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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=Out For BloodCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head ''I can hear the song of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academysea. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one The call of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes in staking all vampiresdeep, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brenna Yovanoff|title=The Replacement|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mackie lives the answering beat in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and the trials and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recently, however, things have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop rainingmy heart. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning to fail. It's getting more and more difficult to avoid the truth...
Rosevear, a 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 trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. because Mackie Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is differentas charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her 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 home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannHarry Allen|title=GoneChildren of the Sun|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she's graduated from high school, has is a guaranteed job with the local police after collegetalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, so Seo and a boyfriend who loves her like crazy. Her future should be brightfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - has looking for tree bark and edible grasses to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fighting, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll be blind supplement the meagre rations of rice and crippledkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenny DownhamAlexia Casale|title=You Against MeSing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It''If someone hurts s hard enough to navigate your sister and teenage years without suddenly finding that you're any kind of manhaving to navigate a life-changing disability too, you seek revenge, right? If you're brotherbut that's accused what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a terrible crime but says he didn't do itdance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, you defend himdesperate to avoid the pity stares, don't you?'' It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But itand desperate to get back to a life that's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellieas normal as she can possibly manage. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother Meanwhile there's an alcoholic a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and Mikey has just the day to shoulder most day traumas of all the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister challenges her body continues to throw at her to school, fending off periodic interest from social servicesnavigate. Meanwhile So even though she can't dance anymore, he's trying might she be able to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellySimon Fox|title=RevolutionDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet AndiLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a New York girl secret place, and join him on a trip to Paristhe run. She's a talented musician at a school for exceptional students. She's a wisecrackingThey get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, quick thinking girl who acts leaving Archie on impulse. She's the late express to Brighton, toting a brilliant people watchertin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and her descriptions the bearer of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out whole heap of controlquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer Lynn BarnesLex Croucher|title=Raised by WolvesGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bryn has lived almost all her life around WerewolvesWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Ever In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – shethey were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's been under the care of only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her saviourprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Stone River Pack alphasubterfuge of falling in love with each other, Callumwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Marked But as Packtheir impending wedding draws ever closer, but Humanwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine it – to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true self. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedom. ?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Scott WesterfeldNick Brooks|title=BehemothPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=World War One looms and Europe's powers are getting ready their armiesWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacy Each, seemingly, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard has a gift for Sultan Mehmed Vgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, Lord of and each could have been there at the Horizons and ruler time of the Ottoman Empirehis murder. But when things go drastically who killed him, and dramatically wrong Derynwhy, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard and if any of the Leviathan and Alekboys are innocent, the heir will they be able to the throne of Austria-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has clear their own secrets, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly war...names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jonathan Stroud1919635017|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Barty is back! Well, he Solomon Klyne isn't actually back. But we do get to revisit him. Which is good. I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don'ta bad lad, Bartimaeus so why is he running around London committing a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni and the star of a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies of world history, particularly that of London. In fact, robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's saved ll have to wait to get an answer to the day almost as many times as Doctor Who hassecond question because I avoid spoilers. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. HeI's a rude, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible ll answer the first one liner. And he usually comes through in the end. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon Smith|title=Furnace: Fugitives|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It has taken three books for Alex to get out of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murder, and he would have found it a better experience were it a regular prisonhis grandmother. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Warden, Mr Furnace, and the evil creatures they are both making, breeding and employing down there. But the whole experience has come at a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too much, and they are changing him too - making him one of their tools. It's only now, on the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl HiaasenPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=ScatDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Nick Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his friend Marta are ordinary kidsgeography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. They don As they't look re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for troubleAnt, and they donas he doesn't cause itknow what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. But when an unpopular teacher punishes He's had a difficult classmate casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by making him write an essay about his pimples'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, then trouble he can't be far awaysure. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, And that's mostly because of who he has a reputation for setting fires) gets 's been having the blame. But the evidence doesn't add up, relationship and our young heroes decide it's up to them to discover the truthsex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Bowler1800901232|title=Blade: Risking AllStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Patrice Lawrence
