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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MlynowskiMax Boucherat|title=Ten Things We Shouldn't Have DoneThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=April doesnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't want s got the house to move herself – no neighbour to Cleveland with pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her dad lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and his new wife. She doesn't want that is to move log on to Paris with her mum either. So April decides Voxminer, the best thing to do world-building, critter-collecting game that is to move a hit in with her best friend Vi, and ViLori's mumworld. But, Vifirst Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's mum has recently landed t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the role as Mary Poppins in a travelling theatre, so server she's not going and her bestie and nobody else should be able to be homeenter shows signs of tampering. That's not going to stop April from staying When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in Westportthe game has been doctored – well, armed with where is a couple of fake emails addresses the plan is set.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408309793</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew HammondRachel Greenlaw|title=CRYPT: The Gallows CurseCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
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|summary=A warning: do not begin to read this book while eating your lunch, as this unfortunate reviewer did. There's nothing quite like 'I can hear the description song of people in an underground train being ripped apart, then having their faces chewed off by bugs, to put you off your egg and cressthe sea. In fact, you may develop a strong aversion to the whole The call of London Transport by the time you've finished this bookdeep, which will definitely not please Uncle Boristhe answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755378210</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Caragh M O'Brien|title=Prized (Birthmarked) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Cool Age - our age - Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is long gone. Few people made it one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and those any treasure that did now live in isolated communitieslies within. Gaia Stone, But when the Council Watch lays a young midwifetrap to end the wrecking, has just escaped they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from the Enclavedeath, where genetic manipulation has both saved Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and condemned the select few. The rest live with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in poverty. Lost search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the wastelandsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Gaia and as her journey takes her baby sister Maya are rescued by Peter, an outranger from another settlementthe watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, SylumMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857074954</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksHarry Allen|title=NakedChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Lili is Ra Eun Seo lives in a quiet student, not hip or trendy or in demand, North Korean town and she spends most of her time playing the pianois a talented singer. She's an unlikely candidate for the nascent punk scene but Curtis Ray, the school's charismatic bad boy, doesn't agree. He recruits Lili to his band Naked, Life is hard and it's not long before Lili gets naked with Curtis in more ways than one. As the band begins food is difficult to make a name for itself on the burgeoning punk scenecome by, fame-obsessed Curtis gets drawn further and further in and his drug-fuelled behaviour becomes more and more erratic. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326115</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jean Clemens Loftus|title=Ruby Rocksparkle: Her Wildly Incredible Adventure |rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ruby Rocksparkle so Seo and her thirteen - yes! thirteen! - siblings are all named after gemstones. Ruby's father is a peasant farmer in the happy little kingdom of Felicitania. Felicitania is ruled by the kingly King Flavian friends Nari and his beautiful second wifeMin go foraging every evening, Queen Morgana. His son, Prince Alano, is busily preparing looking for the day when he must rule, tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the time for him to find a wife is fast approaching. Ruby, a vivid, read-headed beauty, dreams meagre rations of marrying Prince Alano. If only he could ever marry a commoner - but even Ruby knows that could never berice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1452059780</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyAlexia Casale|title=Mister CreecherSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
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|summary=Ooh, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after the other! More of It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that in the further reading at the end. you''Mr Creecher'' isn't re having to navigate a retellinglife-changing disability too, a sequel or a prequel; itbut that's an interlude, set midway through what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the events middle of Mary Shelley's novela dance performance that was going to change her lifeIt's Regency London But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Industrial Revolution is beginning to crank uppity stares, and Billy is an orphan and pickpocket trying desperate to survive in the grimy streets. About get back to rob what he thinks is a corpse, Billy is set upon by some acquaintances to whom he owes money. Before Fletcherlife that's knife prises out Billyas normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's eye, the corpse - not a corpse at allnew (cute!) boy in school, in case you didn't guess - comes her music A Level performance piece to try to his rescue. This hugesort out, shambling man is not a pretty sight. But he has a job for Billy. Mr Creecher has come and just the day to London on day traumas of all the trail of Victor Frankenstein, with whom he has a bargain. And he needs Billy challenges her body continues to follow Frankenstein throw at her to make sure he doesnnavigate. So even though she can't renege on the deal.dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettSimon Fox|title=Verity FibbsDeadlock|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 the celebrity lifestyle although Saffron does her best to keep her feet firmly on the ground, with or without coffee suede boots. The latest buzz is that Saff and Eden Greenfield are dating – it's even trending on Twitter – and Verity is getting texts asking if 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 Streets, although she's ''obviously'' not addicted. 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=CopenhagenLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, 1943and then suddenly rings Archie, and everyone demanding he fetch something from schoolgirls like Annemarie up are suffering from shortagesa secret place, fear and loathing - all caused by Nazi occupiersjoin him on the run. But it's always been an open countryThey get together, has Denmark, and no less than but barely begin to smell the King takes a daily horse ride, protected in plain view by every single loyal subject. But whiff of Southern trains whenthe father is arrested, leaving Archie on the Jewish New Yearlate express to Brighton, word gets out that Jews will have toting a tin his father was determined to be hidden more discretelykeep away from his colleagues, things kick into action. Annemarie and her family take her best friend, Ellen, to the country for safety. But it seems death will even follow them there..bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007395205</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelLex Croucher|title=This Dark Endeavour|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are twins, born just two minutes apart. They look alike but their personalities couldn't be more different. Konrad is calm, assured and capable. People like him. Victor is intense and arrogant with a burning ambition. He rubs people up the wrong way more often than not. The twins live with their beautiful, sometimes wayward, cousin Elizabeth and the three are educated alongside great friend Gwen and wordsmith Henry. It's a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau Art Are Not in the Genevese republic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560123</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aimee Carter|title=The Goddess TestLove
