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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Keris Stainton|title=Jessie Hearts NYC|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After splitting up with Taylor, Jessie is desperate to forget about him, so her first ever trip to New York is heaven <!-- Remove -sent – even if it does mean having to stay with her mother. Emma, her best friend, is equally thrilled to be coming with her. While Jessie is still upset at her mother’s decision to move to America, New YorkerFinn is facing problems of his own with his controlling family. Railroaded into working in his dad's insurance company during his summer holiday, he dreams of being an architect. He's also fallen hard for a girl - who happens to be his best friend's girlfriend. What will happen when these two meet?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate CostelloeMax Boucherat|title=The Breakfast ClubLast Life of Lori Mills
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|summary=Billie and her three best friends have grown to love We meet Lori on the breakfast club they've formed, meeting every Saturday morning to pass the time and discuss the week they've had. Mariofirst evening she's is got the perfect venue for it house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- so it's breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a huge shock when they find it's closing down! In additionblanket fort, Billie's mother is adamant that she shouldn't pursue the career in music she wants more than anythinghas one main intention, and Billie can't understand why. Can the girls find somewhere else to spend Saturday mornings, and can they persuade Billie's mum that music is what really matters to her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444902857</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Krystyna Kuhn|title=The Game|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Julia and Robert. They're siblings log on their way to Grace CollegeVoxminer, an exclusive campus stuck up the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in the Canadian wilderness. ItLori's a rum place, set by a lake under lowering mountainsworld. It's But first Lori has a place of sudden tiny inkling that this stormy night-time blackouts, unexpected screams through the dark, mysterious parties clandestinely held out of sight, and pupils declaring it all 'evildoesn't find herself entirely on her own, but what is student prank and what is due to then she finds something even more sinister? spooky. And what could Julia For the server she and her bestie and Robert possibly nobody else should be running from able to force them to this strange end enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the earthgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410562</amazonuk>0008666482
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vincent CaldeyRachel Greenlaw|title=A Good Clean Edge|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=After an acrimonious divorce, Vincent chooses to stay with his father and not his mother and sister. As his father works away much of the time, they go to live with Vincent's grandparents, who run an undertaking business. Vincent, a reserved Compass and sensitive child, is being bullied on his way in to his new school by Frankie Lennox from the grammar school, who goes so far as to threaten Vincent with a knife. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408313022</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Francisco X Stork|title=Marcelo in the Real World|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Marcelo has spent his childhood and the majority of his teenage years at Paterson, a private school that caters specifically for those with disabilities, providing them with a protected environment where they can learn at their own rate and feel accepted. However, his father Arturo feels that it is time that Marcelo experiences the ''real world'' and really challenges himself. Using the promise of a senior year spent at Paterson rather than a public school, Arturo coerces Marcelo to take up a small position for the summer in the law firm that he owns. In the firm, Marcelo is forced to interact regularly with a plethora of different personalities, and while some prove to be enjoyable company, others leave him feeling confused and distressed. Things really come to a head when he is forced to make a momentous decision, one that requires him to either ignore his conscience, or end up betraying his father and by extension himself; it is not a decision that is logical, and will require Marcelo to not only empathise with others, but also understand what makes himself tick.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407121006</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=Haunting Violet|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Violet Willoughby is the daughter of one of England's foremost mediums. With her mother in high demand, she follows her, assisting in her work as she puts the cream of society in touch with their dear departed. Of course, it's all fake. Violet has spent seven years helping her mother con the gullible into believing she has real psychic powers, so Violet herself certainly doesn't believe in ghosts. Which makes it all the more surprising when one appears to her…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siddhartha Sarma|title=The Grasshopper's RunBlade
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|summary=India 1944, and the Japanese are coming. In a brutalopening, we see the inhabitants of a small village get massacred, and ''I can hear the brutal killing of Uti, grandson song of the leader of the tribe who live there. His best friend Gojen escapes, as he's in school far awaysea. On hearing The call of the tragedydeep, the youngster swears revenge, and embarks on a journey which will take him across his country answering beat in search of the man responsible for his friendmy heart.''s death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809400</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Yvonne Woon|title=Dead Beautiful|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Renee is Rosevear, a normal school girl living in sunny Californiaremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. On Mira, like her mother before her sixteenth birthday she , is drawn one of the seven who swim out to survey the woods by her houseruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. There she finds But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the dead bodies of her parentswrecking, surrounded by scattered coinsthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and shreds with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of cloth a family secret that lies buried deep in their mouthsthe sea. The police say they both died With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from a the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart attackof the smuggler's territory, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister Mira must be going ondetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=B R CollinsHarry Allen|title=GamerunnerChildren of the Sun|rating=3.5
