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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=War GirlsFrontpage|author=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HouseMax Boucherat|rating=5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=This collection The Last Life of short stories written by some of the leading writers for young adults today is a moving and engaging account of an aspect of the First World War not often covered in teen fiction. Each story explores how the war changed the lives of young women of that time forever as they learned to cope with loss and grief.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Searching for Sky|author=Jillian CantorLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=River is everything We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to Sky. Since her pop in, babysitter poorly, mother and Helmut diedat work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, this girl and boy are the only two human beings on the Islandher lonesome. River is the only boy Sky What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has ever known. Their life is simple, calm and fulfilling. Until, one daymain intention, a boat comes and everything changes. Taken back that is to log on to civilisationVoxminer, to the world her mother left behind-building, Sky critter-collecting game that is separated from Rivera hit in Lori's world. Sky hates everything about California - its houses, its rules, its people who don But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't tell find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the truth. And so server she sets out and her bestie and nobody else should be able to find Riverenter shows signs of tampering. But when she does When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she discovers and her safe place in the truth and why it game has been doctored – well, where is keeping them apart. Can anything make it righta girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408846640</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Department 19: Zero HourRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Will HillCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risen, betrayal has left Department 19 and their allies from across the world not knowing who they ''I 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 hear the secrecy which song of the department has always relied on is becoming a thing sea. The call of the pastdeep, the answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=High Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Dry|author=Sarah Skilton|rating=4plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Dixon Mira, like her mother before her, is having 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 bad weektrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Still struggling Desperate to get over being dumped by his girlfriendsave him from death, he’s turned Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to alcoholguide her, and now finds himself the lead suspect she sets off in the near-fatal drug overdose search of a schoolmatefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Offered an alibi by an ex-girlfriend who needs him With only nine days to find unearth what might save her a missing flash drivefather, he as her journey takes her from the chance watched streets of foreign islands to investigate – but quickly finds that the truth is hard heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to come by and a lot of people seem stop at nothing to have been doing some dark dealings. Can he solve save the case future of her home and win the girl back?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyHarry Allen|authortitle=Natasha FarrantChildren of the Sun

