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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyMax Boucherat|title=The Chocolate Box Girls: Coco CaramelLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Coco is We meet Lori on the youngest of first evening she's got the Tanberry sisters but very much her own person. For herhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, life is about animals and she loves going to the stables for riding lessons even if she does overestimate on her own abilitieslonesome. She was hoping that she What could pick up possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a job there a couple of evenings a week so that blanket fort, she could have extra lessonshas one main intention, but it went instead and that is to log on to formVoxminer, the world-mate Lawrie Marshall and they're not each otherbuilding, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's biggest fansworld. Well, they're not until the pony which Coco But first Lori has set her heart on is sold to someone who a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't seem find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to have the animal's best interest at the front enter shows signs of his mindtampering. Coco When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Lawrie unite to save Caramel and another pony which her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is just about a girl to foal - but how will they copeturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141341572</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganRachel Greenlaw|title=The Boy with Two Heads|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Richard is a nice kid. Dutiful, hardworking, rule-abiding, he makes both parents and teachers proud. But one day, everything changes. Richard wakes up with a painful lump on his neck. Rushed to hospital, his parents get some devastating news from the specialists. Richard is growing a second head. Yowzer. When the head - Rikki - emerges, Richard, his parents, his teachers and his friends, all do their best to cope. But Rikki isn't like Richard. He's spiteful. He's angry. He's rude. He says the most unsayable things Compass and he causes a great deal of trouble. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560670</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tammara Webber|title=Where You AreBlade|rating=43.5|genre=Teens|summary=[[Between The Lines by Tammara Webber|Between The Lines]] saw seventeen year old Emma catapulted to fame as she made a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with heartthrob Reid Alexander and started to fall for him, only to end up with more sensible Graham, another cast member. Now School Pride is nearly ready to be released, and it's time for the cast to start the publicity blitz - which means Emma and Reid, as the stars. will be spending a lot of time together. Can Emma's new relationship with Graham stay strong despite this? Not if Reid, and Brooke - who's desperate to get her hands on Graham and become more than just his friend - have got anything to do with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Angels|rating=4

|summary=Ok. ''I'm going to do this for all books in this series except can hear the first one. Before we begin. If you haven't read song of the first book in this series, DON'T read this reviewsea. It contains spoilers. Read my review The call of the first bookdeep, read the first book itself, then come backanswering beat in my heart. If you don't, you'll be sorry... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Rick Yancey|title=The 5th Wave|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=As far as she knowsRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Cassie could be survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the last human on Earthwrecks. SurelyMira, she's like her mother before her, is one of the last fewseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. After But when the first four waves of Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the Others - mysterious aliens island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who appeared is as charming as he is secretive and quickly laid waste with only coordinates to humanity - it's impossible for guide her to trust anyone , she meetssets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Can she ever find With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the strength watched streets of foreign islands to rescue the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her kid brother?home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141345837</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lily HerneHarry Allen|title=DeadlandsChildren of the Sun

|summary=I was hesitant to choose this book. I love Ra Eun Seo lives in a good dystopian future book. The problem is, I don't define very many of them as good. I have read far too many zombie books that really don't offer anything different, plenty of blood, gore, North Korean town and damsels in distress, but not enough character development, or logical thought. Psychological horror can be ever so much more chilling than blood and guts, but it she is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah and Savannah Lotz, the mother and daughter team who have written this book under the pen name Lily Herne, have managed to do this perfectly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sherrilyn Kenyon|title=Inferno (Chronicles of Nick)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=I'm tempted to say I have a love/hate relationship with the Chronicles of Nick series, but that's probably overstating both aspects of ittalented singer. Call it a like/dislike relationship, perhaps - at its best - notably in much of the first book, [[Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Infinity]] Life is hard and [[Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Infamous]], it's a high-octane thrill ride which food is hugely entertaining thanks difficult to the sheer amount of larger than life characters and some very well-written dialogue. At other moments, as in [[Invincible come by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Invincible]], Kenyon's narration can make me grit my teeth and the books can have pacing issues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957735</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelley Armstrong|title=The Rising|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Maya Delaney is on the run. Her idyllic life in Salmon Creek was an elaborate ruse run by the St. Clouds - a Mafia like family of supernaturals who want Maya so Seo and her friends because of their emerging powersNari and Min go foraging every evening, powers