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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha CarthewMax Boucherat|title=The Light That Gets LostLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=At 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 seven years of agean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brotheron her lonesome. He escapes the attack by hiding What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a wardrobe. After blanket fort, she has one main intention, and thatis to log on to Voxminer, he the world-building, critter-collecting game that is taken into carea hit in Lori's worldWe meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. He But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's t find herself entirely on his way to Camp Kernowher own, a work camp for recalcitrant teensand then she finds something even more spooky. For Trey, this is the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes that the man who murdered his parents works at the camp server she and her bestie and he intends nobody else should be able to find him and kill himenter shows signs of tampering. In Trey's mind When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, things are simple: find and her safe place in the mangame has been doctored – well, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever after.where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Rachel Greenlaw|title=Once Upon a PlaceCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to me, is more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, and of stories, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about it.
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Munson
|title= The November Criminals
|rating= 4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''Addison Schacht Rosevear, 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. But when the Council Watch lays a high school senior (thattrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's sixth form if youleader and Mira're British) in Washington DC and s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bit of bargain with a classics nerd. His favourite book wreck survivor who is Virgil's Aeineid - as charming as he owns three copies is secretive and reads 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 one the watched streets of them every single day. He has applied foreign islands to the University heart of Chicagothe smuggler's territory, where he wants Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to study classics.So far, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant save the future of her home and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peersthe ones she holds most dear. Hmm!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy MulliganHarry Allen|title= LiquidatorChildren of the Sun|rating= 5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Ladies Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and gentlemenfood is difficult to come by, please turn off your phones so Seo and suspend your disbelief as you enter the crazy, exciting her friends Nari and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulligan. You will encounter ruthless villains, non-stop dangerMin go foraging every evening, at least one near-death experience looking for tree bark and a rather jolly lorry driver. Where does all this happen, you ask? In edible grasses to supplement the mountain-top fastness meagre rations of some evil spy? In the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere way, way more dangerous. Work experiencerice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesAlexia Casale|title=The Winter Place|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Axel and Tess live in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have a knight for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining and a good thing - because Sam is the only parental figure in their lives. Axel and Tess's mother died when Axel was born. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescence. She and Sam enjoy sparring over the care of Axel, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late mother. Axel is, well, an individual child, currently haunted by a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhere.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Stead|title=Goodbye Stranger|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamian, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York traffic. Bridget is told by a nurse that she is lucky to be alive and that she must have survived the accident for a reason. Bridget, who has no real memory of the accident, has to miss a year of school and on her return, tells everyone she now wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I donSing if you Can't feel like Bridget anymore''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Here Be Dragons Dance
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Few people would be happy living It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially when dance performance that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way was going to charge your phone, no telly and no Christmas dinnerchange her life. But when you’re sixteenshe comes back fighting, like Ellie Morgandesperate to avoid the pity stares, it and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can become almost unbearablepossibly manage. All Ellie wants is Meanwhile there's a regular ‘four-by-four life’ with four walls around new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and four wheels under just the day to day traumas of all the challenges her, all designed body continues to keep throw at her safeto navigate. But safe is one thing that Ellie’s not destined So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to be … not from the moment she glimpses the strange boy sing her way through the mist and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) he is. instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneSimon Fox|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDeadlock
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child in 1930s Paris he Late one night Graham Blake is going to have a very awkward journey through late back from his young life. His father is a violent drunkshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, reacting badly to what demanding he saw in WWIfetch something from a secret place, and although married to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanjoin him on the run. That womanThey get together, Emiliebut barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, is going leaving Archie on the late express to dieBrighton, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in toting a home where he is bullied. But tin his father was determined to keep away from the reaches of Europe his colleagues, and from the black corners bearer of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, whole heap of a kind, at a most unusual mountaintop building. It's not her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghofquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonLex Croucher|title=Dreamland|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several towns, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then the rumours would start about how she Gwen and her mum were crazy and the friend wouldn't talk to her. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves Art Are Not in to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerous.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Spirit of London|author=Rob KeeleyLove
