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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan Cooper, Joseph Delaney, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Matt Haig, Robin Jarvis, Derek Landy, Sam Llewellyn, Mal Peet, Philip Reeve and Eleanor UpdaleMax Boucherat|title=HauntedThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=IWe meet Lori on the first evening she've always enjoyed a good ghost story s got the house to herself whether no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a sleepover when I was a teenagerblanket fort, or even now reading horror stories in bed in the middle of the night. As soon as I saw this book I knew I wanted to read itshe has one main intention, and it did not disappoint; a group of excellent authors from all genres have come together and the result that is a collection of brilliant stories not to be missed by any ghost hunters out there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393214</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Sheehan|title=A Longlog on to Voxminer, Long Sleep|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This is a book set in the futureworld-building, with hover-cars and eyecritter-scans and travel to other planets. But make no mistake – collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's not what this book is aboutworld. Sixteen-year-old Rose But first Lori has been asleep for far longer than she intended; in the meantime the world has almost come to an end in a terrible plaguetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and her stasis tube has been abandoned in a basement. If Brendan had not come exploring, then she might never have been found at allfinds something even more spooky. But how is that possible? How could For the daughter server she and heiress of the most powerful couple in the galaxy have been forgotten? This book is about her awakening, bestie and the slow, painful unfurling of the real facts nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of her early life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K M Grant|title=Hartslove|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=1861, Epsomtampering. A young ladWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Garth, is at the start of the biggest horse race and her safe place in the land, astride The One, an ungainly but lightning-fast three year old who had never game has been ridden until just months ago. At the side of the trackdoctored – well, Garth's five sisters, and friends, are willing him on. How can this young jockey win the race, upon which the fate of their castle home and so much more depends? And what are we to learn after the prologue that sets all this out, that would make us want him where is a girl to NOT winturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857381873</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayRachel Greenlaw|title=The Hollow: The HiddenCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Abbey loves Caspian more than ever, and with her death apparentlyapproaching, she knows they will be able to be together forever soon. But why is he growing so distant? Is there something the revenants who are protecting her aren't telling her? And 'I can anyone keep her safe from hear the song of the sea. The call of the rogue revenant Vincentdeep, who attacked her previously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385001</amazonuk>}}the answering beat in my heart.''
{{newreview|author=Karen Wallace|title=Emerald|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emerald Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her brother Richard never understood why mother before her father decided , is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that after his death lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they would go capture the island's leader and live Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with their uncle a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and aunt at Hawkstone Hall, even though their mother was still alive. Stillwith only coordinates to guide her, she had always been sets off in search of a cold woman, more interested family secret that lies buried deep in profit than peoplethe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and they soon forgot as her journey takes her. Untilfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, that is, the day she wrote Mira must be determined to Uncle Charles saying that Emerald was stop at nothing to marry Lord Suckley, save the future of her home and that he was already on his way to the Hall to inspect his new brideones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416917160</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laini TaylorHarry Allen|title=Daughter Children of Smoke and Bonethe Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Karou's friends think she's normal. They assume, however often she tells them that her bright blue hair grows that colour, that she dyes it. They think her frequent errands are just normal everyday things to earn money. They believe the snake-bodied being she draws in her sketchbook is a figment of her imagination. They're wrong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=The Drake Chronicles: Bleeding Hearts|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Things Ra Eun Seo lives in Violet Hill are not looking good at the momenta North Korean town and she is a talented singer. The small town Life is hard and food is practically over run difficult to come by the vicious Hel-Blar vampires: not the civilised, friendly (so Seo and her friends Nari and hot) variety that Lucy is used too – these are feralMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and attack indiscriminately, humans edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and vampires alikekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814978</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BeckAlexia Casale|title=The Hidden KingdomSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Prince Osamu is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a pamperedlife-changing disability too, spoiled young orphan who has never known friends his own age or been told but that's what to do. He spends his life surrounded by beauty and riches Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a world where most people do not even dare dance performance that was going to raise their eyes to his face, collecting the exquisite pots made by Master Masumi and writing poemschange her life. His tutors have told him about the demons of Hades which try, every few centuries But she comes back fighting, desperate to break through avoid the barrier and take over this worldpity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that it is his responsibility 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to repel themsort out, but he dismisses all this as old wives' tales. And then one night and just the forces day to day traumas of all the Emissary attack the palacechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, and every certainty he had is gone in a flash.