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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=Young Bond: Shoot The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to Killlog 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=Steve ColeRachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''Shoot to Kill'' may be the sixth Young Bond in the series, but it is the first to be written by Steve Cole. He has taken over I can hear the reins from song of the highly capable Charlie Higsonsea. Like The call of the adult Bond booksdeep, the character has seen many people write about him since Ian Fleming’s death, so there is no reason to think the quality would suddenly drop after a new author comes on boardanswering beat in my heart. In fact, Cole is able to inject a little more energy into a series that was starting to flag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533738</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|title=Misty Falls|author=Joss Stirling|rating=2Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Misty Mira, like her mother before her, is always getting into trouble thanks one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the Savant ability which means she canisland't lie s leader and causes people around her to be brutally honest if sheMira's not carefulfather. Can Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she find happiness? Or will sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the serial killer stalking sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the Savant community strike watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at Misty or one nothing to save the future of her friends?home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273735X</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=UnmadeHarry Allen|authortitle=Sarah Rees BrennanChildren of the Sun

|summary=Sorry-Ra Eun Seo lives in-the-Vale has been taken over by Rob Lynburn a North Korean town and his merry band of evil sorcerersshe is a talented singer. But Kami Glass has never been one Life is hard and food is difficult to let danger of death come by, so Seo and dismemberment stop her on her quest friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for truth. And Kami has tree bark and edible grasses to know supplement the truth about what happened to Jared, Jared who rescued her brother meagre rations of rice and hasn't been seen sincekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857078119</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreview|title=Rebecca Is Always RightFrontpage|author=Anna CareyAlexia Casale|ratingtitle=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=First things first: I must admit that I chose to review this book entirely based on its title. After all, what better book to keep on the coffee table and brandish at my husband when I'm making a point? What I did not realise when I volunteered is that it is the fourth book in a series that began in 2011 with ''The Real Rebecca'', for which Anna Carey won the Senior ChildrenSing if you Can's Book prize at the Irish Book Awards. This has its advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, you can tell that the characters are established and well-rounded. On the other hand, there are such frequent references to past events – presumably, adventures from the previous three books – that it is clear this is an instalment in an ongoing story and not a stand-alone book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847175651</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Ghosts of Heaven|author=Marcus Sedgwickt Dance

|summary=If anyone ever suggests 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 science and art (or philosophy) don't go together, give them this book! The Ghosts of Heaven presents four fabulous stories from different time frames linked by s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the natural constant middle of the spirala dance performance that was going to change her life. The introduction provides a lyrical explanation of the birth of But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the universepity stares, the Solar System and us and of the dimensional spiral we call the helix. It also explains desperate to get back to a life that we 's as normal as she can read possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the stories in any day to day traumas of all the twenty-four possible orders we pleasechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621981</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doctor Who: 12 Doctors 12 StoriesSimon Fox|authortitle=Malorie Blackman, Holly Black and othersDeadlock

