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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Isobelle Carmody|title=Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A nuclear catastrophe called the Great White destroyed most of the world, and only those who lived in isolated parts of the countryside were able to survive by refusing all contact with radiation <!-- Remove -infected refugees from the urban centres. In time the cities grew again, but the fear of outsiders and of those who were different remained and became a religion, composed in part of half-remembered elements of faiths from the time before the apocalypse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806975</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe NeillMax Boucherat|title=Firespell: The Dark EliteLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lily Parker is sent We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity herself – no neighbour to do some prestigious research work pop in Germany. She was expecting bitchy classmates, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitematebabysitter poorly, Scout, who stays out late mother at night and reappears covered in bruiseswork, a school full of secret hiding placesjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, a principal who knows on her parents and seems to have an entirely lonesome. What could possibly go wrong idea about their work – or ? Snuggled in a mysterious group of supernatural teens called the Dark Elite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louis Sachar|title=The Cardturner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards blanket fort, she has one main intention, and I don’t know the rules!'' 17-year-old Alton Richards that is shoehorned into becoming to log on to Voxminer, the driver and cardturner for his blind, octogenarian, bridgeworld-playing, but above all richbuilding, uncle by his grasping parents critter- who are up to their eyeballs collecting game that is a hit in debt and have Lori's world. But first Lori has a weather eye tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on potential legaciesher own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Alton sighs but goes along with it For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. He's used to being told to call Lester Trapp his favourite uncle When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and he's used her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to his unrepentently mercenary parents. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408808501</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bonnie Hearn HillRachel Greenlaw|title=Star Crossed: Taurus Eyes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Logan McRae is excited by the prospect of attending a writers' camp hosted by author Henry Jaffa, who starts off by asking them all to write a project idea and then shuffles them around. Instead of her longed-for astrology feature, Logan ends up having to write about folk singer Sean Baylor, whose ghost may be haunting thelocality. The only person who doesn't have to switch is the cute boy at the camp, Jeremy, who Jaffa allows to keep his original topic – of Sean Baylor. So, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting to get to know each other better – does the ghost exist? Will they get it together? Who will write the best article and get it published? The answers to all these questionsCompass and more lie inside the second book in the Star Crossed series (along with some temporary tattoos!)|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436719</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Forde|title=Fifteen Minute BobBlade

|summary=For years, conscientious student Rory and his hard-working mother have struggled to cope with his father, an eyeliner wearing struggling singer-songwriter unable to hold down a job, and obsessed with a star called Bob Blade. While Rory finds hisfather's unreliability a nightmare to live with, his two friends Smiler and Barry think he's cool and spend more time hanging out with him than with Rory. As I can hear the trio song of Smiler, Barry, and Rory's dad team up to make a music video that goes viral on the internet, Rory gets unwittingly involved and, in the words sea. The call of the blurb from deep, the back,answering beat in my heart.'everything flips'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405229306</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=The Last Seal|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1380 Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the warlock Stephen Blake released ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the demon Dantalion from Council Watch lays a trap to end the Abysswrecking, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to banish save him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666from death, descendants of the original pair clash Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as heaims is secretive and with only coordinates to return to the worldguide her, and burn down London by starting she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Great Firesea. While With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try watched streets of foreign islands to break the seals which hold him in heart of the Abysssmuggler's territory, four unlikely heroes join forces Mira must be determined to stop them from being destroyed – and at nothing to save the worldfuture of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola MorganHarry Allen|title=WastedChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Jess wants to study music. She's Ra Eun Seo lives in a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jack, who needs North Korean town and she is a talented singer for his band, is exactly the happenstance she'd hoped for. Even better that Jack Life is so charming hard and handsome and charismatic. And still better that he feels the same attraction food is difficult to her. How lucky can a girl get? Jack believes in luck. In fact, he lives his life come by it. He doesn't do a thing unless his coin says he can. Newly in love, Jess is slowly drawn into his game of chance. Although it worries so Seo and her a littlefriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she can't know that a time will come when looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the toss meagre rations of a coin is the difference between life rice and deathkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessAlexia Casale|title=Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet. Noise is used as a tool of oppression and as a weapon. ThereIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a