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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=TeensThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers__NOTOC__|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa de la CruzRachel Greenlaw|title=Blue BloodsCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=''Blue Bloods'' is I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the first book in a series aimed at teenagers and it's about vampiresdeep, currently a popular theme the answering beat in young adult novelsmy heart. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and they're part of the New York elite. They're rich, young, beautiful and popular. Thought to be immortal, their world is shattered as one of them is found murdered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Specials|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the un-named city of rocks and plundering the futurewrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, all is one of the adults are living in seven who swim out to survey the delusion ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that their city is rightlies within. After But when the Council Watch lays a teenage life as an uglytrap to end the wrecking, they all undergo a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds capture the island's leader and bodies conform Mira's father. Desperate to the blandsave him from death, but gorgeous, society norm. But one young woman Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is not like that. She as charming as he is going secretive and with only coordinates to a partyguide her, looking ugly, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is sets off in search of most importance. The good news is a family secret that this woman is our returning heroine, Tallylies buried deep in the sea. The bad news is that With only nine days to unearth what might save her ugliness is a temporary disguisefather, and worse than that - she knows how as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to feel special insidethe heart of the smuggler's territory, because Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she IS A Specialholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverHarry Allen|title=Before I FallChildren of the Sun

|summary=Two years ago, Ali Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicideshe is a talented singer. They became local heroes Life is hard and were looked up to as good examples of modern day teenagers. Ali was on her way to Cambridge, Stephen about to start his own business, Jackson getting ready food is difficult to be reunited with his brother in Brighton where he'd also study historycome by, so Seo and Hannah joining her mother's hairdressing business.  Then something dreadful happened. Five weeks later, Daniel was deadfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the gang meagre rations of friends who had been adjusting to life as heroes were responsiblerice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerAlexia Casale|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and DonSing if you Can't TellDance

|summary=After It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without seeing her grandmother, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a summons life- to visit the old lady at her house changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the town middle of Wisteriaa dance performance that was going to change her life. Reluctantly But she comes back fighting, she goes there desperate to please her mother, but finds out that despite avoid the invitationpity stares, her grandmother doesn't seem happy and desperate to get back to see her, and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, whoa life that's currently living as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there. More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiar, because she's seen it many times a new (cute!) boy in school, her dreams...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Enthoven|title=Crawlers|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are the men that want music A Level performance piece to try to take over the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupid. Ever since the Great Fire of London trapped her in an underground dungeon in 1666, the Queen has been neutralised. Even thensort 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 boyfriend, hates dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the colour pink and can't even ride a bike. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rook Hastings|title=Nearly Departed|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=At first sighttruth? Well, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it not when Cassie 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 isngone missing he can'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. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bonnie Hearn HillTori Bovalino|title=Star Crossed: Aries RisingThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers an old book called Working all summer in her boarding school'Fearless Astrologys library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Can the book help As a petty act of revenge for making her find and her friends get deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the boys they wantbooks, catch the vandals who are shocking their school scribbled with pranks, and win her the approval ugliest insults she can think of cantankerous English teacher Mr . They'Frankenstein' Franklin? This is a novel written for teens – re never meant to reach him, of course . Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it canwould be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle LordPhilip Reeve|title=January (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Callum 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, Utterly Dark and Cal tries to shrug off the incident but it's not easy. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill a run Face 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 of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detail, but is pretty sure he was 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 the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost uncle, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is old, half-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Trey. But there is a pack out there, and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of control. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror StoryDeep

|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=Before I get into the review of this bookJulia, I'd like to suggest that if you haven't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh bookour pre-teen heroine, [[Johnny Mackintosh has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|The Spirit of London]]family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, you go off and read in the review far NE of that first and then go and read the book itselfScottish islands. It's a fantastic read Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. But because this Dad is a sequel, there are obviously going to be some SPOILERS aheadautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark.  So And Julia, well, done that have you?she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie Jonathan Stroud|title=Legacy The Outlaws Scarlett and Spellbound (Wicked)Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Holly Cathers has returnedScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and this timeFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she's more powerful than evermeets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. The war between With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the House mythical Free Isles of Cahors witches the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and House all the horrors of Deveraux warlocks still rages onpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, and only one side but will eventually triumph.they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=Everwild|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventure, part philosophical enquiry, and part coming-of-age story that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost is a kind of limbo and home to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever the light actually is. Adults never make it there, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightower, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place and she "saves" the Afterlights she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Returners|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary='Ducks are cool. Whatever happens, whatever gets thrown at them, they just carry on, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling.' Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He has precious little to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>}} {{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 of psychic summercamp, so together with her pet ferret Shambles, she flees from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classes, back Gracie Welles has resigned herself to her family's restaurant. Only, as soon as she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voicesbeing lonely. Specifically As a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be coming from her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, is in fact secret illegitimate daughter of a man, turned into with a ferret by a witch. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man"real" family, but her imaginings are soon interrupted by the arrival of handsome Lord Vincent, 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 her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will that said so. But Miss Mary Finch she is dead and her greedy nephew and heir denies all knowledge of the will. So Isabel and Ruth are sold used to the Locktons and taken to New York. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is not being a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but the patriots are priority in control of the city. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Harrison|title=The Thirteen Curses|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Red is back, but shepeople's trapped in the fairy realmlives. Having swapped places with Tanya, But when she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both defends a random boy in her and class with her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience with the fairy courtslingshot, but the realm her simple existence is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get therechanged for good. 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, No longer can she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and spend her time at the children's home. Meanwhilewriting novels in solitude, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>}} {{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, life now has 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>}} {{newreview|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 they'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 boy in it that predict the future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Diane Harker|title=House of Secrets|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jane has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving from place to place, she never staying in the same school asked 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, and to make matters worse, Jane's sister, Billa, doesn't even want her there: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentT L Huchu|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater with high hopes. He wants to study, become Ropa Moyo is a surgeonghostalker, work hard using Zimbabwean magic (and make a better life bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for himselftheir living relatives. But when the Ever since she dropped out of school he enrolled in turns out , she's been using it to be a deserted buildingsupport not only herself, his money is swindled from himbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, and hethere's framed for breaking into a shopan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, hetargeting the city's ready to turn round and go back to the countrychildren. His last hope Soon, Ropa is to collect pulled into the search for a volume missing boy at the request of local stories for a back-alley publisherhis dead mother. One by one, he hunts down She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the tellers world of these grisly tales magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and records their wordsbring an end to this evil, but or will it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330479512</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John DickinsonKristen O'Neal|title=WELycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Paul Munro Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has been disconnected from to come to terms with the World Ear fact that she may be in readiness constant pain for a mission that will last a lifetimethe rest of her life. Sent She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to man a tiny station built at enormous effort bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar systemhelp each other out, he will never be able while also providing an escape to returnjust joke and mess around. Gravity is one-tenth that When Brigid—one of Earth and his flesh has wastedher closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calciumPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid'If he stood s house to check up on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weighther.But what she doesn' It took eight years t expect to get find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the rest of his life stretches before him fearfullypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this Move on to [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequelNewest Thrillers Reviews]], 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 2017|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's been a year since we read a diary entry from Laura Brown. We left her with a boyfriend and just about adjusted to a Britain in the full throes of carbon rationing. Her nu-punk band, ''dirty angels'', hadn't quite made it, but things were looking rather promising for its future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>}} {{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>}}