|summary=How long do you keep your birthday presents for? A week, a month, a year – or life? Is that time-scale different, perhaps, when you're nearly a thousand years old? I only ask because Doctor Who Late one night Graham Blake is, of course, both 51 (in our earthly, televisual representation) and 900 and more in human years as a character. In 2013 we were given a great book that gave us a story for every Doctor Who we've seen late back from his shift on TV, in honour of the 50th birthday proceedings. But now is a year onforce, and we're a further Doctor down the line. And so what was '11 Doctors, 11 Stories' is now '12 Doctors, 12 Stories'. So while many of us would have cherished and kept said birthday present, the only addition is the last, which like the rest was available as an e-book. So it's worth revisiting what I said about the book last time, then chucking in the (what might only be temporarily) concluding story at the end.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141359889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Opal Plumstead|author=Jacqueline Wilson|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Living in Edwardian Englandsuddenly rings Archie, Opal Plumstead is a fiercely intelligent girl. She has already won a scholarship to a public school and dreams of going to university. But all her ambitions are snatched away when her father is sent to prison and Opal is forced to abandon her education for demanding he fetch something from a job in the Fairy Glen sweet factory. The other workers there find Opal snobby and arrogant but the factory's owner, Mrs Robertssecret place, notices her artistic talent and treats Opal as a protege. Through Mrs Roberts, Opal learns about join him on the suffragette movement and even meets the legendary Mrs Pankhurstrun. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531093</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Lies We Tell Ourselves|author=Robin Talley|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The year is 1959 They get together, and a small group of black students are attending Jefferson High, a previously all-white school. Barely anyone is happy that Sarah Dunbar and her friends are going but barely begin to Jefferson, and smell the group face a terrifying ordeal as they're surrounded by people who want to see them fail. Chief amongst them is Linda Hairston, daughter of one whiff of Southern trains when the town's most vocal segregationalists. But when Sarah and Linda start working together on a school project, they start to realise they may have more in common than they think - and friendship might not be all they're looking for from each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848452926</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Spark|author=John Twelve Hawks|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Jacob Underwood father is dead. At leastarrested, he thinks he is. Suffering leaving Archie on the after effects of a traumatic accident, Jacob believes he is dead, just a spark existing inside a body, but unable late express to fully interact with anything around him. Emotionally detached and living in a shadowyBrighton, silent world, Jacob is the ideal assassin. When toting a new hit is assigned tin his father was determined to him, Jacob must prepare himself - and his journey will change both keep away from his selfcolleagues, and how he sees the world around him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073312</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Cure For Dreaming|author=Cat Winters|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Olivia Mead is strong, independently-minded and unrepentant in her beliefs, but there is a certain natural vulnerability to her personality which makes her so appealing. She isn’t bearer of a ruthless, remorseless warrior. She is a human being who simply wants to be treated like one, rather than a pet. She isn’t an elusive and daunting beauty, because this isn’t the point whole heap of her character. Her beauty lies in in her firmly held values, which she sticks by even at an age when it would be so easy to go with the flowquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419712160</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BelzharLex Croucher|authortitle=Meg WolitzerGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=''Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was sent here because of a boygay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. His name was Reeve Maxfield In this story, Gwen and I loved him and then he diedArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, and almost a year passed and no-one knew what much to do with me.'' Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of him and the forty-one days of their relationship. She's not interested in school. friends, food, familymutual disgust! Gwen, even therapy. And soyou see, is in desperation, Jamlove with Bridget (the kingdom's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jill Atkins|title=The Real Test (Shades 2.0only female knight)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ryan had just passed his driving test at the first attempt and he ''knew'' it meant - something that he was a great driver. There was just one snag: his mother wasn't exactly on board about this and wouldn't let him borrow Art discovers from her carprivate diaries. There was always an excuse as to why it just wasn't possibleAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, even when he'd promised his friends that he could have the car so really they could go off somewhereare enabling their own other romantic attachments. Finally he got his Mum to admit that she was But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a bit worried about him using it - but she did offer to go out with him so that he could get some practice way in. Ryan knew that the time for ''practicing'' was past. I meanwhich they can both truly be themselves, he'd ''passed'' his test, hadn't heor are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276285</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|title=The Winter Horses|author=Philip Kerr|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It’s the winter of 1941 and we are in the Ukraine. A fourteen year old girl is hiding in a wood on the vast and bitter-cold steppe. Her name is Katinka, a name from folk song and fairy tale, and she has been befriended by two of the wild Przelowski’s horses.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406359831</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jill AtkinsNick Brooks|title=Aftershock (Shades 2.0)Promise Boys

