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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spectacular Now Max Boucherat|authortitle=Tim TharpThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Sutter Keely, The Sutterman, has life pretty good. Sure, heWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no longneighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-term plan and may spend his life folding shirtsbreaking eleven year old, but he's having on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a ton of funblanket fort, she has one main intention, he's hugely popular - even his ex-girlfriends still like him - and his relationship with the wonderful Cassidy will get back that is to log on track soon enough. Then he meets to Voxminer, the sciworld-fi obsessedbuilding, shy, putcritter-upon Aimee, and decides he can make collecting game that is a difference hit in her lifeLori's world. The plan is to help her gain some confidence, become popular, and find But first Lori has a nice guy - but Sutter tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't bargain on things going further than he was planning find herself entirely onher own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Will he change Aimee's life for For the betterserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, or for and her safe place in the worsegame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146459</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaRachel Greenlaw|title=VengeanceCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''Vengeance'' is a follow-up to [[Fracture by Megan Miranda|Fracture]], in which Delaney almost died, drowned under I can hear the ice song of a lake. Things never got back to normal after that. Delaney can sense death. She is irresistibly drawn to people who are about to die. And people take a long time to get over the accidentsea. Delaney survived for 11 minutes under The call of the ice - how was this possible? And Carsondeep, the boy who pulled her out, is dead. There are mutterings that Falcon Lake is cursed. It wanted Delaney and, denied her, is now taking others answering beat in some kind of freakish revengemy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883958X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=The Children of Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the King|author=Sonya Hartnett|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a prosperous area of London during World War II rocks and plundering the two Lockwood childrenwrecks. Mira, twelve year old Cecily and like her older brother Jeremy, are dispatched, together with their socialite motherbefore her, is one of the seven who swim out to stay with family in survey the north to keep them saferuins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. On their arrival, at Cecily’s insistence, they take in But when the Council Watch lays a young evacueetrap to end the wrecking, ten year old May. As they wander capture the countryside close island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to Cecily’s Uncle Peregrine’s country estate the two girls find two strange boys hiding guide her, she sets off in the ruins search of Snow Castle and do not tell a family secret that lies buried deep in the rest of the family about their discoverysea. As With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the children attempt watched streets of foreign islands to cope with their changed circumstances and the fear heart of an approaching enemythe smuggler's territory, each evening Uncle Peregrine tells Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the children a dark and sinister story future of intrigue in the Royal courts of long ago her home and so begins the story within a story. This intriguing book then goes on to combine two periods of English history in an extraordinary adventure that is not only an historical novel but a moving coming of age story tooones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407137514</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Tilly's PromiseHarry Allen|authortitle=Linda NewberyChildren of the Sun

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Tilly often wished things would change Ra Eun Seo lives in the sleepy little village she called home, but she gets more change than she bargained for when war breaks out. First her sweetheart joins up, then Tilly signs on a nurse North Korean town and finally her brother Georgie she is called up, despite the fact that he is completely unfit for servicea talented singer. Georgie Life is different, big hard and strong but with the mind of a child - how could he possibly survive the horrors of war? So many promises are made, Tilly promises her sweetheart Harry she will wait - Harry assures her he won't be away long - sure it will probably be over by Christmas (famous last words). When Georgie food is posted difficult to Harry's unitcome by, Tilly extracts a somewhat reluctant promise from him to look after so Seo and her brother. More promises will be made - but promises are hard to keep in wartime. As Georgie friends Nari and Harry face the harsh reality of life in the trenchesMin go foraging every evening, Tilly finds herself near the frontline as a nurse. Everything seems looking for tree bark and edible grasses to have changed. Will even love remain supplement the same - especially in the aftermath meagre rations of a broken promise?rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122938</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Boys DonSing if you Can't Knit|author=T S EastonDance

