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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally CarterMax Boucherat|title=I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls)The Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she'Strength s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in , babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What Remains' could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the inspirational account of Deogratiasworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a man who hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has fled from 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 genocide server she and civil war in Burundi (just south her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the equator in East Central Africa, bordering Rwanda)tampering. He escapes to New York When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, out of fear and want of her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a safer life; only his new found American life isn't quite what it promised.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385616422</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia ReesRachel Greenlaw|title=The Fool's GirlCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=When Illyria is sacked, ''I can hear the fool Feste spirits song of theDuke's daughtersea. The call of the deep, Violetta, to London, to chase the evil Malvolio andreclaim an ancient relic. There they meet William Shakespeare, whothey persuade to help them in an exciting quest which builds to aclimax answering beat in the Forest of Ardenmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=April (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's April Rosevear, a remote and Cal has survived three months of his year partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the runwrecks. Will Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the fourth bring him ruins – rescuing any survivors and any closer treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to answers about end the Ormond Singularity? And can he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in Januarywrecking, feeling rather shell-shocked after his fatherthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death from , Mira makes a bargain with a mysterious disease wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and his brush with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a crazed lunatic who told him family secret that his lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father was murdered and he'd be next unless he could hold out until next New Year, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's Eve. Within daysterritory, Cal found himself on Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the run, accused future of battering his own sister, her home and in search of something called the Ormond Singularityones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996471</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hayley LongHarry Allen|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'. She's having counselling from Blake (from New Zealand) who has some rather unusual turns of phrase and looks like Johnny Depp, but without the pirate make-up. All in all she's doing quite well. Gareth Stingecombe is still the love Children of her life and to seal the bond even tighter she gets a Saturday job in his mother's hairdressing salon. This might, or might not, turn out to be a mistake given what the mother-in-law-to-be thinks constitutes a trendy hairstyle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033047975X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Hawkins|title=Hex Hall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sophie Mercer has been sent to a boarding school for monsters after a little love spell goes horribly wrong. 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 story, she soon makes new friends and enemies. Her room mate is a 15 year old vampire with an obsession with everything pink, and Sophie must struggle to hide her disgust at Jenna’s blood consumption, as they quickly become good friends. She faces more difficulty with a trio of glamorous witches. Anna, Chaston and Elodie hate Jenna and they are frequently sarcastic and nasty at Sophie’s expense. At the same time though, they approach her to join their coven, and her reluctance to get involved makes her more unpopular.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387225</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claudia Gray|title=EvernightSun

|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 Life is hard and food is difficult to take a tip from my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert whocome by, on occasionso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, has been known to suggest that you should watch a film '''then''' read his review if it's full of twists looking for tree bark 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 edible grasses to supplement the twists meagre rations of rice and turns, just in case two sentences aren't enough to convince youkimchi at home. This may not be easy, so bear with me!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007355319</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonAlexia Casale|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 isnSing if you Can'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-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 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>}} {{newreview|author=Ann Kelley|title=Koh TabuDance

|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 force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a selfishsecret place, debt-ridden marquiseand join him on the run. He is They get together, but barely begin to tell smell the whiff of Southern trains when the assembled aristocracy their future. But what he hoped would be father is arrested, leaving Archie on the ticket late express to Brighton, toting a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of the richly-dressed crowd drowning in a sea whole heap of bloodquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonLex Croucher|title=The IslandGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Otto has arrived Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Goa a couple of days ahead of Charlotte most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and JenArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, his gap year companions. It's typical of Otto much to steal what should be shared thunder. He's a lovely ladtheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, but heis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's a tad selfish and he does like to be first for everythingonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Each of the three has And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a different reason for boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the trip: Otto wants to get some experience for subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a hoped-for career way in photo-journalism; Charlie wants which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to volunteer and beef up her environmental credentials; Jen has dreamed of journeying to India for as long as she can remember. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsNick Brooks|title=The Chamber of ShadowsPromise Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's LondonWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds a hidden vault at impossible depth - and seems to release three boys find themselves called into the world The Lord of Fliespolice station as suspects. A mysterious masked stage magician does the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks the streetsEach, seemingly, and has a street gang grudge of ruffians-on-some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the-up decides to solve the mysterytime of his murder. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at the British Museum has a new employerBut who killed him, asking something much more evil 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 recognisewhy, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge if any of parodythe boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin Wasserman1919635017|title=CrashedA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Lia lives in a future where minds can be saved even if bodies canSolomon Klyne isn't. After a fatal car crashbad lad, her brain has been scanned, mapped, saved, and transferred into so why is he running around London committing a machine designed series of robberies? And how did he learn to look and feel human. Shecrack safes? You'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 have to wait to get an answer to the orgs any more and so she rejoins Jude and his group of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinn's mansionsecond question because I avoid spoilers. ItBut I'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 ll answer the time. You can't really blame him. He's always tired first one: for 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, and sometimes he smashes up the housegrandmother. 