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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Oisin McGannMax Boucherat|title=Rat RunnersThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Nimmo lives in a London of We meet Lori on the future. Itfirst evening she's not a great place got the house to herself – no neighbour to be. Under constant surveillance by the WatchWorld network and its Robocoppop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-style Safe-Guardsbreaking eleven year old, even the slightest transgression brings you into very unwelcome attention from the authorities. Life is particularly difficult for Nimmoon her lonesome. His parents are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in prison a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and he must live below that is to log on to Voxminer, the radar of WatchWorldworld-building, amid the citycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's underground criminalsworld. As you can imagine, Nimmo But first Lori has skills. And a tiny inkling that this is why gang boss Move-Easy calls him in when a case containing valuable black market credit cards goes missingstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Nimmo, together with sibling grifters Manikin For the server she and her bestie and FXnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and teen geek Scopeher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, are where is a girl to find the case or face Move-Easy's chief goons.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552566209</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marissa MeyerRachel Greenlaw|title=Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles, Book 2)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=The events ''I can hear the song of [[The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder by Marissa Meyer|last time]] are but media chatter as we start book two, with a French farmgirl being worried. Her grandmother has been missing for over a fortnight, and the police think there's no case for them to solvesea. Our girl is even more worried when her dad, long missing presumed drunk, turns up to ransack the farm looking for something that must have been left behind – something that her kidnappers need. Things might look up with the arrival The call of a good-looking man, the epitome of calm power and strong senses, but while he seems concerned and claims his innocencedeep, dad points him out as one of the gang behind the crimeanswering beat in my heart. How much can he be trusted? Either way, things must be investigated – and so our heroine, Scarlet, complete with her favourite riding-red hoodie, must go off into the unknown –alongside the man his fellow underground fighters call Wolf…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141340231</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Kai Meyer|title=Arcadia Burns|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you havenRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't read 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 with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the [[Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer|first book]] in this seriessea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, then STEP AWAY FROM THIS PARTICULAR COOKIE AISLE! There will Mira must be spoilersdetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848776403</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah NaughtonHarry Allen|title=The Hanged Man RisesChildren of the Sun|rating=45

|summary=The Wigman Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is at large, murdering childrena talented singer. You'd think this would be the first concern for Titus AdamsLife is hard and food is difficult to come by, as he's only fifteen, his parents are incorrigible drunks so Seo and her friends Nari and he has a young sister, HannahMin go foraging every evening, to look out looking for. But in London in the late 1800s, there are more pressing concerns than serial killers on the loose. Like how tree bark and edible grasses to pay the rent. Like where the next meal is coming from. Like staying out of the workhouse. Like keeping your sister on supplement the right side meagre rations of the law. Thankfully, Titus has a friend in Inspector Pilsbury. He doesn't arrest Hannah when she's caught with pickpockets. He feeds her rice and keeps her safe kimchi at the station until Titus comes to collect herhome. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>085707864X</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brandon SandersonAlexia Casale|title=Alcatraz versus the Evil LibrariansSing if you Can't Dance|rating=2.5

|summary=The celebration of AlcatrazIt's thirteenth birthday is quite hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a muted one – he gets a thirteenlife-year old parcel of sand in the postchanging disability too, claimed to be his inheritance from his birth parents, and he burns down the kitchen but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in his foster home – the latest in middle of a long line of disasters dance performance that have followed him in his short accident-prone was going to change her life. Expecting But she comes back fighting, desperate to just be farmed out to more foster parentsavoid the pity stares, instead he is the subject of a battle between an armed man and desperate to get back to a strange old fellow claiming to be Alcatrazlife that's grandfatheras normal as she can possibly manage. WhatMeanwhile there's more the guy says Al's abilities a new (cute!) boy in breaking things are a Talent with a capital Tschool, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the sands – that were stolen overnight – are a great threat day to day traumas of all the world in the hands of Librarians (with a capital L)challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Against all his own instinctsSo even though she can't dance anymore, our anti-hero goes with the latter man, finding his destiny in freeing the western world from the evil Librarians, and telling us about it later as an adult in a most sardonic fashion.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444006681</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenSimon Fox|title=Smuggler's KissDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Fifteen-year-old Isabelle has given up Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on life. Walking into the seaforce, she is ready to drown herself - until she changes her mindand then suddenly rings Archie, too late. But instead of drowningdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, she's pulled from and join him on the waves by smugglersrun. While They get together, but barely begin to smell the crew aren't all happy that a couple whiff of their men have jeopardized them by rescuing herSouthern trains when the father is arrested, she quickly becomes useful leaving Archie on the late express to them and starts Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to get a thrill keep away from helping to evade his colleagues, and the Preventivesbearer of a whole heap of questions. Can she be happy in her new life, or will her dark secret catch up with her?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192792806</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaLex Croucher|title=HysteriaGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Shunned by many of her former friends after killing her boyfriend Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in self-defencea most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and unable Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to remember their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only 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, creating the details subterfuge of his deathfalling in love with each other, Mallory feels haunted by his presencewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. When her parents send her to boarding school But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will this they find a way in which they can both truly be a chance for a fresh startthemselves, or will her past catch up with her even thereare they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408834847</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane CaseyNick Brooks|title=How to FallPromise Boys