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|summary=The Maze Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is more than just a role-playing gametalented singer. Rick Life is one of the many who immerse themselves entirely in the game, hard and essentially live their life in its virtual reality. He food is one of the lucky ones. Thanks difficult to the fact that his guardiancome by, Daed, is the mind behind the Maze so Seo and is employed by the powerful her friends Nari and merciless firm CraterMin go foraging every evening, Rick has lived a protected life, one spent inside looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the thick walls meagre rations of the multi-storeyed headquarters of Crater. He has never had to go outside rice and live a life of extreme poverty under the constant threat of gangs or, even worse, the lethal acid rain that is a part of the intensely polluted atmospherekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806487</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsAlexia Casale|title=HeSing if you Can's After Met Dance
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|summary=AnnaIt's father has run off with hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a younger womanlife-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the hated Jude. Her mother is middle of a wreck because of it. Her little sister Livi is dance performance that was going off the rails and running with a bad crowdto change her life. All this mayhem is anathema But she comes back fighting, desperate to Anna, who is a reservedavoid the pity stares, cautious and hardworking girl with an ambition desperate to get back to study literature at university. If this is what unrestrained, rampant emotions result in, then Annaa life that's having none of itas normal as she can possibly manage. She Meanwhile there's never been a new (cute!) boy in love school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and in many ways just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she sees this as a blessing. And then can't dance anymore, might she meets Jem. be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreview|author=Salman Rushdie|title=Luka and the Fire of Life|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Back in 1990, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Verses' with a book dedicated to his then nine year old son, Zafar, called 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'. Now, his second son, Milan, finally gets a book of his own, although he had to wait until he was 13 for his father to get around to it. 'Luka and the Fire of Life' is very much a follow up to 'Haroun' and it is certainly helpful, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events in the first book are referred to here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonSimon Fox|title=We Can Be HeroesDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Ben Late one night Graham Blake is spending late back from his shift on the summer with his grandparents because his mother is ill again. She won't stop going out for runs force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and is not eating properlyjoin him on the run. She's gone back They get together, but barely begin to stressing out about having smell the whiff of Southern trains when the "right" cutlery and worrying about technology and health hazards. And her beautiful hair has started falling out. Ben's father was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack is arrested, leaving Archie on the World Trade Center and with late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his mother incommunicadocolleagues, he's feeling very lonely indeedand the bearer of a whole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=N M BrowneLex Croucher|title=Wolf BloodGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5
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|summary=Trista is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a Celtic warrior girl and seeressmost delightful way. Her visions are always horrifying In this story, full of blood Gwen and death. And one of her premonitions tells her she must escape from the tribe who Arthur have captured and enslaved herbeen betrothed since they were tiny, for much to their time mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is running outin love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Fleeing into And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the snowy forestsubterfuge of falling in love with each other, she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this time the game is surely upwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one of the soldiers has as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a secret - he is a shapeshifter. Part wolf, part man, Morcant also has way in which they can both Roman Celtic blood in his veins and he has never felt truly at home in either world. be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|author=Andy Briggs|title=Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Robbie Canler is on the run. From what, it takes us a while to find out, but it's clear that it's something bad when the alternative is working for an illegal logging team in the jungle of the Congo. The work is tough at the best of times, and when things start going wrong for the team, it's definitely not the best of times. And then Jane Porter, his boss's daughter, disappears... Can she be found? And why do all these strange things keep happening to the loggers? It's almost as if there was a weird presence in the jungle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057127238X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshNick Brooks|title=Lula Does The HulaPromise Boys
|rating=4
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|summary=Talullah BirdWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, otherwise known three boys find themselves called into the police station as Tattysuspects. Each, Luseemingly, or Lulahas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, has finally and each could have been kissed! She has a boyfriend! Frikkly frik! This is exciting! Except there is an evil woman lusting after her boyfriend! Hoooo no! And her dad is weird! Hooo noagain! If you think this review is annoying so far with at the exclamation marks time of his murder. But who killed him, and strange wordswhy, you may want and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to avoid the book!clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405256532</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Almond1919635017|title=My Name Is MinaA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
