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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Jenny Han|title=The Summer I Turned Pretty|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=For as long as she can remember, Belly and her brother Stephen have holidayed in Cousins Beach with her mother, her mother’s friend Susannah, and Susannah’s two sons Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly lives for these summers – even if Conrad and Jeremiah only ever seem to see her as the young tag-along. This summer, though, she knows that’s going to change…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330538 </amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Megan Miranda|title=Fracture|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Delaney Maxwell just died. Except, she didn't. After 11 minutes under the ice, she was declared officially dead, only to make a full recovery. As far as the doctors are concerned, it's a medical miracle. As far as Delaney's concerned, it's traumatic !- not just for the obvious reasons, but because she came back changed. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die, and unable to make sense of why her life was spared. Can the mysterious Troy, who has the same ability, explain what's going on, or does he have a different reason for wanting to get close to her? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881739X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brodi Ashton|title=Everneath|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When I got this book I was dubious and it took me a while to work myself up to starting it. Once I did I devoured it. Wow. This book blew me away – original, suspenseful and captivating. It follows Nikki Beckett, who six months ago followed an Immortal called Cole into the Underworld, Everneath, where for a century she was his battery, feeding him life. Most humans after a century of having their lives sucked away are nothing but shells of their former selves, but not Nikki. After waking from the feed she decides to leave the Everneath to go back to the surface, to her family and to Jack, her boyfriend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paige Harbison|title=New Girl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There’s a new girl at the exclusive Manderley Academy. Everyone knows, though, that she’s only there because Becca Normandy… isn’t. Becca disappeared mysteriously at the end of the previous school year, and the new girl is taking her place. Both in school, and with Becca’s friends – and perhaps even the boys in Becca’s life. Perhaps she shouldn’t get too comfortable, though… because the rumour keeps going around that Becca’s coming back. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0373210426</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dave Cousins|title=15 Days Without a Head|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Laurence is fifteen years old. Ever since the day his father died in a car crash, his mum has sunk into depression and alcoholism. But now she has disappeared, and he has no idea where she is, or even if she is still alive. He has a mischievous six-yearRemove -old brother to look after, no money for food, and a home that is barely fit for living. He could just call social services, but there is no guarantee that they'll keep him and his brother together, and he can't let go of the hope that his mother will return. But even if she does return, just how much longer can he keep their dysfunctional family together?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192732560</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Hawksmoor|title=The Repossession|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Genie Magee hasn’t seen her boyfriend Rian all summer. In fact, she hasn’t seen anyone all summer – apart from the creepy worshippers of the Church of Free Spirits, whose leader Reverend Schneider has persuaded her mother she’s possessed, due to her strange mystical gift. Rian hasn’t stopped thinking of her, though, and has hatched a daring plan to rescue the love of his life and escape the town of Spurlake – but their escape will lead them into a situation more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Lowery|title=Socks Are Not Enough|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Michael seems to run from one disaster to the next. Not even his mother would call him good-looking, he feels he is a failure at everything he tries, and his desperate attempts to introduce some order and control to his life verge on OCD. He only has one friend, although even there the title is debatable: Michael feels either irritated or frustrated with Paul's behaviour most of the time, with good reason—generally speaking it is Paul who lands him in the worst scrapes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130021</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim Willocks|title=Doglands|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Furgal is the son of Argal, a near-legendary wolfhound who runs free and wild. But our hero and his sisters are not so fortunate: they were born in the dreaded greyhound prison they call Dedbone's Hole, and their mixed heritage is beginning to show. It cannot be long until their brutal keeper notices, and takes them away to kill them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393982</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Frost Child|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fans of Gillian Philip's Firebrand novels will be thrilled to get their hands on this stunning prequel, set when Seth's mother Lilith met his father, the Sithe captain Griogair, for the first time. Starting with Griogair rescuing the youngster from the Lammyr, who have kept her captive for years, it follows Lilith trying to settle into the way of life of the Sithe as Griogair keeps an uneasy eye on her... and those of us who've read [[Firebrand (Rebel Angels) by Gillian Philip|Firebrand]] and [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|Bloodstone]] realise that he's right to be worried. When a young Sithe boy starts to bully Lilith, he's clearly taking a massive risk... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B006NXYEBE</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helena CloseMax Boucherat|title=The Clever One|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sixteen year old Maeve is the clever one in her family. So clever that she can't believe how stupid the others can be - especially her slightly older sister Fiona, a 'pramface' now after falling pregnant to her no good boyfriend Big. After the news broke Last Life of Fiona's pregnancy, Maeve told her best friend Mark that she wanted nothing to do with the baby. But she didn't count on loving baby Harvey so much that she'd do anything to protect him - so she sets a plan in motion to rid their family of Big and the rest of the scumbags he associates with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340920203</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marissa Meyer|title=The Lunar Chronicles: CinderLori Mills
