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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyRachel Greenlaw|title=Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles)Compass and Blade

|summary=Isabeau St. Croix has no care for politics and royalty, and would really rather not spend her time among ''I can hear the newly royal Drake family, attempting to negotiate peace between them and song of the Hounds, her vampire clansea. The Hounds are not well thought call of among vampiresthe deep, who fear their dual fangs and strange ritualsthe answering beat in my heart. But the Drakes are like no vampires Isabeau has ever met, and they aren't like royalty either.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880705X</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Vanessa Curtis|title=Zelah Green: One More Little Problem|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Zelah when Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her OCD got so bad she was sent off , 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 live-in centre for treatment. She's at home nowtrap to end the wrecking, with they capture the OCD still around but not totally debilitating. Sheisland's still jumping on the stairs - but not so many jumps leader and not so often. SheMira's still scrubbing father. Desperate 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 face, but it isn't quite red rawshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. You'd call With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her overly fastidious rather than ill. And journey takes her therapist is pleased with 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 progress. But then..home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405240547</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsHarry Allen|title=The Chosen One|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Thirteen-year-old Kyra has one father, three mothers, and twenty siblings - yes, twenty - with another two on the way. She lives on a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. His father had been Prophet before him, but since his father's death and Prophet Childs' accession, things have taken a turn for Children of the worse. A fence has gone up around the compound. Adolescent boys are driven off, and the Prophet seems to be choosing younger and younger girls to marry older and older men. And now, it's Kyra's turn. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. And her father is afraid to refuse him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By MidnightSun

|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, Ra Eun Seo lives 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, North Korean town 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|genre=Teens|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 worth. She quickly bonds with some of the more goth-seeming kids at her high school, but it's the night-time activities that intrigue her. 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.talented singer..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410031</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Pittacus Lore|title=I am Number Four|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet John Smith. By all appearances he Life is the usual fifteen year old American kid, except for the fact he hard and his 'father' shift location every few months. John food is certainly not his real name, but has difficult to face up to reality - school bulliescome by, hot girls so Seo and in fact any her friends being unattainable with such a peripatetic lifestyle. 'Dad' stays at home, scanning the internet Nari and all news sources, in order to protect the pair - for they are among the remaining dozen or so inhabitants 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 'John' is about to undergo some rather prominent alien-style puberty?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141332476</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 2|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Those of you who read my review of the [[Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|first Dark Secrets]] bind-up will know I absolutely loved that book. This is a similar proposition – two average-sized teen novels packaged together in a very good value volume. Both are set in WisteriaMin 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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L J SmithAlexia Casale|title=Forbidden GameSing if you Can't Dance

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tabitha SuzumaSimon Fox|title=ForbiddenDeadlock

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda StrachanLex Croucher|title=Dead Boy TalkingGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshNick Brooks|title=Kisses for LulaPromise Boys|rating=3.54

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Brooks1919635017|title=iBoyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|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>

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith Gray1800901232|title=Losing ItStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy HopkinsPatrice Lawrence|title=Million Dollar MatesNeedle|rating=43

|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 's nine months since Jess Hallheroine's mother died of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's still finding it difficult to come to terms fostering with whata pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's happened. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran but all thatold room while he's about to changeat uni. Jess' Dad has got Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the job creation of general manager at Number 1one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, 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. Theremaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's an Olympic-size pool where she can swim allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and both then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and Charlie will pointy those knitting needles can 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..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonAnn Sei Lin|title=InfinityRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Nick Gautier, scholarship kid teased for his poverty and his mother's job Kurara has spent her entire life as a stripperservant on the Midori, finds life hard enough even before three a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of his friends try the Empire come to kill him when he stops them from mugging an elderly coupledrink and make merry between their conquests. But However, when the a man who rescues named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him turns out , someone with the power to mix in seriously weird circles, things get really bizarreform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. If anythingHe asks her to come with him, really bizarre to leave the life of dreary servitude that is a massive understatementall she has known. Nick goes on to meet demonsWell, zombiessoon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, shape changersbecause the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a host of other mysterious beingssky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of and a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home whole world of New Orleans.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{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]] 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|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 is determined that she won't get attached to any of the horses, 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 and he takes Abby's heart. 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kimberly Greene|title=My Life on TV|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam’s sister, Danni, is a pop star and her mother is Danni’s manager. Dad died before Sam was born, so between the three of them life is quite fraught, particularly as they’re the subject of a reality show which is planned to run for three years. If they manage the full three years the house they live in will belong to their mother, but it all looks to be 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 rent. 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly BlackMarcus Sedgwick|title=The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)Wrath

