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|summary=Kita lives in a hill fort as part of the sheepmen community. Life since the Great Havoc has been hard and brutish. There are few survivors from ''I can hear the time song of technology and nature is gradually retaking the land. There are often droughts and both food and water are often in short supply. For the sheepmen, it's all about survivialsea. Food, what there is The call of it, is bland. Days are filled with grinding hard work. Relationships are frowned on. Women are treated like chattels. Although they have an alliance with the horsemendeep, other groups are avoided and disliked - the farmers, those who live answering beat in the ruins of the Old Citymy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140710702X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tammara Webber|title=Easy|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jacqueline gave up her dreams of becoming a classical musician to follow her boyfriend Kennedy to college. When he dumps her, it hits her hard – so hard she starts skipping classes and, as a result, failing economics. Dragged out to a party by her friend to help her get over the break-up, instead she faces terror as her ex’s friend Buck tries to rape her. A mysterious stranger, Lucas, intervenes to save her, and when she realises they share economics, she starts to wonder whether he could take her mind off Kennedy. She’s also receiving e-mail tuition from an older student she’s never met, who seems to be flirting with her. Soon, though, she realises that Buck hasn’t forgiven her for escaping his attentions, and she’s forced to try to find the courage to take a stand against him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347449</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=John Marsden|title=The Third DayRosevear, The Frost (The Tomorrow Series)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Narrator Ellie a remote and her friends are carrying partially forgotten island, survives on with their resistance efforts against luring ships into the invaders rocks and hit on a stroke plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of luck as they discover their old comrade Kevin working on the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a nearby farm. A daring rescue attempt succeedstrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and heMira's brought back into father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the foldsea. HeWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's also learnt something territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of explosives, her home and is able to help plan the group's ones she holds most audacious attack yetdear. But with security higher than ever, can they pull it off, and at what cost?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857388754</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Rees BrennanHarry Allen|title=UnspokenChildren of the Sun

|summary=Kami Glass, intrepid journalist Ra Eun Seo lives in the making, has always been used to being an outsider. She might have a best friend North Korean town and run the school paper, but she also talks to is a boy in her head. A boy who talks backtalented singer. Though her imaginary friend has lost her real friends in the past, Kami Life is quite happy with her life as it hard and food is. As long as she doesn't get caught staring into space as she conducts conversations with him in difficult to come by, so Seo and her mind too oftenfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, things are pretty goodlooking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078070</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marilyn KayeAlexia Casale|title=White Lies and TiarasSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Alice has been invited It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a weddinglife-changing disability too, but she’s not that excited by this news. The groom 's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her childhood sweetheartlife. But she comes back fighting, Jackdesperate to avoid the pity stares, but since she’s moved on (sort of) and has desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new boyfriend (sort ofcute!) there’s no real reason for boy in school, her not music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to go. After day traumas of all, the wedding is in Paris, and challenges her body continues to throw at her best friend Lara, Jack’s cousin, will also be thereto navigate. They’ve both been invited with plus-ones so Alice So even though she can take Cal't dance anymore, and Lara can bring Harry, and they can have some fun in the French capital when they’re not expected might she be able to be doing family-and-friend stuff with the wedding party.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144490311X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregory HughesSimon Fox|title=Summertime of the DeadDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Yukio lives with Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his grandmother in Tokyo. He enjoys schoolshift on the force, practising kenzoand then suddenly rings Archie, and hanging out with his two best friendsdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, twins Hiroshi and Mikojoin him on the run. They do everything get together - swimming, shopping, eating, even visiting nuns. But then but barely begin to smell the yakuza - whiff of Southern trains when the Japanese mafia - come into their lives. And Hiroshi and Miko are dead - blackmailed and tormentedfather is arrested, they take their own lives. Filled with griefleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, Yukio vows revenge... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780875525</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Gerard Bauer|title=Don't Call Me Ishmael|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is toting 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 tin his father was determined to keep away from his schoolcolleagues, he almost welcomes and the arrival bearer of a new target for Bagsley's scornwhole heap of questions. 