|summary=Freya dies after a fall from a cliff. But was it an accident, suicide, or - horror of horrors - murder? Jess Tennant can't bear a mystery and so she sets out to solve When the mystery principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the death of the cousin she never metpolice station as suspects. She meets with nothing but obstruction and hostility Each, seemingly, but perhaps it's little wonder. Not only is Jess has a stranger in the parochial town grudge of Port Sentinelsome description against Principal Moore, she is also and each could have been there at the spitting image time of Freyahis murder. She unsettles everyone for these reasons but But who killed him, even despite themand why, Jess is an unsettling girl. She's bluntand if any of the boys are innocent, direct, and she never takes no for an answer.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552566039</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brodi Ashton1919635017|title=EverboundA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=This Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is the second in the [[Everneath by Brodi Ashton|Everneath]] trilogy and picks up two months from where the first book finished. Two months ago the Tunnels he running around London committing a series of the Everneath came robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to claim Nikki Beckett, wait to take her back get an answer to the Underworld where she would be used as a human battery foreversecond question because I avoid spoilers. That night, Nikki's boyfriend, Jack, made the ultimate sacrifice and took NikkiBut I's place in ll answer the Everneathfirst one: for his grandmother. Now, Nikki is haunted by Jack, who appears in her dreams every night, lost, confused and slowly having the life sucked out of him. On the Surface everybody is blaming Nikki for Jack's disappearance; Jack's Mum has hired a Private Detective who's following Nikki around, convinced that she will take him to Jack.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857074636</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Terence BlackerPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The TwyningDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens |summary= Efren Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a nobody in the kingdom 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 rats till he witnesses four with both his best buddy from the kidnapping of the kingfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. His future changes in a moment as heAs they's sent re all fired up to , straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the human world talk in class and out often turns to rescue himsex. Talking of humansWhich is confusing for Ant, 11 year old Peter as he doesn't know what his score is abandoned by , where his parents and left to scrape a living from Londonachievements in that regard lie. He's streets. His affinity with animals gives him had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the name ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that'Dogboys set in stone, he can' and employment with rat catcher Bob and scientist Dr Ross-Gibbont be sure. The DoctorAnd that's mostly because of who he's ambition is to encourage humanity to annihilate been having the rats by dragging them into a war. Efren relationship and Dogboy, both insignificant in their own worlds, must make both man and rodent see sense; easier said than donethe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781850704</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bobbie Pyron1800901232|title=The Dogs of WinterStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Little Mishka finds his cosy world turned upside down after 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 death of his beloved Babushka Ina. Unable smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to cope, his desperate mother finds solace offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the arms of an abusivemini-bus to Hanoi. Only, alcoholic boyfriend Hanh and things go from bad the other girls were not going to worse. When his mother mysteriously disappearswork in a shop, five year old Mishka flees they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the heart of ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the city, where he joins up legs? The ones with a gang of street children, begging the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and stealing to surviveher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849395217</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew FukudaPatrice Lawrence|title=The PreyNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Having escaped the vampires hunting them on the boat left by the Scientists, Gene, Sissy and the boys make their way down the river and arrive at the MissionBrave. Food is abundantCharlene, the place 'heroine' of this piece is peacefulextremely hard for some people to like, characters and the Elders promise them a trip on the next train to Civilisationreaders both. Gene Kicked out of multiple homes and Sissy can hardly believe it. But itschools, she's soon apparent that the Mission is not all it seems fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and Gene begins to wonder if they havenhas taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he't simply exchanged one hellhole for anothers at uni. Although they find out Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a great deal more about comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the Scientist - he developed creation of one such item is part of the Originplot here, as Charlene is a cure wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for vampirism - understanding his plans is as frustrating as everher younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. And We see Charlene prove her belligerence with the vampires coming ever closera store detective, even and then force people to the Mission itselfgive her two days off school, and the Elders making moves of their ownwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, time what exactly happens is running out not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and Gene and Sissy must decide what to dopointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Yelena BlackAnn Sei Lin|title=Dance of ShadowsRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Vanessa Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is just one of many new students at a Crafter like him, someone with the New York Ballet Academy - but while they're power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all trying across the Empire. He asks her to become come with him, to leave the best dancer, life of dreary servitude that is all she has her own reasons for being thereknown. Three years ago her older sister disappeared from Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the schoolmatter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she's determined is forced to find flee out what happened to Margaretinto the world. Can she find out? And will She joins Himura aboard the two boys taking an interest in herOrihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, charismatic Zeppelin and incredibly intense Justin, help or hinder her search?a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408829975</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrea CremerMarcus Sedgwick|title=RiftWrath

