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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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 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 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 then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen DouglasRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade

|summary=''Chasing Stars'' is I can hear the follow-up to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - in which Ryan travels back in time to save song of the world from disaster by preventing sea. The call of the discovery of a far-off planet. In so doingdeep, he falls the answering beat in love with Edenmy heart. In this second story, Ryan travels back once again - this time to save Eden's life. And now Eden must make a sacrifice, too. The boy she loves has given up everything to save her and now she must give up everything to save him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408828707</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Sentinel|author=Joshua Winning|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Horror|summary=In many ways this book Mira, like her mother before her, is not as typical one of fantasy the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and mild horror as any treasure that lies within. But when the summary might suggest. Unlike Council Watch lays a lot of stories where we join trap to end the main character in wrecking, they capture the aftermath of island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a major event, this one begins before Nicholas wreck survivor who is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for a train journeycharming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, coming so soon after she sets off in search of a menacing and mysterious prologuefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, makes it pretty clear as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to us that they wonthe heart of the smuggler't s territory, Mira must be returning, determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himselfthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two Boys KissingHarry Allen|authortitle=David LevithanChildren of the Sun

|summary=Two boys - no longer Ra Eun Seo lives in a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high schoolNorth Korean town and she is a talented singer. But this Life is no ordinary kiss. This hard and food is a kiss which they intend to last over 32 hours, breaking the world record for longest kiss. Their friend will document it, spreading the world difficult tocome by, so Seo and her friends Nari and beyondMin go foraging every evening, their community, some of whom will be supportive, others of whom will be disgusted. Two other boys are in a relationship, while two more may be about to start one. An eighth is looking for something he may never find. ''Two Boys Kissing'' tells tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the story meagre rations of all these different boys, rice and kimchi at different stages of lovehome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fifteen BonesAlexia Casale|authortitle=R J MorganSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=IIt'm 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 middle of a dance performance that was going to break from my usual habits herechange her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and just use the blurb on the desperate to get back as to a summary of this book. This isnlife that't out of laziness, honestlys as normal as she can possibly manage. Partly it Meanwhile there's because I'm worried I'll give too much away otherwisea new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and partly because just the blurb itself deserves praise as an absolutely masterful example day to day traumas of how all the challenges her body continues to draw a reader in without spoiling anything throw at allher to navigate. 'Things haven So even though she can't been the same for Jake since the accident. Then he meets Robin and finds hope. She is excitingdance anymore, fearless... and the most dangerous girl in London.'might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140713826X</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|title=An Episode of Sparrows|author=Rumer Godden|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It is post war London and in a private garden in a prosperous square someone has been digging up the earth. The formidable Miss Angela Chesney of the Garden Committee is convinced that a gang of local boys from nearby Catford Street is to blame. Her sister Olivia, a more thoughtful and kindly woman, worries about these children, ‘the sparrows’ and believes that there is more to this than petty theft. Meanwhile in Catford Street a little girl named Lovejoy Mason, abandoned by her mother to the care of restaurant owner Vincent and his wife, nurtures hopes and dreams of her own. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none of them could have anticipated.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088510</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Valentine JoeFrontpage|author=Rebecca Stevens|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Rose’s grandfather Brian takes her to Ypres to pay their respects to his dead brother, but while there she notices the grave of a 15-year-old boy, Valentine Joe. Tormented by thoughts of such a young lad dying so tragically, she wakes up that night and looks out of the window to see the strange sight of a 1910s town, and a soldier marching. Slipping back in time, she meets Valentine Joe himself – but why has this happened, and what will the future be for these two children?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|title=Childish Spirits|author=Rob KeeleyDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Ellie and her mum and brother Charlie have moved into Inchwood Manor. Ellie's mum Late one night Graham Blake is going to transform late back from his shift on the old house into force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a heritage visitor attraction. Ellie doesn't mind this but she does wish her dad had come too. But for some reasonsecret place, he hasn't. And if Ellie wasn't texting and join him, he wouldn't even know how they were getting onthe run. There's a great deal of work They get together, but barely begin to be done to get Inchwood Manor ready and mum is busy with manager Marcus. Charlie is busy being fed up at being stuck in smell the back end of beyond. And so neither whiff of them notice Southern trains when the strange things that Ellie does...