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=EllieWho 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, Charlie Gwen and Mum Arthur have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home been betrothed since they were tiny, much to Londontheir mutual disgust! Gwen, where Mumyou see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century houseonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, 47 Foster Squarewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But it's not quite ''home'' to London. They're not returning to as their old house but to another tiny, cramped flat. When asked whyimpending wedding draws ever closer, all Mum will say isthey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, "Ask your father."or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroNick Brooks|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to other areas of the place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Annabel Pitcher|title=Silence is GoldfishPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers she's a Pluto and her parents wanted a Mercury or Venus, at least.'' When Tess the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is in her father's studymurdered, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secretthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Suddenly Each, for Tessseemingly, everything has changed. She decides to run away but chickens out a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the last minutetime of his murder. As her life falls apart But who killed him, and why, Tess retreats into selective mutism and her only conversations if any of the boys are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torch.innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Skuse1919635017|title=MonsterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=More than anything elseSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, sixteen year-old Nash wants so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to be Head Girl of Bathory School. Indeed shecrack safes? You's willing ll have to put up with almost anything wait to get an answer to the top jobsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But, just when sheI's poised to be awarded ll answer the role, everything starts to unravelfirst one: for his grandmother. Nash and a group of school misfits have to stay at school over the Christmas holidays and, trapped by the worst weather in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives. Not everyone is going to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Username: EvieDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens |summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school – for a trendy , and attractive girl, nobody at all is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems to have any time for herabsolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, apart so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bus. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house football team, and two other old muckers after in fact they all, she must be a witch go back to live thereprimary school days together. ItAs they's not that she would wish to live therere all fired up, with nobody else aroundstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the memory of her deceased motherout often turns to sex. But luckily someone Which is choosing a place confusing for her –her father Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is able to put all , where his work into achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a cyber-world secret one, for herseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the E-Scapeladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, which is close to the perfect worldhe can't be sure. All And that remains is to programme 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the humans sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her friendsfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and make woman came to the connection Evie has with them and them with her village to offer Hahn a job in return Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be of mutualmissed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, confirmingHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, happy benefitthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But someone else has entered You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the Eartfully-Scape, placed rips and their influence seems all distressed seams that much more powerful than Eviefelt so soft when you touched them? It's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanPatrice Lawrence|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Needle|rating= 43
|genre=Teens
|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If 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 schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you havenmight perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriess allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah MussiAnn Sei Lin|title= BreakdownRebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= From Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the start sky where soldiers of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand Empire come to drink and doesn’t let gomake merry between their conquests. She uses shortHowever, sharp, savage sentences to urge them when a man named Himura arrives to follow tell her protagonist Melissa on that she is a terrifying odyssey Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a relentlessly brutal world where only power sought after all across the meanestEmpire. He asks her to come with him, smartest and toughest surviveto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. It Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a horrific vision of monstrous paper spirit known as a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fearshikigami, poverty, corrupt militarisation and anarchyshe is forced to flee out into the world. Ravenous dogs roam She joins Himura aboard the streets Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and the stench a whole world of violence and sexual slavery is never far away. Melissa is blessed with beauty which some might consider a curse. Will she emerge into the light or be trapped in Hades forever?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMarcus Sedgwick|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Wrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=(By the way there are spoilers ahead – this Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is definitely a series only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to be read in ordergo where he wants and with whom he wants, starting but he cannot stop himself from [[Tesla 1 by Mark Lingane|Tesla 1]] ). Alone again now that Melanie has been killed, Sebastian makes putting his foot in it when he talks to North Americahis best friend, Cassie. Far They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from it being the land earth. Is this connected with one of promise it used to be, her eco-warrior parents saying the country is now an apocalyptic ruin, full end of people scavenging for their survival and the Infected forging world is already a path done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of worse-than-death and destruction. Sebastian needs to focus on his ultimate challenge as foreseen in a rather scary way but theremusic she's a small matter distracting him: whodreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's firing rockets at him?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1515000796</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaTori Bovalino|title=Fans of the Impossible LifeThe Devil Makes Three|rating=34.