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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Laura Powell|title=Burn Mark|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Glory comes from a long line of witches. She knows the fae will show itself in her eventually. And when it does, Glory intends to make sure her East End coven regains its former and elevated status. Lucas is the privileged son of the Inquisition's Chief Prosecutor. He holds the prevalent view that witchcraft and witchcrime are all but synonymous and that witchkind generally presents a serious threat to national security. He intends to follow his father into the Inquisition... |amazonuk= <amazonuk!-- Remove -->1408815222</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippa GregoryMax Boucherat|title=ChangelingThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Luca Vero is expelled from his monastery after being accused of heresy. The seventeenWe 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 recruited to map log on to Voxminer, the End of Daysworld-building, and his first task critter-collecting game that is to go to a nunnery where hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a Lady Abbess of his tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own age has been accused , 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 witchcrafttampering. Will he find Isolde guilty When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and condemn her to safe place in the pyregame has been doctored – well, or where is there more a girl to the case than meets the eyeturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077309</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark WaldenRachel Greenlaw|title=EarthfallCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary='They are coming. If you are caught, you will not escape. If you escape, they will hunt you down. You must not be captured. Everything depends on you. Prepare for Earthfall.Life is chugging along pretty much as normal for Sam Riley when his father suddenly turns grey with fear and rushes off to an emergency at work. Within 24 hours, alien spaceships have appeared above every major city across I can hear the world and enslaved the entire population with a mind probe. Except Sam. Sam has no idea why he is immune to the alien signal or how he recovered from a terrible injury after a fight with one song of their drones. But after a year hiding in London's sewers, he has learned how to survive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815664</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Michael Williams|title=Now is the Time for Running|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a remote village in Zimbabwe, Deo is playing football with his friends while his brother Innocent looks on. Innocent takes a bit of looking after - deprived of oxygen during birth, he's not quite like other children and Deo is fiercely protective of him. Then the soldiers arrive, looking for a delivery of food aid and the traitors who welcome help from the evil Americans, and they destroy the entire village. Now orphans, the two boys have no choice but to flee to South Africa in the hopes of finding their long-lost father. Since their only possessions are Innocent's bix box and Deo's football (stuffed with worthless billion dollar notes), it won't be easy... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848530838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Veronica Roth|title=Insurgent|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Insurgent'' (clever title, you'll see) begins right where [[Divergent by Veronica Roth|Divergent]] left offsea. The social structure call of Tris's world is beginning to fall apart. After the Erudite simulation attack on the Abnegationdeep, the factions are answering beat in disarraymy heart. The Dauntless are split - half providing the military muscle for the Erudite and the other half seeking alliances with the other factions. But Amity insist on remaining neutral in the hopes of avoiding further conflict and the Candor don't have anything to bargain. The few remaining Abnegation are refugees. But there is another group - the factionless - who may hold the key to defeating the Erudite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007442920</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ellie Phillips|title=Dads, Geeks and Blue Haired Freaks|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Sadie Nathanson is stunned to get a card from her dad on her fifteenth birthday. Not only has she never met her dad, but to all intents and purposes he doesn't even exist. He was a sperm donor, that's all. In view of this, it's fairly obvious that the card is a mean joke, probably played by her ex-best friend Shonna Matthews. But it makes her start to think about her dad a bit more, and she decides to track him down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258195</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=A C Gaughen|title=Scarlet|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone knows Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the story wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Robin Hood the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and his Merry Menany treasure that lies within. But what if when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they werencapture the island's leader and Mira't all men? What if Will Scarlets father. Desperate to save him from death, the violent youngster Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who can throw is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a knife with family secret that lies buried deep in the same accuracy sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as Robin shoots a bowher journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, was a girl? Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408819767</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenHarry Allen|title=Bringing Children of the Summer Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Freya Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is returning home from a summer spent with her grandparents, ready to start her A levelstalented singer. The train she Life is travelling on stops suddenly hard and Freya food is horrified when she realises that a girl has committed suicide on the line. A sense of obligation leads her to attend the girl's funeral. There, she meets Gabes, a gorgeous boy who goes difficult to her college. Freya is instantly attracted, not just by Gabes, but come by his whole, slightly bohemian, family, so different to Seo and her own. But there's also a more dangerous attraction. Theofriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Gabes's older brother, makes his own interest in Freya very apparent. Theo is very different from Gabes - unpredictable, dark, wildlooking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408819589</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gill LewisAlexia Casale|title=White DolphinSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Things arenIt't going s hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too well for Kara. She, but that's mocked at school for what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her dyslexialife. Her father is struggling But she comes back fighting, desperate to find work avoid the pity stares, and theydesperate to get back to a life that're cooped up living with judgemental Auntie Bevs as normal as she can possibly manage. And Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, worse of all, Mum is not around. her music A marine biologistLevel performance piece to try to sort out, she disappeared on an expedition along with several of her colleagues and no bodies were ever found. Kara clings on determinedly just the day to her belief that her mother will return some day, much to traumas of all the frustration of everyone around challenges her, and body continues to throw at her only solace is sailing in her fatherto navigate. So even though she can's boatt dance anymore, Moana. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756222</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreview|author=David Lukens|title=Going Too Far|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Adults of a certain age remember a time when kids were respectful when you met them in the street. They certainly didn't answer you back, skateboard on the pavements and take drugs, so the idea of electing a sheriff - the man in overall charge of the police in a town - who pledged to get tough on these kids appealed to them. In fact, what's not to like about the idea? It takes crime off the streets, makes the town a safer place and it must be better that kids are taught to obey the law. Common sense, when you think about, isn't it? Well, there is another side to the story. What if these kids are just having a bit of innocent fun in an area that was little more than a traffic island? What if the drug taking is hardly serious? What if one of the kids dies?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B007TX65UK</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantSimon Fox|title=FearDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Darkness Late one night Graham Blake is falling in the FAYZ. The dome that isolates the children late back from his shift on the outside world is turning blackforce, and Samthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, Astrid and join him on the rest know that this could be the worst thing yet to happen to themrun. I'm leaving the plot summary there They get together, because it deserves to be read with as few spoilers as possible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525761X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan Chambers|title=Dying but barely begin to Know You|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Karl is seventeen and hopelessly caught in smell the throes whiff of first love. The object of his affections Southern trains when the father is Fiorellaarrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a girl who seems above him so many ways. Fiorella's family is both healthy and wealthy, while Karl's tin his father is dead and was determined to keep away from his mother gets by but not much more. Fiorella is a bright girl on her way to universitycolleagues, while Karl is dyslexic and has left school to work as the bearer of a blue collar apprentice plumber. Fiorella is articulate, while Karl is reservedwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370332369</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill HathawayLex Croucher|title=SlideGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Everyone thinks Vee suffers from narcolepsyWho 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. The truth In this story, howeverGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is much stranger than in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something thatArt discovers from her private diaries. She 'slides' into people's bodies And then when she touches an object Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they were emotionally attached to, find themselves becoming a helpless observer and leaving her body at risk. It's bad enough normally when this happensreluctant allies, as she sees creating the mean things people do to subterfuge of falling in love with each other - but it gets much worse , when she slidesreally they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and finds herself holding will they find a knife and standing over way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a young girl's body. While everyone else thinks it's suicide, Vee knows Sophie's death was murder - but can she work out whose body she was occupying before the killer strikes againlie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007446373</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy FarrNick Brooks|title=Moon ChasePromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=When Wil dreams, it's as if he is inhabiting someone - or something - else's body. And when he wakes one morning after dreaming of a terrible crime and a desperate Fellhound, he knows the dog that he can hear howling is that very Fellhound. Following Farrow to try to rescue her injured master, Wil is captured by the Saranians, who believe he is the one to have tried to murder young Seth Tanner. His sentence is harsh - track and kill the Wraithe wolves in the Moon Chase and return alive and unharmed and go free, die in the attempt, or return injured and be hanged.
