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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerMax Boucherat|title=The Red NecklaceLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=ParisWe meet Lori on the first evening she's streets are already humming with talk of revolution, when got the young gypsy Yann Margoza is summoned house to herself – no neighbour to perform his magic pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at the chateau of a selfishwork, debtjust an avidly rule-ridden marquisebreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. He What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to tell log on to Voxminer, the assembled aristocracy their futureworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But what he hoped would 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 the ticket able to a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the richly-dressed crowd drowning in game has been doctored – well, where is a sea of blood.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonRachel Greenlaw|title=The IslandCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Otto has arrived in Goa a couple of days ahead of Charlotte and Jen, his gap year companions. It's typical 'I can hear the song of Otto to steal what should be shared thunderthe sea. He's a lovely lad, but he's a tad selfish and he does like to be first for everything. Each The call of the three has a different reason for deep, the trip: Otto wants to get some experience for a hoped-for career answering beat in photo-journalism; Charlie wants to volunteer and beef up her environmental credentials; Jen has dreamed of journeying to India for as long as she can remembermy heart. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Justin Richards|title=The Chamber of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's LondonRosevear, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds a hidden vault at impossible depth - remote and seems to release partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the world The Lord of Flies. A mysterious masked stage magician does rocks and plundering the obviously impossiblewrecks. A robotic killer stalks the streetsMira, like her mother before her, and a street gang is one of ruffians-on-the-up decides seven who swim out to solve survey the mysteryruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at But when the British Museum has Council Watch lays a new employertrap to end the wrecking, asking something much more evil they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from him. Surely all 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 a family secret that cannot be connected lies buried deep in some way? Surely one book can not have all those dark and mysterious elements we can probably all recognisethe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge her 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 parody?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin WassermanHarry Allen|title=CrashedChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lia lives in a future where minds can be saved even if bodies can't. After a fatal car crash, her brain has been scanned, mapped, saved, and transferred into a machine designed to look and feel human. She'll live forever. We last saw her with her new mech "life" in tatters after Auden's terrible accident and her family's rejection. She can't see a future for herself amongst the orgs any more and so she rejoins Jude and his group of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinn's mansion. It's a life of extreme thrill-seeking, backed up by Quinn's unlimited credit and Jude's shady contact at Bio Max, who supplies them with dangerous and untested, but exciting and cutting edge mods and updates. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387659</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Yelland|title=The Truth About Leo|rating=4

|summary=Leo Ra Eun Seo lives inside his own head for much of the time. You can't really blame him. He's always tired for in a start. That's because he's often up early, tidying up the house after one of his father's rampages. His father drinks too much, you see, North Korean town and sometimes he smashes up the houseshe is a talented singer. Leo can't risk this being discovered because his father's the only person he's got since his mother died of cancer. He misses her like crazy, Life is hard and he's afraid he'll be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinking. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=Tomorrow's Guardian|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he seems to relive short periods of his life, and dreams about other people from different times. The reality food is far stranger – he's a Walker, with the power difficult to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of London, and a German U-Boat, guided come by the mysterious Professor, Tom saves the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, so Seo and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powers. There are others, however, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new her friends – Nari and the four of themMin go foraging every evening, allied with the Professor looking for tree bark and his roguish helper Septimus, are pitched into a battle edible grasses to save supplement the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes meagre rations of rice and kimchi at stake herehome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerAlexia Casale|title=Blade: Cutting LooseSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'Cutting Loose're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that' s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the seventh book about Blademiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the fourteen-year-old anti-hero who has unerring skill with a knife pity stares, and desperate to get back to a past life that won't let him gos as normal as she can possibly manage. Blade is coming Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the edge day to day traumas of his resources and he can't go on for much longer. He has done all he can the challenges her body continues to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jaz, talked throw at her to the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in the Beastnavigate. It So even though she can's not enought dance anymore, but it's the best he could do and now he just wants out. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Dyan Sheldon|title=My Worst Best Friend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Mooney and Savanna Zindle are, unlikely as it may seem, best friends. Savanna is popular, beautiful, loud, confident and, well, a little bit stupid. Gracie is short, plain, quiet, and an intelligent lizard-loving environmentalist. Their friendship really shouldn't work, but somehow it does, and they spend hours and hours together, then when they're not together spend hours discussing everything on the phone with each other. You can tell already what's going to happen, can't you? Yes, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting to happen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenSimon Fox|title=Paper TownsDeadlock

