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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Michael Northrop|title=Trapped|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When school closes early because of the snow coming down, Scott and his friends decide to take advantage of the extra time to work on a go <!-kart they've been building in shop class. But with nearly everyone else having left the school, and the snow coming down faster and faster, they realise they may have made a terrible mistake. So begins a chilling (sorry!) tale, which sees seven students struggle to hold on as the weather gets ever worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411364</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Gibbons|title=Street of Tall People|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's the East End of London, and it's 1936, and it's a time of fighting. Jewish lad Benny, and Jimmy, who's rather more C-ofRemove -E, are going to become firm friends through having a boxing bout against each other. Benny is fighting against the more extreme anti-Goyim sentiments of his neighbour Yaro. Jimmy has to fight, it seems, against life, what with his father dieing and his mother having found a new boyfriend, putting a sense of social outcast on the lad. And all through this is the fight to come, around the corner, against Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907869239</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brenna YovanoffMax Boucherat|title=Smoulder|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Daphne is a quiet teenage girl who is half-demon and half-fallen angel. She's the daughter of Lucifer and Lilith and her sisters are seductive soul-sucking succubi (sibilance!). However, Daphne is more like her brother, Obie, whose gentle nature and genuine kindness make him an oddity in Pandemonium. When her brother leaves to make a life for himself on Earth, Daphne finds herself alone, confused and unsure of her future; but when she learns that her brother has been kidnapped by a psychopathic archangel she realises that she will stop at nothing to save him, even if that means going to Earth alone and facing the risk The Last Life of being hunted and destroyed by Azrael.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ally Kennen|title=Bullet BoysLori Mills

|summary=Wemeet Lori on the first evening she're back 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 coastal town server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Wellow to catch tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up with Verity Gallant on her phone screen, and her pals. Verity safe place in the game has had been doctored – well, where is a marvellous summer spent sailing with Henry but we all know peaceful times are unlikely girl to last...turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617674</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ruth WarburtonRachel Greenlaw|title=A Witch in WinterCompass and Blade

|summary=Anna and her father have just moved to ''I can hear the coastal town song of Winter - they needed to downsizethe sea. So Anna finds herself at a new school trying to make new friends. So when she finds a book The call of spells and Pruethe deep, Liz and June suggest trying the one which will enchant a boy to love you, Anna goes along with it - despite not believing answering beat in magic - and thinks of the gorgeous Seth Waters when she closes her eyesmy heart. And it's the worst thing she could have done... ... because Anna is a witch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444904698</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|author=Garrett Carr|title=Deep Deep Down|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ewan can see monstersRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, wherever he issurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. That's not because he has any special abilities - unlike his friend MayMira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who can telepathically talk swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the animalswrecking, or Andrewthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, who starts this book Mira makes a sub-human, bargain with a Hellboy-type mutated wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and very mighty armwith only coordinates to guide her, and demons writhing inside him sending him berserk. No, Ewan can see monsters everywhere he looks because life is like she sets off in search of a family secret that - especially adultslies buried deep in the sea. So when May decides a fabled pool of magical water is With only nine days to unearth what can cure Andrewmight save her father, they go and find an idyllic place as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of long lifethe smuggler's territory, peace Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and Utopia. And still Ewan can see monstersthe ones she holds most dear. But which side is of more danger to the other?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386008</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Pauline FiskHarry Allen|title=Midnight BlueChildren of the Sun

|summary=Bonnie has finally got away from Grandbag Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Aunt Doreen she is a talented singer. Life is hard and gone food is difficult to live with come by, so Seo and her - very young - mother, Maybelle. Maybelle may be nervous friends Nari and insecure but she brims over with love. And love is something Grandbag doesn't understand too well at all. For GrandbagMin go foraging every evening, it's all about control looking for tree bark and possession. But for Maybelle, it's about sharing, bright colours, pretty plants edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and pancakes for breakfast. Finally, there's some optimism in Bonnie's life. But it doesn't last longkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0062F6K10</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeAlexia Casale|title=Torn|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A week in the Scottish Wilderness doesn't exactly sound fun, not to Alice King, but that's what she's about to embark on. Her and her classmates are off on an activity holiday together – walking, climbing, caving. Alice is fortunately put in a cabin with her best friend Cass, so things