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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Debutantes: In LoveFrontpage|author=Cora Harrison|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy and Daisy Derrington leave Beech Green Manor to launch themselves in London. The pair know they need to marry well as their father is in dire financial straits - but marriage is something of a distraction to their real dreams of films and music. Can they find themselves love and happiness in the Roaring Twenties?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205952</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The Naturals|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie Hobbes doesn't feel like an average teenager. Average teenagers don't lose their mothers to unsolved murders. Average teenagers can't profile other people within minutes Last Life of acquaintance. Average teenagers aren't headhunted by the FBI to train as specifically-talented crimefighters. Cassie Hobbes is special. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876823</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ZOM-B Baby|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Gone? Good. The story so far|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077686</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=How to Love|author=Katie CotugnoLori Mills
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Katie CotugnoWe meet Lori on the first evening she's debut novel ''How got the house to herself – no neighbour to Love'' ispop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, unsurprisinglyjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, all about loveon her lonesome. It What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has at its centre Reena one main intention, and Sawyerthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a gritty portrayal of first lovehit in Lori's world. But it also first Lori has family love, friendshipa tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and all those other kinds then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of lovestampering. 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>1782060006</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreview|title=The Killing Woods|author=Lucy Christopher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Popular girl Ashlee is dead. They’re saying the father of her less-popular classmate Emily is responsible. She cannot accept this, cannot accept that her own father could do something like that, but all the evidence points that way. Emily can’t stop thinking about it. She starts investigating what really happened in the woods that night, but the more she uncovers, the more uneasy she feels. Could her father actually be the one who killed Ashlee? And should she stop digging before she unearths something really unpleasant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906427720</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=She Is Not Invisible|author=Marcus Sedgwick|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Laureth is used to her father's writerly obsessions and enthusiasms. She's accepted the fact that he will hare off across the world in search of some obscure information for a story, and the fact that he rarely asks her about herself and her life at school, preferring to lecture her instead about his latest theory. He even pays her to answer the fan mail on his website for him. And, like it or not, there's nothing she can do about the barely suppressed hostility that has grown in recent years between her parents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621094</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tone Almhjell|title=The Twistrose Key|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lin and her family are living in a rented house in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor of traditional songs at the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling in the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebush. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Knife EdgeFrontpage|author=Andrew Lane|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=All Sherlock's deductive powers are called into play as he struggles to find out exactly what is happening in a remote castle on the coast of Galway. How did the servant die, and why did she lose her shoes? Is there really a Dark Beast roaming the local beaches and caves as the villagers claim? And more significantly for world peace, is the self-proclaimed psychic Ambrose Albano a fraud, or can he really find out, and thus reveal, the secrets of international espionage from those beyond the grave?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230758878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Box of Red Brocade (Chronoptika)|author=Catherine Fisher|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Let's catch you up. Jake's father is still lost in time. Venn's wife is still dead. Summer, the Queen of the Shee, still hasn't made Venn her husband. Sarah still hasn't prevented the destruction of the future by Janus. And the Scarred Man still hasn't done, well, whatever it is that he's trying to do. The Chronoptika, a mirror made of black obsidian and a time travel device, connects Jake, Venn, Sarah and the rest, but they all want different things from it. Can they all be satisfied? It doesn't look likely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444912631</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRachel Greenlaw|title=Fire With Fire|author=Siobhan Vivian Compass and Jenny HanBlade
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|summary=With Reeve hospitalised after ''I can hear the terrible events at the end song of [[Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian|Burn for Burn]], Lillia, Kat and Mary must face the falloutsea. Mary is desperate for revenge despite The call of the other two starting to have cold feetdeep, but they agree to go through with their plan the answering beat in order to give her the satisfaction of seeing his my heart broken. As Lillia pretends to fall for the boy, though, she sees another side to Reeve and starts to wonder if he's as bad as Mary says he is. Can their friendship hold up under the strain of all the secrets and lies?