|summary=What's this that Jake Late one night Graham Blake is doing - breaking into late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a building? Vandalising it with graffitisecret place, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? join him on the run. Three years ago he would have been doing this as a yobbish kickThey get together, but now he's a teenage agent barely begin to smell the whiff of a shadowy organisation called Southern trains when the Academyfather is arrested, and people want him leaving Archie on the late express to succeed in Brighton, toting a tin his mission. But do they all want that? Who are father was determined to keep away from his taskmasters after all? And what does colleagues, and the Void have in store for his future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rhys Thomas|title=The Suicide Club|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself is nearly successful – except when he announces in class that he's taken bearer of a whole bottle heap of pills, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in and saves his life. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero, and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone elsequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat FallsLex Croucher|title=Dark Life|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Climate change came. The oceans rose. Half the land mass disappeared uner the water. Some of what was left simply crumbled away. Now, Topsiders live Gwen and Art Are Not in giant tower blocks in a society under an authoritarian regime with emergency powers. Time outside is limited because the sun is so strong it causes third degree burns. Status brings space, not money. Using space to which you aren't entitled brings severe punishment crashing down upon you. It's no wonder Gemma wants to find her brother, who is living as Dark Life on the ocean floor. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simone Elkeles|title=Perfect ChemistryLove

|summary=On the outside, Brittany is the flawless high-school girl. She has the perfect hair, the perfect outfit, and the perfect boyfriend. Any girl should be jealous of her, Who knew that what I really needed to read rightnow was a gay Arthurian RomCom? Wrong. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies a multitude of family problems But honestly, her despair at the thought of her severely disabled sister being bundled off to it lifted my spirits in a nursing home never leaving her mindmost delightful way. She has to keep her hurt hidden to save her image In this story, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more Gwen and more of her life refuses to live up Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to the expectations she has forced upon herself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Higgins|title=Tapas and Tears|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's tough being fourteen. You're old enough to be getting to grips with who you are and what you like, but other people – parents, friendstheir mutual disgust! Gwen, teachers – often seem to think they know better than you do about what's best. Jaime is on the shy side. She's not a huge fan of meeting new peoplesee, and she's never strayed far from her mum's side before, so a fortnight alone in Spain is the last thing she wants. But, a school exchange is exactly what she finds herself signing up for and before she knows it, she's bundled off for two long weeks – but will it all be fun in love with Bridget (the sun, or, as the bookkingdom's title seems to hint at, are ''Tapas and Tears'' on the horizon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Cross|title=Where I Belong|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Khadija only female knight) - although this is not something that Art discovers from her real name - is a young Somali girl, sent to Britain by her fatherprivate diaries. She's supposed to get an education and earn some money and 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 Gwen then catches Art kissing a connection to the land of his parentsboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been to Somalia. Freya is creating the daughter subterfuge of a world-famous fashion designerfalling in love with each other, Sandy Dexterwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's aware of her privileged status But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, but she feels lonely and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for will they find a daughterway in which they can both truly be themselves, and her father's abiding love for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choice. or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve Cole and Chris HunterNick Brooks|title=TripwirePromise Boys

|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died on Day Zero - When the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow Airportprincipal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, killing countless thousands of innocent peoplethree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his father Each, seemingly, Felix has signed up to a training program for grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit time of underage operativeshis murder. He knows the risks if he's successful But who killed him, but what he doesn't know is that anotherand why, even more devastingand if any of the boys are innocent, Orpheus attack is imminent... will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Westerfeld1919635017|title=ExtrasA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=In the future city of this bookSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, many people live with what so why is called he running around London committing a reputation economy. With everybody practically a cyborg, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants series of robberies? And how did he learn to see everybodycrack safes? You's status, output and more. Many people ll have hovercam companions, to make their own documentaries and film their own liveswait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity upBut I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya is struggling to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn MoriartyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Dreaming of Amelia|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=New scholarship students Riley and Amelia are so mysterious that everyone at Ashbury High School is talking about them. Add to that the creepy happenings around school, and Lydia Jaackson-Oberman's PC actually typing its own messages to her, and it seems pretty appropriate that the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering Different for much of the book is on Gothic Fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fridrik Erlings|title=Fish in the SkyBoys

