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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Aude MurailMax Boucherat|title=My Brother SimpleThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Kleber is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just starting his second an avidly rule-breaking eleven year of sixth form old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Paris a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is looking for a flatshare. For most boysto log on to Voxminer, this would be an exciting timethe world-building, full of possibilities. But for Kleber, itcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's problematicworld. He comes as But first Lori has a twosome with Simpletiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, his older brotherand then she finds something even more spooky. Simple has learning difficulties For the server she and her bestie and the boys' father, just remarried, had packed him off nobody else should be able to a residential centreenter shows signs of tampering. Simple hated it there When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Kleber suspected her safe place in the staff of neglect. Despite being just seventeengame has been doctored – well, he's decided where is a girl to take his brother on. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408814714</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susane ColasantiRachel Greenlaw|title=When It HappensCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Sara and Tobey are both in their last year ''I can hear the song of high school. Sara is fairly straight-laced but is determined to reinvent herself and win over the hunky Davesea. Tobey is a musically gifted slacker with a crush on Sara. Told from their alternating points The call of viewthe deep, When It Happens is a contemporary romance featuring an older pair of characters than most teen books and I was really looking forward to seeing them juggle the stirrings of love with the problems of planning for their futureanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130846</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Asa Bailey|title=The Vampire 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 Highgate|rating=3the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within.5|genre=Teens|summary=Kathy Bilic can barely remember But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the sister she was separated from when wrecking, they were tiny. An ocean lies between them – she’s been adopted by an American couple capture the island's leader and Amber is living in LondonMira's father. When she hears that Amber has gone missingDesperate to save him from death, thoughMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and receives she sets off in search of a mysterious packagefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, she flies as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to London the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to see if she can help stop at nothing to find save the future of her sisterhome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444903519</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HoffmanHarry Allen|title=City Children of Swords (Stravaganza) the Sun|rating=45

|summary=Laura's unhappiness Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is hidden away where no-one can see it. But she does have a releasetalented singer. She knows cutting herself Life is wrong, but the relief it provides hard and food is addictive. But Laura's secretive life is upturned difficult to come by the discovery that she is a Stravagante - a person who can travel through time , so Seo and her friends Nari and space. Transported to sixteenth century FortezzaMin go foraging every evening, she finds herself in the middle of a bitter battle looking for succession tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the city's dukedom. The Stravaganti are supporting Princess Lucia but Laura also meets Ludo, the pretender, meagre rations of rice and is immediately drawn to him. And kimchi at home in Barnsbury, Laura's life is changing too, now she is a part of the time-travelling community. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800500</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LucasAlexia Casale|title=TurfSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=FifteenIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-year-old Jay changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a member of dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Blake Street Boyz gang. He and his best friend Milk spend their time selling drugspity stares, marking their turf and dreaming about graduating from the gangdesperate to get back to a life that's Youngers to its Olders. And in a world where something as insignificant normal as the choice of a chocolate bar she can mean the difference between respect and contempt, itpossibly manage. Meanwhile there's not surprising that Jay treads very carefully. Every choicea new (cute!) boy in school, no matter how smallher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, is a statement. So when he is finally given and just the chance day to day traumas of joining all the Olders, he challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't afford dance anymore, might she be able to mess it up. But the task is murder. And suddenly there are no choices left... sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370332342</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Cathy Farr|title=Moon Crossing|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=Wil Calloway returns to Saran in the most unwelcome of circumstances. Tally, Lady Elanor's young sister, has been abducted by the evil Lord Rexmoore in an attempt to find the whereabouts of the Legacy. Tally doesn't know it, but that won't save her. So Wil has come to rejoin his Fellmen friends and mount a rescue mission. But it's not going to be easy. Gisella and Mortimer aren't talking. Seth is as accident-prone as ever. And Leon and his father are still deeply suspicious about Wil's part in Giles's death during the last Moon Chase. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781485151</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattSimon Fox|title=Strong Winds Trilogy: Ghosting HomeDeadlock

|summary=We first met Donny Walker in [[Strong Winds Trilogy: The Salt-Stained Book by Julia Jones Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Claudia Myatt|The Salt-Stained Book]] as then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and his mother Skye left their home join him on the outskirts run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Leeds and headed off to Southern trains when the Suffolk coast. When his deaf-and-mute mother had a breakdown fourteen-year-old Donny was taken into care and father is arrested, leaving Archie on the only good thing in his life was that he was introduced (almost accidentally) late express to sailing. He was Brighton, toting a natural. The worst parts of tin his life were that he wasn't allowed father was determined to see keep away from his mother colleagues, and no matter what he did he seemed to keep running foul the bearer of Social Services and a certain police inspectorwhole heap of questions. Something was going on, but could Donny and his new friends work out what it was? And would his great Aunt, known as Golden Dragon, be able to help him when she arrived in her boat ''Strong Winds''?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1899262067</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Abby GrahameLex Croucher|title=Wentworth HallGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=34