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|summary=We first Mina in Skellig. A homeschooled, William Blake-loving, slightly precious child, she arrived in MichaelSolomon Klyne isn's life with not t a little whiff of the culture shock about her. Nowbad lad, we can find out what really makes Mina tick as we read through her journal. Mina so why is full he running around London committing a series of contradictions. She likes to be different, individual, but she doesn't like being a misfit. She wants friends but she doesn't know robberies? And how did he learn to make them or to keep them. She is both reflective and impulsive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gregg Olsen|title=Empty Coffin: Envy|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=A small town is stunned by the death of a young girl, Katelyn, and although the death is attributed to an accident, there are some who believe that suicide and homicide shouldncrack safes? You't be ruled out just yet. Although twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan weren't close to the girl at the time of her death, they used to be good friends and a combination of guilt and curiosity leads them to investigate the death and its true cause. They may just be teenagers, but combine the fact that they ll have a father who is a true crime author, with the mysterious supernatural abilities they share, the twins are more than well-equipped to discover the truth behind the death; however, they find themselves digging up more than they bargained for when tragic history, and revelations from the past begin wait to reveal themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402789572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman|title=David|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1501 and Gabriele is in Florence without a penny get an answer to his name. As a greenhorn country boy, he managed to get himself robbed almost as soon as he arrived in the citysecond question because I avoid spoilers. But he does have one big advantage: a renowned sculptor as a step-brother. Gabriele hopes this will be enough to find him work, but little does he dream that he will soon find himself the model for one of the world's greatest pieces of art - Michelangelo's David. Or that heI'll become intimately embroiled in answer the deadly rivalries and politics of the city. As the statue of David is slowly created, Gabriele will have to walk the line between the republican faction and those supporting the return of the Medicis without being exposed by either. It won't be easy... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800527</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Rees Brennan|title=The Demon's Surrender|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Cynthia 'Sin' Davies is a Market girl through and through. Her whole life has been about the dance, the performance and the Market. But now the Market is at war with the magicians, Merris has pitted Sin against Mae – a tourist – first one: for leadership of the Market, and everything is coming apart around her. Sin needs a plan, and fast. Unfortunately, Sin is more of a doer than a thinker. Thinking is where Mae excels, and the pink haired tourist is winning the race for leadership despite Sin's lifelong service to the Market.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382916</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Maryon|title=A Million Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mima's father is the light of her life. She loves him more than anything. But he's also an army officer and this story opens with him leaving for a six month tour of Afghanistan. Her mother is heavily pregnant and her his grandmother is spending all her time thinking about her childhood sweetheart. Her friend Jess is busily trying to make friends at school - army brats are forever having to make new friends. So nobody really has time to pay attention to Mima, who can't get her fears about her father being killed and injured out of her mind... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326297</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kit BerryPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Moondance of StonewyldeDifferent for Boys
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|genre=Teens|summary=[[Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry|Magus of Stonewylde]] left us Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a crucial turning point standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with Yul receiving both his best buddy from the Earth Magic at the Solstice instead of Magusfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. However, As they''Moondance of Stonewylde'' begins with Stonewylde operating normallyre all fired up, and straining at the population unaware of leash only a single-sex school can form, the significance of the previous festivaltalk in class and out often turns to sex. Nevertheless Which is confusing for Ant, even the Machiavellian Magus canas he doesn't keep covering the cracks know what his score is, where his achievements in that are beginning to show in Stonewylderegard lie. He's community for everhad a casual relationship, and there are subtle signs of a revolution brewing. Howeversecret one, things take a turn for the worse when Magus discovers a way to use Sylvie to rejuvenate his Magicseveral months now, and it is so has effectively progressed up to Yul and his only other allythe ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the ancient Mother Heggy, to stop history from repeating itself relationship and save the girl that he lovessex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0575098856</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neal Shusterman1800901232|title=EverfoundStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=We rejoin 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 limbo world of ''Everlost'' for this final volume smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Neal Shusterman's ''Skinjacker'' trilogy with Mary Hightower asleep 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 encased the other girls were not going to work in a glass coffinshop, Allie tied they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the front of a train, ones with intricate embroidery and Nick still amnesiac beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and still puddling chocolate wherever he goes. Milos is trying to continue with Marydistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's demonic plan to end the living world, but he lacks quite possible that Hanh and her charisma and the vapour of Afterlights is getting smaller as a steady trickle decampsco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz Miles (Editor)Patrice Lawrence|title=Truth and DareNeedle