|genre=Teens|summary='I've got a dad Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a shoe box standard school, 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 surprised to find his mother and works away on a ship and so he's a much-missed presence in Josh's life geography class (the shoe boxwithin which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt). Money is tight with only one parent at homehas been restructured, so his mother works multiple jobs, some desk is one of them at home (four with both his best buddy from the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geekdays together. He and his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics and As they spend 're all fired up, straining at the leash only a great deal of time watching documentaries on televisionsingle-sex school can form, 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 talk in a series aimed at teenagers class and itout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn's about vampirest know what his score is, currently a popular theme where his achievements in young adult novelsthat regard lie. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue BloodsHe' s had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and theyso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 're part of the New York elite. Theyexperienced're rich, youngbut whether that's set in stone, beautiful and popularhe can't be sure. Thought to be immortal, their world is shattered as one And that's mostly because of them is found murderedwho he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Scott Westerfeld1800901232|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>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Before I FallSteve Cole

|genre=Women's FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in many waysthe rural village where she lived with her family was happy, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boysif not prosperous, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sistersso when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to show off just how ''In'' you are at schoolHanoi. Only, as measured by Hanh and the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's other girls were not too worried about that. She knows she's part of going to work in a group who, by most definitions, would be called popularshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and though sometimes inside she might feel beading on the inside a little like an imposter, on legs? The ones with the outside, well, sheartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's the definition of ''in''quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerPatrice Lawrence|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't TellNeedle|rating=53

|summary=After years without seeing her grandmotherBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps she's fostering with a summons - to visit the pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old lady room while he's at her house uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in the town need of Wisteria. Reluctantlya comfort blanket, she goes there to please her motheryou might perhaps think, but finds out that despite and the creation of one such item is part of the invitationplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her grandmother doesnyounger sister – a younger sister she't seem happy to s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove herbelligerence with a store detective, and neither does then force people to give her cute but sullen cousin Matttwo days off school, who's currently living therewhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... More worryinglywell, the house seems strangely familiarwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, because she's seen it many times in her dreamsonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam EnthovenAnn Sei Lin|title=CrawlersRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Why are Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the men sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that want she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to take over form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupidEmpire. Ever since the Great Fire of London trapped He asks her in an underground dungeon in 1666to come with him, to leave the Queen life of dreary servitude that is all she has been neutralisedknown. Even thenWell, the great and the powerful couldnsoon Kurara won't quite bring themselves to kill her. She had too much potential. But they did have any say in the sense matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule flee out into the world through . She joins Himura aboard the Queen Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and he's set her a test. If she passes, he will set her free. whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldMarcus Sedgwick|title=PrettiesWrath

|summary=In the unnamed city Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of the futurefrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, all the adults are pretty. They've had mental and physical surgery he should be free to make them calmdo what he wants, placid to go where he wants and perfectly aesthetic human beings. If they have any trouble as young adults with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is the problem of what when he talks to wear at partieshis best friend, or how to get rid Cassie. They were half of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pm. Unfortunatelya desultory school band, but Cassie was also one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the few people in end of the world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the life of Riley truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can be't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldTori Bovalino|title=UgliesThe Devil Makes Three

