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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningMax Boucherat|title=The Last SealLife of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she'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 could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In 1380 ''I can hear the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from song of the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight awaysea. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants The call of the original pair clash as heaims to return to the worlddeep, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him answering beat in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the worldmy heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessHarry Allen|title=Monsters Children of Men (Chaos Walking)the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the Ra Eun Seo lives of everyone on this settler planet. Noise is used as in a tool of oppression North Korean town and as she is a weapontalented singer. There's a cure, but the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only for the most loyal. The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regimeLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, but they've had to make some terrible choices. Between the President's torture so Seo and the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd her friends Nari and Viola - trying to prevent civil warMin go foraging every evening, trying to hold on long enough looking for the second wave of settlers tree bark and edible grasses to arrive. And then, in supplement the wake meagre rations of the President's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war..rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>1805140493
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|genre=Teens
|summary=The wardens raid villages and cities for people competent It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to fight in the war, navigate a war nobody knows anything about other than if you’re sent to fight you don’t come back. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years agolife-changing disability too, taking Kate’s parents but that's what Ven is dealing with them. Kate is taken in by her uncle, Artemis, and grows up after collapsing on stage in the book shop with him and middle of a dance performance that was going to change her friend, Edgarlife. But now she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the wardens are backpity stares, and looking for more people desperate to get back to fighta life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. However Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, they are also looking for and just the Skilled – a dying breed day to day traumas of people who can see through all the veil of life and deathchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. They want So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to build an army of the dead.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>0571373801
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=During World War TwoLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, Max's father decides to move the whole family to a seaside retreat and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he knows of - fetch something from a wooden house far away from secret place, and join him on the city he's grown his family up inrun. Nobody seems too keen on They get together, but barely begin to smell the idea, neither whiff of Max's sistersSouthern trains when the father is arrested, his motherleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, nor he - and Max is gifted toting a pocket watch by tin his loving, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker of a father, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine". But the house they move was determined tokeep away from his colleagues, and its surroundings, are full the bearer of more successful time machines - a stash of early home videos, a public clock that runs backwards, a sunken shipwreck, a yard full of statues whole heap of a stone circus... And let's not forget the mysterious, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedingsquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsLex Croucher|title=Jake Ransom Gwen and the Skull King's Shadow|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The prologue to this splendid book recounts a terrifying chase, the discovery of fabulous Mayan artifacts, and a shadowy enemy. And that gripping scene sets the tone for the rest of the book. After the strange disappearance of their parents, who were on an archeological dig on the Mountain of Bones, Jake Ransom and his sister Kady are sent a parcel containing two halves of a Mayan coin, their mother's sketchbook and their father's notebook. There is no indication what these things mean or what to do with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lucy Jago|title=Montacute HouseArt Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cess Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the poultry girl at Montacute House. She and her mother live alone kingdom's only female knight) - Cess has never met something that Art discovers from her fatherprivate diaries. In fact And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, she doesn't even know who he is. Shunned by creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other villagers because of her illegitimacy, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcastswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. There's William But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, who has a club foot - thought of as will they find a curse way in Elizabethan Englandwhich they can both truly be themselves, and Edith, who's been chased out of the village for witchery by the woman-hating local priest. or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>1526651793
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|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary="It makes perfect sense that ninjas should be vampires". So Taro When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is told early on in this bookmurdered, and on three boys find themselves called into the evidence here that statement is correctpolice station as suspects. With Each, seemingly, has a gutsy, bloody opening to the adventure we see Taro being attacked by ninjasgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and rescued by a friendly vampire among them - having doubted each could have been there at the existence time of both from his corner of sixteenth century rural Japanmurder. The attack nearly leaves Taro an orphan, but opens himself up to a whole unexpected destiny, as people seek to kidnap But who killed him - or worse, and beyond thatwhy, an entirely unforseen existence as a teenage vampire when his saviour turns him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848873875</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mari Strachan|title=The Earth Hums in B Flat|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Choosing a child as the viewpoint character of a novel requires confidence and imagination. To succeed is to convince the reader if any of events at two levels – the child's world within the adult world surrounding her. The very best novels about childhoodboys are innocent, 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 will they be able to cope with clear their family secrets. If that sounds a bit tacky, fear not, because the viewpoint character, Gwenni, is all whippet and sharp corners.