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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Childish SpiritsMax Boucherat|authortitle=Rob KeeleyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Ellie and We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her mum lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and brother Charlie have moved into Inchwood Manor. Ellie's mum that is going to transform log on to Voxminer, the old house into world-building, critter-collecting game that is a heritage visitor attractionhit in Lori's world. Ellie But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't mind this but she does wish find herself entirely on her dad had come too. But for some reasonown, he hasn't. And if Ellie wasn't texting him, he wouldn't and then she finds something even know how they were getting onmore spooky. There's a great deal of work to For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be done able to get Inchwood Manor ready and mum is busy with manager Marcusenter shows signs of tampering. Charlie is busy being fed When malevolent eyes spark up at being stuck on her phone screen, and her safe place in the back end of beyond. And so neither of them notice the strange things that Ellie does...game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783064617</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Playlist For A Broken HeartRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Cathy HopkinsCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=When Paige’s dad loses his job and she and her parents are forced to move in with her aunt, uncle and cousins in an already crowded house, it feels like ''I can hear the end song of the world to hersea. She’d just been cast opposite her crush in The call of the school playdeep, so being torn away from him and taken out of school might break her the answering beat in my heart. But then she finds a mixtape of local bands made for a girl, and as she listens to it, starts wondering about the boy who made it. Making new friends, she decides to try and track the boy down – but will he be who she’s expecting?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Poppy|author=Mary Hooper|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a parlourmaid at trap to end the wrecking, they capture the de Vere familyisland's leader and Mira's country house when World War I breaks outfather. Poppy Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is a very bright girl but had as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to enter service rather than continuing on to college after school because guide her , she sets off in search of a family is poorsecret that lies buried deep in the sea. But 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 heart of the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppysmuggler's old teacher sees an opportunity for territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her intelligent ex-pupil. She suggests that Poppy become a volunteer nurse, a VADhome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Alex As WellHarry Allen|authortitle=Alyssa BrugmanChildren of the Sun

|summary=The story of Alex, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a transgendered Australian teentalented singer. Brought up as a boy but identifying as a girl who also fancies girlsLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, Alex's journey is one you'll never forget. An importantso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, affecting story with layers looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of unreliable narration that will really make you think. Highly recommendedrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreview|title=Mutant CityFrontpage|author=Steve Feasey|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After a devastating chemical war, the world is slowly rebuilding itself. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and, when they re-emerged, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury and comfort. But outside the city walls, everything is very different. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAlexia Casale|title=The Geography of You and Me|author=Jennifer E SmithSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Lucy has lived It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the same building in New York for all middle of a dance performance that was going to change her sixteen yearslife. Owen's just moved in But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the basement apartmentpity stares, son of the buildingand desperate to get back to a life that's new superas normal as she can possibly manage. They Meanwhile there've seen each other arounds a new (cute!) boy in school, but they've never actually met. When a city-wide blackout hits New Yorkher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Lucy and Owen happen just the day to be stuck in day traumas of all the same elevatorchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. As they get talking So even though she can't dance anymore, they make an unlikely connection that will travel with them around America and across continents. But how can you pursue first love when the geography is always against youmight she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472206290</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RiotSimon Fox|authortitle=Sarah MussiDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It Late one night Graham Blake is 2018 late back from his shift on the force, and Britain is still in recessionthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. Years They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of austerity have devastated Southern trains when the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment father is rising. The cost of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And arrested, leaving Archie on the population is still rising. Something has late express to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without Brighton, toting a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but the legislation tin his father was determined to roll it out across keep away from his colleagues, and the population is about to go through parliament. Unsurprisingly, there is bearer of a growing popular protest against itwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=TeaseLex Croucher|authortitle=Amanda MacielGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Emma Putnam killed herself and Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it was all Sara's faultlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. If Sara In this story, Gwen and her other mean girl friends hadn't hounded and bullied Emma Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the ends of the world, Emma would still be alive. And so now it's Sarakingdom's turn to be ostracised only female knight) - by something that Art discovers from her old friendsprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, by creating the community subterfuge of falling 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 she they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives, and even by the media.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=The Bubble-Wrap BoyFrontpage|author=Phil Earle|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Tiny Charlie Han is an outsider at school, whose only friend is Sinus, a fellow outcast. At home, he suffers from an overbearing mother and a quiet father who won't stand up to her. But Charlie believes that ''everyone's good at something'', and when he finds a special talent for skateboarding, it might be the start of something special - if his mum's constant need to keep him safe doesn't get in his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141346299</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer DonnellyNick Brooks|title=Waterfire Saga: Deep BluePromise Boys|rating=3.54

