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|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she'My name is Milicent Bella Ludlow and I am s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an orphan'avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. So opens this story told What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in diary form of a year in blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the life of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a young Victorian girl whose father hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has just dieda tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Luckily there are some kind For the server she and loving relatives willing to help her bestie and Mabel, nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her older sisterphone screen, and they are able to stay living her safe place in their family homethe game has been doctored – well, Yotes, for where is a while.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846470803</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie StiefvaterRachel Greenlaw|title=BalladCompass and Blade

|summary=After his best friend fell in love with a faerie, James realised she would never love him that way. But his attempts to get away from her, and the unrequited love he still nurses, only lead him straight to more faeries than ever before. For at James' new school, Thornking-Ash, 'I can hear the student populace is entirely made song of musical prodigies. And there's nothing that attracts faeries more than music. James has even attracted his own muse – the deadly and dangerously attractive Nualasea. The music she helps him make is better than he could ever manage on his owncall of the deep, but James knows the deadly consequences of making a deal with faeries, and he knows Nuala wonanswering beat in my heart.''t give him freebies for long.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140712112X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Cynthia Hand|title=Unearthly|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Clara wants what ordinary teenagers want: friendsRosevear, good school gradesa remote and partially forgotten island, a boyfriendsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Only Clara isn't an ordinary teenager Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – she's part angel. She's fluent in all languages, naturally gifted academically rescuing any survivors and in sportsany treasure that lies within. All But when the good stuff comes with Council Watch lays a pricetrap to end the wrecking, but even thatthey capture the island's leader and Mira's not so badfather. Clara has a Purpose, an angelic calling, Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a mysterious boy from bargain with a forest fire, revealed wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in search of a series 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 visions that can strike any time the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of day or nighther home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405259647</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzieHarry Allen|title=The Medusa Project: Double CrossChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=Each of the 'Medusa Project' books is narrated by one of the teens involved Ra Eun Seo lives in turn, a North Korean town and this time it she is a talented singer. Life is Nico who hard and food is the first person speaker. Things are not going well for the group: their former mentor Geri has just tried difficult to kill themcome by, so Seo and by using all her government friends Nari and police contacts she has managed to make it look as if they are guilty of murder. The four teens' psychic abilities allow them to escape to FranceMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and now they need to work out how edible grasses to stop Geri and clear their names. But things just get worse and worse: supplement the strain meagre rations of their situation rice and the introduction of new characters start to pull the group apart just kimchi at the time when they need to trust each other the mosthome.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707069X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alex WoolfAlexia Casale|title=Chronosphere: Malfunction|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The ideal paradise of life inside the Chronosphere isn't supposed to be like this. If you're like Raffi and his friends you're spending a year inside, which only takes a minute of real life, enjoying a hedonistic, summery lifestyle with time on your hands and little cares. Except it's getting more than summery, it's a hothouse; the food is running out; the exits are locked; and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken and feel the end of their happiness. But then, Sing if youCan're like Raffi and his friends, you are actually unknowingly there for a much more sinister reason, and someone's "project" is about to get much less Utopian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184562</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maggie Stiefvater|title=The Scorpio Racest Dance|rating=45

|summary=At It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a young age Sean Kendrick watches his father die violently life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Scorpio Races – a race held every year on the beaches middle of the island where riders compete for a huge cash prize by riding dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the dangerous ''capaill uisce''pity stares, the water horses. Years later Sean is a four-time winner of the Scorpio Races with a prized mare – Corr – and plans desperate to get back to win againa life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile, Puck there's a new (Katecute!) Connolly has been orphaned by the ''capaill uisce'' and struggles for every meal; their main source of income is boy in school, her brother Gabemusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, but when he announces that he is leaving and just the island Puck realises that she has day to fight for day traumas of all the survival of challenges her body continues to throw at her familyto navigate. Seeing no other option So even though she can't dance anymore, might she enters be able to sing her island pony into the races. The stakes are high as Sean and Puck compete against each other for the highest prize of them all – freedom.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407129856</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maxine LinnellSimon Fox|title=CloserDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This Late one night Graham Blake is one of those concise late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and powerful little books where it's best for join him on the reader run. They get together, but barely begin to come to it with as little knowledge smell the whiff of Southern trains when the plot as possiblefather is arrested, so I'll feature leaving Archie on the mood - and Mel has a lot of those. Beyond her yet-late express to-actually-start relationship with Raj, and her best friend Chloe, she has her family - fractious animosity with her older sisterBrighton, toting a younger brother who only plays computer gamestin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and little freedom it seems from her mother. At least her step-dad's the bearer of a funky bloke though - although one mum finds fault with easily enough. It's hardly comfy domesticity, and is even worse when interrupted by something very disturbingwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907869263</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joss StirlingLex Croucher|title=Stealing Phoenix|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Phoenix is a thief. She's a very good one, thanks to having some rather useful psychic abilities. Working for the cruel and dominating Seer, she's forced to follow his instructions to bring him whatever he wants – just as the rest of their community of savants are. Then she's told to get something from Yves Benedict, Gwen and for the first time Art Are Not in her life, fails to take what she wants. Yves has powers of his own… and he may be the one who's stolen her heart. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Damian Dibben|title=The History Keepers: The Storm BeginsLove

