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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinMax Boucherat|title=The Walled CityLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= In We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the walled city of Hak Namhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, there are three rules; run fastbabysitter poorly, trust no onemother at work, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lordsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisonedher lonesome. Jin Ling seeks her sister What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the Walled City's brothelsa blanket fort, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yeehas one main intention, trapped in a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with that is to log on to Voxminer, the twoworld-faced Ambassador Osamubuilding, desperately seeks freedomcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish But first Lori has a tiny inkling that thisstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, as and then she finds something even more spooky. For the officials of Seng Ngoi plan server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to evict all residents enter shows signs of Hak Nam tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in preparation for its demolition…the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=The Self-Esteem TeamRachel Greenlaw|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs Compass and WTFs?!!Blade|rating= 43.5

|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% ''I can hear the song of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because the sea. The call of a lack of body confidence?the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

ShockingRosevear, isna remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't it?s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie Harry Allen|title=All My Secrets Children of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Fifteen-year old Evie is a normal teenager until a solicitor from Scotland appears on her doorstep with news of Ra Eun Seo lives in a £10 million inheritance North Korean town and she is a secret that turns her world upside downtalented singer. It's little wonder she struggles Life is hard and food is difficult to cope come by, so Seo and ends up being enrolled on a summer programme for troubled teens on the remote island of Lightsea. Little does she suspect that her troubles are only just beginning. At the same time as coping with her burgeoning attraction to two of the boys on the programmefriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she discovers the island is linked to her family secret. Evie is determined to get looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the bottom meagre rations of the mystery, unaware of the dangers that this will bring for both her rice and her new friendskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122212</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillAlexia Casale|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Zero Hour has passed. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a full on assault on Draculalife-changing disability too, but that's forces, what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the combined might middle of the supernatural departments failed a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to destroy avoid the ancient vampirepity stares, and he has returned desperate to full strength, ready get back to strike at humanity with unadulterated violencea life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Secrecy is no longer an option as the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are real. Department 19 has been through so muchMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, shaken her music A Level performance piece to its core by secretstry to sort out, betrayals and losses. With just the public eye now firmly upon them, the very fundamentals day to day traumas of all the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst challenges her body continues to throw at her to the forenavigate. Jamie, Larissa, Kate and Matt have always found themselves at the centre of the chaos, and despite each struggling with their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped them survive and So even thrive within the department. Humanitythough she can's last stand will need them at their very bestt dance anymore, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it might she be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stake. able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattSimon Fox|title=Black Waters (Strong Winds)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Xanthe Ribiero had won Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the area championships in her sister's boatforce, but she now had sponsorship ''and'' then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a new laser dinghy. Best of all she had the letter from the GB Racing Committee which confirmed that she was in the squad secret place, and was off to join him on the Easter training camp at the National Sailing Academy at Weymouthrun. She was full of plans to train harderThey get together, watch her diet and - she had but barely begin to admit - just a little bit pleased that she might not have to worry about exam results and university applications. ''This'' was as good as it got.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Meg Haston|title= Paper Weight|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Stevie had a plan. A good plan (in her mind). Butsmell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, as is often leaving Archie on the way, her plan has been interrupted. In her case it's by an unexpected and involuntary admission late express to an eating disorder unit in a different state. Under lock and key and constant supervisionBrighton, she doesn't have the resources or the freedom to go through with it. And it's all toting a bit annoying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404560</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Carl Hiaasen|title= Skink No Surrender|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Skink No Surrender is a love letter tin his father was determined to the wildlife of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered with references to literaturekeep away from his colleagues, folk legends, the ecological history of the area, the importance of conservation and the art bearer of fishing. Hiaasen's protagonists are vividly observed and fully rounded. Skink is an eccentric, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade