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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jo CotterillMax Boucherat|title=Looking at the StarsThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Amina and Jenna are sisters living under We meet Lori on the Kwana regime. Because first evening she's got the Kwana have banned girls from going house to herself – no neighbour to schoolpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, they contribute on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the family finances by weaving baskets world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and mats from reedsthen she finds something even more spooky. Life under For the Kwana is tough but Potta server she and her bestie and Mamie tell their children nobody else should be able to keep their heads down enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and get on with life as best they can. But fighting her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is breaking out across the country and when Amina sees a column of liberating soldiers, she begins girl to think life might get better soon. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230018X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|title=Hunger (Hammer 1)|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt and consumed by a ravening hunger. She puts it down to illness and sleepwalking at first but when the hunger doesn't go and reports of a grave desecration surface, Beth has to admit that something sinister is afoot. Beth doesn't know it yet, but she is a special person. She carries a conduit from the land of the living to the land of the dead and a newly-awakened demon wants her very much. But can Beth, together with brother Louis and friends Ivan and Coll, defeat him? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099576643</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ShadowplayFrontpage|author=Laura Lam|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Micah Grey and the clown Drystan have left the circus. Trying to escape their past, and the terrible tragedy that ended Pantomime, they find Jasper Maske, a retired magician who owes Drystan a favour. While they seem to have found a safe haven, the return of a figure from Maske's past reignites an old rivalry. Can they help Maske and avoid detection when the mysterious Shadows seek both Micah and the person he once was? And who is the mysterious Cyan, and can they trust her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844396</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRachel Greenlaw|title=Storm Compass and Stone|author=Joss StirlingBlade|rating=43.5

|summary=American student Raven Stone doesn't like it at her exclusive English boarding school. People are going missing, and return seeming very different'I can hear the song of the sea. The teachers pick on her as a scholarship students, and her classmates hate her - one call of them enough to send her death threats. Just as the mystery starts to deependeep, two new boys arrivethe answering beat in my heart. Joe is friendly and charismatic, but it's Kieran's analytical brain which may be the clue to solving her problems. Although her problems may be bigger than either of them had realised...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735683</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The One Safe Place|author=Tania Unsworth|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Devin lives on Rosevear, a farm with his grandfatherremote and partially forgotten island, away from survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the rest wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the worldseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. He knows But when the Council Watch lays a little about it – how trap to end the wrecking, they capture the gap between rich island's leader and poor Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is far wider than the world we live in, as charming as he is secretive and how many children now live on the street, scavenging for scraps with only coordinates to say alive. Butguide her, he’s never been she sets off in search of a family secret that concernedlies buried deep in the sea. On With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the farm heart of the life is a simple onesmuggler's territory, but they can grow enough food Mira must be determined to get by, and they’re happy. When tragedy strikes, Devin is forced stop at nothing to leave his save the future of her home and venture into the city for the first timeones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Crash Into YouHarry Allen|authortitle=Katie McGarryChildren of the Sun

|summary=This Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is the second companion book difficult to McGarry's stunning debut [[Pushing the Limits come by Katie McGarry|Pushing The Limits]], following [[Dare You To by Katie McGarry|Dare You To]]. In the wonderful Pushing The Limits, we were introduced to main characters Noah so Seo and Echo and an excellent supporting cast including Noah's best her friends Nari and surrogate family Beth and Isaiah.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452543</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Salvage|author=Keren David|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cass is adopted. She's always been happy in her new familyMin go foraging every evening, getting on well with her parents looking for tree bark and feeling protective of their natural son Ben. So when her father, a high-ranking MP, is revealed edible grasses to be having an affair with a woman not much older than her supplement the betrayal hits her hard. Aidan, her brother, manages to get back in touch with her shortly afterwards meagre rations of rice and seems to be the bright spot in her lifekimchi at home. But how much do these siblings really know about each other?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001375</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=This Song Will Save Your LifeAlexia Casale|authortitle=Leila SalesSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Elise is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a fragile girl wholife-changing disability too, but that's never felt like she fitted what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in anywherethe middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. Shuttled between her divorced parents But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, sheand desperate to get back to a life that's desperate to be popular at school but as normal as she canpossibly manage. Meanwhile there't work out how. Then s a chance event leads to her DJ'ing new (cute!) boy in Startschool, a hot underground nightclub and her life suddenly improves dramatically - but can she really leave behind her old selfmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, or are and just the bullies who make day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her feel like thereto navigate. So even though she can's nothing worthwhile about t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her life right all alongway through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447252837</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=When The Guns Fall SilentSimon Fox|authortitle=James RiordanDeadlock