|summary=''Imagine if you lost your parents. Not just in placeWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, but it lifted my spirits in time'' Scary, huh? But a most delightful way. In this is exactly what happens to Jake Djones (silent Dstory, dears). Believing his parents Gwen and Arthur have gone been betrothed since they were tiny, much to a bathroom conventiontheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, heis in love with Bridget (the kingdom's carrying on as usual until they get homeonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. But And then when Gwen then he's abducted on his way home from school and taken to catches Art kissing a secret base hidden beneath boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the Monument subterfuge of falling in Londonlove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Jake discovers that his parents have kept But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a secret from him: way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are secret agents working for the History Keepers, working they destined to prevent evil villains from tampering with history itself, and they have gone missing in sixteenth century Venice. Blive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857530534</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna PhilbinNick Brooks|title=Celebriteens: In the SpotlightPromise Boys

|summary=Girls usually get together because they've got something in common and for LizzieWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Carina and Hudson it's their famous parentsthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Lizzie's mother is Each, seemingly, has a supermodel grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and even in her thirties she's still one each could have been there at the time of the most beautiful women in the world. Lizzie's – nothis murder. WellBut who killed him, she's not exactly ugly but compared to her mother (and she always is) she just doesn't come up to scratch. Carina's dad is a rich (''very'' rich) businessman why, and he's determined that C (as she's known) is going to join if any of the company and eventually take over. Carina has other ideas. Hudson wants boys are innocent, will they be able to make music and you might think that having a pop diva for a mother is a good start, but Hudson's style is different and her mother can't accept that.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121200</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Grant1919635017|title=Wish Me DeadA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Rural GermanySolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, in modern times. Steffi and her five friends lark about in so why is he running around London committing a deserted building series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to summon a witch and get her an answer to kill a local celebrity - who does indeed diethe second question because I avoid spoilers. When a repeat attempt gifts a decent amount of cash to Steffi it becomes clear she is alone in having her wishes granted. So what will happen when she wishes for But I'll answer the town hunk - hasn't Steffi heard to be careful what you wish first one: for? But how on earth can things get so bad she feels her story deserves *that* title?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141337702</amazonuk>his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|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-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 Different for a girl - who happens to be his best friend's girlfriend. What will happen when these two meet?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304287</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kate Costelloe|title=The Breakfast ClubBoys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Billie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and her three 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 both his best friends have grown buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to love the breakfast club primary school days together. As they've formedre all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, meeting every Saturday morning to pass the time talk in class and discuss the week theyout often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn've hadt know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. Mario He's is the perfect venue had a casual relationship, a secret one, for it - several months now, and so ithas effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 's a huge shock when they find itexperienced's closing down! In addition, Billiebut whether that's mother is adamant that she shouldn't pursue the career set in music she wants more than anythingstone, and Billie he can't understand whybe sure. Can And that's mostly because of who he's been having the girls find somewhere else to spend Saturday mornings, relationship and can they persuade Billie's mum that music is what really matters to her?the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444902857</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Krystyna Kuhn1800901232|title=The GameStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=45|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Julia 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 Robertwoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. They're siblings Some money changed hands and Hanh was on their way the mini-bus to Grace CollegeHanoi. Only, an exclusive campus stuck up Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in the Canadian wilderness. It's a rum placeshop, set by a lake under lowering mountainsthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It's a place of sudden night-time blackouts, unexpected screams through You know those jeans you really wanted: the dark, mysterious parties clandestinely held out of sight, ones with intricate embroidery and pupils declaring it all 'evil', but what is student prank beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and what is due to something more sinisterdistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? And what could Julia It's quite possible that Hanh and Robert possibly be running from to force her co-workers made them to this strange end of the earth?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410562</amazonuk>.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Vincent CaldeyPatrice Lawrence|title=A Good Clean EdgeNeedle|rating=53

