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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=Everwild|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventure, part philosophical enquiry, and part coming <!-of-age story that began with Everlost in this followRemove -up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor. Everlost is a kind of limbo and home to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever the light actually is. Adults never make it there, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightower, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place and she "saves" the Afterlights she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gemma MalleyLeanne Egan|title=The ReturnersLover Birds|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Ducks are cool. Whatever happens, whatever gets thrown at them, they just carry on, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling4.'' Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He has precious little to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures|rating=5

|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious When new stranger in a small towngirl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. They fall in love A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, he finds out and she's harbouring never had a dark secret, the pair good kiss with any of them try ? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to find hang out if their relationship can work while with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>000862657X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam MillsAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=BlackoutWild East

|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny'I am s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a murderermostly white school.  The move is initiated by Ronny'Is mum who is worried for Ronny'm standing s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a bookshopnew town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a gun hot in my palmrapper. The bullet that sat But now, in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced fleshthis new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, blown into brain tissueslowly, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont the floor. Blood Ronny begins to trickle from her head. It drips onto a pile see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of signed copies stacked on the floorcreativity and crafting your words.' Oh my word! What an explosive beginning to a book! But what made a boy do something like this? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk>0241645441

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ebony McKennaJenny Valentine|title=Ondine: The Summer of ShamblesUs in the Before and After|rating=35

|summary=Ondine de Groot wants out of psychic summercamp, so together with her pet ferret Shambles, she flees from the tea leaf readings Elk and astral projection classes, back to her family's restaurant. OnlyMab are best friends, as soon as she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voices. Specifically a broad Scottish voice – one or more than that seems to be coming from her ferret. Shambles, it transpireseven, their friendship is a once in fact a man, turned into a ferret by a witchlifetime connection. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like They meet as children one day on a mantrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, but her imaginings and they are soon interrupted by the arrival of handsome Lord Vincentinseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, son of the Dukeand their friendship, who sets Ondine's heart flutteringtogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>1471196585

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laurie Halse AndersonMax Boucherat|title=ChainsThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=In this third adventureWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Jackmother at work, a fourteen just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgilon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, a bad-tempered shield maidenshe has one main intention, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue and that is to log on a quest to quell Voxminer, the draugr world- the malevolent spirit of building, critter-collecting game that is a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned hit in Lori's world. to JackBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's village and who seeks revenge for t find herself entirely on her earlier ill treatment at human hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Hostage (Medusa Project)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenagers Nicoown, Kitty, Ed and Dylan were implanted with the Medusa gene when they were babiesthen she finds something even more spooky. Now they're adolescents, For the intended psychic abilities are coming server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the fore. Nico has the power enter shows signs of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mindtampering. Ed can read other people's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and no weapon can harm her. Kitty safe place in the game has visions that predict the future. been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane HarkerRachel Greenlaw|title=House of SecretsCompass and Blade

|summary=Jane has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving from place to place, never staying in ''I can hear the same school for long, and always reminded song of her mother's money worries, Jane longs for the kind sea. The call of life where she can just be a kidthe deep, and not have to deal with adult problemsthe answering beat in my heart. ''

When she's sent to stay at Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her sister's student digs, is one of the Laurels, things go from bad seven who swim out to worsesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The Laurels is But when the Council Watch lays a decrepit Victorian Townhousetrap to end the wrecking, freezing coldthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with no foodonly coordinates to guide her, and she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to make matters worseunearth what might save her father, Janeas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's sisterterritory, Billa, doesn't even want Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her therehome and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentHarry Allen|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater with high hopes. He wants to study, become a surgeon, work hard and make a better life for himself. But when the school he enrolled in turns out to be a deserted building, his money is swindled from him, and he's framed for breaking into a shop, he's ready to turn round and go back to the country. His last hope is to collect a volume Children of local stories for a back-alley publisher. One by one, he hunts down the tellers of these grisly tales and records their words, but it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330479512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Dickinson|title=WESun

|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from the World Ear Ra Eun Seo lives in readiness for a mission that will last North Korean town and she is a lifetimetalented singer. Sent Life is hard and food is difficult to man a tiny station built at enormous effort come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar systemMin go foraging every evening, he will never be able looking for tree bark and edible grasses to return. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wasted, his bones enbrittled without supplement the strength meagre rations of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there rice and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfullykimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerAlexia Casale|title=Furnaces of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], itSing if you Can's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Saci Lloyd|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017t Dance

