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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Marilyn Kaye|title=White Lies and Tiaras|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Alice has been invited to a wedding, but she’s not that excited by this news. The groom is her childhood sweetheart, Jack, but since she’s moved on (sort of) and has a new boyfriend (sort of) there’s no real reason for her not to go. After all, the wedding is in Paris, and her best friend Lara, Jack’s cousin, will also be there. They’ve both been invited with plus-ones so Alice can take Cal, and Lara can bring Harry, and they can have some fun in the French capital when they’re not expected to be doing family-and-friend stuff with the wedding party.|amazonuk= <amazonuk>144490311X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gregory Hughes|title=Summertime of the Dead|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Yukio lives with his grandmother in Tokyo. He enjoys school, practising kenzo, and hanging out with his two best friends, twins Hiroshi and Miko. They do everything together - swimming, shopping, eating, even visiting nuns. But then the yakuza - the Japanese mafia - come into their lives. And Hiroshi and Miko are dead !- blackmailed and tormented, they take their own lives. Filled with grief, Yukio vows revenge... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Gerard Bauer|title=Don't Call Me Ishmael|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-yearRemove -old Ishmael Leseur is a loser. He can't help it - how is he meant to survive with a name that school bully Barry Bagsley can twist into Fishtail Le Sewer, Fishwhale Manure, or even worse combinations? He's so fed up of being bullied that when the nerdy James Scobie moves to his school, he almost welcomes the arrival of a new target for Bagsley's scorn. But Scobie doesn't fear anything. With his help, and that of Miss Tarango, the new English teacher, can Ishmael learn to stand up for himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776837</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellMax Boucherat|title=Eleven Eleven|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 2am in Paris on Tuesday 11th November 1918. Negotiations for ending World War I are almost complete and both sides will announce the Armistice at 11am. But the people actually fighting the war don't know that yet...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826232</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tera Lynn Childs|title=Sweet Venom|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is the new girl in San Francisco, who can't understand why she's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems to notice. Gretchen is an experienced monster-hunter. Greer is a socialite. The three of them look eerily alike - what's their connection, and can this mismatched trio of teens defend the world from the demons who seem to be appearing with ever-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keren David|title=Another Last Life|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ty's cousin Archie, son of two top lawyers, has managed to get himself expelled from another boarding school. He wants to be back in London, spending time with his friends and with his cousin. But with Ty struggling to cope as he's sentenced to a spell of time in a Young Offenders Institution, Archie tries to find out more about his cousin's past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847802869</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie Jordan|title=Vanish|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Events have forced Jacinda back into the arms of the Pride. When her mother took her away from them, it was the last thing Jacinda wanted. But now she's back, she wants nothing more than to spread her wings and fly away. But it's not that easy. Severin, leader of the Pride, has her under virtual house arrest. Tamra, Jacinda's twin, is going through some tumultuous changes, and needs the support of the Pride. And there's Cassian - a permanent fixture in Jacinda's life, the one who brought her back to the Pride, who she is beginning to think cares about her for more than just her firebreathing talents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756540</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kevin Crossley-Holland|title=Scramasax: The Viking Sagas, Book Two|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left Solveig finally reunited with her Viking father, after a journey that took her all the way from her Scandinavian home to Miklagard (Constantinople). There, her father is in the service of Harald Hardrada, who in turn serves the Empress Zoe. Zoe's court is a dangerous place, full of spies and prisoners and instant punishment by death - for the smallest of transgressions. So Solveig needs to learn fast if she is to persuade Harald to allow her to stay with the Viking guard. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184724940X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=Zom-BLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Strange news reports are coming out of Ireland. YouTube is buzzing with clips of zombie infestations and We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the military clearing remote villages. This is all taken with a pinch of salt by B Smithhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, schoolfriendsbabysitter poorly, teachers and parents. Most people think it's all a promotion campaign for a new filmmother at work, but there are also scatterings of various conspiracy theories. None of it really impinges on B and pals though just an avidly rule- they carry breaking eleven year old, on with life regardlessher lonesome. There's hanging out What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the park to be donea blanket fort, she has one main intention, after all. Various peer group scores to settle. Fake IDs to find and attempts that is to buy alcohol. You get the picture. Some silly fake zombies barely register. