leader and needs Mira's father. Desperate to get save him to realise this from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and take him home with only coordinates to meet guide her father. Who just happens to be the King , she sets off in search ofThalassinia. Of course, a family secret that will also means revealing her big secret. You see, Lily is half-mermaidlies buried deep in the sea. With all this going through only nine days to unearth what might save her mindfather, itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's no surprise when she gets confusedterritory, leading Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to a kiss which changes everything..save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848771347</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher PikeHarry Allen|title=Final FriendsChildren of the Sun

|summary=When Jessica Hart Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and her friends end up at a new school, she decides to throw is a party to get to know some of the cute guys theretalented singer. It seems like a great idea at the time – but it will have far-reaching consequences which will mean their senior year will be nothing like they expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444901303</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ransom Riggs|title=Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=After his grandfather's death, sixteen year old Jacob Life is hard and food is sent difficult to a psychiatrist. He swears that he'd seen a monster of some description - just like the weird come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and unusual things the old man used to tell him about - when he discovered the body. As you can imagineMin go foraging every evening, everyone thinks Jacob is crazy. But then events set in motion a visit looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the island off the coast meagre rations of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew up, rice andas Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he discovers that his grandfather may have been telling the truth all along..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594744769</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittAlexia Casale|title=Sean GriswoldSing if you Can's Headt Dance

|summary=When she finds out her dad was diagnosed with MS some months agoIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but no-one had felt that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the need middle of a dance performance that was going to tell change herlife. But she comes back fighting, Paytondesperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's world starts to fall apartas normal as she can possibly manage. So much so Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, that when her new counselor suggests picking something as a Focus Object music A Level performance piece to write about, she decides try to go for itsort out, and chooses Sean Griswold's head. But what starts off as a supposedly academic study just the day to day traumas of all the said head becomes something rather more interestingchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, as might she realizes that Sean himself might be someone worth focusing on.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140712059X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat FallsSimon Fox|title=Rip Tide (Dark Life)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Our favourite Dark Lifer and Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his Topsider friend are set for another post-apocalyptic adventure in this follow-up to Dark Life. Ty shift on the force, and Gemma discover then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a township chained secret place, and sunk join him on the ocean floorrun. They get together, every one of its hundreds of residents murdered. But before they can but barely begin to unravel smell the mystery, another crisis takes centre stage. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387624</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lara Chapman|title=Flawless|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sarah Burke has everything. Model looks and body, straight A grades and a best friend who would take a bullet for her. The one thing she doesn't have is a normal sized nose. Hers whiff of Southern trains when the father is massive. Soarrested, Sarah is forced leaving Archie on the late express to hide behind Brighton, toting a fake confidence that pushes people about tin his father was determined to defend herself keep away from the bullying that her nose attracts. Plus, a mother who leaves nose job leaflets in her roomhis colleagues, bags and on the kitchen table with her breakfastbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408819619</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryLex Croucher|title=Solstice at StonewyldeGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Yul's odyssey culminates Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in an epic final conflict a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and destiny appears Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to be on his side. The Villagers are ready to rise against their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the oppression kingdom's only female knight) - something that Magus has built upon them so skilfully over Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the years that subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they weren't consciously aware of it until recentlyare enabling their own other romantic attachments. However But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Magus is still will they find a brutal force way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to be reckoned with and he is more dangerous than ever in his desperation.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098872</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyNick Brooks|title=ShiftPromise Boys

|summary=You might be thinking When the worst problem a modern-day American girl could have principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is her rock-star-in-waiting boyfriend dyingmurdered, and coming back three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a ghost that she and those younger than her can see because grudge of some untold event in the pastdescription against Principal Moore, but suffering when he gets malevolent and becomes a shade, which means she has to help him move on before he's locked up in limboeach could have been there at the time of his murder. That's because you're not factoring in the last boy born before her, But who can't see but is utterly repellent to ghostskilled him, but who she's just about to fall in love with when her late love turns up againand why, this time with a strangely solidand if any of the boys are innocent, corporeal form...will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Brooks1919635017|title=Grow Up|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jasper is seventeen. He spends his time pretending to revise for his AS levels, fantasising about sex with Georgia Treely, hanging out with self-harming best friend Tenaya watching cheesy TV shows, and taking ketamine and mephedrone with his friends. When he's at a loose end, he goes to sex chatrooms in a quest A Thief to see how far he can get without going private (paying). He's also convinced that his step-father, Keith, is Catch a homicidal maniac whose next victim is likely to be Jasper's mother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857861875</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Charlotte Moore|title=Milicent's BookKitt Townsend

