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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|title=Counting By 7sFrontpage|author=Holly Goldberg Sloan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Willow is not like other girls. She is not just smart, but certifiably gifted. She gets on better with adults than she does her peers. She loves patterns and plants, the colour red and the number 7. She is charming and adorable and quirky. She is one of the most real characters I've met in a book this year. And she is hurting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848124163</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMax Boucherat|title=The 100 Society|author=Carla SpradberyLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Grace and her friends at the Clifton Academy boarding school have a secret. They have resurrected the 100 Society and intend to complete the grafitti tagging of a hundred locations around the city. A scandal involving a previous incarnation of the society means that this is an expulsion offence so Grace is playing with fire. But to her, the 100 Society isn't a game; it's an obsession. And she's determined to complete the mission. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444920081</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Boundless|author=Kenneth Oppel|rating=5

|summary=William EverettWe meet Lori on the first evening she's father has risen high got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the railway, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. But it wasn't always thus. He spent many years working for Cornelius Van Horne as What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a manual labourerblanket fort, she has one main intention, cutting and blasting through swathes of Canada and laying tracks. When Will and his father witness that is to log on to Voxminer, the laying of the last piece of trackworld-building, therecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's an avalancheworld. And Will But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's father saves Van Horne's lifet find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Promotion For the server she and success followed her bestie and now Van Horne is deadnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Will's father is general manager and her safe place in the world's biggest train - the Boundlessgame has been doctored – well, at 987 carriages long - will carry his body in perpetuity. where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Impossible Knife of MemoryRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Laurie Halse AndersonCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Hayley is back in her childhood home after years on ''I can hear the road with her father, trying to outrun song of the pastsea. She doesn't really remember living hereThe call of the deep, nor does she really want tothe answering beat in my heart. Not when her father can't drive under bridges for fear of snipers. Not when he's self medicating with alcohol and drugs. Not when he refuses help from the VA.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147668</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=The Witch of Salt Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Storm|author=Kendall Kulper|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Avery wants just plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one thing: of the seven who swim out to take her place as survey the witch of Prince Islandruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The witch who controls But when the winds and helps Council Watch lays a trap to end the whalers on their way. The witch whose charms on which wrecking, they capture the whole island relies. But Avery's motherleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who has rejected magic, came is as charming as he is secretive and stole with only coordinates to guide her away, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Avery's prison in With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her motherfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's house is a luxurious one - there are dresses and trinkets and ponies most girls would die for. But Avery doesn't care. All she wants is territory, Mira must be determined to get back stop at nothing to save the future of her grandmother home and to continue her witch's apprenticeshipthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408335190</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cate SampsonHarry Allen|title=Splintered LightChildren of the Sun

|summary=When Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she was just is a child, Leah's face was horribly scarred in an attack in which her mother and another woman diedtalented singer. And it's all brought horribly back when the man convicted Life is released years later after new evidence has emerged. Charlie's father hard and food is that man. And Charlie wants more than anything difficult to reunite with his exonerated father come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and help him get revenge on Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the people who falsely accused him. Then there's Linden, newly released from a young offenders institute, whose brother Victor has an inexplicable obsession with this years-old crime. All three teenagers are defined by a single calamitymeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. But what really happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115836</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreview|title=Pills and StarshipsFrontpage|author=Lydia MilletAlexia Casale|rating=3.5|genretitle=Teens|summary=Ravaged by the effects of global warming, disease and an increasingly unsustainable population, the future in which Nat and her brother Sam live is a far cry from the world of their parents' youth. Corporations run the remains of their society, forbidding the birth of new children, using a ubiquitous supply of ''pharma'Sing if you Can' drugs to keep the population in check, and perhaps most sinister of all, taking control of death itself. Riddled by depression Nat's parents have decided to buy a death contract to take their Final Week in a slickly engineered resort in what remains of Hawaii. As the days tick down, Nat finds herself following the lead of her more cynical and rebellious brother, and begins to genuinely question the system that she has previously accepted all her life; however, what chance do two teens possibly have against the all-seeing, all-powerful corps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1617752762</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Ruin and Rising|author=Leigh Bardugot Dance

