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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Claudia Gray|title=Evernight|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I'm at a complete loss how to review this book. I'm very tempted to take a tip from my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert who, on occasion, has been known to suggest that you should watch a film '''then''' read his review if it's full of twists and hard to describe without spoilers. I'm actually thinking that's not a bad idea here – but will try my best to provide a review with as few clues as possible to the twists and turns, just in case two sentences aren't enough to convince you. This may not be easy, so bear with me <!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007355319</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Carrington|title=Inside My Head|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Zoe has moved from London to rural Norfolk - her parents are expecting a late baby and they want to downsize, get out of the city, and live in a more sustainable way. Unsurprisingly, Zoe isn't big on this plan. Wrenched from her school and friends, and the vibrancy of the capital, she's convinced that her life has just taken a socking great turn for the worse. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802716</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Nicholson|title=Rich and Mad|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Maddy Fisher goes for something, she goes all out. She has decided to fall in love, but not just any kind of love – it has to be the can't-eatRemove -can't-sleep, crazy kind. But then once you get to know Maddy, you'd expect nothing less, for this is a girl who lives with a camel and thinks nothing of choosing her parents' shop over her own well equipped room when she wants to find a bed to curl up in for a think.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405247398</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann KelleyMax Boucherat|title=Koh Tabu|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bonnie MacDonald is thrilled to be going to a beautiful tropical island with the rest The Last Life of the Amelia Earhart Cadets, especially as the only adult present will be the incredibly glamorous Layla Campbell, nicknamed the Duchess, who treats them all like adults. But the dream holiday becomes a nightmare - after landing on the wrong island despite dire warnings from the boatman who took them there, a storm kills him and one of Bonnie's friends and wrecks the boat, leaving them trapped with no-one knowing where they are. With the Duchess shining rather less brightly as she’s revealed to be practically useless in the face of danger, it's left to Bonnie and her friend Jas to try and keep the remaining girls alive and find a way to be rescued.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756044</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sally Gardner|title=The Red NecklaceLori 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

|summary=Lia Ra Eun Seo 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, North Korean town 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|genre=Teens|summary=Leo lives inside his own head for much of the time. You can't really blame him. He's always tired for is a starttalented singer. 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, and sometimes he smashes up the house. 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 Blade, the fourteen-year-old anti-hero who has unerring skill with middle of a knife and a past dance performance that won't let him gowas going to change her life. Blade is coming But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the edge of his resources pity stares, and he can't go on for much longer. He has done all he can desperate to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jaz, talked get back to the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in the Beast. Itlife that's not enough, but it's the best he could do and now he just wants out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>}} {{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 friendsnormal as she can possibly manage. Savanna is popular, beautiful, loud, confident and, well, Meanwhile there's a little bit stupid. Gracie is shortnew (cute!) boy in school, plain, quiether music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, 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 just the day to day traumas of all the phone with each otherchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. You can tell already what's going to happen, So even though she can't you? Yesdance anymore, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting might she be able to happen...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenSimon Fox|title=Paper TownsDeadlock

|summary=What's this that Jake Late one night Graham Blake is doing - breaking into a building? Vandalising it with graffitilate back from his shift on the force, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as a yobbish kickthen suddenly rings Archie, but now demanding he's fetch something from a teenage agent of a shadowy organisation called the Academysecret place, and people want join him to succeed in his missionon the run. But do they all want that? Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does 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 a whole bottle of pillsThey get together, 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 else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kat Falls|title=Dark Life|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Climate change came. The oceans rose. Half but barely begin to smell the land mass disappeared uner the water. Some whiff of what was left simply crumbled away. Now, Topsiders live in giant tower blocks in a society under an authoritarian regime with emergency powers. Time outside is limited because Southern trains when the sun father is so strong it causes third degree burns. Status brings spacearrested, not money. Using space leaving Archie on the late express to which you aren't entitled brings severe punishment crashing down upon you. It's no wonder Gemma wants Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to find her brotherkeep away from his colleagues, who is living as Dark Life on and the ocean floorbearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesLex Croucher|title=Perfect ChemistryGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=On the outsideWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Brittany is in love with Bridget (the flawless highkingdom's only female knight) -school girlsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. She has the perfect hair And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the perfect outfit, and the perfect boyfriend. Any girl should be jealous subterfuge of herfalling in love with each other, right? Wrongwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies a multitude of family problems But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, her despair at the thought of her severely disabled sister being bundled off to will they find a nursing home never leaving her mind. She has to keep her hurt hidden to save her imageway in which they can both truly be themselves, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more and more of her life refuses or are they destined to live up to the expectations she has forced upon herself.a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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, friends, 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 people, 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 the sun, or, as the book'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 - 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>}} {{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 lives. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya is struggling wait 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>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Moriarty|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 an answer to that the creepy happenings around school, and Lydia Jaackson-Obermansecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I's PC actually typing its own messages to her, and it seems pretty appropriate that ll answer the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering first one: for much of the book is on Gothic Fictionhis grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fridrik ErlingsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Fish in the SkyDifferent for Boys