|title=Needle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=ItBrave. Charlene, the 's the final chapter. Thereheroine's nothing let now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left of this piece is extremely hard for some people to lose like, characters and at last revenge is in sightreaders both. Under pressure from the porkers Kicked out of multiple homes and the gangsschools, and she's fostering with his private empire crumblinga pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Hawk and has retreated to his remote hideouttaken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Blade Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is therepart of the plot here, waiting. But Hawk as Charlene is surrounded by a private army wonder knitter, and is making something full of securitylove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Dozens of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and getting past them isn't going then force people to be easygive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... But Blade has his instinct back and nothing well, what exactly happens is going not for me to stand in his waysay, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Losing is not an option. But can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemption? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>019275601X</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert MuchamoreAnn Sei Lin|title=Shadow Wave (CHERUB)Rebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=A shadow wave is Kurara has spent her entire life as a tidal flow that happens after servant on the Midori, a tsunami, and it can be deadly because it travels massive dining hall floating in the opposite direction sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and is often unexpectedmake merry between their conquests. Robert Muchamore's latest book in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenonHowever, and tells what happens when a bunch of young CHERUB secret agents and their teachers get caught up in man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the chaos in Malaysia which follows power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the 2004 earthquake and tsunamiEmpire. They rescue impoverished villagers and help them begin rebuilding their homesHe asks her to come with him, only to see leave the life of dreary servitude that is all their hard work she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by government officials who use the disaster a monstrous paper spirit known as an excuse a shikigami, and she is forced to take away flee out into the fishermen's land and use it world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to build hotels for rich foreigners. Muchamore pulls no punches as he shows how greed hunt down shikigami, and corruption win out over people's right to keep to their traditional lifestyles.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034095647X</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersMarcus Sedgwick|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood AlchemyWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on Meet Fitz, a prison planet, young Scottish lad full of frustration at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopershimself. Chess Lockdown is only just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee over, and languishes in a safe house, itching to he should be free. None of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess to do what he wants , to find out who she really is go where he wants and then to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box whom he wants to get back to Chess and help protect her. And Splinter, well, but he's got ideas of cannot stop himself from putting his own and they certainly don't include an agonising death at the hands of foot in it when he talks to his captorsbest friend, Cassie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nadia Aguiar|title=Secrets They were half of Tamarind|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The Island of Tamarind is once again under threata desultory school band, from the evils of the Red Coral. Once more Simon and his sisters Maya and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save Cassie was also one hundred per cent the island that only they can reach, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Triangle. For enigmatic – saying she could hear a second book running they must breach the barriers, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helix's legacy, and subhuman hum coming from the native magical element ophalla, and put the island to rightsearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas E Sniegoski|title=The Fallen: Fallen and Leviathan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thousands of years ago, a bunch of angels fell in love Is this connected with human women. For their sins, they were cast out one of Heaven. Their children are her eco-warrior parents saying the Nephilim. They are hunted by Verchiel, leader end of the Powers, hell-bent (excuse the pun!) on destroying them, especially the leader who prophecy says will lead them. On his 18th birthday, Aaron Corbet has world is already a strange dream done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of weapons clanging and angels descending on a battlefield... and wakes up able to speak and understand any language, including that music she's dreaming of his dog Gabriel. We ? Is she just bonkers? And can see where this is goingFitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't we?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071211</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyTori Bovalino|title=The Dead of WinterDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Michael Vyner's father died when Michael was just a baby. He was a hero, sacrificing himself to save the life of Sir Stephen Clarendon whilst fighting for the British Empire in Afghanistan. This was precious little comfort to Michael and his mother, who resented the rich man's largesse over the years, wishing for the man they lost and not the charity of the man he saved. So, when Michael's mother dies too and he finds himself all alone in the world, he is not entirely overjoyed to discover that Sir Stephen is now his guardian and has invited him to spend Christmas at Hawton Mere.
