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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Daniel Waters|title=Passing Strange (Generation Dead)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Karen DeSonne, the sexiest zombie amongst the many differently biotic teenagers in Oakvale, gets a turn at centre stage in the latest in Daniel Waters's ''Generation Dead'' series. Karen has always worn a disguise. When she was alive, her various camouflages hid the crippling depression that engulfed her so often and eventually led to her suicide. Now she's dead, make up, hair dye and blue contact lenses enable her to "pass" as a living girl. She talks fluently and her movements are fluid, unlike most of her differently biotic peers, whose pauses, stutters and jerky movements mark them out for all to see. |amazonuk= <amazonuk>1847389600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Gray|title=Losing It|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Doing it for the first time... you know, ''Losing'' It. It. Sex. They talk about it a lot, teenagers. And eventually, they do it. But when is the right time? Where is the right place? Who is the right person? Is everyone else doing it already? Will they be cheap if they do it too? Or will they be left behind on the peripheries of all that's important in life? And there's so much eagerness in teenagers !- not just for sex, but for everything. They sure do hate to wait. But sometimes, it's better to wait. The trick for the poor things, I suppose, is knowing when exactly to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?! Stepping into the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today's teen market, each with a story about virginity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Hopkins|title=Million Dollar Mates|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's nine months since Jess Hall's mother died and she's still finding it difficult to come to terms with what's happened. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran but all that's about to change. Jess' Dad has got the job of general manager at Number 1, Porchester Park. These apartments are not just up-market they're where the ARemove -listers live and after some initial reluctance about leaving Gran Jess is excited. There's an Olympic-size pool where she can swim and both she and Charlie will be able to have their own rooms in the house that goes with the job. Everyone at school envies here and it looks as though she's living the dream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonMax Boucherat|title=Infinity|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly couple. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre is a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home The Last Life of New Orleans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Rees Brennan|title=The Demon's CovenantLori Mills|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A few weeks after the events of [[The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan|The Demon's Lexicon]] and Mae is finally ungrounded. Determined to get on with 'normal' life and forget the magic she's lost since brothers Nick and Alan Ryves left, Mae is only interested in hitting the town and meeting up with Seb. Nice, normal Seb.Then Mae learns her brother Jamie has been secretly meeting up with Gerald, the new leader of the Obsidian Circle. Afraid that Jamie is getting involved in dangerous things, Mae does the only thing she can and calls Alan.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Smiley|title=Nobody's Horse|rating=5

|summary=Abby lives We meet Lori on her familythe first evening she's farm got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in California, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. They specialise What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in taking horses a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and ponies which are not at their peak and bringing them on so that they can be sold at a profit. Abby's father is determined that she won't get attached to any of the horseslog on to Voxminer, because that only increases the pain when they inevitably goworld-building, but two are going to make an impact on her critter-collecting game that she could not have expected. The first is a foal whose dam dies when he's a matter of weeks old and he takes Abbyhit in Lori's heartworld. The second But first Lori has the opposite effect because every time a tiny inkling that Abby rides him hethis stormy night doesn's determined to buck t find herself entirely on her offown, and then she finds something even more spooky. She's frightened For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of him tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and it's her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a tribute girl to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kimberly GreeneRachel Greenlaw|title=My Life on TVCompass and Blade

