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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Department 19: Zero HourFrontpage|author=Will HillMax Boucherat|rating=5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risen, betrayal has left Department 19 and their allies from across the world not knowing who they can trust, and rightly or wrongly, every hero seems to have at least one secret to keep. Valentin is away searching for his brother and Dracula, Frankenstein is coming to terms with lycanthropy, and the secrecy which the department has always relied on is becoming a thing The Last Life of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=High and Dry|author=Sarah SkiltonLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Charlie Dixon 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 having a bad week. Still struggling to get over being dumped by his girlfriend, he’s turned log on to alcoholVoxminer, and now finds himself the lead suspect in the nearworld-building, critter-fatal drug overdose of collecting game that is a schoolmatehit in Lori's world. Offered an alibi by an ex-girlfriend who needs him to But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her a missing flash driveown, he takes the chance to investigate – but quickly and then she finds that something even more spooky. For the truth is hard server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to come by and a lot enter shows signs of people seem to have been doing some dark dealingstampering. Can he solve the case When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and win her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl backto turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Natasha FarrantCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=After a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s family, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside down''I can hear the song of the sea. She’s desperate for au pair Zoran to come back to them but Zoran has problems The call of his own – including new guitar protégé Zach. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora and the two immediately hit it offdeep, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting her foot the answering beat in itmy heart. Will Flora ever talk to her again, and when Zach goes missing, can the sisters and the rest of their family help find him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Geek Girl: Picture Perfect|author=Holly Smale|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners 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 moving 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 trap to New Yorkend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Her head Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is full as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of facts about a family secret that lies buried deep in the Big Applesea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, but will this as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be enough determined to stop at nothing to allow save the future of her to cope with life across home and the Atlanticones she holds most dear. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideHarry Allen|authortitle=L M MontgomeryChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Rilla of Ingleside Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is an interesting novel for many reasonsa talented singer. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the war, about the war, it Life is hard and food is an incredibly important work. It tells of what happened difficult to the women who stayed at homecome by, the limited aspects of war work that they were able to do, the endless fear so Seo and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all of the emotional highs her friends Nari and lows they experienced during such a heightened time. The novel begins as Europe is on the brink of warMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and Rilla is only 15 years old and, still, a rather silly young girl. I have edible grasses to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' supplement the book that precedes this one, she's just a spoilt baby meagre rations of rice and kimchi at the start of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. However, just as the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of time, Rilla herself grows from a child to a womanhome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LobstersAlexia Casale|authortitle=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=It’s no secret It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that I’m you're having to navigate a massive fan life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of teen fiction and I think it does an awful lot of things really wella dance performance that was going to change her life. Amongst other things But she comes back fighting, it can transport desperate to avoid the reader pity stares, and desperate to faraway times and placesget back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. It can also let them empathise with people Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in situations that they’ll probably – and in many cases hopefully – never be in themselves. I think it’s fair school, her music A Level performance piece to try to saysort out, looking at and just the recent Carnegie longlist as just one example, that books which do either day to day traumas of all the above things tend challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be the most critically-acclaimed.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)Simon Fox|authortitle=Robin StevensDeadlock

