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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen BlumenthalMax Boucherat|title=Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought DifferentLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=Framed by JobsWe meet Lori on the first evening she' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremony, and s got the three stories he told the studentshouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, about connecting the dotsbabysitter poorly, love and lossmother at work, and mortalityjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, this biography gives on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a succinct and balanced account of Jobs' lifeblanket fort, she has one main intention, his successes and his failuresthat is to log on to Voxminer, his passions and his idealsthe world-building, and his infamously polarized personalitycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. The author actively annotates the backstory of Jobs with references from But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this speech, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobsstormy night doesn' t find herself entirely on her own reminiscence, giving a rich context to his storyand then she finds something even more spooky. Jobs' achievements are incredible For the server she and her bestie and they're not simply down nobody else should be able to his geniusenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charisma. her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonRachel Greenlaw|title=Dark StormCompass and Blade
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|summary=Ellie is spending the summer with her grandparents, in the house where her mother grew up, while her dad and his new girlfriend go on holiday together. Although it's been more than a year since her mother's death, Ellie is finding it hard to move on with her life. Whilst shopping in an antique shop one day she comes across I can hear the model song of an old theatre, and sets free a ghost who made the model theatre with his sister hundreds sea. The call of years ago. With this model is a script for Romeo and Julietthe deep, which the local theatre group are currently putting onanswering beat in my heart. Ellie's grandparents are keen for her to join the group, and it's here she meets new friends and begins to fall in love with a ghost. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070754</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Kai Meyer|title=Arcadia Awakens|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Rosa can't wait to get away from New YorkRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. En route to Sicily to be reunited with sister Zoe and Mira, like her mother before her continental extended family, she makes sure every aspect is one of her American life is deleted, right down the seven who swim out to survey the songs on her iPodruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Arriving in PalermoBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, shethey capture the island's leader and Mira's thrown into father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a sinister Mafia underworld filled bargain with murdera wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, corruption and clan rivalries going back more generations than you could shake she sets off in search of a stick at. Zoe seems at home family secret that lies buried deep in this world but Rosa kicks against it right from the outsetsea. Her rebelliousness is With only exacerbated by nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the mutual attraction that springs up between Rosa - an Alcantra - and Alessandro - a Carnevare. Romance between scions heart of warring clans? It canthe smuggler't s territory, Mira must be tolerateddetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848770081</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinHarry Allen|title=Code Name VerityChildren of the Sun
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|summary=It Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is probably impossible to read this book without cryinga talented singer. It Life is one of the most heart-breaking and yet uplifting books around, hard and reading it feels like a privilege. Begin it early in the day, because you will not want to put it down until you have reached the very last page, and when you do you will care for many of the main characters like friends. You will weep for those who die (or most of them, at any rate: even the gentlest of readers will be glad that the world food is rid of one or two). You will be proud difficult to be human, if people like these are in our world, and you will burn for shame that others can be so cruelcome by, so cold Seo and so vicious. And the worst of it is, our study of history tells us that even if these precise events did not happen, then there are many other events in war, both in the past her friends Nari and doubtless now as wellMin go foraging every evening, which resemble them. The whole book is a testament to human courage looking for tree bark and human frailty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258217</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Veronica Roth|title=Divergent|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Beatrice - or Tris as she becomes - belongs to one of five factions in a segregated future world. Beatrice is Abnegation (selflessness) but has always struggled with the self-effacing lifestyle embraced by her faction. But she's not sure if she's any better-suited edible grasses to one of supplement the others: Candor (honesty), Amity (kindness), Erudite (intellect) or Dauntless (courage). So Tris approaches the faction aptitude test taken by all sixteen-year-olds in her society with a large dollop meagre rations of trepidationrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007420412</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Lynn BarnesAlexia Casale|title=Every Other DaySing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=When Kali sees the Orobouros mark on cheerleaderIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Bethany, at her high school, she doesnbut that't hesitate s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in tempting the parasitic creature - middle of a Chupacabra - out of Bethany and into dance performance that was going to change her own bodylife. The parasite is But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a death sentence for humans. Some days, Kalilife that's blood is toxic to paranormal creaturesas normal as she can possibly manage. Some days she Meanwhile there's blessed with strengtha new (cute!) boy in school, speed and killer instincther music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the parasite feeding off challenges her body continues to throw at her memories wouldnto navigate. So even though she can't have stood a chance. But not on this day. On this daydance anymore, Kali is completely human. And might she has be able to survive the next 17 hours before she changes back.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=SD CrockettSimon Fox|title=After the SnowDeadlock