thought looking for tree bark and edible grasses to be extinct before now. Maya is losing friends fast as they are recaptured. She'd do anything to get them back, but when making contact with a scientist who might have some answers doesn't play out how they hoped, Maya realises that she supplement the meagre rations of rice and her friends are on their own, and that confronting their enemies might be their only chancekimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410996</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannAlexia Casale|title=Dead To YouSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=When Ethan was 7 It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years oldwithout suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, he was abducted from but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the street in front middle of his house. His parents and younger brother Blake were devastated, their lives torn aparta dance performance that was going to change her life. But nowshe comes back fighting, 9 years later, a teenaged Ethan has returned, having escaped his new, often brutal lifedesperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to return get back to his old familiar one. Except it’s not familiar. His mind traumatised by years of neglect culminating with a spell living on the streets, Ethan remembers nothing about his life at home before the abductionthat's as normal as she can possibly manage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407137239</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gill Lewis|title=Moon Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tam Meanwhile there's village in rural Laos must make way for a new highway. So Tam and his family move to a new village (cute!) boy in the lowlands. They've been promised running waterschool, electricityher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and even a school. But just the ground in day to day traumas of all the new village is scattered with bombs left over from America's war in Vietnamchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. And, while Tam and his father are preparing their field for the new rice crop, one explodes and everything changes again. Tam's father is dead and his mother and sisters won So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to keep their house unless Tam goes to the city and earns money to send home. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192793535</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Geoffrey MaloneSimon Fox|title=Dead Boys' ClubDeadlock

|summary=Sam wakes up Late one morning at dawn. It's strangely quiet. Outside night Graham Blake is late back from his hut, shift on the village is absolutely silent. No cockerels are crowing. Something is horribly wrong. Stepping outsideforce, Sam's worst fears are realised. A line of childrenand then suddenly rings Archie, all armed with AK-47sdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, are rushing at and join himon the run. They get together, yelling like crazy. It's God's Freedom Army. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999608</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Robb|title=Geekhood: Mission Improbable|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite his efforts with Sarah at but barely begin to smell the start whiff of termSouthern trains when the father is arrested, fourteen-year-old leaving Archie is still as geeky and as clueless about girls as ever. Then he meets Clareon the late express to Brighton, toting a sixteen-year-old who has relationship problems of her owntin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and they create the bearer of a fake relationship to try and get their crushes to notice themwhole heap of questions. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184715364X</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniela SacerdotiLex Croucher|title=TideGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=After her parents' deaths at the hands of the demons they fought against, Sarah Midnight was left reeling again by the revelation towards the end of book 1 Who knew that her 'cousin' Harry Midnight what I really needed to read right now was actually Harry's friend Sean Hannay. Unable to trust Sean following his lies, Sarah turns to Nicholas, new on the scene. a gay Arthurian RomCom? But Nicholas has dark secrets of his own - has Sarah placed her faith in the wrong person? And will she find out the truth about the Midnight legacy before the demons attack again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845025393</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emily Murdoch|title=If You Find Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In the middle of the foresthonestly, Carey and Jenessa live with their mother it lifted my spirits in a tatty old camper vanmost delightful way. Cut off from civilisation In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they scrabble were tiny, much to take care of themselves and each othertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, in a setting where every day is a fight for physical and mental survival. They just about make it throughyou see, but the girls’ mother is a drug addict in love with a habit of disappearing, and she’s done just Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something thatArt discovers from her private diaries. It’s been more than And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a month since boy they saw her. Maybe more than two. Thenfind themselves becoming reluctant allies, one day, summoned by a letter sent by creating the girls’ mother, strangers appear subterfuge of falling in the woodslove with each other, looking for Carey and Jenessawhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. They have come to take them away from the woods But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, and back or are they destined to the real world.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780621523</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=R J AndersonNick Brooks|title=QuicksilverPromise Boys