|summary=Sam’s sister, Danni, is a pop star and her mother is Danni’s manager. Dad died before Sam was born, so between ''I can hear the three song of them life is quite fraught, particularly as they’re the subject sea. The call of a reality show which is planned to run for three years. If they manage the full three years deep, the house they live in will belong to their mother, but it all looks to be answering beat in jeopardy when Danni decides that she can’t take the pop star life any longer and she’s going to hang up her microphone. Sam’s scared that this will mean they have to leave the house and go back to the days when they had to struggle to pay the rentmy heart. There might be a way round it though – what if she was to become a TV star and the reality show could continue?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409508293</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Holly Black|title=The White Cat (Curse WorkersRosevear, Book 1)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassel Sharpe dreams of a white cat remote and wakes up partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the roof rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of his school building, perilously close 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 fatal fall. Afraid that hetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's suicidal or otherwise unstable, his principal sends father. Desperate to save him homefrom death, while the school decides whether or not he can stay on as Mira makes a bargain with a pupil. This wreck survivor who is completely devastating for Cassel, who as charming as he is struggling secretive and with some major issues. For startersonly coordinates to guide her, he's only non-worker she sets off in search of a family of workerssecret that lies buried deep in the sea. His gloved hands cover useless fingers. His touch doesn't manipulate emotionsWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, remove memories, bring luck, or kill, maim or otherwise injure. Even in a world where working is illegal, itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's hard territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be save the future of her home and the only normal person in your familyones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575096713</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessHarry Allen|title=Nicholas DaneChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=14-year-old Nicholas Dane Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is taken into care after his mother, a secret smack head, dies in an accidental overdosetalented singer. Meadow Hill Life is an assessment centre, but the truth hard and food is that not much genuine assessment is going on. It's a savagedifficult to come by, brutal regime so Seo and Nicholas fights against it from the start. Eventuallyher friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, he's taken under looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the wing meagre rations of Tony Creal, the deputy head, rice and the only person in the place who appears to have a shred of common humanity... ... or so Nick thinkskimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141316330</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick HaleAlexia Casale|title=Sudden Death (Striker)Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Jake BastinIt's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, son but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of famous former footballer Steve, thought his life a dance performance that was difficult enough even before his father enters negotiations going to join St Petersburg’s newest football team as managerchange her life. But when the agent his dad’s discussing she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the move with collapses of a suspected heart attackpity stares, things and desperate to get far more complicated – because Jake is convinced he was actually poisoned, and can’t understand why his dad seems happy back to go along with a cover uplife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. As the pair move Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to St Petersburgsort out, and just the bodies start piling up, and Jake goes from having day to fight day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to control his temper, throw at her to fight to save his lifenavigate. With no way of knowing if he So even though she can trust anyone, even his own father't dance anymore, can the youngster stand up might she be able to criminals who are happy to kill to get what they wantsing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249501</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dominic BarkerSimon Fox|title=Adam and the ArkonautsDeadlock|rating=4.5

|summary=Adam Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a mission. Both he secret place, and his father have spent join him on the decade since his mother was kidnapped by an Evil Scientist looking for her, and perfecting their own skillsrun. They might have got get together, but barely begin to smell the best clue whiff of all so far - one that has led them to Southern trains when the mysteriousfather is arrested, hiddenleaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, and downright alarming city of Buenos Suenos. Those skills? Being able to communicate with animals. Since learning to gibber like toting a spider monkey they can both bark, purr perfectly, and more. It will take the extraordinary menagerie tin his father was determined to survive the unusual citykeep away from his colleagues, 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 returnbearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperLex Croucher|title=Fallen Grace|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Parkes is not yet sixteen when she loses her baby. Worse still, it is 1861, Gwen and Grace is unmarried. To have a baby out of wedlock is a shameful thing for a girl Art Are Not in Victorian times, even if it is not by her own choice, and Grace has to cope all alone with the shame of her condition and the loss of her child, not to mention a sister who needs constant care and their increasing poverty. But ''Fallen Grace'' is not some nineteenth century version of the misery memoir: Grace has resourcefulness and determination as well as beauty, and her story moves at a gripping pace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599130</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Ryan|title=The Dead-Tossed WavesLove

|summary=Gabry has lived her whole life behind the safety of the BarrierWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the seaside town of Vistaa most delightful way. She isn't keen In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to venture past ittheir mutual disgust! Gwen, to explore the remains of an old amusement parkyou see, but Gabry is drawn by in love with Bridget (the allure of Catcher, her best friend Cirakingdom's brotheronly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Cira and And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the others subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are sure enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they will can both truly be safe from the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague the world Gabry lives in. Gabry decides themselves, or are they destined to risk it, and her live a lie their whole world is turned upside down.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575090898</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GatwardNick Brooks|title=The Dead (The Dark)Promise Boys

