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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]{{adsense2}}__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between WorldsMax Boucherat|authortitle=Ian JohnstoneThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=The hero of this long We meet Lori on the first 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 blanket fort, she has one main intention, and engrossing book that is a boy of twelveto log on to Voxminer, orphanedthe world-building, lonely and unlovedcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. He spends the little free time he But first Lori has in creating beautiful kites covered in complicated, colourful designs until the day he meets a strange old man who sets him tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the path server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to his destiny as a saviour enter shows signs of not one but two worldstampering. But When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in line with the traditions of the genregame has been doctored – well, this path will be fraught with fear, danger and loss.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491220</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
{{newreview|title=Brooklyn Girls|author=Gemma Burgess|rating=4Rosevear, 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.5|genre=WomenBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's Fiction|summary=22-year-old Pia Keller has screwed up againfather. She should be living the dreamDesperate to save him from death, sharing Mira makes a bargain with a Brooklyn townhouse wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her four best friends - but one too many drunken escapades leads , she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her getting sacked from her new job. After hearing thisfather, as her parents are ready to summon journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to live with them abroad. They clearly don't think shethe heart of the smuggler's mature enough territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to look after herself - can save the future of her home and the ones she prove them wrong?holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782067337</amazonuk>0008664730
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CarnabyHarry Allen|authortitle=Cate SampsonChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sarah's mother was murdered Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and Sarah found the body. Agonisingly, she didn't even realise she'd found the body at first - Sarah thought her mother was asleep on the sofais a talented singer. But she wasn't. Borys - Sarah's sister Jude's boyfriend - has been accused of the murder Life is hard and the trial food is coming updifficult to come by, with Sarah as a key witness. A school counsellorso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, a lawyer looking for tree bark and a police officer are all trying edible grasses to prepare her, but Sarah can't think about that. It's too dangeroussupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. And she has more than a court case on her plate|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147111581X</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Ghost StadiumAlexia Casale|authortitle=Tom Palmer Sing if you Can't Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=I usually buy Barrington Stoke books for my son It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to read navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on his own. He loves stage in the short but exciting stories, and the easy-middle of a dance performance that was going to-read textchange her life. With this book though But she comes back fighting, the temptation desperate to turn out avoid the lights pity stares, and read this out loud by torch light was simply too much desperate to get back to resist. It begins as a boylife that's own adventureas normal as she can possibly manage. Three boys Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, Lucasher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, Irfan and Jack have come up with just the perfect plan day to start their summer holidays on a high note. Their local football club has been closed for years, but day traumas of all the boys have a scheme challenges her body continues to get into the stadium one last time and spend a night camping on the pitch. My son immediately realised the football pitch would be the perfect place throw at her to camp outnavigate. It is difficult to get into, but once there So even though she can't dance anymore, it would be like being in a wilderness. The high walls would block out everything, leaving the boys completely alone in the dark. There is only one problem. Places that are very difficult to get into can also might she be very difficult able to get out of...sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178112227X</amazonuk>0571373801
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=BrockSimon Fox|authortitle=Anthony McGowanDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The events of the badger bait are horrifying. Thankfully the author does not feel the need to give us all Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the gory detailforce, but in a senseand then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he has made it more terrifying but what is left unsaid. Everything about this book is extremely realistic. I am an adultfetch something from a secret place, and this book had my stomach in knotsjoin him on the run. It isn't just what happens to the animals They get together, but barely begin to smell the psychological terror directed at whiff of Southern trains when the boys as well. This father is made more intense by the level of character development in this book. McGowan has created characters with such depth I can't help wondering if he has based any of this arrested, leaving Archie on real children. Perhaps not the badger baiting partlate express to Brighton, but the inner turmoil created by poverty, shattered familiestoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and the responsibility bearer of being a caretaker at an early age as well many other personality traits which are so true to life it is difficult to believe you are reading fiction. The characters in this book are so genuine, I feel as if I know them. My son also commented on how much he liked certain characters, a sure sign that the author has succeeded in making the characters real to the readerwhole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122083</amazonuk>1839944420
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cat ClarkeLex Croucher|title=FallingGwen and Art Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Falling'' is Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? book that I liked for some reasonsBut honestly, and disliked for othersit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. It is very short In this story, Gwen and terribly bleak romance. Anna seems to Arthur have it all. She is popularbeen betrothed since they were tiny, prettymuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, and has an absolutely perfect and very wealthy boyfriendyou see, Cam. Iis in love with Bridget (the kingdom'm afraid I never warmed to Anna thoughs only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. She comes across as one And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of those people who feel the world revolves around themfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Self centred But as she istheir impending wedding draws ever closer, she does will they find a way in which they can both truly care for her best friend Tilly, perhaps more than she realises. It all comes together in tragic misunderstanding on the night of Cam's big partybe themselves, or are they destined to live a party he never wanted to have, but that Anna pushed him into.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781122075</amazonuk>1526651793
