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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=Blood Ninja|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary="It makes perfect sense that ninjas should be vampires". So Taro is told early on in this book, and on the evidence here that statement is correct. With a gutsy, bloody opening to the adventure we see Taro being attacked by ninjas, and rescued by a friendly vampire among them <!-- Remove - having doubted the existence of both from his corner of sixteenth century rural Japan. The attack nearly leaves Taro an orphan, but opens himself up to a whole unexpected destiny, as people seek to kidnap him - or worse, and beyond that, an entirely unforseen existence as a teenage vampire when his saviour turns him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873875</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mari StrachanMax Boucherat|title=The Earth Hums in B Flat|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Choosing a child as the viewpoint character Last Life of a novel requires confidence and imagination. To succeed is to convince the reader of events at two levels – the child's world within the adult world surrounding her. The very best novels about childhood, like say Harper Lee's classic, 'To Kill a Mockingbird', also reflect a wider cultural truth. In 'The Earth Hums in B Flat', a claustrophobic Welsh village is both protection and straitjacket as the characters struggle to cope with their family secrets. If that sounds a bit tacky, fear not, because the viewpoint character, Gwenni, is all whippet and sharp corners.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847673058</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ally Carter|title=I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls)Lori Mills

|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 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 anti-hero who has unerring skill with Hanh wanted to be a knife and a past that won't let him gofashion designer. Blade is coming to Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the edge of his resources smartly-dressed man and he can't go on for much longer. He has done all he can woman came to expose uber-villain Hawk - rescued Jaz, talked the village to the police, given up his carefully-hidden evidence, set offer Hahn a gang war job in motion in the Beast. It's Hanoi it was an opportunity not enough, but it's the best he could do and now he just wants outto be missed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dyan Sheldon|title=My Worst Best Friend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Mooney Some money changed hands and Savanna Zindle are, unlikely as it may seem, best friendsHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Savanna is popularOnly, beautiful, loud, confident Hanh and, well, the other girls were not going to work in a little bit stupid. Gracie is shortshop, plain, quiet, and they were to work in virtual slavery in an intelligent lizard-loving environmentalistillegal garment factory. Their friendship You know those jeans you really shouldn't work, but somehow it does, wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and they spend hours and hours together, then when they're not together spend hours discussing everything beading on the phone legs? The ones with each other. You can tell already what's going to happen, can't the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when youtouched them? Yes, itIt's a friendship bustquite possible that Hanh and her co-up just waiting to happenworkers made them...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John GreenPatrice Lawrence|title=Paper TownsNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=17-year-old Quentin Jacobsen Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has been taken up residence in love with Margo Roth Spiegelmen ever since her son Blake's old room while he can remember. It's an unrequited love though - neighbours and childhood friends they at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may bein need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, but their respective places in and the High School pecking order are miles apart. Margo creation of one such item is one part of the beautiful ones. She's coolplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, clever and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a trendsetteryounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Q languishes in the middle ranks We see Charlene prove her belligerence with his band member matesa store detective, Radarand then force people to give her two days off school, who's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia)when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, and Benwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks the status only to get oneremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806592</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alec SillifantAnn Sei Lin|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos UnleashedRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=What's this Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that Jake she is doing - breaking a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a building? Vandalising it power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with graffitihim, having ruined someone's privacy and infiltrated something he shouldnto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as a yobbish kickany say in the matter, but now he's because the Midori is destroyed by a teenage agent of monstrous paper spirit known as a shadowy organisation called the Academyshikigami, and people want him she is forced to succeed in his missionflee out into the world. But do they all want that? Who are his taskmasters after all? And what does She joins Himura aboard the Void have in store for his future?Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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 announces in class that should be free to do what he's taken a whole bottle of pillswants, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in to go where he wants and saves with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting 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 the land mass disappeared uner the water. Some of what was left simply crumbled away. Now, Topsiders live foot 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 when he talks to which you aren't entitled brings severe punishment crashing down upon you. It's no wonder Gemma wants to find her brotherhis best friend, who is living as Dark Life on the ocean floorCassie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simone Elkeles|title=Perfect Chemistry|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=On the outside, Brittany is the flawless high-They were half of a desultory school girl. She has the perfect hairband, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the perfect outfit, and enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the perfect boyfriendearth. Any girl should be jealous Is this connected with one of her, right? Wrong. Underneath eco-warrior parents saying the immaculately applied mascara lies a multitude end of family problems, her despair at the thought world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind 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 music she's dreaming of her life refuses to live up to ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the expectations she truth? Well, not when Cassie has forced upon herselfgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsTori Bovalino|title=Tapas and TearsThe Devil 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 Airportteen heroine, killing countless thousands of innocent people. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his father, Felix has signed up been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to a training program be lighthousekeepers for the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit of underage operatives. He knows the risks if he's successfulsummer, 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 in the future city far NE of this book, many people live with what is called a reputation economythe Scottish islands. With everybody practically a cyborgHere be Vikings, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants to see everybody's status, output and more. Many people have hovercam companions, to make their own documentaries and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity upthat kind of Scottish island. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya Dad is struggling going to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious thingsbe automating the lantern, 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 which is talking about them. Add to that the creepy happenings around school, and Lydia Jaackson-Oberman's PC actually typing its own messages to herhis specialist thing, and it seems pretty appropriate that the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering for much of the book is on Gothic Fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Fridrik Erlings|title=Fish in the Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary='I've got a dad in a shoe box and a while mum who's struggling for will be leaving her life against a famished cannibalistic sewing machine.' Oh dear! Josh Stephenson is just thirteen. His father is separated from his mother and works away on a ship and so he's a much-missed presence career in Josh's life (algae behind to hunt the shoe box)elusive Greenland shark. Money is tight with only one parent at home And Julia, so his mother works multiple jobswell, some of them at home (the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He she will be homesick and his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics and they spend a great deal of time watching documentaries on television, or planning their ownalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845393422</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa de la CruzJonathan Stroud|title=Blue BloodsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''Blue Bloods'' Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the first book in Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a series aimed at teenagers dark boy with dark powers and it's about vampires, currently a popular theme in young adult novelsdarker past. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and they're part mythical Free Isles of the New York eliteLondon Lagoon. They're richTogether, youngthey must brave man-eating wildlife, beautiful the cannibalistic Tainted and popular. Thought all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be immortal, their world is shattered as one any more accepted there than they are in the rest of them is found murdered.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldMercedes Helnwein|title=SpecialsSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=In the un-named city of the future, all the adults are living in the delusion that their city is rightGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. After As a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo secret illegitimate daughter of a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society norm. But one young woman is not like that. She is going to man with a party, looking ugly"real" family, and she knows it is used to not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is of most importance. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, Tally. The bad news is that her ugliness is being 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=Womenpriority in people's Fiction|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisterslives. Today it's Cupid Day, But when she defends a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at schoolrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about thather simple existence is changed for good. She knows No longer can she's part of a group whospend her time writing novels in solitude, by most definitions, would be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside for her life now has a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, boy in it that 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...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Enthoven|title=Crawlers|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Why are the men basement – and for that want werewolf to take over be 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 girl she has been neutralised. Even then, the great and the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves talking to kill her. She had too much potential. But they did have online for 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 freepast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move on 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]]