with a n anarchic, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitude. He is a good hearted protector whole heap of the innocent, possesses an assortment of false eyes, wrangles alligators, battles storms, lectures on politeness and deals out rough justice. His portrait is messianic and folkloric in places. Richard is plucky and loyal but is he in over his head? Malley is selfish, stubborn, smart, caustic, sarky and brave but also naive, vulnerable and susceptible to charmquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixLex Croucher|title=To Hold the BridgeGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary= A collection of 21 short stories loosely divided into six different categoriesWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, ‘’To Hold the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readersit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. It’s undoubtedly a must-read book for fans of Garth Nix In this story, Gwen and these fans willArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, I suspectyou see, quibble is in love with my four star rating and challenge me to add another starBridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. Those new to Garth’s writing might And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, in turn, think I’ve been over-generous given creating the mixed nature subterfuge of the stories falling in the booklove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jess VallanceNick Brooks|title=Birdy|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frances has always been a loner, quiet and isolated, so when she's asked to look after the eccentric new girl Alberta for a few days she doesn't expect anything to come of it, only hoping that the whole incident will pass without embarrassment. The last thing she expects is for the new girl to become her best friend. Alberta's warm companionship is everything Frances has been missing for so many years, so when conflict inevitably arises, Frances is determined to do anything to save their friendship. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404668</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Leah Thomas|title=Because You'll Never Meet Me|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ollie and Moritz can never meet. Because if they did, one of them would almost certainly die. Why? Because Ollie is allergic to electricty and Moritz has an electrical pacemaker inserted in his heart. Ollie spends his life hidden away in a log cabin in the forest - away from all the electricity that sends him into life-threatening seizures - with only his mother and the occasional visit from Dr Auburn-Stache for company. He did also have a friend, Liz, but he lost her a while back. Moritz is equally isolated even though he goes to school. Born without eyes, Moritz "sees" the world through echolocation, like a bat. You might think that's miraculous, but Moritz just thinks it makes him a freak.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886262X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz |author=Bernard Ashley|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=It's London in 1940. Most of the men have been conscripted and the East End is populated mainly by women and children. Josie and her friends are carrying on much as usual, though, grouping into little gangs and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thames. But then comes a terrible night of bombing. It's the start of the Blitz and 57 consecutive nights of bombing for the East End. The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity and the lucky ones make it out of the shelters in the morning, while the unlucky ones don't see another sunrise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Accident Season|author=Moira Fowley-DoylePromise Boys

|summary=For a month in every yearWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the month leading up to Halloweenpolice station as suspects. Each, Cara's family are susceptible to accidents. There are cuts and scrapes and bruises. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimesseemingly, the accidents are even fatal... ... it's has a cursegrudge of some description against Principal Moore, right? What else and each could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Fire Colour One|author=Jenny Valentine|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Iris has never known her father. He didn't want her, her mother has always said. He threw them out years agohave been there at the time of his murder. But now she's about to meet who killed him again. Her father is rich, you see, and dyingwhy, and Iris's mother and stepfather have worn out their welcome in LA. So they're running away from debts and towards a rich, terminally ill old man, ripe for exploitation. There's also the small matter of some if any of Iris's own bad behaviour. But the less said about thatboys are innocent, the betterwill they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Potion Diaries1919635017|author=Amy Alward|rating=4|genre=Teens|summarytitle=Samantha is a mixer of potions extraordinaire. Which is just as well, because someone has A Thief to save a princess who has fallen in love with herself. Yes, you heard right! You might not think this is the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pampered, is it any wonder they fall in love with themselves? But this isn't what's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken Catch a love potion meant to make someone else fall in love with ''her''. And the resulting havoc caused by the wrong person taking the right potion leads to some very unstable magic that could threaten the very kingdom itself. Hence the ''Wilde Hunt'', a national quest to find the ingredients for a cure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Thirteen Days of MidnightKiller|author=Leo HuntKitt Townsend

