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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsMax Boucherat|title=The Chosen OneLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ThirteenWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old Kyra , on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one fathermain intention, three mothersand that is to log on to Voxminer, and twenty siblings the world- yesbuilding, twenty critter- with another two on the way. She lives on collecting game that is a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. His father had been Prophet before him, but since his fatherhit in Lori's death and Prophet Childsworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn' accessiont find herself entirely on her own, things have taken a turn for the worseand then she finds something even more spooky. A fence has gone up around For the compound. Adolescent boys are driven off, server she and her bestie and the Prophet seems to nobody else should be choosing younger and younger girls able to marry older and older menenter shows signs of tampering. And now When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, it's Kyra's turn. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry and her sixty-year-old uncle. And her father safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is afraid a girl to refuse him. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mia JamesRachel Greenlaw|title=By MidnightCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=April Dunne doesn't really consider herself to be a genius, and her family certainly aren't rich - so how did she get accepted by the ultra-prestigious Ravenwood school when her family moved from Scotland to Highgate? She can't work it out but has other problems to worry about, in any case, such as the two local murders and the way people at her school get angry when she tries to take their photograph. On the plus side, there's a seriously stunning boy she's drawn to straight away, Gabriel Swift, and she thinks he likes her, although his behaviour is weird at times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095520</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Secret Hour (Midnighters)|rating=4
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|summary=If you do have to move into a small American town, make sure it isn't Bixby, Oklahoma. Jessica does, and finds it perhaps more trouble than it's worthI can hear the song of the sea. She quickly bonds with some The call of the more goth-seeming kids at her high schooldeep, but it's the night-time activities that intrigue heranswering beat in my heart. She thinks she's in a dream when she walks through a dazzling forest of raindrops, suspended in a moment of frozen time - that moment being exactly midnight. But wouldn't you know? - her goth-seeming friends are active at midnight too - and so are some very dangerous creatures of the terrible kind...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410031</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Pittacus Lore|title=I am Number Four|rating=3Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet John SmithMira, 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. By all appearances he is But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the usual fifteen year old American kidwrecking, except for they capture the fact he island's leader and his Mira's father' shift location every few months. John Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is certainly not his real name, but has secretive and with only coordinates to face up to reality - school bulliesguide her, hot girls and she sets off in fact any friends being unattainable with such search of a peripatetic lifestylefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. 'Dad' stays at homeWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, scanning as her journey takes her from the internet and all news sources, in order watched streets of foreign islands to protect the pair - for they are among the remaining dozen or so inhabitants heart of Lorien, living in hidden exile on Earth, but hunted by their enemies from yet another alien race. Can the fact they are permanently pursued grant them any peace - especially when smuggler'John' is about s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to undergo some rather prominent alien-style puberty?save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141332476</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerHarry Allen|title=Dark Secrets 2Children of the Sun|rating=4.5
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|summary=Those of you who read my review of the [[Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|first Dark Secrets]] bind-up will know I absolutely loved that book. This she is a similar proposition – two average-sized teen novels packaged together in a very good value volumetalented singer. Both are set in WisteriaLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Maryland. Both feature teenage girls looking for closure on past events, with dark secrets buried in their past – tree bark and both are guaranteed edible grasses to capture supplement the imagination of their target audience meagre rations of teen girls, rice and of a fair few other readers besideskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416994629</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L J SmithAlexia Casale|title=Forbidden GameSing if you Can't Dance
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|summary=While looking for a game It's hard enough to play for her boyfriendnavigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's birthdayre having to navigate a life-changing disability too, Jenny Thorn comes across a strange shop shebut that's never seen before. Going what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in, she talks the middle of a dance performance that was going to a handsome boy who sells change her a mysterious game in a plain boxlife. But when she and her friends open the game to play itcomes back fighting, they're transported desperate to a world where the boy is avoid the Shadow Manpity stares, and the consequence of losing the game desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can be deadlypossibly manage. The group of teens are left fighting against their worst nightmares as they Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to defeat the sinister Shadow Man and escape – but when some of them finally do get sort out, they realise that it's and just the beginning day to day traumas of all the nightmare for themchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387381</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tabitha