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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J RyanMax Boucherat|title=Missing Dad: WantedThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Joe is in big trouble. HeWe meet Lori on the first evening she's been driving got the car his grandfather bought him before he's even house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old enough , 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 take Voxminer, the driving test. And been caught. Still worseworld-building, hecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's suspected of world. But first Lori has a hit-and-run and the police dontiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't look as though they believe him when he insists he - find herself entirely on her own, and his car - were nowhere near then she finds something even more spooky. For the sceneserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Mum is unimpressed but also worried When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and Joe feels horribly guilty. As if things couldn't be worseher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, Joe where is also suspended from school. a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Natasha CarthewRachel Greenlaw|title=The Light That Gets LostCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=At just seven years ''I can hear the song of age, Trey witnesses the murder sea. The call of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brother. He escapes deep, the attack by hiding answering beat in a wardrobe. After that, he is taken into caremy heart.''

We meet Trey again years laterRosevear, as an adolescenta remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. He's on his way to Camp KernowMira, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Treylike her mother before her, this is the realisation one of a longstanding plan - he believes that the man seven who murdered his parents works at swim out to survey the camp ruins – rescuing any survivors and he intends any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to find him end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and kill him. In TreyMira's mindfather. Desperate to save him from death, things are simple: find 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 mansea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, kill himas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, escape, rescue his brother from Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the care future of her home, live happily ever afterand the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Harry Allen|title=Once Upon a Place|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 Children 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Munson|title= The November Criminals|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Addison Schacht is a high school senior (that's sixth form if you're British) in Washington DC and a bit of a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgil's Aeineid - he owns three copies and reads from one of them every single day. He has applied to the University of Chicago, where he wants to study classics.So far, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peers. Hmm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Mulligan|title= Liquidator|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief as you enter the crazy, exciting and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulligan. You will encounter ruthless villains, non-stop danger, at least one near-death experience and a rather jolly lorry driver. Where does all this happen, you ask? In the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere way, way more dangerous. Work experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Yates|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 StrangerSun|rating=4.5

|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamian, who woke up Ra Eun Seo lives in hospital following a horrific North Korean town and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficshe is a talented singer. Bridget Life is told by a nurse that she hard and food is lucky difficult to be alive come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and that she must have survived the accident Min go foraging every evening, looking for a reason. Bridget, who has no real memory of tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the accident, has to miss a year meagre rations of school rice and on her return, tells everyone she now wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiAlexia Casale|title=Here Be Dragons Sing if you Can't Dance

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneSimon Fox|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDeadlock

|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

{{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

|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 to Londonbeen betrothed since they were tiny, where Mum's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century house, 47 Foster Square. But it's not quite ''home'' to London. They're not returning much to their old house but to another tinymutual disgust! Gwen, cramped flat. When asked whyyou see, all Mum will say is, "Ask your father."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero|title=The 50 States: Explore in love with Bridget (the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Childrenkingdom's Nononly female knight) -Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nationsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to 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 areas of the place , when really they call homeare enabling their own other romantic attachments. But while as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they get little sympathy from me when find a way in which they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would both truly be much harder for them if themselves, or are they actually lived in destined to live a large country, such as the USA. 50 lie their 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.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabel PitcherNick Brooks|title=Silence is GoldfishPromise Boys

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Skuse1919635017|title=MonsterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Username: EvieDifferent for Boys

|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 humans to be her friends, relationship and make the connection Evie has with them and them sex with her in return to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefit. But someone else has entered the E-Scape, and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|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 family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren ShanPatrice Lawrence|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Needle|rating= 43

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah MussiAnn Sei Lin|title= BreakdownRebel Skies

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMarcus Sedgwick|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Wrath

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaTori Bovalino|title=Fans of the Impossible Life|rating=3.5|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 is an artist, painfully shy and still struggling to get over the horrible incident that ruined his last year of school. Mira is cool and fashionable, but suffers from depression, constantly fighting against a sleep that threatens to overpower her for days on end. Then there's Sebby, flamboyant, irreverent and charming, but with hurt and troubles simmering behind his façade, and no family or support network to lean on. The powerful friendship and love that forms between them could save them from their broken selves, but it could just as easily drag them all down together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Courtney Sheinmel|title= EdgewaterDevil Makes Three|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Lorrie may run with the big dogs, but right now she's more of a mutt4. Her mother is AWOL and her aunt is becoming more eccentric by the day. She's politely asked to leave her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arrive, and so she sets off home to sort it all out. Again. It's becoming something of a habit this need to act the grown up while the real grown ups fail to make the grade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosemary Hayes|title= The Mark|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary='She's his mark'. Rachel's on 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 Plane|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= It's September 1970 and 15 year old Anna is on her way back to boarding school in England. Friends of her family joke about the recent hijackings but Anna is far more concerned about leaving her home in Bahrain and their mongrel dog, Woofa. These worries are, however, wiped from her mind when her plane is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas and diverted to a disused airstrip in the Jordanian desert. Here they are forced to wait for days with almost no food and very little water while their captors issue their demands to the British government. If these demands are not met within three days, they will blow up the plane killing all the hostages. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443316</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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, and it is planning deadly revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=One|author=Sarah Crossan|rating=5

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's always been Tippi-and-Gracelibrary 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. Never Tippi and GraceWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. These twins canThe boarding school't be separated - and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physicallys headmaster, too. Because Tippi and Grace are conjoined twinsa man Tess hates. They have two heads, two hearts, two sets As a petty act of lungsrevenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, two pairs Tess sticks post-it notes on each of arms. But at the waistbooks, they come togetherscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Life hasnThey't been easy - their father has lost his job as a college professor and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at the bank re never meant to keep up the health insurance paymentsreach him, of course. Medical bills are crippling and money Her plan is tightto get her anger out like this, so tight that the twins are going to have stop being homeschooled and enroll in a "normal" school then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for the first timeher.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil SethPhilip Reeve|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 (Utterly Dark and by 'it' I mean a heck of a lot more of it than the 10% of urban myth) every second Face 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 DaughterDeep

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Horary Astrology In a word, rich. There is certainly an ancient branch abundance of horoscopic astrology riches in which an astrologer attempts to answer this story set on a question asked at an exact time by peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the construction Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of a horoscope around itthe Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Clear as mud? YesThe current Darks are the Watcher, me Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too. Suffice much science in his head to sayworry about such local yokel superstitions, an horary astrologer would have to be a very gifted individual indeed and Avicenna CroweAndrewe's motherfoundling daughter, Joanne, is such an astrologerwho washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. In factBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers both his sullen brother and maniacally obsessed clients at his curious ward are thrust into the bad end world of the scale toprotecting their island, well, worselike it or not. Sometimes ''much'' worse…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Derek LandyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Demon RoadJulia and the Shark

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Libba BrayJonathan Stroud|title= Lair of DreamsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhiteMercedes Helnwein|title=Butterfly ShellSlingshot|rating=53

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzT L Huchu|title= The Young WorldLibrary of the Dead|rating= 34.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenn BennettKristen O'Neal|title=Night OwlsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses

|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

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]]