|summary=Ben Fletcher is It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a pleasant and fairly quiet boy - so when the 17-yearlife-old gets roped into taking part in the Great Trolley Robbery to grab some booze for a partychanging disability too, it's just his luck but that he's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the one who ends up getting assaulted by middle of a lollipop lady and put on probation! Forced dance performance that was going to keep a journalchange her life. But she comes back fighting, give back desperate to avoid the victim of his crimepity stares, and take up an approved hobby, he reluctantly chooses knitting - only desperate to get back to find a real talent for itlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Can he keep his Meanwhile there's a new-found hobby a secret from his dad (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and his mates, get just the girl day to day traumas of his dreamsall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, and become a champion knittermight she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471401472</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Kissing GameSimon Fox|authortitle=Jean UreDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Salvatore d'Amato - sometimes nicknamed Sally Tomato - Late one night Graham Blake is twelve years old late back from his shift on the force, and has never been kissedthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. He's determined They get together, but barely begin to change that before his next birthday. But will Lucysmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the object of his affectionslate express to Brighton, ever return them? He has toting a secret weapon - tin his poetry. Is it going father was determined to win her heart, or just disgust her? And will Harmony Hyndekeep away from his colleagues, and the girl in his class who works as bearer of a library assistant, stop bothering him?whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007519516</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Unnatural CreaturesLex Croucher|authortitle=Neil GaimanGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=''I wished I could visit a Museum of Unnatural History, but even so, Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was glad there wasn't one... If someone actually caught a werewolfgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, or it lifted my spirits in a dragonmost delightful way. In this story, if Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they tamed a manticore or stabled a unicornwere tiny, put them in bottlesmuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, dissected themyou see, is in 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 boy they could be only one thingfind themselves becoming reluctant allies, and they would no longer live in the shadowy places between the things I knew and creating the world subterfuge of the impossiblefalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which was, I was certainthey can both truly be themselves, the only place that mattered.'' So says Neil Gaiman in the introduction to this anthology of sixteen ''unnatural creatures'' (to capitalise or not are they destined to capitalise, that is the question).live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408845466</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanNick Brooks|title=ZOM-B GladiatorPromise Boys

|summary=WARNING: ''Gladiator'' When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the sixth book in police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the ''ZOM-B'' seriestime of his murder. But who killed him, so and why, and if you don't want to catch any spoilersof the boys are innocent, look away now. Don't say I didn't warn you. You're gone, rightwill they be able to clear their names? Good.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077724</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in TwoA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Catherynne M ValenteKitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=A while ago Solomon Klyne isn't a friend recommended bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a book called [[The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship series of Her Own Making by Catherynne M Valente|The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making]]. I robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to say, the title alone intrigued me, but somehow that title sat on my 'wait to get' pile and I never actually got around an answer to reading it. Since then several other people (all adults) have suggested I might like it, so when I saw the latest book in this series was available second question because I decided to give it a tryavoid spoilers. But I really should have read 'll answer the first two books, I thinkone: for his grandmother.. This is the third in the series, and I believe there are going to be five altogether. There are some series which you can dip into without feeling too lost, but this isn't one of them!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110218</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and 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 of four with both 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 leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Old Dog, New TricksStitched Up|author=Bali RaiSteve Cole

|summary=Nick is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a miserable old sod by anyone's definitionfashion designer. His equally mangy dog, Nelson, is Life in the only friend he hasrural village where she lived with her family was happy, as his nasty nature puts everyone off. But while he may be unpleasant to most peopleif not prosperous, he is downright horrible so when the Singh family move in, bringing out smartly-dressed man and woman came to the worst of his racist views - but can village to offer Hahn a man who likes Bob Marley really hate anyone of another colour? Is Nick just job in Hanoi it was an ignorant opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. offensive old gitOnly, or is there something more beneath Hanh and the surface? No one seems other girls were not going to have really bothered to find out before work in a common love of dogs draws young Harvey Singh shop, they were to attempt to befriend not only 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 unkempt dog, but legs? The ones with the lonely old man as wellartfully-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>1781123470</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganePatrice Lawrence|title=Tesla 1Needle|rating=4.53

