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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|author=Emily Murdoch|title=If You Find Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In the middle of the forest, Carey and Jenessa live with their mother in a tatty old camper van. Cut off from civilisation, they scrabble to take care of themselves and each other, in a setting where every day is a fight for physical and mental survival. They just about make it through, but the girls’ mother is a drug addict with a habit of disappearing, and she’s done just that. It’s been more than a month since they saw her. Maybe more than two. Then, one day, summoned by a letter sent by the girls’ mother, strangers appear in the woods, looking for Carey and Jenessa. They have come to take them away from the woods, and back to the real world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621523</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonMax Boucherat|title=Quicksilver|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Before I say anything else, I ''must'' warn you. ''Quicksilver'' is billed as a companion novel to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with the implication that you could read either first. You can't. You mustn't. So if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet'', go no further. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left off. But this time, synaesthete Alison is left behind and the story is told from the point of view The Last Life of Tori|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Packham|title=FirewallersLori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After JessWe meet Lori on the first evening she's dad gets suspended from got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her mum takes her and her older sister out of schoollonesome. Fleeing from publicity What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, they go she has one main intention, and that is to a remote Scottish island log on to join Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a community of people who shun modern technologyhit in Lori's world. The longer they stay But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on the island, thoughher own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the stranger things seem server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to beenter shows signs of tampering. What's going When malevolent eyes spark up onher phone screen, and when will Jess see her dad againsafe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123078</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma PassRachel Greenlaw|title=ACIDCompass and Blade|rating=3.5
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|summary=The UK is now ''I can hear the IRB - Independent Republic song of Britain. It's no longer run by elected politicians, who were completely discredited after a catastrophic financial crash. Instead, the IRB is a police state, led by ACID, a fearsomely authoritarian organisationsea. Marriage has been abandoned in favour The call of ''life partnering'' - the state tells you who to live with and whether or not you can have a child. Contact with deep, the outside world is forbidden. Society is divided, with a tiny wealthy elite and a huge mass of an underclass living answering beat in poverty and shortagemy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552566144</amazonuk>}}''
{{newreview|author=Phil Earle|title=Heroic|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jammy Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Sonny McGann are brothers from plundering the notorious Ghost estatewrecks. They and their friends are always there for each other - and with Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the drugs ruins – rescuing any survivors and violence any treasure that dominate lies within. But when the place where they liveCouncil Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they need to becapture the island's leader and Mira's father. In particular, Sonny needs his older brother Desperate to keep an eye out for save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and make with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the plans for their groupsea. Then Jammy and his mate Tommo join With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the army and go off watched streets of foreign islands to Afghanistan, and Sonnythe heart of the smuggler's left territory, Mira must be determined to hold stop at nothing to save the fort at future of her homeand the ones she holds most dear. With his brother no longer there to look after him, can Sonny keep it together? And when Jammy returns, how will things change?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141346272</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossHarry Allen|title=After TomorrowChildren of the Sun
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|summary=''We were looking at Ra Eun Seo lives in a long line of people trudging down North Korean town and she is a country roadtalented singer. They were loaded with bundles Life is hard and backpacks food is difficult to come by, so Seo and babies her friends Nari and they all looked miserable and exhausted. RefugeesMin go foraging every evening, I thought automatically. But they weren't. They were people like us.'' After ''Armageddon Monday'' - the collapse of all the major banks in the UK - life has become increasingly difficult looking for Matt tree bark and his family. Money is worthless. Food is edible grasses to supplement the main currency. People who have it are resented meagre rations of rice and hated. They're named and shamed on ''hoarder'' websites and subject to violent raids by those who don't. Matt's family has more food than most because they have an allotment and have set up a trading network. But the raiders don't care about ''how'' they got their food. They just want itkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tanya ByrneAlexia Casale|title=Follow Me DownSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45