SuzumaSimon Fox|title=ForbiddenDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Maya Late one night Graham Blake is sixteenlate back from his shift on the force, prettyand then suddenly rings Archie, sociable and wise beyond her years. But she's never been kissed. Lochan is seventeendemanding he fetch something from a secret place, drop-dead gorgeous and most of join him on the girls at his school have crushes on himrun. He's also highly intelligent They get together, at the top of his class and heading off but barely begin to a good London university and on smell the cusp whiff of a bright future. But he's never kissed a girl. You'd think then, that Southern trains when these two teenagers kiss for the first timefather is arrested, it would be leaving Archie on the beginning of late express to Brighton, toting a gorgeous first love affairtin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong. Because Maya and Lochan are brother and sister..the bearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862308160</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda StrachanLex Croucher|title=Dead Boy TalkingGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
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|summary=''They say it takes about 25 minutes to bleed to death. Who knew that what I want really needed to scream and yell but there's no one here to hear me and I... I can't breath enough to yell anyway. I'm going to die hereread right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, all on it lifted my own.'' Josh is lying in the snow in an alleyway spirits in a pool of his own bloodmost delightful way. He stabbed one of his best mates yesterday In this story, Gwen and now it's happened Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to him. He knows he's dying and his thoughts turn to how this could possibly have happened. He wonders where Skye their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is and what shein love with Bridget (the kingdom's doing. He hopes Danny is okonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Andthen when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, as he goes over creating the events subterfuge of the day before, which culminated falling in his stabbing Ranjlove with each other, his missing brother Gary keeps intruding into the picturewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Why did he go? And did his parents' obsession with Gary's disappearance play But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a part way in what's happenedwhich they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537204</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshNick Brooks|title=Kisses for LulaPromise Boys|rating=3.54
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|summary=Girls do worryWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, about all sorts of thingsthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. And one Each, seemingly, has a grudge of the things they enjoy worrying about most is whether or not they are passing the milestones on life's journey some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the same time as everyone elseof his murder. The fact that they combine this with loud demands to be treated to be an individual is a major reason for stress-related hair-loss But who killed him, and gibbering in parents. Lula is no exception here. Her sixteenth birthday is approaching fastwhy, and unless she gets kissed before then (by pretty well anyone: she's desperate) she is convinced she if any of the boys are innocent, will they be jinxed for life.able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249625</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Brooks1919635017|title=iBoyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Tom Harvey Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is wandering along after school on his way to meet up with his friend Lucy when he hears his name called from up high in one running around London committing a series of the tower blocks on his estate. He doesnrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't ll have time to look up before everything goes upwait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. Waking up in hospital days later, Tom discovers he has fragments of a shattered iPhone embedded in But I'll answer the first one: for his braingrandmother.. And still worse, his friend Lucy has been gang-raped in a brutal attack that Tom had been so closed to walking in on. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WatersPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Passing Strange (Generation Dead)Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Karen DeSonneAnt 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 sexiest zombie amongst the many differently biotic teenagers football team, and two other old muckers – in Oakvalefact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, gets a turn straining at centre stage in the latest in Daniel Waters's ''Generation Dead'' series. Karen has always worn leash only a disguise. When she was alivesingle-sex school can form, her various camouflages hid the crippling depression that engulfed her so talk in class and out often and eventually led turns to her suicidesex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Now she He's deadhad a casual relationship, make a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed upthe ladder headed by 'experienced', hair dye and blue contact lenses enable her to "pass" as a living girlbut whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. She talks fluently and her movements are fluid, unlike most And that's mostly because of her differently biotic peers, whose pauses, stutters who he's been having the relationship and jerky movements mark them out for all to seethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389600</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Gray1800901232|title=Losing ItStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Doing it for Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the first time... you knowrural village where she lived with her family was happy, ''Losing'' It. It. Sex. They talk about it a lotif not prosperous, teenagers. And eventually, they do it. But so when is the right time? Where is smartly-dressed man and woman came to the right place? Who is the right person? Is everyone else doing village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it already? Will they was an opportunity not to be cheap if they do it too? Or will they be left behind missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the peripheries of all that's important in life? And there's so much eagerness in teenagers mini- not just for sex, but for everything. They sure do hate bus to waitHanoi. But sometimes Only, it's better Hanh and the other girls were not going to wait. The trick for the poor thingswork in a shop, I suppose, is knowing when exactly they were to stop waitingwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And when You know those jeans you've never done it, how really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on earth can the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you possibly know thattouched them?! Stepping into the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today It's teen market, each with a story about virginityquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>