|summary=After an acrimonious divorceBrave. Charlene, Vincent chooses the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to stay with his father and not his mother like, characters and sisterreaders both. As his father works away much Kicked out of the timemultiple homes and schools, they go to live she's fostering with Vincenta pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's grandparentsold room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, who run an undertaking business. Vincentand the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a reserved wonder knitter, and sensitive childis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, is being bullied on his way in and then force people to his new school by Frankie Lennox from the grammar give her two days off school, who goes so far when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to threaten Vincent with a kniferemark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408313022</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Francisco X StorkAnn Sei Lin|title=Marcelo in the Real WorldRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Marcelo Kurara has spent his childhood and her entire life as a servant on the majority of his teenage years at PatersonMidori, a private school that caters specifically for those with disabilities, providing them with a protected environment massive dining hall floating in the sky where they can learn at soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their own rate and feel acceptedconquests. However, his father Arturo feels when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that it she 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 schoolCrafter like him, Arturo coerces Marcelo someone with the power to take up form paper into whatever she desires – a small position for power sought after all across the summer in Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the law firm life of dreary servitude that he ownsis all she has known. In Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the firmmatter, Marcelo because the Midori is forced to interact regularly with destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a plethora of different personalitiesshikigami, and while some prove she is forced to be enjoyable companyflee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, others leave him feeling confused and distressed. Things really come to a head when he sky-ship whose express purpose is forced to make a momentous decision, one that requires him to either ignore his consciencehunt down shikigami, 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.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407121006</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyxandra HarveyMarcus Sedgwick|title=Haunting VioletWrath

|summary=Violet Willoughby is the daughter of one Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of England's foremost mediumsfrustration at himself. With her mother Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in high demandit when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she follows could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her, assisting in her work as she puts eco-warrior parents saying the cream end of society in touch with their dear departed. Of course, the world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's all fake. Violet has spent seven years helping her mother con dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the gullible into believing she truth? Well, not when Cassie has real psychic powers, so Violet herself certainly doesngone missing he can't believe in ghosts. Which makes it all the more surprising when one appears to her…..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811316</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siddhartha SarmaTori Bovalino|title=The Grasshopper's Run|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=India 1944, and the Japanese are coming. In a brutalopening, we see the inhabitants of a small village get massacred, and the brutal killing of Uti, grandson of the leader of the tribe who live there. His best friend Gojen escapes, as he's in school far away. On hearing of the tragedy, the youngster swears revenge, and embarks on a journey which will take him across his country in search of the man responsible for his friend's death.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408809400</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Yvonne Woon|title=Dead BeautifulDevil Makes Three

|summary=Renee is a normal school girl living Working all summer in sunny California. On her sixteenth birthday she boarding school's library is drawn the last thing Tess Matheson wants to the woods by her house. There do — especially when she finds the dead bodies of her parents, surrounded by scattered coins, and shreds of cloth in their mouths. The police say they both died from gets a heart attack, but Renee isn't convinced — something more sinister must be going on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409530248</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=B R Collins|title=Gamerunner|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Maze is more than just request for over a role-playing gamehundred books that she has to deliver herself. Rick What makes it worse is one of the many man who immerse themselves entirely in requested the gamebooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and essentially live their life in its virtual realitya man Tess hates. He is one As a petty act of the lucky ones. Thanks to the fact that his guardian, Daed, is the mind behind the Maze and is employed by the powerful revenge for making her find and merciless firm Crater, Rick has lived deliver such a protected lifelarge request, one spent inside Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the thick walls of books, scribbled with the multi-storeyed headquarters ugliest insults she can think of Crater. He has They're never had meant to go outside and live a life reach him, of extreme poverty under the constant threat of gangs orcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, even worseand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, the lethal acid rain that is a part of the intensely polluted atmosphereif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408806487</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris HigginsPhilip Reeve|title=He's After MeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Anna's father has run off with In a younger womanword, the hated Juderich. Her mother There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a wreck because peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of it. Her little sister Livi is going off the rails Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and running with a bad crowdtheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. All this mayhem is anathema The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to Annakeep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who is a reserved, cautious and hardworking girl lives in London with an ambition too much science in his head to study literature at university. If this is what unrestrainedworry about such local yokel superstitions, rampant emotions result in, then Annaand Andrewe's having none foundling daughter, who washed up out of itthe sea one day eleven years ago. She's never been in love But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and in many ways she sees this as a blessing. And then she meets Jemhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034099701X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Salman RushdieKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Luka Julia and the Fire of LifeShark

