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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Keren David|title=Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lia is obsessed with a guy called Raf who barely seems to know she exists. She has a sister who's got some problems at school, a mother who never seems to stop nagging... and an £8 million lottery ticket in her pocket. Suddenly, she's a lot more popular with her family and friends <!-- Remove -- but is winning the riches on offer all that it's cracked up to be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847801919</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessMax Boucherat|title=The Cry Last Life of the WolfLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=hought We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to have been extinct pop in Britain for centuries, there are actually 70 English wolves left when Ben meets the Hunter. Burning with mortification babysitter poorly, mother at being mocked for poor shooting skillswork, Ben lets the carefullyjust an avidly rule-guarded secret slip breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to this awfullog on to Voxminer, vile man. And over the next three yearsworld-building, the Hunter makes it his business to critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and kill these beautiful, rare creaturesthen she finds something even more spooky. Eventually, there is only one family left For the server she and Silver her bestie and Conna will do anything nobody else should be able to protect their cubenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the last of his kind... game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393753</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew LaneRachel Greenlaw|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormCompass and Blade|rating=43.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The estate ''I can hear the song of Arthur Conan Doyle has authorised Andrew Lane to write a series of books about the early years of Sherlock Holmes, and if this book is typical then they made an excellent choicesea. Through these stories we see the development The call of the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of Sherlock's personalitydeep, set the answering beat in the context of the most thrilling adventures and courageous acts of derring-do a young person could desiremy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758509</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Jackson Pearce|title=Sweetly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This book 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 one of the seven who swim out to survey the second in ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a series of fairy tale retellings (trap to end the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]) whichwrecking, without being closely connectedthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, share common elements. They both deal Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with the paranormalonly coordinates to guide her, including she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Fenrissea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, which are about as far her journey takes her from the glamorous and sexy werewolves watched streets of recent books and films as you can get. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look at foreign islands to the aftermath heart of an attack, and how it changes the lives of those who survive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900595</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harlan Coben|title=Shelter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mickey Bolitarsmuggler's girlfriend Ashley has disappearedterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the latest in a long list future of things to go wrong in his life. First his father died, then his junkie mother went into rehab, forcing him to move in with his uncle Myron, her home and now shy, beautiful Ashley has vanishedthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620055</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisHarry Allen|title=Runelight|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Runelight'' continues several years after [[Runemarks by Joanne Harris|Runemarks]] left off. The rescue of the gods has left a rift between the Worlds which allows demons and assorted ephemera to escape from Chaos into Malbry and spread towards World's End, a lawless city now it has no Order to maintain it. With Odin dead and the surviving gods power-stripped and forced to inhabit bodies of Folk, there is little chance of re-establishing Order. And with the End Children of the Worlds prophesied in just twelve days, the task of rebuilding Asgard and preventing it is Herculean.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085753081X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Law|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesSun
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=''The Philosophy Files'' and ''The Philosophy Files 2'' were first published in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Now we have them combined and reissued with illustrations by the wonderful Daniel Postgate.
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{{newreview
|author=Ilsa Bick
|title=Ashes
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alex is hiking Ra Eun Seo lives in the wilderness when it all kicks off. Suffering from a brain tumour North Korean town and with only Aunt Hannah to care about, she has is a mission to complete before it's too latetalented singer. She Life is enjoying - as much as she could enjoy anything - the solitude hard and her memories, cruelly truncated food is difficult to come by the cancer, which come in tiny, sparkling, precious moments. And then comes the zap. A catastrophic electromagnetic pulse sweeps across the globe so Seo and destroys almost everything. There are few survivors her friends Nari and most of those who do make it through have become psychotic, flesh-eating monsters. Those who haven't changed are in terrible trouble. Society is in ruins, all communication has broken downMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the flesh-eaters are huntingmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857382624</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlAlexia Casale|title=Beautiful ChaosSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Those of It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you who've been hooked re having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on this series already will remember where we left off. A choice stage in the middle of a dance performance that was made. Everything seems going to have been changedchange her life. And now But she comes back fighting, we finddesperate to avoid the pity stares, the End of Days is near… Dark characters lurkand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Some who we thought Meanwhile there's a new (or hopedcute!) were goneboy in school, have returned. Other things we’ve not seen before are starting her music A Level performance piece to try to tear sort out, and just the small town of Gatlin apart. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things are is day to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one day traumas of all the good guys now…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Warman|title=Between|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Elisabeth Valcher, a spoilt, vain but popular girl, wakes up after a party challenges her body continues to celebrate throw at her 18th birthday on her father's yacht to discover herself dead, lying face down in the waternavigate. Luckily for Liz So even though she can't dance anymore, who has trouble remembering exactly who might she is and what happened in the run up be able to sing her death, she is soon joined by another ghost, Alex, one of the unpopular boys from her high school, who was killed a year earlier in a hit and run accident. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405260483</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeSimon Fox|title=Fly by NightDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Fractured Realm is a country existing in an uneasy peace. Each province is ruled by the craftsmen guilds which hold ultimate control, an ineffective Duke, and citizens who honour a multitude of demi-gods, 'The Beloved', who haunt them their entire life. This is the world Mosca Mye inhabits. An orphan, Mosca is fostered by her aunt and uncle, who think little of her and use her as a bookkeeper due to her unique, and quite illegal, ability to read and write. She runs away the night she burns their mill to the ground.