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707752X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Fisher|title=The Obsidian Mirror|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jake's father disappeared while working log on a secret project with his best friendto Voxminer, the celebrated explorer and recluse Oberon Venn. Jake is sure world-building, critter-collecting game that Venn is a murderer and sets out to prove it, dragging his teacher, Mr Wharton, into the investigation. But the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't dead, hehit in Lori's lost in timeworld. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past to find him, using But first Lori has a device called the Chronoptika. But it's dangerous and they arentiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't the only ones hell bent find herself entirely on using the time machine. There's Sarah, who can turn herself invisibleher own, and who's being pursued by a murderous Replicant and his wolfthen she finds something even more spooky. And there's For the scarred man with his acolyte server she and his strange weapon. And there are the Shee, who keep their own counsel, but have their own ambitions, her bestie and who enchant the forest on Venn's estate... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970081</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Muchamore|title=Guardian Angel (CHERUB)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Reviewers at the Bookbag have had mixed feeling about cherub in the past, so I wanted nobody else should be able to start this review by saying I'm a big fan enter shows signs of the series in generaltampering. I thought [[People's Republic (CHERUB) by Robert Muchamore|People's Republic]] When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the first of the 'new' booksgame has been doctored – well, actually showed where is a significant improvement on the last couple of the James Adams books because Muchamore didn't use the long flashback which had irritated me in both of them. I really liked Ning, one of the new characters introduced in that one, and was looking forward girl to reading more about her here.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999217</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan WaggonerRachel Greenlaw|title=Timedance 1: Neptune's TearsCompass and Blade

|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The premise is both original and timeless: star-crossed lovers separated by an apparently unbreachable barrier. Two hundred years into call of the futuredeep, a healing empath meets a mysterious young man to whom she is immediately attracted. For Zee this could be a disaster, not only because falling the answering beat in love so intensely is likely to damage her ability to do her work, but also because the boy has a secret so huge and terrifying it could destroy them bothmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848122721</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Colin Mulhern|title=Arabesque|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Rosevear, a group of amateur criminals find themselves suddenly short of twenty grand for an ambitious deal with a weapons dealerremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of them has the bright idea seven who swim out to kidnap a pair of semi-celebrity teenage girls, Amy May survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Mia, to extort money from their wealthy parentsany treasure that lies within. But when the kidnappers make Council Watch lays a mess of trap to end the situation wrecking, they capture the girls find themselves in the hands of a decidedly more sinister villainisland's leader and Mira's father. Galloway likes Desperate to think of himself save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as a higher class of criminal and when he realises that Amy May is an Olympic standard gymnastsecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, he decides to take advantage she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the situationsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, using a combination as her journey takes her from the watched streets of sly manipulation, threats and blackmail foreign islands to coerce the girls into working for him. Galloway isnheart of the smuggler't a fool and he has all the cards in his hands territory, but somehow Amy May has Mira must be determined to push herself stop at nothing to save the limit to save not just herself, but future of her best friend toohome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846471486</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jillian LarkinHarry Allen|title=The Flappers: IngenueChildren of the Sun

|summary=Gloria Carmody Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Jerome Johnson fled Chicago for New York to escape the mob and the police after Gloria killed she is a mantalented singer. They thought that their love would be enough to get them through – but a white woman Life is hard and a black man living together will need a lot more than that to get a happy ending. After witnessing another murder, Jerome's sister Vera knows that New York food is about difficult to get even more dangerous for the paircome by, but can she find them to warn them in time? Meanwhile Lorraine Dyer, formerly Gloria's best friendso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, is also trying to find them – but in her case she wants revenge on Gloria. As looking for Clara Knowles, former 'Queen Sheba of the flapper scene', she may be back in New York but she's not going back tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the speakeasies meagre rations of rice and parties. She's happy with quiet, respectable Marcus Eastman. Until she gets an intriguing offer..kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552565059</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joss StirlingAlexia Casale|title=Seeking CrystalSing if you Can't Dance|rating=3.5