|summary=Solomon Klyne isn'My name t a bad lad, so why is Milicent Bella Ludlow and I am an orphan'. So opens this story told in diary form of he running around London committing a year in the life series of a young Victorian girl whose father has just died. Luckily there are some kind and loving relatives willing robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to help her and Mabel, her older sister, and they are able get an answer to stay living in their family home, Yotes, the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for a whilehis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846470803</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=Ballad|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=After his best friend fell in love with a faerie, James realised she would never love him that way. But his attempts to get away from her, and the unrequited love he still nurses, only lead him straight to more faeries than ever before. For at James' new school, Thornking-Ash, the student populace is entirely made of musical prodigies. And there's nothing that attracts faeries more than music. James has even attracted his own muse – the deadly and dangerously attractive Nuala. The music she helps him make is better than he could ever manage on his own, but James knows the deadly consequences of making a deal with faeries, Patrick Ness and he knows Nuala won't give him freebies for long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140712112X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cynthia HandTea Bendix|title=Unearthly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Clara wants what ordinary teenagers want: friends, good school grades, a boyfriend. Only Clara isn't an ordinary teenager – she's part angel. She's fluent in all languages, naturally gifted academically and in sports. All the good stuff comes with a price, but even that's not so bad. Clara has a Purpose, an angelic calling, to save a mysterious boy from a forest fire, revealed to her in a series of visions that can strike any time of day or night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405259647</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Medusa Project: Double Cross|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Each of the 'Medusa Project' books is narrated by one of the teens involved in turn, and this time it is Nico who is the first person speaker. Things are not going well Different for the group: their former mentor Geri has just tried to kill them, and by using all her government and police contacts she has managed to make it look as if they are guilty of murder. The four teens' psychic abilities allow them to escape to France, and now they need to work out how to stop Geri and clear their names. But things just get worse and worse: the strain of their situation and the introduction of new characters start to pull the group apart just at the time when they need to trust each other the most.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707069X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alex Woolf|title=Chronosphere: Malfunction|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The ideal paradise of life inside the Chronosphere isn't supposed to be like this. If you're like Raffi and his friends you're spending a year inside, which only takes a minute of real life, enjoying a hedonistic, summery lifestyle with time on your hands and little cares. Except it's getting more than summery, it's a hothouse; the food is running out; the exits are locked; and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken and feel the end of their happiness. But then, if you're like Raffi and his friends, you are actually unknowingly there for a much more sinister reason, and someone's "project" is about to get much less Utopian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184562</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=The Scorpio Races|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At a young age Sean Kendrick watches his father die violently in the Scorpio Races – a race held every year on the beaches of the island where riders compete for a huge cash prize by riding the dangerous ''capaill uisce'', the water horses. Years later Sean is a four-time winner of the Scorpio Races with a prized mare – Corr – and plans to win again. Meanwhile, Puck (Kate) Connolly has been orphaned by the ''capaill uisce'' and struggles for every meal; their main source of income is her brother Gabe, but when he announces that he is leaving the island Puck realises that she has to fight for the survival of her family. Seeing no other option she enters her island pony into the races. The stakes are high as Sean and Puck compete against each other for the highest prize of them all – freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407129856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maxine Linnell|title=CloserBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=This Ant is one of those concise in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and powerful little books where it's best for the reader to come 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 four with as little knowledge of both his best buddy from the plot as possiblefootball team, so Iand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they'll feature re all fired up, straining at the mood leash only a single- sex school can form, the talk in class and Mel has a lot of thoseout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Beyond her yet-to-actually-start He's had a casual relationship with Raj, a secret one, for several months now, and her best friend Chloe, she so has her family - fractious animosity with her older sistereffectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', a younger brother who only plays computer gamesbut whether that's set in stone, and little freedom it seems from her motherhe can't be sure. At least her step-dadAnd that's a funky bloke though - although one mum finds fault with easily enough. Itmostly because of who he's hardly comfy domesticity, been having the relationship and is even worse