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Jeremy, Mira and Sebby are very different people, each with their own complex and difficult issues, who find themselves inexplicably drawn together. Jeremy Working all summer in her boarding school's library is an artist, painfully shy and still struggling the last thing Tess Matheson wants to get do — especially when she gets a request for over the horrible incident a hundred books that ruined his last year of schoolshe has to deliver herself. Mira What makes it worse is cool and fashionable, but suffers from depression, constantly fighting against a sleep that threatens to overpower her for days on endthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Then thereThe boarding school's Sebby, flamboyantheadmaster, irreverent and charming, but with hurt a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and troubles simmering behind his façadedeliver such a large request, and no family or support network to lean Tess sticks post-it notes on. The powerful friendship and love that forms between them could save them from their broken selveseach of the books, but it could just as easily drag them all down together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Courtney Sheinmel|title= Edgewater|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Lorrie may run scribbled with the big dogs, but right now ugliest insults shecan think of. They's more re never meant to reach him, of a muttcourse. Her mother is AWOL and her aunt plan is becoming more eccentric by the day. She's politely asked to leave get her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arriveanger out like this, and so she sets then take them all off home to sort before delivering them. No harm done… Or it all out. Again. Itwould be, if someone hadn's becoming something of a habit this need to act the grown up while the real grown ups fail to make the gradet delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosemary HayesPhilip Reeve|title= The Mark|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary='She's his mark'. Rachel's on Utterly Dark and the Face of the run. Naïve, homeless and emotional, she's easy prey. But for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Miriam Moss |title=Girl on a PlaneDeep
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's September 1970 and 15 year old Anna In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on her a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way back to boarding school in Englandwest, beyond the Scillies. Friends There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of her the Dark family joke about the recent hijackings but Anna is far more concerned about leaving her home in Bahrain that has to keep watch for magical islands and their mongrel dogmonster approaching from even further west, Woofawhere no ship dare sail. These worries The current Darks arethe Watcher, howeverAndrewe, wiped who has to keep notes of activity from her mind when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas and diverted to a disused airstrip the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in the Jordanian desert. Here they are forced his head to wait for days with almost no food worry about such local yokel superstitions, and very little water while their captors issue their demands to Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the British governmentsea one day eleven years ago. If these demands But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not met within three days, they will blow up the plane killing all the hostages. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443316</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire McFall|title= Black Cairn Point|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Heather agrees to a camping holiday with Dougie and his friends because she's desperate to get closer to him. But when they disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, Heather becomes certain that they have woken a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in the pitch-black dark, Kiran Millwood Hargrave and it is planning deadly revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTom de Freston|title=One|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's always been Tippi-and-Grace. Never Tippi and Grace. These twins can't be separated - and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physically, too. Because Tippi Julia and Grace are conjoined twins. They have two heads, two hearts, two sets of lungs, two pairs of arms. But at the waist, they come together. Life hasn't been easy - their father has lost his job as a college professor and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at the bank to keep up the health insurance payments. Medical bills are crippling and money is tight, so tight that the twins are going to have stop being homeschooled and enroll in a "normal" school for the first time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and Feeling|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet the brain. We all have one. We all use it (and by 'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second of the day. We engage with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves in controlling a video game character, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body language. It's such a vital part of the body, taking up 20% of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an age. But in this varied and complex book, looking at a varied and complex subject, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all times.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rebecca Lim|title=The Astrologer's Daughter|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Horary Astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology in which an astrologer attempts to answer a question asked at an exact time by the construction of a horoscope around it. Clear as mud? Yes, me too. Suffice to say, an horary astrologer would have to be a very gifted individual indeed and Avicenna Crowe's mother, Joanne, is such an astrologer. In fact, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers and maniacally obsessed clients at the bad end of the scale to, well, worse. Sometimes ''much'' worse…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=Demon RoadShark
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Amber Lamont was a relatively ordinary 16-year-old, living a pretty quiet, uneventful life; she went to school, had a part-time job, and a decent relationship with her aloof but loving parents. But over the course of just one day everything goes completely to hell. Amber discovers that she can turn into a demon, a genuine, red-skinned, satanic monster, with horns and talons that can rip a human to shreds. Her demon side is the least of her problems, however. For Amber's parents are also demons, and now that her powers have manifested, they are intent on eating her and absorbing her power for themselves. Amber finds herself on the run, travelling the Demon Road across America in a desperate attempt to escape her parents, accompanied by Milo, an enigmatic guardian, who has dark secrets of his own.
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Downham
|title=Unbecoming
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Three women. Three sets of secrets about to be laid bare.
Katie lives with her learning-disable brother Chris and her rather controlling mother. They've recently moved to her mother's childhood town after Katie's father got a girlfriend and a new baby. Katie, a hardworking and dutiful girl, is halfway through her AS levels when everything - and I mean everything - goes wrong. First up, Katie kisses her best friend Esme. Esme rejects her and, worse still, tells all the mean girls at school what happened. They miss no opportunity to mock and name call. And then a phone call one night brings Mary into their lives...
