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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Harlan CobenMax Boucherat|title=Seconds AwayThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Mickey Bolitar has had enough excitement We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to last him a lifetime. Helping the Abeona Shelter herself – no neighbour to rescue his girlfriend Ashley almost saw his best friend Ema killedpop in, but it seems Mickey and his friends aren't out of the woods yetbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. A shooting What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has left Rachel - gorgeousone main intention, popular Racheland that is to log on to Voxminer, whose smile makes Mickey's stomach flip the world- in hospitalbuilding, her mother dead. The Chief of Police critter- also Rachelcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's boyfriendworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's father - is acting shadyt find herself entirely on her own, and Rachel herself is sending Mickey cryptic text messages, begging him not to tell anyone then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else she's speaking should be able to himenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409124487</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabel PitcherRachel Greenlaw|title=Ketchup Clouds|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary="Zoe" has a terrible secret. She feels responsible for the death of a boy. It burns Compass and burns and she has a huge need to confess but has no-one to confess to. And so she decides to become the pen pal of a prisoner on death row in Texas. Her letters to Stuart tell both her story and his. Zoe is a pseudonym - as is her address in "Fiction Road" - but the tale she tells in midnight writing sessions in the garden shed, is true. It's the story of family tension, of a love triangle, and of a grief and guilt almost too big to bear... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620152</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Finale (Hush Hush) |rating=3|genre=Paranormal|summary=We left Patch and Nora were finally happily together and in love but with a big problem: Nora's vow to her dead father, Hank. Nora must lead the Nephilim in the upcoming war against the fallen angels who possess their bodies each year. If she doesn't, both she ''and'' her mother will die. She won't be accepted as leader by the Nephilim if her own boyfriend is a fallen angel, so once again their relationship has to go underground. Nora agrees to a fake relationship with Dante, the second-in-command Nephilim. The scam is easy enough to pull off - they need to spend a lot of time together anyway, as Dante trains Nora's newly Nephilim body for war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072919</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laini Taylor|title=Days of Blood and Starlight|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Karou and Akiva once dreamt of a peaceful world, but their dreams look further away from reality than ever. Is there any way that either of them can gain redemption?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444722670</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kresley Cole|title=Poison Princess|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Evie has always been plagued by horrific hallucinations and nightmares. After a stint in a psych clinic, Evie's desperate to get back to life as normal. Unfortunately, returning to her hometown triggers the hallucinations again and Evie starts to realise she is never going to be able to pass for normal. Adding to her problems, a new boy at school is destroying Evie's idea of the perfect relationship with her ideal boyfriend. Jackson is crass and a well known player - so why does Evie find him so tempting?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857079182</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Snake Bite|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It can't be easy, imagining Sherlock Holmes as a boy. So many of his most notable characteristics — for example, his capricious behaviour, his detailed knowledge of so many subjects, and his analytical, sometimes even cold approach to problems — are clearly the result of many years of experiences and studies. Any author brave enough to tackle this challenge must of necessity create a person who is as yet untested in many of the fields for which he will later become famous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>023075886X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Bennett|title=Angel of MonsBlade

|summary=Ben Bartops is surprised and horrified about what he sees in ''I can hear the trenches song of Belgium in August 1914the sea. So is Sam Lyle, but at least he has the experience The call of being a career soldier – Ben is a schoolkid from the 21st Centurydeep, and shouldn't by rights be the answering beat in the warzone at allmy heart. But ''something'' is putting, or taking, or sending, him to the front, and somehow the two lives will intertwine, in very dramatic ways…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956868444</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jeremy de Quidt|title=The Feathered Man|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Klaus is Rosevear, a street kid who has been taken in by Kusselmanremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the tooth-pullerrocks and plundering the wrecks. Kusselman Mira, like her mother before her, is a hard taskmaster, fond one of using a belt the seven who swim out to discipline survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and control his young apprentice, and he isn't fussy where he finds teeth to sell any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the rich of wrecking, they capture the town. So thereisland's nothing unusual in a trip to Frau Drechtleader and Mira's miserable boarding housefather. Desperate to save him from death, home to those Mira makes a bargain with no money a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and no other place with only coordinates to goguide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. When With only nine days to unearth what might save her residents die offfather, as they tend her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to do with depressing regularitythe heart of the smuggler's territory, Frau Drecht sells their teeth Mira must be determined to Kusselman and their poor, wasted bodies stop at nothing to save the School future of Anatomy for dissection. Frau Drecht has also taken a street child for a servant. But to keep Liesel in line, Frau Drecht uses a hot iron, not a belther home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385613598</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeff NortonHarry Allen|title=The Dead are Rising (MetaWars)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jonah's father died in the battle for control Children of the Metasphere. He was a Guardian - a terrorist or freedom fighter, depending how you see things - and he had infiltrated himself into a position of trust with the Millenials, the group supporting the billionaire inventor who created and controlled an online world in which people living in a post peak-oil and devasted Earth spend most of their time. But before he died, Jason Delacroix's memories had been uploaded to the Metasphere as an avatar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408314606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel van Kooj and Siobhan Parkinson (translator)|title=Bartolome: the Infanta's Pet|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In 17th century Spain, life is run by a strict code of conduct and appearances dictated by the Royal House. It is not a place of kindness or understanding, especially for a dwarf like Bartolome Carrasco. When his father, coachman to the Infanta Margarita, moves his family to Madrid for a better life; Bartolome is kept hidden from the world in a back room. But Bartolome is clever. He hears that a dwarf, just like him, has a position in the Royal household, he begins to educate himself in order to follow his dream and make his family proud. A sudden coach accident brings Bartolome to the attention of the young Infanta, and she demands that he be brought into the court as her pet. Forced to dress and behave as a dog, it seems life is destined to be one humiliation after another. Then, Bartolome meets the artist, Diego Velazquez, court painter who is working on Las Meninas, a portrait of the Royal family centring on the Infanta. A plan is hatched that may free Bartolome from his life of servitude and fear forever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908195266</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Chbosky|title=The Perks of Being a WallflowerSun

