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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Candy HarperMax Boucherat|title=Keep The FaithLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= The basics of We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the plot here are that Faith is going house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a French exchangeblanket fort, she has one main intention, which best friend Megs and that is strangely reluctant to join her log onto Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Meanwhile there But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more boy trouble, while spooky. For the server she's also trying and her bestie and nobody else should be able to juggle revising for exams enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and applying to become a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice her safe place in the minds of certain teachers!) The plot game has been doctored – well, where is never really the main point of a Faith book though - instead it's a welcome way girl to catch up with one of the best friendship groups in recent YA fiction.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dan CornsRachel Greenlaw|title=Lucerin: IdentityCompass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Aiden Chase seems''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the face of itwrecks. Mira, to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bulliesher mother before her, homework is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and girlsany treasure that lies within. He has no idea that he has Lucerin blood; But when the key Council Watch lays a trap to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and even materialising solid items Mira's father. Desperate to save him from thin air. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to one person guide her, she sets off in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head search of a group of powerful Lucerin who 'pull family secret that lies buried deep in the strings' behind the world scenessea. Initially a force for peaceWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in watched streets of foreign islands to the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have heart of the power smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to change all save the future of that her home and bring harmony to the Lucerin once more?ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Malala YousafzaiHarry Allen|title= I Am MalalaChildren of the Sun|rating= 5|genre= AutobiographyTeens|summary= ''She's Ra Eun Seo lives in a phenomenon'' North Korean town and she is my OH's response to any mention of Malalaa talented singer. I can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves Life is that on another she hard and food is just a girl. One voice among many. It's just that she decided difficult to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot come by the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got so Seo and her to a hospital, friends Nari and then luckier still because when her condition worsenedMin go foraging every evening, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities looking for tree bark and she was flown edible grasses to supplement the UK for treatmentmeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyAlexia Casale|title=Anything That IsnSing if you Can't ThisDance|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Frank Palp lives in a dull, dystopian world, where It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'The Grey'' pervades every aspect of re having to navigate a life-changing disability too, from but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the food middle of a dance performance that was going to the architecturechange her life. So insidious are these changes But she comes back fighting, that no-one seems desperate to have noticed themavoid the pity stares, apart from Frank. His family, schoolmates and society in general seem desperate to be completely oblivious get back to the sinister nature of the world around them and seem strangely content with the status quoa life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. The all-powerful ''Ministry Meanwhile there'' has s a stranglehold on everything and everyonenew (cute!) boy in school, with each household having its own assigned studenther music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, who records everything and reports suspicious activity just the day to day traumas of all the mysterious Mr Vertexchallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Frank thinks he is the only person who hates this oppressive world, but one day he finds a message in a bottle with a wish for ''anything that isn So even though she can't thisdance anymore,'' and goes on a desperate search for the person who wrote it; his potential soul-mate.might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471404641</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E R MurraySimon Fox|title= The Book of LearningDeadlock|rating= 4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= An orphan with only her beloved grandpa for company, Ebony Smart's world Late one night Graham Blake is turned upside down when he dies. Sent to Dublin to live with an Aunt she didn't know existedlate back from his shift on the force, Ebony soon discovers that her new homeand then suddenly rings Archie, 23 Mercury Lanedemanding he fetch something from a secret place, is full of secretsand join him on the run. Discovering that she They get together, but barely begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is part of an ancient order of people who have arrested, leaving Archie on the power late express to reincarnateBrighton, Ebony is soon under threat from toting a terrible evil that threatens tin his father was determined to destroy their existence. With just her pet rat Winstonkeep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a mysterious book to help her, she must figure out why her people are disappearing and how to save their souls, and her own, before time runs out…whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781173621</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonLex Croucher|title=Boy 23Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Boy 23 isn't Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in My Place any morea most delightful way. He can't In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see The Screen, he can't hear The Voice. Boy 23 is alone.'' Before being dumped alone in love with Bridget (the forest by The Voice, Boy 23 kingdom's only female knight) - or Jesper, as we shall call him - has lived in a room entirely by himselfsomething that Art discovers from her private diaries. He has never met another human being or been outside. His only experience of the world has been through And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a few short video clipsboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, shown to him on his Screen by The Voice creating the subterfuge of falling in My Placelove with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. Now But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, he finds himself alone with only will they find a bag full of survival equipment and some brief words from The Voice: his life is way in dangerwhich they can both truly be themselves, people have been sent or are they destined to kill him, he must head north west to the Low Countries, The Voice will meet him there and explain everything.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408822776</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinNick Brooks|title=Wolf by WolfPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= It's 1956. And a very different world from When the one you'd expect. Germany won World War II and the Nazi project principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is in full flow. Lebensraum is expanding. The extermination project has spread to Slavs. Defeated Britain is irrelevant and the United States is pursuing an isolationist policymurdered, hoping Nazism never makes it to three boys find themselves called into the Americaspolice station as suspects. The main Axis powers Each, seemingly, has a grudge of Germany some description against Principal Moore, and Japan each could have pretty much divided territory between thembeen there at the time of his murder. To commemorate a victorious war But who killed him, and why, and if any of the two powers host the annual Axis Tourboys are innocent, a continental motorcycle race. The previous year, it was won for the first time by a girl: Adele Wolfe disguised as her brother Felix.