|summary="This city Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a paradise, Tallyrequest for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. It feeds you, educates you, keeps you safe. It What makes you prettyit worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch." And thatThe boarding school's meant literallyheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. As soon as they're sixteen years olda petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, ugly people like Tally are completely rebuilt Tess sticks post- no more frecklesit notes on each of the books, dull eyes, rough skin, or ideas about biting their fingernails, and made a prettyscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. ItThey's scientificre never meant to reach him, and obviously of benefit, considering the parties, status and love afforded to prettiescourse. But Her plan is it essential? When to get her best friend is prettified Tally finds a new friendanger out like this, Shay, who has secrets to share in the few weeks and then take them all off before the operation they're due to have on the same daydelivering them. Secrets of another placeNo harm done… Or it would be, another way, and of people staying forever ugly - through choiceif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole DryburghPhilip Reeve|title=Talk to Utterly Dark and the Face of the HandDeep|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in her book ''The Way I See It''this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, which she wrote at eighteenbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and which detailed her battles with cancer sea-witches, and legends of the loss of her sightDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. We loved The current Darks are the warts-and-all picture Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of her life that she gave us thenactivity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and so we were really pleased to see that sheAndrewe's written a second bookfoundling 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>0340996978</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William HusseyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of Julia and the DemontideShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Jake is a rather solitary person. He's bright but bored by school and he's obsessed Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with horror comics. He owns an amazing collection her parents and he knows all their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the stories and myths and folklores off by heartfar NE of the Scottish islands. Little does he realise Here be Vikings, that everything he reads about kind of Scottish island. Dad is realgoing to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and the Demontide is almost upon himalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellJonathan Stroud|title=The Master of MisruleOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Arcanum, fortunes could be won Surviving Towns and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to a life-altering game Seven Kingdoms of chanceBritain, power robbing banks and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness shooting other outlaws to this, then playerskeep herself alive. But they'd found it wantingthen she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to level the playing field, had thrown out mythical Free Isles of the rulebookLondon Lagoon. With thatTogether, howeverthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the referee is no more, cannibalistic Tainted and all the Lord horrors of Misrule is in charge. post-apocalyptic society to reach the FreeIsles, too, to smother all but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lottery. Soon all humanity might be out of luck.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskMercedes Helnwein|title=In the TreesSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Since his mother died, Kid Gracie Welles has been staying resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with Nadine and flipping burgers in a fast food joint after school. It's "real" family, she is used to not an exciting life, but he isn't unhappy. And then Nadine gets being a boyfriend and the flat gets rather cramped. And then a box of his motherpriority in people's possessions arriveslives. Inside, he finds But when she defends a photo of the father he's never met and a copy of his birth certificaterandom boy in her class with her slingshot, which tells him that his father comes from Belizeher simple existence is changed for good. And suddenlyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Kid makes for her life now has a decision. He's going nowhere fast boy in London, so he's going to head out to Belize and find the man in the photo. He's on a plane within daysit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene KempT L Huchu|title=No Way OutThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Alex and Adam are twinsRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and they're telepathic a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to boottake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. They're very closeEver since she dropped out of school, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adamshe's looking forward been using it to their holiday on Uncle Ben support not only herself, but her younger sister and Aunt Sadieher aging grandmother. However, there's farm, but Alex can't think an evil stalking the ruined streets of anything worse. Adam is always happy to read to their little sister EmmyEdinburgh, but Alex resents targeting the attention she gets (shecity's disabledchildren. Soon, y'see)Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. By She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and large, theymore dangerous than she ever could're just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumblesve imagined. When Will she find the car they're in goes through thick fog missing children and crashes, they find themselves in a town from times past, with inhabitants who don't want bring an end to let them leavethis evil, and who have an eye on Emmy.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganKristen O'Neal|title=No Lycanthropy and MeOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Lou is a cleverHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, clever child Priya has to come to terms with an IQ approaching 160the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. Shejoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s thirteen, but an online support group where she's been moved up two years at school 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 she compares mess around. When Brigid—one of her flat chestedclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer groupPriya becomes concerned. Funnily enough, She decides to steal her only real friend at school is Lucas, whoparents's seventeen car and such a rebel that hedrive to Brigid's been moved down two yearshouse to check up on her. Things at home arenBut what she doesn't great for Lou. Her baby sister died expect to find there is a few years ago werewolf in the basement – and her mother for that werewolf to be the girl she has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down talking to online for the bone with worry and Lou doesn't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted is hepast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=The Diary of a Dr Who Addict|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Davey, in his first term at secondary school, is horrified. Not only is his best friend trying to grow up through the use of a home gym, and standing him up on the first morning of term, he also seems to be becoming dismissive of The Show. Still, he is trying to be esoteric - just like his sister, painting her face to look like Bowie album sleeves of all things - and Davey knows better. He knows everyone should be enthralled 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 Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work in Oxbridge universities. In this book, at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost the soul of the land. They might not get a surname so we know immediately who is whom. They might be from a different world - there 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 fictional, and more, en route to a quest of Arthurian proportions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Mayhew|title=Mortlock|rating=4.5|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 faces, they realize that it is cursed, and take a blood oath never to remove it. 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 Move 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]