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{{newreview
|author=Berlie Doherty
|title=Deep Secret
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Every now and again them there publisher people Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do this reviewer — especially when she gets a big favour and reissue request for over a book hundred books that she missed first time aroundhas to deliver herself. This What makes it worse is one the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of those now revenge for making her find and thens. Anybody who loves words deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post- child or adult - will love it notes on each of the way Berlie Doherty writes. Her gracefulbooks, lyrical prose just floats from scribbled with the page and you lose yourself in the worlds ugliest insults she createscan think of. SheThey's known for re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her versatility too - writing realistic books about contemporary issuesanger out like this, fantasies andthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, as here with Deep Secret, historical novelsif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849392358</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L A WeatherlyPhilip Reeve|title=AngelUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you loved the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series, you will also love ''Angel'', the first book in a new paranormal trilogy. However, even if you are among those who didn't see the attraction of Ms Meyer's books, there's a very good chance you will enjoy this: L A Weatherly is a gifted writer, and her take on paranormal romance is expertly crafted, full of exciting plot twists and well-rounded characters.
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie McKenzie
|title=Blood Ransom
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
It's not enough to find out you're a clone and to have both a renegade scientist and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill you. Oh no. Because when MI5 and the FBI relocate you, they condemn you to living thousands of miles away from the only other person in the world that might understand what you've been through. It's safer that way, apparently.
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{{newreview
|author=Celine Kiernan
|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=At the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|the first book]] of the Moorehawke Trilogy, The Poison Throne, Wynter Moorhawke, her childhood friend Razi, and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperately
trying to find Razi's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared to be driven insane. I thought I knew exactly what to expect from this second novel in the sequence, but was thrown sideways by the massive detour taken.
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{{newreview
|author=David Whitley
|title=The Children of the Lost
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Mark and Lily have left Agora and they have no idea what to expect from the land beyond the city wallsIn a word, rich. They have been brought up within a rigid system based There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on barter in a city where everything can be traded: goodspeculiar island called Wildsea, servicesBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll peopleon it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even emotions further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are up for sale. They have also been taught that outside the city walls is a wildernessWatcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with no civilised life. Do bear too much science in mind here that their idea of civilisation is Agora…They are ill equipped his head to surviveworry about such local yokel superstitions, and immediately make things worse by arguing with Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one anotherday eleven years ago. Mark is furious with Lily for her part in their banishment But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his actions lead to Lily being placed in great dangercurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330120</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook Hastings|title=Immortal Remains (Weirdsville)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Welcome back to Weirdsville, sorry Woodsville, the town set in a truly creepy hollow, whose forest contains the greatest concentration of ghosts you'll find anywhere in England. Fresh from vanquishing a ghost army and enabling Emily to pass on to the other side Kiran Millwood Hargrave and be reunited with her mother, our four reluctant ghosthunters have a new mystery to solve. Freak accidents have killed four local girls in the last four months, and Charlotte is convinced she will be next. She's the only one left alive from a seance she and her friends took part in, and she is certain that death is stalking her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Mulligan|title=Trash|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Raphael lives in Behala, a slum that's grown up around a landfill site in an unnamed South American country. He's a dumpsite boy - this means he and his family scrape a living by combing through the detritus of richer people's lives. Behala replaced Smoky Mountain, another slum that got so dangerous that landslides killed dozens of people and the authorities closed it. What a home, eh? But Raphael has a smile that lights up his whole face and lifts the spirits of all those upon whom he bestows it. And he has good things in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secret. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sara StarbuckTom de Freston|title=Dread Pirate Fleur Julia and the Hangman's NooseShark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When a mysterious young girl in a barrel is fished from the sea and rescued by the pirate ship belonging to Fleur's uncle WilliamJulia, it seems bad news might be on the way. The girl turns out to have psychic abilities our pre- and they're just about to hit landfall at Salem, right in time for the witch-hunts. But worse is to come. William gets captured thereteen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board instead. Fleur then has to skipper their cat from the craft herself, on a rescue mission, family home in a very tense domestic situation. That's hard enough when you're a mere teenaged girl, against ruffians and pirates, but when the ship has secrets of her own SW England to be revealed...