|summary=Four thousand years after Orfeo defected as one of When the six magical leaders principal (headmaster) of AtlantisUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, created three boys find themselves called into the most evil of monsterspolice station as suspects. Each, and the island sank below the seaseemingly, Serafina is preparing for has a ceremony that will confirm her as the heir to a Mer realm. Sera will sing a songspell to her people grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and become betrothed to each could have been there at the prince time of another Mer realmhis murder. But Sera is plagued by a strange dreamwho killed him, and why, in which witches and if any of Mer legend warn her of terrible danger to come. And when her friend Neela arrives for the occasionboys are innocent, she confesses that she has had the same dream.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444921185</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Dowswell1919635017|title=Red ShadowA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=ItSolomon Klyne isn's Moscow in 1940. Misha's life transformed when his father was offered t a job in the Kremlin by his old revolutionary comradebad lad, Stalin. Misha's life so why is easier in many ways than those of his peers - he lives in running around London committing a spacious and comfortable flat, and series of robberies? And how did he has plenty of good food learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to eatthe second question because I avoid spoilers. But Russia is at war - currently allied to HitlerI's Germany but about to be betrayed by themll answer the first one: for his grandmother.. And Stalin is both paranoid and unstable - this is the time of the purges and nobody is safe from denunciation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826240</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Maybe One DayPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Melissa KantorDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Olivia are 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 friends. They do everything buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together - until Olivia is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As she tries 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 fight against deathsex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, Zoe wants to support herwhere his achievements in that regard lie. But how 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 you adjust to a life where you might have to 't be without one sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the people you love most in relationship and the world?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007544243</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Keep The FaithStitched Up|author=Candy HarperSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Faith is backTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and trying woman came to pick between the awesomely wonderful Ethan village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the gorgeous but not allmini-that-interesting Finn (my biasbus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not hers!) Other stuff is happening but there's little point going into details about it because let's face itto work in a shop, 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 characters like Candy Harperthe artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's they could be doing ANYTHING quite possible that Hanh and it would still be amazingly goodher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078259</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RoomiesPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Sara Zarr and Tara AltebrandoNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Roomies tells Brave. Charlene, the story 'heroine' of two girlsthis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, EB characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Laurenschools, who are about to move into college together to share she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room. Itwhile he's not at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a college talecomfort blanket, though - it takes place before they get thereyou might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as they get in touch Charlene is a wonder knitter, and start to open up to is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a stranger about their livesstore detective, hopes and fearsthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, while always remembering this what exactly happens is someone they're going not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be meeting in real life and spending a lot of time with very soon...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444780158</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ash RoadAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Ivan SouthallRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=The North Wind is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of Australia, the Empire come to drink and it brings with it ferocity, and an endless drynessmake merry between their conquests. AboveHowever, belowwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to either side of itform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, and in front to leave the life of and behind it, dreary servitude that is heatall she has known. This is a summer Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the early 1960s and matter, because the land Midori is suffering ''above-century heat''. Unfortunately, through pure accident, three young lads out camping in the bush have started destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a fireshikigami, and it's getting worse and worse under she is forced to flee out into the conditions that are ideal for itworld. Although in She joins Himura aboard the leeward side of Orihime, a large reservoirsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, the small community and a whole world of Ash Road would surely suffer if the conflagration were to become big enough to threaten them – and it is, it is…adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922147494</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom Palmer|title=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut as a professional footballer for Huddersfield Town and that fragile dream of playing for his country came just a little bit closer, but this was just before the beginning of the First World War, when there was immense pressure on young men to do the honourable thing and join the war to fight in France. ''Over the Line'' is the story of Jack's war, of joining the Footballers' Battalion, playing in the Flanders Cup, fighting in the trenches and not just surviving but being decorated for bravery. After the war he scored England's first international goal and was one of the first of the modern generation of 'professional footballers'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Giver|author=Lois Lowry|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jonas lives in a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rules, so many rules, which are adhered to, and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflict. These rules are rarely questioned, merely accepted. When they turn twelve, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by the Elders, and start training for it. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudes, and whether they are assigned to be a nurturer of the young or a caregiver of the elderly, a labourer who keeps the streets clean or someone who prepares and provides food, they are usually a good match for the person. At the assignment ceremony, Jonas is not given a typical role, however. He is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, a position given out only once every few generations. He will receive and store all the memories of the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened with, but which may be needed from time to time to aid in decision making and law enforcement.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Worst Girlfriend In The World|author=Sarra ManningWrath