|summary=How do you solve a murder with no body when nobody even realises that a murder has taken place? Such Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the task facing the Wells & Wong Detective Society - Deepdean School's most force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret society. Society Secretary Hazel Wong found mistress Miss Bell's dead body in place, and join him on the gymrun. But by the time she returned with President Daisy Wells They get together, Miss Bell's body had disappeared. It's but barely begin to smell the first decent case whiff of Southern trains when the Society has had - who really cared about Lavinia's Missing Tie? - and Daisy has at it with gusto. Hazel follows along at a slower pace but withfather is arrested, it must be saidleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a great deal more attention tin his father was determined to detail. Of coursekeep away from his colleagues, school life continues unhindered and Daisy and Hazel must conduct their investigation while avoiding Latin prep and lacrosse practice, and enjoying midnight feasts and buntime biscuits.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552570729</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Apple Tart the bearer of Hope|author=Sarah Moore Fitzgerald|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Meg's parents think six months away in New Zealand is a great idea. Meg isn't convinced. A big part whole heap of the reason she doesn't want to go is Oscar. Oscar Dunleavey is Meg's best friend, the boy next door who makes perfect apple tartsquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006924</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SmartLex Croucher|authortitle=Kim SlaterGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Kieran sees the world Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a different most delightful way from most 14-year-old boys. He’s an artist In this story, inspired by LowryGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, and a boy much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with a strong sense of right and wrongBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. So And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a homeless man called Colin is killedboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and creating the police don’t seem interestedsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, Kieran decides to investigate himselfwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantly But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can he survive his home life with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying himboth truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=I Predict a RiotFrontpage|author=Catherine Bruton|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Aspiring film-maker Maggie lives on Coronation Road with her mum, a politician, but without her dad, who's left them. Tokes is another teen living without a father - new to the neighbourhood, he and his mother are trying not to be found by his dad. The pair meet and become friends, but fury is brewing in their town, and a young boy called Little Pea is about to unwittingly set things in motion that will lead to terrible events. Will Maggie and Tokes survive as the streets turn to violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405267194</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future, the difference between West and East are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by a bridge, and immigrants risk everything to pass from the third world of the latter to the first world of the former. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not over, and as she falls into the hands of the Agents, she realises the real price of freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Code Red Lipstick|author=Sarah SkyPromise Boys

|summary=Jessica Cole When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a schoolgirl model with an ex-spy for a father. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpfulgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, she's forced to use her talents for both modelling and spying to try and mount her own rescue missioneach could have been there at the time of his murder. But the bad guys here have some really evil planswho killed him, and why, and if Jessica's not any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to stop them, she could find that she's not only lost her father, but she's missed the chance to save many more people. With danger seeming to lurk around every corner, she'll need not only all her resourcefulness but also help from her allies. If she can only work out who she can trust...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year!1919635017|author=Rae Earl|rating=4|genretitle=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore has got a nightmare family with an evil brother, a gran who’s a ‘total mental’, and a father who she knows nothing about. As well, she wants A Thief to be Catch a total hotness goddess and take down rival Miss Gorgeous Knickers but there’s no boy interested in her (or is there?) Hattie’s diary tells the story of a year that could just change her life. As long as her stepfather doesn’t hate her too much for throwing up in his fish tank, that is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fools' GoldKiller|author=Philippa GregoryKitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Sent to Venice, the worldSolomon Klyne isn's biggest marketplacet a bad lad, Luca Vero and his friends are given strange instructions - so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to make money for the church by trading and even gambling. Itcrack safes? You's the only way ll have to wait to expose a possible coin counterfeiting scheme, but it also opens them up get an answer to participating in Venicethe second question because I avoid spoilers. But I's famous Carnival, where romance and excitement are at a high. While Brother Peter is distressed by ll answer the thought of committing usury, Luca has other things on his mind - both his growing feelings first one: for Isolde and the possibility of finally finding his father, who he'd given up for deadgrandmother.. But with dark forces at work, the five friends will need all of their willpower and ingenuity to survive in Venice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077406</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrencePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Night RaidDifferent for Boys