|summary=She's MADDYWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, you knowthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, not MADELEINEseemingly, but that's only one of the problems which she has with her parents. They might be on holiday in one a grudge of the most beautiful places on earthsome description against Principal Moore, but her mother simply will not lighten up. She's always complaining about what Maddy does, what she wears or doesn't wear (and each could have been there's not ''nearly'' enough at the time of that bikini...) and Maddy has had enoughhis murder. She slams out of their bungalow But who killed him, and goes down to the beach - but it's not long before the sea is all sucked away why, and tragedy hits. Will Maddy have if any of the chance boys are innocent, will they be able to apologise for all the hurtful things which she saidclear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781276293</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Family|rating=4|genre=TeensFrontpage|summaryisbn=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077848</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1919635017|title=Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light|author=Derek Landy|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Everything comes down A Thief to this. The war between the Sanctuaries was merely Catch a prelude to the real battle, the fight against Darquesse, perhaps the most powerful sorcerer of all time. Prophesied to burn everyone and everything to ashes, her arrival heralds the end of the world as everyone knows it, and the stakes have never been higher, the need never greater, for Skulduggery Pleasant and what remains of his allies to do what they do best: kicking evil very hard in the face.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489250</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Eren|author=Simon P Clark|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=People - Mum, mostly - are keeping secrets from Oli. Why have they had to leave London and come to live in the country with Uncle Rob? Why hasn't Dad come too? Why does everyone keep turning off the TV news every time it comes on? Why does Em's dad dislike Oli when he doesn't even know him? When will Dad come? When will life go back to normal? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472110978</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Young Sherlock: Stone ColdKiller|author=Andrew LaneKitt Townsend

|summary=Every human being is Solomon Klyne isn't a mystery, even to themselvesbad lad, so there's why is he running around London committing a particular pleasure to be found in tracing the roots series of someone's interests and life's work. Just robberies? And how did our hero develop his ability, for example, he learn to tell a personcrack safes? You's character, profession and history within minutes of meeting him or her? In this, ll have to wait to get an answer to the seventh volume in second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the series of books about the early years of the famous Sherlock Holmes, we see how events and a most intriguing couple of mentors combine to lead him down a path to first one: for his eventual role as a consulting detectivegrandmother. Well, if he survives till adulthood, that is. Of all his talents the most pronounced one does seem to be the knack of finding people who are determined to kill him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447272579</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The RisingPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Tom MoorhouseDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Strife Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find 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 Kale are two young water voles who other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can sniff form, the talk in class and out trouble better than their careful sister Ivy and often turns to the fury of their protective mothersex. Which is confusing for Ant, Aven. They just canas he doesn't help itknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. But Kale isn He't telling Strife everything - he has s had a casual relationship, a secret. When long-lost Uncle Sylvan arrives warning of danger one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the siblings eavesdrop on the adultsladder headed by 'experienced' conversation, Kalebut whether that's secret is exposed. Even though she doesnset in stone, he can't fully understand it, Strife follows her brother into danger to avert a bigger dangerbe sure. The quest on which these two young water voles embark will test them to their limits and they And that's mostly because of who he'll need all s been having the help Uncle Sylvan relationship and Fodur the rat can provide..sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192734822</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Wolf Brother: Chronicles of Ancient DarknessStitched Up|author=Michelle PaverSteve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Living six thousand years agoTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, after so when the Ice Age but before smartly-dressed man and woman came to the spread of agriculture, Torak village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and his people understand Hanh was on the natural worldmini-bus to Hanoi. They revere Only, Hanh and the animals other girls were not going to work in a shop, they hunt and never waste were to work in virtual slavery in an ounce of preyillegal garment factory. A deer provides them not only with food, but also You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with clothes, water carriers, shoes, rope, even needles. Torak intricate embroidery and his people also understand spirituality. They see beading on the sacred in legs? The ones with the seasons artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and the cycle of the moonher co-workers made them. And they believe in demons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444015419</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=FoundPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Harlan CobenNeedle|rating=43

|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's been eight months since Mickey watched his father die in fostering with a car accident. Since thenpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's been drawn into at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the work creation of one such item is part of the mysterious Abeona Shelterplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, rescuing children and young people from dangerous situations. The latest person to go missing is Emamaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's online boyfriendallowed contact with no more. Mickey isn't convinced he existsWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, but Ema's adamant they need and then force people to look give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011}}{{Frontpage|author= Ann Sei Lin|title= Rebel Skies|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= 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 make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him. Meanwhile, Mickey's nemesis Troy has been taken off someone with the basketball team power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after failing a steroid testall across the Empire. Troy isn't exactly Mickey's favourite personHe asks her to come with him, but he knows to leave the team life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't play so well without himhave 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, so when Troy asks Mickey for help a sky-ship whose express purpose is to prove his innocencehunt down shikigami, Mickey reluctantly agrees.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409124517</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=No Stone UnturnedMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Helen WattsWrath

