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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=Nina GrunfeldRachel Greenlaw|title=How To Get What You WantCompass and Blade

|summary=How To Get What You Want is a self help book aimed at young people 'at a crossroads in their life', who are unsure what to do next. The author is a Life Coach who recognises that simply knowing what you want to do is half I can hear the battle towards achieving it, and sets out to help song of the reader identify who they are and what they really want using self awareness type exercises like the 'Balance Chart'sea. Later on the book deals with how to achieve those goals by giving advice on how to focus and think positively.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323845</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Higson|title=The Dead|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm writing for two sets call of readers here: those who have read the first book deep, the answering beat in the series, and those who have notmy heart.''

The Dead is Rosevear, a prequel to The Enemy but both books are set in remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the same post-apocalyptic world in which rocks and plundering the adult population has been decimated by a killer diseasewrecks. Those that survive roam Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the streets as zombies, looking for untainted human flesh seven who swim out to eatsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The only untainted flesh belongs But when the Council Watch lays a trap to children who were fourteen or under when end the disease struckwrecking, and were somehow immune. The Enemy is set two years after they capture the epidemic, when itisland's getting more leader and more difficult for children Mira's father. Desperate to find food save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and shelter by scavenging and they are beginning with only coordinates to realise guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that they need 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 band together stop at nothing to start forming save the future of her home and the prototype for a new societyones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384654</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlHarry Allen|title=Beautiful Creatures: Beautiful DarknessChildren of the Sun

|summary=Growing up there, Ethan Wate always thought Gatlin was Ra Eun Seo lives in a normal enough Southern North Korean town, if you could forgive the inhabitants' obsessions with the War of Northern Aggressionand she is a talented singer. That was until he met Lena Duchannes Life is hard and got plunged into her family's own civil war, as her family fought to get the young Caster food is difficult to chooseeither Light or Dark. If you've haven't read [[Beautiful Creatures come by Kami Garcia , so Seo and Margaret Stohl|Beautiful Creatures]], the first novel in this sequence, break off from this review her friends Nari and Min go out foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and grab it now! If you have, you'll remember that Lena's 16th birthday left her with a choice edible grasses to make that would kill half of her family. This book follows Ethan as he tries to support her through that choice but watches her get pulled towards her Dark cousin Ridley and a new boy in town, the mysterious John Breed. While supplement the first novel was more meagre rations of a romance, this is an adventure story which sees Ethan, his friend Link, new girl in town Liv, rice and a variety of others embark on a journey to save the daykimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326093</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Savita KalhanAlexia Casale|title=The Long WeekendSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=SamIt's just moved hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a new school yet againlife-changing disability too, but this time hethat's made a good friend really quickly. He and Lloyd get on so well together that they're spending time what Ven is dealing with each other after school a lot - until they make one horrible mistake and end up trapped collapsing on stage in the middle of a car speeding far away from their hometowndance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, with a strange and creepy driver. Once they reach desperate to get back to a big house, Sam is quickly separated from Lloyd - can he figure out a way to escape alive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842708465</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dark (The Dead 2) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=We pick up exactly where we left off in this second book in David Gatwardlife that's The Dead seriesas normal as she can possibly manage. Lazarus Stone has been killed (twice), resurrected (twice), been to the world of the Dead (don Meanwhile there't ask), become s a Keeper new (dangerous jobcute!)boy in school, got himself a personal guardian angel (Arielle, alcoholic), a Dead guide (Red, whose skin's fallen off)her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and has gone some way just the day to locating his father (prisoner day traumas of all the Dark and seriously not having a good time of it)challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Along with best mate Craig and ex-possessed nurse Clair So even though she can't dance anymore, Lazarus has a mission. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340999705</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Ally Condie|title=Matched|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=When the Society Matches Cassia to her best friend Xander, she couldn't be more thrilled. Unlike the other girls, she knows her Match – doesn't need to read his details, go through the motions of dating as dictated by the Society, doesn't need to worry they won't get along.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141333057</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow: The Haunted|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In [[The Hollow by Jessica Verday|The Hollow]], Abbey tried to cope with thedisappearance of her best friend and her feelings for new boyfriend Caspian - only to find herself losing her grip on sanity when she discovered Caspian was dead, a Shade, rather than another real person. After a summer away from Sleepy Hollow, she returns, trying to concentrate on making perfumes and getting science tuition from nice cute Ben - but then Caspian reappears. Will the two find true love? Why are there so many other weird strangers around Sleepy Hollow who Abbey keeps meeting? What exactly DID happen to Kristen? Where do Katrina Van Tassel and Nikolas, the famous Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, fit into all this? And does anyone who missed the first book have any hope of following what's going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384994</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesSimon Fox|title=Rules of AttractionDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Carlos Fuentes isn't interested in living in America with Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his over-protective brother Alexshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, but his mother sends him there for his senior year of high school to try and keep join him out of troubleon the run. Kiara Westford is happy They get together, but barely begin to help a new guy settle in - at least until smell the shy stutterer actually meets whiff of Southern trains when the bad boy. Despite their initial dislike of each otherfather is arrested, they're thrown together when Carlos has drugsplanted leaving Archie on him and her well respected the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father takes him in was determined to stop him being sent back to Mexicokeep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions. Will these two headstrong youngsters find love?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SilverwoodLex Croucher|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged Sword|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Fin's guardian, Judge Harlequin Brown is murdered, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting Gwen and dangerous. In the course of one life-changing day, he learns that there is a pathway between his London Art Are Not in 'Somewhere', and an alternate London of a parallel world called 'Nowhere', and that the fates of both worlds are now under threat from a group of rogue Knights, who have the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swords.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door of MidnightLove

