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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonMax Boucherat|title=Swift|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ivy lives in an abandoned Cornish tin mine with the rest of her piskie clan. The piskies live in fear Last Life of kidnapping spriggans and so it's a closed life, with the females of the clan rarely going above ground. It's just too dangerous. This weighs heavily on Ivy, who has an independent spirit and sense of wanderlust. And Ivy has other sadnesses: her mother disappeared years ago, taken by spriggans, and she was born without wings so cannot fly like the others. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312638</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Ross|title=A Fairy TaleLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In Balaclava Street Bessie was bored. Even her book wasn't helping. It was about fairies and We meet Lori on the first evening she didn't believe s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in them, ''obviously''babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. And even if they did exist they'd have more sense than What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to live in Voxminer, the gloomy streets around the millworld-building, wouldncritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't they? find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Playing with her ball in For the back yard server she encountered and her next-door neighbour, Mrs Leaf bestie and a strange friendship developed between the old woman and the young girlnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. It was difficult for Bessie to work out if Mrs Leaf actually believed When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in fairiesthe game has been doctored – well, but it seemed strange that as Bessie got older, Mrs Leaf seemed where is a girl to get younger. And who ''exactly'' was Mrs Leafturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393559</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie PriceRachel Greenlaw|title=Desert AngelCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fourteen-year-old Angel is alone in an open desert''I can hear the song of the sea. The man who killed her mother is relentlessly tracking her, and determined to see her buried. Just as she resigns herself to deathcall of the deep, the local community suddenly take her answering beat in and give her a new identity and an opportunity to hide with a normal familymy heart. They believe that she'll be safe, but Angel knows better. She knows Scotty, and she knows that he won't give up so easily. Her constant paranoia threatens to drive a wedge between her and the family who have taken her in, but she is convinced that it is the only thing keeping her alive, and she might just be right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563366</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Celia Rees|title=This Is Not Forgiveness|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jamie falls hookRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, line survives on luring ships into the rocks and sinker for Caro plundering the moment he runs into wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her at , is one of the seven who swim out to survey the Rendezruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. He knows sheBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's bad news. Everyone knows sheleader and Mira's bad newsfather. But Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he just can't help himself. Caro is strong, vital, secretive and beautiful and Jamie is a moth with only coordinates to guide her flame. He suspects there's someone else , she sets off in her life but it doesn't make search of a differencefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. No matter With only nine days to unearth what everyone else thinksmight save her father, what his sister Martha says, Caro is not like any other girl Jamie knows. She's worth any risk, despite as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the disappearances, despite heart of the odd tattoos and scars from self-harm. And theresmuggler's also Rob. Back from Afghanistan with a shattered legterritory, Jamie's older brother is descending into a world Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of drink her home and drugs. He just can't fit back into small town life. Jamie wants to help him, but Rob is too unpredictable and unstable to reachthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408817691</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margo LanaganHarry Allen|title=The Brides Children of Rollrock Islandthe Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=On Rollrock Island, the fishermen find their brides from the sea through the usurial offices of the witch MiskaellaRa Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. They're selkies; seal women who shed their skins Life is hard and food is difficult to become human. Their husbands are obsessed come by them and the men without a selkie will risk anything to become part of the enchantment, even their human wives so Seo and children her friends Nari and half their lifetime earnings. Soon there are no human women left on Rollrock - the adults to the mainland Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and the female selkie babies edible grasses to supplement the ocean. There are just dads and mams meagre rations of rice and little boyskimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560336</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Don CalameAlexia Casale|title=Beat The BandSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a welcome return for the trio of Matt, Sean and Cooper from the [[Swim the Fly by Don Calame|earlier book]]life-changing disability too, but therethat's a significant difference, as Cooper - something what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a zany sidekick in the original - takes centre stage heredance performance that was going to change her life. Moving on from wanting But she comes back fighting, desperate to see a naked girl last yearavoid the pity stares, this time his goal is and desperate to get back to go all the way with a girllife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Things are looking bad for him, though, when he Meanwhile there's paired up for a health project on safe sex with social pariah Hot Dog Helen. Deciding the only way to overcome the humiliation of association with new (cute!) boy in school, her is music A Level performance piece to give the school something else try to remember him forsort out, Coop persuades and just the other two members day to day traumas of all the trio challenges her body continues to enter the Battle of the Bands competitionthrow at her to navigate. Can any of them play an instrument? Oh So even though she can't dance anymore, come on, what do you thinkmight she be able to sing her way through instead? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184877057X</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin WassermanSimon Fox|title=The Book of Blood and ShadowDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Nora Late one night Graham Blake is an unusual heroine. She is sharplate back from his shift on the force, snarky and funnythen suddenly rings Archie, and her wry tone and contemporary references will resonate with her readers. But she is also uncompromisingly geekydemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and she opts to complete her independent study assignment by joining her three friends at the local university in a research project join him on the Voynich Manuscript by Edward Kelley (This manuscript actually existsrun. They get together, and has taxed but barely begin to smell the abilities of some whiff of Southern trains when the greatest code-breakers in the world in father is arrested, leaving Archie on the last hundred years.). However Professor Hoffpauer does not consider Nora mature enough late express to work on the manuscript itselfBrighton, despite the fact that her linguistic ability is far superior toting a tin his father was determined to that of the otherskeep away from his colleagues, and instead he gives her the lesser task bearer of translating the letters a whole heap of Kelley's step-daughter Elizabeth Westonquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411445</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie DaleLex Croucher|title=Someone Else's LifeGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rosie's beloved mother Trudie has just died of Huntington's disease and Who knew that what I really needed to read right now Rosie has was a terrible decision to make: should she get tested and discover whether or not she has inherited the mutated gene that causes this fatal illnessgay Arthurian RomCom? But just as she decides that truth and knowledge is better than fearhonestly, Rosie discovers that Trudie wasn't her biological motherit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She In this story, Gwen and a dying baby Arthur have been betrothed since they were swapped at birth. So Rosie sets out tiny, much to the States to find her real mothertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, accompanied by Andyyou see, an exis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -boyfriend with whom she hopes to rekindle a love something that never quite diedArt discovers from her private diaries. They And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find more than Rosie could ever have expected, and she is faced with an even more agonising choice: live a liethemselves becoming reluctant allies, or tell creating the truth and destroy lives just as hers has been destroyed...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071416</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Curtis Jobling|title=Wereworld: Shadow subterfuge of the Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=At the start of Shadow of the Hawkfalling in love with each other, our heroes when really they are in disarrayenabling their own other romantic attachments. Drew But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, having bitten off his hand to escape Vanmorten and the undead, is will they find a way in captivity, about to which they can both truly be forced to fight as a gladiator. The Staglord Manfred and the Wereshark Vega, two of the three remaining members of the Wolf's Councilthemselves, or are on the run, spiriting Drew's mother they destined to safety. And Hector, the third of the Council... oh, Hector!live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340495</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|author=Christoph Marzi|title=Heaven|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''The night that Heaven lost her heart was cold and moonless. But the blade that sliced it out was warm with her dark blood.'' David Pettyfer stumbles into this explosive first scene as he takes his usual shortcut over the rooftops of night-time London on his way to deliver a book to one of Miss Trodwood's most valued customers. David hates closed-in spaces and in particular the Tube, but loves the open air and the freedom he feels on the roofs. And so, it turns out, does this beautiful, enigmatic girl who claims that evil men have cut out her heart. David can feel the danger but he is lost right from his first glimpse of Heaven. He couldn't walk away from this girl even if he tried.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314665</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julie Cross|title=Tempest|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jackson has a secret – he can travel through time. Sadly, it’s not as cool as it seems. He can just pop back a few hours, observe things, and not change anything. His friend Adam, who he’s trusted with this, is trying to get him to record every time he does this so they can find out more about the mysterious ability he developed eight months or so ago, but Jackson looks on it as little more than something fun. And then everything changes… armed men burst into his girlfriend’s room, and attack the pair, leaving her dying. Panicking, he jumps back in time 2 years, far further than he’s ever gone before. This time, he can’t get back to 2009. Somehow, Jackson needs to try and find a way to get back to his own time and save Holly, but it’s quickly apparent that there is an awful lot that he needs to learn about himself before he can get to grips with this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230756263</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer E SmithNick Brooks|title=The Statistical Probability of Love at First SightPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=The story takes place over When the course principal (headmaster) of only twenty four hours but so much happens during that small amount of time. It starts when Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the reader meets Hadley having missed her flight to London by a mere four minutespolice station as suspects. As it turns out Each, those four minutes are seemingly, has a grudge of some of the most significant of her lifedescription against Principal Moore, as they result in her booking a later flight and consequently meeting Oliver with whom she is seated throughout each could have been there at the journey across the Atlantictime of his murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755392175</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenny Han|title=The Summer I Turned Pretty|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=For as long as she can remember But who killed him, Belly and her brother Stephen have holidayed in Cousins Beach with her mother, her mother’s friend Susannahwhy, 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 any of the young tag-along. This summerboys are innocent, though, she knows that’s going will they be able to change…clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330538</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Megan Miranda1919635017|title=FractureA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Delaney Maxwell just died. Except, she didnSolomon Klyne isn't. After 11 minutes under the ice, she was declared officially dead, only to make a full recovery. As far as the doctors are concernedbad lad, it's so why is he running around London committing 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 series of robberies? And how did he learn 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 whatcrack safes? You's going on, or does he ll have a different reason for wanting to wait to get close an answer to her? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881739X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brodi Ashton|title=Everneath|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When I got this book the second question because I was dubious and it took me a while to work myself up to starting itavoid spoilers. Once But 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 'll answer the Underworld, Everneath, where first one: 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 boyfriendgrandmother.|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>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave CousinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=15 Days Without a HeadDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Laurence Ant is fifteen years old. Ever since the day his father died in Year Eleven at quite a car crashstandard school, and is surprised to find his mum geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has sunk into depression been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and alcoholismtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. But now she has disappeared As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he has no idea where she doesn't know what his score is, or even if she is still alivewhere his achievements in that regard lie. He has 's had a casual relationship, a mischievous six-year-old brother to look aftersecret one, no money for foodseveral months now, and a home that is barely fit for living. He could just call social servicesso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but there is no guarantee whether that they'll keep him and his brother togethers set in stone, and he can't let go be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the hope that his mother will returnsex with. But even if she does return, just how much longer can he keep their dysfunctional family together?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192732560</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Hawksmoor1800901232|title=The RepossessionStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Genie Magee hasn’t seen Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her boyfriend Rian all summer. In factfamily was happy, if not prosperous, she hasn’t seen anyone all summer – apart from so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the creepy worshippers of 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 Church of Free Spirits, whose leader Reverend Schneider has persuaded her mother she’s possessed, due mini-bus to her strange mystical giftHanoi. Rian hasn’t stopped thinking of her, though Only, Hanh and has hatched the other girls were not going to work in a daring plan shop, they were to rescue work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the love of his life ones with intricate embroidery and escape beading on the legs? The ones with the town of Spurlake – but their escape will lead artfully-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 into a situation more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997087</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LoweryPatrice Lawrence|title=Socks Are Not EnoughNeedle|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fourteen-year-old Michael seems Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to run from one disaster to the nextlike, characters and readers both. Not even his mother would call him good-looking Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, he feels he is she's fostering with a failure at everything he triespleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and his desperate attempts to introduce some order and control to his life verge on OCDhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. He only has one friendSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, although even there and the title creation of one such item is debatable: Michael feels either irritated or frustrated with Paul's behaviour most part of the timeplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with good reason—generally speaking it 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... well, what exactly happens is Paul who lands him in the worst scrapesnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407130021</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim WillocksAnn Sei Lin|title=DoglandsRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Furgal is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the son sky where soldiers of Argalthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a near-legendary wolfhound who runs free and wildman 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. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. But our hero and his sisters are not so fortunate: they were born Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the dreaded greyhound prison they call Dedbone's Holematter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and their mixed heritage she is beginning forced to showflee out into the world. It cannot be long until their brutal keeper noticesShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and takes them away to kill them. a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393982</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipMarcus Sedgwick|title=Frost ChildWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Fans Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of Gillian Philip's Firebrand novels will frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be thrilled free to get their hands on this stunning prequeldo what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, set but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when Seth's mother Lilith met he talks to his fatherbest friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the Sithe captain Griogair, for enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the first timeearth. Starting Is this connected with Griogair rescuing the youngster from the Lammyr, who have kept one of her captive for years, it follows Lilith trying to settle into eco-warrior parents saying the way of life end of the Sithe as Griogair keeps an uneasy eye on her... and those world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of us who've read [[Firebrand (Rebel Angels) by Gillian Philip|Firebrand]] and [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|Bloodstone]] realise that hemusic she's right to be worried. When a young Sithe boy starts to bully Lilithdreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing hecan's clearly taking a massive riskt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B006NXYEBE</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreview|author=Helena Close|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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerTori Bovalino|title=The Lunar Chronicles: CinderDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This Cinderella does not have Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to sweep the grate and clean the dishes - do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to mend maglev vehicle tracksdeliver herself. This Cinders does not leave her shoe behind when invited to What makes it worse is the man who requested the ballbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, she has her entire foot fall offand a man Tess hates. This Cinder does not live in As a realm petty act of fairy queens revenge for making her find and pumpkin carriagesdeliver such a large request, but New Beijing, a massive city Tess sticks post-it notes on each of just two and a half millionthe books, due to scribbled with the Fourth World Warugliest insults she can think of. SheThey's a cyborg - hence the footre never meant to reach him, but she's still owned by a crotchety bigot of a step-mother, with two step-sisterscourse. And Her plan is to get her anger out like this is a very different world, where a global plague is going to and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be brought too close to home.., if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141340134</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jay Asher and Carolyn MacklerPhilip Reeve|title=The Future of Us|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1996 and Emma has just got a brand new computer Utterly Dark and when her friend Josh gives her a free AOL CD he got in the mail, she looks forward to having an internet connection. However, she gets a lot more than she bargained for when the CD inexplicably gives her access to a website that appears to show her snippets of what is going on in her life, and that Face of her friends and family fifteen years into the future. The website's name? You guessed it: Facebook. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857076078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=In DarknessDeep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Shorty In a word, rich. There is lying certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the rubble of the great Haitian earthquake of 2010Scillies. If he's not rescued soonThere are troll people on it, he will die. Shorty is from Site Soleyand sea-witches, the sprawling slum and legends of Port-au-Prince. After the murder of his father and abduction of his twin sister, Shorty Dark family that has allowed himself to fall further keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further into the slum's gang culturewest, where no ship dare sail. But Route 9 isn't all about drug-dealing and gun-running - it's also about feeding The current Darks are the poor and educating the children. And Shorty Watcher, Andrewe, who has a great deal to teach keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his readers, as he recounts brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his life while waiting head to die. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408824183</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Northrop|title=Trapped|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When school closes early because of the snow coming downworry about such local yokel superstitions, Scott and his friends decide to take advantage Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the extra time to work on a go-kart they've been building in shop classsea one day eleven years ago. But with nearly everyone else having left the schoolwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the snow coming down faster and fasterworld of protecting their island, they realise they may have made a terrible mistake. So begins a chilling (sorry!) tale, which sees seven students struggle to hold on as the weather gets ever worselike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411364</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Street of Tall PeopleJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's the East End of LondonJulia, and it's 1936our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and it's their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a time summer, in the far NE of fightingthe Scottish islands. Jewish lad Benny, and JimmyHere be Vikings, who's rather more C-that kind of-E, are going to become firm friends through having a boxing bout against each otherScottish island. Benny Dad is fighting against going to be automating the more extreme anti-Goyim sentiments of his neighbour Yaro. Jimmy has to fightlantern, it seems, against life, what with which is his father dieing and his mother having found a new boyfriendspecialist thing, putting a sense of social outcast on while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the ladelusive Greenland shark. And all through this is the fight to comeJulia, around the cornerwell, against Oswald Mosley's Blackshirtsshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907869239</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brenna YovanoffJonathan Stroud|title=SmoulderThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Daphne Scarlett McCain is a quiet teenage girl who is half-demon an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and half-fallen angel. She's Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the daughter Seven Kingdoms of Lucifer Britain, robbing banks and Lilith and her sisters are seductive soul-sucking succubi (sibilance!)shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. HoweverBut then she meets Albert Browne, Daphne is more like her brother, Obie, whose gentle nature a dark boy with dark powers and genuine kindness make him an oddity in Pandemoniuma darker past. When her brother leaves With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to make a life for himself on Earththe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, Daphne finds herself alonethey must brave man-eating wildlife, confused the cannibalistic Tainted and unsure all the horrors of her future; post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but when she learns that her brother has been kidnapped by a psychopathic archangel she realises that she will stop at nothing to save him, even if that means going to Earth alone and facing they be any more accepted there than they are in the risk rest of being hunted and destroyed by Azrael.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070789</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally KennenMercedes Helnwein|title=Bullet BoysSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Alex is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a crack shot. His gamekeeper father trained him well.''<br>''Levi would rather pull secret illegitimate daughter of a girl than man with a trigger.''<br>''Max "real" family, she is used to not being a bomb about to go off.priority in people'' These are three unlikely friendss lives. Alex doesn't really want to do his A levels. He'd rather join his father But when she defends a random boy in estate management. But his father feels he needs to connect with the world more, especially since his mother died, and so Alex goes along with his wishes her class with as glad a heart as he can manage. Max doesn't have much choice either. Expelled from his posh private school and a severe disappointment to his military familyher slingshot, Hammerton her simple existence is his last chance to salvage some chance of a futurechanged for good. Levi provides the link between these two wildly different boys. He's an easygoingNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, happy-go-lucky lad whose dreams are much more about being for her life now has a lover than a fighterboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407129902</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Cottrell BoyceT L Huchu|title=The Unforgotten CoatLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Julie lives in Bootle Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and is in her last year a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of primary school. She, she's like every little girlbeen using it to support not only herself, hoping to be invited to but her friends' houses for tea younger sister and just beginning to think about boysher aging grandmother. SheHowever, there's never thought much about an evil stalking the world outside Bootle but ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the arrival of Chingis and his younger brother Nergui is about to change all that. The two boys are nomads from Mongolia and they arrive at school on a hot summercity's daychildren. Soon, wearing traditional Mongolian furry coats and hats. Taking Ropa is pulled into the search for a shine to Julie, Chingis appoints her missing boy at the request of his Good Guide to dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the UK. And in return he tells her stories world of horsemen magic is far bigger and eagles more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and shows bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her Polaroid photos of a land far away. too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406333859</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie Jones and Steven E WedelKristen O'Neal|title=After ObsessionLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45
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|summary=Aimee Avery isn't a normal teenage girlHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She has supernatural abilities – Aimee is joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a healerbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. But something evil is calling They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Riverchat for a while, like Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her mother who drowned in the River. Aimeeparents' car and drive to Brigid's mum had supernatural abilities too, and was branded insane by those around house to check up on her. But was what she? Or doesn't expect to find there is there something really out there killing people a werewolf in the river? Was Aimee's mum's suicide a suicide at all?basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408818272</amazonuk>1683692349
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