curelife-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only for the most loyalmiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. The Answer are But she comes back fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had desperate to make some terrible choices. Between avoid the Presidentpity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's torture and the Answeras normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil wara new (cute!) boy in school, trying her music A Level performance piece to hold on long enough for the second wave of settlers try to arrive. And thensort out, in and just the wake day to day traumas of all the Presidentchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrivest dance anymore, but it may might she be too late able to prevent a catastrophic war... sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Keris Stainton|title=Della Says: OMG! |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ever since she was four, Della has had a secret crush on Dan, the good-looking and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons with her. And now, more than ten years later, he wants to kiss her. It seems too good to be true, and for a while Della fears the whole thing is a joke, set up by mean girl Gemima. After all, Gemima is Dan's best friend. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about Dan, her family, her friends...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lara Simon Fox|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on the ShelfDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anya Buxton Late one night Graham Blake is late back. It's from his shift on the summer holidays force, and her mum is keen for her to find a summer job rather than waste her days lounging around at home. After the brief, worrying possibility that she might just end up as a newspaper delivery girl she lands a dream position gaining work experience with a London publishing house. She finds herself simultaneously editing a dishythen suddenly rings Archie, though slightly disturbed teen author, struggling with demanding he fetch something from a long distance relationship with Alsecret place, wondering if 'The Boy' really has turned over a new leaf and being wooed by join him on the boss's sonrun. AndThey get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of courseSouthern trains when the father is arrested, she's blogging it all for her dedicated followers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenna Burtenshaw|title=Wintercraft|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The wardens raid villages and cities for people competent leaving Archie on the late express to fight in the warBrighton, toting a war nobody knows anything about other than if you’re sent tin his father was determined to fight you don’t come back. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years ago, taking Kate’s parents with them. Kate is taken in by her uncle, Artemiskeep away from his colleagues, and grows up in the book shop with him and her friend, Edgar. But now the wardens are back, and looking for more people to fight. However, they are also looking for the Skilled – bearer of a dying breed of people who can see through the veil of life and death. They want to build an army whole heap of the deadquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>1839944420

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenLex Croucher|title=Infinity (Pocket Money Puffins)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Girl is a teen from small town America. We don't know where exactly, but it's somewhere people drive (which rules out the likes of NYC) Gwen and it's somewhere that has a roundabout. Most of America doesn't have these – instead they have much more sensible crossings and lights and T-junctions – so it's a source of intrigue for many of the town's residents. For new driver Girl the roundabout is joint top on her List Of Things To Master, along with sleeping with her boyfriend Anthony. They might seem entirely unrelated to the likes of you and me, but to Girl the links are clear. They're both things she will have to deal with for a first time eventually, but she still can't decide whether to rush ahead Art Are Not in order to get them out of the way quickly, or put them off for just a little longer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330775</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=Vamoose (Pocket Money Puffins)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There are lots of reasons not to become a teen mum while still at school – there’s your loss of freedom, for a start, plus the fact that babies spend their days crying and pooing, not to mention the fact they’re expensive. But what happens to Jess is something that no one has warned her about: she goes into hospital and gives birth to a bouncing baby moose. Which is, it has to be said, slightly odd. As she and boyfriend Nick struggle through first-time parenthood and learn to deal with the Unique Challenge of having a non-homo-sapien child, there’s a lesson for all of us about biting off more than we can chew and unpredictable consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141329149</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Werlin|title=ImpossibleLove

|summary=Life is just as Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it should be for Lucy Scarboroughlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She lives with loving foster parents In this story, Gwen and at seventeen is looking forward Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to attending prom with her friends and her date, who has definite boyfriend potential. their mutual disgust! The only fly in the ointment is Miranda ScarboroughGwen, Lucy's birth mother whoyou see, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her is in love with Bridget (the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucykingdom's life has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possible. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carlos Ruiz Zafon|title=The Prince of Mist|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=During World War Two, Max's father decides to move the whole family to a seaside retreat he knows of only female knight) - a wooden house far away something that Art discovers from the city he's grown his family up inher private diaries. Nobody seems too keen on the idea, neither of Max's sisters, his mother, nor he - and Max is gifted And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a pocket watch by his lovingboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker creating the subterfuge of a fatherfalling in love with each other, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine"when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But the house as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they move to, and its surroundingscan both truly be themselves, or are full of more successful time machines - they destined to live a stash of early home videos, a public clock that runs backwards, a sunken shipwreck, a yard full of statues of a stone circus... And let's not forget the mysterious, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedings.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=James Rollins|title=Jake Ransom 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy JagoNick Brooks|title=Montacute HousePromise Boys