|summary=Like the first four novellas Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two 'bind-up' editions - a most delightful way. In this story features a teenage girl returning to Wisteria, Maryland Gwen and trying Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to find closure on past events. In this casetheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, Anna is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return to in love with Bridget (the place where her mother died so kingdom's only female knight) - something that he can tell Art discovers from her something important about their familyprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, but by creating the time she returns her uncle is deadsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, his body found in the boot of a burnt out carwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Her aunt seems crazy, and her first instinct is to get out But as quickly as possibletheir impending wedding draws ever closer, but instead she's drawn into the mystery along with her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said to will they find a way in which they can both truly be psychicthemselves, and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards or are they destined to live a solution - but also further into danger.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Lisi Harrison|title=Monster High|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting a bit fed up of all the vampires, werewolves and other creepies that seem to have popped up since the explosion of hype around [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. So, when this book landed on my doorstep, I can't say I held much hope for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clare ChambersNick Brooks|title=Burning SecretsPromise Boys

|summary=Daniel, his mother and his sister Louie are escaping the city to spend six months on When the isolated island principal (headmaster) of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniel's mother Urban Promise Prep school is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie is prone to black depressions and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after a conviction for fire-setting resulting in murdered, three boys find themselves called into the death of an old itinerantpolice station as suspects. There's plenty to leave behind. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kenneth Oppel|title=Half Brother|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Ben's thirteen and an only child. You'd think he was entirely used to being the centre of attention Each, thenseemingly, wouldn't you? But this isn't really the case. Ben's parents are academics. His father is has a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as her husband's research assistant. Ben is used to coming second to each could have been there at the advance time of science. He can cope with that. Usuallyhis murder. But then his parents up sticks who killed him, and why, and move him all if any of the way across Canada. Whyboys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names? Because his father's new university is prepared to underwrite his new project - raising a chimpanzee as human and trying to teach it American Sign Language. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marie-Louise Jensen1919635017|title=Sigrun's Secret|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It must have seemed A Thief to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in Iceland, breaking and training the colts on the family farm or helping her mother, Thora, who was Catch a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her father's ship returned home and the family was together again. It was not to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding a dreadful secret and when it caught up with them, Sigrun, her father and Asgrim, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik for three years. She was completely unused to the busy city life and disliked the violence and cruelty she found around her. But – at the same time – her own skills as a healer and midwife began to blossom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Darren Shan|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)Kitt Townsend