|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the title characterforce, but the nature of the programme. It has gone from black and whitethen suddenly rings Archie, and cheaply produceddemanding he fetch something from a secret place, and declared disposablejoin him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to being an essential part of smell the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner whiff of ways. So with Southern trains when the celebratory programme still ringing in our earsfather is arrested, and leaving people pressing a red button Archie on the late express to see a programme about three DoctorsBrighton, er, pressing toting a red button, we turn tin his father was determined to other aspects of the birthday bonanza. Such as this bookkeep away from his colleagues, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by and the blazing lights bearer of YA writing, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set whole heap of coversquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|title=Emily of New Moon: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)|author=L M Montgomery|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I think I should confess, before I write this review, that I am a true Lucy Maud Montgomery geek! I have loved her books since I was a little girl, and I have read them so many times that the covers are worn and faded and her stories live inside of me, at least in part making me who I am. I wrote my masters dissertation on her books. I went to Prince Edward Island, Canada, for a conference about her works. I came back with a bottle of red sand and a heart full of memories. If anyone ever mentions ''Anne of Green Gables'' in my presence my eyes get very large and I get very excited (and my husband rolls his eyes...) So it is with trepidation that I sit down to review one of her books. Bear with me, I will try not to geek out too much, and I will do my best to be fair!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089886</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Warm BodiesFrontpage|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Warm Bodies is told in an alternating first person point of view, switching back and forth between ''R'' a zombie who has retained a bit more of the power of thought than most, and Julie, a feisty and courageous heroine, who has been through horrible hardships, but retained an ability to truly care about others. In short, R has far more humanity than the average zombie, but Julie also held on to more of the traits that I feel truly make us human in a world where kindness and unselfish love have become even more endangered than the human race itself. Two other characters are important to this storyline, ''M'', R's best friend and Nora, Julie's closest friend and confidant. I especially liked Nora, who has suffered far more than Julie, and yet still is willing to put aside past hurt, but M has his redeeming points as well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099583828</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLex Croucher|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies|author=Isaac Marion|rating=5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, Gwen and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique Art Are Not in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Sky on Fire (Monument 14)|author=Emmy LaybourneLove

|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14]]Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Niko In this story, Alex Gwen and six others Arthur have been betrothed since they were taking the school bus tiny, much to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find the US military evacuation team. Deantheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Astrid and three of is in love with Bridget (the little ones had stayed behind kingdom's only female knight) - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outsidesomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when we say poisonedGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left creating the air toxic subterfuge of falling in different ways to different peoplelove with each other, depending on when really they are enabling their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake isown other romantic attachments. 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 lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=SkulkFrontpage|author=Rosie Best|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=All Meg wanted to do was go out and create a real work of graffiti art. Then she sees a dying fox transform into a man, and pass onto her a mysterious gem, and all of a sudden she's inherited a whole new world of problems. Skulk sees its heroine plunged into a secret London, where raggedy groups of people transform into animals. The shapechangers have never got on with each other, but with a mysterious stranger trying to claim the strange gemstone Meg's forced to try to unite this ragtag bunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844701</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=Time Trap|author=Richard SmithPromise Boys

|summary=Evie has survived in When the post Flash apocalyptic world in part because principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the help police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of her Cajun boyfriend, Jacksome description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the other companions they've picked up along the waytime of his murder. But it's also because who killed him, and why, and if any of Evie's impressive abilities.the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857079212</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=TinderA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Sally GardnerKitt Townsend

