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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzMax Boucherat|title= The Young WorldLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= After a mysterious sickness wipes out We meet Lori on the rest of first evening she's got the populationhouse 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 that is to log on to Voxminer, the young survivors band together world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in small tribesLori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, desperately trying and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to rebuild their society enter shows signs of oldtampering. In New York City When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Jeffersonand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, reluctant leader where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{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 tribe from Washington Squaredeep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, hears 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 potential cure for The Sicknesstrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. SoDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and a squad of heavily armed teens set out across New York with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of this curea family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Along the way they must avoid gangs and cultsWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and brave as her journey takes her from the perils watched streets of foreign islands to the subway – all in heart of the pursuit of mankindsmuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the futureof her home and the ones she holds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn BennettHarry Allen|title=Night OwlsChildren of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Beatrix Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a serious girl; small talented singer. Life is hard and slightfood is difficult to come by, considered so Seo and studious with a quiet determination to follow her dream of becoming a medical illustrator. Pretty friends Nari and petiteMin go foraging every evening, too quirky looking for jocks tree bark and not quirky enough for hipsters, Beatrix knows that Jack is all edible grasses to supplement the kinds of boys she should avoid. Loose-limbed and slim with a slash meagre rations of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled and has cheekbones you can hang from rice and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transit, her world is turned upside downkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisAlexia Casale|title=All Sorts of PossibleSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'When the sinkhole opened, there was no time re having to break or turn the wheelnavigate a life-changing disability too, and but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the old green Land Rover middle of a dance performance that was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rimgoing to change her life.'' Somehow But she comes back fighting, Daniel makes it out of desperate to avoid the sinkhole pity stares, and emerges desperate to get back to safety with just a few scratches and bruiseslife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. But his father isn Meanwhile there't so lucky. While he lies s a new (cute!) boy in hospital in an induced coma due school, her music A Level performance piece to try to a severe brain injury, Daniel is released into the care of his aunt, a woman he has never met. There had been a family falling sort out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a baby, and since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult the day to trust day traumas of all the challenges her or open up body continues to throw at herto navigate... ... and there So even though she can's a lot t dance anymore, might she be able to open up about.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ian JohnstoneSimon Fox|title= The Mirror Chronicles: Circles of StoneDeadlock|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Sylas Tate has been through a lot, considering he wasn't yet in Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his teens when his journeys began. His mother is lost, leaving him to shift on the less than tender mercies of his uncleforce, and after a strange incident in book one of this series he found himself travelling to another world. Even more bizarrethen suddenly rings Archie, while demanding he was there he encountered Naeofetch something from a secret place, his other half – not some jokey reference to a future wifeand join him on the run. They get together, but barely begin to smell the true second part whiff of his soul. The two worlds (oursSouthern trains when the father is arrested, based leaving Archie on science, and the Otherlate express to Brighton, based on magic) were once onetoting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and it is the dearest wish bearer of the down-trodden inhabitants Sylas meets to unite them againa whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Katie EversonLex Croucher|title= DropGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 4|genre= General FictionTeens|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novelWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, ‘DropGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see,is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a tale of grief and healingboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow creating the story subterfuge of Carla - straight-A-studentfalling in love with each other, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined to change her predictable lifewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. When her absentee mother is offered But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a job way in Londonwhich they can both truly be themselves, Carla transfers or are they destined to yet another school and this time she is desperate to not be overlooked. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fuzzy MudNick Brooks|authortitle=Louis SacharPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Tamaya isn't allowed to walk home from When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school on her own. And Tamaya doesn't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking a "shortcut" through the woods one dayis murdered, she goes with him, even though she isn't really supposed to walk through three boys find themselves called into the woodspolice station as suspects. Unbeknownst to Tamaya Each, Marshall has chosen the route in order to avoid school bully Chadseemingly, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning for nothing grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at all - but you know, that's how school bullies workthe time of his murder But lying in who killed him, and why, and if any of the woods is an even greater threat than Chad...boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ryan Graudin1919635017|title=The Walled City|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothels, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped in A Thief to Catch a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with the two-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewKiller|author=The Self-Esteem Team|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because of Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a lack series of body confidencerobberiesShocking, isnAnd how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I't it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784186422</amazonuk>ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=All My Secrets Different for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year old Evie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a normal teenager until a solicitor 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 Scotland appears on her doorstep with news of a £10 million inheritance the football team, and a secret that turns her world upside downtwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. It As they's little wonder she struggles to cope and ends re all fired up being enrolled on , straining at the leash only a summer programme for troubled teens on single-sex school can form, the remote island of Lightseatalk in class and out often turns to sex. Little does she suspect Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that her troubles are only just beginningregard lie. At the same time as coping with her burgeoning attraction to two of the boys on the programme He's had a casual relationship, she discovers the island is linked to her family a secret. Evie is determined to get to one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the bottom of the mysteryladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, unaware he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the dangers that this will bring for both her relationship and her new friendsthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122212</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will Hill1800901232|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= Zero Hour has passedTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into a full on assault on Dracula's forces Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the combined might of the supernatural departments failed smartly-dressed man and woman came to destroy the ancient vampire, and he has returned village to full strength, ready offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to strike at humanity with unadulterated violencebe missed. Secrecy is no longer an option as Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are realmini-bus to Hanoi. Department 19 has been through so much Only, shaken to its core by secrets, betrayals Hanh and losses. With the public eye now firmly upon themother girls were not going to work in a shop, the very fundamentals of the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the fore. Jamie, Larissa, Kate ones with intricate embroidery and Matt have always found themselves at beading on the centre of legs? The ones with the chaos, artfully-placed rips and despite each struggling with their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them survive and even thrive within the department. Humanity? It's last stand will need quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them at their very best, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stake. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattPatrice Lawrence|title=Black Waters (Strong Winds)Needle|rating=4.53
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|summary=Xanthe Ribiero had won Brave. Charlene, the area championships in her sister's boatheroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, but she now had sponsorship ''characters and'' a new laser dinghyreaders both. Best Kicked out of all she had the letter from the GB Racing Committee which confirmed that she was in the squad multiple homes and was off to the Easter training camp at the National Sailing Academy at Weymouth. She was full of plans to train harderschools, watch her diet and - she had to admit - just 's fostering with a little bit pleased that she might not have to worry about exam results pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and university applications. has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he'This'' was as good as it gots at uni.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Meg Haston|title= Paper Weight|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Stevie had Such a plan. A good plan (tempestuous personality may be in her mind). Butneed of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is often the waya wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her plan has been interruptedyounger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. In We see Charlene prove her case it's by an unexpected belligerence with a store detective, and involuntary admission then force people to an eating disorder unit in a different stategive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Under lock and key and constant supervisionwell, what exactly happens is not for me to say, she doesn't have the resources or the freedom only to go through with itremark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be.. And it's all a bit annoying.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404560</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Carl HiaasenAnn Sei Lin|title= Skink No SurrenderRebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Skink No Surrender is Kurara has spent her entire life as a love letter to servant on the wildlife of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered with references to literature, folk legendsMidori, a massive dining hall floating in the ecological history sky where soldiers of the area, the importance of conservation Empire come to drink and the art of fishingmake merry between their conquests. Hiaasen's protagonists are vividly observed and fully rounded. Skink However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is an eccentrica Crafter like him, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a n anarchic, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitudepower sought after all across the Empire. He is a good hearted protector of asks her to come with him, to leave the innocent, possesses an assortment life of false eyes, wrangles alligators, battles storms, lectures on politeness and deals out rough justice. His portrait