|summary=Luke Manchett really Solomon Klyne isn't that upset when he gets the news that his father has died. You might think that's a tad harsh, but Luke has been estranged from his father for years. His primary concern is his motherbad lad, who so why is disabled by crushing cluster headaches. So, rather than worry her, Luke heads off he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to a lawyercrack safes? You's office ll have to deal with wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the reading of first one: for his father's will by himselfgrandmother. And he gets a shock. Luke's inheritance adds up to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus Patrick Ness and Sean MurrayTea Bendix|title=TrollhuntersDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=West Coast USA Ant is in the 1960sYear Eleven at quite a standard school, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew 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 missing children reports. The parents four with their new anguishesboth his best buddy from the football team, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea of the horrors two other old muckers – in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trolls, guilty of snatching the children. Last fact they all go back to go, Jack Sturgessprimary school days together. Cue the modern era and JackAs they's younger, now grown-re all fired up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live straining at the leash only a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginable, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as you'd expect. Unfortunately, howeversingle-sex school can form, the trolls are about to make a return to their nastiest of ways – talk in class and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marissa Meyer|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel to The Lunar Chronicles is out often turns to her fans, The Lunarticssex. This book Which is especially confusing for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting WinterAnt, though it works as a standalone too. According to the publisher’s note Queen Levana he doesn't know what his score is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress, Levana lived a very different story- a story where his achievements in that has never been told… until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=The Snake Trap: Travis Delaney Investigates |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Teen private investigator Travis Delaney is still looking for the people who killed his parentsregard lie. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. And's had a casual relationship, fresh from a narrow escape from death at the hands of a criminal mastermindsecret one, Travis for several months now suspects that there's a traitor in the camp. This third installment in the ''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming opening. Travis is abducted by terrorists , and held captive alongside Winston, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty of his father's death. Travis so has a lot of questions. But will he get any answers? And can he get himself out of this horribly dangerous situation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Lady: My Life as a Bitch|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Sandra is a naughty kid. Fed effectively progressed up with the pressure of exams, a lovely but slightly boring boyfriend and an overbearing mother, sheladder headed by 's gone a bit wild. Sheexperienced's thrown over the boring boyfriend and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEs, and is running with some exciting but unreliable new pals. Shewhether that's done a bit of shoplifting and slept with a few boysset in stone, and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing momentshe can't be sure. On this particular day, she And that's getting off with Wayne and cheesing off Michelle, and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into a homeless alcoholic man, causing him to spill his can mostly because of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious and chases her and Sandra is furious too, because who he's ruining her day and HOW DARE HE? And then, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A dog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Scott K Andrews|title= Timebomb|rating=4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In 2141, Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper. She never hits the ground. In 1640, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt woman. When she reaches out to comfort her, she’s flung through time. And on a rainy day in our time, Kaz Cecka sneaks into been having the ruins of Sweetclover hall in search of a dry spot to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from the time of Charles I, relationship and an angry girl from the futuresex with. Thrown into a war that spans millennia, the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villains, and stay one step ahead of a fanatical army…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Silver SkinStitched Up|author=Joan LennonSteve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Rab lives Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the distant futurerural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in a world where space is at a premium due Hanoi it was an opportunity not to population pressures be missed. Some money changed hands and in which status is expressed by how much room you have Hanh was on the mini-bus to live inHanoi. People's lives are guided and supported by their Coms, AIs which teach, medicate Only, navigate Hanh and all sorts else besides. When Rab's mother buys him the other girls were not going to work in a silver skin - time travel technology - Rab is overjoyed. The fieldwork he'll be able to do with it will allow him shop, they were to produce work that will set him up for lifein virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. He decides to investigate You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the 19th century discovery of legs? The ones with the Neolithic village of Skara Brae artfully- because his tower block of the future is built on placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that very site. But something goes wrong Hanh and Rab is ejected from his status as time travelling observer right into life in Stone Age Skara Braeher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272847</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John McNallyPatrice Lawrence|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Needle|rating=43

|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall 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 still schools, she's fostering with a teenagerpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, but and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's already saved the world onceat uni. Accidentally shrunk by his mad scientist Uncle AlSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, he joined a crack military team and helped foil the threat creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a lethal bio-weaponwonder knitter, the Scarlatti wasp. But thereand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no let-up 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 expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for Finn. Before Al can restore him me to normal sizesay, a new threat emergesonly to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Emma CraigieAnn Sei Lin|title= What Was Never Said Rebel Skies|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have faced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Non Pratt|title= Remix|rating= 3.5

