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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__  <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerMax Boucherat|title=The Stone CrownLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home in Yeaveburgh - yet they both have roots there. EmlynWe meet Lori on the first evening she's come back got the house to the town herself – no neighbour to pop in which he was born because his , babysitter poorly, mother and sisterat work, archaeologistsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, are working on a dig nearbyher lonesome. His father is What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a care homeblanket fort, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the town to live with her grandmother after her mother died of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a heroin overdosehit in Lori's world. Emlyn is quiet and shy, But first Lori has a bit geekytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and lonelythen she finds something even more spooky. Maxine is lonely too, but For the server she'd never admit it. She's too spiky and defensiveher bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. They both feel like outsiders When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and yet they both have her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a nagging sense that they are where they were meant girl to be. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonya Hurley Rachel Greenlaw|title=GhostgirlCompass and Blade

|summary=Charlotte Usher is desperate to be popular. She has spent the entire summer break transforming herself to try and fit in with the 'in' crowd all in an attempt to try and attract I can hear the attention song of Damen, a popular and handsome jockthe sea. Yet even after all her hard work she still remains invisible at best, despised at worst. Finally, in a moment The call of tragic bad luckthe deep, Charlotte chokes on a gummy bear, alone the answering beat in a classroom, and diesmy heart. This isn't the end of the story however, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fans of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider series have had Rosevear, a two-year wait for this installment remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of our young hero's escapades 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 are not going to be disappointed. Hecapture the island's fourteen year old now leader and not only is he being targeted by a hitman, heMira's also being pursued by father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a journalist bargain with a wreck survivor who wants is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to tell the nation all about the fact that MI6 are using one guide her, she sets off in search of his tender years to do their dirty work. The trouble is that he can't be positive that it was a sniper family secret that caused lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the car he was in watched streets of foreign islands to skid off a Scottish road and land at the bottom heart of a Loch. And MI6 donthe smuggler't seem all that bothered about the journalists territory, unless, that is, Alex might Mira must be willing determined to find some simple information from a GM crop research centre, in which case they might be able stop at nothing to have a quiet word with save the future of her home and the gentlemanones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=P C and Kristin Cast Harry Allen|title=Tempted (House Children of Night)the Sun|rating=35

|summary=Last time we left Zoey, Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she'd just banished Kalonais a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, an ancient fallen immortalso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, from looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the Tulsa House meagre rations of Night, along with evil High Priestess Neferet. Stevie Rae's Red Fledglings were regaining their humanity, but Stark, second ever Red Vampire, was badly injured. Her official boyfriend was Erik, but she's re-Imprinted with Human, Heath, rice and Stark had pledged a Warrior's Oath to herkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654804</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary BlackwoodAlexia Casale|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Welcome It's hard enough to Viking times. The land is ruled by a pitiless and greedy Chieftain, Bjorn Svanson, who always gets what he wants. And what he wants is Thora. She is a healer – very useful when navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're going having to set out on navigate a voyagelife-changing disability too, and also very pretty. The Chieftainbut that's destination what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the land middle of fire and ice, also known as Icelanda dance performance that was going to change her life. Impatiently But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Chieftain kidnaps Thorapity stares, but what he doesn't know is and desperate to get back to a life that Thora has powers. Yes, a historical fantasy where the heroine has powers – didn't see that coming did you? She s as normal as she can read auras and at times, see the futurepossibly manage. And what she sees is her new master Meanwhile there's murder. Before you know ita new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, he has been stabbed and Thora and a mysterious male slave are free. What is their destination still? The land just the day to day traumas of fire and ice. Impersonating Bjorn Svanson, all the male slave commandeers his ships and they sail away challenges her body continues to throw at her to Iceland, where a precarious future awaitsnavigate. Will Svanson So even though she can's men follow them across the oceans for revenge? Can they live with what they have done? Will they ever get a chance t dance anymore, might she be able to be togethersing her way through instead? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728814</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Lili St Crow|title=Betrayals: A Strange Angels Novel|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=To start, I have to cover the ground of the mythology of this series. Humans, vampires and werewolves all live in this world, and both species of 'the other' have people halfway turned. Vampires and werewolves aren't exactly the sort to mix with each other - one liking to spill blood, the others going into feeding frenzies every time they smell it. In a previous book, our heroine Dru, has realised her best friend can become semi-wolf in a shape-changing way, and she's tending to the vampire side of things. She's also discovered a very strong threat against her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161283</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantSimon Fox|title=HungerDeadlock

