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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We 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, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenRachel Greenlaw|title=The Fault in Our StarsCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Having been diagnosed at age 12 with stage 4 thyroid cancer, Hazel was prepared to die. Then at age 14, a miracle treatment shrunk ''I can hear the song of the tumours in her lungs.sea..for The call of the time being. Hazel could live for yearsdeep, or she could die at any time, but her days are spent tethered to an oxygen tank and under constant surveillance and treatment to keep the cancer at bay. Hazel is now 16. With her life in a constant holding pattern, Hazel meets Augustus Waters at a cancer support group. Augustus is gorgeous, sharp-witted, answering beat in remission and completely attracted to Hazel. As their relationship blossoms and grows, Hazel finds she has to re-examine her attitude about life and death, illness and wellness and love. Their brief journey together leaves a lasting legacy behind that will change everythingmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525478817</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Sarah Silverwood|title=The Traitor's Gate: The Nowhere Chronicles Book 2|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There is a storm comingRosevear, a storm of rage remote and fury partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and chaosplundering the wrecks. The friendship between FinMira, Christopher and Joe, which held strong through their last adventurelike her mother before her, is breaking down as Joe, now a holder of two one of the five stories that hold the worlds together, finds his mind being warped by seven who swim out to survey the stories ruins – rescuing any survivors and their uncontrollable powerany treasure that lies within. The Knights of Nowhere, inter-world peacekeepers with But when the ability Council Watch lays a trap to pass between end the worlds of Somewhere and Nowherewrecking, barely have time to initiate a few new members to their dwindling force before they find themselves pushed capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to their limitssave him from death, simultaneously dealing Mira makes a bargain with something that a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is attacking people at random secretive and causing madnesswith only coordinates to guide her, and the implications she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Prophecy, which heralds a war to end all warssea. All his life people have called Fin special, for some reason unknown With only nine days to himunearth what might save her father, and perhaps unknown as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to them. However, when Fin finally learns the true nature heart of his parentsthe smuggler's territory, his very existence is shaken Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the core, future of her home and he suddenly finds himself questioning everything he previously believed inthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620659</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl HiaasenHarry Allen|title=ChompChildren of the Sun

|summary=Wahoo isn't Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a cool kidtalented singer. He can't play sportsLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and he doesn't have the latest gear. But no one at school bullies him because Alice, the twelve-foot alligator who lives in his dad's zoo, accidentally bit his thumb off one day. The other kids reckon if he can walk away from an ordeal like thatMin go foraging every evening, then he must have something going looking for him. And by tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the time this story is over, he'll be up to his ears in street-credmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444005065</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathy ReichsAlexia Casale|title=ViralsSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Tory Brennan is just a normal girl with an extraordinary aunt - the renowned forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan. Desperate to follow in her relativeIt's footsteps, she seems hard enough to have little opportunity navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to do so living in South Carolina navigate a life- changing disability too, but that quickly changes when she and her friends stumble 's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a decades old corpsedance performance that was going to change her life. Desperately trying to find out what happened But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the dead personpity stares, and cure desperate to get back to a sick dog they've liberated from a laboratory on their island home, the quartetlife that's lives have suddenly become rather complicatedas normal as she can possibly manage. And that Meanwhile there's before a mysterious virus hits them new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all and leaves them with some very strange side effects..the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099543931</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew MotionSimon Fox|title=Silver: Return to Treasure IslandDeadlock

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Even if you have not read Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 classic ''Treasure Island''Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, or you have read it demanding he fetch something from a long time agosecret place, the chances are that you will be broadly familiar with the story and in particular some of the rich characters he created because they have entered into join him on the culture of our image of piratesrun. Before Johnny Depp convinced us that pirates looked like Keith Richards They get together, it was but barely begin to smell the terrifying image whiff of Long John Silver and his parrotSouthern trains when the father is arrested, squawking 'pieces of eight'leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, double dealing toting a tin his way to buried treasure and the innocence of young narrator Jim Hawkins that conjures up what we think of in terms of pirate adventure. But Stevenson left some tantalizing threads father was determined to keep away from his tale, not least the fact that Silver made off with only the majority of the treasure and left the remaining silver behind together with three marooned pirates to fend for themselves. Setting the story 40 years after these eventscolleagues, Andrew Motion picks up the tale and has the offspring bearer of Hawkins, in the form a whole heap of his son also called Jim and Long John Silver's daughter Natty returning to collect the remaining bounty. Of course, it's never going to be that simplequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224091190</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie FlackLex Croucher|title=BunheadsGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Nineteen-year old Hannah Ward, a dancer with the Manhattan Ballet Company, has devoted her entire life Who knew that what I really needed to dance. She works hard, watches her weight like read right now was a hawk, and navigates the complicated maze of relationships with the rest of the company whogay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in many cases, are both friends and rivalsa most delightful way. But then she meets musician Jacob In this story, Gwen and she realises just what she's missed out on while growing up like this. Will she do the unthinkable and give up her careerArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, or pass up the chance of love in the hope of gaining success in the ballet world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411275</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jillian Larkin|title=The Flappers: Vixen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Gloria Carmody is a society princess in 1920's Chicago. Engaged much to Sebastian Greytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, both powerful and handsomeyou see, she is expected to be little more than an ornament to him. After spending a night at the notorious speakeasy in love with Bridget (the Green Mill, though, Gloria knows that therekingdom's more to life than balls and socialising...