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{{newreview
|author=Ursula Dubosarsky
|title=The Red Shoe
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=They may be quite far apartJulia, our pre-teen heroine, but three houses has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a row summer, in the rural suburbs far NE of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual peoplethe Scottish islands. In oneHere be Vikings, a solitary old man that kind of very few words, shuffling Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the end of lantern, which is his daysspecialist thing, but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, and with a gun while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the corner of his loungeelusive Greenland shark. In the middleAnd Julia, a family of fivewell, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due to the same war, a mother feeling friendless she will be homesick and alone in the isolated time and location, and their three daughters until she suddenly finds company one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radionight. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Libba BrayJonathan Stroud|title= Lair of DreamsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killerScarlett 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, Evie O'Neill has outed robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself as a Divineralive. With her uncanny ability to read people's secretsBut then she meets Albert Browne, she's a media darling. It seems like everyone's in love dark boy with New York City's latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'dark powers and a darker past. But while Evie is enjoying With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the high lifeLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois the cannibalistic Tainted and Ling Chan all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will fight to keep their powers secret.they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhiteMercedes Helnwein|title=Butterfly ShellSlingshot|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=One of the worst kind of nerve-wracking days Gracie Welles has arrived: that first day of Secondary Schoolresigned herself to being lonely. As we all remembera secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, thatshe is used to not being a priority in people's part scary, part exciting for any girl (or lives. But when she defends a random boy tooin her class with her slingshot, of course, but this her simple existence is a girls' school)changed for good. It's an age when you're anxious about making new friends and fitting No longer can she spend her time writing novels in anywaysolitude, but at ''for her'' new school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim to life now has a group of bullies. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Sixboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzT L Huchu|title= The Young WorldLibrary of the Dead|rating= 34.5
|genre= Teens
|summary= After Ropa Moyo is a mysterious sickness wipes ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out the rest of the populationschool, the young survivors band together in small tribesshe's been using it to support not only herself, desperately trying to rebuild their society of oldbut her younger sister and her aging grandmother. In New York CityHowever, Jeffersonthere's an evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, reluctant leader of targeting the tribe from Washington Squarecity's children. Soon, hears of a potential cure Ropa is pulled into the search for The Sickness. So, he and a squad missing boy at the request of heavily armed teens set out across New York in search of this curehis dead mother. Along the way they must avoid gangs and cults, She will end up discovering an occult library and brave realise that the perils world of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankindmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's futureve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn BennettKristen O'Neal|title=Night OwlsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Beatrix is a serious girl; small and slightHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, considered and studious 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 quiet determination to follow her dream bunch of becoming a medical illustratorother teens living with chronic illnesses. Pretty They talk about their troubles and petitehelp each other out, too quirky for jocks while also providing an escape to just joke and not quirky enough mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for hipstersa while, Beatrix knows that Jack is all the kinds of boys she should avoidPriya becomes concerned. Loose-limbed She decides to steal her parents' car and slim with drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a slash of unruly hair that works for him werewolf in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has cheekbones you can hang from and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transit, her world is turned upside downbeen talking to online for the past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1683692349
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{{newreview
|author=Rupert Wallis
|title=All Sorts of Possible
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''When the sinkhole opened, there was no time to break or turn the wheel, and the old green Land Rover was snatched off the dirt road over the smoking rim.''
 
Somehow, Daniel makes it out of the sinkhole and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father isn't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due 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 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 to trust her or open up to her...
... and there's a lot to open up about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Johnstone|title= The Mirror Chronicles: Circles of Stone|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Sylas Tate has been through a lot, considering he wasn't yet in his teens when his journeys began. His mother is lost, leaving him to the less than tender mercies of his uncle, and after a strange incident in book one of this series he found himself travelling to another world. Even more bizarre, while he was there he encountered Naeo, his other half – not some jokey reference to a future wife, but the true second part of his soul. The two worlds (ours, based on science, and the Other, based Move on magic) were once one, and it is the dearest wish of the down-trodden inhabitants Sylas meets to unite them again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katie Everson|title= Drop|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novel, ‘Drop,’ is a tale of grief and healing, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A-student, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined to change her predictable life. When her absentee mother is offered a job in London, Carla transfers to yet another school and this time she is desperate to not be overlooked. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]

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