|summary=Cess When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the poultry girl at Montacute Housepolice station as suspects. She and her mother live alone - Cess Each, seemingly, has never met her father. In facta grudge of some description against Principal Moore, she doesn't even know who he is. Shunned by and each could have been there at the other villagers because time of her illegitimacy, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcastshis murder. There's William, But who has a club foot - thought of as a curse in Elizabethan Englandkilled him, and Edithwhy, who's been chased out and if any of the village for witchery by the woman-hating local priest. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregory Hughes1919635017|title=Unhooking the MoonA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=The Rat and Bob are prairie children. Winnipeg is a land ''so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days''. When their father dies and they're orphaned, they are determined to avoid a childrenSolomon Klyne isn's home at all costs and embark upon t a road trip to New York Citybad lad, in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob so why is pretty much the hanger-on - he knows that the Rat is running around London committing a special kid who would never make it in series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an institution and so he puts his fears aside answer to follow the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his singular sistergrandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849162956</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus SedgwickPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=White CrowDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rebecca Ant is not happy in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to be leaving London. She's not happy with her dadfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, she's not happy so his desk is one of four with her boyfriendboth his best buddy from the football team, and she just generally an unhappy persontwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Having to move to a dead-end place like Winterfold doesn As they't help re all fired up, straining at all. Her the leash only friend there is a strange girl named Ferelith who one hot summer's day shows her an abandoned mansion where two hundred years ago a priest performed horrible experiments on human corpses. He wanted single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to learn something from the deadsex. But Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what was it? And what does Ferelith really want from Rebecca?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551876</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Lake|title=Blood Ninja|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary="It makes perfect sense that ninjas should be vampires". So Taro his score is told early on , where his achievements in this book, and on the evidence here that statement is correctregard lie. With He's had a gutsycasual relationship, bloody opening to the adventure we see Taro being attacked by ninjasa secret one, for several months now, and rescued so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by a friendly vampire among them - having doubted the existence of both from his corner of sixteenth century rural Japan. The attack nearly leaves Taro an orphan'experienced', but opens himself up to a whole unexpected destiny, as people seek to kidnap him - or worsewhether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and beyond that, an entirely unforseen existence as a teenage vampire when his saviour turns himthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848873875</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mari Strachan1800901232|title=The Earth Hums in B FlatStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=General FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=Choosing Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a child as the viewpoint character of a novel requires confidence and imaginationfashion designer. To succeed is to convince Life in the reader of events at two levels – the child's world within the adult world surrounding rural village where she lived with her. The very best novels about childhoodfamily was happy, like say Harper Lee's classicif not prosperous, 'To Kill so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a Mockingbird', also reflect a wider cultural truthjob in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. In 'The Earth Hums in B Flat', a claustrophobic Welsh village is both protection Some money changed hands and straitjacket as Hanh was on the characters struggle mini-bus to cope with their family secretsHanoi. If that sounds a bit tackyOnly, fear Hanh and the other girls were notgoing to work in a shop, because they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the viewpoint character, Gwenni, is all whippet legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and sharp cornersher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847673058</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ally CarterPatrice Lawrence|title=I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls)Needle|rating=4.53