|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 (the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He and four with both his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics and they spend a great deal of time watching documentaries on televisionbuddy from the football team, 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 two other old muckers – in young adult novelsfact they all go back to primary school days together. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and As they're part of all fired up, straining at the New York elite. They're richleash only a single-sex school can form, young, beautiful the talk in class and popularout often turns to sex. Thought to be immortalWhich is confusing for Ant, their world is shattered as one of them he doesn't know what his score 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 where his achievements in the delusion that their city is rightregard lie. After He's had a teenage life as an uglycasual relationship, they all undergo a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society norm. But secret one young woman is not like that. She is going to a party, looking uglyfor several months now, and she knows it is not what we look likeso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but how special we feel inside, whether that is of most importance. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine's set in stone, Tallyhe can't be sure. The bad news is And that her ugliness is a temporary disguise, 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Specialthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Oliver1800901232|title=Before I FallStitched Up|author=Steve 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyPatrice Lawrence|title=Guilt TripNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Two years agoBrave. Charlene, Ali the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicidereaders both. They became local heroes Kicked out of multiple homes and were looked up to as good examples of modern day teenagers. Ali was on her way to Cambridgeschools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Stephen about to start his own businessAnnie, Jackson getting ready to be reunited with his brother and has taken up residence in Brighton where her son Blake's old room while he'd also study historys at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and Hannah joining the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her motheryounger sister – a younger sister she's hairdressing businessallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then..  Then something dreadful happened. Five weeks laterwell, Daniel was deadwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the gang of friends who had been adjusting to life as heroes were responsiblepointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerAnn Sei Lin|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't TellRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After years without seeing Kurara has spent her grandmotherentire life as a servant on the Midori, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps a summons - to visit the old lady at her house massive dining hall floating in the town sky where soldiers of Wisteriathe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. ReluctantlyHowever, she goes there when a man named Himura arrives to please tell her motherthat she is a Crafter like him, but finds out that despite someone with the invitation, her grandmother doesn't seem happy power to see her, and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, who's currently living there. More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiar, because form paper into whatever she's seen it many times in her dreams...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Enthoven|title=Crawlers|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are desires – a power sought after all across the men that want to take over 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 to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule matter, because the world through the Queen and he's set her Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a test. If she passes, he will set her free. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Pretties|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the unnamed city of the futureshikigami, all the adults are pretty. They've had mental and physical surgery she is forced to make them calm, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beingsflee out into the world. If they have any trouble as young adults it is She joins Himura aboard the problem of what to wear at partiesOrihime, or how a sky-ship whose express purpose is to get rid of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pm. Unfortunatelyhunt down shikigami, one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, one of the few people in the and a whole world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>1406399590

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

|summary="This city is Meet Fitz, a paradise, Tallyyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. 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 fingernailsLockdown is only just over, and made a pretty. It's scientifiche should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and obviously of benefitwith whom he wants, considering the parties, status and love afforded but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to pretties. But is it essential? When her his best friend is prettified Tally finds , Cassie. They were half of a new friend, Shaydesultory school band, who has secrets to share in but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the few weeks before the operation they're due to have on enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the same dayearth. Secrets Is this connected with one of another place, another way, and of people staying forever ugly her eco- through choice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to warrior parents saying the Hand|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Nicole Dryburgh in her book ''The Way I See It'', which she wrote at eighteen, and which detailed her battles with cancer and end of the loss world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture music she's dreaming of her life that ? Is she gave us thenjust bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, and so we were really pleased to see that shenot when Cassie has gone missing he can's written a second bookt... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=William Hussey|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jake is a rather solitary person. He's bright but bored by school and he's obsessed with horror comics. He owns an amazing collection and he knows all the stories and myths and folklores off by heart. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is real, and the Demontide is almost upon him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura PowellTori Bovalino|title=The Master of MisruleDevil Makes Three