when interrupted by something very disturbingthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907869263</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joss Stirling1800901232|title=Stealing PhoenixStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Phoenix is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a thieffashion designer. She's a very good one Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, thanks so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to having some rather useful psychic abilities. Working for the cruel and dominating Seer, she's forced village to follow his instructions offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to bring him whatever he wants – just as be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the rest of their community of savants aremini-bus to Hanoi. Then she's told to get something from Yves Benedict Only, Hanh and for the first time other girls were not going to work in her lifea shop, fails they were to take what she wantswork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Yves has powers of his own… You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and he may be beading on the legs? The ones with the one whoartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's stolen quite possible that Hanh and her heartco-workers made them. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Damian Dibben|title=The History Keepers: The Storm Begins|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Imagine if you lost your parents. Not just in place, but in time'' Scary, huh? But this is exactly what happens to Jake Djones (silent D, dears). Believing his parents have gone to a bathroom convention, he's carrying on as usual until they get home. But then he's abducted on his way home from school and taken to a secret base hidden beneath the Monument in London. Jake discovers that his parents have kept a secret from him: they are secret agents working for the History Keepers, working to prevent evil villains from tampering with history itself, and they have gone missing in sixteenth century Venice. B|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857530534</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joanna Philbin|title=Celebriteens: In the Spotlight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Girls usually get together because they've got something in common and for Lizzie, Carina and Hudson it's their famous parents. Lizzie's mother is a supermodel and even in her thirties she's still one of the most beautiful women in the world. Lizzie's – not. Well, she's not exactly ugly but compared to her mother (and she always is) she just doesn't come up to scratch. Carina's dad is a rich (''very'' rich) businessman and he's determined that C (as she's known) is going to join the company and eventually take over. Carina has other ideas. Hudson wants to make music and you might think that having a pop diva for a mother is a good start, but Hudson's style is different and her mother can't accept that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121200</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Helen GrantPatrice Lawrence|title=Wish Me DeadNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Rural GermanyBrave. Charlene, in modern timesthe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Steffi Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her five friends lark about son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a deserted building to summon comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a witch wonder knitter, and get is making something full of love for her to kill younger sister – a local celebrity - who does indeed dieyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. When We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a repeat attempt gifts a decent amount of cash store detective, and then force people to Steffi it becomes clear give her two days off school, when she is alone in having her wishes grantedshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... So well, what will happen when she wishes exactly happens is not for the town hunk - hasn't Steffi heard me to say, only to be careful what you wish for? But remark how on earth sharp and pointy those knitting needles can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *that* title?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonAnn Sei Lin|title=Jessie Hearts NYCRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=After splitting up with TaylorKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, Jessie when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is desperate to forget about a Crafter like him, so her first ever trip someone with the power to New York is heaven-sent form paper into whatever she desires – even if it does mean having a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to stay come with her motherhim, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. EmmaWell, her best friendsoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is equally thrilled to be coming with her. While Jessie destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is still upset at her mother’s decision forced to move to America, New YorkerFinn is facing problems of his own with his controlling familyflee out into the world. Railroaded into working in his dad's insurance company during his summer holidayShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, he dreams of being an architect. He's also fallen hard for a girl sky- who happens ship whose express purpose is to be his best friend's girlfriend. What will happen when these two meet?hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate CostelloeMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Breakfast ClubWrath

|summary=Meet Julia Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Robert. They're siblings on their way he should be free to do what he wants, to Grace Collegego where he wants and with whom he wants, an exclusive campus stuck up but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the Canadian wildernessit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It's They were half of a rum placedesultory school band, set by but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a lake under lowering mountainssubhuman hum coming from the earth. It's a place Is this connected with one of sudden nighther eco-time blackouts, unexpected screams through warrior parents saying the dark, mysterious parties clandestinely held out end of sight, and pupils declaring the world is already a done deal? Is it all some spooky new kind of music she'evil', but what is student prank and what is due to something more sinisters dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And what could Julia and Robert possibly be running from to force them to this strange end of can Fitz find out the earthtruth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410562</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Vincent Caldey|title=A Good Clean Edge|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After an acrimonious divorce, Vincent chooses to stay with his father and not his mother and sister. As his father works away much of the time, they go to live with Vincent's grandparents, who run an undertaking business. Vincent, a reserved and sensitive child, is being bullied on his way in to his new school by Frankie Lennox from the grammar school, who goes so far as to threaten Vincent with a knife. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313022</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francisco X Stork|title=Marcelo in the Real World|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Marcelo has spent his childhood and the majority of his teenage years at Paterson, a private school that caters specifically for those with disabilities, providing them with a protected environment where they can learn at their own rate and feel accepted. However, his father Arturo feels that it is time that Marcelo experiences the ''real world'' and really challenges himself. Using the promise of a senior year spent at Paterson rather than a public school, Arturo coerces Marcelo to take up a small position for the summer in the law firm that he owns. In the firm, Marcelo is forced to interact regularly with a plethora of different personalities, and while some prove to be enjoyable company, others leave him feeling confused and distressed. Things really come to a head when he is forced to make a momentous decision, one that requires him to either ignore his conscience, or end up betraying his father and by extension himself; it is not a decision that is logical, and will require Marcelo to not only empathise with others, but also understand what makes himself tick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121006</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyTori Bovalino|title=Haunting VioletThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Violet Willoughby Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the daughter of one of Englandlast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's foremost mediumsheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. With As a petty act of revenge for making her mother in high demandfind and deliver such a large request, she follows herTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, assisting in her work as scribbled with the ugliest insults she puts the cream can think of society in touch with their dear departed. Of They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, it's and then take them all fakeoff before delivering them. Violet has spent seven years helping her mother con the gullible into believing she has real psychic powersNo harm done… Or it would be, so Violet herself certainly doesnif someone hadn't believe in ghostsdelivered them for her. Which makes it all the more surprising when one appears to her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siddhartha SarmaPhilip Reeve|title=The Grasshopper's Run|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=India 1944, Utterly Dark and the Japanese are coming. In a brutalopening, we see the inhabitants of a small village get massacred, and the brutal killing of Uti, grandson of the leader of the tribe who live there. His best friend Gojen escapes, as he's in school far away. On hearing of the tragedy, the youngster swears revenge, and embarks on a journey which will take him across his country in search Face of the man responsible for his friend's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809400</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yvonne Woon|title=Dead Beautiful|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Renee is a normal school girl living in sunny California. On her sixteenth birthday she is drawn to the woods by her house. There she finds the dead bodies of her parents, surrounded by scattered coins, and shreds of cloth in their mouths. The police say they both died from a heart attack, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister must be going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=Gamerunner|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Maze is more than just a role-playing game. Rick is one of the many who immerse themselves entirely in the game, and essentially live their life in its virtual reality. He is one of the lucky ones. Thanks to the fact that his guardian, Daed, is the mind behind the Maze and is employed by the powerful and merciless firm Crater, Rick has lived a protected life, one spent inside the thick walls of the multi-storeyed headquarters of Crater. He has never had to go outside and live a life of extreme poverty under the constant threat of gangs or, even worse, the lethal acid rain that is a part of the intensely polluted atmosphere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806487</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Higgins|title=He's After MeDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anna's father has run off with In a younger womanword, the hated Juderich. Her mother There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a wreck because peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of it. Her little sister Livi is going off the rails Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and running with a bad crowdtheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. All this mayhem is anathema The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to Annakeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who is a reserved, cautious and hardworking girl lives in London with an ambition too much science in his head to study literature at university. If this is what unrestrainedworry about such local yokel superstitions, rampant emotions result in, then Annaand Andrewe's having none foundling daughter, who washed up out of itthe sea one day eleven years ago. She's never been in love But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and in many ways she sees this as a blessing. And then she meets Jemhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salman RushdieKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Luka Julia and the Fire of LifeShark