|summary=Crystal Brook has always struggled It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her paranormal giftslife. But she comes back fighting, but meeting desperate to avoid the Benedict brothers makes things even worse. While her sister Diamond finds her soulfinder in Tracepity stares, Crystal and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she canpossibly manage. Meanwhile there't stand his conceited brother Xav. After an unforeseen attacks a new (cute!) boy in school, thoughher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the unlikely pairing will have challenges her body continues to pool their resources throw at her to save their familiesnavigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192793519</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipSimon Fox|title=Wolfsbane (Rebel Angels)Deadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the terrible events at the end of the [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|second book]] in Gillian Philip's ''Rebel Angels'' sequenceforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, we move and join him on a decade or so. Finn is back in the mortal worldrun. But Rory and Jed have stayed with Seth They get together, now but barely begin to smell the captain whiff of Southern trains when the MacGregor clann's dun. Faerie queen Kate NicNiven continues to plot against Seth and to wrest Roryfather is arrested, leaving Archie on the Bloodstone and prophesied saviourlate express to Brighton, from him. She is as toting a tin his father was determined as ever to destroy keep away from his colleagues, and the veil separating the mortal and faerie worldsbearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537352</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsLex Croucher|title=Maze CheatGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=This fast-paced storyWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, with its overtones of Greek tragedy, is set it lifted my spirits in a dystopian world where acid rain is so bad people must wear a mask just to go outsidemost delightful way. People find distraction in role-play games In this story, particularly the MazeGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, which is the creation of the immensely powerful conglomerate called Crater. The game taps directly into players' mindsmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, making them feel as if they are really present in the virtual worldyou see, and is promoted as being unbeatable, but in love with Bridget (the help of people like Ario who make their living by creating and selling cheat codes, it looks as if someone is about to reach the final level. And Crater isn't happy about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827603</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Abby McDonald|title=The Anti-Prom|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bliss has spent years waiting for the perfect prom. Part of the school's social elite, itkingdom's her night, isn't it? She gets a rude awakening when she sees best friend Kaitlin and boyfriend Cameron making out in the limo. Jolene didn't even want to go to the prom only female knight) - she was pushed into it by her mother, who's tired of something that Art discovers from her bad girl imageprivate diaries. Meg's so invisible that she's stood up by And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy she's never even metthey find themselves becoming reluctant allies, a family friend who was going with her out of pity, but obviously doesn't pity her enough to turn up. With creating the help subterfuge of these two unlikely allies, can Bliss get revenge on Kaitlin? One thing's for sure - this will be a night no-one will forget.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406337587</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Hawksmoor|title=The Hunting|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Genie, Rian and Renee escaped from the Fortress falling in the Repossessionlove with each other, but when really they are enabling their plan to spread the word about the evil people running it went wrongown other romantic attachments. Now But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they're on the run, with find a reward on their heads, roadblocks way in their waywhich they can both truly be themselves, and a whole host of fellow victims to worry about. Can they escape – or will are they become the hunters in an attempt destined to take control of live a lie their whole lives back?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997095</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterNick Brooks|title=The Raven Promise Boys

|summary=Ley linesWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, sleeping kings, clairvoyants and three boys find themselves called into the night the dead walk police station as suspects. . . this intriguing book is full Each, seemingly, has a grudge of ancient myths and beliefs. They give a depth some description against Principal Moore, and flavour to the story, which each could so easily have just been a trivial tale about there at the rich boy time of his murder. But who dabbles in the occult to amuse himselfkilled him, and why, and if any of the poor girl who helps him.