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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Adriana Trigiani|title=Viola in Reel Life|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It definitely wasn't Viola's choice to go to boarding school and she really would have preferred not to have to share a room with three other girls she'd never met before, but her parents – both film makers - were going to be abroad for a year and single rooms were in short supply. And that was how, at the beginning of the school year, Viola came to be at the Prefect Academy in South Bend, Indiana rather than in her native New York. She'd left behind her best friend, Andrew (no – he's not her boyfriend, he's a best friend who happens to be a boy) and is sharing a room with Marisol Carreras, Romy Dixon and Suzanne Santry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389260</amazonuk!-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eleanor UpdaleMax Boucherat|title=Johnny SwansonThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary='Strength in What Remains' is We meet Lori on the inspirational account of Deogratias, a man who has fled from the genocide and civil war in Burundi (just south of the equator in East Central Africa, bordering Rwanda). He escapes to New York, out of fear and want of a safer life; only his new found American life isn't quite what it promised.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385616422</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celia Rees|title=The Foolfirst evening she's Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Illyria is sacked, got the fool Feste spirits theDuke's daughterhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Violettababysitter poorly, to Londonmother at work, to chase the evil Malvolio andreclaim just an ancient relicavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. There they meet William Shakespeare, whothey persuade to help them What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in an exciting quest which builds to aclimax in the Forest of Arden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=April (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's April blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Cal has survived three months of his year that is to log on the run. Will the fourth bring him any closer to answers about Voxminer, the Ormond Singularity? And can he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in Januaryworld-building, feeling rather shellcritter-shocked after his fathercollecting game that is a hit in Lori's death from a mysterious disease and his brush with world. But first Lori has a crazed lunatic who told him tiny inkling that his father was murdered and hethis stormy night doesn'd be next unless he could hold out until next New Year's Eve. Within days, Cal found himself t find herself entirely on the run, accused of battering his her own sister, and in search of then she finds something called the Ormond Singularity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hayley Long|title=Lottie Biggs is (Not) Desperate|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lottie Biggs, who's in her mid-teens is recovering from what's described as a 'mental disorder of a reasonably significant nature'even more spooky. She's having counselling from Blake (from New Zealand) who has some rather unusual turns of phrase and looks like Johnny Depp, but without For the pirate make-up. All in all server she's doing quite well. Gareth Stingecombe is still the love of and her life bestie and nobody else should be able to seal the bond even tighter she gets a Saturday job in his mother's hairdressing salonenter shows signs of tampering. This mightWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, or might notand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, turn out to be where is a mistake given what the mother-in-law-girl to-be thinks constitutes a trendy hairstyle.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>033047975X</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel HawkinsGreenlaw|title=Hex HallCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Sophie Mercer has been sent to a boarding school for monsters after a little love spell goes horribly wrong''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. Hecate Hall has been set up 'to protect and instruct shapeshifter, witch and fae children who have risked exposure of their abilities'.

As in any good school storyRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, she soon makes new friends survives on luring ships into the rocks and enemiesplundering the wrecks. Her room mate Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a 15 year old vampire with an obsession with everything pinktrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Sophie must struggle Mira's father. Desperate to hide her disgust at Jenna’s blood consumptionsave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as they quickly become good friends. She faces more difficulty charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a trio of glamorous witchesfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. AnnaWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Chaston and Elodie hate Jenna and they are frequently sarcastic and nasty at Sophie’s expense. At as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the same time thoughsmuggler's territory, they approach her Mira must be determined to join their coven, and her reluctance stop at nothing to get involved makes save the future of her more unpopularhome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387225</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claudia GrayHarry Allen|title=EvernightChildren of the Sun

|summary=I'm at Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a complete loss how to review this booktalented singer. 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 Life is 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 food is difficult to convince you. This may not be easycome by, 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 Seo 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, Nari and the vibrancy of the capitalMin go foraging every evening, she's convinced that her life has just taken a socking great turn looking for the worse. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802716</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=William Nicholson|title=Rich tree bark and Mad|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Maddy Fisher goes for something, she goes all out. She has decided edible grasses to fall in love, but not just any kind supplement the meagre rations of love – it has to be the can't-eat-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 rice 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 thinkkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405247398</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann KelleyAlexia Casale|title=Koh TabuSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Bonnie MacDonald is thrilled It's hard enough to be going navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a beautiful tropical island life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the rest middle 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 adultsa dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the dream holiday becomes a nightmare - after landing on the wrong island despite dire warnings from the boatman who took them therepity stares, and desperate to get back to a storm kills him and one of Bonnielife that's friends and wrecks the boat, leaving them trapped with no-one knowing where they areas normal as she can possibly manage. With the Duchess shining rather less brightly as she’s revealed to be practically useless Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in the face of dangerschool, it's left to Bonnie and her friend Jas music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and keep just the day to day traumas of all the remaining girls alive and find a way challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be rescued.able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192756044</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sally GardnerSimon Fox|title=The Red NecklaceDeadlock

