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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=ZOMThe 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-B Clansbreaking 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=Darren ShanRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] answering beat in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go onmy heart. Run along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077805</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Winger|author=Andrew Smith|rating=2Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West Mira, like her mother before her, is at boarding schoolone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. His roommate is But when the Council Watch lays a bully, his closest male friends are idiotstrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and his best friend is an older girl heMira's madly in love father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who doesn't seem is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to see him guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the same waysea. But this could With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be a year that changes everything for himdetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeHarry Allen|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)Children of the Sun

|summary=The city has been rebuilt for war. The waves of cyborg attacks are just the beginning – what follows is more devastating. Not only that but also the flood of refugees surging Ra Eun Seo lives in daily a North Korean town and she is as much of a problem as a resourcetalented singer. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' Life is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb hard and Melanie are doing their best food is difficult to fight come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and surviveMin go foraging every evening, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive looking for tree bark and bring the battle edible grasses to supplement the cyborgs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992377986</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Don't Even Think About It|author=Sarah Mlynowski|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Something weird happens after 10B get their flu shots - they develop telepathy. There are good points - they know what other people think meagre rations of them, they can cheat on tests, rice and they have the upper hand in conversations with otherskimchi at home. But there are some drawbacks as well - not only do they no longer have any secrets from each other, but also, knowing what other people think of them can be a two-edged sword! High school is hard enough to survive when you're normal - will being an Espie make it even more difficult?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Since You've Been GoneAlexia Casale|authortitle=Morgan MatsonSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Sloane and Emily are best friends. Until Sloane disappears. She and It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her parents have vanishedlife. There’s been no phone call But she comes back fighting, textdesperate to avoid the pity stares, or e-mailand desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Then Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, two weeks laterher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Emily gets a list in and just the day to day traumas of all the mail from Sloane, giving challenges her body continues to throw at her tasks to donavigate. If So even though she does them allcan't dance anymore, can might she find be able to sing her way back to Sloanethrough instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122662</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|title=Dragon ShieldFrontpage|author=Charlie Fletcher|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''"Dragons don't exist,"whispered Jo. But even those three short words sounded more like a wish than a statement of fact.'' Something dark and sinister is going on at the British Museum. An ancient power has awoken and it has stopped time. People are frozen like statues. Only Will and his sister Jo are still moving. The only humans still moving, that is. The dragons are moving. They're spitting real fire, too. And they're attacking Will and Jo. A glorious golden girl comes to their rescue, followed by an angel and a muse. And Will and Joe are plunged into a world where statues are alive and where good battles evil. Why are they still moving? Who is behind the stopping of time? And will they ever get Mum back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444917323</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSimon Fox|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie RutkoskiDeadlock

|summary=WonderfulLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, wonderful story about and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a lonely boysecret place, his agoraphobic mother and building-eating plantsjoin him on the run. That could never work They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, right? Wrong! It's toting a must read tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and you won't ever have read anything quite like it beforethe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreview|title=Secrets of the Tombs: The Phoenix CodeFrontpage|author=Helen MossLex Croucher|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summarytitle=Egypt – a land of mystery and beauty, where history surrounds you and death is always present. There are treasures to uncover, riddles to solve and a colourful and exotic world to explore. A perfect setting for this, the first in a new series of thrillers which combines intriguing landscapes, archaeology and adventure. Much of the architecture and scenery in this book really exists and can be visited, including some of the tombs Gwen and museums, and many readers will feel inspired to seek further information about this most exciting and dramatic of locations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444010395</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=OMG! I'm Art Are Not in Love with a Geek!|author=Rae Earl

|summary=Hattie Moore is determined Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this year she’ll find true story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love - could it be with Goose, Bridget (the boy next door who shekingdom's starting to think of as more than just a geek, or will he only ever see female knight) - something that Art discovers from her as private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a friend? If she finds another boythey 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. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will he get jealous? And now she's found her real dadthey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, will she get or are they destined to know him properlylive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=War GirlsNick Brooks|authortitle=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena HousePromise Boys|rating=54

|summary=This collection of short stories written by some When the principal (headmaster) of the leading writers for young adults today Urban Promise Prep school is a moving and engaging account of an aspect of murdered, three boys find themselves called into the First World War not often covered in teen fictionpolice station as suspects. Each story explores how , seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the war changed the lives time of young women his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of that time forever as the boys are innocent, will they learned be able to cope with loss and grief.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440600</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Searching for SkyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Jillian CantorKitt Townsend