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Kate's mother makes Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a dying wish most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to return to her home towntheir mutual disgust! Gwen, Edenyou see, Kate drops whatis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's left of her life and goes with only female knight) - something that Art discovers from herprivate diaries. She doesn't want to make friends – she's here for her mum and nothing else – so she's not very interested And then when popular girl AvaGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with her jock boyfriend Dylaneach 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, invites her or are they destined to live a party.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848450400</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beth WebbNick Brooks|title=Wave Hunter: The Book of WaterPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=As When the Iron Age comes to a closeprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Romans are sweeping across three boys find themselves called into the British countryside destroying anyone who stands in their waypolice station as suspects. The druids are Each, seemingly, has a particular target - the Romans understand all too well that grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the society they seek to subdue revolves around its religion and its sacred placestime of his murder. Tegen is determined to stop them. As the Star Dancer But who killed him, the young druid girl's destiny is to avert a great eviland why, and she believes that evil is if any of the Roman invasion.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956867308</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charlie Fletcher1919635017|title=Far RockawayA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor have Solomon Klyne isn't 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 comesbad lad, Cat's brother doesn't show. This so why is more than he running around London committing a disappointment series of robberies? And how did he learn to Cat - itcrack safes? You's ll have to wait to get an utter betrayal. She needed Joe on answer to the trip second question because she has a guilty secretI avoid spoilers. She hasn't read the latest book Victor gave her - he sends her a classic adventure every year on her birthday - and she knows heBut I'll want to discuss as it they ride answer the trainfirst one: for his grandmother.. Without Joe, Cat has no chance of concealing her sin. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099732X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=VelvetDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=The opening chapter of this book Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a roller-coaster of a read. Velvet standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has fainted while doing back-breakingbeen restructured, gruelling work in a laundryso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and risks being sent two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to the workhouseprimary school days together. Quick thinking saves her job As they're all fired up, and straining at the reader relaxes, leash only to learn a shocking single-sex school can form, the talk in class and shameful secret about the heroine we have already begun out often turns to likesex. Her fortunes soon change Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in true Dickensian stylethat regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, but her troubles are not over: this same a secret will come back to haunt her (please excuse one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the pun) and put her ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the power of one of relationship and the other characterssex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599211</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Maberry1800901232|title=Dust & DecayStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Dust & Decay'' picks up Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the action six months after ''Rot & Ruin's'' climactic battle rural village where she lived with Charlie Pinkher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-eye dressed man and woman came to the Motor City Hammervillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Benny Some money changed hands and his friends have spent Hanh was on the time honing their selfmini-defence and zombie-killing skills through some very intense training by Tombus to Hanoi. And now Only, Hanh and the time is finally right. They're about other girls were not going to head back out into the Ruin work in search of the jet plane a shop, they saw were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the sky after ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the battle at Gameland. There might, just might, be a real civilisation surviving somewhere on legs? The ones with the continentartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070975</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeyn RobertsPatrice Lawrence|title=D4rk InsideNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=''4Brave. Earthquakes shudder across Charlene, the world.''<br>'heroine'3. SOMETHING of this piece is releasedextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake'<br>s old room while he's at uni. 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 plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she'2s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then. Trust no one - not even yourself.''<br>''1. The killing game has begunwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...'' |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230756182</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lesley HowarthAnn Sei Lin|title=MapheadRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=MapHead and his father Ran are of Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Subtle World. Ran can travel through timeMidori, make things disappear and erase human memories. MapHead can flash a massive dining hall floating in the map sky where soldiers of any place across his face the Empire come to drink and bald scalpmake merry between their conquests. MapHead However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a halfling and now he is almost 12Crafter like him, Ran has brought someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him , to meet his human motherleave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. As they need to pass for humansWell, theysoon Kurara won've taken new names - Boothe t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Powersshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, from a random movie sky- practised their Englishship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and enrolled MapHead at the same school as his half-brother. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846471206</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|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 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>}} {{newreview|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=Haunted|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I've always enjoyed a good ghost story – whether at a sleepover when I was a teenager, 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 is a collection of brilliant stories not to be missed by any ghost hunters out there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393214</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna SheehanMarcus Sedgwick|title=A Long, Long SleepWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a book set in the futureonly just over, with hover-cars and eye-scans and travel he should be free to other planets. But make no mistake – that's not do what this book is about. Sixteen-year-old Rose has been asleep for far longer than she intended; he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the meantime the world has almost come it when he talks to an end in a terrible plaguehis best friend, and her stasis tube has been abandoned in Cassie. They were half of a basement. If Brendan had not come exploringdesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she might never have been found at all. But how is that possible? How could hear a subhuman hum coming from the daughter and heiress earth. Is this connected with one of the most powerful couple in the galaxy have been forgotten? This book is about her awakening, and eco-warrior parents saying the slow, painful unfurling end 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, world is at the start already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind 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, Garthmusic she's five sisters, and friends, are willing him on. How can this young jockey win the race, upon which the fate dreaming of their castle home and so much more depends? Is she just bonkers? And what are we to learn after can Fitz find out the prologue that sets all this out, that would make us want him to NOT wintruth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857381873</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow: The Hidden|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abbey loves Caspian more than everWell, and with her death apparentlyapproaching, she knows they will be able to be together forever soon. But why is not when Cassie has gone missing he growing so distant? Is there something the revenants who are protecting her arencan't telling her? And can anyone keep her safe from 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 his death they would go and live with their uncle and aunt at Hawkstone Hall, even though their mother was still alive. 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416917160</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laini TaylorTori Bovalino|title=Daughter of Smoke and BoneThe Devil Makes Three
|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.
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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=The Drake Chronicles: Bleeding Hearts
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Things Working all summer in Violet Hill are not looking good at her boarding school's library is the momentlast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. The small town What makes it worse is practically over run by the vicious Helman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-Blar vampires: not it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the civilisedugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, friendly (and hot) variety that Lucy of course. Her plan is used too – these are feralto get her anger out like this, and attack indiscriminatelythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, humans and vampires alikeif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814978</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BeckPhilip Reeve|title=The Hidden KingdomUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Prince Osamu is In a pamperedword, spoiled young orphan who has never known friends his own age or been told what to dorich. He spends his life surrounded by beauty and There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a world where most people do not even dare to raise their eyes to his facepeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, collecting beyond the exquisite pots made by Master Masumi and writing poemsScillies. His tutors have told him about the demons of Hades which tryThere are troll people on it, every few centuries, to break through the barrier and take over this worldsea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that it is his responsibility has to repel themkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but he dismisses all this as old wives' taleswhere no ship dare sail. And then one night The current Darks are the forces Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Emissary attack the palaceHidden Lands, and every certainty he had is gone his brother Will who lives in London with too much science 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 his head to worry about to turn seventeen. As a presentsuch local yokel superstitions, her fatherand Andrewe's foundling daughter, Arnold Ruben, a widowedwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, multi-millionaire, is going to give both his daughter sullen brother and his life long work, an invention that could alter time forever, a memory machine. It can capture curious ward are thrust into the good, erase the badworld of protecting their island, and keep you young for all time. But things aren't going to plan; apart from Amaryllis not wanting like it, other people have taken an interest, and or not in a good way. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620128</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amy Kathleen RyanKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Glow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone expected Kieran Julia and Waverley to be together. As the first of the first generation born 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)Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Both Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the central characters family home in Fury have dark secrets. Em is in love with her best friend's boyfriend. So when Gabby goes away on SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a winter holiday and Zach starts flirting with hersummer, 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 - and there's something he has done to far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that end kind of which he's deeply ashamedScottish island. But their small American town has come Dad is going to be automating the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come to Ascension and Em and Chase are about lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to discover that feeling guilty isn't hunt the only price they'll elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be paying for their misdeeds..homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071998</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fiona FodenJonathan Stroud|title=Life, Death The Outlaws Scarlett and Gold Leather TrousersBrowne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite having not seen her uncle JupeScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the famous former rock starSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, for several years after he fell out with her mother, Clover is still devastated by his deathrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. So when her parents split up the day after But then she turns thirteenmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and her father runs off with a nude modeldarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she doesn't think things can get any worse. Can she cope with they plan to flee to the fallout mythical Free Isles of the splitLondon Lagoon. Together, look after kid sister Lilythey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and get all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to know cute fellow guitarist Riley better? Or reach the Free Isles, but will her rival Sophie Skelling's teeny crochet bikini tempt him away from herthey be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407120867</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Monique TruongMercedes Helnwein|title=Bitter in the MouthSlingshot
|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 his
singsong 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.
