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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyMax Boucherat|title=Mister CreecherThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ooh, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the other! More of that house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the further reading , babysitter poorly, mother at the end. ''Mr Creecher'' isn't a retellingwork, a sequel or a prequel; it's just an interludeavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, set midway through the events of Mary Shelley's novelon her lonesome. It's Regency London What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, the Industrial Revolution is beginning to crank upshe has one main intention, and Billy that is an orphan and pickpocket trying to survive in the grimy streets. About log on to rob what he thinks is a corpse, Billy is set upon by some acquaintances to whom he owes money. Before Fletcher's knife prises out Billy's eyeVoxminer, the corpse world- not a corpse at allbuilding, in case you didn't guess critter- comes to his rescue. This huge, shambling man collecting game that is not a pretty sighthit in Lori's world. But he first Lori has a job for Billytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Mr Creecher has come For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to London enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the trail of Victor Frankensteingame has been doctored – well, with whom he has where is a bargain. And he needs Billy to follow Frankenstein girl to make sure he doesn't renege on the deal.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettRachel Greenlaw|title=Verity FibbsCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Verity Fibbs is the daughter of fashion designer Saffron Fibbs. Saffron's brought her up on her own and made a pretty good job of it without a lot of input from Verity's 'bio-dad'. Verity's used to I can hear the celebrity lifestyle although Saffron does her best to keep her feet firmly on song of the ground, with or without coffee suede bootssea. The latest buzz is that Saff and Eden Greenfield are dating – it's even trending on Twitter – and Verity is getting texts asking if call of the fashion magnate is going to be her new Dad. When Vee wants to retreat from all this she plays an online game called Demon Streetsdeep, although she's ''obviously'' not addictedthe answering beat in my heart. Before long she's going to find that she's playing the game against a real, live villain.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755379470</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Lois Lowry|title=Number the Stars|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Copenhagen, 1943Rosevear, a remote and everyone from schoolgirls like Annemarie up are suffering from shortagespartially forgotten island, fear survives on luring ships into the rocks and loathing - all caused by Nazi occupiersplundering the wrecks. But it's always been an open countryMira, has Denmarklike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and no less than the King takes a daily horse ride, protected in plain view by every single loyal subjectany treasure that lies within. But whenthe Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, on they capture the Jewish New Year, word gets out that Jews will have island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be hidden more discretelysave him from death, things kick into action. Annemarie Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in search of a family take secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her best friendfather, Ellenas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the country for safety. But it seems death will even follow them there..future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007395205</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelHarry Allen|title=This Dark EndeavourChildren of the Sun

|summary=Victor Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Konrad Frankenstein are twins, born just two minutes apartshe is a talented singer. They look alike but their personalities couldn't be more different. Konrad Life is hard and food is calmdifficult to come by, assured so Seo and capable. People like him. Victor is intense her friends Nari and arrogant with a burning ambition. He rubs people up the wrong way more often than not. The twins live with their beautifulMin go foraging every evening, sometimes wayward, cousin Elizabeth looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the three are educated alongside great friend meagre rations of rice and wordsmith Henry. It's a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau in the Genevese republickimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560123</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Aimee CarterAlexia Casale|title=The Goddess TestSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=When KateIt's mother makes a dying wish hard enough to return navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to her home town, Edennavigate a life-changing disability too, Kate drops whatbut that's left what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life . But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and goes with her. She doesn't want desperate to get back to make friends – shea life that's here for her mum and nothing else – so as normal as shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's not very interested when popular girl Avaa new (cute!) boy in school, with her jock boyfriend Dylanmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, invites and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to a partynavigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848450400</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Beth Webb|title=Wave Hunter: The Book of Water|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=As the Iron Age comes to a close, Romans are sweeping across the British countryside destroying anyone who stands in their way. The druids are a particular target - the Romans understand all too well that the society they seek to subdue revolves around its religion and its sacred places. Tegen is determined to stop them. As the Star Dancer, the young druid girl's destiny is to avert a great evil, and she believes that evil is the Roman invasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956867308</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Fletcher|title=Far Rockaway|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor have a long-held ambition: to one day take the subway and ride it right the way to the very end, to Far Rockaway. Just for the sheer hell of it. But when the day comes, Cat's brother doesn't show. This is more than a disappointment to Cat - it's an utter betrayal. She needed Joe on the trip because she has a guilty secret. She hasn't read the latest book Victor gave her - he sends her a classic adventure every year on her birthday - and she knows he'll want to discuss as it they ride the train. Without Joe, Cat has no chance of concealing her sin. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099732X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperSimon Fox|title=VelvetDeadlock