|summary=The year is 1912Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, and the Darlingtons of Wentworth Hall are it lifted my spirits in a rich family who are going through some problems at the momentmost delightful way. The financial ones are bad enough In this story, as are the secrets kept by various family members Gwen and servantsArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, but it's the Sussex Courier column which seems much to be based on the household which their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the final strawkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Will all of their mysteries finally be exposed? Who on earth could be responsible for writing it? The groom who wants to be more than And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a servant to the family's beautiful elder daughterboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the French nanny subterfuge of falling in love with a secreteach other, the new visitors who have riches of when really they are enabling their ownother romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or someone else entirelyare they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857079166</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Morgan Matson|title=Second Chance Summer|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Years ago, Taylor Edwards and her family would visit their old lake house by the beach for the summer. It was an idyllic setting, she had close friends there, and there was lots of fun to be had. Then she had a falling-out with best friend Lucy and an awkward moment with the boy she liked, Henry… and she hasn’t been back there in five years. This summer, she’s finally going back – because her dad is dying of cancer and wants to spend his last few months in a place he loves, surrounded by his family. Will she take the second chance to rebuild her relationships with the people around her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072706</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally NichollsNick Brooks|title=All Fall DownPromise Boys

|summary=It’s When the summer principal (headmaster) of 1349. Isabel lives her young life as a villeinUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, tied to three boys find themselves called into the land which the family rents from the Lord of the small village of Ingleform in Yorkshirepolice station as suspects. Leaving is not an option. Life as Each, seemingly, has a villein is hardgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, but nothing has prepared Isabel for and each could have been there at the all-consuming Black Death decimating everything in its path as it sweeps across Europetime of his murder. But when the plague runs riot across all of Britainwho killed him, finally reaching her townand why, life there is devastaed. It seems and if any of the world boys are innocent, will end in a wave of fear, pestilence and horror. they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121723</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt Dickinson1919635017|title=Mortal Chaos: Deep Oblivion|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Based on the concept that something as small as the beating of a butterfly's wings can set in motion an intricate series of interconnected events, involving people around the globe, ''Deep Oblivion'' narrates a day in the life of a security guard, a homeless girl, a fireworks expert, a cruise ship captain, a monk, A Thief to Catch a missionary, a brutal military commander, and a couple of professional thieves, all of whom are somehow linked. Those who are familiar with the series know that it ends with a massive pay-off, and you will not be disappointed by the chaos and destruction of the conclusion. Many characters die, and even among those who survive very few are left unchanged.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192757156</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Roddy Doyle|title=A Greyhound of a GirlKitt Townsend

|summary=AnaSolomon Klyne isn's Dad helped invent t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the DNA test that helps to divide Society into two categories: Pures and Craziessecond question because I avoid spoilers. Pures are people who are But I'normal', and Crazies are people who carry genes ll answer the first one: for depression, schizophrenia and other mental illnesseshis grandmother. Having lived as a Pure all her life, when Ana finds out her test was wrong her world falls apart. Now, marrying Jasper, a Pure-boy, is her only chance of a normal life. But will Jasper still want her now she's a Crazy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571280536</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HartmanPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=SeraphinaDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=The Comonot Treaty Ant is approaching its 40th anniversary but the state of play between humans in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and dragons is still parlous. The people in Goredd still revile surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and distrust the dragons who walk among them two other old muckers – in human formfact they all go back to primary school days together. For As they're all fired up, straining at the dragons, humans are like cockroaches leash only a single- easily crushed individuallysex school can form, but surprisingly resilient when they band togetherthe talk in class and out often turns to sex. Humans are impulsive Which is confusing for Ant, emotional. Dragons are impassiveas he doesn't know what his score is, logicalwhere his achievements in that regard lie. It He's not an easy fit had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the fragile peace is at risk after the murder of a Goreddi princeladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Dragons are suspected And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the crimesex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531565</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diana Hendry1800901232|title=The SeeingStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=It's 1956 when Natalie comes storming into the quiet seaside town of Norton and slapTwelve-year-bang into Lizzie's lifeold Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Natalie is from Life in the wrong side of rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the tracks smartly-dressed man and reserved, well-woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not tobe missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-do Lizzie is immediately drawn bus to this unconventional girl who wears her poverty Hanoi. Only, Hanh and neglect like the other girls were not going to work in a badge of courageshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. As You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the two girls grow closer over legs? The ones with the summer, Natalie reveals a shocking secret artfully- her odd younger brother Philip has the gift of second sight placed rips and can see "left over Nazis" lying in wait, ready to start another war distressed seams that felt so soft when the time is right. Natalie says ityou touched them? It's up to the three of quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them to rid Norton of these LONs. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>037033213X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria LambPatrice Lawrence|title=WitchstruckNeedle