|summary=Larten Crepsley leads Solomon Klyne isn't a hard, hard life. One child amongst many, born during an industrial revolutionbad lad, so why is he works horrendously long and dangerous hours in running around London committing a silk factory even though series of robberies? And how did he's yet learn to see his teens. If the family is to eat, there is little choice. The foreman is a violent bully, issuing regular beatings, and nobody dares challenge him and if it wasncrack safes? You't for his orphan cousin, Vur, Larten's life would be grim indeed. But things never seem quite so dark when you ll have a true friend, do they? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Beate Teresa Hanika|title=Learning to Scream|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Malvina is thirteen years old, the youngest of three children in a dysfunctional family. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems wait to get an answer to suffer permanently from migraine. She has a good friend, Lizzy, and they play together as much as they can, united in their dislike of the 'boys from the estate'. Her grandmother died last year, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job to go and visit him and take him his meals. The family think this is a great arrangement second question because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visitsI avoid spoilers. There's a problem though. Malvina doesnBut I't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on ll answer the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Bracegirdle|title=The Joy of Spookingfirst one: Unearthly Asylum|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The district of Spooking is still a problem for the evil diplomats from Darlington, the city that surrounds it. It was in the way of their waterpark [[The Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P J Bracegirdle|last time]], and now puts a stop to a new sewage plant. Actually, chiefly in the way last time was Joy, who still calls it home. A cold, decrepit, run-down and gothic home in her instance, but home neverthelesshis grandmother. But the evil diplomats are still making their plans to redevelop the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige for it with her beloved author E A Peugeot as a son of Spooking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385206</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leila Rasheed|title=The World Turned Upside Down|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Stratford upon Avon 1642 – The English Civil War has come to the town. Mary is a young Catholic at a time when her religion was regarded with deep suspicion. She is drawn to Jack, even though he is a Roundhead soldier with no money, land or status, Patrick Ness and he is from an inferior background to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956506402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rick YanceyTea Bendix|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the WendigoDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has spent been restructured, so his life tracking down dark desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and mysterious creaturestwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the existence of some of these fiends talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is too much confusing for him to believeAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. In fact, there He's had a split between Warthropcasual relationship, his former close friend John Chanlera secret one, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampires, werewolvesfor several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predator. Warthrop scoffs at the other menladder headed by 's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on why itexperienced's impossible for it to exist - , but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when he disappears searching for it. Itwhether that's not just friendship that drives him to look for his colleague thoughset in stone, as hecan's asked by Chanlert be sure. And that's wife Muriel - mostly because of who is Warthrophe's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes been having the monstrumologist relationship and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wilderness, but when they return to New York they bring back someone - or something - that can endanger their livessex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Celine Kiernan1800901232|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel PrinceStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=FantasyDyslexia Friendly|summary=After spending Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the entire of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]]rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the excellent second book village to offer Hahn a job in this series, looking for Hanoi it, was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberonmini-bus to Hanoi. Can she Only, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - Hanh and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince other girls were not going to make peace with his fatherwork in a shop, or is their quest they were to end work in bloodshed virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and failurebeading on the legs?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk> 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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyPatrice Lawrence|title=Out For BloodNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academythis piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's called Hunterfostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, after all – and has taken up residence in her Grandpa 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, and the creation of one such item is one part of the most infamous vampire hunters plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of his generationlove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. He believes in staking all vampiresWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, no questions askedwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. But And then... well, he also believes it's a good idea what exactly happens is not for Hunter me to say, only to cut off all her long blonde hairremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brenna YovanoffAnn Sei Lin|title=The ReplacementRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Mackie lives in GentryKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the trials Empire come to drink and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentrymake merry between their conquests. RecentlyHowever, however, things have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop raining. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies when a man named Himura arrives to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and his health tell her that she is beginning a Crafter like him, someone with the power to failform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. It's getting more and more difficult He asks her to come with him, to avoid leave the truth... ... because Mackie life of dreary servitude that is differentall she has known. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Gone|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=JanieWell, soon Kurara won's made it through so much. And now she's graduated from high schoolt have any say in the matter, has because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a guaranteed job with the local police after collegeshikigami, and a boyfriend who loves her like crazyshe is forced to flee out into the world. Her future should be brightShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can sky- has ship whose express purpose is to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fightinghunt down shikigami, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just and a few years she'll be blind and crippled. whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Jenny Downham|title=You Against Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you?'' It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother's an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social services. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyMarcus Sedgwick|title=RevolutionWrath

|summary=Meet AndiFitz, a New York girl on a trip to Paris. She's a talented musician young Scottish lad full of frustration at a school for exceptional studentshimself. She's a wisecrackingLockdown is only just over, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. She's a brilliant people watcherand he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes|title=Raised by Wolves|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Bryn has lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Packwhom he wants, but Human, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it – when he talks to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true selfhis best friend, Cassie. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece They were half of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms and Europe's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacydesultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard enigmatic – saying she could hear a gift for Sultan Mehmed V, Lord subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Horizons and ruler end of the Ottoman Empire. But when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn, world is already a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan and Alek, the heir to the throne done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of Austria-Hungary, ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secretsout the truth? Well, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly warwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan StroudTori Bovalino|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)Devil Makes Three