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 {{newreview|author=Philippa Gregory|title=Stormbringers|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Luca Vero, his servant Frieze, and his clerk Brother Peter are investigating signs of the end of the world. Accompanied by Lady Isolde and her servant Ishraq, they arrive in Piccolo just before the mysterious Johann, a young body claiming to be called by God. He's followed by a horde of children who he's leading on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Even though his grandiose claims that the sea will part for them would seem absurd if anyone else said so, he's so charismatic that Luca and Isolde believe him - could he really be chosen by God? Or is he leading the children, and Luca and Isolde, into tragedy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077341</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithNick Brooks|title=The Fury: The Director's CutPromise Boys|rating=54
|genre=Teens
|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the Fury police station as ''a zombie book without zombies''suspects. This book Each, seemingly, has several things in common with the zombie genre; a group grudge of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive some description against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie bookPrincipal Moore, those affected by and each could have been there at the fury are not the mindless living deadtime of his murder. They are ordinary people But who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apartkilled him, and why, and everyone on if any of the planet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their childrenboys are innocent, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back be able to clear their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for now. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with whatnames?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>1035003155
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Smith1919635017|title=My Friend the EnemyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=ItSolomon Klyne isn's 1941. Peter wishes the war away every single day. His father t a bad lad, so why is away fighting. They rarely hear from him. Mr flipping Bennett is always at his house. Making sure he and his mother are managing, apparently. Thatrunning around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's not what ll have to wait to get an answer to the other children are sayingsecond question because I avoid spoilers. They say PeterBut I's mother is Mr Bennett's fancy woman. And they bully Peter about itll answer the first one: for his grandmother. Despite farms lying all around, there isn't much food. Everything is rationed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190843581X</amazonuk>
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia GreenPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=This Northern SkyDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short StoriesTeens |summary=Kate Ant is not happy. Still raw 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 disaster with Samfootball team, sheand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's been whisked away on re all fired up, straining at the leash only a long holiday with her parents single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to a remote Hebridean islandsex. Even discounting a broken heart Which is confusing for Ant, this as he doesn't know what his score is not the type of holiday a vivacious teenage girl wants to go on, where his achievements in that regard lie. And there He's more. Katehad a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's parents have been rowing of lateset in stone, he can't be sure. And she knows that this holiday is a last ditch attempt to save their marriage. It's not something she wants to sit mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and observe, day after daythe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408820692</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margo Lanagan1800901232|title=YellowcakeStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesDyslexia Friendly|summary=We should always make time for short stories. Especially if they are written by Margo Lanagan. In ''Yellowcake'', a traveller boy uses three items Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to reunite an old man with his memories. A boy with be a crippled foot watches his townfolk butcher a beautiful creature washed up in their harbourfashion designer. Rapunzel gets a makeover Life in which things turn out differently. We find out how the Ferryman of rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the Dead became smartly-dressed man and woman came to the Ferrywoman. And morevillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849921113</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Levithan Some money changed hands and Andrea Cremer|title=Invisibility|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Stephen is cursed with invisibility. He's never been seen by anyone, even his parents. Elizabeth isn't invisible, but sometimes she wishes she Hanh wason the mini-bus to Hanoi. After problems back home Only, she's hoping Hanh and the other girls were not going to make work in a new start shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in New York City by blending into an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the background. Then she meets Stephen, ones with intricate embroidery and can see him. What is it about her that's so specialbeading on the legs? The two fall for each other hard ones with the artfully- but in a world full of spells placed rips and curses, does love stand a chancedistressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348879</amazonuk> It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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 {{newreview|author=Katherine Longshore|title=Tarnish|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Anne Boleyn is coming back to court. After suffering embarrassment and exile, Anne is not about to let this second chance slip through her fingers. But the trickery of court life is difficult to navigate, and telling friend from foe can be the difference between social success and becoming a pariah. Luckily she has the help of Thomas Wyatt, poet and infamous womaniser. He promises to make Anne the most popular woman at court, and when Anne starts to play his game, things start to escalate far further than anyone ever imagined. For not only does Anne manage to get the court eating out of her hand, but the King is starting to sit up and take notice too...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116964</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon RobinsonPatrice Lawrence|title=NowhereNeedle