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|summary=I love anthologiesBrave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, especially ones containing a host characters and readers both. Kicked out of unfamiliar authorsmultiple homes and schools, so when I was given the chance to get my hands on she's fostering with a collection of twenty stories by writers whopleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in the main, I hadnher son Blake's old room while he't encountered before, I jumped s at ituni. The selectionSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, howeveryou might perhaps think, and the creation ofthis score one such item is part of tales about ''slipping on the stepping stones plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of lifelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she'' left s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me feeling curiously unsatisfied in many casesto say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015864</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Candle Man: Society of DreadAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Glenn DakinRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Candle Man and defeated his evil ex-guardianMidori, Dr Saint. The young boy is still ambivalent about his superhero status and conflicted over his ability to use tripudon energy a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to melt his - drink and London's - enemiesmake merry between their conquests. But the fight against evil pays no attention However, when a man named Himura arrives to inexperience or moral ambiguity and Theo tell her that she is about a Crafter like him, someone with the power to find himself down in form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Network againEmpire. This timeHe asks her to come with him, his attempts to return The Society leave the life of Good Works to its original benevolence are thwarted dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by the renaissance of an olda monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and even more terrifyingshe is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, villain a sky- Dr Pyre. With his friends abducted ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and enslaved, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again... a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bang Bang You're DeadMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Narinder DhamiWrath|rating=4.5
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|summary=Mia Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is holding her family together. She's never known her fatheronly just over, her mother is suffering from manic depression which she refuses and he should be free to seek help fordo what he wants, to go where he wants and her twin brother Jamie is causingher real concern. So when the fire alarm is set off at school and rumours fly around that there's a pupil with a gun on the loosewhom he wants, she starts but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to worry that Jamie has done the unthinkablehis best friend, Cassie. Ignoring all common senseThey were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she desperately tries to see for herself whether he could be hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one with of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the guntruth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055256043X</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=MomentumTori Bovalino|authortitle=Saci LloydThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=London, 2030Working 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. Energy wars are consuming What makes it worse is the globe now peak oil is pastman who requested the books: Mr Birch. Britain creaks on with ever-declining influence The boarding school's headmaster, and is now partly dependent on aid from Chinaa man Tess hates. The gap between rich As a petty act of revenge for making her find and poor is now so great that deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the poor (the Outsiders) live in dreadful slums while books, scribbled with the rich (the Citizens) spend most ugliest insults she can think of their time plugged into the net. They're never meant to reach him, experiencing life as a fantasyof course. Civil unrest Her plan is springing upto get her anger out like this, only to and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be ruthlessly put down by the Kossacks, the new security forceif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900811</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=AsylumPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Rachel AndersonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45
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|summary=Sunday arrived In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the UK at LowestoftScillies. He'd have preferred Iceland, ''which, so he'd heardThere are troll people on it, was cold and treeless but democratic and respectful of human life''. Sent from a refugee camp by his Auntie Prusea-witches, Sunday is very religious and very respectful legends of human life, unlike the militia who destroyed his village. So it's difficult for Sunday to become a Muslim. But Dark family that's what he has to do. His papers confiscated by a shady people traffickerkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Sunday finds himself the unpaid caretaker at Hawk Rise, a condemned London tower block. And his name isn't Sunday any more; it's Piet Ali. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997680</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Darkness Becomes Her|author=Kelly Keaton|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Growing up in foster care has always left Ari wondering where she came fromno ship dare sail. The teal coloured eyes and strangecurrent Darks are the Watcher, unchangeableAndrewe, silver hair just adds who has to keep notes of activity from the mystery surrounding her. When she searches for answers Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to her questions worry about her pastsuch local yokel superstitions, she finds a simple message left for her by her mother – ''RUN''. Desperately seeking answers and with scary figures on her trail, she returns to her birthplace of New 2, once known as New Orleans, to find herself plunged into a power struggle which could have far reaching consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071459</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Deserter|author=Peadar o Guilin|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=ItAndrewe's been four years comingfoundling daughter, but this sequel to The Inferior won't disappoint those who have loyally waited. I've loyally waited. And I would like to say that four years has been too long. In that time dystopian fiction for young adults has become more and more popular - lots washed up out of it is very good - and I did wonder if I would love the central character Stopmouth quite as much as I had beforesea one day eleven years ago. I shouldn't have worried. He's a gorgeous creation - braveBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, honest, loyal both his sullen brother and committedhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, he will appeal equally to male and female readerslike it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385610963</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paige HarbisonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Here Lies BridgetJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bridget Duke, daughter of a famous celebrity, is the undisputed queen of her school. Popular, wanted by the boys and feared or adored by the girls, she barely even notices the trail of destruction she leaves behind her as friends, teachers and even her stepmother end up being hurt by her actions. So when Bridget is in a car accident, and ends up in limbo, she's sent into the shoes of those she's wronged to see the effect she's had on them. Can she redeem herself?
