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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louise RennisonMax Boucherat|title=Withering TightsThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=After killing off Georgia Nicolson 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 blaze of hedonism blanket fort, she has one main intention, and vampiresthat is to log on to Voxminer, it's time for [[:Category: Louise Rennison|Louise Rennison]] to start a new seriesthe world-building, with critter-collecting game that is a new teenage girlhit in Lori's first-person narrativeworld. This time itBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's one Tallulah Caseyt find herself entirely on her own, a lanky girl worried about and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her knees bestie and underdeveloped cleavagenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and off to stay at a posh drama performance workshop centre her safe place in the wilds of Yorkshire.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007156839</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex ScarrowRachel Greenlaw|title=TimeRiders: Day of the PredatorCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=Liam, Maddy and Sal were each about to die when an old man appeared to them and invited them to choose another fate''I can hear the song of the sea. And out The call of the heartbreak of their decisions to bid farewell to their old existence and their loved ones is born a secret team of time ridersdeep, dedicated to putting right the chaos caused by those who meddle with time. It is a decision they will sometimes regretanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014132693X</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Sharon Dogar|title=Annexed|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There's been Rosevear, a bit remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a kerfuffle over trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'Annexed'' - the story of Peter van Pelss father. Desperate to save him from death, who shared the Amsterdam annexe Mira makes a bargain with Anne Frank during World War II, a wreck survivor who fell in love is as charming as he is secretive and with the teenaged diaristonly coordinates to guide her, and who perished she sets off in search of a Nazi death camp called Munthausen family secret that lies buried deep in 1945the sea. Sharon Dogar has been accused With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of sexing it up, disrespecting foreign islands to the too-recently deceased, and thrusting twenty-first century sexualised mores into a time where this sort heart of thing just didnthe smuggler't go on. Sos territory, on Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the one hand, I was very keen to read it future of her home and see what I thoughtthe ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391246</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieHarry Allen|title=The Medusa Project: The RescueChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=It's a fascinating premise: four babies are implanted with Ra Eun Seo lives in a gene relating to psychic abilities, North Korean town and as they grow up it becomes clear they have each reacted differently, and developed different skills. Then write four books (plus she is a short story for World Book Day) about their shared adventures, with each book focussing on one boy or girl in particulartalented singer. In this book, Ed Life is the central character: he hard and food is able difficult to read mindscome by, but is forced to use his gift so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for evil in order tree bark and edible grasses to save his friends. A high-octane tale about four teens struggling to stay alive when it seems every adult on supplement the planet is out to use them for their own endsmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385273</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bree DespainAlexia Casale|title=The Dark DivineSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Grace and Jude Divine have always been the poster-children for kindness and understanding. Their father is a pastor, a truly good man, and they’ve been brought up It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to set navigate a good example to those around them. They seem to have everything they could want – until Daniel Kalbi returns to their lives. Three years agolife-changing disability too, Jude’s friend Daniel left unexpectedly. Jude was found lying covered but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in his own blood – and no-one has ever told his younger sister Grace what happened. With the return middle of the boy she had a crush on for years, Grace needs to work out exactly what happened and how it’s linked dance performance that was going to some attacks on people and animals which have just started – could this be a dangerous attraction for change her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254580</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex|rating=3life.5|genre=Teens|summary=Artemis Fowl is trying But she comes back fighting, desperate to save avoid the world. No wonder Holly Short pity stares, and Foaly think he's not himself. He might stand desperate to get back to make another huge fortune, but hea life that's thinking about global warming, and technological cures for itas normal as she can possibly manage. But he Meanwhile there's also thinking about a lot of other things - new (cute!) boy in particularschool, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the patterns day to day traumas of all the number fivechallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. His mind seems stuck making him tap things in multiples of five times So even though she can't dance anymore, and use sentences with five words in. But when his demonstration in Iceland goes wrong with a four-engined fairy space probe crashing, he certainly becomes something other than himself.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141328029</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellSimon Fox|title=Wyrmeweald: Returner's WealthDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=If you could imagine Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the frontier world of force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the Wild West transported run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the Highlands whiff of ScotlandSouthern trains when the father is arrested, you would have leaving Archie on the setting for this first book in a new trilogy by the creators of the [[The Immortals (Edge Chronicles) by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell|Edge Chronicles]]. Micahlate express to Brighton, toting a poor farmhand, longs tin his father was determined to make keep away from his fortune so he can marry the wealthy Seraphitacolleagues, so he sets off for and the Wyrmeweald, where riches beyond your wildest dreams can be had – if you survive. It is bearer of a harsh and unforgiving land, full whole heap of dangerous dragon-like creatures called wyrmes, but Micah soon learns that when it comes to violence and deceit, it is humans he needs to fear mostquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>038561733X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie ViguieLex Croucher|title=Wicked: ResurrectionGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=The eagerly-awaited conclusion Who knew that what I really needed to Nancy Holder read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Debbie ViguiéArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's ''Wicked'' series is finally hereonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. After over three years of wondering and waiting to And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find out how this enthralling supernatural series will endthemselves becoming reluctant allies, readers can finally dive straight into creating the war between good and evil subterfuge of falling in love with Resurrection and discover the answers each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to the secrets that have been kept from them.