|summary= Kaz and Ruby have been best friends for a long time but their lives are about to change irrevocably. Ruby Kurara has spent her entire life as a sassyservant on the Midori, devil may care outer shell that hides her vulnerability but a massive dining hall floating in the sky where do her loyalties really lie? Kaz, short for Karizma, thinks she knows what she wants but what does she really need? Stu longs to shake off his bad reputation and win back the love soldiers of his life while Tom is unsure of what he wants and takes the coward’s way out. Meanwhile Ruby’s brother Lee Empire come to drink and his boyfriend Owen have some of make merry between their own decisions to makeconquests. Throw into the mix an arrogant pop starHowever, secretswhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, betrayal, jealousy, misunderstandings, new faces and some bad choices and someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the ingredients are there for an explosive weekendEmpire. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347701</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cassie Beasley|title=Circus Mirandus|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Micah is an orphan who has been raised by his grandfather, but now Micah’s grandfather is dying. And if that wasn’t bad enoughHe asks her to come with him, his horrible great aunt has arrived to take care leave the life of him, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry dreary servitude that is all hope is not lostshe has known. When grandpa Ephraim was a child he visited Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the mysterious Circus Mirandusmatter, where he was promised a miracle by because the miraculous Man Who Bends Light. All Micah has to do Midori is get destroyed by a message monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the Light Bender and his grandfather can have his miracleworld. With the help of Jenny Mendoza (She joins Himura aboard the smartest girl in the class), Micah sets his sights on the circusOrihime, a task that requires unconditional love and faith. Aunt Gertrudis sky-ship whose express purpose is wrongto hunt down shikigami, Ephraim’s stories aren’t just stories ... are they?and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreview|title=Finding AudreyFrontpage|author=Sophie Kinsella|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Audrey has been stuck at home for a while now, ever since that awful business at her last school. It left her suffering from social anxiety disorder and depression. Dr Sarah is impressed with Audrey's progress towards recovery, but Audrey still can't go out of the house, speak to strangers, or even make eye contact with her family. The painfully slow path to wellness is beginning to weight heavily on her. And then her brother's friend Linus shows up and begins to entice Audrey outside of herself again. He has a lovely orange-slice smile and writes funny notes and - to Audrey's disbelief - seems to like her. But Audrey really does need to heed Dr Sarah's warning that recovery is not a smooth progression: it's a series of two steps forward and one step back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534580</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMarcus Sedgwick|title=Extraordinary Means|author=Robyn SchneiderWrath

|summary=When Lane rocks up at Latham HouseMeet Fitz, he has no intention a young Scottish lad full of being there longfrustration at himself. There Lockdown is no way only just over, and he is going should be free to allow a diagnosis of total-drug-resistant tuberculosis do what he wants, to get in the way of his inexorable progress to an Ivy League college and a stellar career. He has even brought extra textbooks go where he wants and test papers with himwhom he wants, so that but he doesn't fall behind during this period cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of quarantine in 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 medical facility for kids connected with this one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new strain kind of TB. But when he meets Sadie and her group music she's dreaming of misfit friends? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Lane begins to wonder if not when Cassie has gone missing hecan's got his priorities straightt.. Perhaps there's more to life - and illness - than a progression of tests and achievements.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115488</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Steven CamdenTori Bovalino|title= It’s About LoveThe Devil Makes Three

|summary= As an acclaimed hip-hop style performance poet, Steven Camden Working all summer in her boarding school's library is skilful at painting evocative imagery with wordsthe last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. His second novel for teens enters What makes it worse is the world of man who requested the film scriptbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, cleverly playing with cinematic intertextualityand a man Tess hates. It is As a tale petty act of past mistakes, violence, revenge, friendship for making her find and love. An emotivedeliver such a large request, powerfulTess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, thought provoking experience it rates a 4scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of.5 because it lacks the magical ingredients They're never meant to reach him, of Camden’s debutcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, ‘Tape’and then take them all off before delivering them. It doesn’t make the reader’s heart sing but No harm done… Or it does put their nerves on edge. I challenge you not to shed a tearwould be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007511248</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jennifer Niven Philip Reeve|title= All Utterly Dark and the Bright PlacesFace of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Finch and Violet are both counting the daysIn a word, rich. Violet There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on countdown to graduationa peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, to getting away from beyond the school Scillies. There are troll people on it, and town sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that hold so many torturous memorieshas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. FinchThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, meanwhile