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{{newreview
|author=Karen McCombie
|title=Six Words and a Wish
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jem has a dad who's a clownJulia, a best friend who's a hypochondriac, a house where it's always Christmasour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and a sister who's missing – or is she? Gracie left their cat from the family home after something Jem said, and the younger girl has always wondered whether she's in SW England to blame be lighthousekeepers for her big sister's disappearance. When her mother receives a present from Gracie on her birthdaysummer, she thinks she might finally in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be able Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to ask be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving hercareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. As And Julia, well as hoping her sister returns, Jem also tries to form a band, helps her dad do his clown shows, she will be homesick and may even have found a cute boy alone – until she likes…suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407107887</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bali RaiJonathan Stroud|title=Killing HonourThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=Sat comes from a prosperous Sikh family in Leicester. His mother spends a lot Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of time at the gurdwara but his father Surviving Towns and brother don't and are not above breaking parts Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of the Sikh code - they both eat meat Britain, robbing banks and drink alcoholshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Overall, thoughBut then she meets Albert Browne, Sat's family is a traditional one dark boy with dark powers and so when his parents hear a rumour that his sister Jas has a boyfriend at collegedarker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they withdraw her must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and arrange a marriage all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Taz Atwalreach the Free Isles, a wealthy local businessman. but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552562114</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paula RawsthorneMercedes Helnwein|title=The Truth About Celia FrostSlingshot|rating=43
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|summary=Celia Frost Gracie Welles has always been extremely careful, never playing resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with other childrena "real" family, always wearing gloves and long sleeves, and never getting into unwanted confrontations. For she knows from her mother that the rare disorder that she suffers from, which is used to not unlike haemophilia, will mean that just being a small cut, priority in people's lives. But when she defends a seemingly insignificant grazerandom boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can leave she spend her bleeding uncontrollably until she dies. Howevertime writing novels in solitude, one day Celia snaps. When she humiliates for her life now has a bully, the boy gets his revenge and with a small flick of a knife starts a cut in it that will kill hershe never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409531090</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongT L Huchu|title=Darkness Rising: The GatheringLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maya has lived her whole life in strange little rural townRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Salmon Creek. Although 'little' means using Zimbabwean magic (and a population bit of less than 200 and 'rural' really does mean in Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the middle dead of nowhere, Maya is happy Edinburgh for their living where relatives. Ever since she does. Suredropped out of school, she gets more contact with cougars than she does with people some days's been using it to support not only herself, but sheher younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's always loved nature children. 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 the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's always been content at Salmon Creekve imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410171</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonKristen O'Neal|title=The Midnight Palace|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Calcutta, 1916. Lieutenant Peake sacrifices his life to save two twin babies from a terrifying Lycanthropy and murderous demon. Sixteen years later, the separated twins meet again. Sheere has spent her childhood moving from place to place with her grandmother - never staying still, always hypervigilant. Ben has lived in a Calcutta orphanage and has a band of friends - the Chowbar Society - who are all about to be released from care to make their way in the world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001671</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Green|title=Looking For AlaskaOther Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=When Miles Halter leaves his safeHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, comfortable life Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in Florida for Culver Creek – a boarding school his father used to attend – he's looking constant pain for what French poet Francois Rabelais called the Great Perhapsrest of her life. Miles thinks heShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s found it in Alaska Young – beautiful, flirtyan 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, sexy, but messed up Alaskawhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Her mood changes like When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the flip of chat for a switchwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She smokes decides to steal her parents' car and drinks too muchdrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Miles couldnBut what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be more in love with herthe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007424833</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Katy Moran|title=Dangerous to Know|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jack and Bethany are in love. But Bethany's mother thinks Jack is a bad influence. He comes from a bad family - a broken home, one brother was a drug dealer, the other smoked too much dope and ended up sectioned - and he just isn't the sort of boy Bethany's mother wants her daughter to spend time with. It's not all snobbery though - Bethany's father is terminally ill and the family has too much Move on its plate to be thinking of first love affairs. Says Bethany's mother. But not Bethany. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406317292</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=R J Anderson|title=Ultraviolet|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alison wakes up to find herself sectioned in a secure psychiatric unit for teenagers. Arriving home with blood on your hands and gibbering endless confessions to having killed a girl who's gone missing will do that. But there isn't any proof and Tori is still missing so both the police and Alison's doctors want to get to the bottom of what happened. The thing is, Alison herself can't explain what happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312751</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]