|summary=Alina StarkovIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, the Sun Summoner, has fallen. In her confrontation but that's what Ven is dealing with the Darkling, she called after collapsing on forbidden powers. Not only did she nearly die, but she didn't succeed stage in stopping him. Now he sits on Ravka's throne, ruling the country through fear, while she wastes away underground, weakened, and far from the light middle of a dance performance that would strengthen was going to change her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00KASIW7A</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Townsend|title=Death on Toast (Shades 2.0)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Freddy has the ultimate disadvantage of having rich parentslife. WellBut she comes back fighting, actuallydesperate to avoid the pity stares, I guess it's not so much that they're rich as that they're far too busy doing what they want, have and desperate to do get back to take much if any notice of Freddy and what hea life that's doingas normal as she can possibly manage. HeMeanwhile there's left on his own - often overnight - a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to do exactly as he wants sort out, and just the day to do. And what Freddy wants day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to do is throw at her to watch horror DVDsnavigate. WhoSo even though she can's t dance anymore, might she be able to say whether it was the DVDs or his parents lack of interest which drove him to do what he did, but whichever it was, Freddy does something from which there is no return.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276382</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Eye of the Falcon (Gods and Warriors Book 3) Simon Fox|authortitle=Michelle PaverDeadlock

|summary=It's been seven long months since Hylas Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and Pirra were separated in join him on the wake run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on the devastating eruption of Thalakrea. The eruption late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was followed by tsunami determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the coldest winter anyone can remember. There is no spring. No sunbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ReplicaLex Croucher|authortitle=Jack HeathGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=There is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictiongay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, but it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this book demonstrates that a focus on a younger character shouldn’t prevent a wider audience from enjoying a good story. ''Replica'' is a strange , Gwen and compelling combination of actionArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, mysteryyou see, thriller and scienceis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) -fictionsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. Heath has even included And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a hint boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of a romancefalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. There is something for everyone and although the book raises some challenging and thought-provoking problemsBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, the text is easy-or are they destined to-read, immersive and unpretentious.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=Apple and RainFrontpage|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''A story about sad endings.''<br>''A story about happy beginnings.''<br>''A story to make you realise who is special.''<br> This is the blurb on the back jacket of ''Apple and Rain'' and it sums up the book just perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140885306X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewNick Brooks|title=Between the Lives|author=Jessica ShirvingtonPromise Boys

|summary=Sabine lives two lives. LiterallyWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each night, at midnightseemingly, she shifts from one self to another. Time resets too; Sabine may be has a teenager to her families and friends but in reality, she has thirty-odd years-worth grudge of life experience. It's a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painfulsome description against Principal Moore, and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately in each environment. And her lives are very differentcould have been there at the time of his murder. In Wellesley But who killed him, Sabine is wealthy and popular with two brothers why, and a boyfriend other girls if any of the boys are jealous of. In Roxburyinnocent, she has one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation for rebelliousness.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=Night RunnerA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Tim BowlerKitt Townsend