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{{newreview
|author=Deborah White
|title=Wickedness
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Claire's grandmother Gracie Welles has just diedresigned herself to being lonely. And her parents have just split up. So it's not really As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a good time. Mum "real" family, she is used to not being even more of a pain than usual - endlessly cross, endlessly cleaning, endlessly combing Granpriority in people's belongings for anything of value - and Claire wants nothing more than to go home to her own house and her own thingslives. But then when she finds defends a letter addressed to random boy in her class with her from slingshot, her grandmothersimple existence is changed for good. It contains a sheaf of manuscripts and a ring inscribed with a hieroglyph. Once on Claire's fingerNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the ring gets stuck - much to for her mother's annoyance. It could be worth life now has a pretty penny to the rather sinister Egyptologist who's interested boy in buying some of Gran's possessionsit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848775318</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffT L Huchu|title=There Is No DogThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Imagine God Ropa Moyo is actually a teenage immortalghostalker, much in using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the vein dead of teenage humansEdinburgh for their living relatives. He rushes his coursework (creation) and while there are flashes Ever since she dropped out of brilliance school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and potential in ither aging grandmother. However, there's no real thought or organisation and so an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the whole thing doesncity't really work properlys children. But God Soon, Ropa is too busy having pulled into the search for a lie-in or lusting after buxom young women to be ironing out these sorts missing boy at the request of boring creases in his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the making world of a successful planetmagic 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>0141327162</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryKristen O'Neal|title=Shadows at StonewyldeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
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|summary=When we last left StonewyldeHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the community seemed to fact that she may be on in constant pain for the verge rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a period bunch of glorious prosperity other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and happiness as Yul became the new Magus help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and Sylvie joined him as guardians mess around. When Brigid—one of Stonewylde. Thirteen years have passed, and Stonewylde is almost unrecognisable; it hasnher closest friends—doesn't quite succumbed respond to the Outside World yetchat for a while, but just how much longer can it remain self-sufficient and resistant Priya becomes concerned. She decides to the consumerism steal her parents' car and pervasive technology that is characteristic of the rest of the country? Furthermore, the cracks that begin drive to appear in YulBrigid's and Sylviehouse to check up on her. But what she doesn's relationship are branching out throughout t expect to find there is a werewolf in the whole community, with malcontent brewing, cruelty going unchecked, basement – and sinister hints of a dark presence returning for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to Stonewyldeonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098899</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Ally Carter|title=Heist Society|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A new series from the creator of the Move on to [[I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls) by Ally Carter|Gallagher GirlsNewest Thrillers Reviews]]? Excellent! And this book doesn't disappoint: young people with unusual and highly specialised skills, encountering bad guys and peril with determination and a healthy dose of humour. So, what's the difference from the 'Gallagher Girls'? Well, this time, the heroine and her crew are, um, to put it bluntly, the villains! Except that it's just not that simple. Kat comes from a large family of burglars and art thieves, but she decides she's had enough of the family business and wants a normal life. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Lil Chase|title=Boys for Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Gwynnie has always been one of the guys which was fine...until Charlie Notts showed up at school. He's Hot (capital H) and friendly and likes football, but when Gwynnie realises he's firmly putting her on his list of mates, not girls, action must be taken. The thing is, for a girl whose close family and friends are all blokes, and whose one life love to date wasn'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 guys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857384821</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackie Martin|title=Burglar Boy|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Burglar Boy'' opens with a big scene - Dean is halfway though robbing a house when the owner returns. Chased by an irate man with a good aim and a golf club, he barely makes it out in one piece. But he dutifully returns home and divvies up a pile of ill-gotten goods to Callum, his older brother, who rewards him for the risk and the bruises with a paltry fiver. Still, it's more pocket money than Dean is likely to see from his mother, who has lapsed further and further into a bottle of vodka since her most recent boyfriend left. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907552146</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hayley Long|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) Tragic|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lottie can’t understand what’s going on with the women around her. Goose has got the hots for a fellow cinema employee with a name which, spelt backwards, is rather unfortunate. Her mum has fallen for the bloke who arrested Lottie back in book one, and HIS daughter is a scary emo girl. There’s only one thing to be done… road trip! The central trio of Lottie, Goose, and Lottie’s hunky rugby playing boyfriend Gareth hightail it out of Cardiff – but can a change of scenery really solve the problems?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330523015</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Rebel Angels: Bloodstone|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Seth and Conal MacGregor have spent so long hunting for the Bloodstone for Kate NicNiven, their queen, that they're reached the present day in our world (after Firebrand took place in sixteenth century Scotland.) They still haven't found it, 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 to findout with far-reaching consequences. Returning to the realm of the fairies with her in tow, and two others, the MacGregor boys are about to find even more trouble.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537239</amazonuk>}} {{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>}}