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407134612</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Niall Leonard1919635017|title=CrusherA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Finn's life Solomon Klyne isn't really going anywhere. He's working at Max Snaxa bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a horrible fast food emporium. It's not fun. But you donseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't ll have many choices when you're a) dyslexic and b) your anger at your mother abandoning you has led to some bad behaviour and a criminal recordwait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But FinnI's dreary life is about to be turned upside downll answer the first one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532081</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David BelbinPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=StudentDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Allison secured her place Ant is in Nottingham UniversityYear Eleven at quite a standard school, she thought of and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it as a way to escape a miserable home lifeseems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with an absent fatherboth his best buddy from the football team, drunk mother and un-committing boyfriendtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. She thought university would be As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a place for intellectual debatesingle-sex school can form, and the creation of loyal friendships talk in class and loveout often turns to sex. However Which is confusing for Ant, she quickly realises that student life isnas he doesn't like those rosy pictures you get on prospectusesknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. In ''Student' He's had a casual relationship, we see a university experience defined secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by a trinity of drugs'experienced', lust and studybut whether that's set in stone, one he can't be sure. And that changes Allison 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and everyone around herthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907869530</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Katie McGarry1800901232|title=Pushing the LimitsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Echo used Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be populara fashion designer. Until a particular night when something happened, leaving her Life in the rural village where she lived with scars on her arms family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a blank space where her memory of that night should job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to bemissed. As if having a stepmother who used Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to be her babysitter Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a brother who died in Afghanistan wasn't already making life hard enoughshop, she's trying they were to work out if she'll ever recall what she went throughin virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Then she meets Noah, who shares a therapist You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with her the artfully-placed rips and is nearly as damaged as she is. Torn away from his beloved younger brothers after their parents died, hedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's desperate to become their legal guardian when he turns eighteen – but with a hot temper quite possible that Hanh and a dubious academic record over the past couple of years, is there any way a judge would choose him over the foster parents they're currently living with? Could these two broken teenagers help each other to heal?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184845077X</amazonuk>her co-workers made them.

 {{newreview|author=William Richter|title=Dark Eyes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Born in Russia but brought up in New York by wealthy adoptive parents, before rejecting them to live on the streets with her friends, Wallis Stoneman has never known too much about her past. This lack of knowledge might turn out to be deadly, though, when a chance encounter leads to her being given a letter from her birth mother. As Wally tries to track her down, she and her friends enter a murky world where the stakes are high, the truth is hidden, and every move they make could be their last.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014134234X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa StassePatrice Lawrence|title=The ForsakenNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Alenna Shawcross Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has grown taken up residence in a newly-formed super country controlled by the military dictatorship that stole her parents from her as son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a child. Alenna has grown up tempestuous personality may be in need of a state-run orphanagecomfort blanket, in anticipation you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the Testplot here, as Charlene is a government-administered initiative designed to identify those teens most likely to become criminalswonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. As you'd expect in We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a dystopian thrillerstore detective, Alenna fails the test and ends up on an isolated island with other potential criminalsthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Howeverwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, she soon finds that the island isn't all that she had been led only to believeremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408318806</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganAnn Sei Lin|title=Ribblestrop Forever!Rebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Kurara has spent her entire life as a new term for Ribblestropservant on the Midori, the weirdest boarding school a massive dining hall floating in the world sky where soldiers of fictionthe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. The pupilsHowever, who of course include 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 bus-load of orphaned Himalayan circus starspower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, are so used to leave the extraordinary life of dreary servitude that when three returning children arrive by landing the plane theyis all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won're travelling t have any say in - '''onto''' the said bus - nobody bats an eyelid. But problems begin when they stray onto a rival school's groundmatter, and practically rescue because the Midori is destroyed by a historian living in monstrous paper spirit known as a stolen mobile libraryshikigami, who and she is tracing forced to flee out into the ghosts of an ancient tribe across world. She joins Himura aboard the local region. Soon things conspire Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to put the hunt down shikigami, and a whole faculty on the same path...world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078003</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=S J KincaidMarcus Sedgwick|title=InsigniaWrath

