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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ItWe meet Lori on the first evening she's tough being fourteen. You're old enough got the house to be getting herself – no neighbour to grips with who you are and what you likepop in, babysitter poorly, but other people – parentsmother at work, friendsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, teachers – often seem to think they know better than you do about what's best. Jaime is on the shy sideher lonesome. She's not What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a huge fan of meeting new peopleblanket fort, she has one main intention, and she's never strayed far from her mum's side beforethat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, so critter-collecting game that is a fortnight alone hit in Spain is the last thing she wantsLori's world. But, first Lori has a school exchange is exactly what she finds tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself signing up for entirely on her own, and before then she knows it, finds something even more spooky. For the server she's bundled off for two long weeks – but will it all and her bestie and nobody else should be fun able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the sungame has been doctored – well, or, as the book's title seems where is a girl to hint at, are ''Tapas and Tears'' on the horizonturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossRachel Greenlaw|title=Where I BelongCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Khadija - although this is not her real name - is a young Somali girl, sent to Britain by her father. She's supposed to get an education and earn some money and then return, equipped to help bring prosperity to both her family and her impoverished country. She's an illegal immigrant, posing as a sister to Abdi. Abdi is a second generation Somali immigrant. He was born in the Netherlands and came to Britain when he was very young. He feels a connection to the land of his parents, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been to Somalia. Freya is the daughter of a world-famous fashion designer, Sandy Dexter. She's aware of her privileged status, but she feels lonely and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for a daughter, and her father's abiding love for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choice. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Cole and Chris Hunter|title=Tripwire|rating=4

|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died on Day Zero - 'I can hear the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow Airport, killing countless thousands song of innocent peoplethe sea. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his fatherThe call of the deep, Felix has signed up to a training program for the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit of underage operativesanswering beat in my heart. He knows the risks if he's successful, but what he doesn't know is that another, even more devasting, Orpheus attack is imminent... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Extras|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future city of this bookMira, like her mother before her, many people live with what is called a reputation economyone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. With everybody practically But when the Council Watch lays a cyborgtrap to end the wrecking, theycapture the island're online permanently, using optical s leader and brain implants to see everybodyMira's status, output and morefather. Many people have hovercam companionsDesperate to save him from death, to make their own documentaries Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs with only coordinates to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in order to become more well-knownthe sea. A girl called Aya is struggling With only nine days to get any renownunearth what might save her father, but things changeas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, when Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymityholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn MoriartyHarry Allen|title=Dreaming Children of Ameliathe Sun

|summary=New scholarship students Riley Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Amelia are so mysterious that everyone at Ashbury High School she is talking about thema talented singer. Add Life is hard and food is difficult to that the creepy happenings around schoolcome by, so Seo and Lydia Jaackson-Oberman's PC actually typing its own messages to herfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and it seems pretty appropriate that edible grasses to supplement the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering for much meagre rations of the book is on Gothic Fictionrice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreview|author=Fridrik Erlings|title=Fish in the Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary='I've got a dad in a shoe box and a mum who's struggling for her life against a famished cannibalistic sewing machine.' Oh dear! Josh Stephenson is just thirteen. His father is separated from his mother and works away on a ship and so he's a much-missed presence in Josh's life (the shoe box). Money is tight with only one parent at home, so his mother works multiple jobs, some of them at home (the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He and his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics and they spend a great deal of time watching documentaries on television, or planning their own. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393422</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melissa de la Cruz|title=Blue Bloods|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Blue Bloods'' is the first book in a series aimed at teenagers and it's about vampires, currently a popular theme in young adult novels. 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 the un-named city of the future, all the adults are living in the delusion that their city is right. After a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society norm. But one young woman is not like that. She is going to a party, looking ugly, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is of most importance. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, Tally. The bad news is that her ugliness is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverAlexia Casale|title=Before I Fall|rating=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'' Sing if 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|genre=Teens|summary=Two years ago, Ali and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicide. They became local heroes 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 to be reunited with his brother in Brighton where he'd also study history, and Hannah joining her mother's hairdressing business.  Then something dreadful happened. Five weeks later, Daniel was dead, and the gang of friends who had been adjusting to life as heroes were responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and DonCan'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 motheravoid the pity stares, but finds out and desperate to get back to a life that despite the invitation's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her grandmother doesn't seem happy music A Level performance piece to try to see hersort out, and neither does just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her cute but sullen cousin Matt, whobody continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's currently living there. More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiart dance anymore, because might she's seen it many times in be able to sing her dreams...way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Sam Enthoven|title=Crawlers|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are the men that want 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 then, the great and the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves to kill her. She had too much potential. But they did have the sense to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule the world through the Queen and he's set her a test. If she passes, he will set her free. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>}} {{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=DaveyBrave. Charlene, in his first term at secondary schoolthe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, is horrifiedcharacters and readers both. Not only is his best friend trying to grow Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up through residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the use creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a home gymwonder knitter, and standing him up on the first morning is making something full of termlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, he also seems and then force people to be becoming dismissive of The Showgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Stillwell, he what exactly happens is trying not for me to be esoteric - just like his sistersay, painting her face only to look like Bowie album sleeves of all things - remark how sharp and Davey knows betterpointy those knitting needles can be.. He knows everyone should be enthralled with the spectacle of Tom Baker falling off a building and becoming Peter Davison.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenAnn Sei Lin|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) Rebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=If you want Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis drink and make merry between their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universitiesconquests. In this bookHowever, at leastwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, Johnsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, Charles and Jack are guardians to leave the life of a very important bookdreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the Imaginarium Geographicamatter, within which lives because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a lot of secret, vital informationshikigami, and almost she is forced to flee out into the soul of world. She joins Himura aboard the land. They might not get Orihime, a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world sky- there ship whose express purpose is certainly enough talk of those in these pages. But we'll see them meet a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictionalto hunt down shikigami, and more, en route to a quest whole world of Arthurian proportions.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon MayhewMarcus Sedgwick|title=MortlockWrath

|summary=Abyssinia, 1820. Three Englishment search for the AmarantMeet Fitz, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in a strange desert oasisyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying faces, they realize that it Lockdown is cursedonly just over, and take a blood oath never he should be free to remove it. Londondo what he wants, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs to go where he wants and with her guardian the Great Cardamomwhom he wants, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimesbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, the coward Cassie. They were half 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 themdesultory school band, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the Amarant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Julia Green|title=Drawing with Light|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Emily doesn't remember her biological motherearth. She ran away Is this connected with another man when Emily was just two. Now, one of her older sister Kat, her father, and her stepmother Cassy make up eco-warrior parents saying the end of the family unit and Emily thinks world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just fine that way. She doesnbonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't need a mother who didn't want her and has never even tried to get in touch. But then Kat goes off to university, her father buys a rundown house in the middle of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while it's being renovated, and Cassy gets pregnant.. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenTori Bovalino|title=Along for the RideThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Auden has always felt like the odd one out amongst Working all summer in her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics and high achievers, and they, especially her mother, want the same for Auden. Audenboarding school's older brother library is the rebel and so Auden feels as though last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she needs has to be deliver herself. What makes it worse is the one man who satisfies her motherrequested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's ambitionheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. So she works hard As a petty act of revenge for making her find and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even deliver such a moment. But large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she's socially awkward and lacking in experiencecan think of. SheThey's re never had a boyfriendmeant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, hates the colour pink and canthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't even ride a bikedelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook HastingsPhilip Reeve|title=Nearly DepartedUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At first sightIn a word, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabbypeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. But There are troll people on it's pretty much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school , and sea-witches, and clump together in little peer groups legends of geeks the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and swots and jocks and bulliestheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in The current Darks are the middle of itWatcher, and at nightAndrewe, everythings turnswho has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, well, a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you his brother Will who lives in. And there are odd noises London with too... ... much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Emily thinks sheAndrewe's seen a ghostfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bonnie Hearn HillKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Star Crossed: Aries Rising|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers an old book called 'Fearless Astrology'. Can the book help her and her friends get the boys they want, catch the vandals who are shocking their school with pranks, Julia and win her the approval of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' Franklin? This is a novel written for teens – of course it can.