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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Danielle has an embarrassing family, a dog whoWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in love with , babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an Ugg bootavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a love rival who blanket fort, she can't possibly live up has one main intention, and that is to – or can she? Determined not log on to be beaten Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in her efforts to secure DamienLori's affectionsworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, Danni hits 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 a plan – only for it to go horribly wrongher phone screen, landing and her with safe place in the nickname of 'Dench The Stench'. Surely things can only get better game has been doctored – can't theywell, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857388940</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesRachel Greenlaw|title=Chain Reaction (Perfect Chemistry)Compass and Blade

|summary=Luis Fuentes is a risk-taker who meets a feisty girl whom he falls in love with. Unfortunately, a gang called ''I can hear the Latino Blood are also interested in him for rather different reasons, and Nikki doesn’t approve song of themthe sea. Who will win out – The call of the gangdeep, or the girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077473</amazonuk>}}answering beat in my heart.''

{{newreview|author=Kim Harrington|title=Clarity|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The tourist season at Cape Cod is about to start Rosevear, a remote and for Clarity 'Clare' Fern partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her family, this is really importantone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. ClareBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's family are psychicfather. Desperate to save him from death, not the phoney kind Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who take your money is as charming as he is secretive and give you with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a false prediction about tall dark strangers - family secret that lies buried deep in the genuine kindsea. Clare's mother can read mindsWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her brother Perry can talk journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the deadheart of the smuggler's territory, and Clare can see memories linked Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to objects. Their family business is entertaining save the tourists, future of her home and the summer rush pays the winter billsones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407130854</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith GrayHarry Allen|title=NextChildren of the Sun

|summary=That Keith Gray hangs out with all the cool people, you knowRa Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Hot on the heels of one fabulous anthology of short stories all about virginity, [[Losing It Life is hard and food is difficult to come by Keith Gray|Losing It]], comes ''Next''. The topic this time is life after death so Seo and her friends Nari and it's another preoccupation Min go foraging every evening, looking for young people. What's next? What will it be like? How will those left behind manage tree bark and cope? Each of edible grasses to supplement the cool people contributes an idea meagre rations of what death may bringrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393001</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pete HautmanAlexia Casale|title=What Boys Really WantSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Adam is a It's hard enough to navigate your teenage entrepeneur with years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a keen eye for a get rich quick scheme. His best friend Lita is an aspiring novelist who also writes an anonymous blog. There's definitely no romance between them life- Lita may have broken up a couple of Adam's relationships without him realising itchanging disability too, but that's for his own good. In fact, Lita's convinced Adam knows nothing about romance, so when he comes up what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the great idea middle of writing a self-help book which explains what boys are looking for in a girl, she wants nothing dance performance that was going to do with itchange her life. Of course But she comes back fighting, if she took more of an interestdesperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she might notice can possibly manage. Meanwhile there are 's a lot new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of parts with a significant resemblance all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to a certain blog..navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407132113</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Kathleen Peacock|title=Deadly Hemlock|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mackenzie's best friend Amy was the final victim in a string of werewolf killings in the town of Hemlock. Lupine syndrome is spreading and the government has set up internment camps for all those infected. But Amy's killer was never caught. When the vigilante Trackers turn up in town, determined to hunt down the culprit, Mac is uneasy. The Trackers are extremists and often act outside the law. So Mac sets out on her own investigation of Amy's death. And what she discovers will change her life forever... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072110</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francis Bennett|title=The Crabber Stories|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=John White was known to everyone as Crabber - a nickname which he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew up on the shores of Long Island in the nineteen-fifties. It was a close-knit community and a time when children had more freedom than they are likely to be allowed now. We watch as Crabber grows from being a boy still suffering from the death of his elder brother when we first met him through to a time when he's old enough to go on a hunting trip on the mainland with a local family. He tells his own stories, as truthfully as he can and with the sort of insight which children have before life injects its cynicism.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00737IKIW</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarra Manning|title=Adorkable|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jeane Smith has her own quirky fashion sense, half a million Twitter followers, and a place on the Guardian's '30 People Under 30 Who Are Changing The World' list. Michael Lee has good looks, designer clothes, and parents who push him to excel at everything. They have nothing in common - so why do they end up kissing so often?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411003</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Daniela Sacerdoti|title=Dreams (Sarah Midnight Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Seventeen-year-old Sarah Midnight's parents are dead. Everyone else thinks it's an accident - but she knows the truth because her parents were demon hunters and her dreams helped her guide them from the safety of her bed. But they didn't train her for what would happen when they were gone - and if she doesn't master her powers, and learn who she can trust, she might be the next to die. Can she live up to the Midnight motto, Don't Let Them Roam?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845023706</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Garth Nix|title=A Confusion of Princes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Khemri. One of the universe's chosen, he has been selected as a Prince, giving him biological enhancements, mental connection to priests to aid his psychic ability, and so much more. It has also probably led to the death of his parents, and meant he is alone except for a very close bodyguard, but - at least he is in the running to become Emperor, and thus almost godlike. But in a world where you can have everything - including more than one chance at living - it might still be wise to think more about what you wish for...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007298358</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonSimon Fox|title=Pop!Deadlock