|summary=Charlie is very bright but also very shy, introspective and socially awkward. He has Ra Eun Seo lives in a loving North Korean town and close family who, by and large, support him and give him good advice. But this life lark she is a tricky thingtalented singer. High school Life is particularly tricky. Having been told hard and food is difficult to try to participate morecome by, Charlie approaches Patrick so Seo and Sam at a football match. They're a couple of school years above him, but they take to him nevertheless and introduce him to their group. He writes about his experiences with his new her friends, his family, his favourite teacher Nari and his therapist in letters to a person he's heard about but never met.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111614X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gina Blaxill|title=Forget Me Never|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sophie's cousin Dani has never been particularly stableMin go foraging every evening, but Sophie never expected her to commit suicide. When she finds a memory stick in Dani's jeans which suggests that there may have been rather more to her death than there seemed, she does the sensible thing looking for tree bark and goes edible grasses to supplement the police. The police don't seem particularly bothered, though, so Sophie meagre rations of rice and her friend Reece decide to investigate for themselves - only to find they may be in over their headskimchi at home. Can they expose the people who caused Dani's death, or will they have enough trouble avoiding becoming victims themselves?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447208064</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryAlexia Casale|title=Flesh & Bone (Rot & Ruin)Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Having escaped 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 horrors middle of Gameland at a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the dreadful cost of losing Tom, Benny, Nixpity stares, Lilah and Chong must journey through the Rot & Ruin without his warrior smartsdesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. They Meanwhile there're in search of the jet they saw s a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the sky months ago. They hope day to find hope, some remains day traumas of a civilisation lost after First Night, when all the zombie virus spread through the population like wildfirechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. When life as it was ceased to So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be. When the undead started able to walk...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857079719</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat ZhangSimon Fox|title=What's Left Of MeDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Addie Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and Eva are 15 year olds living somewhere in America. They have then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a mothersecret place, a father and a younger brotherjoin him on the run. But Addie and Eva are not sisters They get together, or twinsbut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, in leaving Archie on the usual sense. They are two minds who share one bodylate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and they are in troublethe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007476817</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeyn RobertsLex Croucher|title=Rage Within (Dark Inside)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=We left Aries, MichaelWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Clementine and Mason it lifted my spirits in a world they can barely recognisemost delightful way. After a series of devastating earthquakes many people changed. They became murderous monsters that the normal survivors called Baggers. There are few normal people left In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they must hide in ruined citieswere tiny, avoiding death at the hands of the Baggers. And in ''Rage Within'', the battle for survival is about much to get even tougher. The Baggers are organising themselvestheir mutual disgust! Gwen, clearing the streets of bodies and setting up worker camps for captured survivors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721790X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melissa Marr|title=Carnival of Souls|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the City of daimonsyou see, is in love with Bridget (the fighting is raging. Not war kingdom's only female knight) - this is much more organisedsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. The Carnival of Souls is And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a once in a generation opportunity to change your future. Lower caste Kaleb and Ayaboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, fighting creating the prejudice agaist womensubterfuge of falling in love with each other, aim to do just thatwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Meanwhile But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in our worldwhich they can both truly be themselves, Mallory knows of the City's existence but not she and her father need to run away so much. These three or are about they destined to be drawn together, and the consequences for everyone could be huge.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0061659282</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah CrossanNick Brooks|title=BreathePromise Boys

|summary=When the trees were all felled to make crop land to feed an exploding populationprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, oxygen levels on Earth fell. Eventually, the air became unbreathable. A government lottery decided who would live inside three boys find themselves called into the life-saving Pod created by Breathepolice station as suspects. Those left on the outside died. Years later Each, Pod society is divided into Premiumsseemingly, who have easy lives, plenty has a grudge of air and positions of powersome description against Principal Moore, and Auxiliaries, who labour each could have been there at endless shifts and pay through the nose for enough oxygen to get bytime of his murder. A resistance group is trying to replant the Earth But who killed him, and reduce dependence on the Podwhy, but Breathe and if any of the Pod Minister boys are innocent, will stop at nothing they be able to crush them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408827190</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sally Gardner1919635017|title=Maggot MoonA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=There are certain books that you knowSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, right