|summary=Meg Lytton comes from a family of witchesBrave. Her motherCharlene, who died in childbirththe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, renounced her gift in order to marrycharacters and readers both. But Meg Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's Aunt Jane continued to practise fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taught Meg to hone taken up residence in her skillsson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Sent to serve Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the Princess Elizabeth - in confinement at Woodstockplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, suspected and is making something full of treason against love for her younger sister - Meg soon finds that – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her royal mistress has belligerence with a strong interest in the occult store detective, and encourages then force people to give her to continuetwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Elizabeth is beset by danger and must tread a delicate path through intrigues and religion. Megwell, too, walks in peril. The ruthless witchfinder Marcus Dent has taken an uncomfortably close interest in her and if he were what exactly happens is not for me to discover her secretsay, he would send her straight only to her deathremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055256611X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonAnn Sei Lin|title=Emma Hearts LARebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emma's not thrilled to be moving across Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Atlantic Empire come to LA - unlike her mother drink and her younger sister Bexmake merry between their conquests. Her mum has However, when a new job and Bex man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is set a Crafter like him, someone with the power to meet with form paper into whatever she desires – a Hollywood agentpower sought after all across the Empire. All Emma has to look forward He asks her to is a reunion come with Oscarhim, to leave the dorky boy life of dreary servitude that is all she knew when growing uphas known. When she meets OscarWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, thoughbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, he's unexpectedly cute... and then TV star Alex Hall appears on she is forced to flee out into the scene as wellworld. With two boys interestedShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, great weathera sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and locations from movies and TV shows at every turn, maybe LA is actually a pretty good place to live...whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319527</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeri Smith-ReadyMarcus Sedgwick|title=ShineWrath

|summary=Age gap relationships - who'd risk them? Zach Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only a brief moment older than Aurajust over, but in that instant the world changed, as Aura and anyone younger can see and speak he should be free to ghosts - while Zach might as well be poison do what he wants, to them. Over two books Aura has accepted being go where he wants and with Zach and not her dead rock-star boyfriendwhom he wants, who has finallybut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, permanentlyCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, moved on. [[Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready|Last time]] they even found out but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a lot about how and why subhuman hum coming from the Shift, as that moment is called, happenedearth. Now we're to consider Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the present and end of the future - what world is already a done deal? Is it would mean for Zach and Aura to really get together, and what the Powers That Be (whoever they are) are expecting some spooky new kind of them, together and apart. Itmusic she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the last in the trilogytruth? Well, so a lot of secrets will be revealed, a lot of threat will be faced - and itnot when Cassie has gone missing he can'll be emotionalt...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857074113</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol MidgleyTori Bovalino|title=My Family and Other FreaksThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Danielle has an embarrassing family, a dog whoWorking all summer in her boarding school's in love with an Ugg boot, and library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a love rival who hundred books that she can't possibly live up has to – or can she? Determined not to be beaten in her efforts to secure Damiendeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's affectionsheadmaster, Danni hits on and a man Tess hates. As a plan – only petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it to go horribly wrongnotes on each of the books, landing her scribbled with the nickname ugliest insults she can think of 'Dench The Stench'. Surely things can only get better – canThey't they?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857388940</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simone Elkeles|title=Chain Reaction (Perfect Chemistry)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Luis Fuentes is a risk-taker who meets a feisty girl whom he falls in love with. Unfortunately, a gang called the Latino Blood are also interested in re never meant to reach him for rather different reasons, and Nikki doesn’t approve of themcourse. Who will win out – the gang, or the girl?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077473</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kim Harrington|title=Clarity|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The tourist season at Cape Cod Her plan is about to start and for Clarity 'Clare' Fern and get her family, anger out like this is really important. Clare's family are psychic, not the phoney kind who and then take your money and give you a false prediction about tall dark strangers - the genuine kindthem all off before delivering them. ClareNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's mother can read minds, t delivered them for her brother Perry can talk to the dead, and Clare can see memories linked to objects. Their family business is entertaining the tourists, and the summer rush pays the winter bills.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407130854</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith GrayPhilip Reeve|title=NextUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=That Keith Gray hangs out with all 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 cool Scillies. There are troll peopleon it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, you knowwhere no ship dare sail. Hot on The current Darks are the heels Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of one fabulous anthology of short stories all activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about virginity, [[Losing It by Keith Gray|Losing It]]such local yokel superstitions, comes ''Next''. The topic this time is life after death and itAndrewe's another preoccupation for young peoplefoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. What's next? What will it be like? How will those left behind manage But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and cope? Each of his curious ward are thrust into the cool people contributes an idea world of what death may bringprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393001</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pete Hautman|title=What Boys Really Want|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Adam is a teenage entrepeneur with 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 - Lita may have broken up a couple of Adam's relationships without him realising it, but that's for his own good. In fact, Lita's convinced Adam knows nothing about romance, so when he comes up with the great idea of writing a self-help book which explains what boys are looking for in a girl, she wants nothing to do with it. Of course, if she took more of an interest, she might notice there are a lot of parts with a significant resemblance to a certain blog... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kathleen PeacockKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|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 Julia 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 StoriesShark