|summary=Back in 1990Julia, our pre-teen heroine, Salman Rushdie followed up his controversial 'Satanic Verses' has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a book dedicated to his then nine year old sonsummer, Zafar, called 'Haroun and in the Sea far NE of Stories'the Scottish islands. Now Here be Vikings, his second son, Milan, finally gets a book that kind of his own, although he had to wait until he was 13 for his father to get around to itScottish island. 'Luka and the Fire of Life' Dad is very much a follow up going to 'Haroun' and it be automating the lantern, which is certainly helpfulhis specialist thing, although not necessary, if you have read that book as many of the events while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the first book are referred to hereelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555328</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine BrutonJonathan Stroud|title=We Can Be Heroes|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ben is spending the summer with his grandparents because his mother is ill again. She won't stop going out for runs and is not eating properly. She's gone back to stressing out about having the "right" cutlery and worrying about technology The Outlaws Scarlett and health hazards. And her beautiful hair has started falling out. Ben's father was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and with his mother incommunicado, he's feeling very lonely indeed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256524</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=N M Browne|title=Wolf Blood|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Trista Scarlett McCain is a Celtic warrior girl and seeress. Her visions are always horrifying, full of blood and death. And one of her premonitions tells her she must escape from the tribe who have captured and enslaved heran outlaw, for their time is running out. Fleeing into rejecting the snowy forest, she runs straight into two Roman soldiers and thinks this time the game is surely up. Surely she cannot survive a second time? But one draconian conformity of the soldiers has a secret - he is a shapeshifter. Part wolf, part man, Morcant also has both Roman Celtic blood in his veins Surviving Towns and he has never felt truly at home in either world. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881255X</amazonuk>}} {{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 Faith Houses to find out, but it's clear that it's something bad when wander the alternative is working for an illegal logging team in the jungle of the Congo. The work is tough at wildlands between the best Seven Kingdoms of timesBritain, robbing banks and when things start going wrong for the team, it's definitely not the best of timesshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. And But 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>}} {{newreview|author=Samantha Mackintosh|title=Lula Does The Hula|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Talullah Birdmeets Albert Browne, otherwise known as Tatty, Lu, or Lula, has finally 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 dark boy with the exclamation marks dark powers and strange words, you may want to avoid the book!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405256532</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Almond|title=My Name Is Mina|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=We first Mina in Skellig. A homeschooled, William Blake-loving, slightly precious child, she arrived in Michael's life with not a little whiff of the culture shock about herdarker past. Now, we can find out what really makes Mina tick as we read through her journal. Mina is full of contradictions. She likes to be different, individual, but she doesn't like being a misfit. She wants friends but she doesn't know how to make With mysterious militiamen hunting 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 girldown, Katelyn, and although the death is attributed they plan to an accident, there are some who believe that suicide and homicide shouldn't be ruled out just yet. Although twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan weren't close flee to the girl at the time of her death, they used to be good friends and a combination mythical Free Isles of guilt and curiosity leads them to investigate the death and its true causeLondon Lagoon. They may just be teenagersTogether, but combine the fact that they have a father who is a true crime author, with the mysterious supernatural abilities they share, the twins are more than wellmust brave man-equipped to discover the truth behind the death; however, they find themselves digging up more than they bargained for when tragic historyeating wildlife, and revelations from the past begin to reveal themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402789572</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Hoffman|title=David|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It's 1501 cannibalistic Tainted and Gabriele is in Florence without a penny to his name. As a greenhorn country boy, he managed to get himself robbed almost as soon as he arrived in all the city. But he does have one big advantage: a renowned sculptor as a stephorrors of post-brother. Gabriele hopes this will be enough apocalyptic society to find him workreach the Free Isles, 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 he'll become intimately embroiled in 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 they 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 – for leadership of the Market, and everything is coming apart around her. Sin needs a plan, and fast. Unfortunately, Sin is any more of a doer accepted there than a thinker. Thinking is where Mae excels, and the pink haired tourist is winning they are in 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 rest 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 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... Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007326297</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Kit Berry|title=Moondance of Stonewylde|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=[[Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry|Magus of Stonewylde]] left us at a crucial turning point with Yul receiving the Earth Magic at the Solstice instead of Magus. However, ''Moondance of Stonewylde'' begins with Stonewylde operating normally, and the population unaware of the significance of the previous festival. Nevertheless, even the Machiavellian Magus can't keep covering the cracks that are beginning to show in Stonewylde's community for ever, and there are subtle signs of a revolution brewing. However, things take a turn for the worse when Magus discovers a way to use Sylvie to rejuvenate his Magic, and it is up to Yul and his only other ally, the ancient Mother Heggy, to stop history from repeating itself and save the girl that he loves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=Everfound|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We rejoin the limbo world of ''Everlost'' for this final volume in Neal Shusterman's ''Skinjacker'' trilogy with Mary Hightower asleep and encased in a glass coffin, Allie tied to the front of a train, and Nick still amnesiac and still puddling chocolate wherever he goes. Milos is trying to continue with Mary's demonic plan to end the living world, but he lacks her charisma and the vapour of Afterlights is getting smaller as a steady trickle decamps. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz Miles (Editor)Mercedes Helnwein|title=Truth and DareSlingshot

