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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer BosworthMax Boucherat|title=StruckThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Mia Price and her family had moved to LA shortly before a massive earthquake devastated We meet Lori on the city. Mia has a connection to the storm that caused first evening she's got the earthquake - lightning seems house to be attracted herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her and lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has been struck one main intention, and survived countless times. But Mia that is also attracted to lightning. Itlog on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's like world. But first Lori has a drug for tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and her entire body pulses when a storm is comingthen she finds something even more spooky. Amidst For the lawlessness server she and her bestie and devastation nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the citytampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, two rival factions are gaining influence and both want to recruit Mia. Both say the entire world is her safe place in great danger - the Seekers believe that annihilation can be averted but the Followers welcome it. But who game has been doctored – well, where is right? And what part must Mia playa girl to turn? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085753095X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leigh BardugoRachel Greenlaw|title=The Gathering Dark|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The country of Ravka has been at war for many years. It has also been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a mysterious black fog filled with the volcra, monsters who feast on human flesh, created by an evil Darkling many centuries ago. All seems lost for this once-great country - until orphan Alina crosses the fold, Compass and manages to fight off the volcra by releasing a power she never knew she had. Taken to the royal court to learn how to use her power, will she be Ravka's saviour? And while the current Darkling needs her to help him to repent for his predecessor's crimes, and she feels attracted to him - why can't she ever forget her childhood friend Mal?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621108</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kody Keplinger|title=The Duff: The designated ugly fat friendBlade

|summary=Bianca Piper is proud of her cynicism. She's not an air-head. She's not obsessed with dating jocks. She has no desire to flirt with every male in sight. But when Wesley Rush, I can hear the school heartthrob, tells her she's a DUFF - a Designated Ugly Fat Friend - it really gets to Bianca. Things aren't going well for Bianca on song of the domestic front eithersea. Her mother is away all The call of the time and Bianca is afraid her father might start drinking againdeep, after eighteen years. As things get further and further out of control at home, Bianca finds herself the answering beat in the most unlikely of place - the arms of the hated Wesley Rushmy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903500</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Jo Nesbo|title=Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The End Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the Worldseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Maybe.|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=If you put authors you least expect But when the Council Watch lays a trap to diversify from more literary to childrenend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's works on a scale of one father. Desperate to tensave him from death, [[:Category:Jeanette Winterson|Jeanette Winterson]] must be Mira makes a four, [[:Category:Ian McEwan|Ian McEwan]] bargain with a high eight, wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and [[:Category:Jo Nesbo|Jo Nesbo]]with only coordinates to guide her, Nordic crime sensation de nos jours at least elevenshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But this is now With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the third in watched streets of foreign islands to the series heart of youthful, frivolous adventures, and this time the titular professorsmuggler's territory, diminutive smart Alec Nilly and Lisa (and their seven-legged spider) have Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the worldfuture of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857073893</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SerleHarry Allen|title=When You Were MineChildren of the Sun|rating=35

|summary=In this modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Juliet, Rosaline has been best friends with Rob ever since they were tiny. But recently, their friendship has grown. The electric crackle of attraction she is sparking between them and they are tentatively inching their way towards a relationshiptalented singer. One night they kiss Life is hard and Rosaline believes they are about food is difficult to become the couple she has always believed they were destined to be. But then come by, so Seo and her estranged cousin Juliet arrives back in town. She makes it clear she wants Rob friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and will stop at nothing edible grasses to get him. Rosaline can do nothing but watch as Juliet steals her boyfriend supplement the meagre rations of rice and her best friend..kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075160</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillAlexia Casale|title=Department 19: The RisingSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=HE RISES. The graffiti is breaking out everywhere. For those who donIt't know what its hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's referring re having tonavigate a life-changing disability too, itbut that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a minor annoyancedance performance that was going to change her life. For Blacklight operatives But she comes back fighting, it could be the harbinger of the end of desperate to avoid the world. Because ''HE'' is Draculapity stares, and Valeri Rusmanov has succeeded in bringing his old master desperate to get back to a life – or the vampire equivalent of it, at least. The only hope is that they 's as normal as she can track him down before he reaches his full powerpossibly manage. Can Jamie Carpenter, along with Meanwhile there's a new Blacklight operatives Larissa (his vampire girlfriendcute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and Kate Randall, who he rescued from Lindisfarne at just the climax day to day traumas of all the last book, help challenges her body continues to throw at her to stop him? Thatnavigate. So even though she can's about all of the plot that I feel comfortable talking aboutt dance anymore, such is my desperation might she be able to avoid spoiling anything. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354487</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon|title=Invincible|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=With Nick Gautier having survived the onslaught of zombies, and finding out that most of the people he knows are supernatural, he’s left wondering what to do now. He hasn’t got long to decide, though – because his new coach is putting pressure on him to steal some special items, and boys of his age are turning up dead. Will he be next? Not if he can help it! Can Nick avoid being murdered, deal with his coach, and work out just who he can trust?