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{{newreview
|author=50 Cent
|title=Playground
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Butterball fills a sock with batteries and attacks geeky Maurice in the playground, his school sends him off to twice-weekly meetings with a therapist. Butterball is not impressed. It's a waste of his time and he will never, never, tell anyone the truth about that day. Besides, any problem could be easily fixed if his mother just gave up on this idea of nursing school and moved them out of the stifling suburbs and back to New York City.
 
But Liz has other ideas...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780873301</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jessica Martinez
|title=Virtuosity
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Carmen Bianchi plays the violin; in fact she might well be the best young violinist in the world. She plays a Stradivarius worth $1.2 million, provided by the grandparents who otherwise have little to do with her and she's managed by her mother, whose word is law. Schooling is provided by a home tutor – and she doesn't even get to knock on doors because of the possible damage to her hands: she kicks instead. So far she hasn't really minded that she doesn't have a life outside of violin, but then she meets Jeremy King – a fellow competitor in the world's most prestigious violin competition – and she has to think about her priorities.
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{{newreview
|author=Mia James
|title=Darkness Falls
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=April's not had the best time of it lately. First her family up and moved her clear across the country and sent her to an exclusive college full of the smartest (and apparently most beautiful) kids in the country. Then, while April was struggling to fit in, she discovered Ravenwood school's terrible secret - it's run by vampires.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620411</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Mlynowski
|title=Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=April doesn't want to move to Cleveland with her dad and his new wife. She doesn't want to move to Paris with her mum either. So April decides the best thing to do is to move in with her best friend Vi, and Vi's mum. But, Vi's mum has recently landed herself the role as Mary Poppins in a travelling theatre, so she's not going to be home. That's not going to stop April from staying in Westport, armed with a couple of fake emails addresses the plan is set.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309793</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrew Hammond
|title=CRYPT: The Gallows Curse
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=A warning: do not begin to read this book while eating your lunch, as this unfortunate reviewer did. There's nothing quite like the description of people in an underground train being ripped apart, then having their faces chewed off by bugs, to put you off your egg and cress. In fact, you may develop a strong aversion to the whole of London Transport by the time you've finished this book, which will definitely not please Uncle Boris.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755378210</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Caragh M O'Brien
|title=Prized (Birthmarked)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Cool Age - our age - is long gone. Few people made it and those that did now live in isolated communities. Gaia Stone, a young midwife, has just escaped from the Enclave, where genetic manipulation has both saved and condemned the select few. The rest live in poverty. Lost in the wasteland, Gaia and her baby sister Maya are rescued by Peter, an outranger from another settlement, Sylum.
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{{newreview
|author=Kevin Brooks
|title=Naked
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lili Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a quiet student, not hip or trendy or in demandsecret place, and she spends most of her time playing join him on the pianorun. She's an unlikely candidate for They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the nascent punk scene but Curtis Rayfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the school's charismatic bad boylate express to Brighton, doesn't agree. He recruits Lili toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his band Nakedcolleagues, and it's not long before Lili gets naked with Curtis in more ways than one. As the band begins to make bearer of a name for itself on the burgeoning punk scene, fame-obsessed Curtis gets drawn further and further in and his drug-fuelled behaviour becomes more and more erraticwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326115</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Clemens LoftusLex Croucher|title=Ruby Rocksparkle: Her Wildly Incredible Adventure Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ruby Rocksparkle 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 and his beautiful second wife, Queen Morgana. His son, Prince Alano, is busily preparing for the day when he must rule, and the time for him to find a wife is fast approaching. Ruby, a vivid, read-headed beauty, dreams of marrying Prince Alano. If only he could ever marry a commoner - but even Ruby knows that could never be.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452059780</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Priestley
|title=Mister Creecher
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ooh, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after the other! More of Who knew that in the further reading at the end. ''Mr Creecher'' isn't what I really needed to read right now was a retellinggay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a sequel or a prequel; it's an interludemost delightful way. In this story, set midway through the events of Mary Shelley's novel. It's Regency LondonGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, the Industrial Revolution is beginning much to crank uptheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, and Billy is an orphan and pickpocket trying to survive in love with Bridget (the grimy streets. About to rob what he thinks is a corpse, Billy is set upon by some acquaintances to whom he owes money. Before Fletcherkingdom's knife prises out Billy's eye, the corpse only female knight) - not something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a corpse at allboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in case you didn't guess - comes to his rescue. This hugelove with each other, shambling man is not a pretty sightwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But he has as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a job for Billy. Mr Creecher has come way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to London on the trail of Victor Frankenstein, with whom he has live a bargain. And he needs Billy to follow Frankenstein to make sure he doesn't renege on the deal.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettNick Brooks|title=Verity FibbsPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Verity Fibbs When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the daughter of fashion designer Saffron Fibbspolice station as suspects. Saffron's brought her up on her own and made Each, seemingly, has a pretty good job grudge of it without a lot some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of input from Verity's 'bio-dad'his murder. Verity's used to the celebrity lifestyle although Saffron does her best to keep her feet firmly on the groundBut who killed him, with or without coffee suede boots. The latest buzz is that Saff and Eden Greenfield are dating – it's even trending on Twitter – why, and Verity is getting texts asking if any of the fashion magnate is going to boys are innocent, will they 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 able to find that she's playing the game against a real, live villain.