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{{newreview
|author=Dan Wells
|title=Partials
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Since When the Breakprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, no baby has lived longer than three daysboys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Scientists have studied every baby to try and find Each, seemingly, has a curegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, but with no luck. The human race is on and each could have been there at the verge time of extinction after the Partials (genetically engineered soldiers his murder. But who were made to fight for humans) turned on their makers killed him, and why, and released the deadly virus that has wiped out most if any of the population. For those lucky to surviveboys are innocent, will they now spend be able to clear their time trying to cure the virus that kills every baby.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shelley Coriell1919635017|title=Welcome, Caller, This Is ChloeA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After being crowned Mistletoe Queen, Chloe Camden should be on top of the world, and more popular than ever. A jealous friend canSolomon Klyne isn't cope with her success, though, and trashes her reputation, leaving her a sudden social outcast. When her new guidance counselor tells her she needs to change her junior independent social projectbad lad, Chloe is forced into a school radio station which so why is on its last legs, run by he running around London committing a bunch series of losers who sherobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'd never even ll have spoken to beforewait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Taking a risk which could either kill or save But I'll answer the station, Chloe is thrust into a position as host of a new chat showfirst one: for his grandmother... Will the risk pay off? Will Chloe find a new circle of friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419701916</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Roy AppsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Party Animal and Don't Look Under the Bed (Deadly Tales)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Bored with sleeping soundly? Fed up with sweet dreams? Well this is the book Different for you! ''Deadly Tales'' features two nightmare urban legends that you'll pray aren't true''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445103389</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Johan Harstad|title=172 Hours On The MoonBoys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=It's 2018 Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and people at NASA want is surprised to go back to the moon. But no one's find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been there since the 70srestructured, so his desk is one of four with funding both his best buddy from the football team, and public support limited, two other old muckers – in fact they need an angleall go back to primary school days together. A draw. Something to get people As they're all over fired up, straining at the world buzzing. Their answer is leash only a worldwide lottery to select three teens who single-sex school can accompany form, the NASA team on their week long jaunt into spacetalk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. The chance of He's had a casual relationship, a lifetime! An unforgettablesecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', unrepeatable experience! An adventure but whether that truly is out 's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of this world!who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411518</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Smith1800901232|title=The Cambridge Shakespeare GuideStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Home and FamilyDyslexia Friendly|summary=Does the world need another guide Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to Shakespeare's plays? There are plenty about and students these days have be a fashion designer. Life in the added resource of rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the Internet smartly-dressed man and woman came to get the basics. However, if village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it does, then this is as good as any you will findwas an opportunity not to be missed. It's nicely written Some money changed hands and beautifully clear Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and above all, succinct. In fact I'm doing a disservice the other girls were not going to Emma Smith already by terming it work in a guide shop, they were to his plays, because she also includes 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 legs? The ones with the poems artfully-placed rips and sonnetsdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>052114972X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Miriam HalahmyPatrice Lawrence|title=IllegalNeedle|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lindy’s life started Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to fall apart when her baby sister Jemma diedlike, characters and readers both. With her parents gambling Kicked out of multiple homes and drinkingschools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her younger brother needing her to look after himson 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, she’s desperate to hold and the creation of one such item is part of the family together. So when her brother Garthplot here, who’s in jailas Charlene is a wonder knitter, manages to set and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her up belligerence with a job working for store detective, and then force people to give her charming cousin Colintwo days off school, when she thinks it’s a great opportunityshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Then she finds outwell, though, that Colin’s business isn’t what it seemsexactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and she’s quickly caught up in a nightmare cycle of drugs and threats… pointy those knitting needles can she find the strength to stand up for herself, helped by the strange and reclusive mute boy Karl?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845395247</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyAnn Sei Lin|title=Dead Time: The Murder NotebooksRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rose's mother and stepfather - Kathy Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and Brendan - went out for dinner one night and never came backmake merry between their conquests. Rose was taken in by However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her grandmother who sent that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her off to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a posh boarding schoolmonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, while her stepbrother Josh went up north and she is forced to live with an uncleflee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815508</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreview|author=Andrew Fukuda|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gene - not that he remembers he's called Gene - is one of the few remaining survivors in a city peopled by vampires. His mother and sister were killed when he was just tiny and his father finally succumbed to a fang bite infection some years before. Gene's life is all about concealment. He shaves his body hair. He's careful to avoid any situation in which he might sweat - swimming is ok, but other sports are not. He files his nails. He behaves, always, as a vampire would behave. Everything is going so well until the Heper Hunt is announced... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075411</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongMarcus Sedgwick|title=The CallingWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Maya Delaney and friends have just survived Meet Fitz, a forest fire they think might have been set deliberatelyyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Safely flying away Lockdown 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 he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a helicopterdesultory school band, they think their troubles are overbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Until Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the pilot turns end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out to be on the same side as those setting the firetruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410473</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewTori Bovalino|title=The Bonehill CurseDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Anthony Bonehill 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 created to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the perfect planbooks: Mr Birch. Seven people will together summon The boarding school's headmaster, and a djinnman Tess hates. Six will gain As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a wish eachlarge request, while the seventh will use their wish to kill the djinn and avoid Tess sticks post-it taking revenge notes on them. But when Carloseach of the books, scribbled with the seventhugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, double crosses the restof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and ends up sending the bottle containing the djinn to Bonehill’s daughter Necessitythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, she’s launched into a race against time to stop the djinn from wreaking havoc on if someone hadn't delivered them for her world.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803968</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonPhilip Reeve|title=Infamous|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Nick Gautier has just found out that the mysterious being he thought was his uncle is actually his future self. Over Utterly Dark and the course Face of the past 2 books, the majority of other people he’s close to –- apart from his unsuspecting mother – have been revealed to be some form of demon. Oh, and apparently, he’s got the potential to be the person who will end the world. When someone starts spreading vicious rumours about other students at his school, you’d hardly think it would register with him given everything else going on, but he dives in to try and trace the perpetrator with help from Bubba, Mark, and various others.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=The FuryDeep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Brick felt itIn a word, rich. Daisy felt it. Cal felt it. All threeThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, unconnected kidsBritish but way west, had beyond the same noisy, throbbing headache at the same time - and all aches went at the same time, in very disappointing circumstancesScillies. Brick took his girlfriend to his favourite place, an abandoned theme park, and found her response to both There are troll people on it and him to be not what he expected. Daisy was the school Juliet, and found the experience quite traumatic sea- almost as bad as what she found back at home. Cal was more regularly after the attention, as the school's best football player, but found everyone's eyes turned to you is one thingwitches, everyone turning against you is another.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571276164</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Slated|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's Britain about fifty years from now and sixteen-year-old Kyla is just about to leave legends of the hospital and go home with her new, adopted Dark family. Kyla that has been slated - her memories deleted and her entire personality erased. Kyla is a blank slate. This is what happens to child criminals under the Central Coalition, who were responsible keep watch for wiping out the gangs magical islands and the riots that had dominated the country for so long. In their eyesmonster approaching from even further west, Kyla has been given a second chancewhere no ship dare sail. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319462</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Bosworth|title=Struck|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mia Price and her family had moved to LA shortly before a massive earthquake devastated The current Darks are the city. Mia has a connection to the storm that caused the earthquake - lightning seems to be attracted to her and she Watcher, Andrewe, who has been struck and survived countless times. But Mia is also attracted to lightning. It's like a drug for her and her entire body pulses when a storm is coming. Amidst the lawlessness and devastation keep notes of activity from the cityHidden Lands, two rival factions are gaining influence and both want to recruit Mia. Both say the entire world is in great danger - the Seekers believe that annihilation can be averted but the Followers welcome it. But his brother Will who is right? And what part must Mia play? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085753095X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Leigh Bardugo|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 lives in two by the Shadow Fold, a mysterious black fog filled London 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 foldtoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, 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 RavkaAndrewe's saviour? And while the current Darkling needs her to help him to repent for his predecessor's crimesfoundling daughter, 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 friend|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Bianca Piper is proud who washed up out 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 sightthe sea one day eleven years ago. But when Wesley RushAndrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the school heartthrobworld of protecting their island, tells her she's a DUFF - a Designated Ugly Fat Friend - like it really gets to Bianca. Things aren't going well for Bianca on the domestic front either. Her mother is away all the time and Bianca is afraid her father might start drinking again, after eighteen years. As things get further and further out of control at home, Bianca finds herself in the most unlikely of place - the arms of the hated Wesley Rushor not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903500</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo NesboKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The End of Julia and the World. Maybe.Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you put authors you least expect to diversify Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from more literary the family home in SW England to children's works on a scale of one to ten, [[:Category:Jeanette Winterson|Jeanette Winterson]] must be lighthousekeepers for a foursummer, [[:Category:Ian McEwan|Ian McEwan]] a high eight, and [[:Category:Jo Nesbo|Jo Nesbo]], Nordic crime sensation de nos jours at least eleven. But this is now the third in the series far NE of youthful, frivolous adventures, and this time the titular professorScottish islands. Here be Vikings, diminutive smart Alec Nilly and Lisa (and their seven-legged spider) have to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rebecca Serle|title=When You Were Mine|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In this modern-day retelling that kind of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Rosaline has been best friends with Rob ever since they were tinyScottish island. But recently, their friendship has grown. The electric crackle of attraction Dad is sparking between them and they are tentatively inching their way towards a relationship. One night they kiss and Rosaline believes they are about going to become be automating the couple she has always believed they were destined to lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be. But then leaving her estranged cousin Juliet arrives back career in townalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. She makes it clear And Julia, well, she wants Rob and will stop at nothing to get him. Rosaline can do nothing but watch as Juliet steals her boyfriend be homesick and her best friend..alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075160</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillJonathan Stroud|title=Department 19: The RisingOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=HE RISES. The graffiti Scarlett McCain is breaking out everywhere. For those who don't know what it's referring toan outlaw, it's a minor annoyance. For Blacklight operatives, it could be the harbinger of rejecting the end draconian conformity of the world. Because ''HE'' is Dracula, Surviving Towns and Valeri Rusmanov has succeeded in bringing his old master back Faith Houses to life – or wander the wildlands between the vampire equivalent Seven Kingdoms of itBritain, at least. The only hope is that they can track him down before he reaches his full powerrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Can Jamie CarpenterBut then she meets Albert Browne, along a dark boy with new Blacklight operatives Larissa (his vampire girlfriend) dark powers and Kate Randalla darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, who he rescued from Lindisfarne at they plan to flee to the climax mythical Free Isles of the last bookLondon Lagoon. Together, help to stop him? That's about they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the plot that I feel comfortable talking aboutFree Isles, such is my desperation to avoid spoiling anything. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354487</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonMercedes Helnwein|title=InvincibleSlingshot
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|summary=With Nick Gautier having survived the onslaught Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of zombiesa man with a "real" family, and finding out that most of the she is used to not being a priority in people he knows are supernatural, he’s left wondering what to do now's lives. He hasn’t got long to decideBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, though – because his new coach her simple existence is putting pressure on him to steal some special items, and boys of his age are turning up deadchanged for good. Will he be next? Not if he No longer can help she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it! Can Nick avoid being murdered, deal with his coach, and work out just who he can trust?that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0312603274</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenT L Huchu|title=The Girl In The MaskLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sophia has Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, 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, she's been living relatively freely while using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her father has been in aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the West Indiesruined streets of Edinburgh, running targeting the estatecity's children. Soon, shooting pistols with her cousin Jack Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and generally being unladylike. But now her father realise that the world of magic is back far bigger and more dangerous than keen she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to see this evil, or will it claim her married off to the next suitable gentleman who so much as looks in her direction.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192792792</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil|title=Black Arts|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 - one where magic is real and the fight between good and evil can have fatal consequences. Jack returns home to find his mother murdered by Nicholas Webb, 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.'Kristen OJoseph Grubb lives in Fayt, a busy port between the Old and the New Worlds. In Fayt, humans, elves, trolls, ogres and fairies live together in relative peace. But it's not all harmony. The League of Light is threatening the port, wanting to force back into the Old World way of segregation and persecution of the fey folk. And there is suspicion of multiculturalims even in Fayt itself - Joseph is a half-goblin and an orphan. His goblin father was murdered for marrying a human woman and Joseph now lives and works at a tavern owned by an uncle who despises him and calls him Mongrel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560298</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James DawsonNeal|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... Lycanthropy 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 StarsOther Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Having recently been diagnosed at age 12 with stage 4 thyroid cancerchronic Lyme disease, Hazel was prepared Priya has to die. Then at age 14, a miracle treatment shrunk come to terms with the tumours fact that she may be in her lungs...constant pain for the time beingrest of her life. Hazel could live for yearsShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', or an online support group where she could die at any timetalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, but her days are spent tethered while also providing an escape to an oxygen tank just joke and under constant surveillance and treatment mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to keep the cancer at baychat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Hazel is now 16. With She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her life in a constant holding pattern, Hazel meets Augustus Waters at a cancer support group. Augustus But what she doesn't expect to find there is gorgeous, sharp-witted, a werewolf in remission the basement – and completely attracted for that werewolf to Hazel. As their relationship blossoms and grows, Hazel finds be the girl she has been talking 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 everythingonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0525478817</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Sarah Silverwood|title=The Traitor's Gate: The Nowhere Chronicles Book 2|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There is a storm coming, a storm of rage and fury and chaos. The friendship between Fin, Christopher and Joe, which held strong through their last adventure, is breaking down as Joe, now a holder of two of the five stories that hold the worlds together, finds his mind being warped by the stories and their uncontrollable power. The Knights of Nowhere, inter-world peacekeepers with the ability Move on to pass between the worlds of Somewhere and Nowhere, barely have time to initiate a few new members to their dwindling force before they find themselves pushed to their limits, simultaneously dealing with something that is attacking people at random and causing madness, and the implications of the Prophecy, which heralds a war to end all wars. All his life people have called Fin special, for some reason unknown to him, and perhaps unknown 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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620659</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]