|summary=Back in 1990Julia, our pre-teen heroine, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Verses' has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a book dedicated to his then nine year old sonsummer, Zafar, called 'Haroun and in the Sea far NE of Stories'the Scottish islands. Now Here be Vikings, his second son, Milan, finally gets a book that kind of his own, although he had to wait until he was 13 for his father to get around to itScottish island. 'Luka and the Fire of Life' Dad is very much a follow up going to 'Haroun' and it be automating the lantern, which is certainly helpfulhis specialist thing, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the first book are referred to hereelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonJonathan Stroud|title=We Can Be HeroesThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Ben Scarlett McCain is spending an outlaw, rejecting the summer with his grandparents because his mother is ill again. She won't stop going out for runs draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and is not eating properly. She's gone back Faith Houses to stressing out about having wander the wildlands between the "right" cutlery Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and worrying about technology shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and health hazardsa darker past. And her beautiful hair has started falling outWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Ben's father was killed in Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the 9/11 terrorist attack on horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicadoFree Isles, he's feeling very lonely indeed. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N M BrowneMercedes Helnwein|title=Wolf BloodSlingshot|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Trista is a Celtic warrior girl and seeress. Her visions are always horrifying, full of blood and death. And one of her premonitions tells her she must escape from the tribe who have captured and enslaved her, for their time is running out. Fleeing into the snowy forest, she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this time the game is surely up. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one of the soldiers has a secret - he is a shapeshifter. Part wolf, part man, Morcant also has both Roman Celtic blood in his veins and he has never felt truly at home in either world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Briggs|title=Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Robbie Canler is on the run. From what, it takes us a while to find out, but it's clear that it's something bad when the alternative is working for an illegal logging team in the jungle of the Congo. The work is tough at the best of times, and when things start going wrong for the team, it's definitely not the best of times. And then Jane Porter, his boss's daughter, disappears... Can she be found? And why do all these strange things keep happening to the loggers? It's almost as if there was a weird presence in the jungle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057127238X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Samantha Mackintosh|title=Lula Does The Hula|rating=43

|summary=Talullah Bird, otherwise known as Tatty, Lu, or Lula, has finally been kissed! She Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a boyfriend! Frikkly frik! This "real" family, she is exciting! Except there is an evil woman lusting after used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her boyfriend! Hoooo no! And slingshot, her dad simple existence is weird! Hooo noagain! If you think this review is annoying so far with the exclamation marks and strange wordschanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, you may want to avoid the book!for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256532</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AlmondT L Huchu|title=My Name Is MinaThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=We first Mina in SkelligRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. A homeschooledEver since she dropped out of school, William Blake-lovingshe's been using it to support not only herself, slightly precious childbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, she arrived in Michaelthere's life with not a little whiff an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the culture shock about hercity's children. NowSoon, we can find out what really makes Mina tick as we read through her journal. Mina Ropa is full pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of contradictionshis dead mother. She likes to be different, individual, but will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she doesnever could't like being a misfitve imagined. She wants friends but Will she doesn't know how find the missing children and bring an end to make them this evil, or to keep them. She is both reflective and impulsive. will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997265</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregg OlsenKristen O'Neal|title=Empty Coffin: EnvyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=35

|summary=A small town is stunned by Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the death rest of a young girlher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Katelyn, and although the death is attributed an online support group where she talks to an accident, there are some who believe that suicide a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and homicide shouldn't be ruled help each other out , while also providing an escape to just yetjoke and mess around. Although twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan werenWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't close respond to the girl at the time of her deathchat for a while, they used Priya becomes concerned. She decides to be good friends steal her parents' car and a combination of guilt and curiosity leads them drive to Brigid's house to investigate the death and its true causecheck up on her. They may just be teenagers, but combine the fact that they have a father who But what she doesn't expect to find there is a true crime author, with werewolf in the mysterious supernatural abilities they share, basement – and for that werewolf to be the twins are more than well-equipped girl she has been talking to discover the truth behind the death; however, they find themselves digging up more than they bargained online for when tragic history, and revelations from the past begin to reveal themselvesfew months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1402789572</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman|title=David|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1501 and Gabriele is in Florence without a penny Move on to his name. As a greenhorn country boy, he managed to get himself robbed almost as soon as he arrived in the city. But he does have one big advantage: a renowned sculptor as a step-brother. Gabriele hopes this will be enough to find him work, but little does he dream that he will soon find himself the model for one of the world's greatest pieces of art - Michelangelo's David. Or that he'll become intimately embroiled in the deadly rivalries and politics of the city. As the statue of David is slowly created, Gabriele will have to walk the line between the republican faction and those supporting the return of the Medicis without being exposed by either. It won't be easy... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800527</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]