|summary=Lazarus Stone When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is home alone - his father's away on business and his mother died in a car crash when he was just babymurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. He's lazing around Each, chatting on the phone with his best mate Craigseemingly, when has a foul smell begins to suffuse grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the housetime of his murder. Tracking it to the lounge But who killed him, he opens the door and discovers a skinless figure drenched in blood. Not a corpse - Red has crossed over from the other side with a message for Lazarus's father... Hell is full why, and if any of the Dead boys are coming. innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999691</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Kendall1919635017|title=Crossing OverA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Roger can cross over into the Country Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of the Dead. To be able robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to do this he must be in pain, something his abusive Uncle, Hartah, takes full advantage of. So they travel, Hartah, Roger and his Aunt Jo, from faire get an answer to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting the grievingsecond question because I avoid spoilers. Until, Hartah, takes them to But I'll answer the seafirst one: for his grandmother.. It is there that Roger gets dragged into helping Hartah and others wreck the Frances Ormund, a navy ship carrying precious cargo back to the Queendom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearcePatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Sisters RedDifferent for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Scarlett March lives Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to hunt primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the Fenris leash only a single- sex school can form, the werewolves talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that took her eye and savaged her body during regard lie. He's had a brutal attack when she was just casual relationship, a young girl. Scarlett managed to save her sister Rosiesecret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but Grandma Oma died horrificallywhether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. Scarlett And that's body is marked by scar after scar and mostly because of who he's been having the scars never let her forget. She lives relationship and breathes the hunt, killing Fenris after Fenris and saving teenaged girl after teenaged girlsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900587</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Lane1800901232|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>}}  {{newreviewStitched Up|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 EliteSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Lily Parker is sent Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to boarding school be a fashion designer. Life in Chicago the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when her parents get the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to do some prestigious research work in Germanybe missed. She Some money changed hands and Hanh was expecting bitchy classmateson the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitemate, Scout, who stays out late at night and reappears covered the other girls were not going to work in bruises, a school full of secret hiding placesshop, a principal who knows her parents and seems they were to have work in virtual slavery in an entirely wrong idea about their work – or a mysterious group of supernatural teens called illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the Dark Eliteartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|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 HillPatrice Lawrence|title=Star Crossed: Taurus EyesNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Logan McRae is excited by Brave. Charlene, the prospect 'heroine' of attending a writers' camp hosted by author Henry Jaffathis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, who starts off by asking them all to write a project idea characters and then shuffles them aroundreaders both. Instead Kicked out of her longed-for astrology featuremultiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Logan ends and has taken up having to write about folk singer Sean Baylor, whose ghost residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be haunting in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and thelocality. The only person who doesn't have to switch creation of one such item is part of the cute boy at the campplot here, Jeremyas Charlene is a wonder knitter, who Jaffa allows to keep his original topic and is making something full of love for her younger sister – of Sean Baylora younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. SoWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting then force people to get give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me 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 say, only to all these questionsremark how sharp and more lie inside the second book in the Star Crossed series (along with some temporary tattoos!)pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762436719</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine FordeAnn Sei Lin|title=Fifteen Minute BobRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=For yearsKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, conscientious student Rory a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and his hard-working mother have struggled to cope with his fathermake merry between their conquests. However, an eyeliner wearing struggling singer-songwriter unable when a man named Himura arrives to hold down tell her that she is a jobCrafter like him, and obsessed someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a star called Bob Bladepower sought after all across the Empire. While Rory finds hisfather's unreliability a nightmare He asks her to live come withhim, his two friends Smiler and Barry think heto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's cool t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and spend more time hanging she is forced to flee out with him than with Roryinto the world. As She joins Himura aboard the trio of SmilerOrihime, Barrya sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, 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 whole world of the blurb from the back,'everything flips'.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405229306</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Last SealWrath

