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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse AndersonMax Boucherat|title=ChainsThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will that said so. But Miss Mary Finch is dead and her greedy nephew and heir denies all knowledge of the will. So Isabel and Ruth are sold to the Locktons and taken to New York. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but the patriots are in control of the city.
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Harrison
|title=The Thirteen Curses
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience with the fairy court, but the realm is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challenge, twisted with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes on, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's home. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned to Elvesden Manor for half term and let's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.
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{{newreview
|author=Nancy Farmer
|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In this third adventureWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Jackmother at work, a fourteen just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgilon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, a bad-tempered shield maidenshe has one main intention, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue and that is to log on a quest to quell Voxminer, the draugr world- the malevolent spirit of building, critter-collecting game that is a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned hit in Lori's world. to JackBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's village t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human handsbestie 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?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieRachel Greenlaw|title=The Hostage (Medusa Project)Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Teenagers Nico, Kitty, Ed and Dylan were implanted with the Medusa gene when they were babies. Now they're adolescents, 'I can hear the intended psychic abilities are coming to song of the foresea. Nico has The call of the deep, the power of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mindanswering beat in my heart. Ed can read other people's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield and no weapon can harm her. Kitty has visions that predict the future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>}}'
{{newreview|author=Diane Harker|title=House Rosevear, a 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 Secrets|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jane has had the seven who swim out to grow up fastsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Constantly moving from place But when the Council Watch lays a trap to placeend the wrecking, never staying in they capture the same school for long, island's leader and always reminded of her motherMira's money worriesfather. Desperate to save him from death, Jane longs for the kind of life where she can just be Mira makes a bargain with a kid, wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and not have to deal with adult problems.  When she's sent only coordinates to stay at guide her sister's student digs, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Laurelssea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, things go as her journey takes her from bad the watched streets of foreign islands to worse. The Laurels is a decrepit Victorian Townhouse, freezing cold, with no food, and to make matters worse, Janethe heart of the smuggler's sisterterritory, Billa, doesn't even want Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her therehome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentHarry Allen|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater with high hopes. He wants to study, become a surgeon, work hard and make a better life for himself. But when the school he enrolled in turns out to be a deserted building, his money is swindled from him, and he's framed for breaking into a shop, he's ready to turn round and go back to the country. His last hope is to collect a volume Children of local stories for a back-alley publisher. One by one, he hunts down the tellers of these grisly tales and records their words, but it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330479512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Dickinson|title=WESun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from the World Ear Ra Eun Seo lives in readiness for a mission that will last a lifetime. Sent to man a tiny station built at enormous effort North Korean town and expense on she is a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar system, he will never be able to returntalented singer. Gravity Life is one-tenth that of Earth hard and his flesh has wastedfood is difficult to come by, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there so Seo and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfully. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire her friends Nari and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the MyrmidotsMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but supplement the breadth meagre rations of the journey to capture the flame, rice and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprisekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saci LloydAlexia Casale|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's been hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a year since we read life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a diary entry from Laura Browndance performance that was going to change her life. We left her with a boyfriend But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and just about adjusted desperate to get back to a Britain life that's as normal as she can 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 full throes day to day traumas of carbon rationingall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Her nu-punk band, ''dirty angels'', hadn So even though she can't quite made itdance anymore, but things were looking rather promising for its future. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=My Love Lies Bleeding|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Solange Drake hates being the only born female vampire. Not only does she have to put up with her pheromones making her irresistible to male vampires, who all want to use her to start their own vampire families, she has a prophecy looming over her head, one that states a female Drake vampire will overthrow the current ruler to become Queen of the Vampires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Markus Zusak|title=Fighting Ruben Wolfe|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The Wolfe family are only just getting by. Times are hard for Cameron and his older brother Ruben. Their father has been injured at work and even though he's mostly recovered now, he's finding it hard to get jobs and the ultimate emasculation of the dole is looming ever nearer. Older brother Steve has ambitions and he can't wait to get out of the house. Sister Sarah is drinking too much and getting a tarty reputation at school. Their mother's fighting to hold things together, but it's taking a heavy toll. Cameron and Rube can't even manage to win a bet at the dog track - even when they get a policeman to put it on for them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862309574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John WardSimon Fox|title=The Comet's ChildDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Teenage Fin Late one night Graham Blake is rescued late back from his remote forest home by Raggshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the first man he has ever encounteredrun. Having such a sheltered childhood has equipped Fin with They get together, but barely begin to smell the speech and education whiff of a nobleman's son but little idea about Southern trains when the real world. Other than relying father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his instincts father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and resourcefulness, Fin has no way the bearer of a whole heap of knowing who to trust, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Raggquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerLex Croucher|title=The Stone CrownGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Yeaveburgh - yet a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back were tiny, much to the town in which he was born because his mother and sistertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, archaeologistsyou see, are working on a dig nearby. His father is in a care home, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to love with Bridget (the town to live with kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdoseprivate diaries. Emlyn is quiet and shy, And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a bit geekyboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and lonely. Maxine is lonely toocreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, but she'd never admit itwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and yet will they both have find a nagging sense that way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are where they were meant destined to be. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonya Hurley Nick Brooks|title=GhostgirlPromise Boys|rating=3.54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Charlotte Usher When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is desperate to be popularmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She Each, seemingly, 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 the attention a grudge of Damensome description against Principal Moore, a popular and handsome jock. Yet even after all her hard work she still remains invisible each could have been there at best, despised at worstthe time of his murder. FinallyBut who killed him, in a moment of tragic bad luck, Charlotte chokes on a gummy bear, alone in a classroomand why, and dies. This isn't the end if any of the story howeverboys are innocent, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going will they be able to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz 1919635017|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Fans of Anthony HorowitzSolomon Klyne isn' Alex Rider series have had t a two-year wait for this installment of our young hero's escapades and they are not going to be disappointed. He's fourteen year old now and not only bad lad, so why is he being targeted by running around London committing a hitman, series of robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's also being pursued by a journalist who wants ll have to wait to get an answer to tell the nation all about second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the fact that MI6 are using first one of : for his tender years to do their dirty workgrandmother. The trouble is that he can't be positive that it was a sniper that caused the car he was in to skid off a Scottish road and land at the bottom of a Loch. And MI6 don't seem all that bothered about the journalist, unless, that is, Alex might be willing to find some simple information from a GM crop research centre, in which case they might be able to have a quiet word with the gentleman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=P C Patrick Ness and Kristin Cast Tea Bendix|title=Tempted (House of Night)Different for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Last time we left ZoeyAnt 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, sheand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they'd just banished Kalonare all fired up, an ancient fallen immortalstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, from the Tulsa House of Nighttalk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, along with evil High Priestess Neferetwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Stevie Rae He's Red Fledglings were regaining their humanityhad a casual relationship, but Starka secret one, second ever Red Vampirefor several months now, was badly injured. Her official boyfriend was Erikand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but shewhether that's re-Imprinted with Humanset in stone, Heath, and Stark had pledged a Warriorhe can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's Oath to herbeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654804</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood1800901232|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphersTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. It's not just Life in the spies rural village where she lived with their secret worldher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it's the mystery of was an ostensibly random set of letters or picturesopportunity not to be missed. It's being able Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to unravel them and see what they're hidingHanoi. It's a combination of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are cool Only, so there) Hanh and uncovering the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us other girls were not going to work in a history of codes shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and ciphers, looking at their creation, beading on the legs? The ones with the stories behind artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them, ? It's quite possible that Hanh and how to crack her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenPatrice Lawrence|title=Daughter of Fire and IceNeedle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Welcome to Viking timesBrave. The land is ruled by a pitiless and greedy ChieftainCharlene, Bjorn Svanson, who always gets what he wants. And what he wants the 'heroine' of this piece is Thora. She is a healer – very useful when you're going extremely hard for some people to set out on a voyagelike, characters and also very prettyreaders both. The Chieftain's destination is the land Kicked out of fire multiple homes and iceschools, also known as Iceland. Impatientlyshe's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, the Chieftain kidnaps ThoraAnnie, but what and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he doesn't know is that Thora has powerss at uni. YesSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, a historical fantasy where the heroine has powers – didn't see that coming did you? She can read auras might perhaps think, and at timesthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, see the future. And what she sees and is making something full of love for her new masteryounger sister – a younger sister she's murderallowed contact with no more. Before you know itWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, he has been stabbed and Thora and a mysterious male slave are freethen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. What is their destination still? The land of fire and ice. Impersonating Bjorn Svansonwell, the male slave commandeers his ships and they sail away what exactly happens is not for me to Icelandsay, where a precarious future awaits. Will Svanson's men follow them across the oceans for revenge? Can they live with what they have done? Will they ever get a chance only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be together? ...