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=John White was known Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to everyone as Crabber - be lighthousekeepers for a nickname which he once earned and which then stuck - and he grew up on summer, in the shores far NE of Long Island in the nineteen-fiftiesScottish islands. It was a close-knit community and a time when children had more freedom than they are likely to Here be allowed nowVikings, that kind of Scottish island. We watch as Crabber grows from being a boy still suffering from Dad is going to be automating the death of lantern, which is his elder brother when we first met him through specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to a time when he's old enough to go on a hunting trip on hunt the mainland with a local familyelusive Greenland shark. He tells his own storiesAnd Julia, well, as truthfully as he can she will be homesick and with the sort of insight which children have before life injects its cynicismalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00737IKIW</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarra ManningJonathan Stroud|title=AdorkableThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jeane Smith has her own quirky fashion senseScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, half a million Twitter followers, dark boy with dark powers and a place on darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the Guardian's '30 People Under 30 Who Are Changing The World' listmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Michael Lee has good looksTogether, designer clothesthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and parents who push him all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to excel at everything. They have nothing reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in common - so why do they end up kissing so oftenthe rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411003</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniela SacerdotiMercedes Helnwein|title=Dreams (Sarah Midnight Trilogy)Slingshot|rating=43

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Sarah MidnightGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's parents are deadlives. Everyone else thinks it's an accident - but But when she knows the truth because defends a random boy in her parents were demon hunters and class with her dreams helped slingshot, her guide them from the safety of her bedsimple existence is changed for good. But they didn't train No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for what would happen when they were gone - and if she doesn't master her powers, and learn who life now has a boy in it that she can trust, she might be the next to dienever asked for: Wade Scholfield. Can she live up to the Midnight motto, Don't Let Them Roam?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845023706</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixT L Huchu|title=A Confusion The Library of Princesthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet KhemriRopa 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. One Ever since she dropped out of the universeschool, she's chosen, he has been selected as a Prince, giving him biological enhancements, mental connection to priests using it to aid his psychic abilitysupport not only herself, but her younger sister and so much moreher aging grandmother. It has also probably led to However, there's an evil stalking the death ruined streets of his parentsEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, and meant he Ropa is alone except pulled into the search for a very close bodyguard, but - missing boy at least he is in the running to become Emperor, request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and thus almost godlike. But in a realise that the world where you can have everything - including of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than one chance at living - she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it might still be wise to think more about what you wish for...claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007298358</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonKristen O'Neal|title=Pop!|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Elfie's mam has done her twelfth - or is it thirteenth? - bunk Lycanthropy and things aren't so hot in the Baguley household. No mother, no money, and an ongoing strike plagued by immigrant workers and scabs. Elfie needs a plan. And since plans are what Elfie excels at - if you listen to Elfie and not to anybody else - she soon comes up with a stonker. If she can win TV talent show Pop to the Top, she'll net a cool £25k - enough to get her father out of debt and to fund her friend Jimmy's Olympic swimming dreams. All she needs is a voice, which she finds in Agnes, who sings like an angel. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405261331</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paolo Bacigalupi|title=The Drowned CitiesOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Cas Lowood is no ordinary high school boyHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. He lives When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a peripatetic existencewhile, hunting malevolent ghosts Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and "killing" them with his fatherdrive to Brigid's knifehouse to check up on her. A tip-off from a trusted informant lets Cas know that Thunder BayBut what she doesn's Anna Dressed In Blood t expect to find there is no urban myth and so he a werewolf in the basement – and his white witch mother set off for the Canadian town. Something tells Cas that Anna is no ordinary ghost and he feels sure that once she is despatched - werewolf to wherever ghosts go - he will be ready at last the girl she has been talking to deal with online for the voodoo spirit that killed and ate his father..past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140832072X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move 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>}} {{newreview|author=Maureen Doyle McQuerry|title=The Peculiars|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lena's Father left when she was a child, disappearing North to the dangerous and mysterious wilderness called Scree where The Peculiars live - people with unnatural physical features. Lena, herself, has unnaturally long and awkward hands and feet which makes her an easy target for bullies. But Lena wants to know more about herself, why has she got these hands and feet? Is it because she has 'goblin blood' like her bitter Grandmother tells her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419701789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Messidoro|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 to do? Circe decides to start a blog to help her reach her goal of becoming a journalist, and to find out the truth about boys.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258160</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]