|summary=Strange men are watching Vinny's house but he doesnSolomon Klyne isn't know a bad lad, so why. His mum is being disloyal to his dad but he doesn't know why. Something is up with his dad and his job but Vinny doesn't know what. But Vinny does know that he's had enough running around London committing a series of school, where robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's being bullied. Everything is going wrong. And now, the men who are watching ll have to wait to get an answer to the house are after Zinny toosecond question because I avoid spoilers. Mum ends up in the hospital. Dad disappears. What's going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Doing It|author=Melvin Burgess|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=First published in 2003, But I''Doing It'' is ll answer the story of a group of teenagers discovering sex first one: for the first timehis grandmother. It's explicit. It's unflinching. And it caused a stir at the time. With high teen pregnancy rates, is there such a thing as too much accuracy? Or are honest portrayals the best form of education? Reissued a decade later, we can have that conversation all over again through the prism of the three teenage boys this novel follows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RunawayPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Marie-Louise JensenDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=After her father Ant is brutally murderedin Year Eleven at quite a standard school, Charlotte escapes the city to try and is surprised to find a new lifehis 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 avoid the vicious killer who is surely tracking her downprimary school days together. Disguising herself as a boy As they're all fired up, she puts her skill with horses to good use by finding employment straining at the leash only a grand country estatesingle-sex school can form, drawing the notice of a kind man far above her station talk in lifeclass and out often turns to sex. But while Charlie tries to grasp happiness Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where she can find ithis achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the shadow of the past looms over herladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Will she ever be truly free And that's mostly because of the terror of her fatherwho he's death?been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=NogginStitched Up|author=John Corey WhaleySteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''ListenTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. I Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was alive once and then I wasn't. Simple as that. Now I'm alive again. The in-between part is still a little fuzzyhappy, but I can tell you thatif not prosperous, at some point or another, my head got chopped off so when the smartly-dressed man and shoved into woman came to the village to offer Hahn a freezer job in Denver, Colorado.'' Erk! That's how ''Noggin'' begins and I defy you Hanoi it was an opportunity not to want to read onbe missed. Travis Coates Some money changed hands and Hanh was terminally illon the mini-bus to Hanoi. In a last ditch Hail Mary Only, he consented Hanh and the other girls were not going to cryogenic preservation. And now, he's back, his head grafted onto work in a donor body. Of all the original volunteersshop, Travis is one of only two patients successfully brought back they were to lifework in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's a cause for celebration, right? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122891</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ShimmerPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Paula WestonNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Gaby Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is still struggling extremely hard for some people to come to terms like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with the many major revelations that have been thrown a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at her uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the past few days - not least that creation of one such item is part of the brother plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's believed dead for allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a year store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is actually alive. Ohnot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and they're both Rephaim, half-Angel children of the Fallen - angels that fell from grace after seducing human womenpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621876</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MintyAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Christina BanachRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old twins Minty 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 drink and Jess are barely ever partedmake merry between their conquests. However, until when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a fateful trip Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the coast ends in tragedyEmpire. Minty tries He asks her to rescue her dog but come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon fighting for her lifeKurara 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 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>1910153028</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Sex and ViolenceMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Carrie MesrobianWrath

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Evan Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is a player whoonly just over, when and he moves should be free to a new towndo what he wants, has always found it easy to find a girl to have sex go where he wants and with. Then whom he wants, but he ends up cannot stop himself from putting his foot in the wrong place, with the wrong girl, at the wrong timeit when he talks to his best friend, and suffers a brutal assaultCassie. Retreating to They were half of a quiet community in Minnesota with his fatherdesultory school band, he meets many new people, including but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a girl who may be there for more than 'just' sex. But can he recover subhuman hum coming from the trauma he's suffered?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432965</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Head Over Heart|author=Colette Victor|rating=3earth.5|genre=Teens|summary=Like many other British thirteen-year-olds, Zeyneb is struggling Is this connected with one of her feelings as she grows up, and with juggling her friends and family. However, she has an extra dilemma eco- warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's a Muslim girl who's attracted to a non-Muslim boy whom her family would never approve dreaming of. Additionally, ? Is she needs to decide whether to wear a headscarf or not. What should she dojust bonkers?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909489735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=ZOM-B Clans|author=Darren Shan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=WARNING! If you haven't read And can Fitz find out the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriestruth? Well, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy! Go on. Run along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077805</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Winger|author=Andrew Smith|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West is at boarding school. His roommate is a bully, his closest male friends are idiots, and his best friend is an older girl not when Cassie has gone missing he's madly in love with who doesncan't seem to see him in the same way. But this could be a year that changes everything for him..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141354747</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Mark Lingane|title=Decay: 2 (Tesla)|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 in daily is as much of a problem as a resource. Actually in one or two cases the word 'problem' is a bit of an understatement. In the middle of this hell Seb and Melanie are doing their best to fight and survive, although survival doesn't look like an option once they realise they have to go into the enemy's hive and bring the battle to 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 of them, they can cheat on tests, and they have the upper hand in conversations with others. 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833156X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Since You've Been Gone|author=Morgan Matson|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sloane and Emily are best friends. Until Sloane disappears. She and her parents have vanished. There’s been no phone call, text, or e-mail. Then, two weeks later, Emily gets a list in the mail from Sloane, giving her tasks to do. If she does them all, can she find her way back to Sloane?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471122662</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreviewTori Bovalino|title=The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy)|author=Marie RutkoskiDevil Makes Three