|summary=I love anthologies, especially ones containing Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a host secret illegitimate daughter of unfamiliar authorsa man with a "real" family, so when I was given the chance she is used to get my hands on not being a collection of twenty stories by writers who, priority in the main, I hadnpeople't encountered befores lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, I jumped at ither simple existence is changed for good. The selection, howeverNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, ofthis score of tales about ''slipping on the stepping stones of for her life'' left me feeling curiously unsatisfied now has a boy in many casesit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849015864</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Candle Man: Society of DreadT L Huchu|authortitle=Glenn DakinThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity as the Candle Man and defeated his evil ex-guardianRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Dr Saint. The young boy is still ambivalent about his superhero status using Zimbabwean magic (and conflicted over his ability a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to use tripudon energy take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to melt his - support not only herself, but her younger sister and Londonher aging grandmother. However, there's - enemies. But an evil stalking the fight against evil pays no attention to inexperience or moral ambiguity and Theo is about to find himself down in ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Network againcity's children. This timeSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his attempts to return The Society of Good Works to its original benevolence are thwarted by dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the renaissance world of an old, magic is far bigger and even more terrifying, villain - Dr Pyredangerous than she ever could've imagined. With his friends abducted Will she find the missing children and enslavedbring an end to this evil, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again... or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Bang Bang YouKristen O're DeadNeal|authortitle=Narinder DhamiLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Mia is holding her family together. She's never known her fatherHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, her mother is suffering from manic depression which she refuses Priya has to come to seek help for, 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 terms with a gun on the loose, she starts to worry fact that Jamie has done the unthinkable. Ignoring all common sense, she desperately tries to see for herself whether he could may be the one with the gun...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055256043X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Momentum|author=Saci Lloyd|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=London, 2030. Energy wars are consuming the globe now peak oil is past. Britain creaks on with ever-declining influence and is now partly dependent on aid from China. The gap between rich and poor is now so great that the poor (the Outsiders) live in dreadful slums while constant pain for the rich (the Citizens) spend most rest of their time plugged into the net, experiencing her life as a fantasy. Civil unrest is springing up, only to be ruthlessly put down by the Kossacks, the new security force. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Asylum|author=Rachel Anderson|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sunday arrived in the UK at Lowestoft. HeShe joins 'd have preferred Iceland, 'Oof Ouch My Bones'which, so he'd heard, was cold an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and treeless but democratic help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and respectful mess around. When Brigid—one of human lifeher closest friends—doesn''. Sent from t respond to the chat for a refugee camp by his Auntie Pruwhile, Sunday is very religious Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and very respectful of human life, unlike the militia who destroyed his village. So itdrive to Brigid's difficult for Sunday house to become a Muslimcheck up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that's what he werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to do. His papers confiscated by a shady people trafficker, Sunday finds himself online for the unpaid caretaker at Hawk Rise, a condemned London tower block. And his name isn't Sunday any more; it's Piet Alipast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340997680</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 from. The teal coloured eyes and strange, unchangeable, silver hair just adds to the mystery surrounding her. When she searches for answers to her questions about her past, she finds a simple message left for her by her mother – ''RUN''. Desperately seeking answers and with scary figures Move 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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]