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|summary=Adamma Okomma, daughter of It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a Nigerian diplomatlife-changing disability too, isnbut that't keen s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on moving stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to boarding schoolchange her life. But she comes back fighting, even desperate to avoid the exclusive Crofton College in Wiltshire. However, after arriving therepity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she quickly makes friends with the beautiful but unpredictable Scarlettcan possibly manage. What seems like Meanwhile there's a beautiful friendshipnew (cute!) boy in school, thoughher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, is torn apart when both girls fall for and just the day to day traumas of all the same guychallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. After Scarlett goes missing So even though she can't dance anymore, can Adamma put their problems behind might she be able to sing herway through instead? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755393074</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandySimon Fox|title=The Maleficent SevenDeadlock
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The arrival of Darquesse, the sorcerer destined to destroy the civilised world, Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the horizon. For most peopleforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, the obliteration of billions of lives might be demanding he fetch something to worry about. In times gone by, Tanith Low would've been on the forefront of the side of good, fighting to protect the world from Darquesse. But now that she has a Remnant bonded to her soulsecret place, her conscience has been erased and she has become one of join him on the worst of the bad guysrun. They get together, and all she wants to do is but barely begin to usher in smell the end whiff of Southern trains when the world. There are four weapons with father is arrested, leaving Archie on the power late express to kill gods, scattered around the worldBrighton, and two teams desperately hunting them down. Tanith Low leads toting a group of dangerous villainous misfits tin his father was determined to find the weapons and destroy themkeep away from his colleagues, and it is up to Dexter Vex, good friend the bearer of Skulduggery Pleasant, along with a team whole heap of renegade sorcerers, to find these weapons before the othersquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007500920</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantLex Croucher|title=LIGHT|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The dome has become transparent. The teens, and kids, in the FAYZ, are still trapped inside, but now they can see out - and their parents, and others, can see in. With interviews taking place by primitive methods, the outside world are starting to find out just how violent life has been, and this is just adding to the worries of Sam, Astrid, and the rest. How will the world receive them when they get out - or rather, if they get out? The gaiaphage, having taken human form as Caleb Gwen and Diane's rapidly-maturing daughter, is as evil as ever, and with Drake as its servant, is destroying anyone Art Are Not in his path. Can those left alive inside the FAYZ survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525758X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Sorensen|title=The Secret of Ella and Micha|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ella and Micha haven’t seen each other for months, quite unusual for a couple who have been best friends forever. Ella’s been away at college, in Vegas, but Micha didn’t know this as she upped and left without so much as a wave goodbye, so he’s been trying to track her down. But, just as he does so, she shows up back home anyway as it’s summer break and she’s back at her dad’s, the house she grew up in, the house next door to Micha.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552283</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=The HitLove|rating=3.54
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|summary=Manchester. About thirty years from Who knew that what I really needed to read right nowwas a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Hardly anyone has a job that pays enough In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to live on. Life their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is mean and limited for most peoplein love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a rock star gives his final concertboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Jimmy Earles dies on stage after taking Death But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a new drug that gives the ultimate high at an equally high price - it kills you after seven days and there is no antidote.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190843533X</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittNick Brooks|title=Going VintagePromise Boys
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|summary=After finding out that her boyfriend When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has been cheating on her with a girl he met online, Mallory decides that the best way to make her life less complicated is to get rid grudge of the boysome description against Principal Moore, and of the new technology that's each could have been there at the cause time of her woeshis murder. Finding a list her grandmother wrote as a teen in the Sixties But who killed him, she decides to go vintageand why, and live as her grandmother did. Will she find if any of the answer boys are innocent, will they be able to her modern-day problems in the pastclear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140713485X</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=S B Hayes1919635017|title=Don't Look BackA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ever since they were children, Sinead has been taunted by her older brother Patrick. Always their motherSolomon Klyne isn's favouritet a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he constantly plays games with her, trying learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to force her get an answer to follow himthe second question because I avoid spoilers. When he goes missing, it seems to be But I'll answer the first one: for his most sinister game yet - as he leaves a trail of clues which lead to Benedict House, a strange place where time seems to stand stillgrandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857386816</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Department 19: Battle LinesDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The wheels have been set Ant is in motion for Dracula Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to rise. Department 19 find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is in disarrayever learnt) has been restructured, dealing so his desk is one of four with deathsboth his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the disappearance of their chief Henry Sewardleash only a single-sex school can form, and the dreadful knowledge that there could be yet more traitors talk in the ranksclass and out often turns to sex. Jamie Carpenter Which is trying to train rookies into confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a fighting force who can take on vampires more dangerous than any newly-turned ones that have ever been seen beforecasual relationship, Matt Browning is desperately trying to find a cure secret one, for vampirismseveral months now, and Larissa Kinley is in so has effectively progressed up the USA trying to help ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in the fight against her own kind. With Zero Hour coming ever closerstone, he can 't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the department save relationship and the day?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354517</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Janine Southard1800901232|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen Novel)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=In Rhiannon's world, your entire future depends on your final school test results. Everyone is classified according to personality type and entry to any career or university depends upon your personality type. It's impossible to cheat the test... unless you're Rhiannon. Rhiannon should really be a Perceiver. But all her life she has wanted her own hive. And to achieve this, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person to ever have manipulated the test. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership training, followed by a choice of Devoted to serve her, followed by command of a prestigious space ship and hive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Teri Terry|title=FracturedSteve Cole
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|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=As Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a teen criminal fashion designer. Life in Lorder-run Britainthe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, Kyla was slated so when the smartly- her memories erased dressed man and her personality "reset"woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. But Kyla wasn't like Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the other Slateds mini- she retained tantalising memories of her previous lifebus to Hanoi. ''Fractured'' picks up Kyla's story after she's lost Ben Only, Hanh and just as the other girls were not going to work in a mysterious man from her past comes back into her life. It seems that Kyla's memories represent more than just a failed slating. She has a role shop, they were to play work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the fight against legs? The ones with the Lorders. But itartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's not as easy as quite possible that. Is Kyla a victim? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can the end ever justify the means? The more Kyla learns about Hanh and her history, the more such questions burn. And the more danger she finds herself inco-workers made them...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiPatrice Lawrence|title=SiegeNeedle|rating=53
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|summary=Leah Jackson Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is miserable extremely hard for some people to like, characters and in detentionreaders both. This is particularly infuriating because the detention means Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's likely to be late for fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he'fame s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and fortune'' interview, the creation of one such item is part of the few chances kids at YOP schools have to make it into college plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and to get is making something full of love for her younger sister – a life worth having. But Leahyounger sister she's worries are about allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to become muchgive her two days off school, much more immediatewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Year 9 kids storm into the room. They're armedAnd then. And they're shooting. Leah escapes the melee by hauling herself up into the roofspace. But well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only just. Kids are deadto remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be. Teachers are dead. Everyone else is rounded up in the gym. Only Leah and Anton are free, but they are trapped above the ceiling tiles.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cora CarmackAnn Sei Lin|title=Losing ItRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Bliss is Kurara has spent her entire life as a drama studentservant on the Midori, but what else would you expect with a name like that? And yetmassive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when we first meet a man named Himura arrives to tell herthat she is a Crafter like him, I would never have guessed that was her major. She just doesn’t seem someone with the type. She’s also not the type power to pick up random men in bars, but that’s exactly what form paper into whatever she does as desires – a power sought after all across the book startsEmpire. It’s He asks her friend Kelsey’s faultto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. She’s determined to get Bliss out thereWell, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because that’s not where Bliss normally the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is. About forced to graduate at flee out into the end of world. She joins Himura aboard the yearOrihime, Bliss has made it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s time a sky-ship whose express purpose is to change that. hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brittany GeragotelisMarcus Sedgwick|title=What The SpellWrath|rating=24.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brooklyn just wants to be noticed by someone – the popular kids at her high school, the cute guy she likes, anyone other than the guidance counsellor who’s her only real friend. Luckily for her, she’s counting down the days until her sixteenth birthday - when she’ll have her powers as a witch finally unbound. When this happens, though, even though it initially seems like it will give her everything she wants, her new abilities could have caused more problems than ever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117073</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Through Dead Eyes|rating=4