|summary=Kestrel has two alternative futures ahead of Working all summer in her. As boarding school's library is the daughter of last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a general of request for over a vast, expansionist empire, hundred books that she can make a politically advantageous marriage or she can enlist in has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the militarybooks: Mr Birch. Kestrel doesnThe boarding school't want either s headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her life is spent in find and deliver such a delicate game large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of manoeuvres the books, scribbled with her father as the ugliest insults she tries can think of. They're never meant to put reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off the decisionbefore delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858207</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Boy In The TowerPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Polly Ho-YenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=WonderfulIn a word, wonderful rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story about set on a lonely boypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, his agoraphobic mother and buildingsea-eating plantswitches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. That could never workThe current Darks are the Watcher, right? Wrong! ItAndrewe, who has to keep notes of activity 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 Andrewe's a must read foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and you won't ever have read anything quite his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it beforeor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857533037</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Secrets of the Tombs: The Phoenix CodeKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Helen MossJulia and the Shark|rating=54

|summary=Egypt – a land of mystery and beauty, where history surrounds you and death is always present. There are treasures to uncoverJulia, 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 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 in Love with a Geek!|author=Rae Earl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hattie Moore is determined that this year she’ll find true love our pre- could it be with Goose, the boy next door who she's starting to think of as more than just a geek, or will he only ever see her as a friend? If she finds another boy, will he get jealous? And now she's found her real dad, will she get to know him properly?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406340022</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=War Girls|author=Adele Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls and Rowena House|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=This collection 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 Cantor|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=River is everything to Sky. Since her mother and Helmut diedheroine, this girl and boy are the only two human beings on the Island. River is the only boy Sky has ever known. Their life is simple, calm and fulfilling. Until, one day, a boat comes and everything changes. Taken back to civilisation, to the world her mother left behind, Sky is separated from River. Sky hates everything about California - its houses, its rules, its people who don't tell been packed off with her 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 19: Zero Hour|author=Will Hill|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Zero Hour is approaching. Dracula has risen, betrayal has left Department 19 parents and their allies cat from across the world not knowing who they can trust, and rightly or wrongly, every hero seems family home in SW England to have at least one secret to keep. Valentin is away searching be lighthousekeepers for his brother and Draculaa summer, Frankenstein is coming to terms with lycanthropy, and the secrecy which in the department has always relied on is becoming a thing far NE of the pastScottish islands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000750585X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=High and Dry|author=Sarah Skilton|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlie Dixon is having a bad week. Still struggling to get over being dumped by his girlfriend Here be Vikings, he’s turned to alcohol, and now finds himself the lead suspect in the near-fatal drug overdose that kind of a schoolmateScottish island. Offered an alibi by an ex-girlfriend who needs him to find her a missing flash drive, he takes the chance to investigate – but quickly finds that the truth Dad is hard going to come by and a lot of people seem to have been doing some dark dealings. Can he solve the case and win be automating the girl back?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419709291</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Flora in Love: The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby|author=Natasha Farrant|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After a shocking announcement from Bluebell’s familylantern, 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 which is his own – including new guitar protégé Zach. Then Zach meets Blue’s sister Flora and the two immediately hit it offspecialist thing, but Blue’s enthusiasm over filming everything leads to her putting while mum will be leaving her foot career in it. Will Flora ever talk algae behind to her again, and when Zach goes missing, can the sisters and hunt 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 is moving to New Yorkelusive Greenland shark. Her head is full of facts about the Big Apple And Julia, well, but she will this be enough to allow her to cope with life across the Atlantichomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. And why does Lion Boy seem so distant?