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|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the East End of Londonhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, and it's 1936just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and it's a time of fightingon her lonesome. Jewish lad BennyWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Jimmythat is to log on to Voxminer, who's rather more Cthe world-ofbuilding, critter-E, are going to become firm friends through having collecting game that is a boxing bout against each otherhit in Lori's world. Benny is fighting against the But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more extreme anti-Goyim sentiments of his neighbour Yarospooky. Jimmy has For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to fight, it seems, against life, what with his father dieing and his mother having found a new boyfriend, putting a sense enter shows signs of social outcast on the ladtampering. And all through this is the fight to comeWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, around and her safe place in the cornergame has been doctored – well, against Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907869239</amazonuk>0008666482
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|rating=3.5
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|summary=Anna and her father have just moved to ''I can hear the coastal town song of Winter - they needed to downsizethe sea. So Anna finds herself at a new school trying to make new friends. So when she finds a book The call of spells and Pruethe deep, Liz and June suggest trying the one which will enchant a boy to love you, Anna goes along with it - despite not believing answering beat in magic - and thinks of the gorgeous Seth Waters when she closes her eyesmy heart. And it's the worst thing she could have done...'
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 ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. because Anna Desperate to save him from death, 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 witchfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as 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 future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444904698</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garrett CarrHarry Allen|title=Deep Deep Down|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ewan can see monsters, wherever he is. That's not because he has any special abilities - unlike his friend May, who can telepathically talk to the animals, or Andrew, who starts this book a sub-human, with a Hellboy-type mutated and very mighty arm, and demons writhing inside him sending him berserk. No, Ewan can see monsters everywhere he looks because life is like that - especially adults. So when May decides a fabled pool Children of magical water is what can cure Andrew, they go and find an idyllic place of long life, peace and Utopia. And still Ewan can see monsters. But which side is of more danger to the other?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386008</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pauline Fisk|title=Midnight BlueSun
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|summary=Bonnie has finally got away from Grandbag and Aunt Doreen and gone to live with her - very young - mother, Maybelle. Maybelle may be nervous Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and insecure but she brims over with loveis a talented singer. And love Life is something Grandbag doesn't understand too well at all. For Grandbag, it's all about control hard and possession. But for Maybelle, it's about sharing, bright colours, pretty plants and pancakes for breakfast. Finally, there's some optimism in Bonnie's life. But it doesn't last long. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0062F6K10</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cat Clarke|title=Torn|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A week in the Scottish Wilderness doesn't exactly sound fun, not food is difficult to Alice Kingcome by, but that's what she's about to embark on. Her so Seo and her classmates are off on an activity holiday together – walking, climbing, caving. Alice is fortunately put in a cabin with her best friend Cass, so things can't be too bad. But, then Tara Chambersfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the popular girl, gets put in their cabin too - things definitely just got worse. Tara, though beautiful is powerful, mean meagre rations of rice and likes nothing more than putting people downkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857382055</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie Louise FitzpatrickAlexia Casale|title=Dark Warning|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Taney Tyrell lives in a room in Missus Kenny's boarding house in Dublin. She shares it with her father, her step-mother Mary Kate and her little brother Jon Jon. Life is hard but both Da and Mary Kate are working and they get by. But Taney is lonely. Ever since she was a tiny thing she has known she can see things before they happen. She has the gift of second sight. But Da and Mary Kate don't see it as a gift. They see it as a curse and worse, the curse that killed Taney's mother. But whatever they say, Taney's gift wonSing if you Can't be denied. It's as much a part of her as her beautiful red hair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Dunmore|title=The Ingo Chronicles: StormsweptDance
