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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly BlackMax Boucherat|title=The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Cassel Sharpe dreams of a white cat and wakes up We meet Lori on the roof of his school building, perilously close to a fatal fall. Afraid that hefirst evening she's suicidal or otherwise unstablegot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, his principal sends him homemother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, while the school decides whether or not he can stay on as her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a pupil. This blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is completely devastating for Casselto log on to Voxminer, who the world-building, critter-collecting game that is struggling with some major issues. For starters, hea hit in Lori's only non-worker in world. But first Lori has a family of workers. His gloved hands cover useless fingers. His touch tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't manipulate emotionsfind herself entirely on her own, remove memoriesand 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, bring luckand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, or kill, maim or otherwise injure. Even in a world where working is illegal, it's hard a girl to be the only normal person in your familyturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575096713</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessRachel Greenlaw|title=Nicholas DaneCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=14-year-old Nicholas Dane is taken into care after his mother, a secret smack head, dies in an accidental overdose. Meadow Hill is an assessment centre, but ''I can hear the truth is that not much genuine assessment is going on. It's a savage, brutal regime and Nicholas fights against it from song of the startsea. Eventually, he's taken under the wing The call of Tony Creal, the deputy headdeep, and the only person answering beat in the place who appears to have a shred of common humanity..my heart.''

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.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 trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. or so Nick thinksDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141316330</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick HaleHarry Allen|title=Sudden Death (Striker)Children of the Sun

|summary=Jake Bastin, son of famous former footballer Steve, thought his life was difficult enough even before his father enters negotiations to join St Petersburg’s newest football team as manager. But when the agent his dad’s discussing the move with collapses of Ra Eun Seo lives in a suspected heart attack, things get far more complicated – because Jake North Korean town and she is convinced he was actually poisoned, and can’t understand why his dad seems happy to go along with a cover uptalented singer. As the pair move to St Petersburg, the bodies start piling up, Life is hard and Jake goes from having food is difficult to fight to control his tempercome by, to fight to save his life. With no way of knowing if he can trust anyone, even his own father, can the youngster stand up to criminals who are happy to kill to get what they want?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dominic Barker|title=Adam so Seo and the Arkonauts|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Adam is on a mission. Both he her friends Nari and his father have spent the decade since his mother was kidnapped by an Evil Scientist Min go foraging every evening, looking for her, tree bark and perfecting their own skills. They might have got the best clue of all so far - one that has led them edible grasses to supplement the mysterious, hidden, and downright alarming city meagre rations of Buenos Suenos. Those skills? Being able to communicate with animals. Since learning to gibber like a spider monkey they can both bark, purr perfectly, rice and more. It will take the extraordinary menagerie to survive the unusual city, and try and discover what happened to Adam's mum - and what the Evil Scientist might want by holding her hostage for the same skills in returnkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperAlexia Casale|title=Fallen GraceSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Grace Parkes It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is not yet sixteen when she loses dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her babylife. Worse still But she comes back fighting, it is 1861desperate to avoid the pity stares, and Grace is unmarrieddesperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. To have a baby out of wedlock is a shameful thing for Meanwhile there's a girl new (cute!) boy in Victorian timesschool, even if it is not by her own choicemusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and Grace has just the day to cope day traumas of all alone with the shame of challenges her condition and the loss of body continues to throw at her child, not to mention a sister who needs constant care and their increasing povertynavigate. But So even though she can''Fallen Grace'' is not some nineteenth century version of the misery memoir: Grace has resourcefulness and determination as well as beautyt dance anymore, and might she be able to sing her story moves at a gripping pace.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599130</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie RyanSimon Fox|title=The Dead-Tossed WavesDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gabry has lived her whole life behind Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the safety of the Barrierforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, in and join him on the seaside town of Vistarun. She isn't keen to venture past it They get together, but barely begin to explore smell the remains whiff of an old amusement parkSouthern trains when the father is arrested, but Gabry is drawn by leaving Archie on the allure of Catcherlate express to Brighton, her best friend Cira's brother. Cira and the others are sure they will be safe toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague the world Gabry lives in. Gabry decides to risk ithis colleagues, and her the bearer of a whole world is turned upside downheap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575090898</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GatwardLex Croucher|title=The Dead (The Dark)Gwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Lazarus Stone is home alone - his father's away on business and his mother died Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a car crash when he was just babymost delightful way. He's lazing around In this story, chatting on the phone with his best mate CraigGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, when a foul smell begins much to suffuse the house. Tracking it to the loungetheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, he opens the door and discovers a skinless figure drenched is in blood. Not a corpse - Red has crossed over from love with Bridget (the other side with a message for Lazaruskingdom's fatheronly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries... Hell is full and the Dead are coming. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999691</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Kendall|title=Crossing Over|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Roger can cross over into And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Country subterfuge of the Dead. To be able to do this he must be falling in painlove with each other, something his abusive Uncle, Hartah, takes full advantage of. So when really they travel, Hartah, Roger and his Aunt Jo, from faire to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting the grievingare enabling their own other romantic attachments. Until But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, Hartahwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, takes them or are they destined to the sea. It is there that Roger gets dragged into helping Hartah and others wreck the Frances Ormund, live a navy ship carrying precious cargo back to the Queendom.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Jackson Pearce|title=Sisters Red|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris - the werewolves that took her eye and savaged her body during a brutal attack when she was just a young girl. Scarlett managed to save her sister Rosie, but Grandma Oma died horrifically. Scarlett's body is marked by scar after scar and the scars never let her forget. She lives and breathes the hunt, killing Fenris after Fenris and saving teenaged girl after teenaged girl. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900587</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Lane|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=With his father overseas in the British Army, his mother unwell, and older brother Mycroft busy working for the government, young Sherlock Holmes is forced to spend his school holidays with his unknown uncle and aunt. Looking forward to days of doing whatever he wants, especially after meeting urchin Matty Arnatt, he's initially displeased when Mycroft hires him an American tutor – but the tutor, Amyus Crowe, and his daughter Victoria end up teaming up with Sherlock to solve the mysterious deaths of two local men, and uncover a plot which could have far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033051198X</amazonuk>}}  {{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-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>}} {{newreview|author=Chloe Neill|title=Firespell: The Dark Elite|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lily Parker is sent to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity to do some prestigious research work in Germany. She was expecting bitchy classmates, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitemate, Scout, who stays out late at night and reappears covered in bruises, a school full of secret hiding places, a principal who knows her parents and seems to have an entirely wrong idea about their work – or 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 and I don’t know the rules!'' 17-year-old Alton Richards is shoehorned into becoming the driver and cardturner for his blind, octogenarian, bridge-playing, but above all rich, uncle by his grasping parents - who are up to their eyeballs in debt and have a weather eye on potential legacies. Alton sighs but goes along with it. He's used to being told to call Lester Trapp his favourite uncle and he's used to his unrepentently mercenary parents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808501</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bonnie Hearn HillNick Brooks|title=Star Crossed: Taurus EyesPromise Boys