|summary=Paris's streets are already humming with talk of revolution, when the young gypsy Yann Margoza Late one night Graham Blake is summoned to perform late back from his magic at shift on the chateau of a selfishforce, debt-ridden marquise. He is to tell the assembled aristocracy their future. But what he hoped would be the ticket to a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision of the richly-dressed crowd drowning in a sea of blood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Singleton|title=The Island|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Otto has arrived in Goa a couple of days ahead of Charlotte and Jenthen suddenly rings Archie, his gap year companions. It's typical of Otto to steal what should be shared thunder. He's demanding he fetch something from a lovely ladsecret place, but he's a tad selfish and he does like to be first for everythingjoin him on the run. Each of the three has a different reason for the trip: Otto wants to They get some experience for a hoped-for career 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 remember. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Justin Richards|title=The Chamber of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's Londontogether, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds a hidden vault at impossible depth - and seems but barely begin to release into smell the world The Lord whiff of Flies. A mysterious masked stage magician does Southern trains when the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks the streetsfather is arrested, and a street gang of ruffians-leaving Archie on-the-up decides late express to solve the mystery. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at the British Museum has Brighton, toting a new employer, asking something much more evil tin his father was determined to keep away from him. Surely all of that cannot be connected in some way? Surely one book can not have all those dark and mysterious elements we can probably all recognisehis colleagues, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as the bearer of a horrendous porridge whole heap of parody?questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin WassermanLex Croucher|title=Crashed|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, Gwen and transferred into a machine designed to look and feel human. She'll live forever. We last saw her with her new mech "life" Art Are Not 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 LeoLove

|summary=Leo lives inside his own head for much of the time. You can't Who knew that what I really blame him. He's always tired for needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a startmost delightful way. That's because he's often up early In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, tidying up the house after one of his father's rampages. His father drinks too muchto their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, and sometimes he smashes up is in love with Bridget (the house. Leo can't risk this being discovered because his fatherkingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the only person he's got since his mother died subterfuge of cancerfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. He misses her like crazy But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and he's afraid he'll will they find a way in which they can both truly be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinking. themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{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 is far stranger – he's a Walker, with the power to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of London, and a German U-Boat, guided by the mysterious Professor, Tom saves the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powers. There are others, however, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new friends – and the four of them, allied with the Professor and his roguish helper Septimus, are pitched into a battle to save the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes at stake here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Blade: Cutting Loose|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Cutting Loose'' is the seventh book about Blade, the fourteen-year-old anti-hero who has unerring skill with a knife and a past that won't let him go. Blade is coming to the edge of his resources and he can't go on for much longer. He has done all he can to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jaz, talked to the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war in motion in the Beast. It's not enough, but it's the best he could do and now he just wants out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dyan SheldonNick Brooks|title=My Worst Best FriendPromise Boys

|summary=Gracie Mooney and Savanna Zindle areWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, unlikely three boys find themselves called into the police station as it may seem, best friendssuspects. Savanna is popularEach, beautifulseemingly, loudhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, confident and, well, a little bit stupideach could have been there at the time of his murder. Gracie is short, plain, quietBut who killed him, and an intelligent lizard-loving environmentalist. Their friendship really shouldn't work, but somehow it doeswhy, and they spend hours and hours togetherif any of the boys are innocent, then when will they're not together spend hours discussing everything on the phone with each other. You can tell already what's going be able to happen, can't youclear their names? Yes, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting to happen...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Green1919635017|title=Paper TownsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=17-year-old Quentin Jacobsen has been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since he can remember. ItSolomon Klyne isn's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they may bet a bad lad, but their respective places in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Margo so why is one he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the beautiful ones. She's cool, clever and a trendsettersecond question because I avoid spoilers. Q languishes in the middle ranks with his band member mates, Radar, whoBut I's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia), and Ben, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks ll answer the status to get first one: for his grandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806592</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alec SillifantPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos Unleashed|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=What's this that Jake is doing - breaking into a building? Vandalising it with graffiti, 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 kick, but now he's a teenage agent of a shadowy organisation called the Academy, and people want him to succeed in his mission. But do they all want that? Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does the Void have in store Different for his future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rhys Thomas|title=The Suicide ClubBoys