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728814</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lili St CrowAnn Sei Lin|title=Betrayals: A Strange Angels NovelRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=To startKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, I have to cover a massive dining hall floating in the ground sky where soldiers of the mythology of this seriesEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. HumansHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, vampires and werewolves someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all live in this worldacross the Empire. He asks her to come with him, and both species to leave the life of 'the other' have people halfway turneddreary servitude that is all she has known. Vampires and werewolves arenWell, soon Kurara won't exactly have any say in the sort to mix with each other - one liking to spill bloodmatter, because the others going into feeding frenzies every time they smell it. In Midori is destroyed by a previous book, our heroine Dru, has realised her best friend can become semi-wolf in monstrous paper spirit known as a shape-changing wayshikigami, and she's tending is forced to flee out into the vampire side of thingsworld. She's also discovered joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a very strong threat against her life.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161283</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantMarcus Sedgwick|title=HungerWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The kids of Perdido Beach are still within the FAYZMeet Fitz, a barrier erected by Little Pete - no-one knows how - when the nuclear plant went into meltdownyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. An uneasy truce between Sam's tribe of Perdido Beach kids Lockdown is only just over, and Caine's Coates Academy kids is beginning he should be free to do what he wants, to waver. The food is running out go where he wants and the Darkness has its claws with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in all those it's encounteredwhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Caine himself is reduced to delirium by They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the voice earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Darkness in his head and Lana end of the healer knows world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's inevitable that dreaming of? Is she too will answer its call. Sam is struggling to keep any form of order. As more and more kids begin to develop special powers and just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the hunger bites deeper into everyone's belliestruth? Well, itnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's inevitable that conflict will break outt.. And it does, in some very unpleasant ways. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405251522</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel CaineTori Bovalino|title=Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires)The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you havenWorking all summer in her boarding school't already, meet Claire. She s library is beholden the last thing Tess Matheson wants to Mr Bishop, the horrid evil vampire do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that is ruling the town of Morganville, even more so than the other human, and vampire, inhabitants are, now that he she has taken over things from Claire's former ruler Amelieto deliver herself. She What makes it worse is caught in a struggle between the two warring vampire factions, especially over an unusual form of disease among man who requested the undead - Ameliebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's side definitely trying to cure itheadmaster, Bishop somehow trying to provoke it and profit from ita man Tess hates. Not only that, As a petty act of revenge for making her boyfriend is imprisonedfind and deliver such a large request, along with his father, one Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the world's least subtle vampire hunters. Can she have enough quality time books, scribbled with him? Can the ugliest insults she and her captured-and-turned ex-housemate Michael survive the horrid things asked can think of them? And who is Ada?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074900777X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joanne Dahme |title=Tombstone Tea|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Having recently moved They're never meant to a new schoolreach him, in a new town, Jessie is struggling to make friends and fit inof course. She Her plan is afraid to show these new people who she really is - in get her old school she often found she had 'blank' momentsanger out like this, when she could hear voices and 'see' people who werenthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't really there. In desperation to become part of a 'group' she accepts the dare of a group of girls to spend the night in the Cemetery and collect some gravestone rubbings to prove she was there. Once there she bumps into Paul, the handsome caretaker, and finds herself in the middle of a strange evening when, Paul claims, local actors get together to rehearse delivered them for something called the 'Tombstone Tea', a play in which they portray those buried in the graveyard...there's something strange though about these actors and Jessie soon finds herself caught up in a chilling dramaher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762437189</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M GrantPhilip Reeve|title=Paradise Red (Perfect Fire Trilogy)Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=We are back in the south of France for the third and final time. In one corner, the 'French', with King Louis and his henchmen rampaging through, warring in the name of peace. In another corner, the local people, struggling in the harsh environment and none too pleased to see their corner of the world the location for religious wars, with the Cathar ''heretics'' also present. The lines are drawn, in a realistically convoluted way, and this book will see one of our heroes cross one such line, just as other people make their own momentous decisions. It will take all the narrative skills of the land itself to get the story across to us.