|summary=Tom Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is awkwardonly just over, wary and self-reliant. He has spent his life on the roadhe should be free to do what he wants, moving from casino to casino go where he wants and with his dad and catching a little online education whenever the opportunity presents itselfwhom he wants, but frankly he is far more concerned with finding cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his next meal than any more distant futurebest friend, Cassie. A poor diet and They were half of a life spent in gaming rooms has left him scrawnydesultory school band, small, and but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a serious case done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of acne? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. He feels he is nothing and no one, and cannot imagine ever living any other life.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140000X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom EastonTori Bovalino|title=HAV3N|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Initially, people thought it was just another media scare. Unfortunately, HAV3N is real and it is apocalyptic. Incredibly virulent, it is a strain of bird flu to which no one has any natural immunity. It spreads through global populations with the speed and ferocity of a forest fire, killing its victims within hours of infection, making them literally cough out their lungs. The small village of Great Sheen put up barricades isolating them from the infected, in a desperate bid for survival, but it does little to stop HAV3N. It is only the timely arrival of scientist Michael Pirbright with an experimental vaccine and antivirals that saves the village from eradication. However, when the villagers are finally able to freely venture outside of the village, they discover the horrible truth. Pirbright's discovery of the vaccine was an incalculable stroke of luck, one that hasn't been repeated, and by making the choice to save his family and the village Pirbright was too late to save anyone else. The rest of the population appears to have been entirely eradicated by the disease. They might be the only humans left alive…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394180</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cora Harrison|title=DebutantesDevil Makes Three

|summary=The year Working all summer in her boarding school's library is 1923. Everyone who is anyone is enjoying themselves in London, coming out as the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a debutante and eagerly anticipating the royal wedding. But the Derringtons aren’t really anyone – they’re stuck in their run-down house in the country with their father and their great-aunt, without the money or fashionable dresses request for eldest sister Violet over a hundred books that she has to have the season she desperately wantsdeliver herself. Can these four young ladies make their way in What makes it worse is the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205944</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bethany Griffin|title=The Masque of man who requested the Red Death|rating=3books: Mr Birch.5|genre=Teens|summary=In The boarding school's headmaster, and a society devastated by an illness which is killing off the poor as the rich are kept safe by wearing special porcelain masks, Araby is seeking oblivionman Tess hates. She is trying to get over the death As a petty act of revenge for making her brother, Finnfind and deliver such a large request, who even her scientist father Tess sticks post- the inventor it notes on each of the masks - wasn't able to save. Feeling she has nothing left to live forbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's resigned herself re never meant to drug-fuelled nights in the Debauchery Club along with Aprilreach him, niece of the city's ruler Prince Prosperocourse. When she meets two different, but enchanting, boys thereHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and becomes involved in events which will shape the destiny of the citythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, will she find something worth fighting if someone hadn't delivered them for? her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621191</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cath CrowleyPhilip Reeve|title=Graffiti MoonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lucy wants to celebrate 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 end Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of school by finding the mysterious graffiti artist ShadowDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, whose work she's becoming obsessed withwhere no ship dare sail. The last thing she wants is current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to be stuck with Ed, a boy she briefly dated a couple keep notes of years agoactivity from the Hidden Lands, especially since that date ended his brother Will who lives in London with her breaking too much science in his nose after he put his hands in an inappropriate place. Edhead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, though, is supposed to be able to help her find Shadowand Andrewe's foundling daughter, so she puts who washed up with himout of the sea one day eleven years ago. During the nightBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, we see the story from both Lucy his sullen brother and Ed's sides as they gradually grow closer to each otherhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444907875</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John MarsdenKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Dead of Julia and the Night (The Tomorrow Series)Shark