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755633</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerSimon Fox|title=The Double ShadowDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In 1937 Amaryllis Ruben Late one night Graham Blake is about to turn seventeen. As a presentlate back from his shift on the force, her father, Arnold Rubenand then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a widowedsecret place, multi-millionaireand join him on the run. They get together, is going but barely begin to give his daughter his life long work, an invention that could alter time forever, a memory machine. It can capture smell the whiff of Southern trains when the goodfather is arrested, erase leaving Archie on the badlate express to Brighton, and toting a tin his father was determined to keep you young for all time. But things aren't going to plan; apart away from Amaryllis not wanting it, other people have taken an interesthis colleagues, and not in the bearer of a good waywhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620128</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Kathleen RyanLex Croucher|title=Glow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone expected Kieran Gwen and Waverley to be together. As the first of the first generation born Art Are Not in space, it seemed almost written in the stars. Destiny. Waverley is mostly happy with her life on board the Empyrean – one of two ships trailblazing across the universe to New Earth, where their crews will start a new human frontier – she loves Kieran (she thinks) and the ship's crew is like one big happy family. But sometimes, she wonders if her life would be different, if her choices would be different, if the weight of continuing the human race didn't rest on her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535587</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Miles|title=Fury (Fury Trilogy)Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Both the central characters Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Fury a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have dark secrets. Em been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with her best friendBridget (the kingdom's boyfriend. So when Gabby goes away on a winter holiday and Zach starts flirting with her, Em just can't resist even though she knows she's doing something unforgivable. Chase lives on a trailer park but runs with a rich crowd. He'll do just about anything to maintain his place in the group only female knight) - and there's something he has done to that end of which he's deeply ashamedArt discovers from her private diaries. But their small American town has come to the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come to Ascension and Em and Chase are about to discover that feeling guilty isn't the only price And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they'll be paying for their misdeeds... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071998</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fiona Foden|title=Life, Death and Gold Leather Trousers|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite having not seen her uncle Jupefind themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the famous former rock star, for several years after he fell out subterfuge of falling in love with her mothereach other, Clover is still devastated by his deathwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. So when her parents split up the day after she turns thirteen But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and her father runs off with will they find a nude model, she doesn't think things way in which they can get any worse. Can she cope with the fallout of the splitboth truly be themselves, look after kid sister Lily, and get or are they destined to know cute fellow guitarist Riley better? Or will her rival Sophie Skelling's teeny crochet bikini tempt him away from herlive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407120867</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|author=Monique Truong|title=Bitter in the Mouth|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=Linda Hammerick, a young girl growing up in North Carolina in the late 1970's, is different. She suffers from synesthesia, tasting things when she speaks or hears words. She grows up with her great-uncle, Baby Harper, as her best friend, as hissingsong voice is the only one she can hear without the accompanying tastes, and writes letters back and forth with her best friend Kelly rather than have long conversations with her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099474743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah White|title=Wickedness|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Claire's grandmother has just died. And her parents have just split up. So it's not really a good time. Mum is being even more of a pain than usual - endlessly cross, endlessly cleaning, endlessly combing Gran's belongings for anything of value - and Claire wants nothing more than to go home to her own house and her own things. But then she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandmother. It contains a sheaf of manuscripts and a ring inscribed with a hieroglyph. Once on Claire's finger, the ring gets stuck - much to her mother's annoyance. It could be worth a pretty penny to the rather sinister Egyptologist who's interested in buying some of Gran's possessions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848775318</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=There Is No Dog|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Imagine God is actually a teenage immortal, much in the vein of teenage humans. He rushes his coursework (creation) and while there are flashes of brilliance and potential in it, there's no real thought or organisation and so the whole thing doesn't really work properly. But God is too busy having a lie-in or lusting after buxom young women to be ironing out these sorts of boring creases in the making of a successful planet. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327162</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryNick Brooks|title=Shadows at StonewyldePromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When we last left Stonewyldethe principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the community seemed to be on the verge of police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a period grudge of glorious prosperity some description against Principal Moore, and happiness as Yul became each could have been there at the new Magus and Sylvie joined him as guardians time of Stonewyldehis murder. Thirteen years have passed But who killed him, and Stonewylde is almost unrecognisable; it hasn't quite succumbed to the Outside World yetwhy, but just how much longer can it remain self-sufficient and resistant to the consumerism and pervasive technology that is characteristic if any of the rest of the country? Furthermore, the cracks that begin to appear in Yul's and Sylvie's relationship boys are branching out throughout the whole communityinnocent, with malcontent brewing, cruelty going unchecked, and sinister hints of a dark presence returning will they be able to Stonewylde.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098899</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ally Carter1919635017|title=Heist SocietyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A new series from the creator of the [[I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls) by Ally Carter|Gallagher Girls]]? Excellent! And this book doesnSolomon Klyne isn't disappoint: young people with unusual and highly specialised skillsa bad lad, encountering bad guys and peril with determination and so why is he running around London committing a healthy dose series of humour. So, whatrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's the difference from the 'Gallagher Girls'? Well, this time, the heroine and her crew are, um, ll have to wait to get an answer to put it bluntly, the villains! Except that it's just not that simplesecond question because I avoid spoilers. Kat comes from a large family of burglars and art thieves, but she decides sheBut I's had enough of ll answer the family business and wants a normal lifefirst one: for his grandmother. Sadly, someone else decides that's not going to happen. They should have told her, using your criminal abilities to forge a false identity and get yourself into the best boarding school in the country is not the best way to go straight.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309556</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lil ChasePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys for Beginners
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Gwynnie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has always been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the guys which was finefootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together...until Charlie Notts showed As they're all fired up , straining at the leash only a single-sex schoolcan form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. He's Hot (capital H) and friendly and likes football Which is confusing for Ant, but when Gwynnie realises as hedoesn's firmly putting her on t know what his list of matesscore is, not girlswhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, action must be taken. The thing isa secret one, for a girl whose close family and friends are all blokesseveral months now, and whose one life love to date wasnso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced't so much a trouser shape as a team (Go Spurs!), itbut whether that's going to set in stone, he can't be a big jump from sure. And that's mostly because of who he'being'' one of s been having the guys to ''bagging'' one of relationship and the guyssex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857384821</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Martin1800901232|title=Burglar BoyStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Burglar Boy'' opens with a big scene Twelve-year- Dean is halfway though robbing old Hanh wanted to be a house fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the owner returns. Chased by an irate smartly-dressed man with a good aim and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a golf club, he barely makes job in Hanoi it out in one piecewas an opportunity not to be missed. But he dutifully returns home Some money changed hands and divvies up a pile of illHanh was on the mini-gotten goods bus to CallumHanoi. Only, his older brotherHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, who rewards him for they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the risk ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the bruises legs? The ones with a paltry fiver. Still, itthe artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's more pocket money than Dean is likely to see from his mother, who has lapsed further quite possible that Hanh and further into a bottle of vodka since her most recent boyfriend leftco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907552146</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hayley LongPatrice Lawrence|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) TragicNeedle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lottie can’t understand what’s going on Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with the women around a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in herson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Goose has got Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the hots plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a fellow cinema employee younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a name whichstore detective, spelt backwardsand then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is rather unfortunatenot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. Her mum ..