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847673058</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ally Carter1919635017|title=I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have A Thief to Kill You (Gallagher Girls)Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=If ever there were a new series chock full of characters to make Harry, Ron, Hermione et al look like wimps, then this is it. Virginia might not be the most exciting of States, and sleepy Roseville may not be the most thrilling of towns, but for our purposes that's good. Boring and ordinary is good. Flying under the radar is good. To the town's residents, the Gallagher Academy is just your typical all girls private school. They donSolomon Klyne isn't know much about it, but then who would want to when it's clearly housing a group of snootybad lad, snobby rich kids? Except...it's not. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women so why is not the place it makes out it is – this is an elite institution with he running around London committing a difference, for all its boarders are spies in training, with a curriculum in lethal weapons and covert operations as well as exquisite twists on the usual subjects: foreign languages here mean dedicated days where the whole school converses in any one series of the FOURTEEN languages the girls have robberies? And how did he learn to master.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309513</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adriana Trigiani|title=Viola in Reel Life|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It definitely wasn't Violacrack safes? You's choice to go to boarding school and she really would ll have preferred not to have wait to share a room with three other girls she'd never met before, but her parents – both film makers - were going get an answer 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 Yorksecond question because I avoid spoilers. SheBut I'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 Santryll answer the first one: for his grandmother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389260</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eleanor Updale|title=Johnny Swanson|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary='Strength in What Remains' is 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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia ReesPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Fool's GirlDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=When Illyria Ant is sacked, the fool Feste spirits theDuke's daughter, Violettain Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to Londonfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, to chase so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the evil Malvolio football team, andreclaim an ancient relictwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. There As they meet William Shakespeare're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, whothey persuade to help them the talk in an exciting quest which builds class and out often turns to aclimax sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in the Forest of Ardenthat regard lie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=April (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It He's April had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and Cal so has survived three months of his year on effectively progressed up the run. Will the fourth bring him any closer to answers about the Ormond Singularity? And can he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in Januaryladder headed by 'experienced', feeling rather shell-shocked after his fatherbut whether that's death from a mysterious disease and his brush with a crazed lunatic who told him that his father was murdered and set in stone, hecan'd t be next unless sure. And that's mostly because of who he could hold out until next New Year's Eve. Within days, Cal found himself on been having the run, accused of battering his own sister, relationship and in search of something called the Ormond Singularitysex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996471</amazonuk>1529509491
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|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=I'm at Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a complete loss how to review this bookfashion designer. I'm very tempted to take a tip from my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert who Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, on occasionif not prosperous, has been known so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to suggest that you should watch the village to offer Hahn a film '''then''' read his review if job in Hanoi it's full of twists was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and hard Hanh was on the mini-bus to describe without spoilersHanoi. I'm actually thinking that's Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a bad idea here – but will try my best shop, they were to provide a review work in 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 as few clues as possible to the twists artfully-placed rips and turns, just in case two sentences arendistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't enough to convince yous quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. This may not be easy, so bear with me!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007355319</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonPatrice Lawrence|title=Inside My HeadNeedle|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Zoe has moved from London Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to rural Norfolk - her parents are expecting a late baby like, characters and they want to downsize, get readers both. Kicked out of the citymultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and live has 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 more sustainable way. Unsurprisinglycomfort blanket, Zoe isn't big on this plan. Wrenched from her school and friendsyou might perhaps think, and the vibrancy creation of one such item is part of the capitalplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's convinced that allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her life has just taken belligerence with a socking great turn store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for the worseme to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802716</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonAnn Sei Lin|title=Rich and MadRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=When Maddy Fisher goes for somethingKurara 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 she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she goes desires – a power sought after all outacross the Empire. She has decided He asks her to fall in lovecome with him, but not just any kind to leave the life of love – it dreary servitude that is all she has to be the can't-eat-can't-sleep, crazy kindknown. But then once you get to know MaddyWell, yousoon Kurara won'd expect nothing lesst have any say in the matter, for this because the Midori is destroyed by a girl who lives with monstrous paper spirit known as a camel shikigami, and thinks nothing of choosing her parents' shop over her own well equipped room when she wants is forced to find flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a bed sky-ship whose express purpose is to curl up in for hunt down shikigami, and a think.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405247398</amazonuk>1406399590