|summary=Logan McRae is excited by When the prospect principal (headmaster) of attending a writers' camp hosted by author Henry JaffaUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, 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 three boys find themselves called into thelocalitypolice station as suspects. The only person who doesn't have to switch is the cute boy at the camp Each, Jeremyseemingly, who Jaffa allows to keep his original topic – has a grudge of Sean Baylor. Sosome description against Principal Moore, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting to get to know each other better – does could have been there at the ghost exist? Will they get it together? Who will write the best article and get it published? The answers to all these questionsand 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 Bob|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=For years, conscientious student Rory and his hard-working mother have struggled to cope with time of his father, an eyeliner wearing struggling singer-songwriter unable to hold down a job, and obsessed with a star called Bob Blademurder. 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 But who killed him than with Rory. As the trio of Smiler, Barry, and Rory's dad team up to make a music video that goes viral on the internetwhy, Rory gets unwittingly involved and, in the words if any of the blurb from the backboys are innocent,'everything flips'.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405229306</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Denning1919635017|title=The Last SealA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the AbyssSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666, descendants so why is he running around London committing a series of the original pair clash as robberies? And how did heaims learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to return get an answer to the world, and burn down London by starting second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the Great Firefirst one: for his grandmother.. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola MorganPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=WastedDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Jess wants to study music. She's Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jackstandard school, who needs a singer for and is surprised to find his bandgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is exactly one of four with both his best buddy from the happenstance she'd hoped for. Even better that Jack is so charming football team, and handsome and charismatictwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. And still better that he feels As they're all fired up, straining at the same attraction to her. How lucky leash only a single-sex school can a girl get? Jack believes form, the talk in luckclass and out often turns to sex. In fact Which is confusing for Ant, as he lives his life by it. He doesn't do a thing unless know what his coin says he can. Newly in lovescore is, Jess is slowly drawn into where his game of chanceachievements in that regard lie. Although it worries her He's had a casual relationship, a littlesecret one, for several months now, she and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't know be sure. And that a time will come when the toss 's mostly because of a coin is who he's been having the difference between life relationship and deaththe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Patrick Ness1800901232|title=Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Noise Twelve- visible thought year- dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet. Noise is used as old Hanh wanted to be a tool of oppression and as a weaponfashion designer. There's a cure Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, but so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it only for the most loyal. The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had was an opportunity not to make some terrible choicesbe missed. Between the President's torture Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola mini- trying bus to prevent civil warHanoi. Only, trying to hold on long enough for Hanh and the second wave of settlers other girls were not going to arrive. And thenwork in a shop, 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 wake of legs? The ones with the Presidentartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war..quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonPatrice Lawrence|title=Della Says: OMG! Needle|rating=43