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116905</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|title=Wereworld: War of Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Werelords|author=Curtis Jobling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=With rocks and plundering the Catlords at each other's throatswrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, there appears is one of the seven who swim out to finally be survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a chance for Drew Ferran and his allies trap to win end the wrecking, they capture the war island's leader and bring peace Mira's father. Desperate to Lyssia. Stacked against save himfrom death, thoughMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, are still fearsome foes - including she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the dreadful Wyld Wolvessea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, mockeries as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of lycanthropes. Meanwhile Drewthe smuggler's adoptive brother Trentterritory, bitten by one of the vile creatures, knows that he is doomed Mira must be determined to become one but is determined stop at nothing to gain his revenge before he loses control. As the opposing forces gather, huge armies could decide save the fate future of her home and the Seven Realms... but in Icegarden, perhaps the ones she holds most deadly force of them all still has a part to play in this wardear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141345039</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Company of GhostsHarry Allen|authortitle=Berlie DohertyChildren of the Sun
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|summary=Morag's family has its very own islandRa Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Tiny Life is hard and remote, it food is truly wild and wonderful. And the offer difficult to spend some time there with them couldn't have come at a better time for Ellieby, whose parents have just divorced. She'll be able to escape Mum so Seo and Angus. And she'll be able to paint for her father. But things don't work out quite as planned. To begin withfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, awkward, diffident Ellie has looking for tree bark and edible grasses to spend supplement the first night on the island alone with George, Morag's brusque older brother. And then George returns to the mainland to pick up supplies. He doesn't return. Abandoned, Ellie begins to see shadows. Hear footsteps. Feel icy kisses on her cheek each time she falls asleep..meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397295</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Model Misfit (Geek Girl 2)Alexia Casale|authortitle=Holly SmaleSing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=Harriet Manners has the opportunity of a lifetime. SheIt's been asked hard enough to go and model in Japannavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, a country shebut that's always wanted what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to visitchange her life. Struggling from a break-up with Nick But she comes back fighting, best friend Nat being sent abroad for desperate to avoid the summerpity stares, and her father and Annabel preparing for desperate to get back to a new baby, this should be exactly what life that's as normal as she needscan possibly manage. Of course Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, for Harriether music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, life is never quite that simple..and just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007489463</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=In BloomSimon Fox|authortitle=Matthew CrowDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Member of Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a loving but dysfunctional familygay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, life has rarely been straightforward for Francis Wooton, and he is no stranger to heartbreakit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Despite In thisstory, he's always maintained sensible plansGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to get good grades in his GCSEs and A Levels, and get into Universitytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, where he'll finally meet his real friends and the girl of his dreams. Unfortunatelyyou see, a whole new world of worry presents itself when he is diagnosed in love with leukaemia. He knows his mother and brother will do everything and anything they can to support him, but even they can do little to ease Bridget (the constant nausea, the allkingdom's only female knight) -pervasive pain, the horror of imminent baldness and the general bleak agony something that cancer bringsArt discovers from her private diaries. But every cloud has And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a silver liningboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and it is at creating the hospital unit that Francis first sets eyes on Ambersubterfuge of falling in love with each other, a girl unlike anyone else he has met beforewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Amber makes Francis feel more alive than But as their impending wedding draws evercloser, and if anything will they find a way in which they can help cure the despair of cancerboth truly be themselves, first love might just be it.or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472105516</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnbreakableNick Brooks|authortitle=Kami GarciaPromise Boys
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|summary=Set up centuries ago to fight When the threat principal (headmaster) of a malevolent demon, the Legion Urban Promise Prep school is a secret society consisting of just five members at any one timemurdered, tasked with three boys find themselves called into the responsibility of fighting and exorcising spiritspolice station as suspects. When all five members are murdered on the same night Each, seemingly, their responsibility suddenly falls to five teenagers. Twins Jared and Lukashas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, Priest and Alara each could have been trained from a young age in there at the skills required to tracktime of his murder. But who killed him, fight and destroy vengeance spirits. Howeverwhy, for Kennedy, who knows nothing and if any of her mother's role in the Legionboys are innocent, everything is overwhelmingly new and highly dangerous. She will have to learn fast, as she cannot afford to they be a liability as the team prepares able to take on a mission with the utmost of stakes.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471118533</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Dream ThievesA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Maggie StiefvaterKitt Townsend