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=There are 100 teenagers trapped in a prison for crimes they don't remember committingBrave. Does anyone know they're there? What do Charlene, the people holding them there want? And will they ever break out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>014134654X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Krispy Whispers|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary='heroine'A woman stops you in the road of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and gazes fearfully into the pramreaders both. "Your babies are not human Kicked out of multiple homes and schools," she says. Then she runs off.'' Ooh! Alien changelings! Cuckoos in the nest? Are they really? Reallys fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, reallyAnnie, really? Can you be sure? So begins the first story and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he'Krispy Whispers'', s at uni. Such a series tempestuous personality may be in need of flash fictions by Bookbag favourite Melvin Burgess. You also get a girl dreaming comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of richesthe plot here, as Charlene is a lonely woman who finds a pet wonder knitter, and gets a boyfriend too closely together is making something full of love for mere coincidence. And her younger sister – a priest who actually meets Godyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more. And We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a very worrisome monster. Concentrate hard. Because you'll need store detective, and then force people to keep upgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant.And then..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00DAC68EM</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Fine|title=Blood Family|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Blood Family'' is the companion novel to Anne Fine's ''The Devil Walks''. Both books feature a boy locked away from the world and well, what exactly happens when he is rescued. ''The Devil Walks'' is a Gothic shiver talenot for me to say, set in the past but ''Blood Family'' is a contemporary story, exploring what happens only to children who have been abused remark how sharp and how their lives are affectedpointy those knitting needles can be. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857532405</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alex Gutteridge|title=Last Chance Angel|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Jess turns up at the gates of Heaven a few days early, causing a major headache for Darren the Angel of Death. To keep her quiet, he agrees that she can go back to Earth in an invisible form to see her friends and family and say goodbye. Can she find closure, or even a way to stay alive?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848772998</amazonuk>1800901011
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SkiltonAnn Sei Lin|title=BruisedRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Imogen is Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a black belt massive dining hall floating in Tae Kwon Dothe sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. She's However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her grandmaster's top student. Agile, strong, and confidentthat she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she has dedicated years of desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her life to becoming this good. Then she gets come with him, to leave the chance to use her skills when life of dreary servitude that is all shehas known. Well, soon Kurara won's involved t have any say in an attempted hold-up at the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a diner - and freezes completely. The gunman gets shotshikigami, and she blames herself, losing all of her confidence. What good is Tae Kwon Do in forced to flee out into the real world if she can't bring herself . She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to do anything with it?hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419703870</amazonuk>1406399590
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 {{newreview|author=Joanna Philbin|title=Rules 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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Claire MerleMarcus Sedgwick|title=The FallWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the futureMeet Fitz, a little way from now, people fall into one young Scottish lad full of two campsfrustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, the ''Pures'' and the ''Crazies''he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and society has changed almost beyond recognitionwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. The distinction is made through They were half of a scientific testdesultory school band, but Ana has discovered something about Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the test which is alarmingearth. And when Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the rest end of the country finds world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out what she knowsthe truth? Well, there will be uproarnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571282911</amazonuk>1800900899
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenTori Bovalino|title=The Moon and More|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Emeline is a conscientious student, works hard for her family's realty business, and loves her long-term boyfriend Luke. But as college draws near she wonders if there is something she has missed by living year-round at the beach. When other people come to the beach, they get to leave their real selves behind and try on a new persona. Her mom had her young and has always tried to provide Emeline with everything she could need. When a filmmaker’s assistant, Theo, comes into town, Emeline is intrigued by him and his very different New York City lifestyle. Maybe she does want something more than what her old life has offered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141348291</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Elizabeth Wein|title=Rose Under Fire|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=There's a list of names on the title page of this extraordinary and moving book. Note it well: these seventy-four women are real. As a group they were known as the Ravenbrück Rabbits, 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 is the truly gut-wrenching fact that sometimes the doctors did not even bother to follow up on the experiments they carried out. All that pain, infection and disability (for those lucky enough to survive the procedures), and all for nothing. They didn't even help the enemy soldiers recover from their injuries. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405265116</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Siobhan Curham|title=Shipwrecked|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Delaney and her friends from her dance school are really excited to have the opportunity to perform on a South Pacific cruise ship. But when a storm hits and leaves them stranded on an island, they're left fighting to survive - and fighting with each other, as tensions build when they start to panic about whether they'll be rescued. As if that wasn't bad enough, the island has a dark secret - will they learn it before it's too late?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405264578</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Miller|title=ParallelDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Imagine waking up every day Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to find yourself in do — especially when she gets a new reality, an alternate future derived from request for over a small variation in one of those what-if moments hundred books that populate every day of your lifeshe has to deliver herself. Some of these moments are easy to identify: What makes it worse is the moment you confirm your university choices, man who requested the moment you meet the person whobooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school'll become your best friends headmaster, the moment you tell someone you love themand a man Tess hates. Others are more subtle As a petty act of revenge for making her find and harder to definedeliver such a large request, but they can have just as much an influence Tess sticks post-it notes on your future. This is each of the books, scribbled with the reality ugliest insults she can think of Abby Barnes. They're never meant to reach him, an eighteen year old whose life of course. Her plan is constantly being warped to get her anger out like this, and changed by the actions and decisions of a seventeen-year-old version of then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her from a parallel world.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407135120</amazonuk>1789098130