from the first pages, are destined so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to be classics. There is something about the phrasing, about the concept and about the main character which chime so perfectly together that they cannot fail wait to move you, get an answer to open a window in your world and show you another, deeper truththe second question because I avoid spoilers. Such a book is 'Maggot MoonBut I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471400042</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly BlackPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Red Glove (Curse Workers 2)Different for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Cassel lives Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a world where magic standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is frowned upon. Practice ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is banned one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and everyone wears gloves two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to prevent being workedprimary school days together. Cassel himself is As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a transformation worker single- sex school can form, the rarest typetalk in class and out often turns to sex. And Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is the most powerful transformation worker , where his achievements in living memorythat regard lie. This makes him extremely valuable to the crime families who use curses to support He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and maintain their empires. It also makes him extremely dangerous as far as so has effectively progressed up the authorities are concerned. And ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's why Cassel tries to keep his status to himselfset in stone, since he discovered it in the [[The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black|first book]] in this can't be sure. And that'Curse Workerss mostly because of who he'' sequences been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575096764</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ilsa Bick1800901232|title=Ashes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Beware: it's impossible to review ''Shadows'' without giving spoilers for [[Ashes by Ilsa Bick|Ashes]], the first book in this dystopian trilogy, which ended on a huge cliffhanger. The world has been devastated by a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse. Many of the young have become ''Changed'' - cannabilistic monsters with a penchant for violence. Alex was hiking in the wilderness when it all happened and although she isn't Changed, her senses have heightened and it seems the progression of her terminal brain tumour may have halted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857382640</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Neal Shusterman|title=UnwhollySteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=At last! It's been five years since ''Unwind'', Neal Shusterman's first book set Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in a dystopian future the rural village where teenage children are ''unwound'' she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly- retroactively aborted dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to provide organs be missed. Some money changed hands and limbs for transplant surgeryHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. If you're an adult reader Only, Hanh and the world of ''Unwind'' is very much like ''Never Let Me Go'' by Kazuo Ishiguroother girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. ''Unwind'' had a profound effect You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on me - as the best books for children do legs? The ones with the artfully- it was exciting, touching, shocking placed rips and, above all, fearless. But there were flashes of humour distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made it all bearablethem. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078623</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Libba BrayPatrice Lawrence|title=The DivinersNeedle|rating=43

|summary=1920Brave. Charlene, the 's New York Cityheroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Jazz Kicked out of multiple homes and gin mix schools, she's fostering with murder a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and mysteryhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. For Evie O'Neill - fresh Such a tempestuous personality may be in from Ohio to need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the city creation of her dreams after her demonstration one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a strange power caused wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a scandal in society - this is what younger sister she's always dreamed ofallowed contact with no more. But dreams can become nightmares, and when Evie, We see Charlene prove her uncle Will and their friends find themselves trying to stop belligerence with a serial killerstore detective, she'll have and then force people to use all of give her witstwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well as her power, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to stay aliveremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stefan BachmannAnn Sei Lin|title=The PeculiarRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=''Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.'' Such is Kurara has spent her entire life for peculiars like Bartholomew Kettle as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and his sister Hettiemake merry between their conquests. Their mother is human but their - absent - father However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a SidheCrafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a high fairypower sought after all across the Empire. Fairies are contemptuous He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of the half-breed peculiars and humans distrust and suspect themdreary servitude that is all she has known. Hapless peculiar children are often hanged by humans. AndWell, even more worryingly, bodies of peculiars soon Kurara won't have been turning up recentlyany say in the matter, quite deadbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, covered in ancient faerie script and as empty of bone she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and organ as they are a whole world of life.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate CannMarcus Sedgwick|title=Witch CragWrath

|summary=Kita lives in Meet Fitz, a hill fort as part young Scottish lad full of the sheepmen community. Life since the Great Havoc has been hard and brutishfrustration at himself. There are few survivors from the time of technology and nature Lockdown is gradually retaking the land. There are often droughts only just over, and both food he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and water are often with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in short supply. For the sheepmenit when he talks to his best friend, it's all about survivialCassie. Food, what there is They were half of ita desultory school band, is blandbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Days are filled Is this connected with grinding hard work. Relationships are frowned on. Women are treated like chattels. Although they have an alliance with the horsemen, other groups are avoided and disliked one of her eco- warrior parents saying the farmers, those who live in end of the ruins 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 Old Citytruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140710702X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tammara WebberTori Bovalino|title=EasyThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Narrator