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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldMax Boucherat|title=SpecialsThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In We meet Lori on the un-named city of first evening she's got the future, all the adults are living house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the delusion that their city is right. After a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo a welter of medical proceduresbabysitter poorly, to make their minds and bodies conform to the blandmother at work, but gorgeousjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, society normon her lonesome. But one young woman is not like that. What could possibly go wrong? She is going to Snuggled in a partyblanket fort, looking uglyshe has one main intention, and she knows it that is not what we look liketo log on to Voxminer, but how special we feel insidethe world-building, critter-collecting game that is of most importancea hit in Lori's world. The good news is But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this woman is our returning heroinestormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, Tallyand 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. The bad news is that When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her ugliness safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how girl to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverRachel Greenlaw|title=Before I FallCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisters. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about that. She knows she's part of a group who, by most definitions, would be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition of ''in''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Guilt Trip|rating=4

|summary=Two years ago, Ali and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicide''I can hear the song of the sea. They became local heroes and were looked up to as good examples The call of modern day teenagers. Ali was on her way to Cambridgethe deep, Stephen about to start his own business, Jackson getting ready to be reunited with his brother the answering beat in Brighton where hemy heart.'d also study history, and Hannah joining her mother's hairdressing business.

Then something dreadful happenedRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Five weeks laterMira, Daniel was deadlike her mother before her, is 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 gang island's leader and Mira's father. 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 sets off in search of friends who had been adjusting a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to life unearth what might save her father, as heroes were responsibleher journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerHarry Allen|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy Children of Lies and Don't Tellthe Sun

|summary=After years without seeing her grandmother, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps Ra Eun Seo lives in a summons - to visit the old lady at her house in the North Korean town of Wisteriaand she is a talented singer. Reluctantly, she goes there Life is hard and food is difficult to please her mother, but finds out that despite the invitationcome by, so Seo and her grandmother doesn't seem happy to see herfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, who's currently living there. More worryingly, edible grasses to supplement the house seems strangely familiar, because she's seen it many times in her dreams..meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam EnthovenAlexia Casale|title=CrawlersSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Why are the men It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that want you're having to take over the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is stupid. Ever since dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Great Fire middle of London trapped a dance performance that was going to change her in an underground dungeon in 1666life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the Queen has been neutralisedpity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Even then Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, the great and just the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves day to kill day traumas of all the challenges her. She had too much potential. But they did have the sense body continues to keep throw at her safely locked awayto navigate. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he So even though she can rule the world through the Queen and he's set her a test. If t dance anymore, might she passes, he will set be able to sing her free. way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldSimon Fox|title=PrettiesDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the unnamed city of the futureforce, all the adults are pretty. They've had mental and physical surgery to make them calmthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beingsjoin him on the run. If they have any trouble as young adults it is the problem of what to wear at partiesThey get together, or how but barely begin to get rid smell the whiff of their hangovers Southern trains when they wake up at 5pm. Unfortunately, one of these bright young things the father is our heroinearrested, Tally, one of the few people in leaving Archie on the world late express to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Uglies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary="This city is a paradiseBrighton, Tally. It feeds you, educates you, keeps you safe. It makes you pretty." And that's meant literally. As soon as they're sixteen years old, ugly people like Tally are completely rebuilt - no more freckles, dull eyes, rough skin, or ideas about biting their fingernails, and made toting a pretty. It's scientifictin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and obviously the bearer of benefit, considering the parties, status and love afforded to pretties. But is it essential? When her best friend is prettified Tally finds a new friend, Shay, who has secrets to share in the few weeks before the operation they're due to have on the same day. Secrets of another place, another way, and whole heap of people staying forever ugly - through choicequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole DryburghLex Croucher|title=Talk to the HandGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way Who knew that what I See It''really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, which she wrote at eighteenit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and which detailed her battles Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with cancer and Bridget (the loss of kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her sightprivate diaries. We loved And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the warts-and-all picture subterfuge of her life that she gave us thenfalling in love with each other, and so we were when really pleased they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to see that she's written live a second book. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William HusseyNick Brooks|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of the DemontidePromise Boys