|summary=After Ra Eun Seo lives in a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s family, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside down. She’s desperate for au pair Zoran to come back to them but Zoran has problems of his own – including new guitar protégé Zach. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora North Korean town and the two immediately hit it off, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting her foot in itshe is a talented singer. Will Flora ever talk to her again, Life is hard 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 food is moving difficult to New York. Her head is full of facts about the Big Applecome by, but will this be enough to allow her to cope with life across the Atlantic. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rilla of Ingleside|author=L M Montgomery|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rilla of Ingleside is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the war, about the war, it is an incredibly important work. It tells of what happened to the women who stayed at home, the limited aspects of war work that they were able to do, the endless fear Seo and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, her friends Nari and all of the emotional highs 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, inspired by Lowry, and a boy with a strong sense of right and wrong. So when a homeless man called Colin is killed In this story, Gwen and the police don’t seem interestedArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Kieran decides much to investigate himself. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantlytheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, can he survive his home life is in love with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=I Predict a Riot|author=Catherine Bruton|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Aspiring filmBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -maker Maggie lives on Coronation Road with something that Art discovers from her mum, private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a politicianboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, but without her dad, who's left them. Tokes is another teen living without a father - new to creating the neighbourhoodsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, he and his mother when really they are trying not to be found by his dadenabling their own other romantic attachments. The pair meet and become friends, but fury is brewing in But as their townimpending wedding draws ever closer, and will they find a young boy called Little Pea is about to unwittingly set things way in motion that will lead to terrible events. Will Maggie and Tokes survive as the streets turn to violence?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405267194</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Seven Second Delay|author=Tom Easton|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the futurewhich they can both truly be themselves, the difference between West and East or are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)U, linked by they destined to live 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.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Code Red LipstickNick Brooks|authortitle=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 years. They were scamps, mischief makers Twelve- lads having a bit of fun - and they were led by Joe Gillespie who was a year or two older. The lads thought that Joe was great but there was a niggling feeling amongst one or two of the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme and that some of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going old Hanh wanted to hurt peoplebe a fashion designer. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, you see) happened the same week that Klaus Vogel arrived Life in the town of Felling. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for the Bad Lads.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Jane of Lantern Hill|author=L M Montgomery|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Canadian author, is best known for rural village where she lived with her classic storyfamily was happy, ''Anne of Green Gables''if not prosperous, but so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in her lifetime she wrote a large number of books that are Hanoi it was an opportunity not so well knownto be missed. This story is one of them, Some money changed hands and is, in fact, one of my favourite stories. Jane Stuart is a wonderful heroine. She is straight-talking, downHanh was on the mini-bus to-earth, and funny tooHanoi. This book follows her journey from a life of miseryOnly, closeted Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a home lacking in loveshop, through they were to a joyous happy endingwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Popular You know those jeans you really wanted: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek (A Memoir)|author=Maya Van Wagenen|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At the age of 13, Maya Van Wagenen found a 1950 guide to popularity, written by teen model Betty Cornell. Unhappy at school ones with intricate embroidery and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas'', she secretly decides to try and change her life by putting beading on the book into practice, a chapter a month. But surely her dad is right, and Betty's words have no place in the modern worldlegs? Read this and find out!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141353252</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title= The Serpent House|author=Bea Davenport|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1898 and Annie is living a miserable existence ones with her aunt the artfully-placed rips and cousins. Not long orphaned, she misses her mam every day. So Annie is overjoyed distressed seams that felt so soft when her brotheryou touched them? It's employer Lady Hexer allows him to bring his sister to live with him on a cottage on the estate at Hexer Hall. Lady Hexer takes an interest in both brother quite possible that Hanh and sisterher co-workers made them. But why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)Patrice Lawrence|authortitle=Helen DouglasNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Chasing Starsof this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she'' is the follow-s fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After Eden]] - residence in which Ryan travels back her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in time to save need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the world from disaster by preventing creation of one such item is part of the discovery of plot here, as Charlene is a far-off planet. In so doingwonder knitter, he falls in and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with Edenno more. In this second storyWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, Ryan travels back once again - this time and then force people to save Eden's lifegive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And now Eden must make a sacrificethen... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, too. The boy she loves has given up everything only to save her remark how sharp and now she must give up everything to save himpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408828707</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=SentinelAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Joshua WinningRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=In many ways this book is not as typical of fantasy and mild horror Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the summary might suggest. Unlike Midori, a lot of stories where we join the main character massive dining hall floating in the aftermath sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a major event, this one begins before Nicholas man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is orphaned. The ever-increasing tension as his parents leave for a train journeyCrafter like him, coming so soon someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after a menacing and mysterious prologueall across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, makes it pretty clear to us leave the life of dreary servitude that they is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't be returninghave any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and that Nicholas will soon be in deadly danger himselfshe is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909717096</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Two Boys KissingMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=David LevithanWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=Two boys - no longer Meet Fitz, a couple, but still friends - are kissing outside their high school. But this is no ordinary kissyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. This Lockdown is a kiss which they intend to last only just over 32 hours, breaking the world record for longest kiss. Their friend will document itand he should be free to do what he wants, spreading the world to, go where he wants and beyondwith whom he wants, their communitybut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, some of whom will be supportive, others Cassie. They were half of whom will be disgusted. Two other boys are in a relationshipdesultory school band, while two more may be about to start but Cassie was also onehundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. An eighth Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is looking for something he may never already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find. ''Two Boys Kissing'' tells out the story of all these different boystruth? Well, at different stages of lovenot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405264438</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fifteen BonesTori Bovalino|authortitle=R J MorganThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=IWorking all summer in her boarding school'm going s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to break from my usual habits here, and just use deliver herself. What makes it worse is the blurb on man who requested the back as a summary of this bookbooks: Mr Birch. This isn't out of laziness, honestly. Partly itThe boarding school's because I'm worried I'll give too much away otherwiseheadmaster, and partly because the blurb itself deserves praise as an absolutely masterful example of how to draw a reader in without spoiling anything at allman Tess hates. 'Things haven't been the same As a petty act of revenge for Jake since the accident. Then he meets Robin making her find and finds hope. She is excitingdeliver such a large request, fearless... and the most dangerous girl in London.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140713826X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=An Episode Tess sticks post-it notes on each 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 books, scribbled with the Garden Committee is convinced that a gang ugliest insults she can think of local boys from nearby Catford Street is . They're never meant to blamereach him, of course. Her sister Olivia, a more thoughtful and kindly woman, worries about these children, ‘the sparrows’ and believes that there plan is more to get her anger out like 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 wifethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, nurtures hopes and dreams of if someone hadn't delivered them for her own. As this story unfolds these very different lives become entangled in ways none of them could have anticipated.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1844088510</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Valentine JoePhilip Reeve|authortitle=Rebecca StevensUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Rose’s grandfather Brian takes her to Ypres to pay their respects to his dead brotherIn a word, but while there she notices the grave rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a 15-year-old boypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, Valentine Joebeyond the Scillies. Tormented by thoughts of such a young lad dying so tragicallyThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, she wakes up that night and looks out legends of the window Dark family that has to see keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the strange sight Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of a 1910s townactivity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and a soldier marchingAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Slipping back in time, she meets Valentine Joe But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself – but why has this happened, both his sullen brother and what will his curious ward are thrust into the future be for these two children?world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489603</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Childish SpiritsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rob KeeleyJulia and the Shark

|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, she decides they must brave man-eating wildlife, 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 expecting?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Poppy|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 any more accepted there than continuing on to college after school because her family is poor. But they are in 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.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140882762X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Alex As WellMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=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

|summary=Lucy Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has lived in to come to terms with the same building fact that she may be in New York constant pain for all the rest of her sixteen yearslife. OwenShe joins 's just moved in to the basement apartment, son of the building's new super. TheyOof Ouch My Bones'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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472206290</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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 online support group where she talks to give. The solution? Forced sterilisation of all school-leavers without a secured place in higher education or a guarantee bunch of employmentother teens living with chronic illnesses. The programme has started with prisoners but the legislation to roll it They talk about their troubles and help each other out across the population is about , while also providing an escape to go through parliament. Unsurprisingly, there is a growing popular protest against it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444910108</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Tease|author=Amanda Maciel|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emma Putnam killed herself just joke and it was all Sara's faultmess around. If Sara and When Brigid—one of her other mean girl friends hadnclosest friends—doesn't hounded and bullied Emma respond to the ends of the worldchat for a while, Emma would still be alivePriya becomes concerned. And so now itShe decides to steal her parents's Saracar and drive to Brigid's turn house to be ostracised - by her old friends, by the community in which she lives, and even by the media.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444918710</amazonuk>}} {{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 check up to on 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 what she doesn't get expect to find there is a werewolf 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, basement – 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 werewolf to be 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 girl she has been talking to come. And when her friend Neela arrives online for the occasion, she confesses that she has had the same dreampast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444921185</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]