canSing if you Can't be too bad. But, then Tara Chambers, the popular girl, gets put in their cabin too - things definitely just got worse. Tara, though beautiful is powerful, mean and likes nothing more than putting people down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857382055</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Marie Louise Fitzpatrick|title=Dark Warning|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Taney Tyrell lives in a room in Missus Kenny's boarding house in Dublin. She shares it with her father, her step-mother Mary Kate and her little brother Jon Jon. Life is hard but both Da and Mary Kate are working and they get by. But Taney is lonely. Ever since she was a tiny thing she has known she can see things before they happen. She has the gift of second sight. But Da and Mary Kate don't see it as a gift. They see it as a curse and worse, the curse that killed Taney's mother. But whatever they say, Taney's gift won't be denied. It's as much a part of her as her beautiful red hair.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556789</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Helen Dunmore|title=The Ingo Chronicles: StormsweptDance

|summary=Morveren and her twin sister Jenna live with their parents in an isolated community on an island off the coast of Cornwall. A causeway leads It's hard enough to the mainland at low tide but at high tide they are cut off. Music is intrinsic navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to the islanders and Morveren's little brother Digory has navigate a special talent for playing the violin. One day, he will play the special violin of island legendlife-changing disability too, but for now, Conanthat's fiddle sits high what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a shelf waiting for himdance performance that was going to change her life. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007424922</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keren David|title=Lia's Guide But she comes back fighting, desperate to Winning avoid the Lottery|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Lia is obsessed with pity stares, and desperate to get back to a guy called Raf who barely seems to know life that's as normal as she existscan possibly manage. She has a sister who Meanwhile there's got some problems at a new (cute!) boy in school, a mother who never seems her music A Level performance piece to try to stop nagging... sort out, and an £8 million lottery ticket in just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her pocketto navigate. Suddenly So even though she can't dance anymore, might she's a lot more popular with be able to sing her family and friends - but is winning the riches on offer all that it's cracked up to beway through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847801919</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessSimon Fox|title=The Cry of the WolfDeadlock

|summary=hought to have been extinct in Britain for centuriesLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, there are actually 70 English wolves left when Ben meets and join him on the Hunterrun. Burning with mortification at being mocked for poor shooting skills They get together, Ben lets but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the carefully-guarded secret slip to this awfulfather is arrested, vile man. And over leaving Archie on the next three yearslate express to Brighton, the Hunter makes it toting a tin his business father was determined to find and kill these beautiful, rare creatures. Eventuallykeep away from his colleagues, there is only one family left and Silver and Conna will do anything to protect their cub, the last bearer of a whole heap of his kind..questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849393753</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew LaneLex Croucher|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire StormGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle has authorised Andrew Lane Who knew that what I really needed to write read right now was a series of books about the early years of Sherlock Holmesgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and if this book is typical then Arthur have been betrothed since they made an excellent choice. Through these stories we were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see , is in love with Bridget (the development of the complex and sometimes contradictory aspects of Sherlockkingdom's personalityonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, set in creating the context subterfuge of the most thrilling adventures and courageous acts of derring-do falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a young person could desire. lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230758509</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jackson PearceNick Brooks|title=SweetlyPromise Boys

|summary=This book is When the second in a series of fairy tale retellings principal (the first being [[Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce|Sisters Red]]headmaster) whichof Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, without being closely connected, share common elementsthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. They both deal with the paranormal Each, including the Fenrisseemingly, which are about as far from the glamorous and sexy werewolves has a grudge of recent books some description against Principal Moore, and films as you can get. They stalk. They kill. They eat. End of story. The two books also look each could have been there at the aftermath time of an attackhis murder. But who killed him, and how it changes why, and if any of the lives of those who survive. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444900595</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harlan Coben1919635017|title=ShelterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Mickey BolitarSolomon Klyne isn's girlfriend Ashley has disappearedt a bad lad, the latest in so why is he running around London committing a long list series of things robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to go wrong in the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his lifegrandmother.. First his father died, then his junkie mother went into rehab, forcing him to move in with his uncle Myron, and now shy, beautiful Ashley has vanished.