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312603274</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|title=The Girl In The Mask|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sophia has been living relatively freely while her father has been in the West Indies, running the estate, shooting pistols with her cousin Jack and generally being unladylike. But now her father is back and more than keen to see her married off to the next suitable gentleman who so much as looks in her direction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192792792</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Prentice and Jonathan WeilSimon Fox|title=Black ArtsDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=London, 1592. Jack successfully completes a test with a local crime family and becomes a "nipper" or cutpurse thief. But Jack's first victim accidentally brings him into contact with a London even more dangerous than the one he already knows - Late one where magic night Graham Blake is real and late back from his shift on the fight between good force, and evil can have fatal consequences. Jack returns home to find his mother murdered by Nicholas Webbthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a charismatic Puritan preacher currently whipping up the London crowds against demons and witches. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385615132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conrad Mason|title=The Demon's Watch|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''We're the Demon's Watch, son. Best you don't think of us as the good folk. More like the dangerous folk.'' Joseph Grubb lives in Faytsecret place, a busy port between the Old and join him on the New Worldsrun. In Fayt, humans, elves, trolls, ogres and fairies live They get together in relative peace. But it's not all harmony. The League of Light is threatening the port, wanting but barely begin to force back into smell the Old World way of segregation and persecution whiff of Southern trains when the fey folk. And there is suspicion of multiculturalims even in Fayt itself - Joseph father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a half-goblin and an orphan. His goblin tin his father was murdered for marrying a human woman determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Joseph now lives and works at the bearer of a tavern owned by an uncle who despises him and calls him Mongrelwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560298</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James DawsonLex Croucher|title=Hollow Pike|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lis London has troubles in her life. She's been badly bullied by girls at her old school. She has bad dreams about an unseen assailant trying to kill her. Moving to Hollow Pike to live with her older sister Sarah is meant to be a fresh start. Except as soon as Lis gets there, she seems to recognise the location of her recurring nightmare. Then there's a death... and Lis starts to wonder whether the rumours of witchcraft are more than just rumours. Will the new start she'd so looked forward to turn out to have a gruesome end?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Green|title=The Fault in Our Stars|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 the tumours in her lungs...for the time being. Hazel could live for years, or she could die at any time, but her days are spent tethered to an oxygen tank and under constant surveillance Gwen 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, Art Are Not 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 everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525478817</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Silverwood|title=The Traitor's Gate: The Nowhere Chronicles Book 2Love

|summary=There is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a storm cominggay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a storm of rage and fury and chaosmost delightful way. The friendship between FinIn this story, Christopher Gwen and JoeArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, which held strong through much to their last adventuremutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is breaking down as Joe, now a holder of two of in love with Bridget (the five stories kingdom's only female knight) - something that hold the worlds together, finds his mind being warped by the stories and their uncontrollable powerArt discovers from her private diaries. The Knights of Nowhere, inter-world peacekeepers with the ability to pass between the worlds of Somewhere and Nowhere, barely have time to initiate And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a few new members to their dwindling force before boy they find themselves pushed to their limits, simultaneously dealing with something that is attacking people at random and causing madnessbecoming reluctant allies, and creating the implications subterfuge of the Prophecyfalling in love with each other, which heralds a war to end all warswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. All his life people have called Fin special But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, for some reason unknown to himwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, and perhaps unknown or are they destined to them. However, when Fin finally learns the true nature of his parents, his very existence is shaken to the core, and he suddenly finds himself questioning everything he previously believed in. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620659</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Carl Hiaasen|title=Chomp|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Wahoo isn't a cool kid. He can't play sports, 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 that, then he must have something going for him. And by the time this story is over, he'll be up to his ears in street-cred.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444005065</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathy ReichsNick Brooks|title=ViralsPromise Boys

|summary=Tory Brennan When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is just murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a normal girl with an extraordinary aunt - grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the renowned forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennantime of his murder. Desperate to follow in her relative's footsteps But who killed him, and why, she seems to have little opportunity to do so living in South Carolina - but that quickly changes when she and her friends stumble on a decades old corpse. Desperately trying to find out what happened to if any of the dead personboys are innocent, and cure a sick dog will they've liberated from a laboratory on be able to clear their island home, the quartet's lives have suddenly become rather complicated. And that's before a mysterious virus hits them all and leaves them with some very strange side effects...