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|summary=Morveren and her twin sister Jenna live It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with their parents after collapsing on stage in an isolated community on an island off the coast middle of Cornwall. A causeway leads a dance performance that was going to the mainland at low tide but at high tide they are cut offchange her life. Music is intrinsic But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the islanders pity stares, and Morverendesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's little brother Digory has a special talent for playing new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the violin. One day, he will play to day traumas of all the special violin of island legendchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, but for now, Conan's fiddle sits high on a shelf waiting for him. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007424922</amazonuk>0571373801
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=hought to have been extinct in Britain for centuriesLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, there are actually 70 English wolves left when Ben meets and join him on the Hunterrun. Burning with mortification at being mocked for poor shooting skills They get together, Ben lets but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the carefully-guarded secret slip to this awfulfather is arrested, vile man. And over leaving Archie on the next three yearslate express to Brighton, the Hunter makes it toting a tin his business father was determined to find and kill these beautiful, rare creatures. Eventuallykeep away from his colleagues, there is only one family left and Silver and Conna will do anything to protect their cub, the last bearer of a whole heap of his kind..questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393753</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew LaneLex Croucher|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5
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|summary=The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has authorised Andrew Lane Who knew that what I really needed to write read right now was a series of books about the early years of Sherlock Holmesgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and if this book is typical then Arthur have been betrothed since they made an excellent choice. Through these stories we were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see , is in love with Bridget (the development of the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of Sherlockkingdom's personalityonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, set in creating the context subterfuge of the most thrilling adventures and courageous acts of derring-do 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 young person could desire. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230758509</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceNick Brooks|title=SweetlyPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book is When the second in a series of fairy tale retellings principal (the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]headmaster) whichof Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, without being closely connected, share common elementsthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. They both deal with the paranormal Each, including the Fenrisseemingly, which are about as far from the glamorous and sexy werewolves has a grudge of recent books some description against Principal Moore, and films as you can get. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look each could have been there at the aftermath time of an attackhis murder. But who killed him, and how it changes why, and if any of the lives of those who survive. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900595</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harlan Coben1919635017|title=ShelterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mickey BolitarSolomon Klyne isn's girlfriend Ashley has disappearedt a bad lad, the latest in so why is he running around London committing a long list series of things robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to go wrong in the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his lifegrandmother.. First his father died, then his junkie mother went into rehab, forcing him to move in with his uncle Myron, and now shy, beautiful Ashley has vanished.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620055</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=RunelightDifferent for Boys
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|genre=Teens|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they''Runelight'' continues several years after [[Runemarks by Joanne Harris|Runemarks]] left off. The rescue of re all fired up, straining at the gods has left leash only a rift between single-sex school can form, the Worlds which allows demons talk in class and assorted ephemera out often turns to escape from Chaos into Malbry and spread towards Worldsex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's Endhad a casual relationship, a lawless city secret one, for several months now it , and so has no Order to maintain it. With Odin dead and effectively progressed up the surviving gods power-stripped and forced to inhabit bodies of Folkladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, there is little chance of re-establishing Orderhe can't be sure. And with the End that's mostly because of who he's been having the Worlds prophesied in just twelve days, relationship and the task of rebuilding Asgard and preventing it is Herculeansex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085753081X</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Law1800901232|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=''The Philosophy Files'' Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and ''The Philosophy Files 2'' the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were first published to work in 2000 and 2003 respectivelyvirtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Now we have them combined You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and reissued beading on the legs? The ones with illustrations by the wonderful Daniel Postgateartfully-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>1444003348</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ilsa BickPatrice Lawrence|title=AshesNeedle|rating=43