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776837</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellLex Croucher|title=Eleven ElevenGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=It's 2am Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Paris on Tuesday 11th November 1918a most delightful way. Negotiations for ending World War I are almost complete In this story, Gwen 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 Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the new girl in San Francisco, who can't understand why shekingdom's seeing weird creatures whom noonly female knight) -one else seems to notice. Gretchen is an experienced monster-huntersomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Greer is And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a socialite. The three of them look eerily alike - what's their connectionboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and can this mismatched trio of teens defend creating the world from the demons who seem to be appearing with ever-increasing frequency?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keren David|title=Another Life|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ty's cousin Archie, son subterfuge of two top lawyers, has managed to get himself expelled from another boarding school. He wants to be back falling in Londonlove with each other, spending time with his friends and with his cousinwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But with Ty struggling to cope as he's sentenced to their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a spell of time way in a Young Offenders Institutionwhich they can both truly be themselves, Archie tries or are they destined to find out more about his cousin's past.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847802869</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin Crossley-HollandNick Brooks|title=Scramasax: The Viking Sagas, Book TwoPromise Boys

|summary=We left Solveig finally reunited with her Viking father, after a journey that took her all When the way from her Scandinavian home to Miklagard principal (Constantinopleheadmaster). There, her father of Urban Promise Prep school is in the service of Harald Hardradamurdered, who in turn serves three boys find themselves called into the Empress Zoepolice station as suspects. Zoe's court is Each, seemingly, has a dangerous placegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, full of spies and prisoners and instant punishment by death - for each could have been there at the smallest time of transgressionshis murder. So Solveig needs to learn fast But who killed him, and why, and if she is any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to persuade Harald to allow her to stay with the Viking guard. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184724940X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1919635017|title=Zom-BA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Strange news reports are coming out of Ireland. YouTube is buzzing with clips of zombie infestations and the military clearing remote villages. This is all taken with Solomon Klyne isn't a pinch of salt by B Smithbad lad, schoolfriends, teachers and parents. Most people think it's all a promotion campaign for so why is he running around London committing a new film, but there are also scatterings series of various conspiracy theories. None of it really impinges on B and pals though - they carry on with life regardless. Thererobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's hanging out in the park ll have to be done, after all. Various peer group scores wait to settle. Fake IDs get an answer to find and attempts to buy alcoholthe second question because I avoid spoilers. You get But I'll answer the picturefirst one: for his grandmother.. Some silly fake zombies barely register. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707752X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine FisherPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Obsidian MirrorDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Jake's father disappeared while working on Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a secret project with his best friendstandard school, the celebrated explorer and recluse Oberon Venn. Jake is sure that Venn is a murderer and sets out surprised to prove find his geography class (within which itseems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, dragging so his desk is one of four with both his teacher, Mr Wharton, into the investigation. But best buddy from the truth is perhaps even more frightening: David Wilde isn't deadfootball team, he's lost and two other old muckers – in time. Venn and his sidekick Piers are intent on re-entering the past fact they all go back to find him, using a device called the Chronoptikaprimary school days together. But it's dangerous and As they aren't re all fired up, straining at the leash only ones hell bent on using a single-sex school can form, the time machinetalk in class and out often turns to sex. There Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn's Sarah, who can turn herself invisiblet know what his score is, and who's being pursued by a murderous Replicant and where his wolfachievements in that regard lie. And there He's the scarred man with his acolyte and his strange weapon. And there are the Sheehad a casual relationship, who keep their own counsela secret one, but have their own ambitionsfor several months now, 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 so has effectively progressed up the past, so I wanted to start this review ladder headed by saying I'm a big fan of the series in general. I thought [[Peopleexperienced's Republic (CHERUB) by Robert Muchamore|People, but whether that's Republic]]set in stone, the first of the 'new' books, actually showed a significant improvement on the last couple of the James Adams books because Muchamore didnhe can't use the long flashback which had irritated me in both of thembe sure. I really liked Ning, one of the new characters introduced in And that one, and was looking forward to reading more about her here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999217</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Waggoner|title=Timedance 1: Neptune's Tears|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The premise is both original and timeless: star-crossed lovers separated