|summary=In Late one night Graham Blake is late 19th century Americaback from his shift on the force, young Will Henry has been the apprentice of the sternand then suddenly rings Archie, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his parentsdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, who were also employed by and join him on the doctorrun. The twelve year old boy has seen many things in his service They get together, but barely begin to smell the monstrumologist - a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day whiff of Southern trains when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor father is arrested, leaving Archie on the twin corpses of late express to Brighton, toting a young girl tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the headless creature with fangs in his chest who had tried to feast on herbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Delaney Lex Croucher|title=The Spook's Stories: WitchesGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary='Warning: Not Who knew that what I really needed to be read after darkright now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly,' are the only words on the back of ''The Spook's Stories''it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and on the inside flapArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, 'The Times' warns us that this book is 'seriously scary'...  The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamelymuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, thoughyou see, is in love with a story about a young Spook Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a sort boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of monster-hunter) who falls 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 they find a witch and is forced way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to bear the consequences when the witch's sister comes to stay and exhibits live a taste for the neighbor-children.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannNick Brooks|title=WakePromise Boys

|summary=Janie When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is seventeen and studying hard for collegemurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She's also working lots Each, seemingly, has a grudge of hours some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way time of resourceshis murder. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far But who killed him, and why, and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in if any of the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jaclyn Moriarty 1919635017|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Listen TaylorSolomon Klyne isn's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing familyt a bad lad, with all so why is he running around London committing a series of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to work on the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'Zing Family Secret'll answer the first one: for his grandmother. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break up. The stories of these people come together to create a tale of life, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BerkeleyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)Different for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=I shall start with Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a word 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 advicefour with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. When youAs they're being hounded by all fired up, straining at the leash only a circus mastersingle-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a magiciansecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the soul of a tiger thatladder headed by 's contained in a tigerexperienced's egg , but whether that's contained set in the brain of your teddy bearstone, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make he can't be sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogy. Still - never mind, the angelAnd that's efforts will involve you entering a dream world mostly because of flight who he's been having the relationship and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world to desert oases and back, and friends new and old will be on board to helpsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Kate1800901232|title=FallenStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=A 17 Twelve-year -old girl at Hanh wanted to be a new school meets fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a mysterious job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and impossibly goodHanh was on the mini-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn bus toHanoi. He seems determined Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to either ignore her or be outright rude work in a shop, they were to her, until he saves her life, work 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 two of artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer? It's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similaritiesquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsPatrice Lawrence|title=King LearNeedle

|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in AlaskaBrave. She loves Charlene, the ice 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and the wilderness readers both. Kicked out of her remote home multiple homes and schools, she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing s fostering with her peers a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and enjoying college and home comforts back has taken up residence in Fairbanks. However, things arenher son Blake't all rosy. Cassies old room while he's mother died when she was just 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 baby wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she can't help feeling s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a huge hole in store detective, and then force people to give her hearttwo days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Her scientist father . well, what exactly happens is remote not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very youngpointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=A J HealyAnn Sei Lin|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic KnightsRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to be tell her that she is a gang of heroic detectives charged Crafter like him, someone with rescuing EVERYTHING from destruction. Not just the planet, or power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the solar systemEmpire. He asks her to come with him, or even to leave the galaxylife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know whatsoon Kurara won's going to cause this destructiont have any say in the matter, or whenbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, but he and his friends and their ship seem she is forced to be flee out into the only people proactively going about saving world. She joins Himura aboard the day. So it's Orihime, a pity that they start this book strung up by sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a nasty loony who's about to kill them.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Battle of the Sun|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it's his birthday and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's a ''licking and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Abby McDonaldMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Popularity RulesWrath