|summary=Ever since she was fourBrave. Charlene, Della has had a secret crush on Danthe 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, the good-looking characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons schools, she's fostering with her. And nowa pleasant yoga tutor, more than ten years laterAnnie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he wants to kiss her's at uni. It seems too good to Such a tempestuous personality may be truein need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and for a while Della fears the whole thing creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a jokewonder knitter, set up by mean girl Gemima. After all, Gemima and is Danmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's best friendallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about Dan.. well, her familywhat exactly happens is not for me to say, her friendsonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lara FoxAnn Sei Lin|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on the ShelfRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anya Buxton is back. It's Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the summer holidays Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her mum that she is keen for her a Crafter like him, someone with the power to find form paper into whatever she desires – a summer job rather than waste power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her days lounging around at hometo come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. After Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the briefmatter, worrying possibility that she might just end up because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a newspaper delivery girl shikigami, and she lands a dream position gaining work experience with a London publishing houseis forced to flee out into the world. She finds herself simultaneously editing a dishy, though slightly disturbed teen authorjoins Himura aboard the Orihime, struggling with a long distance relationship with Alsky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, wondering if 'The Boy' really has turned over and a new leaf and being wooed by the boss's son. And, whole world of course, she's blogging it all for her dedicated followers.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenna BurtenshawMarcus Sedgwick|title=WintercraftWrath

|summary=The wardens raid villages and cities for people competent to fight in the warMeet Fitz, 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 ago, taking Kate’s parents with themyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Kate Lockdown is taken in by her uncleonly just over, Artemisand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and grows up in the book shop with him and her friendwhom he wants, Edgar. But now the wardens are back, and looking for more people but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to fight. Howeverhis best friend, they are also looking for the Skilled – a dying breed of people who can see through the veil of life and deathCassie. They want to build an army were half of the dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Sarah Dessen|title=Infinity (Pocket Money Puffins)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Girl is a teen from small town America. We don't know where exactlydesultory school band, but it's somewhere people drive (which rules out Cassie was also one hundred per cent the likes of NYC) and it's somewhere that has a roundabout. Most of America doesn't have these enigmatic – instead they have much more sensible crossings and lights and T-junctions – so it's saying she could hear a source of intrigue for many of subhuman hum coming from the town's residentsearth. For new driver Girl the roundabout is joint top on her List Of Things To Master, along with sleeping Is this connected with one of her boyfriend Anthony. They might seem entirely unrelated to eco-warrior parents saying the likes end of you and me, but to Girl the links are clear. Theyworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she're both things s dreaming of? Is she will have to deal with for a first time eventuallyjust bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, but she still not when Cassie has gone missing he can't decide whether to rush ahead in order to get them out of the way quickly, or put them off for just a little longer...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330775</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Meg RosoffTori Bovalino|title=Vamoose (Pocket Money Puffins)The Devil Makes Three

|summary=There are lots of reasons not Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to become do — especially when she gets a teen mum while still at school – there’s your loss of freedom, request for over a start, plus the fact hundred books that babies spend their days crying and pooing, not she has to mention the fact they’re expensivedeliver herself. But what happens to Jess What makes it worse is something that no one has warned her aboutthe man who requested the books: she goes into hospital Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and gives birth to a bouncing baby mooseman Tess hates. Which isAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it has notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to be saidreach him, slightly oddof course. As she and boyfriend Nick struggle through first-time parenthood and learn Her plan is to deal with the Unique Challenge of having a non-homo-sapien childget her anger out like this, there’s a lesson for and then take them all of us about biting off more than we can chew and unpredictable consequencesbefore delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141329149</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy WerlinPhilip Reeve|title=Impossible|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Life is just as it should be for Lucy Scarborough. She lives with loving foster parents and at seventeen is looking forward to attending prom with her friends Utterly Dark and her date, who has definite boyfriend potential. The only fly in the ointment is Miranda Scarborough, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her in Face of the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy'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 MistDeep