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ken Howard|title=The Young Chieftain|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=One minutelighthousekeepers for a summer, Jamie Doran is playing basketball with his friends in downtown LA, the next he's en route to the island far NE of Doran in Scotland to bury his father. James Doran, you see, had been Doran's clan chieftain. The island proves a culture shock for cosmpolitan Jamie. It's remote and dilapidated, there's no internet or mobile phone access, and the only TV is in the community centreScottish islands. Jamie's grandmother isn't welcoming either - in fact, she barely bothers to hide her distate for her black daughter-in-law and mixed race grandson. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848530331</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Grant|title=Lies (Gone)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Sam is tired of being heroic. Tired of being relied upon. But he resents being sidelined by his own girlfriend. Astrid's Town Council is busy bringing bureaucracy and officialdom to the FAYZ Here be Vikings, but will it ever do anything other than procrastinate? Sam doesn't think so and he's painfully aware that danger lurks around every corner. Zil's band kind of freak-haters are gearing up to cause some damage, Caine is down but not out, and food is still in short supplyScottish island. Tensions are growing and the Town Council isn't up to the job. And what's worse Dad is that Sam doesn't think he is, either... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405254297</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L J Smith|title=The Night of the Solstice|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Claudia knew she wasn't really supposed to follow the fox - not on her own, going to be automating the oldlantern, forbidden house on the hill. But she did. And it will change everything. The fox which is the familiar of Morgana Sheehis specialist thing, powerful sorceress and only guardian of the passageway to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing and she must be found before the solstice, for then the gateway while mum will be open to all, including Cadal Forge, an evil magician dedicated to conquering Earth. Claudia, and her siblings, Charles, Jane and leader Alys, must find her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in the balance on the night of the Winter Solstice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070509</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Cassidy|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box Girls|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Cherry Costello told leaving her teachers that she was leaving Glasgow and moving to live career in a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another of her tall tales. But this one was true. Not only was Cherry moving algae behind to Somerset the Costellos, father and daughter, were going to live with his girlfriend and her four daughters. From it just being hunt the two of them there would be seven altogetherelusive Greenland shark. How will Cherry cope? And how will the Tanberry family cope with two new members?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelly McKain|title=Half a Sister|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Hannah's parents begin to have whisperedJulia, but obviously heated discussions about something her immediate thought is that they're splitting up. There's quite a bit of that at school and Hannah would hate it to happen to her. But when it all comes out the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has a fifteen year old daughter living in Paris and that her mother has been in a serious car accident. Sam sees no alternative but to bring Ellie to live with themwell, but Charlotte is worried about how this she will affect their daughter. When it's put to Hannah she has visions of long girly chats and swopping clothes and makeup be homesick and agrees without further thought. To begin with it's everything alone – until she hoped it would be but then a darker side of Ellie emerges and life turns into a nightmare for Hannah.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tricia Telep (Editor)|title=Kiss Me Deadly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=What do Peter Pan, werecats, vampires, teenage zombies, and unicorn hunters have in common? Possibly very little... but they all appear as central characters in stories in this often enchanting anthology of stories of supernatural romance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762439491</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenny Valentine|title=The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Runaway Chap walks into a hostel off the street. He's in need of a meal and a bed for the suddenly finds company one night. As the workers question him, trying to get a history, they notice his resemblance to a poster of a boy who's been missing for two years. Chap isn't Cassiel Roadnight. Chap isn't anyone. But the temptation is there: become Cassiel. Get a family. Live in a home. Become ''someone''. And so he takes the chance and the new identity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>000728361X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick|title=Crescendo|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We last saw Nora and Patch at the end of ''Hush, Hush'' - lovely title, that! - battered after a Nephilim conflict, but very much together. Patch is no longer fallen, has been given back guardian angel status and the threat to Nora is no more. You'd think everything would go swimmingly after that, wouldn't you? But you know and I know that falling in love with any kind of angel, fallen or otherwise, isn't conducive to a normal life. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387195</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garrett CarrJonathan Stroud|title=Lost DogsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Some extraordinary children are Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to be found in wander the wildlands between the Northern Irish port-town Seven Kingdoms of HardglassBritain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. One, AkeemBut then she meets Albert Browne, has in fact just arrived - a stowaway on dark boy with dark powers and a cargo shipdarker past. ElsewhereWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, friends Andrew and Ewan are waiting they plan to flee to see the result mythical Free Isles of Ewan's father's trial for being a weapons dealerthe London Lagoon. While their friend May is newly residing at a most unusual schoolTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, one whose pupils have talents to match her singular one of sensing the cannibalistic Tainted and empathising with all the thoughts horrors of animals. It's a gang of people brought together in a natural, realistic way, with some fantastic factors post-apocalyptic society to their lives that are only going to get heightened. For said weapons, allegedly going on their way to be decommissionedreach the Free Isles, but will soon they be on the same cargo boat Akeem has just left - and any more accepted there than they're weapons from are in the darker side rest of horror...Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385990</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsMercedes Helnwein|title=A Trick of the DarkSlingshot|rating=4.53