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|summary=With the ley lines wakingSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, things are changing so why is he running around Cabeswater. Ronan is getting more and more adept at bringing his dreams London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to life, Gansey is needed at home, and Adam has made some mysterious new friendsthe second question because I avoid spoilers. At But I'll answer the centre of it all, Blue has to try to cope with her curse and her feelings first one: for the Raven Boyshis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407136623</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Resist (Breathe)Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Sarah CrossanDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Resist'' carries on where [[Breathe by Sarah Crossan|Breathe]] left off. To catch you up: deforestation has resulted Ant is in environmental catastrophe Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and the world is a ravaged place in surprised to find his geography class (within which there isn't enough oxygen to fully sustain human life. A corporationit seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Breathe, runs so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the Podfootball team, whose inhabitants are divided into Premiums (plenty of oxygen) and Auxiliaries (barely enough)two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Outside As they're all fired up, drifters struggle to survive. With one alternative to straining at the Pod leash only a single- The Grove - destroyed by sex school can form, the Pod Ministrytalk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, Alinaas he doesn't know what his score is, Bea and Quinnwhere his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, our three central charactersa secret one, set out on separatefor several months now, but equally perilous, journeys to find and so has effectively progressed up the otherladder headed by 'experienced', Sequoia. And back but whether that's set in the Podstone, Ronan is rethinking the world he thought can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he lived in but didn'ts been having the relationship and the sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408827204</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Ninja: First Mission (Ninja Trilogy)Stitched Up|author=Chris Bradford and Sonia LeongSteve Cole
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|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=If you are looking for adventure, '' Ninja First Mission'' will certain come up trumps. This book never has Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slow momentfashion designer. But even as Life in the story races along at breakneck speedrural village where she lived with her family was happy, there is plenty if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to think about as well. This book has as much the village to offer the deep thinker as the adrenaline junky. Tata, Hahn a young Ninja job in training, is desperate Hanoi it was an opportunity not to prove himselfbe missed. He has failed Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the test for his black belt three times, but this was just a simple testmini-bus to Hanoi. The sacred scrolls of his clan have been stolen Only, Hanh and all of the fully fledged Ninja but one are away on another mission. Tata faces another test, but this time the stakes are life and death, other girls were not only for himselfgoing to work in a shop, but for his clan. In order they were to succeed Tata must learn to find victory work in virtual slavery in failurean illegal garment factory. Most of all he must learn to believe in himself You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842999397</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tiger LilyPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Jodi Lynn AndersonNeedle|rating=43
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|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Before Peter Pan belonged of this piece is extremely hard for some people to Wendylike, he belonged to the girl characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a feather pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her hair...son Blake's old room while he''Tiger Lily'' tells s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the story creation of Neverland after Peter Pan arrived but before Wendy came. Our narrator one such item is Tink, part of the silent, sometimes jealousplot here, fairy. And our heroine as Charlene is Tiger Lilya wonder knitter, the native girl who and is strange even to making something full of love for her fellow villagersyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Tiger Lily doesn't believe in love stories but when she meets Peter Pan in the forbidden woods of Neverland, We see Charlene prove her heart burns belligerence with a fire store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she had never expectedshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833044X</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=United We Spy (Gallagher Girls)Ann Sei Lin|authortitle=Ally CarterRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The Circle Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of Cavan are still on the hunt for Cammie MorganEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. Their other plansHowever, thoughwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, might be even more terrible than their hunt for someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the young spyEmpire. Can Cammie and He asks her friends save themselvesto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and take 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 the Circle before they carry out their deadly mission?shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408314754</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Skull in the WoodsMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Sandra GreavesWrath|rating=4.5