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{{newreview
|author=Mary Naylus
|title=The Dresskeeper
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Things are pretty grim for PickyIn a word, rich. She There is thirteen years oldcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, being bullied at schooland sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to spend her weekends helping her singlekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, working mum where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to take care keep notes of her little 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 her senile grandmother. One evening, at her GranAndrewe's housefoundling daughter, she goes who washed up into out of the attic and tries on an old dress that she finds inside an old chestsea one day eleven years ago. The dress turns out to be magicBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and she suddenly finds herself back in 17th Century London, struggling with a strange man who is calling her 'Amelia' and is trying to kill her. Picky ends up embroiled in Amelia's 17th century life as she tries to find out his curious ward are thrust into the truth world of who is attempting to murder herprotecting their island, at the same time as trying to avoid arousing suspicion with her strange behaviour whenever she returns to the present daylike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956122280</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Monstrumologist: The Terror BeneathJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In late 19th century AmericaJulia, our pre-teen heroine, young Will Henry has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the apprentice far NE of the sternScottish islands. Here be Vikings, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death that kind of his parents, who were also employed by the doctorScottish island. The twelve year old boy has seen many things in his service Dad is going to be automating the monstrumologist - a lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for algae behind to hunt the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor the twin corpses of a young girl elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and the headless creature with fangs in his chest who had tried to feast on heralone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Delaney Jonathan Stroud|title=The Spook's Stories: WitchesOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary='Warning: Not Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to be read after dark,' are wander the only words on wildlands between the back Seven Kingdoms of ''The Spook's Stories''Britain, robbing banks and on the inside flap, 'The Times' warns us that this book is 'seriously scary'shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive...  The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamely, thoughBut then she meets Albert Browne, with a story about a young Spook (a sort of monster-hunter) who falls in love dark boy with dark powers and a witch and is forced darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to bear the consequences when mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the witch's sister comes to stay cannibalistic Tainted and exhibits a taste for all the neighborhorrors of post-children.apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Wake|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Janie is seventeen and studying hard for college. She's also working lots of hours 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 of resources. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Moriarty |title=The Spell Book of Listen Taylor|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Listen Taylor's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing family, with all of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed to work on the 'Zing Family Secret'. 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>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Berkeley|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I shall start with a word of advice. When you're being hounded by a circus master, and a magician, for the soul of a tiger that's contained in a tiger's egg that's contained in the brain of your teddy bear, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make 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 angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight 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 help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Fallen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A 17 year old girl at a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn to. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to her, until he saves her life, and the two of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similarities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsMercedes Helnwein|title=King LearSlingshot
|rating=3
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Beth Durst
|title=Ice
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young.
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{{newreview
|author=A J Healy
|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING from destruction. Not just the planet, or the solar system, or even the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know what's going to cause this destruction, or when, but he and his friends and their ship seem to be the only people proactively going about saving the day. So it's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about to kill them.
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{{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''.
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{{newreview
|author=Abby McDonald
|title=The Popularity Rules
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but a brief browse at the juvenile title, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene years. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read the story avidly, and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly told.
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander Gordon Smith
|title=Furnace: Death Sentence
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Alex SawyerGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Framed for As a murder he certainly didn't do, the lad is given life (secret illegitimate daughter of a kind) in the Furnace, man with a literal hellhole of a private prison"real" family, buried she is used to not being a mile under England. Itpriority in people's lives. But when she defends a vicious existence, random boy in her class with tribal gangs among the inmatesher slingshot, and worse on the staff - the warden her simple existence is helped by his malevolent blacksuits, nasty medical aides called wheezers, and there are mutated, feral creatures of all kinds collectively called ratschanged for good. After two previous books of failed break-outsNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Alex is under the knife of the warden, who for her life now has a new tactic. He does not want to break Alex - he aims to remake him, with medicine, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing, as one of his ownboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyT L Huchu|title=Tales The Library of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthDead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Young Robert Ropa Moyo is put on a train back ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school by his stepmother, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. ItHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the first journey hecity's made on children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his owndead mother. It turns out to be She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more of a challenge dangerous than he she ever could ever have 've imagined. The train stalls at Will she find the mouth of a tunnel missing children and while the other passengers sleep through the waitbring an end to this evil, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a difference. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris GrimlyKristen O'Neal|title=Tales of Death Lycanthropy and DementiaOther Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.
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{{newreview
|author=Jessica Verday
|title=The Hollow
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Abbey's best friendHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Kristen, disappears and is assumed dead, Abbey feels as though she Priya has no-one left to talk to. Refusing to believe that Kristen is really gone, while struggling to come to terms with life on her own, Abbey meets the mysterious Caspian, a young man who appears to fact that she may be in constant pain for the perfect gentlemanrest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', showering her an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with hand-crafted gifts chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and words mess around. When Brigid—one of wisdom within weeks of meeting her. But beneath those piercing green eyes and soft-spoken mannerclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Caspian has secrets of his ownPriya becomes concerned. Hoping She decides to uncover those, steal her parents' car and determined drive to Brigid's house to find out check up on her. But what really happened she doesn't expect to her best friend, Abbey begins find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to question her sanity, as be the truth proves more frightening than girl she thoughthas been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Michael P. Spradlin|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After his ship is lost in a storm as he is returning to England, Tristan is washed up Move on some foreign shore, completely lost and with no sign of his companions. When he wakes, he's surrounded by four men and two women, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises he's in France. He explains his situation to Celia, one of the young women, and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly be a spy, she ignores his pleas for directions to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]