|summary=Jake When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a rather solitary person. He's bright but bored by school grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and he's obsessed with horror comicseach could have been there at the time of his murder. He owns an amazing collection and he knows all the stories But who killed him, and myths and folklores off by heart. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is realwhy, and if any of the Demontide is almost upon him. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Powell1919635017|title=The Master of MisruleA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=In the ArcanumSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to so why is he running around London committing a life-altering game series of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness robberies? And how did he learn to this, then players. But theycrack safes? You'd found it wanting, and ll have to wait to get an answer to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebooksecond question because I avoid spoilers. With that, however, But I'll answer the referee is no more, and the Lord of Misrule is in chargefirst one: for his grandmother. Free, too, to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=In the TreesDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Since Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his mother died, Kid geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been staying restructured, so his desk is one of four with Nadine both his best buddy from the football team, and flipping burgers two 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 fast food joint after single-sex schoolcan form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. It's not an exciting life Which is confusing for Ant, but as he isndoesn't unhappyknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. And then Nadine gets He's had a casual relationship, a boyfriend secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the flat gets rather cramped. And then a box of his motherladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's possessions arrives. Insideset in stone, he finds a photo of the father hecan's never met and a copy of his birth certificate, which tells him that his father comes from Belizet be sure. And suddenly, Kid makes a decision. Hethat's going nowhere fast in London, so mostly because of who he's going to head out to Belize been having the relationship and find the man in the photo. He's on a plane within dayssex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gene Kemp1800901232|title=No Way Out|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Alex and Adam are twins, and they're telepathic to boot. They're very close, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adam's looking forward to their holiday on Uncle Ben and Aunt Sadie's farm, but Alex can't think of anything worse. Adam is always happy to read to their little sister Emmy, but Alex resents the attention she gets (she's disabled, y'see). By and large, they're just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumbles. When the car they're in goes through thick fog and crashes, they find themselves in a town from times past, with inhabitants who don't want to let them leave, and who have an eye on Emmy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Delphine de Vigan|title=No and MeSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Lou is Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160fashion designer. She's thirteen, but she's been moved up two years at school and Life in the rural village where she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably lived with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enoughfamily was happy, her only real friend at school is Lucasif not prosperous, who's seventeen so when the smartly-dressed man and such woman came to the village to offer Hahn a rebel that he's been moved down job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. two yearsSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talksshop, seldom gets dressedthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Her father is worn down to You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the bone legs? The ones with worry the artfully-placed rips and Lou doesndistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted is hes quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MagrsPatrice Lawrence|title=The Diary of a Dr Who AddictNeedle

|summary=Davey, in his first term at secondary school, is horrifiedBrave. Not only is his best friend trying to grow up through the use of a home gymCharlene, and standing him up on the first morning 'heroine' of term, he also seems to be becoming dismissive of The Show. Still, he this piece is trying extremely hard for some people to be esoteric - just like his sister, painting her face to look like Bowie album sleeves of all things - characters and Davey knows betterreaders both. He knows everyone should be enthralled Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with the spectacle of Tom Baker falling off a building and becoming Peter Davison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James A Owen|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you want to know where Tolkeinpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobshas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. No - not their work Such a tempestuous personality may be in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians need of a very important bookcomfort blanket, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital informationyou might perhaps think, and almost the soul creation of one such item is part of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who plot here, as Charlene is whom. They might be from a different world - there wonder knitter, and is certainly enough talk making something full of those in these pageslove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. But we'll We see them meet Charlene prove her belligerence with a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictionalstore detective, and morethen force people to give her two days off school, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportionswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4And then.5|genre=Teens|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the Amarant, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faceswell, they realize that it what exactly happens is cursednot for me to say, only to remark how sharp and take a blood oath never to remove itpointy those knitting needles can be. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarant.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenAnn Sei Lin|title=Drawing with LightRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Emily doesn't remember Kurara has spent her biological motherentire 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. She ran away with another However, when a man when Emily was just two. Now, named Himura arrives to tell her older sister Katthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her fatherto come with him, and her stepmother Cassy make up to leave the family unit and Emily thinks it's just fine life of dreary servitude that wayis all she has known. She doesnWell, soon Kurara won't need have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a mother who didn't want her monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and has never even tried she is forced to get in touchflee out into the world. But then Kat goes off She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to universityhunt down shikigami, her father buys and a rundown house in the middle whole world of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while it's being renovated, and Cassy gets pregnant. adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenMarcus Sedgwick|title=Along for the RideWrath