|summary=After Meet Fitz, a mysterious healer saved the life young Scottish lad full of Emberfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and her motherwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when she was just he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a babydesultory school band, Ember but Cassie was promised to also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the mysterious order Conatusearth. It's a debt Is this connected with one of her father eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is not happy about paying - determined to see his younger daughter married to already a suitable husbanddone deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he tries everything in his power to stop Ember joining the order of knightscan't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907411402</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Liz BankesTori Bovalino|title=IrresistibleThe Devil Makes Three|rating=24.5

|summary=After finishing Working all summer in her GCSEs, Mia boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a job at Radleigh Castle, working as request for over a waitresshundred books that she has to deliver herself. She quickly meets fellow worker Dan, What makes it worse is the man who she likesrequested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, but is he the boy and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post- or would it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she be better off with Jamiecan think of. They're never meant to reach him, son of the owners course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all-around arrogant idiotoff before delivering them. IncrediblyNo harm done… Or it would be, itif someone hadn's a somewhat harder decision than that last sentence would suggestt delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848123388</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick LakePhilip Reeve|title=Hostage ThreeUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Amy's family have left on In a round-the-world tripword, rich. The intention There is to mend relationships after what has been certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a turbulent timepeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Amy has had a meltdownThere are troll people on it, messing up her A levelsand sea-witches, partied too much and gone a bit too far with legends of the piercings. She can't stand her stepmother Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and guards a catalogue of resentments against her workaholictheir monster approaching from even further west, remote fatherwhere no ship dare sail. But The current Darks are the voyage turns into crisis when Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the familyHidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's yacht is kidnapped by Somali piratesfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. And the family is put under even more strain But when a relationship develops between Amy and FarouzAndrewe Dark drowns himself, the pirates' translator. As Amy learns more about Farouz both his sullen brother and his background, she also discovers a great deal about herself, her familycurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, and about life itself..like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B0093K1MXC</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eve AinsworthKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Blog of Maisy MaloneJulia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Maisy Malone Julia, our pre- not her real name, she's not an idiotteen heroine, you know - has decided been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to write be lighthousekeepers for a blogsummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. She's 17 Here be Vikings, has just dropped out that kind of sixth form because Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her lessons all seemed so irrelevantcareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is now waiting for her benefits an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to arrive while keep herself alive. But then she's looking for meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a jobdarker past. And jobs are hard With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to find in the current economic climatemythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. This makes life even Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more difficult for Maisy accepted there than it is for Maisy's friends. Because Maisy's father hasn't had a job they are in years and is steadily drinking himself into oblivion and her dog, Dave, desperately needs an expensive visit to the vet to sort out his leaky bottom.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00A3B4BZ6</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeMercedes Helnwein|title=UndoneSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=Jem Gracie Welles has always been madly in love resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with the boy next door. Unfortunatelya "real" family, while Kai she is his best friend, she’s used to not the girl for himbeing a priority in people's lives. In factBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, there her simple existence is no girl changed for him – Kai is gaygood. Jem is one of the only people who knows thisNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, though, until he’s cruelly outed online by someone anonymous. When Kai can’t live with people's reaction to his outing, and kills himself, Jem resolves to find out who was responsible, and bring them downfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780870450</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ashley Edward Miller and Zack StentzT L Huchu|title=Colin FischerThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Colin Fischer Ropa Moyo is just starting high school. It's a time that is both exciting ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and intimidating a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the average studentdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, but Colin is not your average fourteen year old. Colin has Aspergershe's Syndromebeen using it to support not only herself, a neurological condition linked to poor social skills but her younger sister and interpersonal interaction, often characterised by repetitive or obsessive patterns of behaviourher aging grandmother. For ColinHowever, a zealot there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of clear-headed logic and rational deductions (yesEdinburgh, hetargeting the city's a fan of Sherlock Holmes)children. Soon, every social interaction Ropa is pulled into the search for a mystery that has to be solved. But when a real mystery arrives missing boy at school, in the form request of a gun going off in his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the school cafeteria, Colin takes it upon himself to world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the real culprit. This leads missing children and bring an end to a sequence of events whichthis evil, as his father nicely puts or will it, involves Colin breaking more rules, starting more trouble and causing more chaos in forty-eight hours, than in all his fourteen years on the planet. claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141343990</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanKristen O'Neal|title=Zom-B Underground Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=OkHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. Before we begin. If you havenShe joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, DON'T read this reviewan online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. It contains spoilersThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. Read my review When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the first bookchat for a while, read the first book itself, then come backPriya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. If you donBut what she doesn't, you'll expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be sorrythe girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Deborah White|title=Deceit|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thinking the immortal Doctor defeated, Claire has allowed her modern-day London life Move on to return - almost - to normal. Her father has found a new girlfriend, Lindsay, and Claire quite likes her, despite a nagging guilt about disloyalty to her mother, who is depressed about the divorce and struggling to cope with Claire's new baby brother, Matthew. There's even a boyfriend, Joe, on the scene. Last year's adventure involving a girl from the past, an evil magician ancestor and an ancient prophecy, seem like old news. After all, Doctor Robert died, didn't he? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848774133</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]