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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanna PhilbinMax Boucherat|title=Rules The Last Life of Summer|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=Rory wanted to get away from her mother, even if it means working as an errand girl for the wealthy Rule family. Isabel Rule just wanted a summer romance with a hot guy. I wanted a fun read with engaging characters. Guess which of the three of us was disappointed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001642</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Claire Merle|title=The FallLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In We meet Lori on the futurefirst evening she'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 little way from nowblanket fort, people fall into she has one of two campsmain intention, the ''Pures'' 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'Crazies''t find herself entirely on her own, and society has changed almost beyond recognition. The distinction is made through a scientific test, but Ana has discovered then she finds something about the test which is alarmingeven more spooky. And when For the rest server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the country finds out what she knowsgame has been doctored – well, there will be uproar.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571282911</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenRachel Greenlaw|title=The Moon Compass and MoreBlade

|summary=Emeline is ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a conscientious studentremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, works hard for like her mother before her family's realty business, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and loves her long-term boyfriend Lukeany treasure that lies within. But as college draws near she wonders if there is something she has missed by living year-round at when the beach. When other people come Council Watch lays a trap to end the beachwrecking, they get capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to leave their real selves behind and try on save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a new persona. Her mom had her young wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and has always tried with only coordinates to provide Emeline with everything guide her, she could needsets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. When a filmmaker’s assistantWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Theoas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, comes into town, Emeline is intrigued by him Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and his very different New York City lifestyle. Maybe the ones she does want something more than what her old life has offeredholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141348291</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinHarry Allen|title=Rose Under FireChildren of the Sun

|summary=There's Ra Eun Seo lives in a list of names on the title page of this extraordinary North Korean town and moving bookshe is a talented singer. Note it well: these seventy-four women are real. As a group they were known as the Ravenbrück Rabbits, Life is hard and they were the victims of medical experiments carried out to help improve surgery for German soldiers wounded in the field. Little or no anaesthetic, poor aftercare: these things, while horrible, fit in with what we know of the concentration camps. What many will not know food is the truly gut-wrenching fact that sometimes the doctors did not even bother difficult to follow up on the experiments they carried out. All that paincome by, infection so Seo and disability (her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for those lucky enough tree bark and edible grasses to survive supplement the procedures), meagre rations of rice and all for nothing. They didn't even help the enemy soldiers recover from their injurieskimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405265116</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Siobhan CurhamAlexia Casale|title=ShipwreckedSing if you Can't Dance|rating=45

|summary=Grace Delaney and her friends from her dance school are really excited It's hard enough to have the opportunity navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to perform navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a South Pacific cruise shipdance performance that was going to change her life. But when a storm hits and leaves them stranded on an islandshe comes back fighting, they're left fighting desperate to survive - avoid the pity stares, and fighting with each other, as tensions build when they start desperate to get back to panic about whether theya life that'll be rescueds as normal as she can possibly manage. As if that wasn Meanwhile there't bad enoughs a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the island has a dark secret - will they learn it before itday to day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can's too latet dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405264578</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren MillerSimon Fox|title=ParallelDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Imagine waking up every day to find yourself in a new realityLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, an alternate future derived demanding he fetch something from a small variation in one of those what-if moments that populate every day of your life. Some of these moments are easy to identify: the moment you confirm your university choicessecret place, and join him on the moment you meet the person who'll become your best friend, the moment you tell someone you love themrun. Others are more subtle and harder to define They get together, but they can have just as much an influence on your future. This is barely begin to smell the reality whiff of Abby Barnes, an eighteen year old whose life is constantly being warped and changed by Southern trains when the actions and decisions of a seventeen-year-old version of her from a parallel world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407135120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Susan Cooper|title=The Dark father is Rising Sequence|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=As a childarrested, I read The Grey King, book 4 in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequence. I loved leaving Archie on the book so much it topped my Christmas list for yearslate express to Brighton, but sadly Santa never delivered. As an adult I finally bought the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as toting a child's booktin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and it is brilliant as book for children, but it is also well loved by many adults, whether as the bearer of a cherished memory whole heap of their own childhood or as a book discovered as an adult. I'll admit that as child, this can book can completely draw into other worlds in a manner not possible for an adult, but this is still an excellent read, whatever age you may bequestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie McGarryLex Croucher|title=Dare You ToGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Seventeen-year-old Beth Risk knows Who knew that her mother would face jail if anyone found out the truth about herwhat I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. She's trying In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to look after her mother their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the best she can - until her uncle comes to the rescue. Except Beth doesnkingdom't want rescuing, and s only goes with her uncle to keep him female knight) - something that Art discovers from exposing her motherprivate diaries. Living And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with himeach other, she meets town golden boy Ryan Stone, who asks her out on a darewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. What starts But as an instant dislike on her parttheir impending wedding draws ever closer, thoughwill they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, turns or are they destined to attraction, and she finds that Ryan has depths no-one else knows about. Can this mismatched couple help each other to find happinesslive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452284</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Jennie Wood and Jeff McComsey|title=Flutter|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves to yet another new town, she falls for a girl who isn't interested in her. Lily, though, has a trick up her sleeve - she's a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a boy so that she can have a chance with Saffron. As Jesse, she starts to build a new life for herself at school -can this 'boy' get the girl? Additionally, why is Lily so resistant to any sort of harm, and who are the strange people who are trying to find her?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cathy Brett|title=Everything is Fine (and Other Lies I Tell Myself)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Esther Armstrong is having problems at home. Her mum and dad keep arguing, her younger brother is driving her crazy, and she's reduced to writing letters to her older brother about the situation as he's not around. When she finds some letters from a soldier to his girlfriend, she starts trying to find out what happened to them - will she work it out, and also get her own life back on track?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755379497</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sharon JonesNick Brooks|title=Dead JealousPromise Boys