|summary=Sally Gardner has followed her wonderful and haunting [[Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner|Maggot Moon]] with another story about Solomon Klyne isn't a world at warbad lad, but although death and violence abound once again, the atmosphere here so why is very different. This time we are not in some alternate nineteen fifties Britain where the bad guys he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have won, but instead in the eerie, mist-filled world of the fairy tale. In this place wonders and magic lead the hero to his destiny, and love, power and greed are wait to get an answer to the catalysts for both joy and despairsecond question because I avoid spoilers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Curtsies and Conspiracies|author=Gail Carriger|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=With But I'll answer the end of her first year at Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy one: for Young Ladies of Quality fast approaching, Sophronia is caught up in a conspiracy involving a mysterious trip to London, a prototype that everyone wants to get their hands on, and a potential threat to a friendhis grandmother... Can she save the day?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411607</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Boy on the PorchPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Sharon CreechDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=When Marta Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and John wake up is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one morningof four with both his best buddy from the football team, thereand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a surprise single-sex school can form, the talk in storeclass and out often turns to sex. A little boy Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is asleep on their porch, where his achievements in that regard lie. He 's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has an unsigned note asking effectively progressed up the couple to care for him. And so they do. And they soon come to love himladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, even though he cannot talk. But they can't help but worrybe sure. Who is Jacob? Will his parents return for him? And if they do, how will Marta and John bear to give him up - this little boy that's mostly because of who paints blue trees, rides cows he's been having the relationship and can make music from anything?the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849397724</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=The Ransom of DondStitched Up|author=Siobhan DowdSteve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Siobhan Dowd wrote just four novels before she died from breast cancer in 2007. All four novels were wonderful and yet they weren't Siobhan's sole legacy Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to usbe a fashion designer. Patrick Ness took an idea of hers and, together Life in the rural village where she lived with artist Jim Kayher family was happy, turned it into [[A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness|A Monster Calls]]if not prosperous, which won both so when the Carnegie smartly-dressed man and Greenaway prizeswoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. And now we have ''The Ransom of Dond'', Siobhan's last story. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Alan Turing (Real Lives)|author=Jim Eldridge|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Alan Turing Some money changed hands and Hanh was one of Britain's greatest thinkers of on the last centurymini-bus to Hanoi. He did pioneering Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work on computing and artificial intelligence. He was also in a hero of World War IIshop, working they were to 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 legs? The ones with the famous codeartfully-breaking community at Bletchley Park, cracking German naval codes used to lethal effect organising Uplaced rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-boat attacksworkers made them. Turing was the man who beat the Enigma machine. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472900103</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Let It SnowPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren MyracleNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=On Christmas EveBrave. Charlene, the night 'heroine' of the worst storm in 50 yearsthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, Jubilee Dougalshe's parents are arrested after fostering with a riot over decorative houses. Sent to stay with her grandparentspleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her train gets stuckson Blake's old room while he's at uni. She ditches Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the traincreation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and ends up in is making something full of love for her younger sister – a waffle house younger sister she's allowed contact with fourteen cheerleaders no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and various teen boysthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. Three best-selling authors team up And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to tell the story of this Christmas in a trio of interlinked novellasremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141349174</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Letter for the KingAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Tonke DragtRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's midsummer nightKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, and Tiuri is one of five young men locked up a massive dining hall floating in a chapel with one more night of silent penance between them and the ceremony that makes them knights sky where soldiers of the realmEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a stranger lures man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him outside. The elderly man gives Tiuri , someone with the task of delivering power to form paper into whatever she desires – a secret letterpower sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, and to leave the chivalry and espionage life of dreary servitude that is too much for the sixteen year old to ignoreall she has known. The bad news beginsWell, howeversoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, when he finds because the very experienced knight he was to deliver the letter to dying alone on Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a forest floor, meaning Tiuri must accept the mantle unofficiallyshikigami, and deliver the missive she is forced to its ultimate audience – the king of flee out into the neighbouring countryworld. The journey will bring She joins Himura aboard the young man right Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to the cusp of dangerhunt down shikigami, international intrigue and more.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782690107</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HazeMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Paula WestonWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Gaby Winter's life used Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to be pretty ordinaryhis best friend, Cassie. Apart They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the horrific nightmares enigmatic – saying she sometimes had about a guy and could hear a nightclub and subhuman hum coming from the death earth. Is this connected with one of her brother, Jude, things were going okay. Until eco-warrior parents saying the mysterious Rafa showed up and told her she was actually one end of the Rephaim - world is already a child done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of a fallen angel - and that music she lived a whole other life that 's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't remember, where she and Jude were warriors against demons, but on two opposite sides. The other Rephaim thought she was dead. And now they think there's a chance Jude might be alive somewhere too.