|summary=Kelly doesn't have any friends Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at school. People don't like travellershimself. So she's glad to find a new friend in Ben Lockdown is only just over the summer holidays. Even Kelly's dog, Tysonand he should be free to do what he wants, likes Ben. Exploring the disused quarries local to their village of Wilmcotego where he wants and with whom he wants, they find some interesting treasuresbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, including an old bootCassie. So when They were half of a desultory school starts again and Mr Walker sets a local history projectband, Kelly decides to find out more about but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the old quarries, enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the coming earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the railway and the use end of Wilmcote limestone in the construction world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of the Houses music she's dreaming of Parliament. Ben offers to help and soon ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the pair uncover worrying evidence about what really went on all that time agotruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472905407</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Counting By 7sTori Bovalino|authortitle=Holly Goldberg SloanThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Willow Working all summer in her boarding school's library is not like other girlsthe last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. She What makes it worse is not just smartthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, but certifiably giftedand a man Tess hates. She gets As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on better each of the books, scribbled with adults than the ugliest insults she does her peerscan think of. She loves patterns and plantsThey're never meant to reach him, the colour red and the number 7of course. She Her plan is charming to get her anger out like this, and adorable and quirkythen take them all off before delivering them. She is one of the most real characters INo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn've met in a book this year. And she is hurtingt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848124163</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreview|title=The 100 SocietyFrontpage|author=Carla SpradberyPhilip Reeve|rating=4|genretitle=Teens|summary=Grace Utterly Dark 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 Face 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 OppelDeep

|summary=William Everett's father has risen high in the railway. But it wasn't always thus. He spent many years working for Cornelius Van Horne as In a manual labourerword, cutting and blasting through swathes of Canada and laying tracksrich. When Will and his father witness the laying of the last piece of track, there's There is certainly an avalanche. And Will's father saves Van Horne's life. Promotion and success followed and now Van Horne is dead, Will's father is general manager and the world's biggest train - the Boundless, at 987 carriages long - will carry his body in perpetuity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200107</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Impossible Knife abundance of Memory|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Hayley is back riches in her childhood home after years this story set on the road with her fathera peculiar island called Wildsea, trying to outrun the past. She doesn't really remember living hereBritish but way west, nor does she really want to. 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 beyond the VAScillies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147668</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Witch of Salt and Storm|author=Kendall Kulper|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Avery wants just one thing: to take her place as the witch of Prince Island. The witch who controls the winds and helps the whalers There are troll people on their way. The witch whose charms on which the whole island relies. But Avery's motherit, who has rejected magic, came and stole her away. Avery's prison in her mother's house is a luxurious one sea- there are dresses and trinkets and ponies most girls would die for. But Avery doesn't care. All she wants is to get back to her grandmother and to continue her witch's apprenticeship.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408335190</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cate Sampson|title=Splintered Light|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When she was just a childwitches, Leah's face was horribly scarred in an attack in which her mother and another woman died. And it's all brought horribly back when legends of the man convicted is released years later after new evidence Dark family that has emerged. Charlie's father is that man. And Charlie wants more than anything to reunite with his exonerated father keep watch for magical islands and help him get revenge on the people who falsely accused him. Then there's Linden, newly released their monster approaching from a young offenders instituteeven further west, whose brother Victor has an inexplicable obsession with this years-old crimewhere no ship dare sail. All three teenagers The current Darks are defined by a single calamity. But what really happened?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115836</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Pills and Starships|author=Lydia Millet|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ravaged by the effects of global warmingWatcher, disease and an increasingly unsustainable populationAndrewe, 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'' drugs who has to keep notes of activity from the population in checkHidden Lands, 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 his brother Will who lives in a slickly engineered resort London with too much science 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 his head to genuinely question the system that she has previously accepted all her life; howeverworry about such local yokel superstitions, 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 Bardugo|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Starkov, the Sun Summoner, has fallen. In her confrontation with the Darkling, she called on forbidden powers. Not only did she nearly die, but she didn't succeed in stopping him. Now he sits on RavkaAndrewe's thronefoundling daughter, ruling who washed up out of the country through fear, while she wastes away underground, weakenedsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and far from his curious ward are thrust into the light that would strengthen herworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00KASIW7A</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John TownsendKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Death on Toast (Shades 2.0)Julia and the Shark