|summary=Thirteen-year-old Edie knows that she doesn't need Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a nanny. She's old enough to look after herselfsecret place, and her six-year-old brother Stanjoin him on the run. Between them They get together, they've managed but barely begin to scare off nearly everyone who their parents have hired to take care smell the whiff of them. So Southern trains when a girl of just sixteen starts looking after them after schoolthe father is arrested, Edie is less than impressed. But then leaving Archie on the girllate express to Brighton, Alice B. Lovelytoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, with her captivating dress sense and strange way the bearer of looking at the world, starts to win over Stan..a whole heap of questions. could she be the person to fix Edie's problems?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407131729</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kendare BlakeLex Croucher|title=Anna Dressed Gwen and Art Are Not in BloodLove

|summary=Cas Lowood is no ordinary high school boyWho 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. He lives a peripatetic existence In this story, hunting malevolent ghosts Gwen and "killing" them Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with his fatherBridget (the kingdom's knife. A tiponly female knight) -off something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a trusted informant lets Cas know that Thunder Bay's Anna Dressed In Blood is no urban myth and so he and his white witch mother set off for boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Canadian townsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Something tells Cas that Anna is no ordinary ghost and he feels sure that once she is despatched - to wherever ghosts go - he But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be ready at last themselves, or are they destined to deal with the voodoo spirit that killed and ate his father... live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140832072X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Mike Lancaster|title=1.4|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Peter Vincent lives a privileged life. His father is a world-renowned scientist and fully expects his son to follow in his footsteps. But Peter has other ideas. He wants to study literature. Although he enjoys gaming and social networking, he's uncomfortable about spending too much time on The Link, a system which connects the minds of every individual on the planet. So when he meets Strakerite Alpha, he is immediately attracted to her. Peter's father hates the Strakerites, who believe that human evolution depends on regular upgrades from alien aggressors. So when Alpha contacts Peter to tell him that people are disappearing, he is more than willing to help. Together, they will uncover a conspiracy to hide the clock ticking down to the next upgrade... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258187</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen Doyle McQuerryNick Brooks|title=The PeculiarsPromise Boys

|summary=Lena's Father left when she was a childWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, disappearing North to three boys find themselves called into the dangerous and mysterious wilderness called Scree where The Peculiars live - people with unnatural physical featurespolice station as suspects. Lena Each, herselfseemingly, has unnaturally long a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and awkward hands and feet which makes her an easy target for bullieseach could have been there at the time of his murder. But Lena wants to know more about herselfwho killed him, and why has she got these hands , and feet? Is it because she has 'goblin blood' like her bitter Grandmother tells herif any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419701789</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Messidoro1919635017|title=How To Keep A Boy As A Pet|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Circe Shaw is a fifteen-year-old girl who lives with Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp and Jude Law. Sounds like heaven, right? Sadly, Daniel, Johnny, and Jude are her pets, and the only actual men around are two who are interested in her mum, not her. What’s a girl Thief to do? Circe decides to start Catch a blog to help her reach her goal of becoming a journalist, and to find out the truth about boys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258160</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Laura Powell|title=Burn MarkKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Glory comes from Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a long line series of witches. She knows the fae will show itself in her eventually. robberies? And when it does, Glory intends how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to make sure her East End coven regains its former and elevated statusthe second question because I avoid spoilers. Lucas is the privileged son of the InquisitionBut I's Chief Prosecutor. He holds ll answer 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 first one: for his father into the Inquisitiongrandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815222</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philippa GregoryPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=ChangelingDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Luca Vero Ant is expelled from 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 monastery after being accused desk is one of heresy. The seventeen-year-four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old is recruited muckers – in fact they all go back to map primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the End of Daysleash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his first task score is to go to a nunnery , where a Lady Abbess of his own age has been accused of witchcraftachievements in that regard lie. Will he find Isolde guilty He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and condemn her to so has effectively progressed up the pyreladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, or is there more to he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the case than meets relationship and the eye?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077309</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Walden1800901232|title=Earthfall|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 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 of their drones. But after a year hiding in London's sewers, he has learned how to survive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815664</amazonuk>}}  {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Michael Williams|title=Now is the Time for RunningSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a remote fashion designer. Life in the rural village in Zimbabwe, Deo is playing football where she lived with his friends while his brother Innocent looks on. Innocent takes a bit of looking after - deprived of oxygen during birthher family was happy, he's if not quite like other children and Deo is fiercely protective of him. Then the soldiers arriveprosperous, looking for a delivery of food aid and so when the traitors who welcome help from the evil Americans, smartly-dressed man and they destroy woman came to the entire village. Now orphans, the two boys have no choice but to flee to South Africa offer Hahn a job 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), Hanoi it won't was an opportunity not to be easy.missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848530838</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Veronica Roth|title=Insurgent|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Insurgent'' (clever title Only, you'll see) begins right where [[Divergent by Veronica Roth|Divergent]] left off. The social structure of Tris's world is beginning Hanh and the other girls were not going to fall apart. After the Erudite simulation attack on the Abnegationwork in a shop, the factions are they were to work in virtual slavery in disarrayan illegal garment factory. The Dauntless are split - half providing You know those jeans you really wanted: the military muscle for the Erudite ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the other half seeking alliances legs? The ones with the other factions. But Amity insist on remaining neutral in the hopes of avoiding further conflict artfully-placed rips and the Candor dondistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't have anything to bargain. The few remaining Abnegation are refugees. But there is another group - the factionless s quite possible that Hanh and her co- who may hold the key to defeating the Eruditeworkers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007442920</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ellie PhillipsPatrice Lawrence|title=Dads, Geeks and Blue Haired FreaksNeedle