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387373</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vivian OldakerNick Brooks|title=The Killer's DaughterPromise Boys

|summary=Emma has just moved to Wessex with her Dad and JanWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, her Dad's girlfriendthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. But it's not just adjusting to Each, seemingly, has a new schoolgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, a new country that Emma has to deal with. Emma's Dad was accused and each could have been there at the time of murdering her famous Grandmother by pushing her off a cliff in Greecehis murder. No one wants to be her friend But who killed him, and why, and it's not long before she becomes if any of the newest victim boys are innocent, will they be able to bullies. Slashed swimming costumes, physical fights – being at her new school is difficult.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1842708147</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kieran Scott1919635017|title=She's So Dead To UsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|summary=Ally Ryan had not expected Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to return wait to get an answer to Orchard Hill – ever. Less than two years previously she and her family had moved out in a hurry when her father’s business dealings had caused serious financial problems in the local communitysecond question because I avoid spoilers. But her mother has a job in I'll answer the local school and they move into a small house and try to rebuild their livesfirst one: for his grandmother.. Abby wasn’t exactly expecting a warm welcome but she was surprised when so many of her so called 'friends' cut her dead and it’s made obvious that she now lives on the wrong side of town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070444</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gillian PhilipPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Firebrand (Rebel Angels)Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Seth lives Ant is in the land 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 the Sidhe, protected four with both his best buddy from the world of full-mortals by an ancient magical Veil. There's an uneasy but relatively settled peacefootball team, with only the occasional border fray and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to disturb their long livesprimary school days together. But things aren As they't easy for Seth - he's re all fired up, straining at the unwanted second son of leash only a Sidhe lordsingle-sex school can form, his mother interested only the talk in the corridors of power at the court of Kate NicNiven, class and his father with eyes only out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for his older brother Conal. The inhabitants of his dun don't trust himAnt, as hedoesn's half-feral, and t know what his only real tie score is to Conal, who has taken him under where his wing, and for whom Seth would gladly dieachievements in that regard lie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537190</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Catherine Webb|title=The Dream Thief (Horatio Lyle)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=When an orphan girl appears on Horatio Lyle He's doorstephad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, half-dead and apparently poisonedso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', the genius inventor finds himself drawn into a conspiracy but whether that reaches to the highest circles of London Society's set in stone, he can't be sure. Someone is kidnapping workhouse children and essentially turning them into zombies. Somone is stealing their dreams. With the help And that's mostly because of his young ward, the street-urchin Tess, who he sets out into 's been having the darkest parts of relationship and the city to stop themsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654251</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Theresa Breslin1800901232|title=Prisoner of the InquisitionStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Don't read this book if you are of Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a delicate disposition and prone to nightmaresfashion designer. Within Life in the first few pages a woman is burned at rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the stake, a smartly-dressed man is unjustly accused and hanged, his young son only just escapes woman came to the same fate and village to offer Hahn a woman dies job in childbirthHanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. But this is no horror story, Some money changed hands and none of Hanh was on the violence is gratuitous: this is quite simply the world of fifteenth century Spainmini-bus to Hanoi. King Ferdinand Only, Hanh and Queen Isabella are fighting the Moors other girls were not going to work in Granadaa shop, Christopher Columbus is seeking royal funding for a voyage they were to prove the world is round, and the Inquisition is spreading terror and anguish throughout the landwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. And against this background of momentous events, we have You know those jeans you really wanted: the thrilling ones with intricate embroidery and beautiful account of beading on the lives of two young people, bound together by hatred and love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617038</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=LJ Adlington|title=legs? The Burning Mountain|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=In AD79, Gaius Justinius Aquila is drenched in grey ash, trying desperately to help ones with the citizens of Herculaneum as Vesuvius erupts around artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them. In 1943, German paratrooper Peter Schafer finds himself in Naples. Peter has a secret - he? It's underage, having run away to sign up. Within the year, Peter will find himself defending Monte Cassino against a huge Allied bombardment. Throughout his time in Italy, Peter will have many encounters with Vittoria, an impoverished Neapolitan who steals to keep herself quite possible that Hanh and a ragbag bunch of orphans aliveher co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340956828</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyPatrice Lawrence|title=Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles)Needle|rating=3.5