|summary=Sebastian has lost both his parentsBrave. His father died Charlene, the 'heroine' of a mysterious wasting disease whereas his mother this piece is just... well... lostextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. The only thing he has he has to remember his mother by is Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a note telling him to go to the mysterious Steam Academy. Howeverpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, first he and has to find his way there taken up residence in a futuristic Australia without widespread technology but with dangerous cyborg warriors. Whather son Blake's old room while he's worse, despite fighting humans at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in general for thousands need of yearsa comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the cyborgs now seem to have turned their attention creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and energy to killing Sebastian in particular. Whatis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's he done allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to deserve that? More give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to the point, whatever he's donesay, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can he survive?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0992377951</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RedAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Libby GleesonRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=''Mud. In Kurara has spent her mouthentire life as a servant on the Midori, her nose and her eyes. Mud a massive dining hall floating in her hair and caked on her neck the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and her armsmake merry between their conquests. Mud filling However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her shoes and seeping through her clothesthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. She lay sprawled on He asks her sideto come with him, a garbled, barely distinct sound coming from her: jaymartinjaymartin.'' Who to leave the life of dreary servitude that is ''jaymartin''? And who is this girl? Red doesn't know who all she is or what has happened to herknown. She doesnWell, soon Kurara won't know what has caused have any say in the devastation all around her. Rescued from matter, because the mud Midori is destroyed by Peria monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Red discovers that and she's in Sydney in the aftermath of a terrible hurricane. Chaos is all around as the emergency response struggles to get forced to grips with flee out into the dead, injured and displacedworld. Through She joins Himura aboard the noticeboard at the rescue centreOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, Red and Peri discover that she has a name. And a father. And a frightening secret. whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917307</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Dead EndsMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Erin LangeWrath

|summary=Dane Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a rebel who's close 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 getting kicked out his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school; Billy D is band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the new kid in townearth. One Is this connected with one of Dane's few rules her eco-warrior parents saying the end of behaviour is that he won't hit kids in special ed, so Billy D figures hanging around with someone tough who won't hit him the world is already a good idea - although done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's not that easy to convince Dane dreaming of this. He really needs to? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, though, because not when Cassie has gone missing he has a puzzle to solve and Dane could be the perfect person to help himcan't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571308821</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Nomad (Faery Rebels) Tori Bovalino|authortitle=R J AndersonThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=OkWorking all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Before we begin, you should know that ''Nomad'' What makes it worse is the second in man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a sequencelarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. So if you havenThey't yet read [[Swift by R J Anderson|Swift]]re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, you should probably start thereand then take them all off before delivering them. DonNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't read this review: THERE WILL BE SPOILERSdelivered them for her. We meet up with Ivy again as|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408326485</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|title=The Forbidden Stone (The Copernicus Legacy)Frontpage|author=Tony AbbottPhilip Reeve|rating=4|genretitle=Confident Readers|summary=If you like your fiction full of heart-stopping adventures, mysterious cults Utterly Dark and constant danger, then you'll love this book. Codes, puzzles and ancient secrets abound, and there is no doubt that the publisher's comparison with the novels for adults written by Dan Brown is justified. There's drama and deadly peril on pretty well every page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000754734X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Emily's Quest: A Virago Modern Classic (Emily Trilogy)|author=L M Montgomery|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When I read this book as a teenager (many times over!) I loved Emily's passion for writing, I loved the excitement Face of all the different events through the story and I loved the happy ending. Coming to the story now, twenty-plus years later, I found the book had a rather different flavour to it. It is, at times, terribly, desperately sad. I was surprised, by a book that is widely regarded as a children's story, at just how bleak Emily's life appears to be, and how traumatic the events in her life are. It is very well written, and I still experienced the same compulsion to read it as I used to find when I was younger, yet even with the final, desperate happy ending that Montgomery manages to squeeze in I was left feeling rather contemplative.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844089878</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Elson|title=A Room Full of ChocolateDeep