|summary=Before I say anything else, I ''must'' warn you. ''Quicksilver'' When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is billed as a companion novel to [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] with the implication that you could read either first. You can't. You mustn't. So if you haven't read ''Ultraviolet'', go no further. ''Quicksilver'' picks up where [[Ultraviolet by R J Anderson|Ultraviolet]] left off. But this timemurdered, synaesthete Alison is left behind and three boys find themselves called into the story is told from the point of view of Tori|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408316285</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Packham|title=Firewallers|rating=4police station as suspects.5|genre=Teens|summary=After Jess's dad gets suspended from work Each, her mum takes her and her older sister out of school. Fleeing from publicityseemingly, they go to has a remote Scottish island to join a community grudge of people who shun modern technology. The longer they stay on the island, though, the stranger things seem to be. What's going onsome description against Principal Moore, and when will Jess see her dad again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848123078</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Emma Pass|title=ACID|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=The UK is now each could have been there at the IRB - Independent Republic time of Britainhis murder. It's no longer run by elected politicians, But who were completely discredited after a catastrophic financial crash. Insteadkilled him, the IRB is a police stateand why, led by ACID, a fearsomely authoritarian organisation. Marriage has been abandoned in favour and if any of ''life partnering'' - the state tells you who boys are innocent, will they be able to live with and whether or not you can have a child. Contact with the outside world is forbidden. Society is divided, with a tiny wealthy elite and a huge mass of an underclass living in poverty and shortage.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552566144</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Earle1919635017|title=HeroicA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers from the notorious Ghost estate. They and their friends are always there for each other - and with the drugs and violence that dominate the place where they live, they need to be. In particular, Sonny needs his older brother to keep an eye out for him and make the plans for their group. Then Jammy and his mate Tommo join the army and go off to Afghanistan, and SonnySolomon Klyne isn's left to hold the fort at home. With his brother no longer there to look after himt a bad lad, can Sonny keep it togetherso why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And when Jammy returns, how will things changedid he learn to crack safes?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141346272</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gillian Cross|title=After Tomorrow|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=You''We were looking at a long line of people trudging down a country road. They were loaded with bundles and backpacks and babies and they all looked miserable and exhausted. Refugees, ll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I thought automaticallyavoid spoilers. But they weren't. They were people like us.'' After I''Armageddon Monday'' - the collapse of all the major banks in ll answer the UK - life has become increasingly difficult first one: for Matt and his family. Money is worthless. Food is the main currency. People who have it are resented and hated. They're named and shamed on ''hoarder'' websites and subject to violent raids by those who don't. Matt's family has more food than most because they have an allotment and have set up a trading network. But the raiders don't care about ''how'' they got their foodgrandmother. They just want it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756265</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tanya Byrne|title=Follow Me Down|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Adamma Okomma, daughter of a Nigerian diplomat, isn't keen on moving to boarding school, even the exclusive Crofton College in Wiltshire. However, after arriving there, she quickly makes friends with the beautiful but unpredictable Scarlett. What seems like a beautiful friendship, though, is torn apart when both girls fall for the same guy. After Scarlett goes missing, can Adamma put their problems behind her? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755393074</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Maleficent SevenDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=The arrival of DarquesseAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, the sorcerer destined and is surprised to destroy the civilised worldfind his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is on one of four with both his best buddy from the horizon. For most peoplefootball team, the obliteration of billions of lives might be something and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to worry aboutprimary school days together. In times gone by, Tanith Low would As they've been on the forefront of the side of goodre all fired up, fighting to protect straining at the world from Darquesse. But now that she has leash only a Remnant bonded to her soulsingle-sex school can form, her conscience has been erased and she has become one of the worst of the bad guys, talk in class and all she wants out often turns to do sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is to usher , where his achievements in the end of the worldthat regard lie. There are four weapons with the power to kill gods He's had a casual relationship, scattered around the worlda secret one, and two teams desperately hunting them down. Tanith Low leads a group of dangerous villainous misfits determined to find the weapons and destroy themfor several months now, and it is so has effectively progressed up to Dexter Vexthe ladder headed by 'experienced', good friend of Skulduggery Pleasantbut whether that's set in stone, along with a team he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of renegade sorcerers, to find these weapons before who he's been having the relationship and the otherssex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007500920</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Grant1800901232|title=LIGHTStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=The dome has become transparentTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. The teens, and kids, Life in the FAYZrural village where she lived with her family was happy, are still trapped insideif not prosperous, but now they can see out so when the smartly- dressed man and their parents, 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 others, can see inHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. With interviews taking place by primitive methods Only, Hanh and the outside world are starting other girls were not going to find out just how violent life has beenwork in a shop, and this is just adding they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the worries of Sam, Astrid, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the rest. How will legs? The ones with the world receive artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them when they get out - or rather, if they get out? The gaiaphage, having taken human form as Caleb and Diane It's rapidlyquite possible that Hanh and her co-maturing daughter, is as evil as ever, and with Drake as its servant, is destroying anyone in his pathworkers made them. Can those left alive inside the FAYZ survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140525758X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica SorensenPatrice Lawrence|title=The Secret of Ella and MichaNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Ella Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and Micha haven’t seen each other for monthsschools, quite unusual for she's fostering with a couple who have been best friends foreverpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Ella’s been away at collegeSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, in Vegasyou might perhaps think, but Micha didn’t know this as she upped and left without so much the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wave goodbyewonder knitter, so he’s been trying to track and is making something full of love for her downyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. ButWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, just as he does soand then force people to give her two days off school, when she shows up back home anyway shouts someone down as it’s summer break and she’s back at her dad’sexpletively ignorant. And then... well, the house she grew up inwhat exactly happens is not for me to say, the house next door only to Micharemark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751552283</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessAnn Sei Lin|title=The HitRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=ManchesterKurara 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. About thirty years from now. Hardly anyone has However, when a job man named Himura arrives to tell her that pays enough she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to live onform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Life He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is mean and limited for most peopleall she has known. And then Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a rock star gives his final concertshikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the world. Jimmy Earles dies on stage after taking DeathShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a new drug that gives the ultimate high at an equally high price sky- it kills you after seven days ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and there is no antidote.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190843533X</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittMarcus Sedgwick|title=Going VintageWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=After finding out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her with Meet Fitz, a girl young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he met onlineshould be free to do what he wants, Mallory decides that the best way to make her life less complicated is go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to get rid his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the boy, and end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new technology thatkind of music she's the cause dreaming of her woes. Finding a list her grandmother wrote as a teen in the Sixties, she decides to go vintage, and live as her grandmother did. Will ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the answer to her modern-day problems in the pasttruth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140713485X</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=S B HayesTori Bovalino|title=Don't Look BackThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Ever since they were children, Sinead Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has been taunted by her older brother Patrickto deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Always their motherThe boarding school's favouriteheadmaster, he constantly plays games with and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making herfind and deliver such a large request, trying to force her Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to follow reach him, of course. When he goes missingHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it seems to would be his most sinister game yet - as he leaves a trail of clues which lead to Benedict House, a strange place where time seems to stand stillif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857386816</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillPhilip Reeve|title=Department 19: Battle LinesUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The wheels have been set in motion for Dracula to riseIn a word, rich. Department 19 There is certainly an abundance of riches in disarraythis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, dealing with deathsBritish but way west, beyond the disappearance of their chief Henry SewardScillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the dreadful knowledge Dark family that there could be yet more traitors in has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the ranks. Jamie Carpenter is trying Watcher, Andrewe, who has to train rookies into a fighting force keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who can take on vampires more dangerous than any newly-turned ones that have ever been seen before, Matt Browning is desperately trying lives in London with too much science in his head to find a cure for vampirismworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Larissa Kinley is in Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the USA trying to help in the fight against her own kindsea one day eleven years ago. With Zero Hour coming ever closerBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, can both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the department save the day?world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007354517</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Janine SouthardKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Queen & Commander (A Hive Queen Novel)Julia and the Shark|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=In Rhiannon's worldJulia, our pre-teen heroine, your entire future depends on your final school test results. Everyone is classified according to personality type has been packed off with her parents and entry their cat from the family home in SW England to any career or university depends upon your personality type. It's impossible to cheat be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the test... unless you're RhiannonScottish islands. Rhiannon