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|summary=Alex Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is hiking in the wilderness when it all kicks offextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Suffering from a brain tumour Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with only Aunt Hannah to care abouta pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, she and has a mission to complete before ittaken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's too lateat uni. She Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is enjoying - as much 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 could enjoy anything - the solitude 's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her memoriestwo days off school, cruelly truncated by the cancer, which come in tiny, sparkling, precious momentswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then comes the zap. A catastrophic electromagnetic pulse sweeps across the globe and destroys almost everything. There are few survivors . well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and most of pointy those who do make it through have become psychotic, flesh-eating monstersknitting needles can be. Those who haven't changed are in terrible trouble. Society is in ruins, all communication has broken down, and the flesh-eaters are hunting. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857382624</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlAnn Sei Lin|title=Beautiful ChaosRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Those of you who've been hooked Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on this series already will remember the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where we left offsoldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. A choice was madeHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Everything seems He asks her to have been changed. And now, we findcome with him, to leave the End life of Days dreary servitude that is near… Dark characters lurkall she has known. Some who we thought (or hoped) were goneWell, soon Kurara won't have returned. Other things we’ve not seen before are starting any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to tear flee out into the small town of Gatlin apartworld. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things are She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of the good guys now…adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica WarmanMarcus Sedgwick|title=BetweenWrath|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elisabeth ValcherMeet Fitz, a spoiltyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, vain but popular girland he should be free to do what he wants, wakes up after a party to celebrate her 18th birthday on her father's yacht go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to discover herself deadhis best friend, lying face down in the waterCassie. Luckily for LizThey were half of a desultory school band, who has trouble remembering exactly who but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she is and what happened in could hear a subhuman hum coming from the run up to earth. Is this connected with one of her death, eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she is soon joined by another ghost, Alex, one 's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the unpopular boys from her high schooltruth? Well, who was killed a year earlier in a hit and run accidentnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405260483</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeTori Bovalino|title=Fly by NightThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Fractured Realm 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 country existing in an uneasy peacehundred books that she has to deliver herself. Each province What makes it worse is ruled by the craftsmen guilds which hold ultimate control, an ineffective Dukeman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and citizens who honour a multitude man Tess hates. As a petty act of demirevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-godsit notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They'The Beloved're never meant to reach him, who haunt them their entire life. This is the world Mosca Mye inhabitsof course. An orphan, Mosca Her plan is fostered by her aunt and uncle, who think little of her and use her as a bookkeeper due to get her uniqueanger out like this, and quite illegalthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, ability to read and write. She runs away the night she burns their mill to the groundif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330418262</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=50 CentPhilip Reeve|title=Playground|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Butterball fills a sock with batteries Utterly Dark 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 Face 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>}} {{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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072846</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{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>}} {{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>}} {{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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074954</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=NakedDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Lili In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a quiet studentpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, not hip or trendy or in demandbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and she spends most legends of her time playing the pianoDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. She's an unlikely candidate for The current Darks are the nascent punk scene but Curtis RayWatcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the school's charismatic bad boyHidden Lands, doesn't agree. He recruits Lili his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to his band Nakedworry about such local yokel superstitions, and itAndrewe's not long before Lili gets naked with Curtis in more ways than foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea oneday eleven years ago. As the band begins to make a name for itself on the burgeoning punk sceneBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, fame-obsessed Curtis gets drawn further and further in both his sullen brother and his drug-fuelled behaviour becomes more and more erraticcurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326115</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Clemens LoftusKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Ruby