|summary=Barty is back! Well, he 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 Working all summer in case you donher boarding school't, Bartimaeus s library is a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni and the star of last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had request for over a finger in many pies of world history, particularly hundred books that of London. In fact, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who she hasto deliver herself. But Bartimaeus What makes it worse is no Doctor Whothe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. HeThe boarding school's a rudeheadmaster, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isn't his byworda man Tess hates. But he cracks an irresistible 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 As a petty act of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him revenge for murder, and he would have found it a better experience were it a regular prison. 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 her find and employing down there. But the whole experience has come at deliver such a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too muchlarge request, and they are changing him too Tess sticks post- making him one it notes on each of their tools. It's only nowthe books, on scribbled with the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture ugliest insults she can think of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carl Hiaasen|title=Scat|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Nick and his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for troublere never meant to reach him, and they don't cause itof course. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimplesHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and then trouble can't take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be far away. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blame. But the evidence doesnif someone hadn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to delivered them to discover the truthfor her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tim BowlerPhilip Reeve|title=Blade: Risking AllUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=The Island In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of Tamarind is once again under threatriches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, from the evils of beyond the Red CoralScillies. Once more Simon There are troll people on it, and his sisters Maya sea-witches, and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save legends of the island Dark family that only they can reachhas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Trianglewhere no ship dare sail. For a second book running they must breach The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the barriersHidden Lands, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helixhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's legacyfoundling daughter, and who washed up out of the native magical element ophallasea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and put his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island to rights, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Thomas E SniegoskiKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Fallen: Fallen Julia and Leviathanthe Shark

|summary=Michael Vyner's father died when Michael was just a baby. He was a heroJulia, our pre-teen heroine, sacrificing himself to save the life of Sir Stephen Clarendon whilst fighting for has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the British Empire family home in Afghanistan. This was precious little comfort SW England to Michael and his motherbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, who resented in the rich man's largesse over far NE of the yearsScottish islands. Here be Vikings, wishing for the man they lost and not the charity that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the man he saved. Solantern, which is his specialist thing, when Michael's mother dies too and he finds himself all alone while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the worldelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, he is not entirely overjoyed to discover that Sir Stephen is now his guardian well, she will be homesick and has invited him to spend Christmas at Hawton Merealone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800136</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Berlie DohertyJonathan Stroud|title=Deep SecretThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Every now Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and again them there publisher people do this reviewer shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a big favour dark boy with dark powers and reissue a book that she missed first time arounddarker past. This is one With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of those now and thensthe London Lagoon. Anybody who loves words Together, they must brave man- child or adult - will love the way Berlie Doherty writes. Her gracefuleating wildlife, lyrical prose just floats from the page cannibalistic Tainted and you lose yourself in all the worlds she creates. She's known for her versatility too horrors of post- writing realistic books about contemporary issuesapocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, fantasies and, as here with Deep Secret, historical novels. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849392358</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=L A WeatherlyMercedes Helnwein|title=AngelSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=If you loved the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series, you will also love ''Angel'', the first book in Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a new paranormal trilogy. However, even if you are among those who didn't see the attraction secret illegitimate daughter of Ms Meyer's booksa man with a "real" family, thereshe is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a very good chance you will enjoy this: L A Weatherly is a gifted writerrandom boy in her class with her slingshot, and her take on paranormal romance simple existence is expertly craftedchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, full of exciting plot twists and well-rounded charactersfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409521966</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieT L Huchu|title=Blood RansomThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's not enough Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to find take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out youof school, she're a clone and s been using it to have both a renegade scientist support not only herself, but her younger sister and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill youher aging grandmother. Oh noHowever, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. Because when MI5 and Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the FBI relocate you, they condemn you to living thousands request of miles away from the only other person in his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world that might understand what youof magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've been throughimagined. It's safer that wayWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, apparently. or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanKristen O'Neal|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=At Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the end of [[The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy) by Celine Kiernan|fact that she may be in constant pain for the first book]] rest of the Moorehawke Trilogyher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', The Poison Thronean online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, Wynter Moorhawkewhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her childhood friend Razi, parents' car and her romantic interest Christopher were all desperatelytrying drive to find RaziBrigid's half-brother Alberon, whose father Jonathon appeared house to be driven insanecheck up on her. I thought I knew exactly But what she doesn't expect to expect from this second novel find there is a werewolf in the sequence, but was thrown sideways by basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the massive detour takenpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184149822X</amazonuk>1683692349