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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa KeilMax Boucherat|title=The Incredible Adventures Last Life of Cinnamon GirlLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide what We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to do with the rest of their lives. Move herself – no neighbour to the city? Enrol pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at universitywork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Get a job and make a life Snuggled in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career in art blanket fort, she has one main intention, and comic books is possible. And if it that isto log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? Ithit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a frightening choicetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Is For the server she good enough? And and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in any case, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member of it game has the same choice before them.been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Becca Fitzpatrick Rachel Greenlaw|title=Dangerous Lies Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Whisked ''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 witness protection programmerocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, 17 year old Estellathey capture the island's life is turned upside down. Sheleader and Mira's torn away father. Desperate to save him from her long-term boyfriend death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and forced with only coordinates to abandon both guide her friends and her identity, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Leaving city life behind With only nine days to unearth what might save herfather, sheas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's convinced there is no way she will territory, Mira must be able determined to adapt stop at nothing to Thunder Basin, Nebraska. But, then, save the future of her home and the ones she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next doorholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gary D SchmidtHarry Allen|title=Orbiting JupiterChildren of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Twelve year-old Jack Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Josepha talented singer. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen year-olds. He's troubled: the rumour Life is hard and food is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for trying tree bark and edible grasses to kill his teacher. And there's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughtersupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A A Milne and E H ShepardAlexia Casale|title=Winnie-the-Pooh's Little Book Of Wisdom|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=For a Bear of Very Little Brain Winnie-the-Pooh talks an awful lot of sense and we should be honoured that he's chosen to share with us a few of his wise words. You see, occasionally (well, an awful lot of the time, Sing if weyou Can're honest) we look for wisdom in the wrong places and forget about those who have a very simple approach to life and who may well have discovered the secret of happiness. Pooh's take on life is very simple and none the worse for that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405281278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison |title=Never Evers|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Two English schools, six 14 year-old friends and a ski / snowboarding trip to France. Add a 15 year-old French popstar shooting his latest video and you have the perfect recipe for a light-hearted and funny teen romance. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002364</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Candy Harper|title=Keep The Faitht Dance

|summary= The basics of the plot here are that Faith is going on a French exchange, which best friend Megs is strangely reluctant to join her on. Meanwhile thereIt's more boy trouble, while shehard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's also trying re having to juggle revising for exams and applying to become a prefect (despite perhaps being a less than obvious choice in the minds of certain teachers!) The plot is never really the main point of navigate a Faith book though life- instead itchanging disability too, but that's a welcome way to catch up what Ven is dealing with one of the best friendship groups after collapsing on stage in recent YA fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124193</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Corns|title=Lucerin: Identity|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Aiden Chase seems, on the face middle of it, to be a normal teenage schoolboy facing real-world issues like bullies, homework and girls. He has no idea dance performance that he has Lucerin blood; the key was going to unlocking uncanny abilities like stopping time and even materialising solid items from thin airchange her life. This legacy has made Aiden very desirable But she comes back fighting, desperate to one person in particular: Lukas Voorman. Voorman is head of a group of powerful Lucerin who 'pull the strings' behind avoid the world scenes. Initially a force for peacepity stares, the Lucerin mission has been slowly corrupted in the last few years. Could a boy like Aiden have the power and desperate to change all of that and bring harmony get back to the Lucerin once more?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955078083</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malala Yousafzai|title= I Am Malala|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= ''She's a phenomenon'' is my OHlife that's response to any mention of Malala. I as normal as she can't disagree on some level, but what this book proves is that on another she is just a girlpossibly manage. One voice among many. ItMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just that she decided the day to speak louder than most. We know about Malala because she got lucky. She got lucky because when she got shot by day traumas of all the Taliban there were people nearby, doctors who got challenges her body continues to a hospital, and then luckier still because when throw at her condition worsenedto navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, nearby there were western doctors with access to western facilities and might she was flown be able to the UK for treatment.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622163</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleySimon Fox|title=Anything That Isn't ThisDeadlock

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jim CarringtonLex Croucher|title=Boy 23Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ryan GraudinNick Brooks|title=Wolf by WolfPromise Boys