|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Kurara has fallen for spent her entire life as a servant on the bloke who arrested Lottie back Midori, a massive dining hall floating in book onethe sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, and HIS daughter when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a scary emo girlCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. There’s only one thing He asks her to come with him, to be done… road trip! The central trio leave the life of Lottiedreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, Goosesoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Lottie’s hunky rugby playing boyfriend Gareth hightail it she is forced to flee out of Cardiff – but can into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a change whole world of scenery really solve the problems?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330523015</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipMarcus Sedgwick|title=Rebel Angels: BloodstoneWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Seth Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Conal MacGregor have spent so long hunting for the Bloodstone for Kate NicNivenhe should be free to do what he wants, their queento go where he wants and with whom he wants, that they're reached the present day but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in our world (after Firebrand took place in sixteenth century Scotlandit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie.) They still haven't found it, thoughwere half of a desultory school band, but they have got themselves involved 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 the world is already a done deal? Is it some wonderful spooky new characters, notably sullen teenager Finn, whokind of music she's unaware dreaming of her Sithe heritage but about to ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz findout with far-reaching consequences. Returning to the realm of the fairies with her in towtruth? Well, and two others, the MacGregor boys are about to find even more troublenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537239</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David AlmondTori Bovalino|title=The True Tale of the Monster Billy DeanDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war & at the moment of disaster... I am not cleva, so forgiv my folts and my mistayks. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.''
 
The Monster Billy Dean tells the story of Billy, a boy born into the dystopia of a war-torn town and the product of an illicit liaison between a young woman and her priest. His birth coincided with an apocalyptic bombing and his parents have hidden him away from the ruins and the catastrophe in a single room, both out of shame and in the belief that his coming into the world and surviving at such a violent moment signifies a sacred future.
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Midwinterblood
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Half Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a century into our future, a journalist called Eric Seven scents a story on request for over a small, isolated island and goes to investigate. Rumours have spread, saying hundred books that people there never age, and that there are no children. He she has barely set foot on the quay when he sees, and to his surprise falls in love with, a girl called Merle. But almost immediately we, the readers, realise that there is more than one mystery in this strange placedeliver herself. Why are the inhabitants so overwhelming in their welcome to him? What makes it worse is happening on the other half of man who requested the island? And, most worryingly, why is Eric sleeping so muchbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and forgetting his reason for coming to the island a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for hours on end? From the very first page there are signs of menace making her find and disorientationdeliver such a large request, and at last Eric overcomes his torpor and comes to understand that something is badly wrong. He endures terrible nightmares, full Tess sticks post-it notes on each of blood and violence, and at the lastbooks, just as scribbled with the islanders drag him to a stone table ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to kill reach him, things become clear in his mindof course. He has been here Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off beforedelivering them. In factNo harm done… Or it would be, he has been here many, many timesif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620098</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterPhilip Reeve|title=Wolves of Mercy Falls: Forever|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Spring is in the air at Mercy Falls, Utterly Dark and for Sam Roth that means a chance to be reunited with his girlfriend Grace, who has spent the cold winter as a wolf in the forests near the town. Grace's transformations are tied to the temperature – and Sam knows only too well how hard it can be to hold on to your humanity, because he was once a wolf too, before he was cured.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121111</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Muchamore|title=People's Republic (CHERUB)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Wow. CHERUB book number 13 is here. New character Ryan is being sent off to California on his first mission. He must befriend the son of a wealthy entrepreneur with links to a prominent transnational facilitator - a criminal organisation that runs illicit transportation networks and smuggling rings. As Ryan says, the Aramov Clan is ''sort Face of like FedEx for bad guys''. As you can imagine, the mission proves to be a lot less straightforward than simply befriending a boy on the beach.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444906879</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Judy Bartkowiak|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Drivers|rating=4|genre=Home and Family|summary=It's always struck me that the most difficult time for young drivers is that period just after they pass their driving test. Someone has told you that you're an OK driver, right? ''But'' you're out there, all on your own, without anyone to explain those odd things which you still haven't come across or to be the extra pair of eyes. You've got a sense of freedom, but somehow it's a little bit ''daunting''. Judy Bartkowiak offers something a little bit different. It's not another book about road signs, driving etiquette and stopping distances – it's some ideas for getting into the right mindset to absorb the new experiences and learning some skills which might help you in other areas of your life too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908218371</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hayley Long|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) MadDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lottie Biggs is about to turn 15. She has a job which she doesn't mind, as Head Saturday Girl at shoe shop Sole Mates, a fantastic best friend in the ultra-cool Goose, and a crush on the divine Mad Alien (or Neil Adam, as his name reads slightly less-excitingly forwards.) All that her and Goose are thinking about at the moment (except for Neil) is getting their GCSE's so they can get out of the boring suburb of Cardiff they live in. Things are about to change for Lottie, though…