|summary=Fly PieJulia, his sister Jane our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and his friend Sham live their cat from the family home in an alternate LondonSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, one full in the far NE of brutality and ghettosthe Scottish islands. They are rubbish kids Here be Vikings, employed by Mother Shelley (an alternate Fagin) to pick through rich people's rubbish for profitthat kind of Scottish island. Their lives are hard and brutal and, often, hungry. But they still have their dreams. Fly Pie longs Dad is going to become a baker. He has cold hands; perfect for pastry. Sham wants to become one of Mother Shelley's Big Boys - andbe automating the lantern, eventuallywhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to rise as possible through hunt the criminal ranks to become an important person in a big gangelusive Greenland shark. Jane And Julia, well, she's a bit different. She wants more. Not more money. More integrity. Jane wants to live a life where lying will be homesick and cheating aren't necessitiesalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849394555</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneJonathan Stroud|title=The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby BrocketOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Whereas some children's authors make their young heroes Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and heroines out Faith Houses to be as regular human beings, [[:Category:John Boyne|John Boyne]] does things differently. After the [[The Boy in wander the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|boy]] whose dad had wildlands between the strangest job in this worldSeven Kingdoms of Britain, came [[Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne|Noah Barleycorn]] robbing banks and his unusual parentageshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and now Barnaby Brocketa darker past. He shouldn't have turned out extraordinary in any way - both his parents are Mr and Mrs Average AustralianWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and his dad certainly keeps both feet on they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the ground London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man- it's just Barnaby cannot. From the moment he was borneating wildlife, gravity has had the wrong effect on him, cannibalistic Tainted and he's spent his life bumping into all the ceiling. Until one fateful day, when he is forced horrors of post-apocalyptic society to both go and grow upreach the Free Isles, and finds out just what a rarity being normal is.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531468</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lil ChaseMercedes Helnwein|title=Secrets, Lies and Locker 62Slingshot

|summary=Ever since popularGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, brightshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, sporty Hillary Randle vanished from Mount Selwyn High 13 years ago her locker - locker 62 - hasn't been usedsimple existence is changed for good. At least not No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the normal senseDead|rating= 4. Instead5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, people have posted using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their deepestliving relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, darkest secrets into she's been using itto support not only herself, knowing that no-one will find them outbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Until a new girlHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, Mayatargeting the city's children. Soon, comes to school and Ropa is given pulled into the combination to search for a missing boy at the locker - request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and to a generation realise that the world of peoplemagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's mysteriesve imagined. Will she use them find the missing children and bring an end to become popularthis evil, or to help peoplewill it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738483X</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth MilesKristen O'Neal|title=Envy (Fury Trilogy)Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=Spring is coming Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to Ascension and, despite everything terms with the fact that happened she may be in [[Fury (Fury Trilogy) by Elizabeth Miles|Fury]], Em knows that constant pain for the Furies will be backrest of her life. With DreaShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s help, an online support group where she fully intends talks to defeat them - only then will she be able 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 tell JD how she really feels about himjust joke and mess around. But When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Furies are stronger than Em has realisedchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Shedecides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's finding it hard house to fit back in with Gabby and check up on her old friends and she carries a dark feeling that . But what she candoesn't quite shake. JD isn't speaking expect to her find there is a werewolf in the basement – and Crow, an Ascension high school dropout, seems for that werewolf to show up wherever be the girl she goeshas been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707203X</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Daniel Handler|title=Why We Broke Up|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Minerva and Ed were in a relationship. For various reasons, that relationship has come Move on to an end. Minerva decides to help herself to move on from her ex-boyfriend by packing up everything she connects with him into a box and leaving it on his doorstep, along with a long letter explaining why they broke up. A long, long letter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405261358</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]