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|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Otto has arrived in Goa Meet Fitz, a couple young Scottish lad full of days ahead of Charlotte frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and Jenhe should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his gap year companionsbest friend, Cassie. It's typical They were half of Otto to steal what should be shared thunder. He's a lovely laddesultory school band, but he's Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a tad selfish and he does like to be first for everythingsubhuman hum coming from the earth. Each Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the three has world is already a different reason for the trip: Otto wants to get done deal? Is it some experience for a hoped-for career in photo-journalism; Charlie wants to volunteer and beef up her environmental credentials; Jen has dreamed spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of journeying to India for as long as ? Is she just bonkers? And can rememberFitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsTori Bovalino|title=The Chamber of Shadows|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's London, 1886. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds a hidden vault at impossible depth - and seems to release into the world The Lord of Flies. A mysterious masked stage magician does the obviously impossible. A robotic killer stalks the streets, and a street gang of ruffians-on-the-up decides to solve the mystery. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at the British Museum has a new employer, 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 recognise, and put them into one period thriller without coming over as a horrendous porridge of parody?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robin Wasserman|title=CrashedDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lia lives Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a future where minds can be saved even if bodies can't. After request for over a fatal car crash, her brain hundred books that she has been scanned, mapped, saved, and transferred into a machine designed to look and feel humandeliver herself. She'll live foreverWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. We last saw her with her new mech "life" in tatters after AudenThe boarding school's terrible accident headmaster, and her family's rejectiona man Tess hates. She can't see As a future petty act of revenge for herself amongst making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the orgs any more and so ugliest insults she rejoins Jude and his group can think of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinn's mansion. ItThey's a life re never meant to reach him, of extreme thrill-seekingcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, backed up by Quinn's unlimited credit and Judethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's shady contact at Bio Max, who supplies t delivered them with dangerous and untested, but exciting and cutting edge mods and updatesfor her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387659</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David YellandPhilip Reeve|title=The Truth About Leo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Leo lives inside his own head for much of the time. You can't really blame him. He's always tired for a start. That's because he's often up early, tidying up Utterly Dark and the house after one Face of his father's rampages. His father drinks too much, you see, and sometimes he smashes up the house. Leo can't risk this being discovered because his father's the only person he's got since his mother died of cancer. He misses her like crazy, and he's afraid he'll be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinking. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=Tomorrow's GuardianDeep|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 lifeIn a word, and dreams about other people from different timesrich. The reality There is far stranger – he's certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a Walkerpeculiar island called Wildsea, with British but way west, beyond the power to rescue those he dreamed aboutScillies. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of LondonThere are troll people on it, and a German Usea-Boatwitches, guided by and legends of the mysterious ProfessorDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Tom saves where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the lives of soldier EdwardWatcher, servant MaryAndrewe, and Able Seaman Charliewho has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who also have powers. There are others, however, lives in London with similar powerstoo much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, who aren't as pleasant as Tomand Andrewe's new friends – and foundling daughter, who washed up out of the four of themsea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, allied with the Professor both his sullen brother and his roguish helper Septimus, curious ward are pitched thrust into a battle to save the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes at stake hereworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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 Kiran Millwood Hargrave and now he just wants out. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756001</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dyan SheldonTom de Freston|title=My Worst Best Friend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Mooney and Savanna Zindle are, unlikely as it may seem, best friends. Savanna is popular, beautiful, loud, confident and, well, a little bit stupid. Gracie is short, plain, quiet, and an intelligent lizard-loving environmentalist. Their friendship really shouldn't work, but somehow it does, Julia and they spend hours and hours together, then when they're not together spend hours discussing everything on the phone with each other. You can tell already what's going to happen, can't you? Yes, it's a friendship bust-up just waiting to happen...