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783064617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Playlist For A Broken Heart|author=Cathy Hopkins|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Paige’s dad loses his job and she and her parents are forced to move in with her auntfather is arrested, uncle and cousins in an already crowded house, it feels like leaving Archie on the end of the world late express to her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush in the school playBrighton, so being torn toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from him his colleagues, and taken out the bearer of school might break her heart. But then she finds a mixtape whole heap of local bands made for a girl, and as she listens to it, starts wondering about the boy who made itquestions. Making new friends, she decides to try and track the boy down – but will he be who she’s expecting?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PoppyLex Croucher|authortitle=Mary HooperGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Poppy is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a parlourmaid at the de Vere family's country house when World War I breaks outmost delightful way. Poppy is a very bright girl but had In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to enter service rather than continuing on to college after school because her family their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is poor. But in love with Bridget (the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppykingdom's old teacher sees an opportunity for only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her intelligent ex-pupilprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She suggests that Poppy become But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a volunteer nurseway in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a VAD.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=Alex As WellFrontpage|author=Alyssa Brugman|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The story of Alex, a transgendered Australian teen. Brought up as a boy but identifying as a girl who also fancies girls, Alex's journey is one you'll never forget. An important, affecting story with layers of unreliable narration that will really make you think. Highly recommended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=Mutant City|author=Steve FeaseyPromise Boys

|summary=After a devastating chemical warWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the world is slowly rebuilding itselfpolice station as suspects. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers and Each, seemingly, when they re-emergedhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, built six cities in which and each could have been there at the genetically pure live in luxury and comforttime of his murder. But outside who killed him, and why, and if any of the city walls, everything is very different. The survivors there boys are mutantsinnocent, fighting for survival in degrading, impoverished circumstances.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreview|title=The Geography of You and Me|author=Jennifer E Smith|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lucy has lived in the same building in New York for all of her sixteen years. Owen's just moved in to the basement apartment, son of the building's new super. They've seen each other around, but they've never actually met. When a city-wide blackout hits New York, Lucy and Owen happen to be stuck in the same elevator. As they get talking, 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 you?Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472206290</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1919635017|title=Riot|author=Sarah Mussi|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It is 2018 and Britain is still in recession. Years of austerity have devastated the country. Banks are going under. Unemployment is rising. The cost of welfare is soaring. Prisons are overflowing. And the population is still rising. Something has to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee of employment. The programme has started with prisoners but the legislation to roll it out across the population is about A Thief to go through parliament. Unsurprisingly, there is Catch a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=TeaseKiller|author=Amanda MacielKitt Townsend

|summary=Emma Putnam killed herself and it was all Sara's fault. If Sara and her other mean girl friends hadnSolomon Klyne isn't hounded and bullied Emma to the ends a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of the world, Emma would still be alive. robberies? And so now ithow did he learn to crack safes? You's Sara's turn ll have to wait to get an answer to be ostracised - by her old friends, by the community in which she lives, and even by second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the mediafirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bubble-Wrap BoyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Phil EarleDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Tiny Charlie Han Ant is an outsider in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, whose only friend and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is Sinusever 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 fellow outcastsingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. At home Which is confusing for Ant, as he suffers from an overbearing mother and a quiet father who wondoesn't stand up to herknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. But Charlie believes that ''everyone He's good at something''had a casual relationship, and when he finds a special talent secret one, for skateboardingseveral months now, it might be and so has effectively progressed up the start of something special - if his mumladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's constant need to keep him safe doesnset in stone, he can't get in his waybe sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141346299</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreview|author=Jennifer Donnelly|title=Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Four thousand years after Orfeo defected as one of the six magical leaders of Atlantis, created the most evil of monsters, and the island sank below the sea, Serafina is preparing for a ceremony that will confirm her as the heir to a Mer realm. Sera will sing a songspell to her people and become betrothed to the prince of another Mer realm. But Sera is plagued by a strange dream, in which witches of Mer legend warn her of terrible danger to come. And when her friend Neela arrives for the occasion, she confesses that she has had the same dream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444921185</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Dowswell|title=Red Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's Moscow in 1940. Misha's life transformed when his father was offered a job in the Kremlin by his old revolutionary comrade, Stalin. Misha's life is easier in many ways than those of his peers - he lives in a spacious and comfortable flat, and he has plenty of good food to eat. But Russia is at war - currently allied to Hitler's Germany but about to be betrayed by them. And Stalin is both paranoid and unstable - this is the time of the purges and nobody is safe from denunciation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408826240</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Maybe One Day|author=Melissa Kantor|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe and Olivia are best friends. They do everything together - until Olivia is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As she tries to fight against death, Zoe wants to support her. But how can you adjust to a life where you might have to be without one of the people you love most in the world?