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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=Michelle PanRachel Greenlaw|title=Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views on the Twilight SeriesCompass and Blade

|summary=I'm sure die hard (Twi-hard) fans will love this book, since it gives them a little bit more about Bella and Edward and Jacob. All those things they've mulled over since I can hear the series ended are encapsulated in song of the topics raised heresea. Team Edward need not shake their heads in dismay at the book's title - it's controversial on purpose - and The call of the question of who Bella should have ended up with is looked at from both points of view, along with other issues such as whether she should have become a vampiredeep, the faithfulness of the films to the books and which character readers would most like to beanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1569758220</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shade|rating=4Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Aura. She was Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the first people in seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the world Council Watch lays a trap to be born after The Shiftend the wrecking, beyond which every newborn was opened to they capture the world of the ghosts, hearing island's leader and seeing them whether they liked Mira's father. Desperate to or not. Her boyfriend, Logansave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who she wants is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to make love to for the first time on the night of his seventeenth birthdayguide her, suddenly dies first instead - making him one she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the many ghosts Aura sea. With only nine days to unearth what might be able save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to help. But is something the heart of greater help buried in a school project, touching on standing stone circles, the solsticessmuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the mysteries future of her own family's past - home and a new young man in her life?the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pam BachorzHarry Allen|title=CandorChildren of the Sun

|summary=The children of Candor know how to behave Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and the children of Candor stick to those rules: ''The great are never late.''<br>''Healthy breakfasts make for smart minds.''<br>''Academics are the key to success.''<br>''Always be courteous.'' In Candor, everyone she is happya talented singer. There Life is no crime. There are no tantrums. There is just respect hard and cooperation. It food is a harmonious place that people from the outside desperately want difficult to relocate come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses tosupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405250275</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simon PackhamAlexia Casale|title=comin 2 gt u|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam Tennant is reasonably happy at school, generally gets on alright with people, and doesnSing if you Can't have much to worry about – until he's murdered in the first chapter of this novel. Oh, not '''really''' murdered – his character in a game he plays online is killed. But then, the two who kill him refer to him by his real name instead of his computer persona, and he realises that virtual life has just become very nasty indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848120958</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lili St Crow|title=Jealousy (Strange Angels)Dance|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Dru Anderson has finally arrived at the Schola Prima – the main school for the training of wulfen and djamphir. She's supposed to be safe here. Supposed to be. Dru doesn't find life any easier. There's someone who wants her dead, and Dru has to work out who, and who else is loyal to them. Because loyalty is everything in the Order.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161291</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John E Smelcer|title=The Edge of Nowhere|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Could you survive in the wilds of Alaska if you were washed overboard from a fishing boat during a storm and somehow, amazingly, managed to make it to dry land? This is the challenge facing Seth and his loyal dog, Tucker. They are out on Seth's father's fishing boat during a terrible storm and neither Seth's dad or his friend realise that the boy and dog have been washed overboard until they reach home and are found to be missing from the boat. A search party is sent out, but Seth is assumed drowned. Luckily, Seth and his dog manage to get to one of the tiny islands that run along the coast of Alaska, and after realising that no one is coming to help them they slowly make their way hundreds of miles over many months. Will they starve to death, or freeze, or be eaten by bears before they manage to make it home?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391963</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Teresa Flavin|title=The Blackhope Enigma|rating=4

|summary=14-year old Sunni finds it bad It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that when sheyou's trying re having to do some research on navigate a famous Fausto Corvo painting in Blackhope Towerlife-changing disability too, but that's Mariner's Chamber, she gets lumbered what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her annoying stepbrother to look afterlife. Add But she comes back fighting, desperate to that avoid the presence of her classmate Blaisepity stares, and desperate to get back to a boy wholife that's better at art than as normal as she iscan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and her just the day to day is looking depressing – and that's '''before''' Dean mysteriously vanishing when walking around traumas of all the chamberchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's labyrinth.t dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848770340</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Joss Stirling|title=Finding Sky|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sky is upset when her adopted parents decide to move her away from all her friends in London to a small town in America, but tries to make the best of it. She quickly makes some good friends, but one particular guy is strangely attractive, even though he doesn't seem to want to have anything to do with her. Their paths will cross, however, and they'll be thrown together by fate.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192732137</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Fade (Wake Trilogy)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Janie's story continues. Still unable to control her abilities as a dream catcher, her latest case is proving difficult. Somebody is preying on the students at Fieldridge and the violent and haunting nightmares that Janie has no choice but to watch yield few answers. Being forced to keep her relationship with Cabel secret is putting a serious strain on the pair, and when Janie learns of the terrible consequences of her powers, she wonders if Cabe is just one more of the many sacrifices she'll have to make.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387365</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy GourlaySimon Fox|title=Tall StoryDeadlock