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 {{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 A-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 KenyonPatrice Lawrence|title=InfinityNeedle|rating=43
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|summary=Nick GautierBrave. Charlene, scholarship kid teased the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for his poverty some people to like, characters and his motherreaders both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's job as fostering with a stripperpleasant yoga tutor, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he stops them from mugging an elderly couple's at uni. But when the man who rescues him turns out to mix Such a tempestuous personality may be in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarre. If anything, really bizarre is need of a massive understatement. Nick goes on to meet demonscomfort blanket, zombies, shape changersyou might perhaps think, and a host the creation of one such item is part of other mysterious beingsthe plot here, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of Charlene is a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home of New Orleans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Rees Brennan|title=The Demon's Covenant|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A few weeks after the events of [[The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan|The Demon's Lexicon]] wonder knitter, and Mae is finally ungrounded. Determined to get on with 'normal' life and forget the magic making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's lost since brothers Nick and Alan Ryves left, Mae is only interested in hitting the town and meeting up allowed contact with Sebno more. Nice, normal Seb.Then Mae learns We see Charlene prove her brother Jamie has been secretly meeting up belligerence with Geralda store detective, the new leader of the Obsidian Circle. Afraid that Jamie is getting involved in dangerous thingsand then force people to give her two days off school, Mae does the only thing when she can and calls Alanshouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Smiley|title=Nobody's Horse|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Abby lives on her family's farm in California. They specialise in taking horses and ponies which are not at their peak and bringing them on so that they can be sold at a profit. Abby's father well, what exactly happens is determined that she won't get attached not for me to any of the horsessay, because that only increases the pain when they inevitably go, but two are going to make an impact on her that she could not have expected. The first is a foal whose dam dies when he's a matter of weeks old remark how sharp and he takes Abby's heartpointy those knitting needles can be. The second has the opposite effect because every time that Abby rides him he's determined to buck her off. She's frightened of him and it's a tribute to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kimberly GreeneAnn Sei Lin|title=My Life on TVRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam’s sister, Danni, is a pop star and Kurara has spent her mother is Danni’s manager. Dad died before Sam was born, so between the three of them entire life is quite fraught, particularly as they’re a servant on the subject of Midori, a reality show which is planned to run for three years. If they manage massive dining hall floating in the full three years sky where soldiers of the house they live in will belong Empire come to drink and make merry between their motherconquests. However, but it all looks when a man named Himura arrives to be in jeopardy when Danni decides tell her that she can’t take is a Crafter like him, someone with the pop star life any longer and she’s going power to hang up form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her microphoneto come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Sam’s scared that this will mean they Well, soon Kurara won't have to leave any say in the matter, because the house Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and go back she is forced to flee out into the days when they had to struggle to pay world. She joins Himura aboard the rent. There might be Orihime, a way round it though – what if she was sky-ship whose express purpose is to become hunt down shikigami, and a TV star and the reality show could continue?whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409508293</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly BlackMarcus Sedgwick|title=The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)Wrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassel Sharpe dreams Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of a white cat frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and wakes up on the roof of his school buildinghe should be free to do what he wants, perilously close to a fatal fall. Afraid that go where he wants and with whom he's suicidal or otherwise unstablewants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his principal sends him homefoot in it when he talks to his best friend, while Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the school decides whether or not he can stay on as enigmatic – saying she could hear a pupilsubhuman hum coming from the earth. This is completely devastating for Cassel, who is struggling Is this connected with some major issues. For starters, he's only nonone of her eco-worker in a family warrior parents saying the end of workers. His gloved hands cover useless fingers. His touch doesn't manipulate emotions, remove memories, bring luck, or kill, maim or otherwise injure. Even in a the world where working is illegal, already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's hard to be dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the only normal person in your familytruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575096713</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessTori Bovalino|title=Nicholas DaneThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=14-year-old Nicholas Dane Working all summer in her boarding school's library is taken into care after his mother, the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a secret smack head, dies in an accidental overdosehundred books that she has to deliver herself. Meadow Hill What makes it worse is an assessment centre, but the truth is that not much genuine assessment is going onman who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's a savageheadmaster, brutal regime and Nicholas fights against it from the starta man Tess hates. EventuallyAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, he's taken under the wing Tess sticks post-it notes on each of Tony Creal, the deputy headbooks, and scribbled with the only person in the place who appears ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to have a shred reach him, of common humanitycourse.Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them.. ... or so Nick thinksNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141316330</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick HalePhilip Reeve|title=Sudden Death (Striker)|rating=5|genre=Teens|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 a suspected heart attack, things get far more complicated – because Jake is convinced he was actually poisoned, Utterly Dark and can’t understand why his dad seems happy to go along with a cover up. As the pair move to St Petersburg, the bodies start piling up, and Jake goes from having to fight to control his temper, to fight to save his life. With no way Face 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 and the ArkonautsDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Adam In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a missionpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Both he There are troll people on it, and his father have spent sea-witches, and legends of the decade since his mother was kidnapped by an Evil Scientist looking Dark family that has to keep watch for her, magical islands and perfecting their own skillsmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. They might have got The current Darks are the best clue of all so far - one that Watcher, Andrewe, who has led them to keep notes of activity from the mysteriousHidden Lands, hidden, and downright alarming city of Buenos Suenos. Those skills? Being able to communicate his brother Will who lives in London with animals. Since learning to gibber like a spider monkey they can both bark, purr perfectly, and more. It will take the extraordinary menagerie too much science in his head to survive the unusual cityworry about such local yokel superstitions, and try and discover what happened to AdamAndrewe's mum - and what foundling daughter, who washed up out of the Evil Scientist might want by holding her hostage for the same skills in returnsea one day eleven years ago.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=Fallen Grace|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Parkes is not yet sixteen But when she loses her baby. Worse still, it is 1861Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and Grace is unmarried. To have a baby out his curious ward are thrust into the world of wedlock is a shameful thing for a girl in Victorian timesprotecting their island, even if like 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 or 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.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747599130</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carrie RyanKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Dead-Tossed WavesJulia and the Shark
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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gabry has lived her whole life behind the safety of the BarrierJulia, in the seaside town of Vista. She isn't keen to venture past it, to explore the remains of an old amusement park, but Gabry is drawn by the allure of Catcherour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her best friend Cira's brother. Cira parents and the others are sure they will be safe their cat from the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague the world Gabry lives family home in. Gabry decides SW England to risk it, and her whole world is turned upside down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575090898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dead (The Dark)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lazarus Stone is home alone - his father's away on business and his mother died in a car crash when he was just baby. He's lazing around, chatting on the phone with his best mate Craig, when be lighthousekeepers for a foul smell begins to suffuse the house. Tracking it to the loungesummer, 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 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 the Country far NE of the DeadScottish islands. To be able to do this he must Here be in painVikings, something his abusive Uncle, Hartah, takes full advantage that kind ofScottish island. So they travel Dad is going to be automating the lantern, Hartah, Roger and which is his Aunt Jospecialist thing, from faire while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting hunt the grievingelusive Greenland shark. Until And Julia, Hartahwell, takes them to the sea. It is there that Roger gets dragged into helping Hartah she will be homesick and others wreck the Frances Ormund, a navy ship carrying precious cargo back to the Queendomalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceJonathan Stroud|title=Sisters RedThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=Scarlett March lives McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to hunt wander the Fenris - wildlands between the werewolves that took her eye Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and savaged her body during shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a brutal attack when she was just dark boy with dark powers and a young girldarker past. Scarlett managed With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to save her sister Rosiethe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, but Grandma Oma died horrifically. Scarlett's body is marked by scar after scar the cannibalistic Tainted and all the scars never let her forget. She lives and breathes horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the huntFree Isles, killing Fenris after Fenris and saving teenaged girl after teenaged girl. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900587</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew LaneMercedes Helnwein|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Death CloudSlingshot