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=January (Conspiracy 365)Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Callum is wandering along Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family 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 ambulanceSW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, and Cal tries to shrug off in the far NE of the incident but it's not easyScottish islands. How did the man know his name? How did he know Here be Vikings, that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to kill a run of be automating the mill adolescent like him? What lantern, which is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the his specialist thing is, Cal's father had written while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to him shortly before returning home already in hunt the throes of a fatal illnesselusive Greenland shark. His father was vague on detail And Julia, but is pretty sure he was on to something bigwell, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. Could there be a connection? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve FeaseyJonathan Stroud|title=Changeling: Blood WolfThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Trey Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander 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 guardianwildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Lucien robbing banks and catches the first available plane shooting other outlaws to Canadakeep herself alive. When he arrivesBut then she meets Albert Browne, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding a dark boy with dark powers and courageous creaturesa darker past. And With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they're certainly not all family-friendlyplan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. His uncle is oldTogether, halfthey must brave man-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Trey. But there is a pack out thereeating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and it's viciousall the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of control. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah 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 the only one that seems 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 and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|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, 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanMercedes Helnwein|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)Slingshot

|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom Gracie Welles has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes)resigned herself to being lonely. The magical aspects As a secret illegitimate daughter of the kingdoma man with a "real" family, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir she is used to the thronenot being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, has vanishedher simple existence is changed for good. WynterNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situationfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Philip WomackT L Huchu|title=The LiberatorsLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on Ropa Moyo is a South American expedition. As it's the school holidaysghostalker, Ivo is off to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is using Zimbabwean magic (and 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 bit of Ivo and Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the kind dead 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 offerEdinburgh for their living relatives. |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 LorinarEver since she dropped out of school, she's regarded as a faintly risque curiosity been using it to support not only herself, but at home in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted and respected younger sister and Namira grew up in a palace. In Lorianar, she lives in poverty, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her artaging grandmother. And then suddenlyHowever, shethere's freed from an evil stalking the seedy music hall by Hollin Parryruined streets of Edinburgh, a wealthy man and a member of Lorinartargeting the city's Sorcerer Councilchildren. Parry has an automatonSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a curiosity missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that plays the piano, world of magic is far bigger and he wants Namiramore dangerous than she ever could's unique voice ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to accompany this evil, or will it. claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreview|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|title=In My Sky at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Reece|title=Roxy|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maddie was at Aunt Gretchen's funeral when she got the phone call to tell her that her father was in a coma and likely to die. This might sound like a double whammy but Maddie's father had deserted her soon after her birth (during which her mother died) and she was brought up by Aunt Gretchen, who never missed an opportunity to point out that she was an unwanted burden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Mansfield|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star Blaze|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before I get into the review of this book, I'd like to suggest that if you haven't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh book, [[Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|The Spirit of London]], you go off and read the review of that first and then go and read the book itself. It's a fantastic read. But because this is a sequel, there are obviously going to be some SPOILERS ahead.  So, done that have you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie |title=Legacy and Spellbound (Wicked)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Holly Cathers has returned, and this time, sheKristen O's more powerful than ever. The war between the House of Cahors witches and House of Deveraux warlocks still rages on, and only one side will eventually triumph.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=Everwild|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventure, part philosophical enquiry, Lycanthropy 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 ReturnersOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'Ducks are cool', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Whatever happensThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, whatever gets thrown at them, they while also providing an escape to just carry onjoke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, their little legs paddlingPriya becomes concerned. Unfazed. They always look like theyShe decides to steal her parents're smiling.car and drive to Brigid' Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He has precious little s house to smile aboutcheck up on her. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he canBut what she doesn't help but remember his mother who committed suicide expect to find there some years ago, when Will was just is a tiny ladwerewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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|TwilightNewest Thrillers Reviews]] 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>}} {{newreview|author=Ebony McKenna|title=Ondine: The Summer of Shambles|rating=3|genre=Teens|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 to her family's restaurant. Only, as soon as she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voices. Specifically a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be coming from her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, is in fact a man, turned into a ferret by a witch. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man, 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>}}