should really Here be a PerceiverVikings, that kind of Scottish island. But all her life she has wanted her own hive. And Dad is going to achieve thisbe automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, she must test as a Queen or Commander. And this she does. The only person while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to ever have manipulated hunt the testelusive Greenland shark. Rhiannon's future is set: leadership training And Julia, followed by a choice of Devoted to serve herwell, followed by command of a prestigious space ship she will be homesick and hivealone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00BRM30SE</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerryJonathan Stroud|title=FracturedThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=As a teen criminal in Lorder-run Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Kyla was slated - her memories erased robbing banks and her personality "reset"shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But Kyla wasn't like the other Slateds - then she retained tantalising memories of her previous life. ''Fractured'' picks up Kyla's story after she's lost Ben meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and just as a mysterious man from her darker past comes back into her life. It seems that Kyla's memories represent more than just a failed slating. She has a role With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to play in the fight against mythical Free Isles of the LordersLondon Lagoon. But it's not as easy as that. Is Kyla a victim? A freedom fighter? A terrorist? And can Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the end ever justify horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the means? The more Kyla learns about her historyFree Isles, the but will they be any more such questions burn. And accepted there than they are in the more danger she finds herself in...rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408319489</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiMercedes Helnwein|title=SiegeSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=Leah Jackson is miserable and in detentionGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. This As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is particularly infuriating because the detention means she's likely to be late for her ''fame and fortune'' interview, one of the few chances kids at YOP schools have used to make it into college and to get not being a life worth having. But Leahpriority in people's worries are about to become much, much more immediate. Year 9 kids storm into the room. They're armed. And they're shooting. Leah escapes the melee by hauling herself up into the roofspacelives. But only justwhen she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. Kids are dead. Teachers are dead. Everyone else is rounded up No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the gym. Only Leah and Anton are freesolitude, but they are trapped above the ceiling tilesfor her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444914847</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cora CarmackT L Huchu|title=Losing ItThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Bliss Ropa Moyo is a drama studentghostalker, but what else would you expect with using Zimbabwean magic (and a name like that? And yetbit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, when we first meet but her, I would never have guessed that was younger sister and her majoraging grandmother. She just doesn’t seem However, there's an evil stalking the type. She’s also not the type to pick up random men in barsruined streets of Edinburgh, but that’s exactly what she does as targeting the book starts. It’s her friend Kelsey’s faultcity's children. She’s determined to get Bliss out thereSoon, because that’s not where Bliss normally Ropa is. About to graduate pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the yearmissing children and bring an end to this evil, Bliss has made or will it through college without one key college experience: sex. And it’s time to change that. claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0091953383</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Brittany GeragotelisKristen O'Neal|title=What The SpellLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Brooklyn just wants to be noticed by someone – the popular kids at her high school, the cute guy she likes, anyone other than the guidance counsellor who’s her only real friend. Luckily for her, she’s counting down the days until her sixteenth birthday - when she’ll have her powers as a witch finally unbound. When this happens, though, even though it initially seems like it will give her everything she wants, her new abilities could have caused more problems than ever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471117073</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Through Dead Eyes|rating=4

|summary=After an unfortunate episode at schoolHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Alex Priya has joined his father on a business trip to Amsterdam. He had been hoping come to spend some time terms with his fatherthe fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter an online support group where she talks to a bunch of his father's new girlfriendother teens living with chronic illnesses. But Angelien is pretty They talk about their troubles and so Alex is quite happy help each other out, while also providing an escape to be shown just joke and mess around by her. When Brigid—one of her boyfriend Dirk isnclosest friends—doesn't aroundrespond to the chat for a while, that isPriya becomes concerned. At an antique market, Alex finds himself drawn She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to an ancient-looking mask. He canBrigid't help but buy its house to check up on her. And once bought, he canBut what she doesn't help but put it onexpect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Anne Cassidy|title=Killing Rachel: The Murder Notebooks|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rose's mother and Josh's father - both members of the police cold case squad - have been missing for more than five years now. Although their bodies were never found, the authorities have always insisted that they are probably dead. But in the Move on to [[Dead Time: The Murder Notebooks by Anne Cassidy|first bookNewest Thrillers Reviews]] in this series, the step siblings find information that suggests Kathy and Brendan are still alive. So Rose, Josh and friend Skeggsie are pursuing every lead they have - including trying to decipher the cryptic notebooks they have discovered. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408815516</amazonuk>}}