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007544243</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1800901232|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 a room. Itshe's not fostering with a college talepleasant yoga tutor, though - it takes place before they get thereAnnie, as they get in touch and start to open has taken up to a stranger about their lives, hopes and fears, residence in her son Blake's old room while always remembering this is someone theyhe're going to s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be meeting in real life and spending need of a lot of time with very soon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444780158</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ash Road|author=Ivan Southall|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The North Wind is blowing. It's churned its way across two thousand miles of Australiacomfort blanket, and it brings with it ferocityyou might perhaps think, and an endless dryness. Above, below, to either side the creation of it, and in front one such item is part of and behind itthe plot here, is heat. This as Charlene is a summer in the early 1960s wonder knitter, and the land is suffering ''above-century heat''. Unfortunately, through pure accident, three young lads out camping in the bush have started making something full of love for her younger sister – a fire, and ityounger sister she's getting worse and worse under the conditions that are ideal for itallowed contact with no more. Although in the leeward side of We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a large reservoirstore detective, the small community of Ash Road would surely suffer if the conflagration were and then force people to become big enough to threaten them – and it isgive her two days off school, it is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922147494</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Palmer|title=Over The Line|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Jack Cock made his debut when she shouts someone down as a professional footballer expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not 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 Warme to say, when there was immense pressure on young men only to do the honourable thing remark how sharp and join the war to fight in Francepointy those knitting needles can be. ''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'.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123934</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The GiverAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Lois LowryRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jonas lives in Kurara has spent her entire life as a world were sameness has prevailed over individuality. There are rulesservant on the Midori, so many rules, which are adhered a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to, drink and which allow society to live without pain, suffering or conflictmake merry between their conquests. These rules are rarely questionedHowever, merely accepted. When they turn twelvewhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, children in this world are assigned their future role in society by someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Elders, and start training for itEmpire. These assignments are based on years of observation of their characters and aptitudesHe asks her to come with him, and whether they are assigned to be a nurturer of leave the young or a caregiver life of the elderlydreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, a labourer who keeps soon Kurara won't have any say in the streets clean or someone who prepares and provides foodmatter, they are usually a good match for the person. At because the assignment ceremony, Jonas Midori is not given destroyed by a typical rolemonstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, however. He and she is selected forced to be flee out into the Receiver of Memory, a position given out only once every few generationsworld. He will receive and store all the memories of She joins Himura aboard the past which the rest of society are no longer burdened withOrihime, but which may be needed from time a sky-ship whose express purpose is to time to aid in decision making hunt down shikigami, and law enforcement.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007263511</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Worst Girlfriend In The WorldMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=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 only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and dumps themwith whom he wants, one at a timebut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, leaving a trail Cassie. They were half of heartbroken boys and furious girlfriends. But as a friend to fashion-obsessed Frannydesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she's greatcould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Until she gets bored Is this connected with one of schoolboys and decides to set her sights on eco-warrior parents saying the lead singer end 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 world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And is their friendship strong enough to copecan Fitz find out the truth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411011</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|title=AdaptationFrontpage|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 and David are driving, not flying, home along an empty highway in the desert when another crazed bird flies into their car. They crash. And don't wake up for a month. Rescued by a medical military unit, Reese is told that her life was saved by experimental treatments and procedures. Both she and David are made to sign non-disclosure agreements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917943</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The Edge of the Cloud|author=K M Peyton|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First things first: this is a brilliant book and you could read it on its own but it's an extra-brilliant book if you've read 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 series, click away right now. I really won't be offended.