who has started to keep notes of activity from zero and is logging the number of days Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in a row he is awake. And he doesn’t mean that London with too much science in terms his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of physically awakethe sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, but more so in terms of both his sullen brother and his emotions. Neither of them curious ward are particularly happy. At least one thrust into the world of them has a plan to make the pain stop in the most final way possible. It’s pretty horrificprotecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141357037</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jodi Picoult Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Samantha Van LeerTom de Freston|title=Off Julia and the PageShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Many readers can identify Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the idea of falling family home in love with SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a hero from a booksummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. After all Here be Vikings, they are written that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be appealingautomating the lantern, with rugged good looks, charming personalitywhich is his specialist thing, strength and wit. But what if the hero from your favourite book came to life and joined you in the real world? Can a storybook romance flourish in a High School setting? Or while mum will our fairytale prince be keen to return to his homeland of unicorns, fairies, castles and mermaids? These are the dilemmas faced by awkward teen Delilah and leaving her fantasy prince Oliver, who swaps places with a human boy career in order algae behind to join his true love in hunt the real worldelusive Greenland shark. The lovers may be together for now And Julia, but the book has other ideaswell, she will be homesick and soon begins rewriting itself to put everything back to how it wasalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473614287</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa MarrJonathan Stroud|title=Made For YouThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Eva Tilling comes from a wealthyScarlett 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, influential family robbing banks and reigns supreme at school - shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she is well thought of meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and has expectations a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to live up flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man- nothing ever changes for hereating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but that’s just how things will they be any more accepted there than they are in obsolete Jessup: nothing unusual or unexpected ever happens…the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007584202</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Read Me Like A BookMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Liz KesslerSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=''Read Me Like A Book'' is both Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a coming-secret illegitimate daughter of-age and a coming-out story. Ash feels as though everything is man with a mess. Her parents aren't getting on and Ash "real" family, she is terrified they're going used to split up. Shenot being a priority in people's struggling to keep up her relationships with her friendslives. She trying to decide whether or not to lose her virginity - and how exactly But when she even feels about the defends a random boy she might lose it with. She's falling behind in her grades at school and half of class with her is a rebellious teen who couldn't care less about itslingshot, while the other half her simple existence is panicking that changed for good. No longer can she might not get into university. And if all that wasn't enoughspend her time writing novels in solitude, Ash is struck by for her life now has a bolt from the blue when boy in it that she develops an almighty crush on Miss Murray, her English teacher..never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622090</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersT L Huchu|title=AlienatedThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Two years agoRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, aliens made contactusing Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. NowEver since she dropped out of school, Cara Sweeney has she's been chosen using it to host Aelyxsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, a Lthere'eihr exchange student. The first exchange student. Cara gets a free ride to any college she chooses out s an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the dealcity's children. Soon, some excellent material Ropa is pulled into the search for her blog, and a chance to be a part missing boy at the request of history, helping in her own way to form his dead mother. She will end up discovering an alliance between occult library and realise that the two racesworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined.Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersKristen O'Neal|title=InvadedLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|summary= To save Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the alliance between Humans and fact that she may be in constant pain for the Lrest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''eihr, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and save the planet from the deadly algae blooms that threaten help each other out, while also providing an escape to destroy all life, Cara just joke and Aeylx have mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to persuade the Lchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents'eihr that Humans car and Ldrive to Brigid'eihr can peacefully co-exists house to check up on her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423169492</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Mayo|title= Itchcraft|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Third book But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the Itch sequence about basement – and for that werewolf to be the audacious, intrepid teen obsessed with collecting elements from the Periodic Table girl she has been talking to online for the detriment of his own life. Electrifying, explosive, punchy and action packed tour de force sizzling with surprising shockspast few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552569062</amazonuk>1683692349