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessTori Bovalino|title=Nicholas DaneThe Devil Makes Three

|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

 {{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

|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, hiddenhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and downright alarming city Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of Buenos Suenosthe sea one day eleven years ago. Those skills? Being able to communicate with animals. Since learning to gibber like a spider monkey they can But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both bark, purr perfectly, his sullen brother and more. It will take his curious ward are thrust into the extraordinary menagerie to survive the unusual cityworld of protecting their island, 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 returnlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Fallen Grace|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Parkes is not yet sixteen when she loses her baby. Worse still, it is 1861, and Grace is unmarried. To have a baby out of wedlock is a shameful thing for a girl 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 Julia 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 WavesShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gabry Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has lived been packed off with her whole life behind parents and their cat from the safety of the Barrierfamily home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the seaside town far NE of Vistathe Scottish islands. She isn't keen to venture past it Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to explore be automating the remains of an old amusement parklantern, but Gabry which is drawn by the allure of Catcherhis specialist thing, her best friend Cira's brother. Cira and the others are sure they while mum will be safe from leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague the world Gabry lives inelusive Greenland shark. Gabry decides to risk it And Julia, well, she will be homesick and her whole world is turned upside downalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575090898</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=David GatwardJonathan Stroud|title=The Dead (The Dark)Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lazarus Stone Scarlett McCain 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 aroundan outlaw, chatting on rejecting the draconian conformity of the phone with his best mate Craig, when a foul smell begins Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to suffuse wander the house. Tracking it to wildlands between the loungeSeven Kingdoms of Britain, he opens the door robbing banks and discovers a skinless figure drenched in bloodshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Not But then she meets Albert Browne, a corpse - Red has crossed over from the other side dark boy with dark powers and a message for Lazarus's fatherdarker past.With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon.. Hell is full Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the Dead horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are coming. in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999691</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anna KendallMercedes Helnwein|title=Crossing OverSlingshot

|summary=Roger can cross over into the Country of the DeadGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. To be able to do this he must be in pain, something his abusive Uncle, Hartah, takes full advantage As a secret illegitimate daughter of. So they travela man with a "real" family, Hartah, Roger and his Aunt Jo, from faire she is used to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting the grievingnot being a priority in people's lives. UntilBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Hartah, takes them to the seaher simple existence is changed for good. It is there that Roger gets dragged into helping Hartah and others wreck the Frances OrmundNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a navy ship carrying precious cargo back to the Queendomboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceT L Huchu|title=Sisters RedThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Scarlett March lives Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to hunt take messages from the Fenris - the werewolves that took dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her eye younger sister and savaged her body during a brutal attack when she was just a young girlaging grandmother. Scarlett managed to save her sister RosieHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, but Grandma Oma died horrifically. Scarletttargeting the city's body children. Soon, Ropa is marked by scar after scar and pulled into the search for a missing boy at the scars never let her forgetrequest of his dead mother. She lives will end up discovering an occult library and breathes realise that the hunt, killing Fenris after Fenris world of magic is far bigger and saving teenaged girl after teenaged girlmore dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900587</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|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, heKristen O'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 CarmodyNeal|title=Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A nuclear catastrophe called the Great White destroyed most of the world, Lycanthropy 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 EliteOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Lily Parker is sent Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to boarding school terms with the fact that she may be in Chicago when constant pain for the rest of her parents get the opportunity to do some prestigious research work in Germanylife. She was expecting bitchy classmatesjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitematehelp each other out, Scout, who stays out late at night while also providing an escape to just joke and reappears covered in bruises, mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a school full of secret hiding placeswhile, a principal who knows Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents ' car and seems drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to have an entirely wrong idea about their work find there is a werewolf in the basement – or a mysterious group of supernatural teens called and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the Dark Elitepast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 Move 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>}} {{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 Jaffa, who starts off by asking them all to write a project idea and then shuffles them around. Instead of her longed-for astrology feature, Logan ends up having to write about folk singer Sean Baylor, whose ghost may be haunting thelocality. The only person who doesn't have to switch is the cute boy at the camp, Jeremy, who Jaffa allows to keep his original topic – of Sean Baylor. So, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting to get to know each other better – does the ghost exist? Will they get it together? Who will write the best article and get it published? The answers to all these 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 hisfather's unreliability a nightmare to live with, his two friends Smiler and Barry think he's cool and spend more time hanging out with him than with Rory. As the trio of Smiler, Barry, and Rory's dad team up to make a music video that goes viral on the internet, Rory gets unwittingly involved and, in the words 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 – 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 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 the difference between life and death. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Patrick Ness|title=Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet. Noise is used as a tool of oppression and as a weapon. 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]]