|summary=Poppy When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is a rationalist. Her sweatshirt says so: ''GOD IS DEAD''murdered, it proclaims. She's been swearing blind she wouldn't attend her mother and stepfather's handfasting ceremony at three boys find themselves called into the annual pagan festivalpolice station as suspects. It's all stuff and nonsense. But then her best friend - and secret love - Michael goes and gets Each, seemingly, has a girlfriend and jealousy gets the better grudge of Poppy. Suddenlysome description against Principal Moore, the festival and the handfasting seem much more inviting. Once each could have been there, Poppy meets a strange girl at the shores time of Scariswater Lakehis murder. When Beth turns up dead But who killed him, and why, Poppy is sure she has been murdered. And and if any of the police don't seem boys are innocent, will they be able to care, putting it down as an accident. clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408327546</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bethany Wiggins1919635017|title=StungA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Fiona wakes up confused and disoriented. SheSolomon Klyne isn's in her bedroom but her bedroom has never looked like this. It's filthy. And abandoned. Where t a bad lad, so why is her familyhe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how has she come did he learn to crack safes? You'll have a strange tattoo on her hand? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=FragmentsDifferent for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=I didnAnt 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't have much hope for this book re all fired up, straining at the leash only a single- sex school can form, the middle book talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a series tends to be fillersecret one, for several months now, and as [[Partials so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliant'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, I though it was going to he can't be hard to topsure. I was very wrong. This book is mind-blowing And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007465238</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bridget Tyler1800901232|title=Drummer GirlStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Lucy is really pleased 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 Harper McKenzie decides the smartly-dressed man and woman came to start talking the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to her again be missed. Some money changed hands and suggests forming a bandHanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. From then Only, life gets increasingly wonderful as they recruit three Hanh and the other girls, enter were not going to work in a talent showshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and make it to beading on the legs? The ones with the finals. Parties, fame, artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and success await her co- until everything comes crashing downworkers made them. What went wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776926</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Allen ZadoffPatrice Lawrence|title=Boy NobodyNeedle|rating=3.5

|summary=Zach Abram has a choice - death or deathBrave. He can either choose Charlene, the death 'heroine' of others or this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. his own death. At the age Kicked out of 12multiple homes and schools, his parents were killed and he was abducted by she's fostering with a shadowy American government agencypleasant yoga tutor, Annie, trained as an assassin and give has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a simple tempestuous personality may be in need of a choice kill comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and keep killing or die. He the creation of one such item is told that he part of the plot here, as Charlene is a patriotwonder knitter, that those he kills are enemies and is making something full of the statelove for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as such deserve to dieexpletively ignorant. And then.. But this is very state which will kill him if he makes one mistake. Zach is 16 nowwell, but he isn't Zach anymore, he what exactly happens is whoever the agency wants him not for me to besay, and for 2 years he has gone from one target only to another. He has used his youth as cover, befriending the children of his future victims remark how sharp and killed without remorse or emotionpointy those knitting needles can be. But something is different this time, he has started to experience feelings and question his assignment. This will be his most dangerous mission yet, and if he fails he will have more to fear from his own side than his enemies. But if he succeeds what will the cost be to himself?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408327600</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonAnn Sei Lin|title=The Watcher in the ShadowsRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Good and bad luck combined have forced Irene and Kurara has spent her family – mother Simone and insular younger brother Dorian – to live entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the Normandy village sky where soldiers of Blue Baythe Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. It's However, when a way man named Himura arrives to relieve the poverty tell her deceased father left them in, as Simone that she is now housekeeper to Lazarus Jann, a mysterious elderly businessman who lives in a mansion peopled by countless automataCrafter like him, and someone with the isolated shell of what used power to be his healthy wifeform paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. Irene herself has met the maid's brotherHe asks her to come with him, which to leave the village network life of dreary servitude that is all she has immediately inflated into a long-term romanceknown. Dorian is happy enough to be errand-boy for JannWell, soon Kurara won's peculiar correspondence. So fart have any say in the matter, so interesting. But because the Midori is there destroyed by a dark secret monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to be had with flee out into the clockwork toys keeping Jann company? Is world. She joins Himura aboard the tale of a ghost on the lighthouse islet true? And what else could be implied in the book's very title? In such a small villageOrihime, for anyone to hold a secret it has sky-ship whose express purpose is to be very bighunt down shikigami, and very powerful…a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444001655</amazonuk>1406399590