|summary=In Working all summer in her boarding school's 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 Arcanumman who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, fortunes could be won and losta man Tess hates. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to As a life-altering game petty act of chance, power revenge for making her find and intelligencedeliver such a large request, based Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to thisbooks, then playersscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. But theyThey'd found it wanting, and re never meant to level the playing fieldreach him, had thrown out the rulebookof course. With that, however, the referee Her plan is no moreto get her anger out like this, and the Lord of Misrule is in charge. Free, too, to smother then take them all of Britain with his unique brand of scratch-card lotteryoff before delivering them. Soon all humanity might No harm done… Or it would be out of luck, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskPhilip Reeve|title=In Utterly Dark and the Face of the TreesDeep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Since his mother diedIn a word, Kid has been staying with Nadine and flipping burgers rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a fast food joint after school. It's not an exciting lifepeculiar island called Wildsea, British but he isn't unhappyway west, beyond the Scillies. And then Nadine gets a boyfriend There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the flat gets rather crampedDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. And then a box of his mother's possessions arrives. InsideThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, he finds a photo who has to keep notes of activity from the father he's never met and a copy of his birth certificateHidden Lands, which tells him that his father comes from Belize. And suddenly, Kid makes a decision. He's going nowhere fast brother Will who lives in Londonwith too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, so heand Andrewe's going to head foundling daughter, who washed up out to Belize of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and find his curious ward are thrust into the man in the photo. He's on a plane within daysworld of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gene KempKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=No Way OutJulia and the Shark

|summary=Alex and Adam are twinsJulia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and they're telepathic their cat from the family home in SW England to bootbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. 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 Here be Vikings, but Alex can't think that kind of anything worseScottish island. Adam Dad is always happy going to read to their little sister Emmy, but Alex resents be automating the attention she gets (she's disabledlantern, y'see). By and largewhich is his specialist thing, they're just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumbleswhile mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. When the car they're in goes through thick fog and crashes, they find themselves in a town from times past And Julia, with inhabitants who don't want to let them leavewell, she will be homesick and who have an eye on Emmyalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Delphine de ViganJonathan Stroud|title=No The Outlaws Scarlett and MeBrowne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Lou Scarlett McCain is a cleveran outlaw, clever child with an IQ approaching 160. She's thirteenrejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, but she's been moved up two years at school robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she compares her flat chestedmeets Albert Browne, nervous self somewhat unfavourably a dark boy with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enough, her only real friend at school is Lucas, who's seventeen dark powers and such a rebel that he's been moved darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down two years, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talksTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down to the bone with worry cannibalistic Tainted and Lou doesn't get a great deal all the horrors of attention from him eitherpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, so distracted is he. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MagrsMercedes Helnwein|title=The Diary of a Dr Who AddictSlingshot

|summary=Davey, in his first term at secondary school, is horrifiedGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Not only is his best friend trying to grow up through the use As a secret illegitimate daughter of a home gymman with a "real" family, and standing him up on the first morning of term, he also seems she is used to be becoming dismissive of The Shownot being a priority in people's lives. StillBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, he her simple existence is trying to be esoteric - just like his sisterchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, painting for 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 life now has a building and becoming Peter Davisonboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James A OwenT L Huchu|title=Shadow Dragons The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (Imaginarium Geographicaand a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=If you want Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis and their ilk got their ideas from, you might consider their jobs. No - not their work come to terms with the fact that she may be in Oxbridge universitiesconstant pain for the rest of her life. In this bookShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', at least, John, Charles and Jack are guardians of a very important book, the Imaginarium Geographica, within which lives an online support group where she talks to a lot bunch of secret, vital informationother teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and almost the soul mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the land. They might not get chat for a surname so we know immediately who is whomwhile, Priya becomes concerned. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those in these pagesShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But wewhat she doesn'll see them meet t expect to find there is a vanishing Cheshire cat, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, werewolf in the basement – and more, en route for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to a quest of Arthurian proportionsonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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]]