|summary=During World War TwoIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, Max's father decides and legends of the Dark family that has to move keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the whole family Watcher, Andrewe, who has to a seaside retreat he knows keep notes of - a wooden house far away activity from the city he's grown Hidden Lands, his family up brother Will who lives in. Nobody seems London with too keen on the ideamuch science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, neither of Maxand Andrewe's sistersfoundling daughter, his mother, nor he - and Max is gifted a pocket watch by his loving, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker who washed up out of a father, enscribed as "Max's Time Machine"the sea one day eleven years ago. But the house they move towhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and its surroundings, his curious ward are full thrust into the world of more successful time machines - a stash of early home videos, a public clock that runs backwards, a sunken shipwreckprotecting their island, a yard full of statues of a stone circus... And let's like it or not forget the mysterious, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedings. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Jake Ransom Julia and the Skull King's ShadowShark|rating=54

|summary=The prologue Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to this splendid book recounts be lighthousekeepers for a terrifying chasesummer, in the discovery far NE of fabulous Mayan artifactsthe Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, and a shadowy enemy. And that gripping scene sets the tone for the rest kind of the bookScottish island. After Dad is going to be automating the strange disappearance of their parentslantern, which is his specialist thing, who were on an archeological dig on while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Mountain of Boneselusive Greenland shark. And Julia, Jake Ransom and his sister Kady are sent a parcel containing two halves of a Mayan coinwell, their mother's sketchbook she will be homesick and their father's notebook. There is no indication what these things mean or what to do with themalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000616</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lucy JagoJonathan Stroud|title=Montacute HouseThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Cess Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the poultry girl at Montacute Housewildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and her mother live alone - Cess has never met her fathera darker past. In factWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she doesn't even know who he is. Shunned by they plan to flee to the other villagers because mythical Free Isles of her illegitimacy, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcaststhe London Lagoon. There's WilliamTogether, who has a club foot they must brave man- thought of as a curse in Elizabethan Englandeating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and Edith, who's been chased out all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the village for witchery by Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the woman-hating local priest. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gregory HughesMercedes Helnwein|title=Unhooking the MoonSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=The Rat and Bob are prairie childrenGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. Winnipeg is As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a land ''so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days''. When their father dies and they're orphaned"real" family, they are determined she is used to avoid not being a childrenpriority in people's home at all costs and embark upon lives. But when she defends a road trip to New York Cityrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob is pretty much the hanger-on - he knows it that the Rat is a special kid who would she never make it in an institution and so he puts his fears aside to follow his singular sisterasked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849162956</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marcus SedgwickT L Huchu|title=White CrowThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rebecca Ropa Moyo is not happy a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to be leaving Londontake messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. She's not happy with her dadEver since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not happy with only herself, but her boyfriend, younger sister and she just generally an unhappy personher aging grandmother. Having to move to a dead-end place like Winterfold doesn't help at all. Her only friend However, 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 to learn something from evil stalking the dead. But 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 is told early on in this bookruined streets of Edinburgh, and on targeting the evidence here that statement is correctcity's children. With a gutsySoon, bloody opening to Ropa is pulled into the adventure we see Taro being attacked by ninjas, and rescued by search for a friendly vampire among them - having doubted missing boy at the existence request of both from his corner dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of sixteenth century rural Japanmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. The attack nearly leaves Taro Will she find the missing children and bring an orphan, but opens himself up end to a whole unexpected destinythis evil, as people seek to kidnap him - or worse, and beyond that, an entirely unforseen existence as a teenage vampire when his saviour turns him.will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848873875</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mari StrachanKristen O'Neal|title=The Earth Hums in B FlatLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=It's April and Cal Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has survived three months to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of his year on the runher life. Will the fourth bring him any closer She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to answers a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the Ormond Singularity? And can he trust Winter Frey? You guys last saw Cal in Januarychat for a while, feeling rather shell-shocked after his fatherPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's death from house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a mysterious disease werewolf in the basement – and his brush with a crazed lunatic who told him for that his father was murdered and he'd werewolf to be next unless he could hold out until next New Year's Eve. Within days, Cal found himself on the run, accused of battering his own sister, and in search of something called girl she has been talking to online for the Ormond Singularitypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340996471</amazonuk>1683692349

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