|summary=Sadie Nathanson Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is stunned extremely hard for some people to get a card from her dad on her fifteenth birthdaylike, characters and readers both. Not only has Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she never met her dad's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, but to all intents and purposes has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he doesn't even exists at uni. He was Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a sperm donorcomfort blanket, that's all. In view you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of thisthe plot here, it's fairly obvious that the card as Charlene is a mean jokewonder knitter, probably played by and is making something full of love for her ex-best friend Shonna Matthewsyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. But it makes We see Charlene prove her start belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to think about give her dad a bit moretwo days off school, and when she decides shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to track him downsay, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405258195</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=A C GaughenAnn Sei Lin|title=ScarletRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone knows Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the story sky where soldiers of Robin Hood the Empire come to drink and his Merry Menmake merry between their conquests. But what if they werenHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her 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 to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't all men? What if Will Scarlethave any say in the matter, because the violent youngster who can throw Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a knife with shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the same accuracy as Robin shoots Orihime, a bowsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, was and a girl? whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408819767</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Julia Green|title=Bringing the Summer |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Freya is returning home from a summer spent with her grandparents, ready to start her A levels. The train she is travelling on stops suddenly and Freya 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 to her college. Freya is instantly attracted, not just by Gabes, but by his whole, slightly bohemian, family, so different to her own. But there's also a more dangerous attraction. Theo, Gabes's older brother, makes his own interest in Freya very apparent. Theo is very different from Gabes - unpredictable, dark, wild. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408819589</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gill Lewis|title=White Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Things aren't going too well for Kara. She's mocked at school for her dyslexia. Her father is struggling to find work and they're cooped up living with judgemental Auntie Bev. And, worse of all, Mum is not around. A marine biologist, she disappeared on an expedition along with several of her colleagues and no bodies were ever found. Kara clings on determinedly to her belief that her mother will return some day, much to the frustration of everyone around her, and her only solace is sailing in her father's boat, Moana. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756222</amazonuk>}} {{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 GrantMarcus Sedgwick|title=FearWrath