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622023</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J Ryan1919635017|title=Missing Dad: WantedA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Joe Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is in big troublehe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. HeBut I's ll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been driving restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the car his grandfather bought him before he's even football team, and two other old enough muckers – in fact they all go back to take primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the driving testleash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. And been caught. Still worse Which is confusing for Ant, as hedoesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's suspected of had a casual relationship, a hit-and-run secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the police donladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't look as though they believe him when be sure. And that's mostly because of who he insists he - 's been having the relationship and his car - were nowhere near the scene. Mum is unimpressed but also worried and Joe feels horribly guilty. As if things couldn't be worse, Joe is also suspended from schoolsex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Carthew1800901232|title=The Light That Gets LostStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=At just seven years of age, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brotherTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. He escapes Life in the attack by hiding in a wardrobe. After thatrural village where she lived with her family was happy, he is taken into care. We meet Trey again years laterif not prosperous, as an adolescent. He's on his way to Camp Kernow, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Trey, this is so when the realisation of a longstanding plan smartly- he believes that the dressed man who murdered his parents works at the camp and he intends woman came to find him and kill him. In Trey's mind, things are simple: find the man, kill him, escape, rescue his brother from the care home, live happily ever after.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|title=Once Upon village to offer Hahn 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 job in Hanoi it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of was an up-and-coming author opportunity not to be recognisable; rather, it was pridemissed. Pride in Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the difference of it, of the Irishness of itmini-bus to Hanoi. IrelandOnly, it seems Hanh and the other girls were not going to mework in a shop, 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 they were to have pride attached to themwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. The places might not be You know those jeans you really wanted: the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, with intricate embroidery and of stories, which is where this compilation of short works for beading on the young comes in, legs? The ones with the authors invited to select their chosen place artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and write about ither co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam MunsonPatrice Lawrence|title= The November CriminalsNeedle|rating= 4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Addison Schacht 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 high school senior (thatpleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's sixth form if youold room while he're British) s at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in Washington DC need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a bit wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgilyounger sister she's Aeineid - he owns three copies allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and reads from one of them every single day. He has applied then force people to the University of Chicagogive her two days off school, where he wants to study classicswhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then...So farwell, so model pupil, right?The thing what exactly happens isnot for me to say, Addison is also a consistent truant only to remark how sharp and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peerspointy those knitting needles can be... Hmm!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy MulliganAnn Sei Lin|title= LiquidatorRebel Skies
|rating= 5
|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief Kurara has spent her entire life as you enter a servant on the crazyMidori, exciting and thoroughly silly world a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the new book by the fantabulous Andy MulliganEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. You will encounter ruthless villainsHowever, non-stop dangerwhen a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, at least one near-death experience and someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a rather jolly lorry driverpower sought after all across the Empire. Where does He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all this happenshe has known. Well, you ask? In soon Kurara won't have any say in the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In matter, because the secret laboratory of Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere wayshikigami, way more dangerous. Work experienceand she is forced to flee out into the world.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander YatesMarcus Sedgwick|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 StrangerWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget BarsamianMeet Fitz, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates and New York trafficyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Bridget Lockdown is told by a nurse that she is lucky only just over, and he should be free to be alive and that she must have survived the accident for a reason. Bridgetdo what he wants, who has no real memory of the accident, has to miss a year of school go where he wants and on her return, tells everyone she now with whom he wants to be known as Bridge, as, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Here Be Dragons |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Few people would be happy living but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially it when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way he talks to charge your phonehis best friend, no telly and no Christmas dinnerCassie. But when you’re sixteenThey were half of a desultory school band, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearablebut Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. All Ellie wants is a regular ‘four-by-four life’ Is this connected with four walls around one of her and four wheels under her, all designed to keep her safe. But safe eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is one thing that Ellie’s not destined to be … not from the moment already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she glimpses just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the strange boy through the mist and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he iscan't... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneTori Bovalino|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Pierrot. As a very young child Working all summer in 1930s Paris he her boarding school's library is going the last thing Tess Matheson wants to have do — especially when she gets a very awkward journey through his young life. His father is request for over a violent drunk, reacting badly hundred books that she has to what he saw in WWI, and although married to a French woman, deliver herself. What makes it worse is still staunchly Germanthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. That woman, Emilie, is going to dieThe boarding school's headmaster, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where he is bulliedman Tess hates. But from the reaches As a petty act of Europe revenge for making her find and from deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the black corners ugliest insults she can think of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give . They're never meant to reach him a home, of a kindcourse. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, at a most unusual mountaintop buildingand then take them all off before delivering them. ItNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's not t delivered them for her home – she just works there and had to ask special permission from someone special. The place? The Berghof.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonPhilip Reeve|title=DreamlandUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in several townsthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always British but way west, beyond the sameScillies. She'd make a friend There are troll people on it, and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy sea-witches, and legends of the friend wouldn't talk Dark family that has to her. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from time to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreamseven further west, where no ship dare sail. There The current Darks are rules that the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep her safe when she's doing this but when Connor moves notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to the neighbourhood the rules become far less important worry about such local yokel superstitions, and thatAndrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousAndrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rob KeeleyJulia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=EllieJulia, Charlie and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home to Londonour pre-teen heroine, 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 to their old house but to another tiny, cramped flat. When asked why, all Mum will say is, "Ask your father."|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol Linero|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 has 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 packed off with a rich history of their own, their own famous places her parents and their own noted people – cat from 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 Goldfish|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 is family home in her father's study, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secret. Suddenly, for Tess, everything has changed. She decides to run away but chickens out at the last minute. As her life falls apart, Tess retreats into selective mutism and her only conversations are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=C J Skuse|title=Monster|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=More than anything else, sixteen year-old Nash wants SW England to be Head Girl of Bathory School. Indeed she's willing to put up with almost anything to get the top job. But, just when she's poised to be awarded the role, everything starts to unravel. Nash and lighthousekeepers for a group of school misfits have to stay at school over the Christmas holidays andsummer, trapped by the worst weather in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives. Not everyone is going to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joe Sugg|title=Username: Evie|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated at school – for a trendy and attractive girl, nobody at all seems to have any time for her, apart from the geeky card-collecting boy with far NE of the milk-bottle glasses on the busScottish islands. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house – after allHere be Vikings, she must be a witch to live there. It's not that she would wish to live there, with nobody else around, and the memory kind of her deceased motherScottish island. But luckily someone Dad is choosing a place for her –her father is able going to put all his work into a cyber-world for her, be automating the E-Scapelantern, which is close to the perfect world. All that remains is to programme the humans to his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her friends, and make the connection Evie has with them and them with her career in return algae behind to be of mutual, confirming, happy benefithunt the elusive Greenland shark. But someone else has entered the E-ScapeAnd Julia, well, she will be homesick and their influence seems all that much more powerful than Evie's tentative happiness…alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanJonathan Stroud|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
|rating= 4
|genre=Teens
|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!
 
If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!
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{{newreview
|author= Sarah Mussi
|title= Breakdown
|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= From Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the start draconian conformity of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the hand wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and doesn’t let goshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She uses shortBut then she meets Albert Browne, sharpa dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, savage sentences they plan to urge them flee to follow her protagonist Melissa on a terrifying odyssey into a relentlessly brutal world where only the meanestmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, smartest they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and toughest survive. It is a horrific vision all the horrors of a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiationto reach the Free Isles, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fear, poverty, corrupt militarisation and anarchy. Ravenous dogs roam the streets and but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the stench rest 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 foreverBritain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMercedes Helnwein|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Slingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=(By the way there are spoilers ahead – this is definitely a series to be read in order, starting from [[Tesla 1 by Mark Lingane|Tesla 1]] ). Alone again now that Melanie Gracie Welles has been killed, Sebastian makes it resigned herself to North Americabeing lonely. Far from it being the land As a secret illegitimate daughter of promise it a man with a "real" family, she is used to benot being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, the country her simple existence is now an apocalyptic ruinchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, full of people scavenging for their survival and the Infected forging her life now has a path of worse-than-death and destruction. Sebastian needs to focus on his ultimate challenge as foreseen boy in a rather scary way but there's a small matter distracting himit that she never asked for: who's firing rockets at him?Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1515000796</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaT L Huchu|title=Fans The Library of the Impossible LifeDead|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 together4. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Courtney Sheinmel|title= Edgewater|rating= 5
|genre= Teens
|summary= Lorrie may run with Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the big dogsdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, but right now she's more of a mutt. Her mother is AWOL been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aunt is becoming more eccentric by the dayaging grandmother. SheHowever, there's politely asked to leave her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arrivean evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, and so she sets off home to sort it all out. Again. Ittargeting the city's becoming something of children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a habit this need to act missing boy at the grown request of his dead mother. She will end up while discovering an occult library and realise that the real grown ups fail world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to make the grade.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Rosemary HayesKristen O'Neal|title= The MarkLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins 'She's his markOof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. RachelThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's on t respond to the runchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Naïve, homeless She decides to steal her parents' car and emotional, shedrive to Brigid's easy preyhouse to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for whom?that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>1683692349
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