dreary servitude that is messianic and folkloric in placesall she has known. Richard is plucky and loyal but is he Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in over his head? Malley the matter, because the Midori is selfish, stubborn, smart, causticdestroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, sarky and brave but also naive, vulnerable and susceptible she is forced to charmflee out into the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Garth Nix|title=To Hold She joins Himura aboard the Bridge|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= A collection of 21 short stories loosely divided into six different categoriesOrihime, ‘’To Hold the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readers. It’s undoubtedly a mustsky-read book for fans of Garth Nix and these fans will, I suspectship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, quibble with my four star rating and challenge me to add another star. Those new to Garth’s writing might, in turn, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature a whole world of the stories in the book.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jess VallanceMarcus Sedgwick|title=BirdyWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Frances has always been Meet Fitz, a loneryoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, quiet and isolatedhe should be free to do what he wants, so to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when she's asked he talks to look after his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the eccentric new girl Alberta for enigmatic – saying she could hear a few days she doesn't expect anything to come subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of it, only hoping that the whole incident will pass without embarrassment. The last thing she expects world is for the already a done deal? Is it some spooky new girl to become her best friend. Albertakind of music she's warm companionship is everything Frances dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has been gone missing for so many years, so when conflict inevitably arises, Frances is determined to do anything to save their friendshiphe can't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404668</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah ThomasTori Bovalino|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 AshleyThe Devil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's London in 1940library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. Most of What makes it worse is the men have been conscripted and man who requested the East End is populated mainly by women books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and childrena man Tess hates. Josie As a petty act of revenge for making her find and her friends are carrying deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on much as usualeach of the books, though, grouping into little gangs and arguing over turf via mud fights along scribbled with the Thames. But then comes a terrible night ugliest insults she can think of bombing. ItThey's the start of the Blitz and 57 consecutive nights re never meant to reach him, of bombing for the East Endcourse. The fire service Her plan is stretched way beyond its capacity to get her anger out like this, and the lucky ones make then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it out of the shelters in the morningwould be, while the unlucky ones donif someone hadn't see another sunrisedelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreview|title=The Accident SeasonFrontpage|author=Moira Fowley-DoylePhilip Reeve|ratingtitle=4|genre=Teens|summary=For a month in every year, Utterly Dark and the month leading up to Halloween, Cara's family are susceptible to accidents. There are cuts and scrapes and bruises. Sometimes there are broken bones. And sometimes, Face of the accidents are even fatal... ... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Fire Colour One|author=Jenny ValentineDeep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Iris has never known her father. He didn't want herIn a word, her mother has always saidrich. He threw them out years ago. But now she's about to meet him again. Her father There is richcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, you seeBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and dyingsea-witches, and Iris's mother legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and stepfather have worn out their welcome in LAmonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. So they're running away The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from debts and towards a richthe Hidden Lands, terminally ill old manhis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, ripe for exploitation. Thereand Andrewe's also foundling daughter, who washed up out of the small matter of some of Iris's own bad behavioursea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the less said about thatworld of protecting their island, the betterlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Potion DiariesKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Amy AlwardJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Samantha is a mixer of potions extraordinaire. Which is just as wellJulia, our pre-teen heroine, because someone has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to save be lighthousekeepers for a princess who has fallen summer, in love with herselfthe far NE of the Scottish islands. Yes Here be Vikings, you heard right! You might not think this that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pamperedlantern, which is it any wonder they fall his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in love with themselves? But this isn't what's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken a love potion meant algae behind to make someone else fall in love with ''her''hunt the elusive Greenland shark. 