|summary=If ever there were a new series chock full Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of characters this piece is extremely hard for some people to make Harry, Ron, Hermione et al look like wimps, then this is itcharacters and readers both. Virginia might not be the most exciting Kicked out of Statesmultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and sleepy Roseville has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may not be the most thrilling in need of townsa comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, but for our purposes that's good. Boring and ordinary the creation of one such item is good. Flying under part of the radar plot here, as Charlene is good. To the towna wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's residents, the Gallagher Academy is just your typical all girls private schoolallowed contact with no more. They don't know much about itWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, but and then who would want force people to give her two days off school, when it's clearly housing a group of snooty, snobby rich kids? Exceptshe shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.And then..it's not. The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women well, what exactly happens is not the place it makes out it is – this is an elite institution with a difference, for all its boarders are spies in trainingme to say, with a curriculum in lethal weapons only to remark how sharp 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 of the FOURTEEN languages the girls have to masterpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408309513</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Adriana TrigianiAnn Sei Lin|title=Viola in Reel LifeRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=It definitely wasn't Viola's choice 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 go drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to boarding school and tell her that she really would have preferred not to have to share is a room Crafter like him, someone with three other girls the power to form paper into whatever she'd never met before, but her parents desires – both film makers - were going to be abroad for a year and single rooms were in short supplypower sought after all across the Empire. And He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that was howis all she has known. Well, at soon Kurara won't have any say in the beginning of matter, because the school yearMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, Viola came and she is forced to be at flee out into the Prefect Academy in South Bend, Indiana rather than in her native New Yorkworld. She'd left behind her best friendjoins Himura aboard the Orihime, Andrew (no – he's not her boyfriend, he's a best friend who happens sky-ship whose express purpose is to be a boy) hunt down shikigami, and is sharing a room with Marisol Carreras, Romy Dixon and Suzanne Santry.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389260</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celia ReesMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Fool's GirlWrath

|summary=When Illyria is sacked, the fool Feste spirits theDuke's daughter, Violetta, to LondonMeet Fitz, 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 in the Forest young Scottish lad full of Ardenfrustration at himself.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=April (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's April Lockdown is only just over, and Cal has survived three months of his year on the run. Will the fourth bring him any closer he should be free to answers about the Ormond Singularity? And can do what he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in Januarywants, feeling rather shell-shocked after his father's death from a mysterious disease to go where he wants and his brush with a crazed lunatic who told him that his father was murdered and whom he'd be next unless wants, but he could hold out until next New Year's Eve. Within days, Cal found cannot stop himself on the run, accused of battering from putting his foot in it when he talks to his own sisterbest friend, and in search of something called the Ormond SingularityCassie. |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 They were half 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 Deppdesultory school band, but without Cassie was also one hundred per cent the pirate make-up. All in all enigmatic – saying she's doing quite well. Gareth Stingecombe is still the love of her life and to seal the bond even tighter she gets could hear a Saturday job in his mother's hairdressing salon. This might, or might not, turn out to be a mistake given what subhuman hum coming from the mother-in-law-to-be thinks constitutes a trendy hairstyleearth.|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 Is this connected with one 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 eco-warrior parents saying the end 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=Evernight|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I'm at world is already a complete loss how to review this book. I'm very tempted to take a tip from my favourite movie critic Roger Ebert who, on occasion, has been known to suggest that you should watch a film '''then''' read his review if done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's full dreaming of twists and hard to describe without spoilers. I'm actually thinking that's not a bad idea here – but will try my best to provide a review with as few clues as possible to ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the twists and turnstruth? Well, just in case two sentences arennot when Cassie has gone missing he can't enough to convince you. This may not be easy, so bear with me!..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007355319</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonTori Bovalino|title=Inside My HeadThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Zoe has moved from London Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to rural Norfolk - her parents are expecting do — especially when she gets a request for over a late baby and they want hundred books that she has to downsize, get out of deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the citybooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and live in a more sustainable wayman Tess hates. Unsurprisingly, Zoe isn't big on this plan. Wrenched from As a petty act of revenge for making her school find and friendsdeliver such a large request, and the vibrancy Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the capitalbooks, scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's convinced that re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her life has just taken a socking great turn anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for the worseher. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408802716</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=William NicholsonPhilip Reeve|title=Rich Utterly Dark 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 the Face 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 TabuDeep