|summary=Auden has always felt like the odd one out amongst her peersMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics Lockdown is only just over, and high achievershe should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and theywith whom he wants, especially her motherbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, want the same for AudenCassie. Auden's older brother is They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the rebel and so Auden feels as though enigmatic – saying she needs to be could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one who satisfies of her mother's ambition. So she works hard and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a moment. But done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's socially awkward and lacking in experience. She's never had a boyfrienddreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, hates the colour pink and not when Cassie has gone missing he can't even ride a bike... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook HastingsTori Bovalino|title=Nearly Departed|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At first sight, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabby. But it's pretty much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school and clump together in little peer groups of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in the middle of it, and at night, everythings turns, well, a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you in. And there are odd noises too... ... and Emily thinks she's seen a ghost. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill|title=Star Crossed: Aries RisingDevil Makes Three

|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers an old book called 'Fearless Astrology'. Can the book help her and Working all summer in her friends get the boys they want, catch the vandals who are shocking their boarding school with pranks, and win her the approval of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' Franklin? This s library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a novel written request for teens – of course over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=January (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Callum worse is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts him. ''They killed your father! They'll kill you! You must survive the next 365 days!'' The man is carted off in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off who requested the incident but it's not easybooks: Mr Birch. How did the man know his name? How did he know that CalThe boarding school's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill headmaster, and a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing is, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a fatal illness. His father was vague on detaillarge request, but is pretty sure he was Tess sticks post-it notes on to something big. Could there be a connection? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Feasey|title=Changeling: Blood Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Trey is each of the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost unclebooks, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches scribbled with the first available plane to Canadaugliest insults she can think of. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And theyThey're certainly not all family-friendlynever meant to reach him, of course. His uncle Her plan is oldto get her anger out like this, half-blind and alcoholicthen take them all off before delivering them. He lives in filth and he couldnNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't give a fig delivered them for Trey. But there is a pack out there, and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of controlher. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cliff McNishPhilip Reeve|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror StoryUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Savannah Grey In a word, rich. There is doing her best to settle into her latest foster placement certainly 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, and sea- Annette is really nice; she's warm witches, and kind legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and respects her adolescent charge's privacytheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But Savannah The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has perenially itchy feet and she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had a boyfriend and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is keep notes of activity from the only one that seems Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to stick around. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing worry about such local yokel superstitions, and sheAndrewe's developing powers that she doesn't understandfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the birds to behave oddlyworld of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenn Dakin|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Birthdays for Theo are not exactly how we would recognise them. One bland, forgettable present from each of the three people who live in his household. Some pink cake at the best of times. A trip to the cemetery, with the butler making sure nobody else is in sight. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break in, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and force Theo to leave the confines of his bedroom and find some of the secrets of the house, it is too late - Theo is set on a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as the truths of his destiny, his origins, and his hands, come to the fore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine KiernanTom de Freston|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats Julia and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Womack|title=The Liberators|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on a South American expedition. As it's the school holidays, Ivo is off to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for the great and the good. Uncle Jago is in finance and there isn't much about wheeling and dealing that he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglect, so what Ivo is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London and enjoy everything it has to offer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Dolamore|title=Magic Under Glass|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Namira is a trouser girl - a music hall performer. In Lorinar, she's regarded as a faintly risque curiosity but at home in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted and respected and Namira grew up in a palace. In Lorianar, she lives in poverty, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her art. And then suddenly, she's freed from the seedy music hall by Hollin Parry, a wealthy man and a member of Lorinar's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automaton, a curiosity that plays the piano, and he wants Namira's unique voice to accompany it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|title=In My Sky at TwilightShark