|summary=It's an acknowledged fact amongst the boys Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of Merrycliffe-on-Seafrustration at himself. Franny B's best friend Alice Lockdown is the worst girlfriend in the world. She loses interest and dumps themonly just over, one at a time, leaving a trail of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriends. But as a friend he should be free to fashion-obsessed Frannydo what he wants, she's great. Until she gets bored of schoolboys and decides to set her sights on the lead singer of local band Thee Desperadoes, despite knowing that Franny has been crushing on him for years. Can Alice get the guy, or will Franny finally go for it? And is their friendship strong enough to cope?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Adaptation|author=Malinda Lo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Flocks of suicidal birds are throwing themselves at planes right across North America. There are dozens of crashes. Thousands of people die and millions more are stranded or under curfew as the government moves to instil calm. Reese where he wants and David are drivingwith whom he wants, not flying, home along an empty highway but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the desert it when another crazed bird flies into their carhe talks to his best friend, Cassie. They crash. And don't wake up for were half of a month. Rescued by a medical military unitdesultory school band, Reese is told that her life but Cassie was saved by experimental treatments and proceduresalso one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Both she and David are made to sign nonIs this connected with one of her eco-disclosure agreements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917943</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Edge warrior parents saying the end of the Cloud|author=K M Peyton|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First things first: this world is already a brilliant book and you could read it on its own but done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's an extra-brilliant book if you've read dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the [[Flambards by K M Peyton|first book]] in the Flambards series. It's inevitable that there are going to be spoilers in this review so if you want to get the best out of this seriestruth? Well, click away right now. I really wonnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't be offended...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736353</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=FlambardsFrontpage|author=K M Peyton|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Christina Parsons was orphaned as a child and since then had been shunted around between various relatives, but her Uncle Russell decided that she must come and live with him and his two sons. The twelve-year-old discovered accidentally (it sounds a little harsh to mention that she was reading someone else's correspondence, doesn't it?) that the the aunt with whom she was living suspected that the plan was that Christina would eventually marry Mark, the elder son and the money (quite a lot of it actually) which she would inherit on her twenty-first birthday would be used to prop up Flambards - the Russell's country estate - which was falling into disrepair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019273637X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The Year of the Rat|author=Clare FurnissDevil Makes Three

|summary=Pearl couldn’t imagine life without Working all summer in her mother, but now she’s forced boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to face up do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes itworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. After As a petty act of revenge for making her mum passes away giving birth to find and deliver such a new babylarge request, Pearl is left devastated – and her new sisterTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, who scribbled with the ugliest insults she calls the Ratcan think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is a constant painful reminder. Can she come to terms with get her grief? And has her mother really gone completelyanger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, or does she keep seeing if someone hadn't delivered them for her?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471120279</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Dark HorsePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Rumer GoddenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Dark Invader was In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a well-bred racehorse and had the looks to go with it peculiar island called Wildsea, British but he was disappointing in his first season in England and his owner had better uses for way west, beyond the money his sale could bringScillies. He was shipped out to IndiaThere are troll people on it, which might sound rather extremeand sea-witches, but was not uncommon in and legends of the nineteen thirties Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and there were some benefitstheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The main one was that he was going current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to a good owner keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who cared for lives in London with too much science in his welfare head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a trainer Andrewe's foundling daughter, who realised that he would get most washed up out of his horses if they were contentedthe sea one day eleven years ago. His new ownerBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Mr Leventine, even arranged for both his lad to travel out to India with him sullen brother and this was probably Dark Invader's greatest piece his curious ward are thrust into the world of luck. Ted Mullins protecting their island, like it or not only loved the horse - he understood him.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088529</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Love, Lies Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Lemon PiesTom de Freston|authortitle=Katy CannonJulia and the Shark

|summary= Alice is a little girls whose feet are planted firmly in the here and now. She's sensible. And studious. And practical. So whenJulia, one nightour pre-teen heroine, she overhears a conversation between her father and a vicious little fairy, she's more than a little shaken. But before she has had time to process this worrying event, Alice's father has rushed away on a business trip. Within days, the news comes that his ship has foundered and there are no survivors. Alice finds herself been packed off to stay with a mysterious uncle her father never told her about. Geryon is a strange man parents and his house is even stranger. Never-seen servants prepare food and clear it away. And their cat from the servants you can see are strange - Mr Black sinisterfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, Emma an automaton. There's only one rule: Alice must not enter in the far NE of the Library..Scottish islands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532871</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Hate|author=Alan Gibbons|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Six months ago Here be Vikings, Rosie, Eve's beloved older sister, died after an unprovoked hate crimethat kind of Scottish island. One of Dad is going to be automating the witnesseslantern, who didn't intervene, was Anthony. Now he's moved school and ended up meeting Eve. Can she ever forgive him for which is his cowardice? Can he even forgive himself?