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|summary=What if you found Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a way to cheat death? What if it left you pain-free foreversecret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, both physically and emotionally? But what if it also meant you had to split your soul, and that left you unable she is used to touch anyone ever again? After Zach and Annis are dragged to France for not being a family reconciliation events are set priority in motion that cannot be undonepeople's lives. Annis sees Zach killed by But when she defends a the tumbling wall of an old ruined houserandom boy in her class with her slingshot, yet moments later he her simple existence is standing, unharmed, in front of herchanged for good. As No longer can she tries to help Zachspend her time writing novels in solitude, and appease for her bitter, broken parents, life now has a boy in it that she is dragged deeper and deeper into the horror of Zach's situationnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880915X</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gemma MalleyT L Huchu|title=The LegacyLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Longevity isn't working. The drug that prolongs life expectancy indefinitely appears to have reached its own life expectancy. A terrible virus Ropa Moyo is wreaking havoc across Britain a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the sluggish immune systems dead of the Legals simply can't copeEdinburgh for their living relatives. Consumed by a desperate thirstEver since she dropped out of school, theyshe're dying horrible deathss been using it to support not only herself, leaving behind shrivelled but her younger sister and desiccated corpsesher aging grandmother. ItHowever, there's Richard Pinsentan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's worst nightmarechildren. Not Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that Richard cares about people dying, the world of coursemagic is far bigger and more 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>1408800896</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren KateKristen O'Neal|title=TormentLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=RightHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, first things firstPriya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. If you havenThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't read [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|Fallen]]respond to the chat for a while, go read it - or at least read Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a [[Fallen by Lauren Kate|review]] werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to see whether it sounds like your cup of tea - because this review will inevitably contain significant spoilers online for the earlier Lauren Kate novelpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618093</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=John Brindley|title=Blood Crime|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is lying in hospital in a meningitis-induced coma. It's the last straw for his mother - Joe has been unable to cope ever since his father died, refusing to believe in a tragic laboratory accident and accusing his ex-research partner and her new boyfriend of murder. Before he became ill, Joe's state of mind had become dangerously unstable, and now it's up to his uncle Frank, a hospital consultant, to save him. But Joe isn't lying there insensible: he's fighting the greatest battle of his life - rushing through his veins and arteries evading the aggressive bacteria, rousing his body to fight back, and trying to work out what really happened to his father and whether his own illness has anything to do with it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255719X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice Henderson|title=Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through Time|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=There is something really satisfying about a huge brick of a book: the prospect of settling down for hours and hours of reading pleasure is very tempting. And this book offers an even more tempting lure for Buffy fans, because it contains three whole stories, adding variety to the mix. It's absolutely ideal for a holiday read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Pan|title=Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views Move on the Twilight Series|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|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 the series ended are encapsulated in the topics raised here. Team Edward need not shake their heads in dismay at the book's title - it's controversial on purpose - and 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 vampire, the faithfulness of the films to the books and which character readers would most like to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1569758220</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeri Smith-Ready|title=Shade|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Aura. She was one of the first people in the world to be born after The Shift, beyond which every newborn was opened to the world of the ghosts, hearing and seeing them whether they liked to or not. Her boyfriend, Logan, who she wants to make love to for the first time on the night of his seventeenth birthday, suddenly dies first instead - making him one of the many ghosts Aura might be able to help. But is something of greater help buried in a school project, touching on standing stone circles, the solstices, the mysteries of her own family's past - and a new young man in her life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389406</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]