|summary=''Sometimes family isn't 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 one you Scillies. There are born into but the troll people on it, and pigs you collect along sea-witches, and legends of the way.'' Grace doesn't want Dark family that has to leave her London home keep watch for magical islands and go and live with misery guts Grandad while her mum goes into hospital to get a LUMP sorted outtheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Grace can't see why she couldn't look after her mum herself. After allThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the LUMP was just caused by Mum dancing Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too muchscience in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, wasnand Andrewe't it? WASN'T IT? s foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But Mum won't hear of it and Grace must move awaywhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, start a new school, make new friends both his sullen brother and miss her mum so much that even chocolate doesn't help. Things go from bad to worse when Grace upsets his curious ward are thrust into the resident school bully on her very first dayworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916750</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accidental Life of Jessie JeffersonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Paige ToonJulia and the Shark

|summary=''Grandpa stopped speaking the day he killed my brotherJulia, John.'' That was also the day Jewel was born. Birthdays for Jewel are miserable affairs during which her parents' grief for their son trump their joy in their daughter. In factour pre-teen heroine, Jewel doesn't see that has been packed off with her parents have ''any'' joy in and their daughter at all. She's quite certain that nobody will ever love her as much as Mom, Dad and Grandpa loved John. Until, one day, she finds a mysterious boy sitting in one of her favourite trees. Grandpa doesn't like this new John, but Jewel does. She finally has someone that she can really talk to, who really understands the way her mind works. But John isn't everything he says he is. And his arrival is about to change Jewel's life forever...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848531230</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jo Cotterill|title=Looking at the Stars|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Amina and Jenna are sisters living under the Kwana regime. Because the Kwana have banned girls cat from going to school, they contribute to the family finances by weaving baskets and mats from reeds. Life under the Kwana is tough but Potta and Mamie tell their children home in SW England to keep their heads down and get on with life as best they can. But fighting is breaking out across the country and when Amina sees be lighthousekeepers for a column of liberating soldierssummer, she begins to think life might get better soon. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178230018X</amazonuk>}} {{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 far NE of the living to the land of the dead and a newly-awakened demon wants her very muchScottish islands. But can Beth Here be Vikings, together with brother Louis and friends Ivan and Coll, defeat him? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099576643</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Shadowplay|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 kind of a figure from Maske's past reignites an old rivalryScottish island. Can they help Maske and avoid detection when the mysterious Shadows seek both Micah and the person he once was? And who Dad is the mysterious Cyan, and can they trust her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908844396</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Storm and Stone|author=Joss Stirling|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=American student Raven Stone doesn't like it at her exclusive English boarding school. People are going missing, and return seeming very different. The teachers pick on her as a scholarship students, and her classmates hate her - one of them enough to send her death threats. Just as be automating the mystery starts to deepenlantern, two new boys arrive. Joe which is friendly and charismatichis specialist thing, but it's Kieran's analytical brain which may while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the clue to solving her problemselusive Greenland shark. Although her problems may And Julia, well, she will be bigger than either of them had realised..homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735683</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The One Safe PlaceJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Tania UnsworthThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Devin lives on a farm with his grandfatherScarlett McCain is an outlaw, away from rejecting the rest draconian conformity of the world. He knows a little about it – how Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the gap wildlands between rich and poor is far wider than the world we live inSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and how many children now live on the street, scavenging for scraps shooting other outlaws to say keep herself alive. Butthen she meets Albert Browne, he’s never been that concerneda dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. On With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the farm mythical Free Isles of the life is a simple oneLondon Lagoon. Together, but they can grow enough food to get bymust brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and they’re happy. When tragedy strikes, Devin is forced all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to leave his home and venture into reach the city for Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the first time.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010239</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Crash Into YouMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Katie McGarrySlingshot|rating=53