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406304204</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Green|title=Paper Towns|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=17-year-old Quentin Jacobsen 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 be, but their respective places in the High School pecking order are miles apart. Margo is one of the beautiful ones. She's cool, clever and a trendsetter. Q languishes in the middle ranks with his band member mates, Radar, who's an obsessive editor of Omnictionary (read Wikipedia), and Ben, who wants a girlfriend more than anything, but lacks the status to get one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806592</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alec Sillifant|title=Jake Highfield: Chaos UnleashedShark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=What's this that Jake is doing Julia, our pre- breaking into a building? Vandalising it teen heroine, has been packed off with graffiti, having ruined someone's privacy her parents and infiltrated something he shouldn't have done? Three years ago he would have been doing this as their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a yobbish kicksummer, but now he's a teenage agent in the far NE of a shadowy organisation called the Academy, and people want him to succeed in his missionScottish islands. But do they all want Here be Vikings, that? kind of Scottish island. Who are Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his taskmasters after all? specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And what does the Void have in store for his future?Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845393481</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rhys ThomasJonathan Stroud|title=The Suicide ClubOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself Scarlett McCain is nearly successful – except when he announces in class that he's taken a whole bottle an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of pills, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in the Surviving Towns and saves his life. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero, and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kat Falls|title=Dark Life|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Climate change came. The oceans rose. Half Faith Houses to wander the land mass disappeared uner wildlands between the water. Some Seven Kingdoms of what was left simply crumbled awayBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. NowBut then she meets Albert Browne, Topsiders live in giant tower blocks in a society under an authoritarian regime dark boy with emergency dark powersand a darker past. Time outside is limited because With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the sun is so strong it causes third degree burnsLondon Lagoon. Status brings spaceTogether, not money. Using space they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to which you aren't entitled brings severe punishment crashing down upon you. It's no wonder Gemma wants to find her brotherreach the Free Isles, who is living as Dark Life on but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the ocean floor. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387616</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesMercedes Helnwein|title=Perfect ChemistrySlingshot|rating=43
|genre=Teens
|summary=On the outside, Brittany is the flawless high-school girl. She Gracie Welles has the perfect hair, the perfect outfit, and the perfect boyfriendresigned herself to being lonely. Any girl should be jealous As a secret illegitimate daughter of hera man with a "real" family, right? Wrongshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. Underneath the immaculately applied mascara lies But when she defends a multitude of family problems, random boy in her despair at the thought of class with her severely disabled sister being bundled off to a nursing home never leaving slingshot, her mindsimple existence is changed for good. She has to keep No longer can she spend her hurt hidden to save her imagetime writing novels in solitude, but surely enough this mask starts to crack as more and more of for her life refuses to live up to the expectations now has a boy in it that she has forced upon herselfnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388051</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsT L Huchu|title=Tapas and TearsThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's tough being fourteen. You're old enough been using it to be getting to grips with who you are and what you likesupport not only herself, but other people – parentsher younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, friendsthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, teachers – often seem to think they know better than you do about whattargeting the city's bestchildren. Jaime Soon, Ropa is on pulled into the shy sidesearch for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She's not a huge fan will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of meeting new people, magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's never strayed far from her mum's side before, so a fortnight alone in Spain is the last thing she wantsve imagined. But, a school exchange is exactly what Will she finds herself signing up for find the missing children and before she knows itbring an end to this evil, she's bundled off for two long weeks – but or will it all be fun in the sun, or, as the book's title seems to hint at, are ''Tapas and Tears'' on the horizonclaim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970774</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian CrossKristen O'Neal|title=Where I BelongLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Khadija - although this is not her real name - is a young Somali girlHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, sent Priya has to Britain by come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her fatherlife. Shejoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s supposed to get an education and earn some money and then return, equipped to help bring prosperity to both her family and her impoverished country. She's an illegal immigrant, posing as a sister online support group where she talks to Abdi. Abdi is a second generation Somali immigrantbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. He was born in the Netherlands They talk about their troubles and came help each other out, while also providing an escape to Britain when he was very youngjust joke and mess around. He feels a connection to the land When Brigid—one of his parents, but struggles to make sense of it as he has never been her closest friends—doesn't respond to Somalia. Freya is the daughter of chat for a world-famous fashion designerwhile, Sandy DexterPriya becomes concerned. Shedecides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's aware of house to check up on her privileged status, but . But what she feels lonely and unloved. Her mother's passion for design doesn't leave much room for expect to find there is a daughter, werewolf in the basement – and her father's abiding love for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the woman he married makes Freya feel like everyone's second choicepast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192755544</amazonuk>1683692349
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