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574568</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Rilla of InglesideJonathan Stroud|authortitle=L M MontgomeryThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rilla of Ingleside Scarlett McCain is an interesting novel for many reasons. Being the only fictional book written by a Canadian woman just after the waroutlaw, about rejecting the war, it is an incredibly important work. It tells draconian conformity of what happened the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the women who stayed at home, wildlands between the limited aspects Seven Kingdoms of war work that they were able to doBritain, the endless fear robbing banks and dread they felt for their loved ones far awayshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and all of the emotional highs and lows they experienced during such a heightened timedarker past. The novel begins as Europe is on With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the brink mythical Free Isles of warthe London Lagoon. Together, and Rilla is only 15 years old and, still, a rather silly young girl. I have to saythey must brave man-eating wildlife, I never much cared for Rilla. In ''Rainbow Valley' the book that precedes this one, she's just a spoilt baby cannibalistic Tainted and at all the start horrors of this story it seems that nothing much has changed. Howeverpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, just as but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the world goes through a dramatic change during this period rest of time, Rilla herself grows from a child to a woman.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034900451X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=LobstersMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Tom Ellen and Lucy IvisonSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=It’s no Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret that I’m illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a massive fan of teen fiction and I think it does an awful lot of things really wellpriority in people's lives. Amongst other thingsBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, it can transport the reader to faraway times and placesher simple existence is changed for good. It No longer can also let them empathise with people she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in situations it that they’ll probably – and in many cases hopefully – she 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-acclaimedasked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1909489336</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Murder Most Unladylike (Wells & Wong Mystery 1)T L Huchu|authortitle=Robin StevensThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=How do you solve Ropa Moyo is a murder with no body when nobody even realises that ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a murder has taken place? Such is bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the task facing the Wells & Wong Detective Society - Deepdean School's most secret society. Society Secretary Hazel Wong found mistress Miss Bell's dead body in the gymof Edinburgh for their living relatives. But by the time Ever since she returned with President Daisy Wellsdropped out of school, Miss Bellshe's body had disappearedbeen using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. ItHowever, there's an evil stalking the first decent case ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Society has had - who really cared about Laviniacity's Missing Tie? - and Daisy has at it with gustochildren. Hazel follows along at a slower pace but with, it must be saidSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a great deal more attention to detailmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. Of course, school life continues unhindered She will end up discovering an occult library and Daisy realise that the world of magic is far bigger and Hazel must conduct their investigation while avoiding Latin prep more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and lacrosse practicebring an end to this evil, and enjoying midnight feasts and buntime biscuits.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552570729</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Apple Tart of HopeKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Sarah Moore FitzgeraldLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=MegHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones's parents think six months away in New Zealand is ', an online support group where she talks to a great ideabunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Meg isnWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't convincedrespond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. A big part of the reason She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't want expect to go find there is Oscar. Oscar Dunleavey is Meg's best friend, a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the boy next door who makes perfect apple tartspast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006924</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Smart|author=Kim Slater|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Kieran sees the world in a different 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, and the police don’t seem interested, Kieran decides Move on to investigate himself. Can he solve the mystery? Perhaps even more importantly, can he survive his home life with horrible stepfather Tony and stepbrother Ryan bullying him?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447254090</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]