|summary=It's been hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a year since we read life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a diary entry from Laura Browndance performance that was going to change her life. We left her with a boyfriend But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and just about adjusted desperate to get back to a Britain life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the full throes day to day traumas of carbon rationingall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Her nu-punk band, ''dirty angels'', hadn So even though she can't quite made itdance anymore, but things were looking rather promising for its future. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=My Love Lies Bleeding|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Solange Drake hates being the only born female vampire. Not only does she have to put up with her pheromones making her irresistible to male vampires, who all want to use her to start their own vampire families, she has a prophecy looming over her head, one that states a female Drake vampire will overthrow the current ruler to become Queen of the Vampires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Markus Zusak|title=Fighting Ruben Wolfe|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The Wolfe family are only just getting by. Times are hard for Cameron and his older brother Ruben. Their father has been injured at work and even though he's mostly recovered now, he's finding it hard to get jobs and the ultimate emasculation of the dole is looming ever nearer. Older brother Steve has ambitions and he can't wait to get out of the house. Sister Sarah is drinking too much and getting a tarty reputation at school. Their mother's fighting to hold things together, but it's taking a heavy toll. Cameron and Rube can't even manage to win a bet at the dog track - even when they get a policeman to put it on for them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862309574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=John WardSimon Fox|title=The Comet's ChildDeadlock

|summary=Teenage Fin Late one night Graham Blake is rescued late back from his remote forest home by Raggshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the first man he has ever encounteredrun. Having such a sheltered childhood has equipped Fin with They get together, but barely begin to smell the speech and education whiff of a nobleman's son but little idea about Southern trains when the real world. Other than relying father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his instincts father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and resourcefulness, Fin has no way the bearer of a whole heap of knowing who to trust, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Raggquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerLex Croucher|title=The Stone CrownGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Yeaveburgh - yet a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back were tiny, much to the town in which he was born because his mother and sistertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, archaeologistsyou see, are working on a dig nearby. His father is in a care home, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to love with Bridget (the town to live with kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdoseprivate diaries. Emlyn is quiet and shy, And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a bit geekyboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and lonely. Maxine is lonely toocreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, but she'd never admit itwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and yet will they both have find a nagging sense that way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are where they were meant destined to be. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreview|author=Tonya Hurley |title=Ghostgirl|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlotte Usher is desperate to be popular. She has spent the entire summer break transforming herself to try and fit in with the 'in' crowd all in an attempt to try and attract the attention of Damen, a popular and handsome jock. Yet even after all her hard work she still remains invisible at best, despised at worst. Finally, in a moment of tragic bad luck, Charlotte chokes on a gummy bear, alone in a classroom, and dies. This isn't the end of the story however, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Anthony Horowitz Nick Brooks|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)Promise Boys

|summary=Last time we left Zoey, she'd just banished Kalona, an ancient fallen immortal, from When the Tulsa House principal (headmaster) of NightUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, along with evil High Priestess Neferetthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Stevie Rae's Red Fledglings were regaining their humanity Each, but Starkseemingly, second ever Red Vampirehas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, was badly injuredand each could have been there at the time of his murder. Her official boyfriend was Erik But who killed him, but she's re-Imprinted with Humanand why, Heathand if any of the boys are innocent, and Stark had pledged a Warrior's Oath will they be able to her.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654804</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood1919635017|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and Ciphers|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphers. It's not just the spies with their secret world, it's the mystery of an ostensibly random set of letters or pictures. It's being able to unravel them and see what they're hiding. It's a combination of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are cool, so there) and uncovering the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us Thief to Catch a history of codes and ciphers, looking at their creation, the stories behind them, and how to crack them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|title=Daughter of Fire and IceKitt Townsend|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Welcome to Viking times4. The land is ruled by a pitiless and greedy Chieftain, Bjorn Svanson, who always gets what he wants. And what he wants is Thora. She is a healer – very useful when you're going to set out on a voyage, and also very pretty. The Chieftain's destination is the land of fire and ice, also known as Iceland. Impatiently, the Chieftain kidnaps Thora, but what he doesn't know is that Thora has powers. Yes, a historical fantasy where the heroine has powers – didn't see that coming did you? She can read auras and at times, see the future. And what she sees is her new master's murder. Before you know it, he has been stabbed and Thora and a mysterious male slave are free. What is their destination still? The land of fire and ice. Impersonating Bjorn Svanson, the male slave commandeers his ships and they sail away to Iceland, where a precarious future awaits. Will Svanson's men follow them across the oceans for revenge? Can they live with what they have done? Will they ever get a chance to be together? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728814</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lili St Crow|title=Betrayals: A Strange Angels Novel|rating=45