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755379470</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreview|author=Lois Lowry|title=Number the Stars|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Copenhagen, 1943, and everyone from schoolgirls like Annemarie up are suffering from shortages, fear and loathing - all caused by Nazi occupiers. But it's always been an open country, has Denmark, and no less than the King takes a daily horse ride, protected in plain view by every single loyal subject. But when, on the Jewish New Year, word gets out that Jews will have to be hidden more discretely, 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|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 and wordsmith Henry. It's a charmed life in the Frankenstein chateau in the Genevese republic.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560123</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aimee Carter|title=The Goddess Test|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Kate's mother makes a dying wish to return to her home town, Eden, Kate drops what's left of her life and goes with her. She doesn't want to make friends – she's here for her mum and nothing else – so she's not very interested when popular girl Ava, with her jock boyfriend Dylan, invites her to a party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848450400</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Beth Webb1919635017|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 A Thief to avert Catch a great evil, and she believes that evil is the Roman invasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956867308</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Charlie Fletcher|title=Far RockawayKitt 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=4|genre=Teens|summary=''4. Earthquakes shudder across the world.''<br>''3. SOMETHING is released.''<br>''2. Trust no one - not even yourself.''<br>''1. The killing game has begun...'' |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230756182</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Howarth|title=Maphead|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=MapHead and his father Ran are Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of the Subtle World. Ran can travel through timethis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, make things disappear characters and erase human memoriesreaders both. MapHead can flash the map Kicked out of any place across his face multiple homes and bald scalp. MapHead is schools, she's fostering with a halfling pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and now has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he is almost 12, Ran has brought him to meet his human mother's at uni. As they Such a tempestuous personality may be in need to pass for humansof a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, they've taken new names - Boothe and Powersthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, from and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a random movie - practised their Englishyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and enrolled MapHead at the same then force people to give her two days off school , when she shouts someone down as his half-brotherexpletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846471206</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rob KeeleyAnn Sei Lin|title=The Alien in the Garage and Other Stories Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Would aliens like custard creams? Can fake tan hide Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a big lie? Are TV remotes sinister objects? Do secrets make you popular? Rob Keeley explores all these questions and more massive dining hall floating in a super collection the sky where soldiers of slightly spookythe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, blackly comic short stories. They're beautifully observed and you can see when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that Rob knows children wellshe is a Crafter like him, 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 leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the emotional landscape exactly right matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is equally accurate when describing forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky- ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and sometimes gently mocking - peer relationships. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848765797</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan Cooper, Joseph Delaney, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Matt Haig, Robin Jarvis, Derek Landy, Sam Llewellyn, Mal Peet, Philip Reeve and Eleanor UpdaleMarcus Sedgwick|title=HauntedWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I've always enjoyed Meet Fitz, a good ghost story – whether young Scottish lad full of frustration at a sleepover himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when I was he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a teenagerdesultory school band, or even now reading horror stories in bed in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the middle of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the nightearth. As soon as I saw Is this book I knew I wanted to read it, and it did not disappoint; a group connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of excellent authors from all genres have come together and the result world is already a collection done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of brilliant stories ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not to be missed by any ghost hunters out therewhen Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393214</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna SheehanTori Bovalino|title=A Long, Long SleepThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This is a book set Working all summer in the future, with hover-cars and eye-scans and travel to other planets. But make no mistake – thather boarding school's not what this book library is about. Sixteen-year-old Rose has been asleep the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for far longer than over a hundred books that she intended; in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the meantime man who requested the world has almost come to an end in a terrible plaguebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her stasis tube has been abandoned in find and deliver such a basement. If Brendan had not come exploringlarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she might can think of. They're never have been found at allmeant to reach him, of course. But how Her plan is that possible? How could the daughter and heiress of the most powerful couple in the galaxy have been forgotten? This book is about to get her awakeninganger out like this, and the slowthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, painful unfurling of the real facts of if someone hadn't delivered them for her early life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575104724</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M GrantPhilip Reeve|title=HartsloveUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=1861In a word, Epsomrich. A young lad, Garth, There is at the start certainly an abundance of the biggest horse race riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the