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J Ryan1919635017|title=Missing Dad: WantedA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Natasha Carthew1800901232|title=The Light That Gets LostStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|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>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam MunsonPatrice Lawrence|title= The November CriminalsNeedle|rating= 4.53

|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

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Andy MulliganAnn Sei Lin|title= LiquidatorRebel Skies

|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 all this happenHe asks her to come with him, you ask? In to leave the mountain-top fastness life of some evil spy? In dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere waymatter, 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 because the Midori is destroyed by a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions. They have monstrous paper spirit known as a knight for a father! This eccentricity is both entertaining shikigami, and a good thing - because Sam she is forced to flee out into the only parental figure in their lives. Axel and Tess's mother died when Axel was born. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescenceworld. She and Sam enjoy sparring over joins Himura aboard the care of AxelOrihime, who has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late mother. Axel sky-ship whose express purpose isto hunt down shikigami, well, an individual child, currently haunted by and a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhere.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadMarcus Sedgwick|title=Goodbye StrangerWrath

|summary= The book opens with Meet Fitz, a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamianyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, who woke up in hospital following a horrific and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and New York trafficwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Bridget is told by They were half of a nurse that desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she is lucky to be alive and that she must have survived could hear a subhuman hum coming from the accident for a reasonearth. Bridget, who has no real memory Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the accident, has to miss world is already a year done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of school and on her return, tells everyone music she's dreaming of? Is she now wants to be known as Bridgejust bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, as, ''I donnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't feel like Bridget anymore''...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Mussi|title=Here Be Dragons |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Few people would be happy living in a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way to charge your phone, no telly and no Christmas dinner. But when you’re sixteen, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearable. All Ellie wants is a regular ‘four-by-four life’ with four walls around her and four wheels under her, all designed to keep her safe. But safe is one thing that Ellie’s not destined to be … not from the moment she glimpses the strange boy through the mist and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) he is. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John BoyneTori Bovalino|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainDevil Makes Three

|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

{{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

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|authortitle=Rob KeeleyJulia and the Shark

|summary=EllieJulia, Charlie our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and Mum have left Inchwood Manor and are headed their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to Londonbe automating the lantern, where Mum's latest ''Journeyback'' project which is renovating an old 18th century househis specialist thing, 47 Foster Square. But it's not quite ''home'' while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to Londonhunt the elusive Greenland shark. They're not returning to their old house but to another tiny And Julia, cramped flat. When asked whywell, all Mum she will say is, "Ask your fatherbe homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night."|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroJonathan Stroud|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=2.54|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of geography about their nationthe Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. People just don't seem With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to have learnt about or been flee to other areas the mythical Free Isles of the place they call homeLondon Lagoon. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prizeTogether, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large countrymust brave man-eating wildlife, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, cannibalistic Tainted and all with a rich history the horrors of their ownpost-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, their own famous places and their own noted people – but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot rest of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Annabel PitcherMercedes Helnwein|title=Silence is GoldfishSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, sheis used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a Pluto and random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her parents wanted life now has a Mercury or Venus, at leastboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|author= T L Huchu|title= The Library of the Dead|rating= 4.''5|genre= TeensWhen Tess |summary= Ropa Moyo is in a 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 of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her fatheraging grandmother. However, there's studyan evil stalking the ruined streets of Edinburgh, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secrettargeting the city's children. SuddenlySoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for Tess, everything has changeda missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She decides to run away but chickens out at will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the last minuteworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. As her life falls apartWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, Tess retreats into selective mutism and or will it claim her only conversations are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torch.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=C J SkuseKristen O'Neal|title=MonsterLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5

|summary=More than anything elseHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, sixteen year-old Nash wants Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be Head Girl in constant pain for the rest of Bathory Schoolher life. Indeed She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she's willing talks to put up a bunch of other teens living with almost anything to get the top jobchronic illnesses. ButThey talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just when shejoke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn's poised t respond to be awarded the rolechat for a while, everything starts Priya becomes concerned. She decides to unravelsteal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. Nash and But what she doesn't expect to find there is a group of school misfits have to stay at school over werewolf in the Christmas holidays basement – and, trapped by for that werewolf to be the worst weather in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting girl she has been talking to online for their lives. Not everyone is going to survivethe past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>1683692349

If you haven't read the Move on to [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first bookNewest Thrillers Reviews]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sarah Mussi|title= Breakdown|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= From the start of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand and doesn’t let go. She uses short, sharp, savage sentences to urge them to follow her protagonist Melissa on a terrifying odyssey into a relentlessly brutal world where only the meanest, smartest and toughest survive. It is a horrific vision of a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, 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 the stench 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>}}