|summary=It's Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been seven long months since Hylas packed off with her parents and Pirra were separated their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the wake far NE of the devastating eruption Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of ThalakreaScottish island. The eruption was followed by tsunami and Dad is going to be automating the coldest winter anyone can remember. There lantern, which is no springhis specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. No sun And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141339314</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=ReplicaJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Jack HeathThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There Scarlett McCain is a tendency for adults to feel embarrassed about reading young adult fictionan outlaw, but 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 rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and compelling combination Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of actionBritain, mystery, thriller robbing banks and science-fictionshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Heath has even included But then she meets Albert Browne, a hint of dark boy with dark powers and a romancedarker past. There is something for everyone and although With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the book raises some challenging and thoughtLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-provoking problemseating wildlife, the text is easycannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to-readreach the Free Isles, immersive and unpretentious.but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019273766X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Apple and RainMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Sarah CrossanSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=''A story about sad endingsGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely.As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people''<br>''A story about happy beginningss lives.''<br>''A story to make you realise who But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is specialchanged for good.''<br> This is the blurb on the back jacket of ''Apple and Rain'' and No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it sums up the book just perfectlythat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140885306X</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Between the LivesT L Huchu|authortitle=Jessica ShirvingtonThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sabine lives two lives. Literally. Each nightRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, at midnight, she shifts using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from one self to anotherthe dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Time resets too; Sabine may be a teenager to her families and friends but in realityEver since she dropped out of school, she has thirty-odd years-worth of life experience. It's a stressful existence: the shift itself is frightening and painfulbeen using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and Sabine must be careful to behave appropriately in each environment. And her lives are very differentaging grandmother. In WellesleyHowever, Sabine is wealthy and popular with two brothers and a boyfriend other girls are jealous there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of. In RoxburyEdinburgh, she has one sister, parents whose business is struggling, and a reputation for rebelliousness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140833173X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Night Runner|author=Tim Bowler|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Strange men are watching Vinnytargeting the city's house but he doesn't know whychildren. His mum Soon, Ropa is being disloyal to pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dad but he doesn't know whydead mother. Something is She will end up with his dad discovering an occult library and his job but Vinny doesn't know what. But Vinny does know realise that he's had enough the world of school, where hemagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's being bulliedve imagined. Everything is going wrong. And nowWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, the men who are watching the house are after Zinny or will it claim her too. Mum ends up in the hospital. Dad disappears. What's going on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192794140</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Doing ItKristen O'Neal|authortitle=Melvin BurgessLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=First published Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in 2003, constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Doing ItOof Ouch My Bones'' is the story , an online support group where she talks to a bunch of a group 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. When Brigid—one of teenagers discovering sex her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for the first timea while, Priya becomes concerned. ItShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's explicithouse to check up on her. ItBut what she doesn's unflinching. And it caused a stir at the time. With high teen pregnancy rates, t expect to find there is there such a thing as too much accuracy? Or are honest portrayals werewolf in the best form of education? Reissued a decade later, we can have basement – and for that conversation all over again through werewolf to be the prism of girl she has been talking to online for the three teenage boys this novel followspast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440635</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|title=Runaway|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After her father is brutally murdered, Charlotte escapes the city Move on to try to find a new life, and to avoid the vicious killer who is surely tracking her down. Disguising herself as a boy, she puts her skill with horses to good use by finding employment at a grand country estate, drawing the notice of a kind man far above her station in life. But while Charlie tries to grasp happiness where she can find it, the shadow of the past looms over her. Will she ever be truly free of the terror of her father's death?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192735357</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]