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''Julia, well, a national quest to find the ingredients for a cureshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Thirteen Days of MidnightJonathan Stroud|authortitle=Leo HuntThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Luke Manchett really isn't that upset when he gets Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the news that his father has died. You might think that's a tad harshwildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, but Luke has been estranged from his father for yearsrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. His primary concern is his motherBut then she meets Albert Browne, who is disabled by crushing cluster headachesa dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. So, rather than worry herWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, Luke heads off they plan to a lawyer's office flee to deal with the reading mythical Free Isles of his father's will by himselfthe London Lagoon. And he gets a shock. Luke's inheritance adds up Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayMercedes Helnwein|title=TrollhuntersSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=West Coast USA in the 1960s, and the city is wracked and wrecked by Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a slew secret illegitimate daughter of missing children reports. The parents a man with their new anguishes, and new rules against playing out after dark, have no idea of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trolls"real" family, guilty of snatching the children. Last she is used to go, Jack Sturgess. Cue the modern era and Jacknot being a priority in people's younger, now grown-up brother Jim, and Jim Jr live lives. But when she defends a sheltered life random boy in the most barricaded and secure home imaginableher class with her slingshot, and Jim Jr's life her simple existence is as exciting as you'd expectchanged for good. UnfortunatelyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, however, the trolls are about to make for her life now has a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerT L Huchu|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's StoryLibrary of the Dead
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to The Lunar Chronicles is take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her fansyounger sister and her aging grandmother. However, The Lunarticsthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the city's children. This book Soon, Ropa is especially pulled into the search for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as a standalone toomissing boy at the request of his dead mother. According to She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the publisher’s note Queen Levana world of magic is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain powerfar bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. But long before Will she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet find the missing children and Cressbring an end to this evil, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until now.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksKristen O'Neal|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 parents. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. And, fresh from a narrow escape from death at the hands of a criminal mastermind, Travis 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 Lycanthropy and held captive alongside Winston, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty of his father's death. Travis 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 BitchOther Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sandra is a naughty kid. Fed up Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the pressure fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of examsher life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', a lovely but slightly boring boyfriend and an overbearing mother, online support group where she's gone talks to a bit wildbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. She's thrown over the boring boyfriend They talk about their troubles and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEshelp each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and is running with some exciting but unreliable new palsmess around. She's done a bit When Brigid—one of shoplifting and slept with a few boys, and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing moments. On this particular day, sheclosest friends—doesn's getting off with Wayne and cheesing off Michelle, and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into t respond to the chat for a homeless alcoholic manwhile, causing him Priya becomes concerned. She decides to spill his can of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious and chases steal her parents' car and Sandra is furious too, because hedrive to Brigid's ruining house to check up on her day . But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and HOW DARE HE? And then, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy that werewolf to be the girl she has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A dogbeen talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{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 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, and an angry girl from the future. 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…
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{{newreview
|title=Silver Skin
|author=Joan Lennon
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rab lives in the distant future, in a world where space is at a premium due to population pressures and in which status is expressed by how much room you have to live in. People's lives are guided and supported by their Coms, AIs which teach, medicate, navigate and all sorts else besides. When Rab's mother buys him a silver skin - time travel technology - Rab is overjoyed. The fieldwork he'll be able to do with it will allow him to produce work that will set him up for life. He decides to investigate the 19th century discovery of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae - because his tower block of the future is built on that very site.
But something goes wrong and Rab is ejected from his status as time travelling observer right into life in Stone Age Skara Brae.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272847</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John McNally|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall and still a teenager, but he's already saved the world once. Accidentally shrunk by his mad scientist Uncle Al, he joined a crack military team and helped foil the threat of a lethal bio-weapon, the Scarlatti wasp. But there's no let-up for Finn. Before Al can restore him Move on to normal size, a new threat emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Craigie|title= What Was Never Said |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|genre= Teens|summary= Kaz and Ruby have been best friends for a long time but their lives are about to change irrevocably. Ruby has a sassy, devil may care outer shell that hides her vulnerability but 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 of his life while Tom is unsure of what he wants and takes the coward’s way out. Meanwhile Ruby’s brother Lee and his boyfriend Owen have some of their own decisions to make. Throw into the mix an arrogant pop star, secrets, betrayal, jealousy, misunderstandings, new faces and some bad choices and the ingredients are there for an explosive weekend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347701</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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