|summary=The opening chapter of this book Late one night Graham Blake is a roller-coaster of a read. Velvet has fainted while doing late back-breakingfrom his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, gruelling work in demanding he fetch something from a laundrysecret place, and risks being sent to join him on the workhouserun. Quick thinking saves her job They get together, and but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the reader relaxesfather is arrested, only leaving Archie on the late express to learn Brighton, toting a shocking and shameful secret about the heroine we have already begun tin his father was determined to like. Her fortunes soon change, in true Dickensian stylekeep away from his colleagues, but her troubles are not over: this same secret will come back to haunt her (please excuse the pun) and put her in the power bearer of one a whole heap of the other charactersquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599211</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryLex Croucher|title=Dust & Decay|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Dust & Decay'' picks up the action six months after ''Rot & Ruin's'' climactic battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer. Benny Gwen and his friends have spent the time honing their self-defence and zombie-killing skills through some very intense training by Tom. And now, the time is finally right. They're about to head back out into the Ruin Art Are Not in search of the jet plane they saw in the sky after the battle at Gameland. There might, just might, be a real civilisation surviving somewhere on the continent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070975</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeyn Roberts|title=D4rk InsideLove

|summary=''4Who 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. Earthquakes shudder across 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 world.''<br>''3. SOMETHING is released.''<br>'kingdom'2. Trust no one s only female knight) - not even yourselfsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries.''<br>''1. The killing game has begun And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments...'' But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230756182</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley HowarthNick Brooks|title=MapheadPromise Boys

|summary=MapHead and his father Ran are When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Subtle Worldpolice station as suspects. Ran can travel through time Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, make things disappear and erase human memories. MapHead can flash each could have been there at the map time of any place across his face and bald scalpmurder. MapHead is a halfling and now he is almost 12, Ran has brought But who killed him to meet his human mother. As they need to pass for humans, they've taken new names - Boothe and Powers, from a random movie - practised their Englishwhy, and enrolled MapHead at if any of the same school as his half-brother. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846471206</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1919635017|title=The Alien in the Garage and Other Stories |rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Would aliens like custard creams? Can fake tan hide a big lie? Are TV remotes sinister objects? Do secrets make you popular? Rob Keeley explores all these questions and more in A Thief to Catch a super collection of slightly spooky, blackly comic short stories. They're beautifully observed and you can see that Rob knows children well. He has the emotional landscape exactly right and is equally accurate when describing - and sometimes gently mocking - peer relationships. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765797</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Susan Cooper, Joseph Delaney, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Matt Haig, Robin Jarvis, Derek Landy, Sam Llewellyn, Mal Peet, Philip Reeve and Eleanor Updale|title=HauntedKitt Townsend

|summary=ISolomon Klyne isn've always enjoyed t a good ghost story – whether at a sleepover when I was a teenagerbad lad, 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 it, and it did not disappoint; a group of excellent authors from all genres have come together and the result so why is he running around London committing a collection series of brilliant stories not robberies? And how did he learn to be missed by any ghost hunters out there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393214</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Sheehan|title=A Long, Long Sleep|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This is a book set in the future, with hover-cars and eye-scans and travel crack safes? You'll have to other planets. But make no mistake – that's not what this book is about. Sixteen-year-old Rose has been asleep for far longer than she intended; in the meantime the world has almost come wait to get an end in a terrible plague, and her stasis tube has been abandoned in a basement. If Brendan had not come exploring, she might never have been found at all. But how is that possible? How could the daughter and heiress of the most powerful couple in the galaxy have been forgotten? This book is about her awakening, and the slow, painful unfurling of the real facts of her early life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K M Grant|title=Hartslove|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=1861, Epsom. A young lad, Garth, is at the start of the biggest horse race in the land, astride The One, an ungainly but lightning-fast three year old who had never been ridden until just months ago. At the side of the track, 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 answer to learn after the prologue that sets all this out, that would make us want him to NOT win?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow: The Hidden|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 soonsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But why is he growing so distant? Is there something the revenants who are protecting her arenI't telling her? And can anyone keep her safe from ll answer the rogue revenant Vincent, who attacked her previously?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385001</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Wallace|title=Emerald|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emerald and her brother Richard never understood why her father decided that after first one: for his death they would go and live with their uncle and aunt at Hawkstone Hall, even though their mother was still alivegrandmother. Still, she had always been a cold woman, more interested in profit than people, and they soon forgot her. Until, that is, the day she wrote to Uncle Charles saying that Emerald was to marry Lord Suckley, and that he was already on his way to the Hall to inspect his new bride.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1416917160</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laini TaylorPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Daughter of Smoke and BoneDifferent for Boys