|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novelMeet Fitz, but a brief browse young Scottish lad full of frustration at the juvenile titlehimself. Lockdown is only just over, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised languagehe should be free to do what he wants, music scene setting to go where he wants and media heroine are aspirational stuff with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when you're stuck in the pre-scene yearshe talks to his best friend, Cassie. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a They were half stars based on its appeal as of a girlie book. That saiddesultory school band, I'm well over eighteen, read but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the story avidly, and enjoyed enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the ironyearth. So well Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a donedeal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly toldnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithTori Bovalino|title=Furnace: Death SentenceThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Meet Alex Sawyer. Framed Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a murder he certainly didnhundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school't dos headmaster, the lad is given life (and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a kind) in large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Furnacebooks, a literal hellhole scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of a private prison. They're never meant to reach him, buried a mile under Englandof course. It's a vicious existenceHer plan is to get her anger out like this, with tribal gangs among the inmatesand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and worse on the staff - Face of the warden Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There is helped by his malevolent blacksuitscertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, nasty medical aides called wheezersBritish but way west, and there beyond the Scillies. There are mutatedtroll people on it, feral creatures of all kinds collectively called rats. After two previous books of failed breakand sea-outswitches, Alex is under and legends of the knife of Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the wardenWatcher, Andrewe, who has a new tactic. He does not want to break Alex - he aims to remake himkeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with medicinetoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashingAndrewe's foundling daughter, as who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of his ownprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Tales of Terror from Julia and the Tunnel's MouthShark|rating=4.5

|summary=Young Robert is put on Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a train back to school by his stepmother. It's summer, in the far NE of the first journey he's made on his ownScottish islands. It turns out to Here be more Vikings, that kind of a challenge than he could ever have imaginedScottish island. The train stalls at Dad is going to be automating the mouth of a tunnel and lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the other passengers sleep through the waitelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a differenceshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris GrimlyJonathan Stroud|title=Tales of Death The Outlaws Scarlett and DementiaBrowne|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan PoeScarlett McCain is an outlaw, master rejecting the draconian conformity of the gothic horror short storySurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and Gris Grimlyshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman a dark boy with dark powers and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]a darker past. Poe's ''Tales With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of Death the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Dementia'' all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are shown off at their very best in this edition.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayMercedes Helnwein|title=The HollowSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=When AbbeyGracie 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's best friendlives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Kristen, disappears and her simple existence is assumed deadchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Abbey feels as though for her life now has a boy in it that she has no-one left to talk tonever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the Dead|rating= 4. Refusing to believe that Kristen 5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is really gonea ghostalker, while struggling to come using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to terms with life on her own, Abbey meets take messages from the mysterious Caspiandead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, a young man who appears she's been using it to be the perfect gentlemansupport not only herself, showering but her with hand-crafted gifts younger sister and words her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of wisdom within weeks of meeting herEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. But beneath those piercing green eyes and soft-spoken mannerSoon, Caspian has secrets Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his owndead mother. Hoping to uncover those, She will end up discovering an occult library and determined to find out what really happened to her best friend, Abbey begins to question her sanity, as realise that the truth proves world of magic is far bigger and more frightening dangerous than she thoughtever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael P. SpradlinKristen O'Neal|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail of FateLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=After his ship is lost Having 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'', an online support group where she talks to a storm as he is returning bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to England, Tristan is washed up on some foreign shore, completely lost just joke and with no sign of his companionsmess around. When he wakesBrigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, hePriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents's surrounded by four men car and two women, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises hedrive to Brigid's in Francehouse to check up on her. He explains his situation But what she doesn't expect to Celia, one of find there is a werewolf in the young women, basement – and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly for that werewolf to be a spy, the girl she ignores his pleas has been talking to online for directions to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with thempast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>1683692349