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620055</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne HarrisPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=RunelightDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=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 been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they''Runelight'' continues several years after [[Runemarks by Joanne Harris|Runemarks]] left off. The rescue of re all fired up, straining at the gods has left leash only a rift between single-sex school can form, the Worlds which allows demons talk in class and assorted ephemera out often turns to escape from Chaos into Malbry and spread towards Worldsex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's Endhad a casual relationship, a lawless city secret one, for several months now it , and so has no Order to maintain it. With Odin dead and effectively progressed up the surviving gods power-stripped and forced to inhabit bodies of Folkladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, there is little chance of re-establishing Orderhe can't be sure. And with the End that's mostly because of who he's been having the Worlds prophesied in just twelve days, relationship and the task of rebuilding Asgard and preventing it is Herculeansex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085753081X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Law1800901232|title=The Complete Philosophy FilesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=''The Philosophy Files'' Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and ''The Philosophy Files 2'' the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were first published to work in 2000 and 2003 respectivelyvirtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Now we have them combined You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and reissued beading on the legs? The ones with illustrations by the wonderful Daniel Postgateartfully-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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444003348</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ilsa BickPatrice Lawrence|title=AshesNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Alex Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is hiking in the wilderness when it all kicks offextremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Suffering from a brain tumour Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with only Aunt Hannah to care abouta pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, she and has a mission to complete before ittaken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's too lateat uni. She Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is enjoying - as much part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she could enjoy anything - the solitude 's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her memoriestwo days off school, cruelly truncated by the cancer, which come in tiny, sparkling, precious momentswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then comes the zap. A catastrophic electromagnetic pulse sweeps across the globe and destroys almost everything. There are few survivors . well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and most of pointy those who do make it through have become psychotic, flesh-eating monstersknitting needles can be. Those who haven't changed are in terrible trouble. Society is in ruins, all communication has broken down, and the flesh-eaters are hunting. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857382624</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlAnn Sei Lin|title=Beautiful ChaosRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Those of you who've been hooked Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on this series already will remember the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where we left offsoldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. A choice was madeHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Everything seems He asks her to have been changed. And now, we findcome with him, to leave the End life of Days dreary servitude that is near… Dark characters lurkall she has known. Some who we thought (or hoped) were goneWell, soon Kurara won't have returned. Other things we’ve not seen before are starting any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to tear flee out into the small town of Gatlin apartworld. The shorthand way of summing up how terrible things are She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to note that Mrs Lincoln may be one hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of the good guys now…adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141335262</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica WarmanMarcus Sedgwick|title=BetweenWrath|rating=34.5

|summary=Elisabeth ValcherMeet Fitz, a spoiltyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, vain but popular girland he should be free to do what he wants, wakes up after a party to celebrate her 18th birthday on her father's yacht go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to discover herself deadhis best friend, lying face down in the waterCassie. Luckily for LizThey were half of a desultory school band, who has trouble remembering exactly who but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she is and what happened in could hear a subhuman hum coming from the run up to earth. Is this connected with one of her death, eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she is soon joined by another ghost, Alex, one 's dreaming of ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the unpopular boys from her high schooltruth? Well, who was killed a year earlier in a hit and run accidentnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405260483</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeTori Bovalino|title=Fly by NightThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=The Fractured Realm is a country existing Working all summer in an uneasy peace. Each province is ruled by the craftsmen guilds which hold ultimate control, an ineffective Duke, and citizens who honour a multitude of demi-gods, her boarding school'The Beloved', who haunt them their entire life. This s library is the world Mosca Mye inhabits. An orphan, Mosca is fostered by her aunt and uncle, who think little of her and use her as a bookkeeper due last thing Tess Matheson wants to her unique, and quite illegal, ability to read and write. She runs away the night do — especially when she burns their mill to the ground. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330418262</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=50 Cent|title=Playground|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Butterball fills a sock with batteries and attacks geeky Maurice in the playground, his school sends him off to twice-weekly meetings with gets a therapist. Butterball is not impressed. It's request for over a waste of his time and he will never, never, tell anyone the truth about hundred books that day. Besides, any problem could be easily fixed if his mother just gave up on this idea of nursing school and moved them out of the stifling suburbs and back she has to New York Citydeliver herself. But Liz has other ideas... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780873301</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Martinez|title=Virtuosity|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Carmen Bianchi plays What makes it worse is the violin; in fact she might well be man who requested the best young violinist in the worldbooks: Mr Birch. She plays a Stradivarius worth $1.2 million, provided by the grandparents who otherwise have little to do with her and sheThe boarding school's managed by her motherheadmaster, whose word is lawand a man Tess hates. Schooling is provided by As a home tutor – and she doesn't even get to knock on doors because petty act of the possible damage to revenge for making her hands: she kicks instead. So far she hasn't really minded that she doesn't have find and deliver such a life outside of violinlarge request, but then she meets Jeremy King – a fellow competitor in the world's most prestigious violin competition – and she has to think about her priorities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857072846</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mia James|title=Darkness Falls|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=April's not had the best time of Tess sticks post-it lately. First her family up and moved her clear across the country and sent her to an exclusive college full notes on each of the smartest (and apparently most beautiful) kids in the country. Then, while April was struggling to fit inbooks, she discovered Ravenwood school's terrible secret - it's run by vampires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620411</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Mlynowski|title=Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=April doesn't want to move to Cleveland with her dad and his new wife. She doesn't want to move to Paris scribbled with her mum either. So April decides the best thing to do is to move in with her best friend Vi, and Vi's mum. But, Vi's mum has recently landed herself the role as Mary Poppins in a travelling theatre, so ugliest insults she's not going to be homecan think of. ThatThey's not going re never meant to stop April from staying in Westportreach him, armed with a couple of fake emails addresses the course. Her plan is set.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309793</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andrew Hammond|title=CRYPT: The Gallows Curse|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A warning: do not begin to read get her anger out like this book while eating your lunch, as this unfortunate reviewer did. There's nothing quite like the description of people in an underground train being ripped apart, and then having their faces chewed take them all off by bugs, to put you off your egg and cressbefore delivering them. In factNo harm done… Or it would be, you may develop a strong aversion to the whole of London Transport by the time youif someone hadn've finished this book, which will definitely not please Uncle Boris.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755378210</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Caragh M O'Brien|title=Prized (Birthmarked) |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Cool Age - our age - is long gone. Few people made it and those that did now live in isolated communities. Gaia Stone, a young midwife, has just escaped from the Enclave, where genetic manipulation has both saved and condemned the select few. The rest live in poverty. Lost in the wasteland, Gaia and t delivered them for her baby sister Maya are rescued by Peter, an outranger from another settlement, Sylum. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857074954</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksPhilip Reeve|title=NakedUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Lili In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a quiet studentpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, not hip or trendy or in demandbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and she spends most legends of her time playing the pianoDark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. She's an unlikely candidate for The current Darks are the nascent punk scene but Curtis RayWatcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the school's charismatic bad boyHidden Lands, doesn't agree. He recruits Lili his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to his band Nakedworry about such local yokel superstitions, and itAndrewe's not long before Lili gets naked with Curtis in more ways than foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea oneday eleven years ago. As the band begins to make a name for itself on the burgeoning punk sceneBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, fame-obsessed Curtis gets drawn further and further in both his sullen brother and his drug-fuelled behaviour becomes more and more erraticcurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326115</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean Clemens LoftusKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Ruby Rocksparkle: Her Wildly Incredible Adventure Julia and the Shark