|summary=Darkness is falling in the FAYZMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. The dome that isolates the children from the outside world Lockdown is turning black, and Samonly just over, Astrid and the rest know that this could he should be the worst thing yet free to happen do what he wants, to them. I'm leaving the plot summary therego where he wants and with whom he wants, because but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it deserves when he talks to be read with as few spoilers as possiblehis best friend, Cassie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525761X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aidan Chambers|title=Dying to Know You|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Karl is seventeen and hopelessly caught in They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the throes earth. Is this connected with one of first love. The object her eco-warrior parents saying the end of his affections the world is Fiorella, already a girl who seems above him so many ways. Fiorelladone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's family is both healthy and wealthydreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, while Karlnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's father is dead and his mother gets by but not much moret. Fiorella is a bright girl on her way to university, while Karl is dyslexic and has left school to work as a blue collar apprentice plumber. Fiorella is articulate, while Karl is reserved. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370332369</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Jill Hathaway|title=Slide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Everyone thinks Vee suffers from narcolepsy. The truth, however, is much stranger than that. She 'slides' into people's bodies when she touches an object they were emotionally attached to, becoming a helpless observer and leaving her body at risk. It's bad enough normally when this happens, as she sees the mean things people do to each other - but it gets much worse when she slides, and finds herself holding a knife and standing over 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 again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007446373</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon Chase|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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907652868</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Wells|title=Partials|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Since the Break, no baby has lived longer than three days. Scientists have studied every baby to try and find a cure, but with no luck. The human race is on the verge of extinction after the Partials (genetically engineered soldiers who were made to fight for humans) turned on their makers and released the deadly virus that has wiped out most of the population. For those lucky to survive, they now spend their time trying to cure the virus that kills every baby.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000746522X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Shelley Coriell|title=Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe|rating=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 can'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 project, Chloe is forced into a school radio station which is on its last legs, run by a bunch of losers who she'd never even have spoken to before. Taking a risk which could either kill or save the station, Chloe is thrust into a position as host of a new chat show. Will the risk pay off? Will Chloe find a new circle of friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419701916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Roy Apps|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 for you! ''Deadly Tales'' features two nightmare urban legends that you'll pray aren't true''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445103389</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Johan HarstadTori Bovalino|title=172 Hours On The MoonDevil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's 2018 and people at NASA want library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to go back 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 moonbooks: Mr Birch. But no oneThe boarding school's been there since headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the 70sbooks, so scribbled with funding and public support limitedthe ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, they need an angleof course. A draw. Something Her plan is to get people her anger out like this, and then take them all over the world buzzingoff before delivering them. Their answer is a worldwide lottery to select three teens who can accompany the NASA team on their week long jaunt into spaceNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. The chance of a lifetime! An unforgettable, unrepeatable experience! An adventure that truly is out of this world!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411518</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma SmithPhilip Reeve|title=The Cambridge Shakespeare GuideUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=Does In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the world need another guide to Shakespeare's plays? Scillies. There are plenty about troll people on it, and sea-witches, and students these days have legends of the added resource of Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Internet Watcher, Andrewe, who has to get keep notes of activity from the basics. HoweverHidden Lands, if it doeshis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, then this is as good as any you will find. Itand Andrewe's nicely written and beautifully clear and above allfoundling daughter, succinctwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. In fact I'm doing a disservice to Emma Smith already by terming it a guide to But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his playscurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, because she also includes the poems and sonnetslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>052114972X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|author=Miriam Halahmy|title=Illegal|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lindy’s life started to fall apart when her baby sister Jemma died. With her parents gambling and drinking, and her younger brother needing her to look after him, she’s desperate to hold the family together. So when her brother Garth, who’s in jail, manages to set her up with a job working for her charming cousin Colin, she thinks it’s a great opportunity. Then she finds out, though, that Colin’s business isn’t what it seems, and she’s quickly caught up in a nightmare cycle of drugs and threats… can she find the strength to stand up for herself, helped by the strange and reclusive mute boy Karl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845395247</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Dead Time: The Murder Notebooks|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rose's mother and stepfather - Kathy and Brendan - went out for dinner one night and never came back. Rose was taken in by her grandmother who sent her off to a posh boarding school, while her stepbrother Josh went up north to live with an uncle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815508</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=The Calling|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maya Delaney and friends have just survived a forest fire they think might have been set deliberately. Safely flying away in a helicopter, they think their troubles are over. Until the pilot turns out to be on the same side as those setting the fire.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410473</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=The Bonehill Curse|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anthony Bonehill has created the perfect plan. Seven people will together summon a djinn. Six will gain a wish each, while the seventh will use their wish to kill the djinn and avoid it taking revenge on them. But when Carlos, the seventh, double crosses the rest, and ends up sending the bottle containing the djinn to Bonehill’s daughter Necessity, she’s launched into a race against time to stop the djinn from wreaking havoc on her world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803968</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon|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 the course 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 Fury|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brick felt it. Daisy felt it. Cal felt it. All three, unconnected kids, had the same noisy, throbbing headache at the same time - and all aches went at the same time, in very disappointing circumstances. Brick took his girlfriend to his favourite place, an abandoned theme park, and found her response to both it and him to be not what he expected. Daisy was the school Juliet, and found the experience quite traumatic - 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 thing, 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 the hospital and go home with her new, adopted family. Kyla 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 for wiping out the gangs and the riots that had dominated the country for so long. In their eyes, Kyla has been given a second chance. |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 city. Mia has a connection to the storm that caused the earthquake - lightning seems to be attracted to her and she 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 of the city, 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 who is right? And what part must Mia play? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085753095X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|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 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, Kiran Millwood Hargrave 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 KeplingerTom de Freston|title=The Duff: The designated ugly fat friend|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|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, 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 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 Julia and further out of control at home, Bianca finds herself in the most unlikely of place - the arms of the hated Wesley Rush. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444903500</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jo Nesbo|title=Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The End of the World. Maybe.Shark