|summary=Andi Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a young teenager in secret place, and join him on the UKrun. She's not very tallThey get together, but she is brilliant at basketball. And she has finally been chosen barely begin to play for her school team.  Bernardo smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is an extremely tall teenager in arrested, leaving Archie on the Philippines. He lives with late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his aunt and unclecolleagues, and keeps on growing. He is surrounded by superstition, since his name is the same as that bearer of a legendary giant who supposedly protected his village during a major earthquake. Oddly enough, there have not been any earthquakes for some years... ever since Bernardo had his first dramatic growth spurtwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618948</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christine JohnsonLex Croucher|title=Claire de LuneGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Claire Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was having the perfect sixteenth birthday. Okaya gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, so it lifted my spirits in a most of the people probably only turned up for her swimming pooldelightful way. In this story, her hands Gwen and ears Arthur have been betrothed since they were itching like crazy and everyone had to leave early because of the werewolf sighting in the forest nearby. But all Claire cared about was Matthew Engletiny, talking much to her and flirting with her and promising to call her later. Then her mother takes her into the woods and reveals a dark and dangerous secret – she and Claire are werewolves. Everything Claire thought she knew about werewolves is wrongtheir mutual disgust! Gwen, but how can she continue to you see Matthew, whose father is leading in love with Bridget (the hunt for them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389287</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louise Rennison|title=Withering Tights|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=After killing off Georgia Nicolson in a blaze of hedonism and vampires, itkingdom's time for [[:Category: Louise Rennison|Louise Rennison]] to start only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a new seriesboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with a new teenage girl's first-person narrativeeach other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. This time it's one Tallulah CaseyBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a lanky girl worried about her knees and underdeveloped cleavageway in which they can both truly be themselves, and off or are they destined to stay at live a posh drama performance workshop centre in the wilds of Yorkshire.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007156839</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Alex Scarrow|title=TimeRiders: Day of the Predator|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Liam, Maddy and Sal were each about to die when an old man appeared to them and invited them to choose another fate. And out of the heartbreak of their decisions to bid farewell to their old existence and their loved ones is born a secret team of time riders, dedicated to putting right the chaos caused by those who meddle with time. It is a decision they will sometimes regret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014132693X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon DogarNick Brooks|title=AnnexedPromise Boys

|summary=There's been a bit of a kerfuffle over ''Annexed'' - When the story principal (headmaster) of Peter van PelsUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, who shared three boys find themselves called into the Amsterdam annexe with Anne Frank during World War IIpolice station as suspects. Each, who fell in love with the teenaged diaristseemingly, and who perished in has a Nazi death camp called Munthausen in 1945. Sharon Dogar has been accused grudge of sexing it upsome description against Principal Moore, disrespecting and each could have been there at the too-recently deceased, and thrusting twenty-first century sexualised mores into a time where this sort of thing just didn't go onhis murder. So But who killed him, and why, on and if any of the one handboys are innocent, I was very keen will they be able to read it and see what I thought. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849391246</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie McKenzie1919635017|title=The Medusa Project: The RescueA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=ItSolomon Klyne isn's t a fascinating premise: four babies are implanted with a gene relating to psychic abilitiesbad lad, and as they grow up it becomes clear they have each reacted differently, and developed different skills. Then write four books (plus a short story for World Book Day) about their shared adventures, with each book focussing on one boy or girl in particular. In this book, Ed so why is the central character: he is able to read minds, but is forced to use his gift for evil in order to save his friends. A high-octane tale about four teens struggling to stay alive when it seems every adult on the planet is out to use them for their own ends.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385273</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bree Despain|title=The Dark Divine|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace and Jude Divine have always been the poster-children for kindness and understanding. Their father is running around London committing a pastor, a truly good man, and they’ve been brought up to set a good example to those around them. They seem series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have everything they could want – until Daniel Kalbi returns to their lives. Three years ago, Jude’s friend Daniel left unexpectedly. Jude was found lying covered in his own blood – and no-one has ever told his younger sister Grace what happened. With the return of the boy she had a crush on for years, Grace needs wait to work out exactly what happened and how it’s linked to some attacks on people and animals which have just started – could this be a dangerous attraction for her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254580</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Artemis Fowl is trying get an answer to save the world. No wonder Holly Short and Foaly think he's not himself. He might stand to make another huge fortune, but he's thinking about global warming, and technological cures for itsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But heI's also thinking about a lot of other things - in particular, ll answer the patterns of the number fivefirst one: for his grandmother. His mind seems stuck making him tap things in multiples of five times, 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141328029</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul Stewart Patrick Ness and Chris RiddellTea Bendix|title=Wyrmeweald: Returner's WealthDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=If you could imagine the frontier world of the Wild West transported to the Highlands of Scotland, you would have the setting for this first book Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a new trilogy by the creators of the [[The Immortals (Edge Chronicles) by Paul Stewart standard school, and Chris Riddell|Edge Chronicles]]. Micah, a poor farmhand, longs is surprised to make find his fortune so he can marry the wealthy Seraphitageography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so he sets off for the Wyrmeweald, where riches beyond your wildest dreams can be had – if you survive. It his desk is a harsh and unforgiving land, full one of dangerous dragon-like creatures called wyrmesfour with both his best buddy from the football team, but Micah soon learns that when it comes to violence and deceit, it is humans he needs two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to fear mostprimary school days together.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>038561733X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie|title=Wicked: Resurrection|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The eagerly-awaited conclusion to Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguié's As they''Wicked'' series is finally here. After over three years of wondering and waiting to find out how this enthralling supernatural series will endre all fired up, readers straining at the leash only a single-sex school can finally dive straight into form, the war between good talk in class and evil with Resurrection and discover the answers out often turns to the secrets that have been kept from themsex.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387373</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Vivian Oldaker|title=The Killer Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn's Daughter|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Emma has just moved to Wessex with her Dad and Jant know what his score is, her Dad's girlfriendwhere his achievements in that regard lie. But it He's not just adjusting to had a new schoolcasual relationship, a new country that Emma has to deal with. Emma's Dad was accused of murdering her famous Grandmother by pushing her off a cliff in Greece. No secret one wants to be her friend, and it's not long before she becomes the newest victim to bullies. Slashed swimming costumesfor several months now, physical fights – being at her new school is difficult.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708147</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kieran Scott|title=She's So Dead To Us|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ally Ryan had not expected to return 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 community. But her mother so has a job in effectively progressed up the local school and they move into a small house and try to rebuild their lives. Abby wasn’t exactly expecting a warm welcome but she was surprised when so many of her so called ladder headed by 'friendsexperienced' cut her dead and it’s made obvious , but whether that she now lives on the wrong side of town.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070444</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Philip|title=Firebrand (Rebel Angels)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Seth lives in the land of the Sidhe, protected from the world of full-mortals by an ancient magical Veil. There's an uneasy but relatively settled peaceset in stone, with only the occasional border fray to disturb their long lives. But things arenhe can't easy for Seth - hebe sure. And that's the unwanted second son mostly because of a Sidhe lord, his mother interested only in the corridors of power at the court of Kate NicNiven, and his father with eyes only for his older brother Conal. The inhabitants of his dun don't trust him, who he's half-feral, been having the relationship and his only real tie is to Conal, who has taken him under his wing, and for whom Seth would gladly diethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537190</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Catherine Webb1800901232|title=The Dream Thief (Horatio Lyle)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=When an orphan girl appears on Horatio Lyle's doorstep, half-dead and apparently poisoned, the genius inventor finds himself drawn into a conspiracy that reaches to the highest circles of London Society. Someone is kidnapping workhouse children and essentially turning them into zombies. Somone is stealing their dreams. With the help of his young ward, the street-urchin Tess, he sets out into the darkest parts of the city to stop them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654251</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Theresa Breslin|title=Prisoner of the InquisitionSteve 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 work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the Inquisition is spreading terror ones with intricate embroidery and anguish throughout beading on the land. And against this background of momentous events, we have legs? The ones with the thrilling artfully-placed rips and beautiful account of the lives of two young people, bound together by hatred distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and loveher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617038</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=LJ AdlingtonPatrice Lawrence|title=The Burning MountainNeedle|rating=43