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|summary=After an unfortunate episode Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at schoolhimself. Lockdown is only just over, Alex has joined his father on a business trip and he should be free to Amsterdam. He had been hoping do what he wants, to spend some time go where he wants and with his fatherwhom he wants, but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter of cannot stop himself from putting his father's new girlfriend. But Angelien is pretty and so Alex is quite happy foot in it when he talks to be shown around by herhis best friend, Cassie. When her boyfriend Dirk isn't aroundThey were half of a desultory school band, that isbut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. At an antique market, Alex finds himself drawn to an ancientIs this connected with one of her eco-looking mask. He canwarrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she't help but buy it. s dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And once boughtcan Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't help but put it on... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyTori Bovalino|title=Killing Rachel: The Murder NotebooksDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=RoseWorking all summer in her boarding school's mother and Josh's father - both members of library is the police cold case squad - have been missing last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for more than five years nowover a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Although their bodies were never found, What makes it worse is the authorities have always insisted that they are probably dead. But in man who requested the [[Dead Timebooks: Mr Birch. The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first book]] in this seriesboarding school's headmaster, the step siblings and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alive. So Rosedeliver such a large request, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have Tess sticks post- including trying to decipher the cryptic notebooks they have discovered. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Clempson|title=One Seriously Messed-Up Weekend: In the Otherwise Un-Messed-Up Life it notes on each of Jack Samsonite|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Two years after the ''messed-up week'' described in the [[One Seriously Messed-Up Week: in books, scribbled with the Otherwise Mundane and Uneventful Life ugliest insults she can think of Jack Samsonite by Tom Clempson|first Jack Samsonite book]], things aren't all that different for our hero. HeThey's still trying re never meant to get together with a girl - despite having ended book 1 in bed with someonereach him, things didn't go as he would have wanted after thatof course. He's also struggling at school again, and it's even more important than his attempts to pass his GCSEs were. This time, he needs Her plan is to get into film school. He has a weekend to make a filmher anger out like this, and he needs a girl to kissthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, and at least one enemy to fightif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411690</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverPhilip Reeve|title=RequiemUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Out in the WildsIn a word, Lena rich. There is now trying to cope with the return certainly an abundance of her first love Alex along with her feelings for Julianriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but these relationship issues take a backseat as life becomes very dangerous way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for hermagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, and everyone elsewhere no ship dare sail. Back in PortlandThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, her friend Hana is set who has to marry keep notes of activity from the man Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who will become Mayor - a perfect pairingwashed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, surely? While both girls have changed a lot since his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the start world of book oneprotecting their island, the biggest changes are still to come..like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444722972</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan GibbonsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Raining FireJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gangs have always dominated the GreenJulia, an innerour pre-city estate with an ominous undercurrent of violence. Growing up in the Greenteen heroine, Ethan has never really known anything different; however, he has always harboured a hope to escape been packed off with her parents and their cat from the placefamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, and his position on a professional football training programme might just give him in the far NE of the chance to do soScottish islands. Unfortunately Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the Green won't let him go so easily. Drawn into a violent feud between two major gangslantern, Ethan will have no choice but to play which is his partspecialist thing, if he doesn't want a gun put while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the heads of everyone he cares aboutelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620276</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon MayoJonathan Stroud|title=Itch RocksThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Itchingham LofteScarlett McCain is an outlaw, we are told, is rejecting the draconian conformity of the most protected boy in Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the