landScillies. There are troll people on it, astride The Oneand sea-witches, an ungainly but lightning-fast three year old who had never been ridden until just months ago. At the side and legends of the track, Garth's five sisters, Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and friendstheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are willing him on. How can this young jockey win the raceWatcher, upon which the fate Andrewe, who has to keep notes of their castle home and so much more depends? And what are we to learn after activity from the prologue that sets all this outHidden Lands, that would make us want him his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head 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 everworry about such local yokel superstitions, and with her death apparentlyapproachingAndrewe's foundling daughter, she knows they will be able to be together forever soonwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But why is he growing so distant? Is there something when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the revenants who are world of protecting her aren't telling her? And can anyone keep her safe from the rogue revenant Vincenttheir island, who attacked her previously?like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385001</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen WallaceKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=EmeraldJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Emerald and her brother Richard never understood why Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her father decided that after his death they would go parents and live with their uncle and aunt at Hawkstone Hall, even though their mother was still alive. Still, she had always been cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a cold womansummer, more interested in profit than people, and they soon forgot herthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Until Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is, going to be automating the day she wrote to Uncle Charles saying that Emerald was to marry Lord Suckleylantern, and that he was already on which is his way specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Hall to inspect his new brideelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416917160</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laini TaylorJonathan Stroud|title=Daughter of Smoke The Outlaws Scarlett and BoneBrowne|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=Karou's friends think Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she's normalmeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. They assume, however often she tells With mysterious militiamen hunting them that her bright blue hair grows that colourdown, that she dyes it. They think her frequent errands are just normal everyday things they plan to flee to earn moneythe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. They believe Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the snakecannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-bodied being she draws apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in her sketchbook is a figment the rest of her imagination. They're wrong.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144472262X</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyMercedes Helnwein|title=The Drake Chronicles: Bleeding HeartsSlingshot|rating=43
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|summary=Things Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in Violet Hill are not looking people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good at . No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the momentDead|rating= 4. The small town 5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is practically over run by a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the vicious Hel-Blar vampires: 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 her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the civilisedcity's children. Soon, friendly (Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and hot) variety realise that Lucy the world of magic is used too – these are feral, far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and attack indiscriminatelybring an end to this evil, humans and vampires alike.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814978</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ian BeckKristen O'Neal|title=The Hidden KingdomLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Prince Osamu is a pamperedHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, spoiled young orphan who Priya has never known friends his own age or been told what to do. He spends his life surrounded by beauty and riches in a world where most people do not even dare come to raise their eyes to his face, collecting the exquisite pots made by Master Masumi and writing poems. His tutors have told him about the demons of Hades which try, every few centuries, to break through terms with the barrier and take over this world, and fact that it is his responsibility to repel them, but he dismisses all this as old wives' tales. And then one night she may be in constant pain for the forces rest 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, multi-millionaire, is going to give his daughter his life long work, an invention that could alter time forever, a memory machine. It can capture the good, erase the bad, and keep you young for all time. But things arenShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t going to plan; apart from Amaryllis not wanting it, other people have taken an interest, and not in online support group where she talks to a good waybunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620128</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Amy Kathleen Ryan|title=Glow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone expected Kieran They talk about their troubles and Waverley to be together. As the first of the first generation born in spacehelp each other out, 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 while also providing an escape to New Earth, where their crews will start a new human frontier – she loves Kieran (she thinks) just joke and the ship's crew is like one big happy familymess around. But sometimes, she wonders if When Brigid—one of her life would be different, if her choices would be different, if the weight of continuing the human race didnclosest friends—doesn't rest on her shoulders.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330535587</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Miles|title=Fury (Fury Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Both respond to the central characters in Fury have dark secretschat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Em is in love with She decides to steal her best friendparents's boyfriend. So when Gabby goes away on a winter holiday car and Zach starts flirting with her, Em just can't resist even though she knows shedrive to Brigid's doing something unforgivable. Chase lives house to check up on a trailer park but runs with a rich crowdher. HeBut what she doesn'll do just about anything t expect to maintain his place find there is a werewolf in the group - basement – and there's something he has done to for that end of which he's deeply ashamed. But their small American town has come werewolf to be the notice of three otherworldly sisters. The Furies have come girl she has been talking to Ascension and Em and Chase are about to discover that feeling guilty isn't online for the only price they'll be paying for their misdeeds..past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071998</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]