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens |summary=The Trojan War Ant is over in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and the few survivors have is surprised to find somewhere else 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 liveprimary school days together. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children As they're all fired up, straining at the end of leash only a single-sex school can form, the war talk in class and both with their own burden of guilt 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 horror - are obsessed 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 need to seek vengeance relationship and protect the land on which they have now settledsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic1800901232|title=Klaus Vogel and the Bad LadsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45

|summary=The Bad Lads had been together for yearsTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. They were scampsLife in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, mischief makers so when the smartly- lads having dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a bit of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who job in Hanoi it was a year or two olderan opportunity not to be missed. The lads thought that Joe Some money changed hands and Hanh was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst one or two of on the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and that some of his pranks the other girls were actually - deliberately - not going to hurt peoplework in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, You know those jeans you see) happened really wanted: the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived in ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the town of Felling. legs? The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for ones with the Bad Ladsartfully-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>1781122695</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jane of Lantern HillPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=L M MontgomeryNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Lucy Maud MontgomeryBrave. Charlene, the Canadian author, 'heroine' of this piece is best known extremely hard for her classic storysome people to like, ''Anne characters and readers both. Kicked out of Green Gables'multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, but and has taken up residence in her lifetime she wrote son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a large number tempestuous personality may be in need of books that are not so well known. This story a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is one part of themthe plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is, in fact, one making something full of my favourite storieslove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Jane Stuart is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a wonderful heroine. She is straight-talkingstore detective, down-and then force people to-earthgive her two days off school, and funny toowhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... This book follows her journey from a life of miserywell, closeted in a home lacking in lovewhat exactly happens is not for me to say, through only to a joyous happy endingremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)Ann Sei Lin|authortitle=Maya Van WagenenRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=At Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the age of 13Midori, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to popularity, written by teen model Betty Cornelldrink and make merry between their conquests. Unhappy at school and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas''However, she secretly decides when a man named Himura arrives to try and change tell her life by putting that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the book power to form paper into practice, whatever she desires – a chapter a monthpower sought after all across the Empire. But surely He asks her dad to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is rightall she has known. Well, and Bettysoon Kurara won's words t have no place any say in the modern matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world? Read this . She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and find out!a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141353252</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Serpent HouseMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Bea DavenportWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 1898 Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and Annie is living a miserable existence with her aunt and cousinswhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Not long orphanedThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she misses could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her mam every day. So Annie eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is overjoyed when her brotheralready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's employer Lady Hexer allows him to bring his sister to live with him on a cottage on dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the estate at Hexer Halltruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Lady Hexer takes an interest in both brother and sister. But why?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Helen DouglasThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5

|summary=Working all summer in her boarding school''Chasing Stars'' s library is the follow-up last thing Tess Matheson wants to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - in which Ryan travels back in time do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to save deliver herself. What makes it worse is the world from disaster by preventing man who requested the discovery 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 farlarge request, Tess sticks post-off planet. In so doingit notes on each of the books, he falls in love scribbled with Edenthe ugliest insults she can think of. In this second story, Ryan travels back once again - this time They're never meant to save Eden's life. And now Eden must make a sacrificereach him, tooof course. The boy she loves has given up everything Her plan is to save get her anger out like this, and now she must give up everything to save him.then take them all off before delivering them.No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408828707</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|title=SentinelFrontpage|author=Joshua Winning|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=In many ways this book is not as typical of fantasy and mild horror as the summary might suggest. Unlike a lot of stories where we join the main character in the aftermath of a major event, this one begins before Nicholas is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for a train journey, coming so soon after a menacing and mysterious prologue, makes it pretty clear to us that they won't be returning, and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPhilip Reeve|title=Two Boys Kissing|author=David Levithan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Two boys - no longer a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high school. But this is no ordinary kiss. This 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 to, Utterly Dark and beyond, 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 the story of all these different boys, at different stages Face of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Fifteen Bones|author=R J Morgan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I'm going to break from my usual habits here, and just use the blurb on the back as a summary of this book. This isn't out of laziness, honestly. Partly it's because I'm worried I'll give too much away otherwise, and partly because the blurb itself deserves praise as an absolutely masterful example of how to draw a reader in without spoiling anything at all. 'Things haven't been the same for Jake since the accident. Then he meets Robin and finds hope. She is exciting, fearless... and the most dangerous girl in London.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140713826X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Episode of Sparrows|author=Rumer GoddenDeep