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{{newreview
|author=Anne-Marie Conway
|title=Star Makers Club: Polly Plays Her Part
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Polly Conway is having to deal with rather In a lot at the momentword, rich. Her mum has got There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a fabulous new job – peculiar island called Wildsea, British but it’s in Spain! That leaves Polly to live with her dadway west, her new stepmother who she can’t standbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and her baby brother who’s just annoying. Depressed by the problems in her lifesea-witches, she ignores her dad’s rules and turns to legends of the friend2friend website Dark family that has to find comfortkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. As she gets increasingly addicted The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from thesiteHidden Lands, she starts his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to lose focus on worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the important things in her life – including her family sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the Star Makers’ new productionworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409520919</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn JamesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=MistJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Thirteen year old Nell Beecham is nowhere near as cool or pretty as her glamorous sister Gwen. But when Gwen goes missing after a sweet sixteen party in the woods, and Nell realises her new friend Evan River is somehow linked to the kidnapping, it's left to the younger girl to try to save the day.
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Harrison
|title=Soul Beach
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alice's older sister Meggie, a university student and erstwhile reality show star, was found dead 4 months ago. Murdered. After prolonged Police investigations and appeals it's time, finally, for the funeral, a chance to put Meggie to rest. But for Alice, this is just the beginning. As she's getting ready to bury her sister, she receives an odd email that's claiming to be ''from'' said sister. It's clearly a joke, and one in very bad taste at that, but when you're 16 years old and your best friend and confidante has been ripped viciously out of your life, you'll cling to just about anything. The invitation invites Alice to 'join' Meggie on Soul Beach…a Social Networking site for the young and the dead. And though she's sure it's a ruse, Alice cannot help clicking through to see who or what awaits her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620063</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tracy Deebs
|title=Tempest Rising
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sixteen year old Tempest is going through some changes in her body. But they’re not the usual changes teen girls go through as they grow up. Instead, she’s developing gills and a tail.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408820188</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Suzanne LaFleur
|title=Eight Keys
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On moving to middle schoolJulia, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular lockerour pre-buddy Amandateen heroine, and embarrassed by has been packed off with her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool parents and certainly not popular – she's alsostruggling to cope with their cat from the new arrivals at her family homein SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, Aunt Bessie's younger sister Annie and her baby daughter Ava. Just when she doesn't know how she can cope with everything, help arrives in the form far NE of a strange key with her name on itthe Scottish islands. As she opens a door to find out about her past Here be Vikings, Elise starts to realise that she can take control kind of her futureScottish island.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Dowswell|title=Sektion 20|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's the early 1970s and Alex is living with his family in East Berlin. His Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola, fashion and rock music, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time Dad is spent at school listening going to endless lectures on the superiority of be automating the socialist system or avoiding saying what he really thinkslantern, even when he's with which is his family and closest friends. Nobody specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in East Berlin wants to come algae behind to hunt the attention of the Stasielusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, the state security serviceshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808633</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bernard BeckettJonathan Stroud|title=AugustThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In Scarlett McCain is an alternate worldoutlaw, Tristan rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Grace come from The CityFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a closed dark boy with dark powers and enclosed society in which religion dominatesa darker past. Tristan had been an acolyte at St Augustine's. He spent a childhood being drilled in philosophical discussion With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of free will by the RectorLondon Lagoon. A star pupilTogether, a single event made him question everything he had been taught. Grace had spent they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the first part horrors of her childhood in post-apocalyptic society to reach the conventFree Isles, but a single act will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of kindness led to her excommunication. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857387898</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{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 a thought for Lily Sanderson, who has a huge crush on swimming god Brody Bennett, an obnoxious biker-boy neighbour Quince Fletcher, and a serious deadline problem. She's totally convinced that Brody is the right man for her, and needs to get him to realise this and take him home to meet her father. Who just happens to be the King ofThalassinia. Of course, that will also means revealing her big secret. You see, Lily is half-mermaid. With all this going through her mind, it's no surprise when she gets confused, leading to a kiss which changes everything...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848771347</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher PikeMercedes Helnwein|title=Final FriendsSlingshot|rating=53
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|summary=When Jessica Hart and her friends end up at Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a new school"real" family, she decides is used to throw not being a party to get to know some of the cute guys therepriority in people's lives. It seems like But when she defends a great idea at the random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time – but writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it will have far-reaching consequences which will mean their senior year will be nothing like they expectedthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444901303</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ransom RiggsT L Huchu|title=Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=After his grandfather's death, sixteen year old Jacob Ropa Moyo is sent to a psychiatrist. He swears that he'd seen ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a monster bit of some description - just like Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the weird dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and unusual things her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the old man used to tell him about - when he discovered ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the bodycity's children. As you can imagineSoon, everyone thinks Jacob Ropa is crazy. But then events set in motion pulled into the search for a visit to the island off missing boy at the coast request of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew his dead mother. She will end up, discovering an occult library andas Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he discovers realise that his grandfather may have been telling the truth all along..world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1594744769</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittKristen O'Neal|title=Sean Griswold's HeadLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
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|summary=When she finds out her dad was Having recently been diagnosed with MS some months agochronic Lyme disease, but no-one had felt Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the need to tell rest of herlife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Payton's world starts an online support group where she talks to fall aparta bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. So much soThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, that when while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her new counselor suggests picking something as closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a Focus Object to write aboutwhile, she Priya becomes concerned. She decides to go for it, steal her parents' car and chooses Sean Griswolddrive to Brigid's headhouse to check up on her. But what starts off as she doesn't expect to find there is a supposedly academic study of werewolf in the said head becomes something rather more interesting, as she realizes basement – and for that Sean himself might werewolf to be someone worth focusing onthe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140712059X</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Kat Falls|title=Rip Tide (Dark Life)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Our favourite Dark Lifer and his Topsider friend are set for another post-apocalyptic adventure in this follow-up to Dark Life. Ty and Gemma discover a township chained and sunk on the ocean floor, every one of its hundreds of residents murdered. But before they can begin to unravel 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 is massive. So, Sarah is forced to hide behind a fake confidence that pushes people about to defend herself from the bullying that her nose attracts. Plus, a mother who leaves nose job leaflets in her room, bags and on the kitchen table with her breakfast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408819619</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kit Berry|title=Solstice at Stonewylde|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Yul's odyssey culminates in an epic final conflict and destiny appears to be on his side. The Villagers are ready to rise against the oppression that Magus has built upon them so skilfully over the years that they weren't consciously aware of it until recently. However, Magus is still a brutal force to be reckoned with and he is more dangerous than ever in his desperation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098872</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shift|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=You might be thinking the worst problem a modern-day American girl could have is her rock-star-in-waiting boyfriend dying, and coming back as a ghost that she and those younger than her can see because of some untold event in the past, but suffering when he gets malevolent and becomes a shade, which means she has to help him move Move on before he's locked up in limbo. That's because you're not factoring in the last boy born before her, who can't see but is utterly repellent to ghosts, but who she's just about to fall in love with when her late love turns up again, this time with a strangely solid, corporeal form...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]