|summary=This Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is the second companion book used to McGarrynot being a priority in people's stunning debut [[Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry|Pushing The Limits]]lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, following [[Dare You To by Katie McGarry|Dare You To]]her simple existence is changed for good. In the wonderful Pushing The LimitsNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, we were introduced to main characters Noah and Echo and an excellent supporting cast including Noah's best friends and surrogate family Beth and Isaiahfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452543</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SalvageT L Huchu|authortitle=Keren DavidThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cass Ropa Moyo is adopteda ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's always been happy in her new familyusing it to support not only herself, getting on well with but her parents younger sister and feeling protective her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of their natural son BenEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. So when her fatherSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a high-ranking MP, missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is revealed to be having an affair with a woman not much older far bigger and more dangerous than her she ever could've imagined. Will she find the betrayal hits her hard. Aidan, her brother, manages to get back in touch with her shortly afterwards missing children and seems bring an end to be the bright spot in this evil, or will it claim her life. But how much do these siblings really know about each othertoo?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001375</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=This Song Will Save Your LifeKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Leila SalesLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Elise is a fragile girl who's never felt like Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she fitted may be in anywhereconstant pain for the rest of her life. Shuttled between her divorced parentsShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she's desperate talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to be popular at school but canjust joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't work out howrespond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Then a chance event leads She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her DJ. But what she doesn'ing t expect to find there is a werewolf in Start, a hot underground nightclub the basement – and her life suddenly improves dramatically - but can for that werewolf to be the girl she really leave behind her old self, or are has been talking to online for the bullies who make her feel like there's nothing worthwhile about her life right all along?past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447252837</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=When The Guns Fall Silent|author=James Riordan|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1964, Perry visits a foreign cemetery with his grandfather Jack, a hero of World War I. Jack doesn't like to talk about the war, much to Perry's disappointment, but on this trip he finds himself thinking back 50 years to a time when he signed up full of enthusiasm only to be confronted by the harsh realities of war, and looking back on those of his friends - English and German - who didn't make it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories|author=Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott and others|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's basic knowledge that Doctor Who has changed a lot since first being seen fifty years ago – and I don't mean the title character, but the nature of the programme. It has gone from black and white, and cheaply produced, and declared disposable, to being an essential part of the BBC, full-gloss digital, and accessed in all manner of ways. So with the celebratory programme still ringing in our ears, and leaving people pressing a red button to see a programme about three Doctors, er, pressing a red button, we turn to other aspects of the birthday bonanza. Such as this book, which has also mutated in its much shorter lifespan, from being a loose collection of eleven short e-book novellas written by the blazing lights of YA writing, to a huge and brilliant paperback collecting everything within one set of covers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348941</amazonuk>}} {{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 Bodies|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 Move 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>}} {{newreview|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, 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 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 Laybourne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We left our supermarket kids when they split up at the end of [[Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne|Monument 14Newest Thrillers Reviews]]. Niko, Alex and six others were taking the school bus to try to save Brayden who had been shot and to find the US military evacuation team. Dean, Astrid and three of the little ones had stayed behind - it was too risky to take pregnant Astrid into the poisoned outside. And when we say poisoned, we mean it. A bioweapons accident had left the air toxic in different ways to different people, depending on their blood group. Nobody knows where Jake is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444914723</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Skulk|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>}} {{newreview|title=Time Trap|author=Richard Smith|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who was Hector Lightfoot? And why did this 19th century soldier and engineer disappear in such mysterious circumstances? And who are the two ghosts inhabiting his house in 21st century London? Jamie and Todd are thrown into the mystery when they spend a weekend in London with Jamie's Uncle Simon who lives in the house that once belonged to Hector Lightfoot. Simon takes the two boys to see Hector's recently-discovered underground lab at the British Museum. When the building is struck by lightning, the two boys are sent back in time to the year 1862. They know that their only chance of returning home is to find Hector. But where is he? And can they avoid being sucked into a life of crime while they search for him? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780353855</amazonuk>}}