|summary=Isabeau StBrave. Croix has no care Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for politics some people to like, characters and royaltyreaders both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and would really rather not spend has taken up residence in her time among the newly royal Drake familyson Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, attempting to negotiate peace between them and the Houndscreation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her vampire clanyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. The Hounds are not well thought of among vampiresWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, who fear their dual fangs and strange ritualsthen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. But the Drakes are like no vampires Isabeau has ever metAnd then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and they aren't like royalty eitherpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880705X</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vanessa CurtisAnn Sei Lin|title=Zelah Green: One More Little ProblemRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=We first met Zelah Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her OCD got so bad that she was sent off is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a live-in centre for treatmentpower sought after all across the Empire. She's at home nowHe asks her to come with him, with to leave the OCD still around but not totally debilitatinglife of dreary servitude that is all she has known. SheWell, soon Kurara won's still jumping on t have any say in the matter, because the stairs - but not so many jumps Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and not so oftenshe is forced to flee out into the world. She's still scrubbing her facejoins Himura aboard the Orihime, but it isn't quite red raw. You'd call her overly fastidious rather than ill. And her therapist a sky-ship whose express purpose is pleased with her progress. But then... to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405240547</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carol Lynch WilliamsMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Chosen OneWrath

|summary=Thirteen-year-old Kyra has one fatherMeet Fitz, three mothersa young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and twenty siblings - yeshe should be free to do what he wants, twenty - to go where he wants and with another two on the waywhom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. She lives on They were half of a polygamist compound run by Prophet Childs. His father had been Prophet before himdesultory school band, but since his father's death and Prophet Childs' accession, things have taken Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a turn for subhuman hum coming from the worseearth. A fence has gone up around Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the compound. Adolescent boys are driven off, and end of the Prophet seems to be choosing younger and younger girls to marry older and older men. And now, world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's Kyra's turn. Prophet Childs announces that dreaming of? Is she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. just bonkers? And her father is afraid to refuse him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By Midnight|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=April Dunne doesn't really consider herself to be a geniuscan Fitz find out the truth? Well, and her family certainly aren't rich - so how did she get accepted by the ultra-prestigious Ravenwood school not when her family moved from Scotland to Highgate? She Cassie has gone missing he 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..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575095520</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{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...|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 is the usual fifteen year old American kid, except for the fact he and his 'father' shift location every few months. John is certainly not his real name, but has to face up to reality - school bullies, hot girls and in fact any friends being unattainable with such a peripatetic lifestyle. 'Dad' stays at home, scanning the internet 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth ChandlerTori Bovalino|title=Dark Secrets 2The Devil Makes Three

|summary=Those of you Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who read my review of requested the [[Dark Secretsbooks: Legacy of Lies Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler|first Dark Secrets]] bind-up will know I absolutely loved that booka man Tess hates. This is As a similar proposition – two average-sized teen novels packaged together in petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a very good value volume. Both are set in Wisterialarge request, Maryland. Both feature teenage girls looking for closure Tess sticks post-it notes on past eventseach of the books, scribbled with dark secrets buried in their past – and both are guaranteed to capture the imagination ugliest insults she can think of their target audience . They're never meant to reach him, of teen girlscourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and of a fair few other readers besidesthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1416994629</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L J SmithPhilip Reeve|title=Forbidden GameUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=While looking for In a game to play for her boyfriend's birthdayword, Jenny Thorn comes across a strange shop she's never seen beforerich. Going There is certainly an abundance of riches inthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, she talks to a handsome boy who sells her a mysterious game in a plain boxBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. But when she and her friends open the game to play There are troll people on it, they're transported to a world where the boy is the Shadow Manand sea-witches, and the consequence legends of losing the game can be deadlyDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The group of teens current Darks are left fighting against their worst nightmares as they try to defeat the sinister Shadow Man and escape – but when some of them finally do get outWatcher, Andrewe, they realise that it's just the beginning who has to keep notes of activity from the nightmare for them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387381</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tabitha Suzuma|title=Forbidden|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maya is sixteenHidden Lands, prettyhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, sociable and wise beyond her years. But sheAndrewe's never been kissed. Lochan is seventeenfoundling daughter, drop-dead gorgeous and most who washed up out of the girls at his school have crushes on himsea one day eleven years ago. He's also highly intelligentBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, at the top of both his class sullen brother and heading off to a good London university and on his curious ward are thrust into the cusp world of a bright future. But he's never kissed a girl. You'd think then, that when these two teenagers kiss for the first timeprotecting their island, like it would be the beginning of a gorgeous first love affair, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong. Because Maya and Lochan are brother and sister..or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862308160</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Linda StrachanKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Dead Boy TalkingJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''They say it takes about 25 minutes to bleed to death. I want to scream Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and yell but there's no one here their cat from the family home in SW England to hear me and I... I can't breath enough to yell anyway. I'm going to die herebe lighthousekeepers for a summer, all on my own.'' Josh is lying in the snow in an alleyway in a pool far NE of his own bloodthe Scottish islands. He stabbed one Here be Vikings, that kind of his best mates yesterday, and now it's happened to himScottish island. He knows he's dying and his thoughts turn Dad is going to how this could possibly have happened. He wonders where Skye is and what she's doing. He hopes Danny is ok. And, as he goes over the events of be automating the day beforelantern, which culminated in is his stabbing Ranjspecialist thing, his missing brother Gary keeps intruding into while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the pictureelusive Greenland shark. Why did he go? And did his parents' obsession with Gary's disappearance play a part in what's happened? Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537204</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshJonathan Stroud|title=Kisses for LulaThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=3.54|genre=Teens|summary=Girls do worryScarlett McCain is an outlaw, about all sorts of things. And one rejecting the draconian conformity of the things they enjoy worrying about most is whether or not they are passing Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the milestones on life's journey at wildlands between the same time as everyone elseSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The fact that But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they combine this with loud demands plan to be treated flee to be an individual is a major reason for stressthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-related haireating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-loss and gibbering in parents. Lula is no exception here. Her sixteenth birthday is approaching fastapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, and unless she gets kissed before then (by pretty well anyone: she's desperate) she is convinced she but will they be jinxed for life.any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249625</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksMercedes Helnwein|title=iBoySlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Tom Harvey Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is wandering along after school on his way used to meet up with his friend Lucy not being a priority in people's lives. But when he hears his name called from up high she defends a random boy in one of the tower blocks on his estateher class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. He doesn't have No longer can she spend her time to look up before everything goes up. Waking up writing novels in hospital days latersolitude, Tom discovers he for her life now has fragments of a shattered iPhone embedded boy in his brain. And still worse, his friend Lucy has been gang-raped in a brutal attack it that Tom had been so closed to walking in onshe never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WatersT L Huchu|title=Passing Strange (Generation The Library of the Dead)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Karen DeSonneRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the sexiest zombie amongst the many differently biotic teenagers in Oakvaledead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, gets a turn at centre stage in the latest in Daniel Watersshe's ''Generation Dead'' series. Karen has always worn a disguise. When she was alivebeen using it to support not only herself, but her various camouflages hid the crippling depression that engulfed her so often younger sister and eventually led to her suicideaging grandmother. Now sheHowever, there's deadan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, make uptargeting the city's children. Soon, hair dye and blue contact lenses enable her to "pass" as Ropa is pulled into the search for a living girlmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. She talks fluently will end up discovering an occult library and her movements are fluid, unlike most realise that the world of her differently biotic peers, whose pauses, stutters magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and jerky movements mark them out for all bring an end to see. this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389600</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keith GrayKristen O'Neal|title=Losing ItLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Doing it 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 first timerest of her life... you know, She joins ''LosingOof Ouch My Bones'' It. It. Sex, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about it a lottheir troubles and help each other out, teenagers. And eventually, they do itwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. 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 When Brigid—one of all thather closest friends—doesn's important in life? And there's so much eagerness in teenagers - not just t respond to the chat for sexa while, but for everythingPriya becomes concerned. They sure do hate She decides 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 Hallsteal her parents's mother died car and she's still finding it difficult to come drive to terms with whatBrigid's happened. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran but all that's about house to change. Jess' Dad has got the job of general manager at Number 1, Porchester Park. These apartments are not just check up-market they're where the A-listers live and after some initial reluctance about leaving Gran Jess is excitedon her. ThereBut what she doesn's an Olympic-size pool where she can swim and both she and Charlie will be able t expect to have their own rooms find there is a werewolf in the house basement – and for that goes with werewolf to be the job. Everyone at school envies here and it looks as though girl she's living has been talking to online for the dreampast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon|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 Move 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 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 LexiconNewest Thrillers Reviews]] 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>}}