|genre=Teens|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt Ant is in Year Eleven at killing himself quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is nearly successful ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – except when he announces in class that hefact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's taken re all fired up, straining at the leash only a whole bottle of pillssingle-sex school can form, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps the talk in class and saves out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his lifescore is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Freddy attains instant celebrity as He's had a casual relationship, a herosecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone elsethe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kat Falls1800901232|title=Dark LifeStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Climate change cameTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. The oceans rose. Half Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the land mass disappeared uner smartly-dressed man and woman came to the watervillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some of what money changed hands and Hanh was left simply crumbled awayon the mini-bus to Hanoi. Now Only, Topsiders live Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in giant tower blocks a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in a society under an authoritarian regime illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with emergency powers. Time outside is limited because the sun is artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt 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 soft when you. touched them? It's no wonder Gemma wants to find quite possible that Hanh and her brother, who is living as Dark Life on the ocean floorco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Simone Elkeles|title=Perfect Chemistry|rating=4|genre=Teens|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, right? Wrong. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies a multitude of family problems, her despair at the thought of her severely disabled sister being bundled off to a nursing home never leaving her mind. She has to keep her hurt hidden to save her image, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more and more of her life refuses to live up 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, 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossPatrice Lawrence|title=Where I BelongNeedle|rating=53

|summary=Khadija - although Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is not her real name - is a young Somali girlextremely hard for some people to like, sent to Britain by her fathercharacters and readers both. She Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's supposed to get an education and earn some money and then returnfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, equipped to help bring prosperity to both her family and has taken up residence in her impoverished country. Sheson Blake's old room while he's an illegal immigrant, posing as a sister to Abdiat uni. Abdi is Such a second generation Somali immigrant. He was born tempestuous personality may be in the Netherlands need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and came to Britain when he was very young. He feels a connection to the land creation of one such item is part of his parentsthe plot here, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been to Somalia. Freya Charlene is the daughter of a world-famous fashion designerwonder knitter, Sandy Dexter. She's aware and is making something full of love for her privileged status, but younger sister – a younger sister she feels lonely and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a daughterstore detective, and then force people to give her father's abiding love two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choiceme to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve Cole and Chris HunterAnn Sei Lin|title=TripwireRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Felix's father was Kurara has spent her entire life as a bomb disposal expert. He died servant on Day Zero - the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow AirportMidori, killing countless thousands a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of innocent peoplethe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his fatherHowever, Felix has signed up when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a training program for Crafter like him, someone with the Minos Chapter - power to form paper into whatever she desires – a shadowy counter-terrorist unit of underage operativespower sought after all across the Empire. He knows asks her to come with him, to leave the risks if he's successfullife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, but what he doesnsoon Kurara won't know have any say in the matter, because the Midori is that anotherdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, even more devastingand she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Orpheus attack a sky-ship whose express purpose is imminent... to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>1406399590

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

|summary=In the future city of this bookMeet Fitz, many people live with what is called a reputation economyyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. With everybody practically a cyborg, they're online permanentlyLockdown is only just over, using optical and brain implants he should be free to see everybody's statusdo what he wants, output to go where he wants and more. Many people have hovercam companionswith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to make their own documentaries and film their own liveshis best friend, Cassie. 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 to get any renownwere half of a desultory school band, but things change, when Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymitycould hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Moriarty|title=Dreaming Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of Amelia|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=New scholarship students Riley and Amelia are so mysterious that everyone at Ashbury High School the world is talking about them. Add to that the creepy happenings around school, and Lydia Jaackson-Obermanalready a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's PC actually typing its own messages to her, and it seems pretty appropriate that the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering for much dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the book is on Gothic Fictiontruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fridrik ErlingsTori Bovalino|title=Fish in the SkyThe Devil Makes Three