|summary=It In a word, rich. There is post war London and certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a private garden in a prosperous square someone has been digging up peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the earthScillies. The formidable Miss Angela Chesney There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Garden Committee is convinced Dark family that a gang of local boys from nearby Catford Street is has to blame. Her sister Olivia, a more thoughtful keep watch for magical islands and kindly womantheir monster approaching from even further west, worries about these childrenwhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, ‘the sparrows’ and believes that there is more to this than petty theft. Meanwhile in Catford Street a little girl named Lovejoy MasonAndrewe, abandoned by her mother who has to keep notes of activity from the care of restaurant owner Vincent and Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his wifehead to worry about such local yokel superstitions, nurtures hopes and dreams Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of her ownthe sea one day eleven years ago. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of them could have anticipatedprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088510</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreview|title=Valentine JoeFrontpage|author=Rebecca StevensKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|ratingtitle=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, Julia and what will the future be for these two children?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Childish Spirits|author=Rob KeeleyShark

|summary=Ellie and Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her mum parents and brother Charlie have moved into Inchwood Manor. Ellie's mum is going their cat from the family home in SW England to transform the old house into be lighthousekeepers for a heritage visitor attraction. Ellie doesn't mind this but she does wish her dad had come too. But for some reasonsummer, he hasn'tin the far NE of the Scottish islands. And if Ellie wasn't texting him Here be Vikings, he wouldn't even know how they were getting onthat kind of Scottish island. There's a great deal of work Dad is going to be done to get Inchwood Manor ready and automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum is busy with manager Marcus. Charlie is busy being fed up at being stuck will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the back end of beyondelusive Greenland shark. And so neither of them notice the strange things that Ellie does..Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783064617</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Playlist For A Broken HeartJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Cathy HopkinsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|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 aunt, uncle and cousins in Scarlett McCain is an already crowded houseoutlaw, it feels like rejecting the end draconian conformity of the world Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush in wander the wildlands between the school playSeven Kingdoms of Britain, so being torn away from him robbing banks and taken out of school might break her heartshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she finds meets Albert Browne, a mixtape of local bands made for dark boy with dark powers and a girldarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, and as she listens they plan to flee to it, starts wondering about the boy who made itmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Making new friendsTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, she decides the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to try and track reach the boy down – Free Isles, but will he they be who she’s expectingany more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|title=PoppyFrontpage|author=Mary Hooper|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Poppy is a parlourmaid at the de Vere family's country house when World War I breaks out. Poppy is a very bright girl but had to enter service rather than continuing on to college after school because her family is poor. But the war is changing everything - even for working class girls - and Poppy's old teacher sees an opportunity for her intelligent ex-pupil. She suggests that Poppy become a volunteer nurse, a VAD.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMercedes Helnwein|title=Alex As Well|author=Alyssa BrugmanSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=The story Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of Alexa man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a transgendered Australian teenpriority in people's lives. Brought up as But when she defends a random boy but identifying as a girl who also fancies girlsin her class with her slingshot, Alex's journey her simple existence is one you'll never forgetchanged for good. An importantNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, affecting story with layers of unreliable narration for her life now has a boy in it that will really make you think. Highly recommendedshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782020896</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mutant CityT L Huchu|authortitle=Steve FeaseyThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After Ropa Moyo is a devastating chemical warghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the world is slowly rebuilding itselfdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. A select group had hidden away in underground bunkers andEver since she dropped out of school, when they re-emergedshe's been using it to support not only herself, built six cities in which the genetically pure live in luxury but her younger sister and comforther aging grandmother. But outside However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city walls's children. Soon, everything Ropa is very differentpulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. The survivors there are mutants, fighting for survival in degradingShe 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, impoverished circumstances.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140884303X</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Geography of You and MeKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Jennifer E SmithLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

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{{newreview|title=The Bubble-Wrap Boy|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 Move on 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 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>}} {{newreview|author=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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]