|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 be lighthousekeepers for a scale summer, in the far NE of one to ten, [[:Category:Jeanette Winterson|Jeanette Winterson]] must the Scottish islands. Here be a fourVikings, [[:Category:Ian McEwan|Ian McEwan]] a high eight, and [[:Category:Jo Nesbo|Jo Nesbo]], Nordic crime sensation de nos jours at least eleventhat kind of Scottish island. But this Dad is now going to be automating the third lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the series of youthfulelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, frivolous adventureswell, she will be homesick and this time the titular professor, diminutive smart Alec Nilly and Lisa (and their seven-legged spider) have to save the worldalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857073893</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SerleJonathan Stroud|title=When You Were MineThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=34|genre=Teens|summary=In this modern-day retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and JulietScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Rosaline has been best friends with Rob ever since they were tiny. But recently, their friendship has grown. The electric crackle rejecting the draconian conformity of attraction is sparking between them and they are tentatively inching their way towards a relationship. One night they kiss the Surviving Towns and Rosaline believes they are about Faith Houses to become wander the wildlands between the couple she has always believed they were destined Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to bekeep herself alive. But then her estranged cousin Juliet arrives back in town. She makes it clear she wants Rob and will stop at nothing to get him. Rosaline can do nothing but watch as Juliet steals her boyfriend meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and her best friend... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075160</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Will Hill|title=Department 19: The Rising|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=HE RISES. The graffiti is breaking out everywhere. For those who don't know what it's referring to, it's a minor annoyancedarker past. For Blacklight operativesWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, it could be the harbinger of they plan to flee to the end mythical Free Isles of the worldLondon Lagoon. Because ''HE'' is DraculaTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Valeri Rusmanov has succeeded in bringing his old master back all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to life – or reach the vampire equivalent of itFree Isles, at least. The only hope is that but will they be any more accepted there than they can track him down before he reaches his full power. Can Jamie Carpenter, along with new Blacklight operatives Larissa (his vampire girlfriend) and Kate Randall, who he rescued from Lindisfarne at are in the climax rest of the last book, help to stop himBritain? That's about all of the plot that I feel comfortable talking about, such is my desperation to avoid spoiling anything. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354487</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonMercedes Helnwein|title=InvincibleSlingshot

|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 Gracie Welles has resigned herself to do nowbeing lonely. He hasn’t got long to decide, though – because his new coach is putting pressure on him to steal some special items, and boys As a secret illegitimate daughter 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>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Prentice and Jonathan Weil|title=Black Arts|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=London, 1592. Jack successfully completes a test man with a local crime family and becomes a "nipperreal" 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 family, she is real and the fight between good and evil can have fatal consequences. Jack returns home used to find his mother murdered by Nicholas Webb, not being a charismatic Puritan preacher currently whipping up the London crowds against demons and witches. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385615132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Conrad Mason|title=The Demonpriority in people's Watch|rating=4lives.5|genre=Teens|summary=''We're the Demon's WatchBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, son. Best you don't think of us as the her simple existence is changed for good folk. More like the dangerous folk.'' Joseph Grubb lives No longer can she spend her time writing novels in Faytsolitude, for her life now has a busy port between the Old and the New Worlds. In Fayt, humans, elves, trolls, ogres and fairies live together boy 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 that she never asked 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: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560298</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James DawsonT L Huchu|title=Hollow PikeThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lis London has troubles in her lifeRopa 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. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's been badly bullied by girls at her old school. She has bad dreams about an unseen assailant trying using it to kill support not only herself, but her. Moving to Hollow Pike to live with younger sister and her older sister Sarah is meant to be a fresh startaging grandmother. Except as soon as Lis gets However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, she seems to recognise targeting the location of her recurring nightmare. Then therecity's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a death..missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and Lis starts to wonder whether realise that the rumours world of witchcraft are magic is far bigger and more dangerous than just rumoursshe ever could've imagined. Will she find the new start she'd so looked forward missing children and bring an end to turn out to have a gruesome endthis evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620039</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenKristen O'Neal|title=The Fault in Our StarsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|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

{{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]]