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarra ManningMarcus Sedgwick|title=Diary of a Crush: French KissWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=When Edie moves up Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to Manchester do what he wants, to go where he wants and starts college she’s with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a little scared desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – scared to be in saying she could hear a new town subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with new people, and none one of her old friends. But then she meets a trousereco-shape by warrior parents saying the name end of Dylan and everything changes. She develops the world is already a huge crush on done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the handsome but complicated boytruth? Well, and chronicles her feelings for him in her diarynot when Cassie has gone missing he can't.. Well that explains the title, then.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001561</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malorie BlackmanTori Bovalino|title=Noble ConflictThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=Kaspar believes Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the Alliance with last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a whole hearthundred books that she has to deliver herself. Who wouldn't? In What makes it worse is the face of terrorist attacks from man who requested the Crusader Insurgency, the Alliance's response is non-fatalbooks: Mr Birch. Its security forces are equipped with stun guns and captured insurgents are not killed. They're incapacitated, given medical treatment and imprisoned. Guardians like Kaspar are trained to defend themselves against these unprovoked attacks in the least violent way possible. And considering the Crusaders destroyed their own country before attacking KasparThe boarding school'sheadmaster, you can see how measured and ethical the Alliance's response seemsa man Tess hates. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610424</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Suzy Cox|title=The Dead Girls Detective Agency|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The Dead Girls Detective Agency takes us with Charlotte Feldman, an average school girl who is pushed under As a train petty act of revenge for making her find and wakes up to find that the afterlife for murdered teenagers is deliver such a downtown hotel from where they must solve their cases and get the killer to confess in order to move on. I’d call large request, Tess sticks post-it a fresh and original take notes on each of the books, scribbled with the whodunit if I hadn't seen variants ugliest insults she can think of it before. HoweverThey're never meant to reach him, it does have individualityof course. The sole condition for moving on Her plan is solving the murder – there’s no pansying around finding absolution or atoning for transgressions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472106598</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lynne Thomas|title=Jelly Cooper: Alien|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jelly Cooper is just turning fourteen. But excitement about to get her birthday is taking second place to sheer exhaustion. For weeksanger out like this, Jelly has been having recurring nightmares that leave her shaken and afraidthen take them all off before delivering them. And No harm done… Or it's all taking a toll on her - her friends Humphrey and Agatha are beginning to get worried. Add the night terrors to the figurative nightmare of schoolwould be, a crush on a boy so cool and gorgeous that Jelly sees no world in which heif someone hadn'd fancy t delivered them for her back, and a cheerleader out to humiliate her at every turn, and you can see that Jelly's life could be better.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>B00C4Y3TZS</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris WoodingPhilip Reeve|title=SilverUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Coco In a word, rich. There is the youngest certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Tanberry sisters but very much her own personScillies. For herThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, life is about animals and she loves going legends of the Dark family that has to the stables keep watch for riding lessons magical islands and their monster approaching from even if she does overestimate her own abilitiesfurther west, where no ship dare sail. She was hoping that she could pick up a job there a couple The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of evenings a week so that she could have extra lessonsactivity from the Hidden Lands, but it went instead his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to form-mate Lawrie Marshall worry about such local yokel superstitions, and they're not each otherAndrewe's biggest fans. Wellfoundling daughter, they're not until the pony which Coco has set her heart on is sold to someone who doesn't seem to have washed up out of the animal's best interest at sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the front world of his mindprotecting their island, like it or not. Coco and Lawrie unite to save Caramel and another pony which is just about to foal - but how will they cope?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141341572</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andy MulliganKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Boy with Two HeadsJulia and the Shark