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|summary=Dartmoor wasn't exactly Matt's first choice as Meet Fitz, a place to spend his school holidaysyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. He barely knows his Uncle or cousinsLockdown is only just over, and there was obviously some bad blood between members of the family. But his father was away for the summerhe should be free to do what he wants, as were most of his friends to go where he wants and with whom he couldn't stand another day wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the house with it when he talks to his mother's new boyfriendbest friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, especially as their relationship but Cassie was dashing any hopes Matt might have held also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of his her eco-warrior parents ever reuniting. But whatever saying the trouble may have been between Matt's mother and his now dead Aunt Rose, his Uncle Jack has welcomed Matt into his home and treated end of the boy with all the kindness one might expect for a prodigal son. His youngest cousin Kitty seems delighted to have world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new member kind of music she's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the family to play with as welltruth? Well, but Tilda, who is near his own age not when Cassie has gone missing he can't stand him and is determined to have this interloping city dweller out of the way as quickly as possible. Matt treats Tilda with same contempt, with the two children carrying on where their feuding parents left off..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908435623</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Waking World (The Future King)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Tom HuddlestonThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''Many tales have been told of s library is the boy who became our greatest kinglast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Very few have spoken of the future...'' Aran What makes it worse is the son of one of man who requested the Islandbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's wealthiest Lawsheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. He lives in the underground farmstead As a petty act of Hawk's Cross. He wants revenge for nothing. But Aran is not entirely happy. Rumours are everywhere making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Island is under threatbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Bands They're never meant to reach him, of fierce men known as Marauders are beginning course. Her plan is to attack further and further inlandget her anger out like this, burning homes and taking slaves. Aran wants to join the fight against then take them all off before delivering them but that task has been given to his older brother. Aran's future lies in overseeing the farmstead and No harm done… Or itwould be, if someone hadn's not a future he wantst delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085756045X</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan MaberryPhilip Reeve|title=Fire & AshUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ALERT! Spoilers for early books 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 Rot & Ruin series Scillies. There are scattered throughout this reviewtroll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. So if you haven't read The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the othersHidden Lands, get thee over his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to my words worry about [[Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry|book such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one]]day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471117952</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UntoldKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Sarah Rees BrennanJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Kami Glass' hometown is about Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to become ground zero be lighthousekeepers for a sorcerer fight for supremacysummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. And Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the sorcerers aren't bothered about humans becoming collateral elusive Greenland shark. damage - in factAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one faction wants a human sacrifice to increase the power of their magicnight.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078097</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Coldest Girl in ColdtownJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Holly BlackThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=In the futureScarlett McCain is an outlaw, vampires exist, and everyone knows it. To try and deal with rejecting the problem draconian conformity of vampirism, cities have been given to the monsters Surviving Towns and designated Coldtowns – walled cities where people can enter, but hardly ever leave. With these cities broadcast on TV 24 hours a day, they look glamorous – but those just watching can’t see Faith Houses to wander the deadliness behind wildlands between the glitz. Seventeen-year-old Tana is about Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to find outkeep herself alive. Along with her ex-boyfriend AidenBut then she meets Albert Browne, who’s just been infected by a vampire and has to go without drinking blood for eighty eight days or turn into one himself, dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious vampire named Gavrielmilitiamen hunting them down, she’s headed for they plan to flee to the largest Coldtown mythical Free Isles of them allthe London Lagoon. Can Together, they get there – must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and if they doall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of them surviveBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621299</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HauntedMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=William HusseySlingshot|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Emma Rhodes is haunted by the memory of her younger brother Richie, whose death Gracie Welles has torn apart her family and left Emma plagued by intense guiltresigned herself to being lonely. But when the arrival As a secret illegitimate daughter of a mysterious boyman with a "real" family, Nick Redway, heralds the arrival of spirits of the dead she is used to Milton Lake, Emma finds herself not being haunted by altogether more dangerous entitiesa priority in people's lives. The 'unmade' are spirits of people who died violentBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, unexpected deaths, now corrupt and desperate to possess living flesh. A necromancer her simple existence is calling the dead back to the world using the fabled Ghost Machinechanged for good. The more the machine is usedNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, the weaker the gates between for her life and death grow, until nothing can stop the unmade being unleashed upon the town. Only Nick seems to know how to fight the ghosts, and Emma must help him to find the necromancer operating the Ghost Machine, before all hell breaks loosenow has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192732501</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=More Than ThisT L Huchu|authortitle=Patrick NessThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Here Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the boydead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, drowning.she'' And Seth does drown. He is alone; taken by the seas been using it to support not only herself, arms but her younger sister and legs flailing and breakingher aging grandmother. However, skull dashed against there's an evil stalking the rocks whilst ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the icy water constricts his muscles and breathcity's children. Seth Soon, Ropa is consciously aware pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his final momentsdead mother. His death consumes him with a heavy, confusing blur until… he awakens She will end up discovering an occult library and finds himself in a desolate, shattered realise that the world; naked, alone, starving of magic is far bigger and alive. This place looks familiarmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. It looks exactly like Will she find the English village where he spent his early childhood before his brother’s accident missing children and his family’s move bring an end to Americathis evil, but or will it is now overgrown and devoid of human life. It is as if the whole place was simply abandoned one day.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406331155</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreview|title=The Lord of OpiumFrontpage|author=Nancy Farmer|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=At last! A long-awaited sequel to Nancy Farmer's acclaimed Kristen O''House of the Scorpion'', in which she explored the life of a little boy who was created solely to provide organs for the failing body of a drug lord. Matt's story was exciting and heartbreaking - would you want to find out you were a clone? It was also incredibly thought-provoking, exploring ideas of prejudice, power, courage, love and sacrifice. And it all took place in a dystopian future in which the drug trade was all but legitimised and in which people are enslaved by microchips in the brain. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471118290</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=The 100|author=Kass Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Nuclear war has rendered the Earth uninhabitable for centuries. The remains of human society, a colony of people that managed to escape the cataclysm, live out their lives on massive city-like spaceships. Unfortunately, the spaceships are becoming unsustainable and as resources begin to run out, the Council is forced to introduce strict new plans Lycanthropy and measures in an attempt to protect the remaining population. With options running out, a dangerous mission is conceived as a desperate roll of the dice: one hundred juvenile delinquents are sent to the Earth to test if the planet can once more sustain life. There is no telling what the remaining radiation will do to the teenagers, but in this hardened society, this is a risk worth taking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444766880</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=Ghost Hawk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I loved Susan Cooper's [[The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper|The Dark is Rising Sequence]], but as surprised as I am to say this - this book is far better. While still suitable for older children, this is definitely a book that adults will want to read as well. The book is more mature than her early works, and while obviously gifted from the start, Cooper's talents have matured as well. This book is nothing short of a masterpiece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782300007</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men|author=Derek Landy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Kingdom of the Wicked'' left the magical world reeling and on the precipice of conflict, a conflict that erupts into full out war between Sanctuaries. Although the Supreme Council has vastly superior numbers, Ireland is home to some of the most powerful sorcerers in the world, including the legendary Dead Men, creating a formula for endless violence. But this is no straightforward war. Friends and former allies suddenly find themselves on opposing sides of the conflict, and not everyone is prepared to follow orders. Then there is the threat of an army of Warlocks, gathering to attack the mortal population, and thereby reveal the magical population to the world. And despite Roarhaven being the new site for the Irish Sanctuary, can its population, including the secretive Children of The Spider, really be trusted? And looming above all this chaos is the greatest threat of all: Darquesse. Valkyrie knows that she doesn't have any more second chances. If she succumbs to that sinister voice in her head, the lure of that incredible power, she will watch everyone she cares about die by her own hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000748920X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hurt|author=Tabitha SuzumaOther Chronic Illnesses
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{{newreview|title=Boy Meets Boy|author=David Levithan|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paul is gay, and confident in his sexuality. With a loving, supportive family, he doesn't have Move on to hide his feelings. Life seems pretty good to him - but falling in love can change everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007533039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ostrich|author=Matt Greene|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=[[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark HaddonNewest Thrillers Reviews]] deserves every piece of praise it received, as a children's novel with plenty to interest older readers and a wonderful way of portraying Asperger's Syndrome through its narrator, Christopher Boone. ''Ostrich'' by Matt Greene follows quite similar lines, although this time the narrator, Alex, has a brain tumour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297869523</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Arclight|author=Josin L McQuein|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Many years into the future, after terrifying monsters called the Fade have taken over most of our world, the survivors have banded together in the refuge of the Arclight. With nowhere to go, they stay within their wall of light - until a teenage girl Marina comes out of the Dark and finds them. Marina, though, has lost her memory. What is her secret, why are the Fade taking such a special interest in her, and can she help her rescuers fight back against them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405263946</amazonuk>}}