by an apparently unbreachable barrier. Two hundred years into the future, 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 in love so intensely is likely to damage her ability to do her work, but also mostly because of who he's been having the boy has a secret so huge relationship and terrifying it could destroy them boththe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848122721</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Colin Mulhern1800901232|title=Arabesque|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When a group of amateur criminals find themselves suddenly short of twenty grand for an ambitious deal with a weapons dealer, one of them has the bright idea to kidnap a pair of semi-celebrity teenage girls, Amy May and Mia, to extort money from their wealthy parents. But when the kidnappers make a mess of the situation the girls find themselves in the hands of a decidedly more sinister villain. Galloway likes to think of himself as a higher class of criminal and when he realises that Amy May is an Olympic standard gymnast, he decides to take advantage of the situation, using a combination of sly manipulation, threats and blackmail to coerce the girls into working for him. Galloway isn't a fool and he has all the cards in his hand, but somehow Amy May has to push herself to the limit to save not just herself, but her best friend too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471486</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Jillian Larkin|title=The Flappers: IngenueSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Gloria Carmody and Jerome Johnson fled Chicago for New York Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to escape be a fashion designer. Life in the mob rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the police after Gloria killed village to offer Hahn a manjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. They thought that their love would be enough to get them through – but a white woman Some money changed hands and a black man living together will need a lot more than that Hanh was on the mini-bus to get a happy endingHanoi. After witnessing another murder Only, Jerome's sister Vera knows that New York is about to get even more dangerous for Hanh and the pair, but can she find them other girls were not going to warn them work in time? Meanwhile Lorraine Dyer, formerly Gloria's best frienda shop, is also trying they were to find them – but work in virtual slavery in her case she wants revenge an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on Gloria. As for Clara Knowles, former 'Queen Sheba of the flapper scene', she may be back in New York but she's not going back to legs? The ones with the speakeasies artfully-placed rips and parties. Shedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's happy with quiet, respectable Marcus Eastman. Until she gets an intriguing offer..quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565059</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Joss Stirling|title=Seeking Crystal|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Crystal Brook has always struggled with her paranormal gifts, but meeting the Benedict brothers makes things even worse. While her sister Diamond finds her soulfinder in Trace, Crystal can't stand his conceited brother Xav. After an unforeseen attack, though, the unlikely pairing will have to pool their resources to save their families.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192793519</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Wolfsbane (Rebel Angels)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After the terrible events at the end of the [[Rebel Angels: Bloodstone by Gillian Philip|second book]] in Gillian Philip's ''Rebel Angels'' sequence, we move on a decade or so. Finn is back in the mortal world. But Rory and Jed have stayed with Seth, now the captain of the MacGregor clann's dun. Faerie queen Kate NicNiven continues to plot against Seth and to wrest Rory, the Bloodstone and prophesied saviour, from him. She is as determined as ever to destroy the veil separating the mortal and faerie worlds. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537352</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=Maze Cheat|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=This fast-paced story, with its overtones of Greek tragedy, is set in a dystopian world where acid rain is so bad people must wear a mask just to go outside. People find distraction in role-play games, particularly the Maze, which is the creation of the immensely powerful conglomerate called Crater. The game taps directly into players' minds, making them feel as if they are really present in the virtual world, and is promoted as being unbeatable, but with 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, it'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 - she was pushed into it by her mother, who's tired of her bad girl image. Meg's so invisible that she's stood up by a boy she's never even met, a family friend who was going with her out of pity, but obviously doesn't pity her enough to turn up. With the help 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 in the Repossession, but their plan to spread the word about the evil people running it went wrong. Now they're on the run, with a reward on their heads, roadblocks in their way, and a whole host of fellow victims to worry about. Can they escape – or will they become the hunters in an attempt to take control of their lives back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997095</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=The Raven Boys|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ley lines, sleeping kings, clairvoyants and the night the dead walk . . . this intriguing book is full of ancient myths and beliefs. They give a depth and flavour to the story, which could so easily have just been a trivial tale about the rich boy who dabbles in the occult to amuse himself, and the poor girl who helps him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407134612</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Niall LeonardPatrice Lawrence|title=Crusher|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Finn's life isn't really going anywhere. He's working at Max Snax, a horrible fast food emporium. It's not fun. But you don't 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 record. But Finn's dreary life is about to be turned upside down...