Rocksparkle: Her Wildly Incredible Adventure Julia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ruby Rocksparkle Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and her thirteen - yes! thirteen! - siblings are all named after gemstones. Ruby's father is their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a peasant farmer summer, in the happy little kingdom far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of FelicitaniaScottish island. Felicitania Dad is ruled by going to be automating the kingly King Flavian and his beautiful second wife, Queen Morgana. His son, Prince Alanolantern, which is busily preparing for the day when he must rulehis specialist thing, and while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the time for him to find a wife is fast approachingelusive Greenland shark. Ruby, a vivid And Julia, read-headed beautywell, dreams of marrying Prince Alano. If only he could ever marry a commoner - but even Ruby knows that could never she will behomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1452059780</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyJonathan Stroud|title=Mister CreecherThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=OohScarlett McCain is an outlaw, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after rejecting the other! More draconian conformity of that in the further reading at Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the endSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. ''Mr Creecher'' isn't a retellingBut then she meets Albert Browne, a sequel or dark boy with dark powers and a prequel; it's an interlude, set midway through the events of Mary Shelley's noveldarker past. It's Regency LondonWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, the Industrial Revolution is beginning they plan to crank up, and Billy is an orphan and pickpocket trying flee to survive in the grimy streetsmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. About to rob what he thinks is a corpseTogether, Billy is set upon by some acquaintances to whom he owes money. Before Fletcher's knife prises out Billy's eyethey must brave man-eating wildlife, the corpse - not a corpse at cannibalistic Tainted and all, in case you didn't guess the horrors of post- comes apocalyptic society to his rescue. This hugereach the Free Isles, shambling man is not a pretty sight. But he has a job for Billy. Mr Creecher has come to London on but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the trail rest of Victor Frankenstein, with whom he has a bargain. And he needs Billy to follow Frankenstein to make sure he doesn't renege on the deal.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettMercedes Helnwein|title=Verity FibbsSlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Verity Fibbs is the Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of fashion designer Saffron Fibbs. Saffron's brought her up on her own and made a pretty good job of it without man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a lot of input from Veritypriority in people's 'bio-dad'lives. Verity's used to the celebrity lifestyle although Saffron does But when she defends a random boy in her best to keep class with her feet firmly on the groundslingshot, with or without coffee suede boots. The latest buzz her simple existence 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 Dadchanged for good. When Vee wants to retreat from all this No longer can she plays an online game called Demon Streetsspend her time writing novels in solitude, although she's ''obviously'' not addicted. Before long she's going to find for her life now has a boy in it that she's playing the game against a real, live villainnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755379470</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois LowryT L Huchu|title=Number The Library of the StarsDead|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Copenhagen, 1943Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and everyone a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from schoolgirls like Annemarie up are suffering from shortagesthe dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, fear but her younger sister and loathing - all caused by Nazi occupiersher aging grandmother. But itHowever, there's always been an open countryevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, has Denmarktargeting the city's children. Soon, and no less than Ropa is pulled into the King takes search for a daily horse ride, protected in plain view by every single loyal subjectmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. But when, on She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the Jewish New Year, word gets out that Jews will have to be hidden world of magic is far bigger and more discretely, things kick into actiondangerous than she ever could've imagined. Annemarie Will she find the missing children and her family take her best friendbring an end to this evil, Ellen, to the country for safety. But or will it seems death will even follow them there...claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007395205</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelKristen O'Neal|title=This Dark EndeavourLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are twinsHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, born just two minutes apartPriya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. They look alike but their personalities couldnShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t be more different. Konrad is calm, assured and capable. People like him. Victor is intense and arrogant an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with a burning ambitionchronic illnesses. He rubs people up the wrong way more often than not. The twins live with They talk about their beautifultroubles and help each other out, sometimes wayward, cousin Elizabeth while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the three are educated alongside great friend chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and wordsmith Henrydrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. ItBut what she doesn's t expect to find there is a charmed life werewolf in the Frankenstein chateau in basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the Genevese republicpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560123</amazonuk>1683692349
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