|summary=Richard is a nice kid. DutifulJulia, hardworking, ruleour pre-abidingteen heroine, he makes both has been packed off with her 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 their cat from the specialists. Richard is growing family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a second head. Yowzer. When the head - Rikki - emergessummer, 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 in the most unsayable things and he causes a great deal far NE of troublethe Scottish islands. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560670</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tammara Webber|title=Where You Are|rating=4.5|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 Here be Vikings, that kind of Pride and Prejudice with heartthrob Reid Alexander and started to fall for him, only to end up with more sensible Graham, another cast memberScottish island. Now School Pride Dad is nearly ready going to be releasedautomating the lantern, and it's time for the cast to start the publicity blitz - which means Emma and Reidis his specialist thing, as the stars. while mum 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 leaving her hands on Graham and become more than just his friend - have got anything career in algae behind to do with it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141347481</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Ok. I'm going to do this for all books in this series except hunt the first oneelusive Greenland shark. Before we begin. If you haven't read the first book in this series And Julia, DON'T read this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review of the first bookwell, read the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll she will be sorry..homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyJonathan Stroud|title=The 5th WaveOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=As far as she knowsScarlett McCain is an outlaw, Cassie could be rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the last human on EarthSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. SurelyBut then she meets Albert Browne, she's one of the last fewa dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. After With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the first four waves mythical Free Isles of the Others London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man- mysterious aliens who appeared eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and quickly laid waste to humanity all the horrors of post- it's impossible for her apocalyptic society to trust anyone she meets. Can she ever find reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the strength to rescue her kid brotherrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141345837</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Lily Herne|title=Deadlands|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=I was hesitant to choose this book. I love 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, 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 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonMercedes Helnwein|title=Inferno (Chronicles of Nick)Slingshot

|summary=I'm tempted Gracie Welles has resigned herself to say I have being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a love/hate relationship man with the Chronicles of Nick seriesa "real" family, but thatshe is used to not being a priority in people's probably overstating both aspects of itlives. Call it But when she defends a like/dislike relationship, perhaps - at its best - notably random boy in much of the first book, [[Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Infinity]] and [[Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Infamous]]her class with her slingshot, it's a high-octane thrill ride which her simple existence is hugely entertaining thanks to the sheer amount of larger than life characters and some very well-written dialoguechanged for good. At other momentsNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, as for her life now has a boy in [[Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon|Invincible]], Kenyon's narration can make me grit my teeth and the books can have pacing issuesit that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749957735</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kelley ArmstrongT L Huchu|title=The RisingLibrary of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Maya Delaney Ropa Moyo is on a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the rundead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Her idyllic life in Salmon Creek was an elaborate ruse run by the St. Clouds - a Mafia like family Ever since she dropped out of supernaturals who want Maya school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her friends because aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of their emerging powersEdinburgh, powers thought to be extinct before nowtargeting the city's children. Maya Soon, Ropa is losing friends fast as they are recapturedpulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. Shewill end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could'd do anything ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to get them backthis evil, but when making contact with a scientist who might have some answers doesn't play out how they hoped, Maya realises that she and or will it claim her friends are on their own, and that confronting their enemies might be their only chance.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410996</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannKristen O'Neal|title=Dead To YouLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary=When Ethan was 7 years oldHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, he was abducted from Priya has to come to terms with the street fact that she may be in front constant pain for the rest of his househer life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. His parents They talk about their troubles and younger brother Blake were devastatedhelp each other out, their lives torn apartwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. But now, 9 years later, When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a teenaged Ethan has returned, having escaped his new, often brutal lifewhile, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to return Brigid's house to his old familiar onecheck up on her. Except it’s not familiar. His mind traumatised by years of neglect culminating with But what she doesn't expect to find there is a spell living on werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the streets, Ethan remembers nothing about his life at home before girl she has been talking to online for the abductionpast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407137239</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Gill Lewis|title=Moon Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tam's village in rural Laos must make way for a new highway. So Tam and his family move Move on to a new village in the lowlands. They've been promised running water, electricity, and even a school. But the ground in the new village is scattered with bombs left over from America's war in Vietnam. 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't be able to keep their house unless Tam goes to the city and earns money to send home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192793535</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Geoffrey Malone|title=Dead Boys' Club|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sam wakes up one morning at dawn. It's strangely quiet. Outside his hut, the village is absolutely silent. No cockerels are crowing. Something is horribly wrong. Stepping outside, Sam's worst fears are realised. A line of children, all armed with AK-47s, are rushing at him, yelling like crazy. It's God's Freedom Army. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999608</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]