|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the AbyssMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only for just over, and he 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 nemesis Cornelius Silver foot in it when he talks to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666best friend, descendants Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the original pair clash as heaims to return to enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fireearth. While Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break end of the seals which hold him in world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the Abysstruth? Well, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the worldnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola MorganTori Bovalino|title=WastedThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Jess wants to study music. SheWorking all summer in her boarding school's a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jack, who needs a singer for his band, library is exactly the happenstance last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she'd hoped gets a request for. Even better over a hundred books that Jack is so charming and handsome and charismatic. And still better that he feels the same attraction she has to herdeliver herself. How lucky can a girl get? Jack believes in luck. In fact, he lives his life by What makes itworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. He doesnThe boarding school't do s headmaster, and a thing unless his coin says he canman Tess hates. Newly in love, Jess is slowly drawn into his game As a petty act of chance. Although it worries revenge for making her find and deliver such a littlelarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she canthink of. They't know that a time will come when the toss re never meant to reach him, of a coin course. Her plan is the difference between life to get her anger out like this, and deaththen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessPhilip Reeve|title=Monsters Utterly Dark and the Face of Men (Chaos Walking)the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planetIn a word, rich. Noise There is used as a tool certainly an abundance of oppression and as riches in this story set on a weaponpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There's a cureare troll people on it, and sea-witches, but and legends of the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only Dark family that has to keep watch for the most loyalmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The Answer current Darks are fighting back against his authoritarian regimethe Watcher, Andrewe, but they've had who has to make some terrible choices. Between keep notes of activity from the President's torture Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and the AnswerAndrewe's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil warfoundling daughter, trying to hold on long enough for who washed up out of the second wave of settlers to arrivesea one day eleven years ago. And thenBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, in both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the wake world of the President's genocide of slavesprotecting their island, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but like it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war..or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Della Says: OMG! Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ever since she was fourJulia, our pre-teen heroine, Della has had a secret crush on Dan, the good-looking and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons been packed off with her. And now, more than ten years later, he wants to kiss her. It seems too good parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be true, and lighthousekeepers for a while Della fears the whole thing is a joke, set up by mean girl Gemima. After allsummer, Gemima is Dan's best friend. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all in the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about Dan, her family, her friends...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lara Fox|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on far NE of the Shelf|rating=4Scottish islands.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anya Buxton is back Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. It's the summer holidays and her mum Dad is keen for her going to find a summer job rather than waste her days lounging around at home. After be automating the brieflantern, 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 dishywhich is his specialist thing, though slightly disturbed teen author, struggling with a long distance relationship with Al, wondering if 'The Boy' really has turned over a new leaf and being wooed by while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the boss's sonelusive Greenland shark. AndJulia, of coursewell, she's blogging it all for her dedicated followerswill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenna BurtenshawJonathan Stroud|title=WintercraftThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The wardens raid villages Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and cities for people competent Faith Houses to fight in wander the wildlands between the warSeven Kingdoms of Britain, a war nobody knows anything about robbing banks and shooting other than if you’re sent outlaws to fight you don’t come backkeep herself alive. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years agoBut then she meets Albert Browne, taking Kate’s parents a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting themdown, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Kate is taken in by her uncleTogether, Artemisthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and grows up in all the book shop with him and her friend, Edgar. But now horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the wardens are backFree Isles, and looking for but will they be any more people to fight. However, accepted there than they are also looking for the Skilled – a dying breed of people who can see through in the veil rest of life and death. They want to build an army of the dead.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>1406394815

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenMercedes Helnwein|title=Infinity (Pocket Money Puffins)Slingshot|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) 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 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=Impossible|rating=4

|summary=Life is just as it should be for Lucy ScarboroughGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. She lives As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with loving foster parents and at seventeen a "real" family, she is looking forward used to attending prom not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her friends and slingshot, her date, who has definite boyfriend potentialsimple existence is changed for good. The only fly No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the ointment is Miranda Scarboroughsolitude, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving for her in the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy's life now has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possiblea boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonT L Huchu|title=The Prince Library of Mistthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=During World War TwoRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Max's father decides to move the whole family to using Zimbabwean magic (and a seaside retreat he knows bit of - a wooden house far away Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the city he's grown his family up indead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Nobody seems too keen on the ideaEver since she dropped out of school, neither of Maxshe's sistersbeen using it to support not only herself, his mother, nor he - but her younger sister and Max is gifted a pocket watch by his lovingher aging grandmother. However, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of a fatherEdinburgh, enscribed as "Maxtargeting the city's Time Machine"children. But Soon, Ropa is pulled into the house they move to, and its surroundings, are full of more successful time machines - search for a stash missing boy at the request of early home videos, a public clock his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that runs backwards, a sunken shipwreck, a yard full the world of statues of a stone circusmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined... And let's not forget Will she find the mysteriousmissing children and bring an end to this evil, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedings.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsKristen O'Neal|title=Jake Ransom Lycanthropy and the Skull King's ShadowOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Cess is 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 the poultry girl at Montacute Houserest of her life. She and her mother live alone - Cess has never met her father. In factjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she doesn't even know who he istalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Shunned by the They talk about their troubles and help each other villagers because out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her illegitimacyclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcastsPriya becomes concerned. ThereShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's William, who has house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a club foot - thought of as a curse werewolf in Elizabethan England, the basement – and Edith, who's for that werewolf to be the girl she has been chased out of the village talking to online for witchery by the woman-hating local priestpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Gregory Hughes|title=Unhooking the Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|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 children's home at all costs and embark upon a road trip to New York City, in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob is pretty much the hanger-Move on - he knows that the Rat is a special kid who would never make it in an institution and so he puts his fears aside to follow his singular sister. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849162956</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]