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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{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=Lauren Oliver|title=Pandemonium|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Having escaped from Portland at the end of book 1, Lena is alone in the Wilds. Having to face the unthinkable !-- Remove -- life without Alex – she chooses to join the resistance of the Invalids in an attempt to bring down those who have made love into a disease. Flicking between the early days immediately following her escape, as she settles into the community along with her new allies Raven and Tack, and a time a bit later on when she plays a more active role in the resistance, Pandemonium has more of the thrills and excitement that made the first book an enjoyable read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722921</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sufiya AhmedMax Boucherat|title=Secrets The Last Life of the Henna GirlLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=SixteenWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old Zeba Khan wasn't particularly looking forward to the family holiday with , on her parents in Pakistanlonesome. It was eight years since What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she'd been there has one main intention, and she had only vague memories of the heatthat is to log on to Voxminer, the mosquitoesworld-building, her Unclecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's home and her cousin Asif, who is eight years older than herworld. SheBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's just finished t find herself entirely on her GCSE exams own, and - along with her best friend Susan - was planning which subjects then she would take for A level and university as well as looking at future careersfinds something even more spooky. She's always been happy in For the server she and her Muslim faith bestie and the lack nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of boyfriendstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, alcohol and drugs had never worried hersafe place in the game has been doctored – well, although she was perhaps where is a ''little'' envious of the fact that Susan could go out in the evenings.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339802</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|author=Simon Mayo|title=Itch|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Itchingham Lofte - cool name, cool guy, but he's Itch to you and me - is an element-hunter. Like many kids, he's a collector-magpie, but football stickers and manga-style cards aren't his thing. Itch is a science geek and he is trying to collect a sample of all 118 elements. Itch lives in Cornwall, where he has recently arrived from London, and his element-hunting doesn't carry much kudos at his school, where he spends most time dodging the bullies. At home, Itch has a tendency to formulate disastrous experiments and the latest explosion not only removed his eyebrows but also got his collection banished to the shed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531301</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse Andrews|title=Me and Earl and the Dying Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Greg is trying to survive high school, and is doing rather well at it. He's got a wonderful tactic of just avoiding pretty much everyone - never getting close to any group of people, never alienating any group either, just coasting along on nodding terms with everyone. The exception is Earl, who he makes low-budget version of cult classic films with. His life is about to be changed, though, as his mother is determined that he should rekindle an old friendship with Rachel Kushner – who’s dying of leukemia.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419701762</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew HammondGreenlaw|title=CRYPT: Traitor's Revenge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There are teenage spies, ghosts Compass and gore aplenty in store for readers of this series: the books are a non-stop, fast-paced battle against all manner of supernatural nasties, where the adrenalin remains high and the body count just keeps on mounting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755378229</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laura Jarratt|title=Skin Deep|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=14-year-old Jenna survived a car crash which killed her best friend. Sometimes, she wishes it was her who was dead. Because the crash left her face scarred, and she can't stop feeling like a freak. As if that wasn't hard enough to cope with, her dad is out for justice and has set up a pressure group in response to the light sentence given to the driver of the car she was in - and the youth is responding with intimidation. Just as she hits rock bottom, though, 16-year old New Age traveller Ryan comes into her life. Could he be the person to see past her scars?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Karen Blumenthal|title=Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Framed by Jobs' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremony, and the three stories he told the students, about connecting the dots, love and loss, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account of Jobs' life, his successes and his failures, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personality. The author actively annotates the backstory of Jobs with references from this speech, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, and Jobs' own reminiscence, giving a rich context to his story. Jobs' achievements are incredible and they're not simply down to his genius, but his attitudes towards life and his incredible charisma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Singleton|title=Dark StormBlade

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinHarry Allen|title=Code Name VerityChildren of the Sun

|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 hard and yet uplifting books around, and reading it feels like a privilege. Begin it early in the day, because you will not want food is difficult to put it down until you have reached the very last pagecome by, so Seo and when you do you will care for many of the main characters like her 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 is rid of one or two). You will be proud to be human, if people like these are in our worldNari and Min go foraging every evening, and you will burn looking for shame that others can be so cruel, so cold tree bark and so vicious. And edible grasses to supplement the worst meagre rations 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 rice and doubtless now as well, which resemble them. The whole book is a testament to human courage and human frailtykimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258217</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Veronica RothAlexia Casale|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 Sing if sheyou Can's any better-suited to one of 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 of trepidation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007420412</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Every Other Dayt Dance