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, and he's afraid he'll be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinking. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Tomorrow's GuardianDifferent for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems to relive short periods absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his lifebest buddy from the football team, and dreams about two other people from different timesold muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. The reality is far stranger – he As they's re all fired up, straining at the leash only a Walkersingle-sex school can form, with the power talk in class and out often turns to rescue those he dreamed aboutsex. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana Which is confusing for Ant, the Great Fire of Londonas he doesn't know what his score is, and where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a German U-Boatcasual relationship, guided by the mysterious Professor, Tom saves the lives of soldier Edwarda secret one, servant Maryfor several months now, and Able Seaman Charlieso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', who also have powers. There are othersbut whether that's set in stone, however, with similar powers, who arenhe can't as pleasant as Tombe sure. And that's new friends – and the four mostly because of them, allied with who he's been having the Professor relationship 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 heresex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Bowler1800901232|title=Blade: Cutting LooseStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''Cutting Loose'' is the seventh book about Blade, the fourteenTwelve-year-old antiHanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-hero who has unerring skill with a knife dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a past that won't let him gojob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Blade is coming to the edge of his resources Some money changed hands and he can't go Hanh was on for much longerthe mini-bus to Hanoi. He has done all he can Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jazwork in a shop, talked they were to the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set a gang war work in motion virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the Beast. artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's not enough, but it's the best he could do quite possible that Hanh and now he just wants outher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dyan SheldonPatrice Lawrence|title=My Worst Best FriendNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Gracie Mooney and Savanna Zindle areBrave. Charlene, unlikely as it may seemthe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, best friendscharacters and readers both. Savanna is popularKicked out of multiple homes and schools, beautifulshe's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, loudAnnie, confident andhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, wellyou might perhaps think, a little bit stupid. Gracie and the creation of one such item is shortpart of the plot here, plain, quietas Charlene is a wonder knitter, and an intelligent lizard-loving environmentalistis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Their friendship really shouldn't work, but somehow it doesWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and they spend hours and hours togetherthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then when they're not together spend hours discussing everything on the phone with each other. You can tell already .. well, what's going exactly happens is not for me to happensay, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can't you? Yes, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting to happenbe...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenAnn Sei Lin|title=Paper TownsRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=17-year-old Quentin Jacobsen Kurara has been in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since he can remember. It's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they may bespent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, but their respective places a massive dining hall floating in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Margo is one sky where soldiers of the beautiful onesEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. She's coolHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, clever and someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a trendsetterpower sought after all across the Empire. Q languishes in the middle ranks He asks her to come with his band member mateshim, Radarto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, whosoon Kurara won's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia)t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and Benshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, who wants a girlfriend more than anythingsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, but lacks the status to get one. and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806592</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Alec Sillifant|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 for his future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhys ThomasMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Suicide ClubWrath

|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at killing himself . Lockdown is nearly successful – except when only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he announces in class that wants and with whom he's taken a whole bottle of pillswants, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in and saves it when he talks to his lifebest friend, Cassie. Freddy attains instant celebrity as They were half of a herodesultory school band, and our narrator Richard Harper but Cassie was also one 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 end of the world is as impressed as anyone elsealready 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 truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kat FallsTori Bovalino|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 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 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 TearsDevil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's tough being fourteen. You're old enough library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to be getting do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has 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 bestdeliver herself. Jaime What makes it worse is on the shy sideman who requested the books: Mr Birch. SheThe boarding school's not a huge fan of meeting new peopleheadmaster, and she's never strayed far from her mum's side before, so a fortnight alone in Spain is the last thing she wantsman Tess hates. But, As a school exchange is exactly what she finds herself signing up petty act of revenge for making her find and before she knows itdeliver such a large request, she's bundled off for two long weeks – but will Tess sticks post-it all be fun in notes on each of the sunbooks, or, as scribbled with the bookugliest insults she can think of. They's title seems re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to hint atget her anger out like this, are ''Tapas and Tearsthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn'' on the horizon?t delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossPhilip Reeve|title=Where I BelongUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Khadija - although In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this is not her real name - is story set on a young Somali girlpeculiar island called Wildsea, sent to Britain by her fatherBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. She's supposed to get an education There are troll people on it, and earn some money sea-witches, and then return, equipped legends of the Dark family that has to help bring prosperity to both her family keep watch for magical islands and her impoverished country. She's an illegal immigranttheir monster approaching from even further west, posing as a sister to Abdi. Abdi is a second generation Somali immigrantwhere no ship dare sail. He was born in The current Darks are the Netherlands and came to Britain when he was very young. He feels a connection to the land of his parentsWatcher, Andrewe, but struggles who has to make sense keep notes of it as he has never been to Somalia. Freya is activity from the daughter of a world-famous fashion designerHidden Lands, Sandy Dexter. She's aware of her privileged statushis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, but she feels lonely and unloved. Her motherAndrewe's passion for design doesn't leave much room for a foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and her father's abiding love for his curious ward are thrust into the woman he married makes Freya feel world of protecting their island, like everyone's second choiceit or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve Cole Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Chris HunterTom de Freston|title=TripwireJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died on Day Zero Julia, our pre- the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow Airport, killing countless thousands of innocent people. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his fatherteen heroine, Felix has signed up been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a training program for summer, in the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit far NE of underage operativesthe Scottish islands. He knows the risks if he's successful Here be Vikings, but what he doesn't know is that another, even more devasting, Orpheus attack is imminent... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Extras|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In the future city kind of this book, many people live with what is called a reputation economyScottish island. With everybody practically a cyborg, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants Dad is going to see everybody's statusbe automating the lantern, output and more. Many people have hovercam companionswhich is his specialist thing, 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 while mum will be leaving her career in order algae behind to become more well-knownhunt the elusive Greenland shark. A girl called Aya is struggling to get any renownAnd Julia, but things changewell, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy will be homesick 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 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 for much of the book is on Gothic Fictionalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Fridrik ErlingsJonathan Stroud|title=Fish in the SkyThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary='I've got a dad in a shoe box Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and a mum who's struggling for her life against a famished cannibalistic sewing machineshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive.' Oh dear! Josh Stephenson is just thirteen. His father is separated from his mother and works away on But then she meets Albert Browne, a ship dark boy with dark powers and so he's a much-missed presence in Josh's life (darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the shoe box)London Lagoon. Money is tight with only one parent at homeTogether, so his mother works multiple jobsthey must brave man-eating wildlife, some the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of them at home (post-apocalyptic society to reach the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He and his best friend Peter Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are natural history fanatics and they spend a great deal in the rest of time watching documentaries on television, or planning their own. Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845393422</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa de la CruzMercedes Helnwein|title=Blue BloodsSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''Blue Bloods'' is the first book in a series aimed at teenagers and it's about vampires, currently a popular theme in young adult novels. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and they're part of the New York elite. They're rich, young, beautiful and popular. Thought Gracie Welles has resigned herself to be immortal, their world is shattered as one of them is found murderedbeing lonely.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Specials|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In the un-named city As a secret illegitimate daughter 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 man with a welter of medical procedures"real" family, she is used to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society normnot being a priority in people's lives. But one young woman is not like that. She is going to when she defends a partyrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, looking ugly, and she knows it her simple existence is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is of most importancechanged for good. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroineNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Tally. The bad news is that for her ugliness is life now has a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Oliver|title=Before I Fall|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, boy in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisters. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about that. She knows she's part of a group who, by most definitions, would be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition of ''in''never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anne CassidyT L Huchu|title=Guilt TripThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Two years agoRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Ali using Zimbabwean magic (and her friends saved Daniel Feeny a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from committing suicidethe dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. They became local heroes and were looked up to as good examples Ever since she dropped out of modern day teenagers. Ali was on her way school, she's been using it to Cambridgesupport not only herself, Stephen about to start his own businessbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, Jackson getting ready to be reunited with his brother in Brighton where hethere'd also study historys an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, and Hannah joining her mothertargeting the city's hairdressing business.  Then something dreadful happenedchildren. Five weeks laterSoon, Daniel was 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 gang world of friends who had been adjusting magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to life as heroes were responsible.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerKristen O'Neal|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies Lycanthropy and Don't TellOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=After years without seeing her grandmotherHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps a summons - Priya has to come to visit terms with the old lady at her house fact that she may be in constant pain for the town rest of Wisteriaher life. ReluctantlyShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she goes there talks to please her mother, but finds a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out that despite the invitation, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her grandmother doesnclosest friends—doesn't seem happy respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to see steal her, parents' car and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, whodrive to Brigid's currently living therehouse to check up on her. More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiar, because But what shedoesn's seen it many times t expect to find there is a werewolf in her dreams..the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Sam Enthoven|title=Crawlers|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are the men that want Move on to take over the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupid. Ever since the Great Fire of London trapped her in an underground dungeon in 1666, the Queen has been neutralised. Even then, the great and the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves to kill her. She had too much potential. But they did have the sense to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule the world through the Queen and he's set her a test. If she passes, he will set her free. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>}} {{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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]