|summary=River is everything to Sky. Since her mother and Helmut diedSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, this girl and boy are the only two human beings on the Island. River so why is the only boy Sky has ever known. Their life is simple, calm and fulfilling. Until, one day, he running around London committing a boat comes and everything changes. Taken back series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to civilisation, get an answer to the world her mother left behind, Sky is separated from Riversecond question because I avoid spoilers. Sky hates everything about California - its houses, its rules, its people who donBut I't tell her ll answer the truth. And so she sets out to find River. But when she does, she discovers the truth and why it is keeping them apart. Can anything make it right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408846640</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Department 19first one: Zero Hour|author=Will Hill|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Zero Hour is approachingfor his grandmother. 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 of the past.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=High Patrick Ness and DryTea Bendix|authortitle=Sarah SkiltonDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Dixon Ant is having in Year Eleven at quite a bad week. Still struggling standard school, and is surprised to get over being dumped by find his girlfriendgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, he’s turned to alcoholso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and now finds himself the lead suspect two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the near-fatal drug overdose of leash only a schoolmate. Offered an alibi by an exsingle-girlfriend who needs him sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to find her 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 missing flash drivesecret one, for several months now, he takes and so has effectively progressed up the chance to investigate – ladder headed by 'experienced', but quickly finds whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that the truth is hard to come by and a lot 's mostly because of people seem to have who he's been doing some dark dealings. Can he solve having the case relationship and win the girl back?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell GadsbyStitched Up|author=Natasha FarrantSteve Cole

|summary=After a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s familyBrave. Charlene, Bluebell thinks everything could be turned upside down. She’s desperate the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for au pair Zoran some people to come back to them but Zoran like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has problems taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of his own love for her younger sister – including new guitar protégé Zacha younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and the then force people to give her two immediately hit it days offschool, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting her foot in itwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Will Flora ever talk well, what exactly happens is not for me to her againsay, only to remark how sharp and when Zach goes missing, pointy those knitting needles can the sisters and the rest of their family help find him?be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571297978</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Geek Girl: Picture PerfectAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Holly SmaleRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Harriet Manners is moving Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to New Yorkdrink and make merry between their conquests. Her head However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is full of facts about a Crafter like him, someone with the Big Apple, but will this be enough power to allow form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to cope come with him, to leave the life across of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Atlanticworld. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?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>0007574568</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=L M MontgomeryWrath