|summary='I've got a dad Working all summer in a shoe box and a mum whoher boarding school's struggling library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for her life against over a famished cannibalistic sewing machinehundred books that she has to deliver herself.' Oh dear! Josh Stephenson What makes it worse is just thirteenthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. His father is separated from his mother and works away on a ship and so heThe boarding school's headmaster, and a much-missed presence in Josh's life (the shoe box)man Tess hates. Money is tight with only one parent at home, so his mother works multiple jobs, some As a petty act of them at home (the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He revenge for making her find and his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics and they spend deliver such a great deal large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each 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 vampiresbooks, currently a popular theme in young adult novels. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: scribbled with the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and they're part ugliest insults she can think of the New York elite. They're rich, young, beautiful and popular. Thought never meant to be immortalreach him, their world is shattered as one of them is found murderedcourse.|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 Her plan 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 get her anger out like that. She is going to a party, looking uglythis, and she knows then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it is not what we look likewould be, 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 if someone hadn't delivered them for her ugliness is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren OliverPhilip Reeve|title=Before I FallUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston In a word, rich. There iscertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, in many waysBritish but way west, your typical American high schooler whose concerns beyond the Scillies. There are pretty predictable: boystroll people on it, friendsand sea-witches, fashionand legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, weird parentswhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, annoying little sisters. Today it's Cupid DayAndrewe, a chance who has to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, as measured by keep notes of activity from the number of roses you're sentHidden Lands, but Sam's not his brother Will who lives in London with too worried much science in his head to worry about that. She knows shesuch local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's part foundling daughter, who washed up out of a group who, by most definitions, would be called popularthe sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and though sometimes inside she might feel on his curious ward are thrust into the inside a little world of protecting their island, like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition of ''in''it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Guilt TripJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Two years agoJulia, 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 Cambridgeour pre-teen heroine, Stephen about to start his own business, Jackson getting ready to be reunited has been packed off 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, parents and their cat from the gang of friends who had been adjusting family home in SW England to life as heroes were responsible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After years without seeing her grandmotherbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps a summons - to visit the old lady at her house in the town far NE of Wisteriathe Scottish islands. Reluctantly Here be Vikings, she goes there that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to please her motherbe automating the lantern, but finds out that despite the invitationwhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her grandmother doesn't seem happy career in algae behind to see her, and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, who's currently living therehunt the elusive Greenland shark. More worryingly And Julia, the house seems strangely familiarwell, because she's seen it many times in her dreams..will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam EnthovenJonathan Stroud|title=CrawlersThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the men that want Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to take over wander the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupid. Ever since wildlands between the Great Fire Seven Kingdoms of London trapped her in an underground dungeon in 1666Britain, the Queen has been neutralisedrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Even But thenshe meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the great and mythical Free Isles of the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves to kill herLondon Lagoon. She had too much potential. But Together, they did have must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the sense horrors of post-apocalyptic society to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule the world through reach the Queen and he's set her a test. If she passesFree Isles, he but will set her free. they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Pretties|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the unnamed city of the future, all the adults are pretty. They've had mental and physical surgery to make them calm, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beings. If they have any trouble as young adults it is the problem of what to wear at parties, or how to get rid of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pm. Unfortunately, one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, one of the few people in the world 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 paradise, 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 a pretty. It's scientific, and obviously 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 of people staying forever ugly - through choice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389066</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicole Dryburgh|title=Talk to 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 the loss of her sight. We loved the warts-and-all picture of her life that she gave us then, and so we were really pleased to see that she's written a second book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996978</amazonuk>}} {{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>}} {{newreview|author=Laura Powell|title=The Master of Misrule|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the Arcanum, fortunes could be won and lost. The bizarre otherworld, just the slightest shift away from our own, had been home to a life-altering game of chance, power and intelligence, based on the tarot. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to this, then players. But they'd found it wanting, and to level the playing field, had thrown out the rulebook. With that, however, the referee is no more, and the Lord of Misrule is in charge. 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 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 and she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably talks to a bunch of other teens living with her fifteen-year-old peer groupchronic illnesses. Funnily enoughThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, her only real friend at school is Lucas, who's seventeen while also providing an escape to just joke and such a rebel that he's been moved down two yearsmess around. Things at home arenWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't great respond to the chat for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago and her mother has been severely depressed ever sincewhile, Priya becomes concerned. She barely talks, seldom gets dressed. Her father is worn down decides to the bone with worry steal her parents' car and Lou drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't get a great deal of attention from him either, so distracted expect to find there is he. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=The Diary of a Dr Who Addict|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Davey, werewolf 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, basement – and standing him up on the first morning of term, he also seems for that werewolf to be becoming dismissive of The Show. Still, he is trying the girl she has been talking 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 online for the spectacle of Tom Baker falling off a building and becoming Peter Davisonpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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]]