|summary=To startSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, I have to cover the ground of the mythology of this so why is he running around London committing a series. Humans, vampires and werewolves all live in this world, and both species of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'the other' ll have people halfway turned. Vampires and werewolves aren't exactly the sort to mix with each other - one liking wait to get an answer to spill blood, the others going into feeding frenzies every time they smell itsecond question because I avoid spoilers. In a previous book, our heroine Dru, has realised her best friend can become semi-wolf in a shape-changing way, and sheBut I's tending to ll answer the vampire side of thingsfirst one: for his grandmother.. She's also discovered a very strong threat against her life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161283</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=HungerDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=The kids of Perdido Beach are still within the FAYZAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, a barrier erected by Little Pete - no-one knows how - when the nuclear plant went into meltdown. An uneasy truce between Sam's tribe of Perdido Beach kids and Caine's Coates Academy kids is beginning surprised to waver. The food find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is running out and the Darkness ever learnt) has its claws in all those it's encountered. Caine himself been restructured, so his desk is reduced to delirium by the voice one of four with both his best buddy from the Darkness football team, and two other old muckers – in his head and Lana the healer knows it's inevitable that she too will answer its call. Sam is struggling fact they all go back to keep any form of orderprimary school days together. As more and more kids begin to develop special powers and they're all fired up, straining at the hunger bites deeper into everyone's belliesleash only a single-sex school can form, it's inevitable that conflict will break the talk in class and outoften turns to sex. And it does Which is confusing for Ant, in some very unpleasant ways. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405251522</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rachel Caine|title=Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=If you havenas he doesn't alreadyknow what his score is, meet Clairewhere his achievements in that regard lie. She is beholden to Mr BishopHe's had a casual relationship, a secret one, the horrid evil vampire that is ruling the town of Morganvillefor several months now, even more and so than has effectively progressed up the other human, and vampireladder headed by 'experienced', inhabitants are, now but whether that he has taken over things from Claire's former ruler Amelie. She is caught set in a struggle between the two warring vampire factionsstone, especially over an unusual form of disease among the undead - Ameliehe can's side definitely trying to cure it, Bishop somehow trying to provoke it and profit from itt be sure. Not only And that, her boyfriend is imprisoned, along with his father, one 's mostly because of the worldwho he's least subtle vampire hunters. Can she have enough quality time with him? Can she and her captured-been having the relationship and-turned ex-housemate Michael survive the horrid things asked of them? And who is Ada?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>074900777X</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne Dahme 1800901232|title=Tombstone Tea|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Having recently moved to a new school, in a new town, Jessie is struggling to make friends and fit in. She is afraid to show these new people who she really is - in her old school she often found she had 'blank' moments, when she could hear voices and 'see' people who weren't really there. In desperation to become part of a 'group' she accepts the dare of a group of girls to spend the night in the Cemetery and collect some gravestone rubbings to prove she was there. Once there she bumps into Paul, the handsome caretaker, and finds herself in the middle of a strange evening when, Paul claims, local actors get together to rehearse for something called the 'Tombstone Tea', a play in which they portray those buried in the graveyard...there's something strange though about these actors and Jessie soon finds herself caught up in a chilling drama.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762437189</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=K M Grant|title=Paradise Red (Perfect Fire Trilogy)Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=We are back Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the south of France for rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the third smartly-dressed man and final timewoman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. In one corner, the 'French', with King Louis Some money changed hands and his henchmen rampaging through, warring in Hanh was on the name of peacemini-bus to Hanoi. In another cornerOnly, Hanh and the local peopleother girls were not going to work in a shop, struggling they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the harsh environment ones with intricate embroidery and none too pleased to see their corner of beading on the world the location for religious wars, legs? The ones with the Cathar ''heretics'' also present. The lines are drawn, in a realistically convoluted way, artfully-placed rips and this book will see one of our heroes cross one such line, just as other people make their own momentous decisions. distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It will take all the narrative skills of the land itself to get the story across to us's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847247075</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Mary Naylus|title=The Dresskeeper|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Things are pretty grim for Picky. She is thirteen years old, being bullied at school, and has to spend her weekends helping her single, working mum to take care of her little brother and her senile grandmother. One evening, at her Gran's house, she goes up into the attic and tries on an old dress that she finds inside an old chest. The dress turns out to be magic, and she suddenly finds herself back in 17th Century London, struggling with a strange man who is calling her 'Amelia' and is trying to kill her. Picky ends up embroiled in Amelia's 17th century life as she tries to find out the truth of who is attempting to murder her, at the same time as trying to avoid arousing suspicion with her strange behaviour whenever she returns to the present day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956122280</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Rick Yancey|title=The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In late 19th century America, young Will Henry has been the apprentice of the stern, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his parents, who were also employed by the doctor. The twelve year old boy has seen many things in his service to the monstrumologist - a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor the twin corpses of a young girl and the headless creature with fangs in his chest who had tried to feast on her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Delaney Patrice Lawrence|title=The Spook's Stories: WitchesNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine'Warning: Not of this piece is extremely hard for some people to be read after darklike,' are the only words on the back 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'The Spooks old room while he's Stories''at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and on the inside flapcreation of one such item is part of the plot here, 'The Times' warns us that this book as Charlene is 'seriously scary'...  The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamelya wonder knitter, though, with a story about a young Spook (a sort and is making something full of monster-hunter) who falls in love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a witch 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 forced not for me to bear the consequences when the witch's sister comes say, only to stay remark how sharp and exhibits a taste for the neighbor-childrenpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannAnn Sei Lin|title=WakeRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=Janie is seventeen Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and studying hard for collegemake merry between their conquests. She's also working lots of hours at However, when a local nursing home man named Himura arrives to earn money for college as it's unlikely tell her alcoholic mother that she is going a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to provide much in leave the way life of resources. College dreary servitude that is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one all she's lived so far and so you canhas known. Well, soon Kurara won't blame her for being so single-minded have any say in the pursuit matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and 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 her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn Moriarty Marcus Sedgwick|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorWrath|rating=34.5