|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 Gracie Welles has resigned herself to spend his school holidays with his unknown uncle and auntbeing lonely. Looking forward to days As a secret illegitimate daughter of doing whatever he wantsa man with a "real" family, especially after meeting urchin Matty Arnatt, heshe is used to not being a priority in people's initially displeased lives. But when Mycroft hires him an American tutor – but the tutorshe defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Amyus Croweher simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and his daughter Victoria end up teaming up with Sherlock to solve the mysterious deaths of two local men, and uncover for her life now has a plot which could have far-reaching consequences…boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>033051198X</amazonuk>152905818X
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  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Isobelle CarmodyT L Huchu|title=Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles)The Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A nuclear catastrophe called the Great White destroyed most of the worldRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and only those who lived in isolated parts a bit of the countryside were able Scottish pragmatism) to survive by refusing all contact with radiation-infected refugees take messages from the urban centresdead 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. In time However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the cities grew againcity's children. Soon, but Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the fear request of outsiders his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of those who were different remained magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and became a religionbring an end to this evil, composed in part of half-remembered elements of faiths from the time before the apocalypse.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806975</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chloe NeillKristen O'Neal|title=Firespell: The Dark EliteLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=Lily Parker is sent Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get terms with the opportunity to do some prestigious research work fact that she may be in Germany. She was expecting bitchy classmates, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared constant pain for her suitemate, Scout, who stays out late at night and reappears covered in bruises, a school full the rest 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 Elitelife.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louis Sachar|title=The Cardturner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=She joins ''How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules!Oof Ouch My Bones'' 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 an online support group where she talks to their eyeballs in debt and have a weather eye on potential legacies. Alton sighs but goes along bunch of other teens living with itchronic illnesses. He's used to being told to call Lester Trapp his favourite uncle They talk about their troubles and he's used to his unrepentently mercenary parents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill|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 Jaffahelp each other out, who starts off by asking them all while also providing an escape to write a project idea just joke and then shuffles them mess around. Instead When Brigid—one 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 doesnclosest friends—doesn't have respond to switch is the cute boy at the campchat for a while, Jeremy, who Jaffa allows to keep his original topic – of Sean BaylorPriya becomes concerned. So, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting She decides to get to know each other better – does the ghost exist? Will they get it together? Who will write the best article steal her parents' car and get it published? The answers drive 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 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 hisfatherBrigid's unreliability a nightmare house to live with, his two friends Smiler and Barry think he's cool and spend more time hanging out with him than with Rorycheck up on her. As the trio of Smiler, Barry, and RoryBut what she doesn's dad team up t expect to make find there is a music video that goes viral on the internet, Rory gets unwittingly involved and, werewolf in the words of the blurb from the back,'everything flips'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405229306</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Denning|title=The Last Seal|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the Abyss, only for his nemesis Cornelius Silver to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years basement – and in 1666, descendants of the original pair clash as heaims to return to the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fire. While the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break the seals which hold him in the Abyss, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nicola Morgan|title=Wasted|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jess wants to study music. She's a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jack, who needs a singer for his band, is exactly the happenstance she'd hoped for. Even better that Jack is so charming and handsome and charismatic. And still better that he feels werewolf to be the same attraction to her. How lucky can a girl get? Jack believes in luck. In fact, he lives his life 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 her a little, she can't know that a time will come when the toss of a coin is has been talking to online for the difference between life and deathpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Patrick Ness|title=Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone Move on this settler planet. Noise is used as a tool of oppression and as a weapon. There's a cure, but the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only for the most loyal. The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had to make some terrible choices. Between the President's torture and the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil war, trying to hold on long enough for the second wave of settlers to arrive. And then, in the wake of the President's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]