|genre=FantasyTeens |summary=Karou's friends think she's normal. They assumeAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, however often she tells them that her bright blue hair grows that colourso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, that she dyes it. They think her frequent errands are just normal everyday things and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to earn moneyprimary school days together. They believe As they're all fired up, straining at the snakeleash only a single-bodied being she draws sex school can form, the talk in her sketchbook class and out 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. He's had a casual relationship, a figment secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of her imagination. Theywho he're wrongs been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alyxandra Harvey1800901232|title=The Drake Chronicles: Bleeding Hearts|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Things in Violet Hill are not looking good at the moment. The small town is practically over run by the vicious Hel-Blar vampires: not the civilised, friendly (and hot) variety that Lucy is used too – these are feral, and attack indiscriminately, humans and vampires alike.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814978</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Ian Beck|title=The Hidden KingdomSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Prince Osamu is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a pampered, spoiled young orphan who has never known friends his own age or been told what to dofashion designer. He spends his life surrounded by beauty and riches Life in a world the rural village where most people do she lived with her family was happy, if not even dare to raise their eyes to his faceprosperous, collecting so when the exquisite pots made by Master Masumi smartly-dressed man and writing poems. His tutors have told him about woman came to the demons of Hades which try, every few centuries, village to break through the barrier and take over this world, and that offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it is his responsibility was an opportunity not to repel them, but he dismisses all this as old wives' talesbe missed. And then one night Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the forces of the Emissary attack the palace, and every certainty he had is gone in a flash.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755633</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=The Double Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1937 Amaryllis Ruben is about to turn seventeen. As a present, her father, Arnold Ruben, a widowed, multimini-millionaire, is going bus to give his daughter his life long work, an invention that could alter time forever, a memory machineHanoi. It can capture the good Only, erase Hanh and the bad, and keep you young for all time. But things aren't other girls were not going to plan; apart from Amaryllis not wanting it, other people have taken an interest, and not work in a good way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Kathleen Ryan|title=Glow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone expected Kieran and Waverley shop, they were to be together. As the first of the first generation born work in space, it seemed almost written virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the stars. Destiny. Waverley is mostly happy ones 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) intricate embroidery 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 beading on her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535587</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Miles|title=Fury (Fury Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Both the central characters in Fury have dark secrets. Em is in love legs? The ones with her best friend'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 artfully- placed rips and theredistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's something he has done to quite possible that end of which he's deeply ashamed. But their small American town has come to the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come to Ascension Hanh and Em and Chase are about to discover that feeling guilty isn't the only price they'll be paying for their misdeeds..her co-workers made them. |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 Jupe, the famous former rock star, for several years after he fell out with her mother, Clover is still devastated by his death. So when her parents split up the day after she turns thirteen, and her father runs off with a nude model, she doesn't think things can get any worse. Can she cope with the fallout of the split, look after kid sister Lily, and get to know cute fellow guitarist Riley better? Or will her rival Sophie Skelling's teeny crochet bikini tempt him away from her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407120867</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique TruongPatrice Lawrence|title=Bitter in the MouthNeedle

|summary=ClaireBrave. 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 grandmother fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has just died. And taken up residence in her parents have just split up. So itson Blake's old room while he's not really at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a good time. Mum comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is being even more part of the plot here, as Charlene is a pain than usual - endlessly crosswonder knitter, endlessly cleaning, endlessly combing Granand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's belongings for anything of value - and Claire wants nothing allowed contact with no more than to go home to . We see Charlene prove her own house belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her own thingstwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. But And 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. well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, the ring gets stuck - much only to her mother's annoyanceremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. It could be worth a pretty penny to the rather sinister Egyptologist who's interested in buying some of Gran's possessions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848775318</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffAnn Sei Lin|title=There Is No DogRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=OkKurara 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. Imagine God However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is actually a teenage immortalCrafter like him, much in someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the vein of teenage humansEmpire. He rushes his coursework (creation) and while there are flashes asks her to come with him, to leave the life of brilliance and potential dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in itthe matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, there's no real thought or organisation and so she is forced to flee out into the whole thing doesn't really work properlyworld. But God is too busy having She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a liesky-in or lusting after buxom young women ship whose express purpose is to be ironing out these sorts hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of boring creases in the making of a successful planet. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327162</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Kit Berry|title=Shadows at Stonewylde|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When we last left Stonewylde, the community seemed to be on the verge of a period of glorious prosperity and happiness as Yul became the new Magus and Sylvie joined him as guardians of Stonewylde. Thirteen years have passed, and Stonewylde is almost unrecognisable; it hasn't quite succumbed to the Outside World yet, but just how much longer can it remain self-sufficient and resistant to the consumerism and pervasive technology that is characteristic of the rest of the country? Furthermore, the cracks that begin to appear in Yul's and Sylvie's relationship are branching out throughout the whole community, with malcontent brewing, cruelty going unchecked, and sinister hints of a dark presence returning to Stonewylde.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098899</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally CarterMarcus Sedgwick|title=Heist SocietyWrath

|summary=A new series from the creator Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of the [[I'd Tell You I Love Youfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, But Then I'd Have and he should be free to Kill You (Gallagher Girls) by Ally Carter|Gallagher Girls]]? Excellent! And this book doesn't disappoint: young people with unusual and highly specialised skillsdo what he wants, encountering bad guys to go where he wants and peril with determination and whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a healthy dose of humour. Sodesultory school band, what's but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the difference enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the 'Gallagher Girls'? Well, earth. Is this time, connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the heroine and her crew are, um, to put it bluntly, end of the villains! Except that world is already a done deal? Is it's just not that simple. Kat comes from a large family some spooky new kind of burglars and art thieves, but she decides music she's had enough dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the family business and wants a normal life. Sadlytruth? Well, someone else decides thatnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's not going to happent.. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408309556</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lil ChaseTori Bovalino|title=Boys for BeginnersThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Gwynnie Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has always been one of to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the guys which was finebooks: Mr Birch...until Charlie Notts showed up at The boarding school. He's Hot (capital H) headmaster, and friendly a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and likes footballdeliver such a large request, but when Gwynnie realises he's firmly putting her Tess sticks post-it notes on his list each of matesthe books, not girlsscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, action must be takenof course. The thing Her plan isto get her anger out like this, for a girl whose close family and friends are then take them all blokesoff before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, and whose one life love to date wasnif someone hadn't so much a trouser shape as a team (Go Spurs!), it's going to be a big jump from ''being'' one of the guys to ''bagging'' one of the guysdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857384821</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackie MartinPhilip Reeve|title=Burglar BoyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=''Burglar Boy'' opens with In a big scene - Dean word, rich. There is halfway though robbing certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a house when peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the owner returnsScillies. Chased by an irate man with a good aim There are troll people on it, and a golf clubsea-witches, he barely makes it out in one piece. But he dutifully returns home and divvies up a pile legends of ill-gotten goods the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to Callumkeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his older brother, Will who rewards him for the risk and the bruises lives in London with a paltry fiver. Stilltoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, itand Andrewe's more pocket money than Dean is likely to see from his motherfoundling daughter, who has lapsed further washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and further his curious ward are thrust into a bottle the world of vodka since her most recent boyfriend leftprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907552146</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hayley LongKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) TragicJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lottie can’t understand what’s going on Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with the women around her. Goose has got parents and their cat from the hots family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a fellow cinema employee with a name whichsummer, spelt backwardsin the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is rather unfortunate. Her mum has fallen for going to be automating the bloke who arrested Lottie back in book onelantern, and HIS daughter which is a scary emo girl. There’s only one his specialist thing , while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to be done… road trip! The central trio of Lottiehunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, Goosewell, she will be homesick and Lottie’s hunky rugby playing boyfriend Gareth hightail it out of Cardiff alone – but can a change of scenery really solve the problems?until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330523015</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipJonathan Stroud|title=Rebel Angels: BloodstoneThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Seth Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Conal MacGregor have spent so long hunting for Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Bloodstone for Kate NicNivenSeven Kingdoms of Britain, their queenrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, that they're reached the present day in our world (after Firebrand took place in sixteenth century Scotlanda dark boy with dark powers and a darker