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Susan CooperPhilip Reeve|title=The Utterly Dark is Rising Sequenceand the Face of the Deep
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=As In a childword, I read The Grey Kingrich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, book 4 in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising Sequencebeyond the Scillies. I loved There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the book so much it topped my Christmas list Dark family that has to keep watch for yearsmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, but sadly Santa never deliveredwhere no ship dare sail. As an adult I finally bought The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the entire sequence for myself. This book is intended as a childHidden 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 bookfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and it is brilliant as book for childrenhis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, but like it is also well loved by many adults, whether as a cherished memory 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 be.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0140316884</amazonuk>1788452372
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katie McGarryKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Dare You ToJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=SeventeenJulia, our pre-year-old Beth Risk knows that teen heroine, has been packed off with her mother would face jail if anyone found out parents and their cat from the truth about her. She's trying family home in SW England to look after her mother be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the best she can - until her uncle comes to far NE of the rescueScottish islands. Except Beth doesn't want rescuing Here be Vikings, and only goes with her uncle that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to keep him from exposing her mother. Living with himbe automating the lantern, she meets town golden boy Ryan Stonewhich is his specialist thing, who asks while mum will be leaving her out on a darecareer in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. What starts as an instant dislike on her part And Julia, though, turns to attractionwell, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds that Ryan has depths no-company one else knows aboutnight. Can this mismatched couple help each other to find happiness?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848452284</amazonuk>1510107789
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennie Wood and Jeff McComseyJonathan Stroud|title=FlutterThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=When fifteen-year-old Lily moves Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to yet another new townwander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she falls for a girl who isn't interested in her. Lily, thoughmeets Albert Browne, has a trick up her sleeve - she's a shapeshifter. She turns herself into a dark boy so that she can have with dark powers and a chance with Saffrondarker past. As JesseWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she starts they plan to flee to build a new life for herself at school the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-can this 'boy' get apocalyptic society to reach the girl? AdditionallyFree Isles, why is Lily so resistant to but will they be any sort of harm, and who more accepted there than they are in the strange people who are trying to find herrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1484085957</amazonuk>1406394815
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy BrettMercedes Helnwein|title=Everything is Fine (and Other Lies I Tell Myself)Slingshot|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>}} {{newreview|author=Sharon Jones|title=Dead Jealous|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Poppy is Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a rationalist. Her sweatshirt says so: ''GOD IS DEAD''"real" family, it proclaims. She's been swearing blind she wouldn't attend her mother and stepfather's handfasting ceremony at the annual pagan festival. Itis used to not being a priority in people's all stuff and nonsenselives. But then when she defends a random boy in her best friend - and secret love - Michael goes and gets a girlfriend and jealousy gets the better of Poppy. Suddenlyclass with her slingshot, the festival and the handfasting seem much more invitingher simple existence is changed for good. Once thereNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, Poppy meets for her life now has a strange girl at the shores of Scariswater Lake. When Beth turns up dead, Poppy is sure boy in it that she has been murdered. And the police don't seem to care, putting it down as an accidentnever asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408327546</amazonuk>152905818X
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bethany WigginsT L Huchu|title=StungThe Library of the Dead|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fiona wakes up confused Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and disorienteda bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's in been using it to support not only herself, but her bedroom but younger sister and her bedroom has never looked like thisaging grandmother. ItHowever, there's filthyan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. And abandonedSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. Where She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is her family? And how has far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she come find the missing children and bring an end to have a strange tattoo on this evil, or will it claim her handtoo? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0802734189</amazonuk>1529039452
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan WellsKristen O'Neal|title=FragmentsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=I didnHaving 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. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't have much hope respond to the chat for this book - the middle book in a series tends while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to be filler, steal her parents' car and as [[Partials by Dan Wells|Partials]] was so brilliant, I though it was going drive to be hard Brigid's house to topcheck up on her. I was very wrong. This book But what she doesn't expect to find there is mind-blowinga 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>0007465238</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview|author=Bridget Tyler|title=Drummer Girl|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lucy is really pleased when Harper McKenzie decides Move on to start talking to her again and suggests forming a band. From then, life gets increasingly wonderful as they recruit three other girls, enter a talent show, and make it to the finals. Parties, fame, and success await - until everything comes crashing down. What went wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848776926</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]