|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventureJulia, part philosophical enquiryour pre-teen heroine, and part coming-of-age story that began has been packed off with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost is a kind of limbo her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to children - Afterlights - who have diedbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, but somehow missed in the tunnel and far NE of the light - wherever and whatever the light actually isScottish islands. Adults never make it there Here be Vikings, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes dothat kind of Scottish island. Mary Hightower Dad is going to be automating the lantern, for instancewhich is his specialist thing, is so-called because she took up residence in New York while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Twin Towerselusive Greenland shark. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she "saves" the Afterlights she suddenly finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternitycompany one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gemma MalleyJonathan Stroud|title=The ReturnersOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary='Ducks are coolScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Whatever happensBut then she meets Albert Browne, whatever gets thrown at a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting themdown, they just carry onplan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling.' Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He has precious little must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by reach the pondFree Isles, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide will they be any more accepted there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad. than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in a small town. They fall in love, he finds out she's harbouring a dark secret, the pair of them try to find out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Mills|title=Blackout|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary='I am a murderer. 'I'm standing in a bookshop, a gun hot in my palm. The bullet that sat in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced flesh, blown into brain tissue, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont the floor. Blood begins to trickle from her head. It drips onto a pile of signed copies stacked on the floor.' Oh my word! What an explosive beginning to a book! But what made a boy do something like this? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ebony McKennaMercedes Helnwein|title=Ondine: The Summer of ShamblesSlingshot

|summary=Ondine de Groot wants out Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of psychic summercamp, so together a man with her pet ferret Shamblesa "real" family, she flees from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classes, back is used to her familynot being a priority in people's restaurantlives. Only, as soon as But when she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voices. Specifically defends a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be coming from random boy in her class with her ferret. Shambles, it transpiresslingshot, her simple existence is in fact a man, turned into a ferret by a witchchanged for good. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man, but No longer can she spend her imaginings are soon interrupted by the arrival of handsome Lord Vincenttime writing novels in solitude, son of the Duke, who sets Ondine's heart fluttering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=Chains|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Isabel and for her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left life now has a will boy in it 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 cityshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HarrisonT L Huchu|title=The Thirteen CursesLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Red Ropa Moyo is backa ghostalker, but she's trapped in using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the fairy realmdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Having swapped places with TanyaEver since she dropped out of school, she is bound there's been using it to support not only herself, but is still desperate to get both her younger sister and her brother back into the human worldaging grandmother. She must seek However, there's an audience with evil stalking the fairy courtruined streets of Edinburgh, but targeting the realm city's children. Soon, Ropa is full pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get therehis dead mother. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challenge, twisted with will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the cruelty world of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) courtmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Whilst the journey goes on, Will she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at find the missing children's home. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned to Elvesden Manor for half term and let's just say that her ability bring an end to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and this evil, or will it claim her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|author=Nancy Farmer|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy) |rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In this third adventure, Jack, a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgil, a bad-tempered shield maiden, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest to quell the draugr - the malevolent spirit of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned to Jack's village and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Hostage (Medusa Project)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenagers Nico, Kitty, Ed and Dylan were implanted with the Medusa gene when they were babies. Now theyKristen O're adolescents, the intended psychic abilities are coming to the fore. Nico has the power of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mind. 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 HarkerNeal|title=House of Secrets|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jane has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving from place to place, never staying in the same school for long, and always reminded of her mother's money worries, Jane longs for the kind of life where she can just be a kid, and not have to deal with adult problems.  When she's sent to stay at her sister's student digs, the Laurels, things go from bad to worse. The Laurels is a decrepit Victorian Townhouse, freezing cold, with no food, Lycanthropy and to make matters worse, Jane's sister, Billa, doesn't even want her there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bruno Vincent|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 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=WE|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from the World Ear in readiness for a mission that will last a lifetime. Sent to man a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar system, he will never be able to return. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wasted, 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 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 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 Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Saci Lloyd|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=It's Having recently been a year since we read a diary entry from Laura Brown. We left her diagnosed with a boyfriend and just about adjusted chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to a Britain terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the full throes rest of carbon rationingher life. Her nu-punk band, She joins ''dirty angelsOof Ouch My Bones'', hadnan online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't quite made itrespond to the chat for a while, but things were looking rather promising Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for its futurethat werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]