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=SD CrockettSimon Fox|title=After the SnowDeadlock

|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, (demanding he fetch something from a dog's skull that speaks through his imagination) Willo leaves all that's familiar in order to find his loved onessecret place, and join him on the run. The unknown is a ruthless place filled with Stealers and starvation They get together, but there's escape from what he needs barely begin 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, smell the whiff of Southern trains when the grizzled old tracker Eli, have holed up in a mountain cave: fullwinter in Wyrmeweald father is harsharrested, and few humans could survive its rigours. With them is Thraceleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a kingirl who bonded with a whitewyrme but who tin his father was abandoned by the enormous dragon-like creature after she and Micah fell in love. Used determined to flying free across the skieskeep away from his colleagues, she finds and the confinement almost unbearable, and she is wasting away before their eyesbearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617429</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn ErskineLex Croucher|title=MockingbirdGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Mockingbird is the Who 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. In this story of Caitlin, an 11-year old girl Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with AspergerBridget (the kingdom's syndrome trying to recover only 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, creating the death subterfuge of her brother Devon 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 school shooting. With her dad struggling way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined 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 herself.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409538583</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonNick Brooks|title=Drive ByPromise Boys

|summary=It's hot. Johnny and his friends tire When the principal (headmaster) of the park and ride their bikes to the local shop for an ice cream. Sitting outside in her husband's car Urban Promise Prep school is the Poisoned Dwarfmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the miserable old lady who burst their football when it landed in her gardenpolice station as suspects. Armed with water soakers Each, seemingly, the boys just can't resist. But this "drive-by soaking" has catastrophic consequences. The Poisoned Dwarf has a heart attack grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and is carted off in an ambulance. And a few days later, she dies. Johnny is overwhelmed with remorse but is too afraid to come forwards. But are the weird things that start happening - waking up each could have been there at the same time every night, a feeling of being watched - just tricks played by a guilty conscience? Or is the Poisoned Dwarf haunting his murder. But who killed him? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408822784</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=J D Sharpe and Charles Dickens|title=Oliver Twisted|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A small boy, Oliver, is brought up in a workhouse before being sent to work for an undertaker. Running away from the cruel undertaker and his wife, he finds himself in Londonwhy, where he falls in with a disreputable old rogue called Fagin and his gang if any of thieves. Think you know the story? Think again - and add soul stealersboys are innocent, 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 they 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 able 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 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 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 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 to forced labour camps from which nobody ever returns. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339608</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth Woods1919635017|title=ChokerA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Broken RoadDifferent for Boys

|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

 {{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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantPatrice Lawrence|title=BZRKNeedle|rating=43

|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

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julianna BaggottMarcus Sedgwick|title=PureWrath

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edward HoganTori Bovalino|title=Daylight SavingThe Devil Makes Three

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edited by Kelly Milner HallsPhilip Reeve|title=Girl Meets BoyUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Have you ever been In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a relationship where you couldn’t understand what peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the other person was thinking? Perhaps that’s a dumb question… have you ever been in a relationship Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where you COULD understand what no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the other person was thinking? In a unique collectionWatcher, Andrewe, twelve authors team up who has to write eleven stories telling things the same tales keep notes of activity from both the boyHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's point foundling daughter, who washed up out of view and the girl'ssea one day eleven years ago. It consists of five pairs of storiesBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, each looking at both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the same events from a different angleworld of protecting their island, and a final collaboration which switches back and forth between the two viewpoints throughout the storylike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1452102643</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jess RothenbergKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Catastrophic History of You and Me|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=When her boyfriend breaks up with her - ''I don't love you'' - Brie Eagen literally dies of a broken heart. Truly. Unable to believe the x-rays, her cardiologist father insists on a complete postmortem Julia and it's true - Brie's heart was broken in two and she died. Brie finds herself in an afterlife limbo with other lost souls and meets a boy called Patrick who tells her she must process the five stages of grief before she can hope to move on. But of course, Brie is at the first stage - denial - and doesn't want to move on at all. She wants to stay close to the family and friends she left behind but more than anything, she wants revenge on Jacob, who broke her heart... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141334479</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=Falling FastShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=River is desperate to get Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the lead role family home in the inter-school performance of ''Romeo and Juliet'', because she wants SW England to be Juliet in real life. To know romantic love, and true passion. When she first sets eye on Flynn, who’s been cast as Romeo, she thinks this could be it. But would lighthousekeepers for a boy as intense and as talented as Flynn even look twice at someone like her? As all fans of the Bard knowsummer, in the path far NE of true love never did run smooth…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danielle Joseph|title=Indigo Blues|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=High school senior Indigo briefly dated an older boy called Adamthe Scottish islands. He took the relationship more seriously than she did Here be Vikings, and she broke it off. He moved away... and that's the end kind of that, yes? Except..Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the reason Adam moved away was to become a rock star. Suddenlylantern, he's top of the charts with a song about the girl who broke which is his heart. Indigo just wants to forget their relationshipspecialist thing, but how can she do that when half while mum will be leaving her school, and several journalists, want career in algae behind to hear all hunt the gory details about the pair of them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0738720593</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=S B Hayes|title=Poison Heart|rating=4elusive Greenland shark.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Katy first sees a girl staring at her from the window of a bus And Julia, well, she shouldn't think anything of it. Something makes her look back, though, will be homesick and in that moment everything changesalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. For some reason Katy doesn't know, the girl - Genevieve - starts to follow her around, insinuating herself into Katy's college, her friendship group, and even her relationship with the wonderful Merlin. Can Katy, with the help of journalist Luke, find out what's going on before it's too late?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857385704</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah CrossanMercedes Helnwein|title=The Weight of WaterSlingshot|rating=4.53

|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

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessKristen O'Neal|title=Burning IssyLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|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

{{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]]