|summary=Rilla Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of Ingleside frustration at himself. Lockdown is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the warover, and he should be free to do what he wants, about the warto go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is an incredibly important work. It tells of what happened when he talks to the women who stayed at homehis best friend, the limited aspects Cassie. They were half of war work that they were able to doa desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the endless fear and dread they felt for their loved ones far away, and all of enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened timeearth. The novel begins as Europe is on Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the brink end of war, and Rilla the world is only 15 years old and, still, already a rather silly young girl. I have to say, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this one, done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's just a spoilt baby and at the start dreaming of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. However, ? Is she just as bonkers? And can Fitz find out the world goes through a dramatic change during this period of timetruth? Well, Rilla herself grows from a child to a woman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lobsters|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of teen fiction and I think it does an awful lot of things really well. Amongst other things, it not when Cassie has gone missing he can transport the reader to faraway times and places't. It can also let them empathise with people in situations that they’ll probably – and in many cases hopefully – never be in themselves. I think it’s fair to say, looking at the recent Carnegie longlist as just one example, that books which do either of the above things tend to be the most critically-acclaimed.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)Tori Bovalino|authortitle=Robin StevensThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Kieran sees Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the world in last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a different way from most 14-year-old boyshundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. He’s an artist, inspired by LowryThe boarding school's headmaster, and a boy with man Tess hates. As a strong sense petty act of right revenge for making her find and wrong. So when deliver such a homeless man called Colin is killedlarge request, and Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the police don’t seem interestedbooks, Kieran decides scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to investigate himselfreach him, of course. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantlyHer plan is to get her anger out like this, can he survive his home life with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying 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>1447254090</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=I Predict a RiotPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Catherine BrutonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Aspiring film-maker Maggie lives In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on Coronation Road with her mum, a politicianpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but without her dadway west, who's left thembeyond the Scillies. Tokes is another teen living without a father There are troll people on it, and sea- new to the neighbourhoodwitches, he and his mother are trying not legends of the Dark family that has to be found by his dad. The pair meet keep watch for magical islands and become friends, but fury is brewing in their townmonster approaching from even further west, and a young boy called Little Pea is about to unwittingly set things in motion that will lead to terrible eventswhere no ship dare sail. 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 future, the difference between West and East The current Darks are greater than ever. Europe has evolved into the (British) Isles and the (E)UWatcher, linked by a bridgeAndrewe, and immigrants risk everything who has to pass keep notes of activity from the third world of the latter Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to the first world worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the formersea one day eleven years ago. Mila has made it across, but the danger is not overBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and as she falls his curious ward are thrust into the hands world of the Agentsprotecting their island, she realises the real price of freedomlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440341</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Code Red LipstickKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Sarah SkyJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jessica Cole is a schoolgirl model Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with an ex-spy her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a fathersummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. When he mysteriously vanishes and MI6 are less than helpful Here be Vikings, she's forced to use her talents for both modelling and spying that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to try and mount her own rescue mission. But be automating the bad guys here have some really evil planslantern, and if Jessica's not able to stop themwhich is his specialist thing, she could find that she's not only lost while mum will be leaving her father, but she's missed career in algae behind to hunt the chance to save many more peopleelusive Greenland shark. With danger seeming to lurk around every corner And Julia, well, she'll need not only all her resourcefulness but also help from her allies. If will be homesick and alone – until she can only work out who she can trust..suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407140175</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year!Jonathan Stroud|authortitle=Rae EarlThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore has got a nightmare family with Scarlett McCain is an evil brotheroutlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a gran who’s a ‘total mental’, dark boy with dark powers and a father who she knows nothing aboutdarker past. As wellWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she wants they plan to flee to be a total hotness goddess the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and take down rival Miss Gorgeous Knickers all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but there’s no boy interested will they be any more accepted there than they are in her (or is there?) Hattie’s diary tells the story rest 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…Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406340014</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fools' GoldMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Philippa GregorySlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Sent to Venice, the world's biggest marketplace, Luca Vero and his friends are given strange instructions - Gracie Welles has resigned herself to make money for the church by trading and even gamblingbeing lonely. It's the only way to expose As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a possible coin counterfeiting scheme"real" family, but it also opens them up she is used to participating not being a priority in Venicepeople's famous Carnivallives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, where romance and excitement are at a high. While Brother Peter her simple existence is distressed by the thought of committing usury, Luca has other things on his mind - both his growing feelings changed for Isolde and the possibility of finally finding his fathergood. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, who he'd given up for dead. But with dark forces at work, the five friends will need all of their willpower and ingenuity to survive her life now has a boy in Veniceit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077406</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Caroline LawrenceT L Huchu|title=The Night RaidLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=The Trojan War Ropa Moyo is over a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and the few survivors have a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to find somewhere else to live. Rye and Nisus - barely more than children at take messages from the end dead of the war and both with Edinburgh for their own burden living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of guilt school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and horror - are obsessed by her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the need to seek vengeance and protect ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the land on which they have now settledcity's children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781123667</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond and Vladimir Stankovic|title=Klaus Vogel and Soon, Ropa is pulled into the Bad Lads|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=The Bad Lads had been together search for years. They were scamps, mischief makers - 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 missing boy at the boys that he was getting a bit more extreme and that some request of his pranks were actually - deliberately - going to hurt peopledead mother. The fire at Mr Eustace's (he was a conchie, you see) happened the same week She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that Klaus Vogel arrived in the town world of Fellingmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. The scrawny refugee from East Germany who knew hardly any English would change things for Will she find the Bad Lads.missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122695</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Jane of Lantern HillKristen O'Neal|authortitle=L M MontgomeryLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Lucy Maud MontgomeryHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the Canadian author, is best known fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her classic story, life. She joins ''Anne of Green GablesOof Ouch My Bones'', but in her lifetime an online support group where she wrote talks to a large number bunch of books that are not so well knownother teens living with chronic illnesses. This story is one of themThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and is, in fact, one mess around. When Brigid—one of my favourite stories. Jane Stuart is her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a wonderful heroinewhile, Priya becomes concerned. She is straight-talking, down-decides to-earth, steal her parents' car and funny toodrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. This book follows her journey from But what she doesn't expect to find there is a life of misery, closeted werewolf in a home lacking in love, through the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to a joyous happy endingonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349004447</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Popular: 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 and intrigued by what her dad calls its ''outdated ideas'', she secretly decides to try and change her life by putting the book into practice, a chapter a month. But surely her dad is right, and Betty's words have no place in the modern world? 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 with her aunt and cousins. Not long orphaned, she misses her mam every day. So Annie is overjoyed when her brother's employer Lady Hexer allows him to bring his sister to live with him on a cottage Move on the estate at Hexer Hall. Lady Hexer takes an interest in both brother and sister. But why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782020853</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Chasing Stars (After Eden 2)|author=Helen Douglas|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Chasing Stars'' is the follow-up to [[After Eden by Helen Douglas|After EdenNewest Thrillers Reviews]] - in which Ryan travels back in time to save the world from disaster by preventing the discovery of a far-off planet. In so doing, he falls in love with Eden. 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=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>}} {{newreview|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, 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 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 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 Joe|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>}} {{newreview|title=Childish Spirits|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ellie and her mum and brother Charlie have moved into Inchwood Manor. Ellie's mum is going to transform the old house into a heritage visitor attraction. Ellie doesn't mind this but she does wish her dad had come too. But for some reason, he hasn't. And if Ellie wasn't texting him, he wouldn't even know how they were getting on. There's a great deal of work 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 the back end of beyond. And so neither of them notice 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 aunt, uncle and cousins in an already crowded house, it feels like the end of the world to her. She’d just been cast opposite her crush in the school play, so being torn away from him and taken out of school might break her heart. But then she finds a mixtape of local bands made for a girl, and as she listens to it, starts wondering about the boy who made it. Making new friends, she decides to try and track the boy down – but will he be who she’s expecting?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147111791X</amazonuk>}}