past.) They still haven't found itWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, though, but they have got themselves involved with some wonderful new characters, notably sullen teenager Finn, who's unaware of her Sithe heritage but about plan to findout with far-reaching consequences. Returning flee to the realm mythical Free Isles of the fairies with her in towLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and two others, all the MacGregor boys are about horrors of post-apocalyptic society to find even reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more trouble.accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537239</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=David Almond|title=The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean|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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670919055</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus SedgwickMercedes Helnwein|title=MidwinterbloodSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Half Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a century into our future, secret illegitimate daughter of a journalist called Eric Seven scents a story on man with a small"real" family, isolated island and goes she is used to investigate. Rumours have spread, saying that not being a priority in people there never age, and that there are no children's lives. He has barely set foot on the quay But when he sees, and to his surprise falls she defends a random boy in love her class withher slingshot, a girl called Merle. But almost immediately we, the readers, realise that there her simple existence is more than one mystery in this strange placechanged for good. Why are the inhabitants so overwhelming No longer can she spend her time writing novels in their welcome to him? What is happening on the other half of the island? And, most worryingly, why is Eric sleeping so muchsolitude, and forgetting his reason for coming to the island for hours on end? From the very first page there are signs of menace and disorientation, and at last Eric overcomes his torpor and comes to understand that something is badly wrong. He endures terrible nightmares, full of blood and violence, and at the last, just as the islanders drag him to her life now has a stone table to kill him, things become clear boy in his mind. He has been here before. In fact, he has been here many, many timesit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620098</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterT L Huchu|title=Wolves The Library of Mercy Falls: Foreverthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Spring Ropa Moyo is in the air at Mercy Fallsa ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for Sam Roth that means a chance their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to be reunited with his girlfriend Gracesupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, who has spent Ropa is pulled into the cold winter as search for a wolf in missing boy at the forests near request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the townworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Grace's transformations are tied to Will she find the temperature – missing children and Sam knows only too well how hard it can be to hold on bring an end to your humanitythis evil, because he was once a wolf or will it claim her too, before he was cured.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121111</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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 of like FedEx for bad guys'Kristen O'. 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 BartkowiakNeal|title=So You've Passed Your Driving Test... What Now? Advanced Driving Skills For Young Drivers|rating=4|genre=Home Lycanthropy 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) MadOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Lottie Biggs is about Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to turn 15terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She has a job which she doesnjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t mind, as Head Saturday Girl at shoe shop Sole Mates, an online support group where she talks to 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 forwardsbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses.) All that her and Goose are thinking They talk about at the moment (except for Neil) is getting their GCSE's so they can get troubles and help each other out of the boring suburb of Cardiff they live in. Things are about , while also providing an escape to change for Lottie, though…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330479733</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne-Marie Conway|title=Star Makers Club: Polly Plays Her Part|rating=4just joke and mess around.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Polly Conway is having When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to deal with rather a lot at the moment. Her mum has got chat for a fabulous new job – but it’s in Spain! That leaves Polly to live with her dadwhile, her new stepmother who she can’t stand, and her baby brother who’s just annoyingPriya becomes concerned. Depressed by the problems in She decides to steal her life, she ignores her dad’s rules parents' car and turns drive to the friend2friend website Brigid's house to find comfortcheck up on her. As But what she gets increasingly addicted doesn't expect to thesite, she starts to lose focus on the important things in her life – including her family and the Star Makers’ new production.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409520919</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathryn James|title=Mist|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thirteen year old Nell Beecham find there is nowhere near as cool or pretty as her glamorous sister Gwen. But when Gwen goes missing after a sweet sixteen party werewolf in the woods, basement – and Nell realises her new friend Evan River is somehow linked to the kidnapping, it's left for that werewolf to be the younger girl she has been talking to try to save online for the daypast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903063</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move 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>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Suzanne LaFleur|title=Eight Keys|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=On moving to middle school, eleven year old Elise's life takes a turn for the worse. She's bullied by her cool and popular locker-buddy Amanda, and embarrassed by her best friend Franklin – who's decidedly uncool and certainly not popular – she's alsostruggling to cope with the new arrivals at her home, 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 of a strange key with her name on it. As she opens a door to find out about her past, Elise starts to realise that she can take control of her future.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141336064</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]