|summary=Paris's streets are already humming with talk of revolutionIn a word, when the young gypsy Yann Margoza rich. There is summoned to perform his magic at the chateau certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a selfishpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, debtand sea-ridden marquise. He is witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to tell the assembled aristocracy keep watch for magical islands and their futuremonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. But what he hoped would be The current Darks are the ticket Watcher, Andrewe, who has to a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision keep notes of activity from the richly-dressed crowd drowning Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in a his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's 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 his curious ward are thrust into the world of bloodprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SingletonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The IslandJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Otto Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has arrived been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in Goa SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a couple summer, in the far NE of days ahead the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Charlotte and Jen, his gap year companionsScottish island. It's typical of Otto Dad is going to steal what should be shared thunder. He's a lovely ladautomating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, but he's a tad selfish and he does like to while mum will be first for everything. Each of the three has a different reason for the trip: Otto wants to get some experience for a hoped-for leaving her career in photo-journalism; Charlie wants algae behind to volunteer hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and beef up her environmental credentials; Jen has dreamed of journeying to India for as long as alone – until she can remembersuddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382967</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin RichardsJonathan Stroud|title=The Chamber of ShadowsOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's LondonScarlett 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, 1886robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. A company building those new underground train tunnels finds But then she meets Albert Browne, a hidden vault at impossible depth - dark boy with dark powers and seems a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to release into the world The Lord mythical Free Isles of Flies. A mysterious masked stage magician does the obviously impossibleLondon Lagoon. A robotic killer stalks Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the streets, cannibalistic Tainted and a street gang all the horrors of ruffians-on-thepost-up decides apocalyptic society to solve the mystery. A man in charge of Fortean artefacts at reach the British Museum has a new employerFree Isles, asking something much but will they be any more evil from him. Surely all of that cannot be connected accepted there than they are 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 the rest of parodyBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571237991</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robin WassermanMercedes Helnwein|title=CrashedSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=Lia lives in Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a future where minds can be saved even if bodies can't. After man with a fatal car crash"real" family, her brain has been scanned, mapped, saved, and transferred into she is used to not being a machine designed to look and feel human. Shepriority in people'll live forevers lives. We last saw But when she defends a random boy in her class with her new mech "life" in tatters after Auden's terrible accident and slingshot, her family's rejectionsimple existence is changed for good. She No longer can't see she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a future boy in it that she never asked for herself amongst the orgs any more and so she rejoins Jude and his group of adrenaline junkie mechs at Quinn's mansion. It's a life of extreme thrill-seeking, backed up by Quinn's unlimited credit and Jude's shady contact at Bio Max, who supplies them with dangerous and untested, but exciting and cutting edge mods and updates: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387659</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David YellandT L Huchu|title=The Truth About LeoLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Ropa 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 been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|isbn= 1529039452}}{{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5

|summary=Leo lives inside his own head Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for much the rest of the timeher life. You canShe joins 't really blame him. He's always tired for a start. ThatOof Ouch My Bones's because he's often up early, tidying up the house after one an online support group where she talks to a bunch of his father's rampagesother teens living with chronic illnesses. His father drinks too much, you seeThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and sometimes he smashes up the housemess around. Leo canWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't risk this being discovered because his father's respond to the only person he's got since his mother died of cancerchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. He misses She decides to steal her like crazy, parents' car and hedrive to Brigid's afraid hehouse to check up on her. But what she doesn'll t expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be taken into care if anyone finds out about his dad's drinkingthe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330031</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=Tomorrow's Guardian|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eleven year old Tom Oakley thinks he's going mad when he seems Move on to relive short periods of his life, and dreams about other people from different times. The reality is far stranger – he's a Walker, with the power to rescue those he dreamed about. Travelling to the battle of Isandlwana, the Great Fire of London, and a German U-Boat, guided by the mysterious Professor, Tom saves the lives of soldier Edward, servant Mary, and Able Seaman Charlie, who also have powers. There are others, however, with similar powers, who aren't as pleasant as Tom's new friends – and the four of them, allied with the Professor and his roguish helper Septimus, are pitched into a battle to save the worlds. That's intentionally plural – there are two parallel universes at stake here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445251388</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]