world. While I hadn't read wildlands between the [[Itch by Simon Mayo|first book]] about himSeven Kingdoms of Britain, we are snappily robbing banks and easily informed that he has previously been involved in an adventure regarding a very rare chemical – element 126 – and the various people that would control itshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. While it's obvious to all those in his Cornish village and at his school that something major happenedBut then she meets Albert Browne, due to him disappearing for a couple of months of specialised medical care, and returning dark boy with an MI5 armed guard constantly at watch over him dark powers and his familya darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, only those few people (mum, dad, sister, tomboy cousin, and his various guards) have any idea they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of what has happenedthe London Lagoon. OhTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of course a couple of enemies resilient enough post-apocalyptic society to turn up for reach the sequel…Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857531328</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Day I Met SuzieSlingshot|rating=43
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|summary=Everyone takes an instant dislike Gracie Welles has resigned herself to Suzie Grey, the new girl at collegebeing lonely. There's just something about her that makes people's skin crawl. EveryoneAs a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, that is, save Indie. Indie she is used to not being a soft touch. She just canpriority in people't help herselfs lives. She's a sucker for But when she defends a sob story and most of random boy in her hard-earned wages from class with her part-time job at the salon go on bailing out slingshot, her boyfriend's many disasterssimple existence is changed for good. Indie feels sorry for Suzie, this mousy, hard-done-by girl, and No longer can she takes spend her under time writing novels in solitude, for her winglife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997028</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dave CousinsT L Huchu|title=Waiting For GonzoThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Oz Ropa Moyo is newly arrived in the sleepy village of Slowleigh. At firsta ghostalker, he wishes life there was more exciting, but drawing using Zimbabwean magic (and a moustache on a photo bit of schoolmate Isobel Skinner - nicknamed Psycho - might bring him Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the wrong sort dead of excitementEdinburgh for their living relatives. Someone else whoEver since she dropped out of school, she's wishing been using it to support not only herself, but her life was rather less exciting is his younger sister Megand her aging grandmother. However, whothere's hiding a secret which Oz knows but her parents donan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city't - can he survive Psycho and help his sister? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745468</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tammara Webber|title=Between The Lines|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emma s children. Soon, Ropa is a seventeen year old actress, thrust pulled into the spotlight in search for a modern adaptation missing boy at the request of Pride and Prejudice with a co-star who half of America's teens are drooling overhis dead mother. Reid is a Hollywood heartthrob with She will end up discovering an ego occult library and realise that the size world of Los Angeles magic is far bigger and a reputation as a playermore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. When Will she find the two meet, sparks fly - but can Emma trust the superstarmissing children and bring an end to this evil, or would she be better off going for the less-exciting but more sensible Grahamwill it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141347465</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksKristen O'Neal|title=The Bunker DiaryLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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{{newreview|author=Kim Harrington|title=Perception|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After solving a murder over the summer, Clarity 'Clare' Fern finds herself the centre of attention at school. Mostly it's annoying, but harmless - popular girls wanting her Move on to use her unique gift for show and entertainment - but someone is sending her increasingly creepy messages, and Clare keeps getting the feeling she's being followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407130862</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ilsa J Bick|title=Drowning Instinct|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jenna is 16 years old, and fresh out of a psychiatric hospital when her parents enrol her at a new high school in the wilds of Wisconsin. Being the new kid at school adds to an already iffy situation (parents who ignore her angst in favour of their own; a brother who enlisted to get away from them) and she’s not really looking forward to term starting. But then she meets someone, someone special who is kind to her, pays attention to her, looks out for her. Someone she can trust. Mr Anderson is a Chemistry teacher and athletics coach, but he’s more than that to Jenna. Against the rules, and against the odds, he becomes her ally, and so much more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870434</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Hodkin|title=The Evolution of Mara Dyer|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mara knows that the things that have been haunting her for the past year are not necessarily all in her head. The problem is persuading everyone else of that. When Mara's parents don't believe that she saw Jude - Jude who died in the building collapse that started all of Mara's problems - alive and well, Mara realises that anything she says is just going to convince them she's more crazy. She tries to pretend that she knows she has problems and she's trying to get better, but that's made difficult when Jude keeps trying to scare her - leaving dead cats in the garden, messages written in blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857073656</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]