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099543931</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Motion1919635017|title=Silver: Return A Thief to Treasure IslandCatch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Nineteen-year old Hannah Ward, Solomon Klyne isn't a dancer with the Manhattan Ballet Companybad lad, has devoted her entire life to dance. She works hard, watches her weight like so why is he running around London committing a hawk, and navigates the complicated maze series of relationships with robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the rest of the company who, in many cases, are both friends and rivalssecond question because I avoid spoilers. But then she meets musician Jacob, and she realises just what sheI's missed out on while growing up like thisll answer the first one: for his grandmother.. Will she do the unthinkable and give up her career, or pass up the chance of love in the hope of gaining success in the ballet world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411275</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jillian LarkinPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Flappers: VixenDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Gloria Carmody Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a society princess in 1920's Chicago. Engaged to Sebastian Greystandard school, both powerful and handsomeis surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, she so his desk is expected to be little more than an ornament to him. After spending a night at one of four with both his best buddy from the notorious speakeasy the Green Mill, thoughfootball team, Gloria knows that there'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, other old muckers – in a grotty old second-hand caravanfact they all go back to primary school days together. ItAs they's a greasyre all fired up, shabby, squeaky little closet of straining at the leash only a caravan, and nosingle-one sex school can agree on what form, the awful stink pervading it reminds them oftalk in class and out often turns to sex. But when the trip Which is hyped up confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a great time for bothcasual relationship, it seems to have a chance of coming truesecret one, for a bizarre cellar to several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the caravan leads everyone to their dream trip - if onlyladder headed by 'experienced', unfortunatelybut whether that's set in stone, one way.he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386735</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nicky Singer1800901232|title=The FlaskStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Jess is dealing with Hanh wanted to be a lotfashion designer. Her beloved Aunt Edie has just died. Her mother is expecting twins Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- but these new babies will dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be Jess's halfmissed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-brothers and will complete Jess's mother's marriage bus to her stepfatherHanoi. But will they complete Jess's family? Will they even survive? Because Only, Hanh and the twins are conjoined. And other girls were not going to work in 70% of separationsa shop, only one twin livesthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And if this weren't enough in You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the way of trials artfully-placed rips and tribulations, Jessdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's best friend Zoe is moving towards a relationship with a boyquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. Does this mean she will leave Jess behind? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007438761</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Margie Gelbwasser|title=Pieces of Us|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Every summer Katie and her sister Julie meet up with Alex and his brother Kyle at a lakeside community in New York. They leave behind their problems - which are legion - and find comfort in each other. But when a dark secret of one of them leaks out, the four are all left reeling by the far-reaching consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0738721646</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephanie Guerra|title=Torn|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Stella Chavez is a fairly ordinary girl until she meets Ruby Caroline. She gets pretty good grades, has friends she's grown up with, and is a soccer star. New girl Ruby, on the other hand, is trouble with a capital T, right from the moment she storms into her first class wearing a band-aid of a skirt and swearing like a trooper. There's something about Ruby, though, that draws Stella to her, and the pair quickly become inseparable. But as Ruby'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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Avery WilliamsPatrice Lawrence|title=The Alchemy of ForeverNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Back in Brave. Charlene, the Middle Ages'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, Seraphina nearly diedcharacters and readers both. Her boyfriend Cyrus saved her life - at the cost Kicked out of someone elsemultiple homes and schools, she's. Using his newly discovered Alchemy potionfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he transferred her soul into another body's at uni. They've now lived over 600 yearsSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, changing bodies every decade or soyou might perhaps think, but Sera and the creation of one such item is tired part of this unnatural existence the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is determined to end it. She runs away from Cyrus, ready to die making something full of love for real this time. When her younger sister – a younger sister she finds sixteen-year-old Kailey, who's just been involved in allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a car accidentstore detective, and then force people to give her good intentions waver and two days off school, when she takes over the dying girl's bodyshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Could this well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be her chance for a new start? ...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857076817</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gemma MalleyAnn Sei Lin|title=The KillablesRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In the City, evil Kurara has been eradicated. Each of its citizens has undergone the New Baptism - having spent her entire life as a servant on the evil part of their brainMidori, a massive dining hall floating in the amygdala, removed. But even this isn't enough - the City still needs its System, which monitors every citizen and labels accordingly. Any sign sky where soldiers of evil results in a lower classification and the lowest classification of all is "K". Ks are sent for reconditioning. After this, they disappear Empire come to drink and are never seen againmake merry between their conquests. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722778</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Hodkin|title=The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mara has just started her whole life over - new cityHowever, new school, new start. It's just what the doctor ordered, and her family - though still treating when a man named Himura arrives to tell her like she might fall apart at any moment - are tentatively hopeful that it's just what she needs to get back on her feet. Mara just hopes her memories return. She needs to know what happened is a Crafter like him, someone with the night her two best friends and her boyfriend died in an accident she somehow managed power to escape unscathed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707363X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Hawksmoor|title=The Repossession|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Genie Magee hasn’t seen her boyfriend Rian all summer. In fact, form paper into whatever she hasn’t seen anyone desires – a power sought after all summer – apart from across the creepy worshippers of the Church of Free Spirits, whose leader Reverend Schneider has persuaded Empire. He asks her mother she’s possessed, due to her strange mystical gift. Rian hasn’t stopped thinking of her, thoughcome with him, and has hatched a daring plan to rescue leave 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 imagineddreary servitude that is all she has known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997087</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Pandemonium|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Having escaped from Portland at the end of book 1Well, Lena is alone soon Kurara won't have any say in the Wilds. Having to face matter, because the unthinkable - life without Alex – Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she chooses is forced to join flee out into the resistance of world. She joins Himura aboard the Invalids in an attempt Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to bring hunt 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 Tackshikigami, and a time a bit later on when she plays a more active role in the resistance, Pandemonium has more whole world of the thrills and excitement that made the first book an enjoyable read.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444722921</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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 - , Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was planning which subjects also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she would take for A level and university as well as looking at future careerscould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. She's always been happy in Is this connected with one of her Muslim faith and eco-warrior parents saying the end of the lack world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of boyfriends, alcohol and drugs had never worried her, although music she was perhaps a ''little'' envious s dreaming of the fact that Susan could go ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out in the eveningstruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339802</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{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 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 survive high 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 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 people, never alienating any group eitherthe books, 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 leukemiaif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419701762</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew HammondPhilip Reeve|title=CRYPT: Traitor's Revenge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There are teenage spies, ghosts Utterly Dark and gore aplenty in store for readers of this series: the books are a non-stop, fast-paced battle against all manner Face 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

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kai MeyerMercedes Helnwein|title=Arcadia AwakensSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Rosa can't wait Gracie Welles has resigned herself to get away from New Yorkbeing lonely. En route to Sicily to be reunited As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with sister Zoe and her continental extended a "real" family, she makes sure every aspect of her American life is deleted, right down used to the songs on her iPod. Arriving not being a priority in Palermo, shepeople's thrown into lives. But when she defends a sinister Mafia underworld filled random boy in her class with murderher slingshot, corruption and clan rivalries going back more generations than you could shake her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a stick at. Zoe seems at home boy 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 toleratedshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848770081</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinT L Huchu|title=Code Name VerityThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It Ropa Moyo is probably impossible a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to read this book without cryingtake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. It is one Ever since she dropped out of the most heart-breaking and yet uplifting books aroundschool, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and reading it feels like a privilegeher aging grandmother. Begin it early in However, there's an evil stalking the dayruined streets of Edinburgh, because you will not want to put it down until you have reached targeting the very last pagecity's children. Soon, and when you do you will care for many of Ropa is pulled into the main characters like friends. You will weep search for those who die (or most of them, a missing boy at any rate: even the gentlest request of readers will be glad that the world is rid of one or two)his dead mother. You She will be proud to be human, if people like these are in our world, end up discovering an occult library and you will burn for shame realise that others can be so cruel, so cold and so vicious. And the worst world of it magic 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 far bigger and doubtless now as well, which resemble themmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. The whole book is a testament to human courage and human frailty.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258217</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Veronica Roth|title=Divergent|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Beatrice - or Tris as Will she becomes - belongs to one of five factions in a segregated future world. Beatrice is Abnegation (selflessness) but has always struggled with find the self-effacing lifestyle embraced by her faction. But she's not sure if she's any better-suited missing children and bring an end to one of the others: Candor (honesty)this evil, Amity (kindness), Erudite (intellect) or Dauntless (courage). So Tris approaches the faction aptitude test taken by all sixteen-year-olds in will it claim her society with a large dollop of trepidation.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 respond to the chat for a chancewhile, Priya becomes concerned. But not She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on this dayher. On this day, Kali But what she doesn't expect to find there is completely human. And a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to survive online for the next 17 hours before she changes backpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738970X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=SD Crockett|title=After the Snow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=On a near future Earth, Willo lives with 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 the sinister government trucks. One day Willo finds himself totally alone, his parents missing, presumed taken. Armed with his father's cryptic sayings and his only friend, (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 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 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 and Micah fell in love. Used to flying free across the skies, she finds the confinement almost unbearable, 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 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]]