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621760</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Stories of World War One|author=Tony Bradman|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=World War Onespecialist thing, or while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Great War as it was known at the timeelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, was a cataclysmic war. Millions died and life was changed forever for the survivors - for the women of Britainwell, she will be homesick and for the working classes and ruling classes alike. 2014 is the centenary of its outbreak and the redoubtable Tony Bradman has gathered together a dozen of our best writers for young people to create an anthology of short stories to commemorate the anniversaryalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B MissionJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Darren ShanThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Have Scarlett McCain is an obligatory warning about possible spoilers for outlaw, rejecting the series so fardraconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. If you don't want anyBut then she meets Albert Browne, then run along a dark boy with dark powers and read our review a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the [[ZomLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-B by Darren Shan|first book]]. Otherwiseeating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, read this review at your own risk.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077767</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Grasshopper JungleMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Andrew SmithSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Austin Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is confused. Heused to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in love her class with both his girlfriend Shann and his best friend Robbyher slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. As if No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that wasn't a big enough problem, he and Robby have just managed to let loose an army of preying mantises which may bring about the end of the worldshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. Who said Ealing, Iowa was boring?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273410</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Eagle TrailT L Huchu|authortitle=Robert RigbyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Nazis have occupied AntwerpRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, where Paul lives with his English father using Zimbabwean magic (and French mothera bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. But Paul doesnEver since she dropped out of school, she't think things are too bads been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. Life is going on pretty much as normal if you are a teenaged boyHowever, Paul feels. But Paul is wrong. In there's an evil stalking the space ruined streets of an afternoonEdinburgh, Paultargeting the city's world is turned upside downchildren. His father is shot in front of himSoon, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His mother Ropa is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing pulled into the search for his life, hunted by a missing boy at the Nazis for what request of his father knewdead mother. The journey She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is a long far bigger and more dangerous one - through Belgium and France for than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the Pyrenees missing children and Spain and thenbring an end to this evil, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final one - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilous.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley|author=Ben Davis|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Joe Cowley. He's the kind of doofus who will pretend to be from New York, when his life really revolves around a horrid existence in a secondary school near Birmingham, a life shared with his mother and a visit to his dad and Russian mail-order bride every Sunday, and two friends – Harry, who speaks as if he is a member of an ancient Gentleman's Club, and Ad, who's – well, just thick as two short planks. He can barely get through the day without being tormented by his enemies at school, saying the wrong thing entirely or just cocking things up, hence this, his blog, for him to vent and escape a while. But at least he knows his worth when it comes to getting a snog off the school's most desirable girl – doesn't he? And at least he can keep the torments of real life at arm's length – can't he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736752</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Kiss In The DarkFrontpage|author=Cat Clarke|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alex and Kate meet online and thereKristen O's an instant attraction between them. When they get together in person at a gig, they're just as right for each other as they are online. It seems like this could be a wonderful romance, but there's a secret at the heart of it which could destroy more than just their relationship. Will this seemingly fairytale romance have a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780870477</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNeal|title=Daughters of Time|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens Lycanthropy and younger teens on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get Boudica, Mary Seacole, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwich, amongst others. It doesn't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories to make it well worth a look.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Bone Jack|author=Sara CroweOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=15-year-old Ash Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has been waiting for his father to come back from to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the warrest of her life. HeShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's following in his dad's footsteps as the stag boy in the traditional Stag Chase, and he knows his dad will be proud an online support group where she talks to a bunch of himother teens living with chronic illnesses. Running through the mountains whenever he can They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to train, hejust joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's not bothered by the taunts of the other boys who he beat t respond to become the stagchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and who will take their places as hounds - he knows their hostility is traditionaldrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But something what she doesn't expect to find there is stirring a werewolf in the countryside, basement – and he sees strange visions, while his old friend Mark is behaving seriously creepilyfor that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. Is Mark just grieving for his father, or is there something more sinister at work?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440058</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=The Blood List|author=Sarah Naughton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the mid-seventeenth century, the world is filled with tales of witches, murder and changelings. Sixteen-year-old Barnaby is strong and handsome. His father is a wealthy landowner who indulges his desires, and while his mother doesn't love him - believing him Move on to be merely a replacement for her own baby, who the villagers thought was a changeling and who was mysteriously switched - he's popular with everyone else he knows. Until dark happenings start occurring, which will change Barnaby's life - or possibly even end it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078666</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]