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565040</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Jinks|title=The Paradise Trap|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Marcus's mum has to economise over their holidays, it means just the two of them, revisiting a campsite she herself knew as a child, in a grotty old secondonly female knight) -hand caravansomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. It's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a greasyboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, shabby, squeaky little closet creating the subterfuge of a caravanfalling in love with each other, and no-one can agree on what the awful stink pervading it reminds them ofwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But when the trip is hyped up as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a great time for way in which they can bothtruly be themselves, it seems or are they destined to have live a chance of coming true, for a bizarre cellar to the caravan leads everyone to lie their dream trip - if only, unfortunately, one way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicky Singer|title=The Flask|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve-year-old Jess is dealing with a lot. Her beloved Aunt Edie has just died. Her mother is expecting twins - but these new babies will be Jess's half-brothers and will complete Jess's mother's marriage to her stepfather. But will they complete Jess's family? Will they even survive? Because the twins are conjoined. And in 70% of separations, only one twin whole lives. And if this weren't enough in the way of trials and tribulations, Jess's best friend Zoe is moving towards a relationship with a boy. Does this mean she will leave Jess behind? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007438761</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Margie GelbwasserNick Brooks|title=Pieces of UsPromise Boys

|summary=Every summer Katie and her sister Julie meet up with Alex and his brother Kyle at When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a lakeside community in New York. They leave behind their problems - which are legion - grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and find comfort in each othercould have been there at the time of his murder. But when a dark secret of one who killed him, and why, and if any of them leaks out, the four boys are all left reeling by the far-reaching consequences.innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0738721646</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Guerra1919635017|title=TornA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Stella Chavez is a fairly ordinary girl until she meets Ruby Caroline. She gets pretty good grades, has friends sheSolomon Klyne isn's grown up with, and is t a soccer star. New girl Ruby, on the other handbad lad, so why is trouble with he running around London committing a capital T, right from the moment she storms into her first class wearing a band-aid series of a skirt and swearing like a trooper. Thererobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's something about Ruby, though, that draws Stella ll have to wait to get an answer to her, and the pair quickly become inseparablesecond question because I avoid spoilers. But as RubyI's behaviour gets more and more erratic, and she's drawn into bad habits and an unsuitable relationship, can Stella save her friend - or will she get dragged down with her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0761462724</amazonuk>ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Avery WilliamsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Alchemy of ForeverDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Back Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the Middle Agesfootball team, Seraphina nearly diedand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Her boyfriend Cyrus saved her life As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single- at sex school can form, the cost of someone elsetalk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn's. Using t know what his newly discovered Alchemy potionscore is, he transferred her soul into another bodywhere his achievements in that regard lie. They He've s had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now lived over 600 years, changing bodies every decade or and sohas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but Sera is tired of this unnatural existence and is determined to end it. She runs away from Cyruswhether that's set in stone, ready to die for real this timehe can't be sure. When she finds sixteen-year-old Kailey, And that's mostly because of whohe's just been involved in a car accident, her good intentions waver having the relationship and she takes over the dying girl's bodysex with. Could this be her chance for a new start? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857076817</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gemma Malley1800901232|title=The KillablesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the Cityrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, evil has been eradicated. Each of its citizens has undergone so when the New Baptism smartly- having dressed man and woman came to the evil part of their brain, 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 amygdala, removedmini-bus to Hanoi. But even this isn't enough - the City still needs its System Only, which monitors every citizen Hanh and labels accordingly. Any sign of evil results the other girls were not going to work in a lower classification shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the lowest classification of all is "K". Ks are sent for reconditioning. After this, they disappear legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and are never seen againher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722778</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HodkinPatrice Lawrence|title=The Unbecoming Of Mara DyerNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Mara has just started her whole life over - new cityBrave. Charlene, new schoolthe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, new startcharacters and readers both. It Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's just what fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the doctor orderedplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her family - though still treating her like younger sister – a younger sister she might fall apart at any moment - are tentatively hopeful that it's just what she needs to get back on her feetallowed contact with no more. Mara just hopes We see Charlene prove her memories return. She needs belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to know what happened the night give her two best friends and her boyfriend died in an accident days off school, when she somehow managed shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to escape unscathedremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707363X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam HawksmoorAnn Sei Lin|title=The RepossessionRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Genie Magee hasn’t seen Kurara has spent her boyfriend Rian all summer. In factentire life as a servant on the Midori, she hasn’t seen anyone all summer – apart from a massive dining hall floating in the creepy worshippers sky where soldiers of the Church of Free SpiritsEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, whose leader Reverend Schneider has persuaded when a man named Himura arrives to tell her mother she’s possessedthat she is a Crafter like him, due someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her strange mystical giftto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Rian hasn’t stopped thinking of herWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, thoughbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and has hatched she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a daring plan sky-ship whose express purpose is to rescue the love of his life hunt down shikigami, and escape the town a whole world of Spurlake – but their escape will lead them into a situation more dangerous than they could ever have imagined.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997087</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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 - 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 AhmedMarcus Sedgwick|title=Secrets of the Henna GirlWrath

|summary=Sixteen-year-old Zeba Khan wasn't particularly looking forward to the family holiday with her parents in PakistanMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. It was eight years since she'd been there and she had Lockdown is only vague memories of the heatjust over, the mosquitoes, her Uncle's home and her cousin Asifhe should be free to do what he wants, who is eight years older than her. She's just finished her GCSE exams to go where he wants and - along with her whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend Susan - was planning which subjects she would take for A level and university as well as looking at future careers, Cassie. She's always been happy in her Muslim faith and the lack They were half of boyfriendsa desultory school band, alcohol and drugs had never worried her, although she but Cassie was perhaps a ''little'' envious of also one hundred per cent the fact that Susan enigmatic – saying she could go out in hear a subhuman hum coming from the eveningsearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141339802</amazonuk>}} {{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 this connected with one of her eco- warrior parents saying the end of the world is an element-hunter. Like many kids, healready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she'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 dreaming of all 118 elements. Itch lives in Cornwall? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, where not when Cassie has gone missing he has recently arrived from London, and his element-hunting doesncan'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.. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531301</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jesse AndrewsTori Bovalino|title=Me and Earl and the Dying GirlThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Greg Working all summer in her boarding school's library is trying the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to survive high deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and is doing rather well at ita man Tess hates. He's got As a wonderful tactic petty act of just avoiding pretty much everyone revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post- never getting close to any group it notes on each of peoplethe books, never alienating any group either, just coasting along on nodding terms scribbled with everyonethe ugliest insults she can think of. The exception is EarlThey're never meant to reach him, who he makes low-budget version of cult classic films withcourse. His life Her plan is about to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would 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 Hammond|title=CRYPT: Traitorif someone hadn's Revenge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There are teenage spies, ghosts and gore aplenty in store t delivered them 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 mountingher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755378229</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura JarrattPhilip Reeve|title=Skin Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=14-year-old Jenna survived In a car crash which killed her best friendword, rich. SometimesThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, she wishes British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it was her who was dead. Because the crash left her face scarred, and she can't stop feeling like a freak. As if sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that wasn't hard enough has to cope with, her dad is out keep watch for justice magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has set up a pressure group in response to the light sentence given to the driver keep notes of activity from the car she was Hidden 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 foundling daughter, who washed up out of the youth is responding with intimidationsea one day eleven years ago. Just as she hits rock bottomBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, thoughboth his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, 16-year old New Age traveller Ryan comes into her lifelike it or not. Could he be the person to see past her scars?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256729</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Karen BlumenthalKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought DifferentJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=Framed by Jobs' iconic speech at a Stanford College graduation ceremonyJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the three stories he told family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the students, about connecting far NE of the dots, love and lossScottish islands. Here be Vikings, and mortality, this biography gives a succinct and balanced account that kind of Jobs' lifeScottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his successes and his failuresspecialist thing, his passions and his ideals, and his infamously polarized personalitywhile mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. The author actively annotates the backstory of Jobs with references from this speech And Julia, as well as future events, carefully chosen statistics, she will be homesick 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 charismaalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408832062</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonJonathan Stroud|title=Dark StormThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=Ellie Scarlett McCain is spending an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the summer with her grandparents, in Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the house where her mother grew upSeven Kingdoms of Britain, while her dad robbing banks 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 shooting other outlaws to move on with her lifekeep herself alive. Whilst shopping in an antique shop one day But then she comes across the model of an old theatremeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and