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532081</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Belbin|title=StudentNeedle|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Allison secured her place in Nottingham University, she thought of it as a way to escape a miserable home life, with an absent father, drunk mother and un-committing boyfriend. She thought university would be a place for intellectual debate, and the creation of loyal friendships and love. However, she quickly realises that student life isn't like those rosy pictures you get on prospectuses. In ''Student'', we see a university experience defined by a trinity of drugs, lust and study, one that changes Allison and everyone around her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907869530</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Katie McGarry|title=Pushing the Limits|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Echo used to be popular. Until a particular night when something happened, leaving her with scars on her arms and a blank space where her memory of that night should be. As if having a stepmother who used to be her babysitter and a brother who died in Afghanistan wasn't already making life hard enough, she's trying to work out if she'll ever recall what she went through. Then she meets Noah, who shares a therapist with her and is nearly as damaged as she is. Torn away from his beloved younger brothers after their parents died, he's desperate to become their legal guardian when he turns eighteen – but with a hot temper 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>}} {{newreview|author=William Richter|title=Dark Eyes|rating=4

|summary=Born in Russia but brought up in New York by wealthy adoptive parentsBrave. Charlene, before rejecting them the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to live on the streets like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with her friendsa pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Wallis Stoneman and has never known too much about taken up residence in her pastson Blake's old room while he's at uni. This lack Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of knowledge a comfort blanket, you might turn out to be deadlyperhaps think, thoughand the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, when as Charlene is a chance encounter leads to wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her being given younger sister – a letter from younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her birth mother. As Wally tries belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to track give her downtwo days off school, when she and her friends enter a murky world where the stakes are highshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, the truth what exactly happens is hiddennot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and every move they make could pointy those knitting needles can be their last...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>014134234X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa StasseAnn Sei Lin|title=The ForsakenRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Alenna Shawcross Kurara has grown up in a newly-formed super country controlled by the military dictatorship that stole her parents from spent her entire life as a child. Alenna has grown up in servant on the Midori, a state-run orphanage, massive dining hall floating in anticipation the sky where soldiers of the TestEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a government-administered initiative designed man named Himura arrives to identify those teens most likely tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to become criminalsform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. As you'd expect in a dystopian thrillerHe asks her to come with him, Alenna fails to leave the test and ends up on an isolated island with other potential criminalslife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. HoweverWell, she soon finds that the island isnKurara won't all that have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she had been led is forced to believeflee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408318806</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganMarcus Sedgwick|title=Ribblestrop Forever!Wrath

|summary=It's Meet Fitz, a new term for Ribblestrop, the weirdest boarding school in the world young Scottish lad full of fictionfrustration at himself. The pupilsLockdown is only just over, who of course include a bus-load of orphaned Himalayan circus starsand he should be free to do what he wants, are so used to the extraordinary that go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when three returning children arrive by landing the plane they're travelling in - '''onto''' the said bus - nobody bats an eyelidhe talks to his best friend, Cassie. But problems begin when they stray onto They were half of a rival desultory school's groundband, and practically rescue a historian living in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a stolen mobile library, who is tracing subhuman hum coming from the ghosts earth. Is this connected with one of an ancient tribe across her eco-warrior parents saying the local region. Soon things conspire to put end of the whole faculty on world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the same pathtruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078003</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=S J Kincaid|title=Insignia|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Tom is awkward, wary and self-reliant. He has spent his life on the road, moving from casino to casino with his dad and catching a little online education whenever the opportunity presents itself, but frankly he is far more concerned with finding his next meal than any more distant future. A poor diet and a life spent in gaming rooms has left him scrawny, small, and with a serious case of acne. He feels he is nothing and no one, and cannot imagine ever living any other life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140000X</amazonuk>}} {{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]]