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=On a near future Earth, Willo lives with Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his family in an isolated community without technology. His parents remember a time when there were machines but all this has changed. Now there's only enough petrol for shift on the sinister government trucks. One day Willo finds himself totally alone, his parents missingforce, presumed taken. Armed with his father's cryptic sayings and his only friendthen suddenly rings Archie, (a dog's skull that speaks through his imagination) Willo leaves all that's familiar in order to find his loved ones. The unknown is demanding he fetch something from a ruthless secret place filled with Stealers , and starvation but there's escape from what he needs to do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230759351</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|title=Wyrmeweald: Bloodhoney|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Micah and his mentor, join him on the grizzled old tracker Eli, have holed up in a mountain cave: fullwinter in Wyrmeweald is harsh, and few humans could survive its rigoursrun. With them is Thrace They get together, a kingirl who bonded with a whitewyrme but who was abandoned by the enormous dragon-like creature after she and Micah fell in love. Used barely begin to flying free across smell the skies, she finds whiff of Southern trains when the confinement almost unbearablefather is arrested, and she is wasting away before their eyes. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617429</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathryn Erskine|title=Mockingbird|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mockingbird is leaving Archie on the story of Caitlinlate express to Brighton, an 11-year old girl with Asperger's syndrome trying toting a tin his father was determined to recover keep away from his colleagues, and the death bearer of her brother Devon in a school shooting. With her dad struggling to cope and Caitlin no longer having her brother to explain to her things she doesn't understand, the young narrator must seek closure on the tragedy herselfwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409538583</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonLex Croucher|title=Drive ByGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary=It's hotWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Johnny In this story, Gwen and his friends tire of the park and ride Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their bikes to the local shop for an ice cream. Sitting outside in her husband's car mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is the Poisoned Dwarf, the miserable old lady who burst their football when it landed in her garden. Armed love with water soakers, Bridget (the boys just cankingdom't resist. But this "drives only female knight) -by soaking" has catastrophic consequences. The Poisoned Dwarf has a heart attack and is carted off in an ambulancesomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a few days laterboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, she dies. Johnny is overwhelmed creating the subterfuge of falling in love with remorse but is too afraid to come forwardseach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But are the weird things that start happening - waking up at the same time every nightas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a feeling of being watched - just tricks played by way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a guilty conscience? Or is the Poisoned Dwarf haunting himlie their whole lives? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822784</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=J D Sharpe and Charles DickensNick Brooks|title=Oliver TwistedPromise Boys
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|summary=A small boyWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Oliver, is brought up in a workhouse before being sent to work for an undertakerthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Running away from the cruel undertaker and his wife Each, he finds himself in Londonseemingly, where he falls in with has a disreputable old rogue called Fagin grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his gang of thievesmurder. Think you know the story? Think again - But who killed him, and add soul stealerswhy, werewolves, and magic...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258179</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=RS Russell|title=Dead Rules|rating=2|genre=Teens|summary=Jana Webster knows that she will be with her boyfriend Michael Haynes for eternity. She even introduces herself as being part of Webster and Haynes. She knows that nothing can come between them – not even her death! So when she finds herself in Dead School, it's surely only a matter of time before Michael joins her… even if she needs to give him a helping hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386751</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie Lu|title=Legend|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=California. 2130 AD. The Republic any of America is engaged in a vicious war with the Colonies. Life is hard for many in the Republic: plague terrorises millions in the slums while all resources boys are targetted at the military class. The regime is authoritarian and ruthless but the population believes that the constant struggle against a vicious enemy means that it has to innocent, will they be. All citizens undergo the Trial during adolescence. A high score means military college followed by privilege. A low score means life in the slums working in factories. A fail sends you able to forced labour camps from which nobody ever returns. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339608</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Woods1919635017|title=ChokerA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cara has never quite fitted in with the other kids at school. Ever since her family moved away from her childhood home and she left her best friend Zoe behindSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, she has struggled to make friends, spending lunchtime sitting by other members so why is he running around London committing a series of the track team without really taking part in their conversations. Then a humiliating incident at lunch, when her crush Ethan has robberies? And how did he learn to save her life, leads some bullying girls crack safes? You'll have to brand her with the nickname Choker, and it seems as things have hit an all-time low. At this point, though, Zoe reappears in her life, on the run from a cruel stepfather and begging for shelter. Cara takes her in and hides her, and with Zoe's help, Cara starts wait to regain her confidence, make some friends, and even get close to Ethan. At the same time as Cara rises through the social ranks, though, bad things start happening to the bullies - and Cara is left wondering just what Zoe gets up an answer to when Cara's at school, and whether she knows her friend at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072862</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Veronica Rossi|title=Under The Never Sky|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aria lives in the dome of Reverie, where she has pretty much everything she ever wanted. By travelling the Realms, she can find entertainment in a host of different settings, meet up with friends, and generally live a life of luxurysecond question because I avoid spoilers. But when a real world excursion goes horribly wrong, and sheI's left to take ll answer the blame first one: for someone else's mistake, she finds herself cast out into the dangers of the wildhis grandmother. Luckily for her, she meets an Outsider called Perry. He has his own reasons for needing to get into Reverie, and the two form an uneasy alliance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411054</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Broken RoadDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=''There's going to be Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a crusade. A boy came 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 cathedral football team, and preachedtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. He As they's going re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to lead a crusade of childrensex...'' Rufus Which is about to begin his apprenticeship in his father's goldsmith workshop in Cologne. The prospect confusing for Ant, as he doesn't thrill him, but know what choice his score is there? And then a boy comes to the city to preach, where his achievements in that regard lie. He wants to lead 's had a casual relationship, a crusade of childrensecret one, for several months now, believing that their innocence will part the seas and win Jerusalem back without so has effectively progressed up the need for violenceladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. It And that's a powerful message mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and Rufus, along the sex with countless other Cologne children and apprentices, find themselves following the charismatic Nick on a doomed journey to the Holy Land.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806495</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria V Snyder1800901232|title=Touch of Power: Avry of Kazan Book 1Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=FantasyDyslexia Friendly|summary=The game is upTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Despite Life in the risk that rural village where she would 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 betrayed Avry couldn't stop herself from healing a sick childmissed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and after years on the run she is other girls were not going to work in a cell awaiting execution. Then a band of misfit companions offer her freedomshop, they were to work in return for healing their princevirtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Unfortunately, said prince is You know those jeans you really wanted: the one who spread ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the idea of the healers' guilt in legs? The ones with the first place, artfully-placed rips and as such he is Avrydistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's sworn enemyquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848450656</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantPatrice Lawrence|title=BZRKNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Sadie witnesses Brave. Charlene, the private jet in which her father 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and brother are flying crash into the packed football stadium where schools, she is also present's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and narrowly escapes with has taken up residence in her lifeson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, she you might perhaps think that the world can't get any crazier. Yet, without any time to grieve and the loss creation of her only remaining close familyone such item is part of the plot here, she as Charlene is thrust into the middle of a global conflict. One that involves nanobots wonder knitter, and microscopic biots being used to fight is making something full of love for control over the minds of the worldher younger sister – a younger sister she's most important figuresallowed contact with no more. While BZRK, We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a resistance groupstore detective, fights for sustained freewill and freedomthen force people to give her two days off school, the Armstrong twins head a movement towards a collective human identitywhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, which will make free will a thing of the past but alsowhat exactly happens is not for me to say, they promise, will bring universal happinessonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405259930</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt DickinsonAnn Sei Lin|title=Mortal ChaosRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=''Mortal Chaos'' is Kurara has spent her entire life as a powerful nameservant on the Midori, and it's perfectly apt for a book that describes a day