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621590</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Butterfly Grave (Murder Notebooks)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Anne CassidyThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Just before Christmas, JoshWorking all summer in her boarding school's uncle Stuart falls from library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a cliff in an horrific accidenthundred books that she has to deliver herself. Determined to help, Josh, Rose and friend Skeggsie head up to Newcastle for What makes it worse is the festive season. Things are awkward between man who requested the threebooks: Mr Birch. Josh is becoming increasingly paranoid The boarding school's headmaster, and is convinced they are being followeda man Tess hates. Rose is becoming more As a petty act of revenge for making her find and more withdrawndeliver such a large request, fixating Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the deaths ugliest insults she has witnessedcan think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. And Skeggsie Her plan is resentful at being forever embroiled in other peopleto get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's problems when he has challenges of his ownt delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408815524</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Close Your Pretty EyesPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Sally NichollsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Olivia is trappedIn a word, in a world somewhat of her own makingrich. She There is living a life certainly an abundance of endless switching from riches in this story set on a set of foster parentspeculiar island called Wildsea, to would-be adoptive parentsBritish but way west, to care homes. Whenever she fetches up with nice adults, she worries too much about making mistakes, being too violent, clumsy, needy, noisy, spiteful – and prefers then to go beyond the whole hog and make them despair of ever liking her, of losing all kind of sympathy with herScillies. That way she can relax, knowing the truth, knowing the hatred is there – just as There are troll people on it was when her alcoholic mother was abusing and abandoning her and her baby siblings. Olivia is eleven. But in this one new house, with Jim, and his childrensea-witches, and legends of the fostered young-mother-of-a-babe-in-armsDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, something is differentwhere no ship dare sail. Something is definitely older than Olivia, and certainly more evil, and most assuredly better at getting its own way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124323</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Conquest|author=John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=The Earth has been invaded by current Darks are the IllyriWatcher, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankindAndrewe, who were able has to conquer keep notes of activity from the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resist. They are keen to ensure the human race remains compliantHidden Lands, but are mostly keen his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to avoid bloodshed. Humankindworry about such local yokel superstitions, howeverand Andrewe's foundling daughter, is not a race to take conquest lying downwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. There is a very active resistanceBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, particularly in Scotland, where both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the Scots come out world of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities protecting their island, like Edinburghit or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|title=Saving SilenceFrontpage|author=Gina BlaxillKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|ratingtitle=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam moved to London fairly recently and has struggled to settle in. Imogen has never had problems making friends, she's a former head girl and a school sports star. She's tried to make friends with Sam, however, but he doesn't seem interested - until one night when he approaches her out of the blue, only for someone to speed towards him Julia and try to knock him over. Imogen saves his life - but why would anyone try to kill him? And has she put herself in danger by getting involved? With Sam reluctantly telling Imogen a secret, the pair are left frantically trying to save themselves from some seriously nasty people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447208846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Trap|author=Andrew FukudaShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''The Trap'' is the third and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepersJulia, eaten almost to extinction. We left Gene and Sissyour pre-teen heroine, along has been packed off with Epap her parents and David, on the train that delivers hepers their cat from the Mission family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the City, destined for far NE of the Ruler's feast tableScottish islands. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin Here be Vikings, the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist fatherkind of Scottish island. But Dad is that all there going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to it? Where did hunt the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? elusive Greenland shark. And what of Ashley JuneJulia, well, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene will be homesick and Sissy don't?alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShadowlarkJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Meagan SpoonerThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lark escaped Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the city draconian conformity of her birth after being tortured the Surviving Towns and stripped Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of her magic by its architectsBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and there isn't enough a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of it aboutthe London Lagoon. So Renewables Together, they must brave man- people whose magic will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - not as people but as a resource. But eating wildlife, the architects have made Lark different. She can drain cannibalistic Tainted and all the magic horrors of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped post-apocalyptic society to reach the Iron Wood and went Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in search the rest of her missing brother Basil. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Debutantes: In LoveMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Cora HarrisonSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Poppy and Daisy Derrington leave Beech Green Manor Gracie Welles has resigned herself to launch themselves being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in Londonpeople's lives. The pair know they need to marry well as their father But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in dire financial straits - but marriage is something of solitude, for her life now has a distraction to their real dreams of films and musicboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Can they find themselves love and happiness in the Roaring Twenties?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447205952</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The NaturalsT L Huchu|authortitle=Jennifer Lynn BarnesThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie Hobbes doesn't feel like an average teenagerRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Average teenagers donEver since she dropped out of school, she't lose their mothers s been using it to unsolved murderssupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Average teenagers canHowever, there't profile other people within minutes s an evil stalking the ruined streets of acquaintanceEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. Average teenagers aren't headhunted by Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the FBI to train as specifically-talented crimefightersrequest of his dead mother. Cassie Hobbes She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is specialfar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780876823</amazonuk>1529039452

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|summary=Laureth is used Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to her father's writerly obsessions and enthusiasms. She's accepted terms with the fact that he will hare off across the world she may be in search of some obscure information constant pain for a story, and the fact that he rarely asks rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about herself their troubles and her life at schoolhelp each other out, preferring while also providing an escape to lecture her instead about his latest theoryjust joke and mess around. He even pays When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to answer the fan mail on his website chat for hima while, Priya becomes concerned. And, like it or not, thereShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's nothing house to check up on her. But what she can do about doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the barely suppressed hostility basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has grown in recent years between her parentsbeen talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621094</amazonuk>1683692349