|summary=Ruby Rocksparkle Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and her thirteen - yes! thirteen! - siblings are all named after gemstones. Ruby's father is their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a peasant farmer summer, in the happy little kingdom far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of FelicitaniaScottish island. Felicitania Dad is ruled by going to be automating the kingly King Flavian and his beautiful second wife, Queen Morgana. His son, Prince Alanolantern, which is busily preparing for the day when he must rulehis specialist thing, and while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the time for him to find a wife is fast approachingelusive Greenland shark. Ruby, a vivid And Julia, read-headed beautywell, dreams of marrying Prince Alano. If only he could ever marry a commoner - but even Ruby knows that could never she will behomesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1452059780</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyJonathan Stroud|title=Mister CreecherThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=OohScarlett McCain is an outlaw, ooh - two Frankenstein-related books one after rejecting the other! More draconian conformity of that in the further reading at Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the endSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. ''Mr Creecher'' isn't a retellingBut then she meets Albert Browne, a sequel or dark boy with dark powers and a prequel; it's an interlude, set midway through the events of Mary Shelley's noveldarker past. It's Regency LondonWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, the Industrial Revolution is beginning they plan to crank up, and Billy is an orphan and pickpocket trying flee to survive in the grimy streetsmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. About to rob what he thinks is a corpseTogether, Billy is set upon by some acquaintances to whom he owes money. Before Fletcher's knife prises out Billy's eyethey must brave man-eating wildlife, the corpse - not a corpse at cannibalistic Tainted and all, in case you didn't guess the horrors of post- comes apocalyptic society to his rescue. This hugereach the Free Isles, shambling man is not a pretty sight. But he has a job for Billy. Mr Creecher has come to London on but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the trail rest of Victor Frankenstein, with whom he has a bargain. And he needs Billy to follow Frankenstein to make sure he doesn't renege on the deal.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811049</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettMercedes Helnwein|title=Verity FibbsSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Verity Fibbs is the Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of fashion designer Saffron Fibbs. Saffron's brought her up on her own and made a pretty good job of it without man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a lot of input from Veritypriority in people's 'bio-dad'lives. Verity's used to the celebrity lifestyle although Saffron does But when she defends a random boy in her best to keep class with her feet firmly on the groundslingshot, with or without coffee suede boots. The latest buzz her simple existence is that Saff and Eden Greenfield are dating – it's even trending on Twitter – and Verity is getting texts asking if the fashion magnate is going to be her new Dadchanged for good. When Vee wants to retreat from all this No longer can she plays an online game called Demon Streetsspend her time writing novels in solitude, although she's ''obviously'' not addicted. Before long she's going to find for her life now has a boy in it that she's playing the game against a real, live villainnever asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755379470</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lois LowryT L Huchu|title=Number The Library of the StarsDead|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Copenhagen, 1943Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and everyone a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from schoolgirls like Annemarie up are suffering from shortagesthe dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, fear but her younger sister and loathing - all caused by Nazi occupiersher aging grandmother. But itHowever, there's always been an open countryevil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, has Denmarktargeting the city's children. Soon, and no less than Ropa is pulled into the King takes search for a daily horse ride, protected in plain view by every single loyal subjectmissing boy at the request of his dead mother. But when, on She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the Jewish New Year, word gets out that Jews will have to be hidden world of magic is far bigger and more discretely, things kick into actiondangerous than she ever could've imagined. Annemarie Will she find the missing children and her family take her best friendbring an end to this evil, Ellen, to the country for safety. But or will it seems death will even follow them there...claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007395205</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelKristen O'Neal|title=This Dark EndeavourLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Victor and Konrad Frankenstein are twinsHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, born just two minutes apartPriya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. They look alike but their personalities couldnShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t be more different. Konrad is calm, assured and capable. People like him. Victor is intense and arrogant an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with a burning ambitionchronic illnesses. He rubs people up the wrong way more often than not. The twins live with They talk about their beautifultroubles and help each other out, sometimes wayward, cousin Elizabeth while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the three are educated alongside great friend chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and wordsmith Henrydrive to Brigid's house to check up on her. ItBut what she doesn's t expect to find there is a charmed life werewolf in the Frankenstein chateau in basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the Genevese republicpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857560123</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Aimee Carter|title=The Goddess Test|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Kate's mother makes a dying wish to return to her home town, Eden, Kate drops what's left