massive dining hall floating in the lives sky where soldiers of many characters, some from different countries, some adults the Empire come to drink and some childrenmake merry between their conquests. However, some set for when a typical mundane day while for others man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the day will be power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the definition of chaosEmpire. As He asks her to come with him, to leave the narrative rapidly alternates between the stories life of these varied characters, it soon becomes apparent dreary servitude that they are is all connectedshe has known. HowWell, you would thinksoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, could because the day of Midori is destroyed by a jockey, an airline pilot, monstrous paper spirit known as a mountain climber on Everestshikigami, two boys exploring a forestand she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a boy in Africa, a thiefsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a gambler, a television crew, and an insane man with murder in his mind, all be connected? They don't know each other but the lives of all of these characters on this fateful day, depends on the actions whole world of each other. Some will find themselves in life-threatening situations, while others will inadvertently end up causing them!adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019275713X</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julianna BaggottMarcus Sedgwick|title=PureWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=A Hiroshima-like event called ''the Detonations'' has transformed life on earthMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Shortly after the DetonationsLockdown 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 the survivors he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were still hoping for some form half of help to arrivea desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a cloud subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of leaflets were released all bearing the same message: world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she'We know you are heres dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, our brothers and sistersnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolently.'|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755385489</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward HoganTori Bovalino|title=Daylight SavingThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The Leisure World Holiday Complexboarding school's headmaster, with so many sports and games available, might be the holiday a man Tess hates. As a petty act of a lifetime revenge for some teens – but Daniel Lever certainly isn’t one of them. Dragged there by his dad, making her find and feeling guilty over his role in his parents’ separationdeliver such a large request, Daniel’s expecting he’ll hate Tess sticks post-itnotes on each of the books, and his early experiences seem scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to suggest he’s rightreach him, of course. Then he meets a mysterious girl who he’d like Her plan is to know better – but why do get her bruises keep getting worseanger out like this, and does her watch really tick backwards? More worryinglythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, why can’t anyone else see if someone hadn't delivered them for her?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140633717X</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edited by Kelly Milner HallsPhilip Reeve|title=Girl Meets Boy|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Have you ever been in a relationship where you couldn’t understand what the other person was thinking? Perhaps that’s a dumb question… have you ever been in a relationship where you COULD understand what the other person was thinking? In a unique collection, twelve authors team up to write eleven stories telling things the same tales from both the boy's point of view Utterly Dark and the girl's. It consists Face of five pairs of stories, each looking at the same events from a different angle, and a final collaboration which switches back and forth between the two viewpoints throughout the story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452102643</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jess Rothenberg|title=The Catastrophic History of You and MeDeep|rating=3.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When her boyfriend breaks up with her - ''I don't love you'' - Brie Eagen literally dies of In a broken heart. Truly. Unable to believe the x-raysword, her cardiologist father insists on a complete postmortem and it's true - Brie's heart was broken in two and she diedrich. Brie finds herself There is certainly an abundance of riches in an afterlife limbo with other lost souls and meets this story set on a boy peculiar island called Patrick who tells her she must process Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the five stages of grief before she can hope to move Scillies. There are troll people on. But of courseit, Brie is at the first stage - denial and sea- witches, and doesn't want legends of the Dark family that has to move on at allkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. She wants to stay close to The current Darks are the family and friends she left behind but more than anythingWatcher, she wants revenge on JacobAndrewe, who broke her heart... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141334479</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=Falling Fast|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=River is desperate has to get keep notes of activity from the lead role Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the inter-school performance of ''Romeo his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Juliet'Andrewe's foundling daughter, because she wants to be Juliet in real lifewho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. To know romantic loveBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and true passion. When she first sets eye on Flynnhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, who’s been cast as Romeo, she thinks this could be like itor not. But would a boy as intense and as talented as Flynn even look twice at someone like her? As all fans of the Bard know, the path of true love never did run smooth…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070991</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Danielle JosephKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Indigo BluesJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=High school senior Indigo briefly dated an older boy called Adam. He took the relationship more seriously than she didJulia, our pre-teen heroine, and she broke it has been packed off. He moved away... with her parents and that's their cat from the end of that, yes? Except... the reason Adam moved away was family home in SW England to become be lighthousekeepers for a rock star. Suddenlysummer, he's top in the far NE of the charts with a song about the girl who broke his heartScottish islands. Indigo just wants to forget their relationship Here be Vikings, but how can she do that when half her school, and several journalists, want to hear all the gory details about the pair kind of them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0738720593</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=S B Hayes|title=Poison Heart|rating=4Scottish island.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Katy first sees a girl staring at her from Dad is going to be automating the window of a buslantern, which is his specialist thing, she shouldn't think anything of it. Something makes while mum will be leaving her look back, though, and career in that moment everything changesalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. For some reason Katy doesn't know And Julia, the girl - Genevieve - starts to follow her around, insinuating herself into Katy's college, her friendship groupwell, she will be homesick and even her relationship with the wonderful Merlinalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. Can Katy, with the help of journalist Luke, find out what's going on before it's too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857385704</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Phil EarleJonathan Stroud|title=Saving DaisyThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since finding a report which said she was responsible for Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the death Seven Kingdoms of her motherBritain, Daisy has felt unable robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to copekeep herself alive. Her dadBut then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, despite they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the good relationship London Lagoon. Together, they havemust brave man-eating wildlife, refuses the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to talk about her mum's passing, so she takes refuge firstly in her beloved filmsreach the Free Isles, but then will they be any more accepted there than they are in self-harm. As her life spirals more and more out the rest of control, can Daisy be savedBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141331364</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah CrossanMercedes Helnwein|title=The Weight of WaterSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Kasienka's Dad is gone, leaving only a brief note to say he'd gone Gracie Welles has resigned herself to Englandbeing lonely. Its two years after his departureAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, and Kasienka and her mother are moving she is used to England to find him. With nothing but not being a suitcase and an old laundry bag, they leave Poland and their priority in people's lives behind. But England isn't what Kasienka imagined, living when she defends a random boy in a single room, and sharing a bed her class with her mumslingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she longs to return to Poland. At home spend her mother throws herself into finding Kasienka's Dadtime writing novels in solitude, heartbroken for her life now has a boy in it that he left them; at school Kasienka finds herself a target of bullyingshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408823004</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HodkinT L Huchu|title=The Unbecoming Of Mara DyerLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mara has just started her whole life over - new cityRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, new using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, new startshe's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. ItHowever, there's just what an evil stalking the doctor orderedruined streets of Edinburgh, and her family - though still treating her like she might fall apart at any moment - are tentatively hopeful that ittargeting the city's just what she needs to get back on her feetchildren. Mara just hopes her memories returnSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She needs to know what happened will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the night her two best friends missing children and her boyfriend died in bring an accident she somehow managed end to escape unscathed.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707363X</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessKristen O'Neal|title=Burning IssyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the early 17th century and Issy is living fact that she may be in Lancashire with constant pain for the rest of her foster father Nat and foster brother Ghylllife. Nat is She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a cunning man - a herbalist bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and healer - help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and Issy keeps house mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while Nat plies his trade , Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and teaches Ghyll how drive to follow in his footsteps. ItBrigid's a hard life and there is little house to spare. And the family live check up on the edge of suspicionher. Convinced heBut what she doesn's being plotted against by Scottish witches, the King has unleashed witch-hunts on t expect to find there is a deeply superstitious and fearful country. Healers like Nat are working werewolf in the grey areas of persecution basement – and are only ever an accusation away from torture and trial, while time is running out for self-professed witches like Demdyke and her familythat werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393974</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=R J Anderson|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 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 Move 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>}}to [[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]