Ellie and Working all summer in her friends are carrying on with their resistance efforts against boarding school's library is the invaders and hit on last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a stroke of luck as they discover their old comrade Kevin working on request for over a nearby farmhundred books that she has to deliver herself. A daring rescue attempt succeeds, and he's brought back into What makes it worse is the man who requested the foldbooks: Mr Birch. HeThe boarding school's also learnt something headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of explosivesthe books, and is able to help plan scribbled with the groupugliest insults she can think of. They's most audacious attack yetre never meant to reach him, of course. But with security higher than everHer plan is to get her anger out like this, can they pull and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it offwould be, and at what cost?if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857388754</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Rees BrennanPhilip Reeve|title=UnspokenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Kami GlassIn a word, intrepid journalist rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in the making, has always been used to being an outsider. She might have this story set on a best friend and run the school paperpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but she also talks to a boy in her headway west, beyond the Scillies. A boy who talks back. Though her imaginary friend has lost her real friends in the pastThere are troll people on it, Kami is quite happy with her life as it is. As long as she doesn't get caught staring into space as she conducts conversations with him in her mind too oftenand sea-witches, things are pretty good.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078070</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marilyn Kaye|title=White Lies and Tiaras|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Alice legends of the Dark family that has been invited to a weddingkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but she’s not that excited by this newswhere no ship dare sail. The groom is her childhood sweetheartcurrent Darks are the Watcher, JackAndrewe, but since she’s moved on (sort of) and who has a new boyfriend (sort to keep notes of) there’s no real reason for her not to go. After allactivity from the Hidden Lands, the wedding is his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in Parishis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and her best friend LaraAndrewe's foundling daughter, Jack’s cousinwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, will also be there. They’ve both been invited with plus-ones so Alice can take Cal, his sullen brother and Lara can bring Harryhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, and they can have some fun in the French capital when they’re like it or not expected to be doing family-and-friend stuff with the wedding party.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144490311X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregory HughesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Summertime of Julia and the DeadShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Yukio lives with his grandmother in Tokyo. He enjoys schoolJulia, practising kenzoour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and hanging out with his two best friendstheir cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, twins Hiroshi and Mikoin the far NE of the Scottish islands. They do everything together - swimming Here be Vikings, shoppingthat kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, eatingwhich is his specialist thing, even visiting nuns. But then while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the yakuza - the Japanese mafia - come into their liveselusive Greenland shark. And Hiroshi and Miko are dead - blackmailed and tormentedJulia, they take their own lives. Filled with griefwell, Yukio vows revenge..she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780875525</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael Gerard BauerJonathan Stroud|title=Don't Call Me IshmaelThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur Scarlett McCain 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 Seweran outlaw, Fishwhale Manure, or even worse combinations? He's so fed up rejecting the draconian conformity of being bullied that when the nerdy James Scobie moves Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to his school, he almost welcomes wander the wildlands between the arrival Seven Kingdoms of a new target for Bagsley's scornBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But Scobie doesn't fear anythingthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With his helpmysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and that all the horrors of Miss Tarangopost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the new English teacher, can Ishmael learn to stand up for himselfrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776837</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellMercedes Helnwein|title=Eleven ElevenSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=ItGracie 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 2am lives. But when she defends a random boy in Paris on Tuesday 11th November 1918her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. Negotiations No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, 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 her life now has a boy in it that yet..she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408826232</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tera Lynn ChildsT L Huchu|title=Sweet VenomThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the new girl in San Franciscodead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, who can't understand why she's seeing weird creatures whom no-one else seems been using it to noticesupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Gretchen is However, there's an experienced monster-hunterevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Greer Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a socialitemissing boy at the request of his dead mother. The three of them look eerily alike - what's their connection, She will end up discovering an occult library and can this mismatched trio of teens defend realise that the world from of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the demons who seem missing children and bring an end to be appearing with ever-increasing frequencythis evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848779321</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidKristen O'Neal|title=Another LifeLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Ty's cousin Archie, son of two top lawyersHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has managed to get himself expelled from another boarding school. He wants come to terms with the fact that she may be back in Londonconstant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', spending time an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with his friends chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and with his cousinhelp each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. But with Ty struggling She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to cope as heBrigid's sentenced house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a spell of time werewolf in a Young Offenders Institution, Archie tries the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to find out more about his cousin's online for the pastfew months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847802869</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]