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736353</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Flambards|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>}} {{newreview|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 and there were some benefits. The main one was Dark family that he was going has to a good owner who cared keep watch for his welfare magical islands and a trainer who realised that he would get most out of his horses if they were contented. His new ownertheir monster approaching from even further west, Mr Leventine, even arranged for his lad to travel out to India with him and this was probably Dark Invader's greatest piece of luckwhere no ship dare sail. Ted Mullins not only loved The current Darks are the horse - he understood him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088529</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=LoveWatcher, Lies and Lemon Pies|author=Katy Cannon|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since her dad's deathAndrewe, Lottie who has struggled at school, especially socially. Given the choice to keep notes of joining an activity or her mum getting a home visit - something she's desperate from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to avoid - she signs up for Bake Club. Initiallyworry about such local yokel superstitions, sheand Andrewe's a reluctant memberfoundling daughter, but as she gets to know school bad boy Mac and a few other people who might become good friends, things look washed upout of the sea one day eleven years ago. But with when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the Bake-Off ahead and Lottie telling lie after lie to protect her mother's secretworld of protecting their island, will Lottie's new happiness crumble around her?like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847154891</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=GoddessKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Laura PowellJulia 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 has been packed off with her father parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a vicious little fairysummer, she's more than a little shakenin the far NE of the Scottish islands. But before she has had time to process this worrying event Here be Vikings, Alice's father has rushed away on a business trip. Within days, the news comes that his ship has foundered and there are no survivorskind of Scottish island. Alice finds herself packed off Dad is going to stay with a mysterious uncle her father never told her about. Geryon be automating the lantern, which is a strange man and his house is even stranger. Never-seen servants prepare food and clear it awayspecialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And the servants you can see are strange - Mr Black sinisterJulia, well, Emma an automaton. There's only she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one rule: Alice must not enter the Library..night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857532871</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=HateJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Alan GibbonsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Six months agoScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Rosierejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Eve's beloved older sisterrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, died after an unprovoked hate crimea dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. One With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the witnessesLondon Lagoon. Together, who didn't intervenethey must brave man-eating wildlife, was Anthony. Now he's moved school the cannibalistic Tainted and ended up meeting Eve. Can she ever forgive him for his cowardice? Can he even forgive himselfall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621760</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Stories of World War OneMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Tony BradmanSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=World War OneGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, or the Great War as it was known at the time, was she is used to not being a cataclysmic warpriority in people's lives. Millions died and life was But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed forever for the survivors - for the women of Britaingood. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and for the working classes and ruling classes alike. 2014 is the centenary of its outbreak and the redoubtable Tony Bradman her life now has gathered together a dozen of our best writers boy in it that she never asked for young people to create an anthology of short stories to commemorate the anniversary: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ZOM-B MissionT L Huchu|authortitle=Darren ShanThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. Have an obligatory warning about possible spoilers Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for the series so fartheir living relatives. If you donEver since she dropped out of school, she't want anys been using it to support not only herself, then run along but her younger sister and read our review her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]]city's children. OtherwiseSoon, read this review Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at your own riskthe request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far 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>0857077767</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Grasshopper JungleKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Andrew SmithLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Austin is confusedHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. HeShe joins 's in love 'Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with both his girlfriend Shann chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and his best friend Robbymess around. As if that wasnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a big enough problemwhile, he Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and Robby have just managed drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to let loose an army of preying mantises which may bring about be the end of girl she has been talking to online for the worldpast few months. Who said Ealing, Iowa was boring?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273410</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=The Eagle Trail|author=Robert Rigby|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Nazis have occupied Antwerp, where Paul lives with his English father and French mother. But Paul doesn't think things are too bad. Life is going Move on pretty much as normal if you are a teenaged boy, Paul feels. But Paul is wrong. In the space of an afternoon, Paul's world is turned upside down. His father is shot in front of him, having been discovered as an early resistance organiser. His mother is arrested. And Paul finds himself fleeing for his life, hunted by the Nazis for what his father knew. The journey is a long and dangerous one - through Belgium and France for the Pyrenees and Spain and then, hopefully, for England. Every stage is dangerous but the final one - the Eagle Trail across the mountains - is the most perilous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406346667</amazonuk>}}to [[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]