of her life and goes with her. She doesn't want to make friends – she's here for her mum and nothing else – so she's not very interested when popular girl Ava, with her jock boyfriend Dylan, invites her to a party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848450400</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Beth Webb|title=Wave Hunter: The Book of Water|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=As the Iron Age comes to a close, Romans are sweeping across the British countryside destroying anyone who stands in their way. The druids are a particular target - the Romans understand all too well that the society they seek to subdue revolves around its religion and its sacred places. Tegen is determined to stop them. As the Star Dancer, the young druid girl's destiny is to avert a great evil, and she believes that evil is the Roman invasion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956867308</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Fletcher|title=Far Rockaway|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cat Manno and her grandfather Victor have a long-held ambition: to one day take the subway and ride it right the way to the very end, to Far Rockaway. Just for the sheer hell of it. But when the day comes, Cat's brother doesn't show. This is more than a disappointment to Cat - it's an utter betrayal. She needed Joe Move on the trip because she has a guilty secret. She hasn't read the latest book Victor gave her - he sends her a classic adventure every year on her birthday - and she knows he'll want to discuss as it they ride the train. Without Joe, Cat has no chance of concealing her sin. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>034099732X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=Velvet|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The opening chapter of this book is a roller-coaster of a read. Velvet has fainted while doing back-breaking, gruelling work in a laundry, and risks being sent to the workhouse. Quick thinking saves her job, and the reader relaxes, only to learn a shocking and shameful secret about the heroine we have already begun to like. Her fortunes soon change, in true Dickensian style, but her troubles are not over: this same secret will come back to haunt her (please excuse the pun) and put her in the power of one of the other characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Maberry|title=Dust & Decay|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Dust & Decay'' picks up the action six months after ''Rot & Ruin's'' climactic battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer. Benny and his friends have spent the time honing their self-defence and zombie-killing skills through some very intense training by Tom. And now, the time is finally right. They're about to head back out into the Ruin in search of the jet plane they saw in the sky after the battle at Gameland. There might, just might, be a real civilisation surviving somewhere on the continent. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070975</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeyn Roberts|title=D4rk Inside|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''4. Earthquakes shudder across the world.''<br>''3. SOMETHING is released.''<br>''2. Trust no one - not even yourself.''<br>''1. The killing game has begun...'' |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230756182</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lesley Howarth|title=Maphead|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=MapHead and his father Ran are of the Subtle World. Ran can travel through time, make things disappear and erase human memories. MapHead can flash the map of any place across his face and bald scalp. MapHead is a halfling and now he is almost 12, Ran has brought him to meet his human mother. As they need to pass for humans, they've taken new names - Boothe and Powers, from a random movie - practised their English, and enrolled MapHead at the same school as his half-brother. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846471206</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rob Keeley|title=The Alien in the Garage and Other Stories |rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Would aliens like custard creams? Can fake tan hide a big lie? Are TV remotes sinister objects? Do secrets make you popular? Rob Keeley explores all these questions and more in a super collection of slightly spooky, blackly comic short stories. They're beautifully observed and you can see that Rob knows children well. He has the emotional landscape exactly right and is equally accurate when describing - and sometimes gently mocking - peer relationships. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765797</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Cooper, Joseph Delaney, Berlie Doherty, Jamila Gavin, Matt Haig, Robin Jarvis, Derek Landy, Sam Llewellyn, Mal Peet, Philip Reeve and Eleanor Updale|title=Haunted|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I've always enjoyed a good ghost story – whether at a sleepover when I was a teenager, or even now reading horror stories in bed in the middle of the night. As soon as I saw this book I knew I wanted to read it, and it did not disappoint; a group of excellent authors from all genres have come together and the result is a collection of brilliant stories not to be missed by any ghost hunters out there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849393214</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anna Sheehan|title=A Long, Long Sleep|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This is a book set in the future, with hover-cars and eye-scans and travel to other planets. But make no mistake – that's not what this book is about. Sixteen-year-old Rose has been asleep for far longer than she intended; in the meantime the world has almost come to an end in a terrible plague, and her stasis tube has been abandoned in a basement. If Brendan had not come exploring, she might never have been found at all. But how is that possible? How could the daughter and heiress of the most powerful couple in the galaxy have been forgotten? This book is about her awakening, and the slow, painful unfurling of the real facts of her early life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575104724</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]