sets free a ghost who made darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the model theatre with his sister hundreds mythical Free Isles of years agothe London Lagoon. With this model is a script for Romeo Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Juliet, which all the local theatre group are currently putting on. Ellie's grandparents are keen for her horrors of post-apocalyptic society to join reach the groupFree Isles, and it's here she meets new friends and begins to fall but will they be any more accepted there than they are in love with a ghost. the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070754</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Kai Meyer|title=Arcadia Awakens|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Rosa can't wait to get away from New York. En route to Sicily to be reunited with sister Zoe and her continental extended family, she makes sure every aspect of her American life is deleted, right down to the songs on her iPod. Arriving in Palermo, she's thrown into a sinister Mafia underworld filled with murder, corruption and clan rivalries going back more generations than you could shake a stick at. Zoe seems at home in this world but Rosa kicks against it right from the outset. Her rebelliousness is only exacerbated by the mutual attraction that springs up between Rosa - an Alcantra - and Alessandro - a Carnevare. Romance between scions of warring clans? It can't be tolerated. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848770081</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinMercedes Helnwein|title=Code Name VeritySlingshot|rating=53

|summary=It is probably impossible Gracie Welles has resigned herself to read this book without cryingbeing lonely. It is one As a secret illegitimate daughter of the most heart-breaking and yet uplifting books around, and reading it feels like a privilege. Begin it early in the dayman with a "real" family, 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 she is rid of one or two). You will be proud used to be human, if not being a priority in people like these are 's lives. But when she defends a random boy in our worldher class with her slingshot, and you will burn her simple existence is changed for shame that others good. No longer can be so cruel, so cold 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 she spend her time writing novels in warsolitude, both in the past and doubtless for her life now as well, which resemble them. The whole book is has a testament to human courage and human frailtyboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258217</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Veronica RothT L Huchu|title=DivergentThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Beatrice - or Tris as she becomes - belongs to one of five factions in Ropa Moyo is a segregated future world. Beatrice is Abnegation ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (selflessnessand a bit of Scottish pragmatism) but has always struggled with to take messages from the self-effacing lifestyle embraced by her factiondead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. But Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not sure if sheonly herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's any better-suited to one an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the others: Candor (honesty)city's children. Soon, Amity (kindness), Erudite (intellect) or Dauntless (courage)Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. So Tris approaches She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the faction aptitude test taken by all sixteen-year-olds in her society with a large dollop world of trepidationmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007420412</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Lynn BarnesKristen O'Neal|title=Every Lycanthropy and Other DayChronic Illnesses

|summary=When Kali sees Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the Orobouros mark on cheerleader, Bethany, at her high school, fact that she doesn't hesitate may be in tempting constant pain for the parasitic creature - a Chupacabra - out rest of Bethany and into her own bodylife. The parasite is a death sentence for humans. Some daysShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', Kali's blood is toxic an online support group where she talks to paranormal creaturesa bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Some days she's blessed with strength, speed They talk about their troubles and killer instincthelp each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and the parasite feeding off mess around. When Brigid—one of her memories wouldnclosest friends—doesn't have stood a chance. But not on this day. On this day, Kali is completely human. And she has respond to survive the next 17 hours before she changes back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=SD Crockett|title=After the Snow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=On chat for a near future Earthwhile, Willo lives with his family in an isolated community without technologyPriya becomes concerned. His She decides to steal her parents remember a time when there were machines but all this has changed. Now there's only enough petrol for the sinister government trucks. One day Willo finds himself totally alone, his parents missing, presumed taken. Armed with his father's cryptic sayings car and his only friend, (a dogdrive to Brigid's skull that speaks through his imagination) Willo leaves all thathouse to check up on her. But what she doesn's familiar in order t expect to find his loved ones. The unknown there is a ruthless 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, the grizzled old tracker Eli, have holed up in a mountain cave: fullwinter werewolf in Wyrmeweald is harsh, and few humans could survive its rigours. With them is Thrace, a kingirl who bonded with a whitewyrme but who was abandoned by the enormous dragon-like creature after she basement – and Micah fell in love. Used for that werewolf to flying free across be the skies, girl she finds has been talking to online for the confinement almost unbearable, and she is wasting away before their eyespast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617429</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Kathryn Erskine|title=Mockingbird|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mockingbird is the story of Caitlin, an 11-year old girl with Asperger's syndrome trying to recover from the death 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 Move on the tragedy herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409538583</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Drive By|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's hot. Johnny and his friends tire of the park and ride their bikes to the local shop for an ice cream. Sitting outside in her husband's car is the Poisoned Dwarf, the miserable old lady who burst their football when it landed in her garden. Armed with water soakers, the boys just can't resist. But this "drive-by soaking" has catastrophic consequences. The Poisoned Dwarf has a heart attack 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 at the same time every night, a feeling of being watched - just tricks played by a guilty conscience? Or is the Poisoned Dwarf haunting 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 London, where he falls in with a disreputable old rogue called Fagin and his gang of thieves. Think you know the story? Think again - and add soul stealers, werewolves, and magic...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258179</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]