|summary=In AD79Brave. Charlene, Gaius Justinius Aquila the 'heroine' of this piece is drenched extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in grey ashher son 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, trying desperately to help and the citizens creation of Herculaneum one such item is part of the plot here, as Vesuvius erupts around them. In 1943Charlene is a wonder knitter, German paratrooper Peter Schafer finds himself in Naples. Peter has and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a secret - heyounger sister she's underageallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, having run away and then force people to sign upgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. Within the year, Peter will find himself defending Monte Cassino against a huge Allied bombardment. Throughout his time in Italywell, Peter will have many encounters with Vittoriawhat exactly happens is not for me to say, an impoverished Neapolitan who steals only to keep herself remark how sharp and a ragbag bunch of orphans alivepointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340956828</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyAnn Sei Lin|title=Blood Feud (Drake Chronicles)Rebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Isabeau St. Croix Kurara has no care for politics and royalty, and would really rather not spend spent her time among entire life as a servant on the newly royal Drake familyMidori, attempting a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to negotiate peace drink and make merry between them and the Hounds, her vampire clan. The Hounds are not well thought of among vampires, who fear their dual fangs and strange ritualsconquests. But the Drakes are like no vampires Isabeau has ever metHowever, 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 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 Kyradreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's turnt. Prophet Childs announces that she is to marry her sixty-year-old uncle. And her father is afraid to refuse him. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847389384</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=By Midnight|rating=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|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 time.rest 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, teenagerswhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. And eventuallyWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, they do itPriya becomes concerned. But when is the right time? Where is the right place? Who is the right person? Is everyone else doing it already? Will they be cheap if they do it too? Or will they be left behind on the peripheries of all thatShe decides to steal her parents's important in life? And therecar and drive to Brigid's so much eagerness in teenagers - not just for sex, but for everything. They sure do hate house to waitcheck up on her. But sometimes, itwhat she doesn's better t expect to wait. The trick find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the poor things, I suppose, is knowing when exactly girl she has been talking to stop waiting. And when you've never done it, how on earth can you possibly know that?! Stepping into online for the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today's teen market, each with a story about virginitypast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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>}} {{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>}}