|summary=Listen Taylor's father has Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just moved over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in with it when he talks to his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing familybest friend, with all Cassie. They were half of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the garden shed to work on end of the 'Zing Family Secret'. Marbie Zing world is terrified already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughtermusic she's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break up. The stories dreaming of these people come together to create a tale of life? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family meansnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BerkeleyTori Bovalino|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I shall start with a word of advice. When you're being hounded by a circus master, and a magician, for the soul of a tiger that's contained in a tiger's egg that's contained in the brain of your teddy bear, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogy. Still - never mind, the angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world to desert oases and back, and friends new and old will be on board to help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=FallenDevil Makes Three

|summary=A 17 year old girl at Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a new request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school meets 's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a mysterious petty act of revenge for making her find and impossibly gooddeliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-looking boyit notes on each of the books, who scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's immediately drawn re never meant toreach him, of course. He seems determined Her plan is to either ignore get her or be outright rude to her, until he saves her lifeanger out like this, and the two of then take them all off before delivering them end up drawn together. This isnNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similaritiesdelivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsPhilip Reeve|title=King Lear|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense Utterly Dark and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Beth Durst|title=Ice|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A J Healy|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING from destruction. Not just the planet, or the solar system, or even the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know what's going to cause this destruction, or when, but he and his friends and their ship seem to be the only people proactively going about saving the day. So it's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about to kill them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jeanette Winterson|title=The Battle Face of the SunDeep

|summary=London 1601In a word, rich. Elizabeth I There is getting certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on in years. Her capital city is a busypeculiar island called Wildsea, bustling placeBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. Boats fill There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the river Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and people fill their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the streets. Jack is happy because it's Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his birthday head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and his present is his heartAndrewe's desire: an excitable black puppy named Maxfoundling daughter, who's a ''licking washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in his curious ward are thrust into the air and a tail wagging and a barkingworld of protecting their island, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Abby McDonald|title=The Popularity Rules|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but a brief browse at the juvenile title, cover Kiran Millwood Hargrave and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene years. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read the story avidly, and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly told. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alexander Gordon SmithTom de Freston|title=Furnace: Death Sentence|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Alex Sawyer. Framed for a murder he certainly didn't do, the lad is given life (of a kind) in the Furnace, a literal hellhole of a private prison, buried a mile under England. It's a vicious existence, with tribal gangs among the inmates, and worse on the staff - the warden is helped by his malevolent blacksuits, nasty medical aides called wheezers, and there are mutated, feral creatures of all kinds collectively called rats. After two previous books of failed break-outs, Alex is under the knife of the warden, who has a new tactic. He does not want to break Alex - he aims to remake him, with medicine, surgery Julia and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing, as one of his own.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chris Priestley|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthShark|rating=4.5

|summary=Young Robert is put on Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a train back to school by his stepmother. It's summer, in the far NE of the first journey he's made on his ownScottish islands. It turns out to Here be more Vikings, that kind of a challenge than he could ever have imaginedScottish island. The train stalls at Dad is going to be automating the mouth of a tunnel and lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the other passengers sleep through the waitelusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a differenceshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris GrimlyJonathan Stroud|title=Tales of Death The Outlaws Scarlett and DementiaBrowne|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan PoeScarlett McCain is an outlaw, master rejecting the draconian conformity of the gothic horror short story, Surviving Towns and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustratorFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman robbing banks and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When Abbey's best friendBut then she meets Albert Browne, Kristen, disappears a dark boy with dark powers and is assumed dead, Abbey feels as though she has no-one left to talk toa darker past. Refusing to believe that Kristen is really goneWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, while struggling they plan to come flee to terms with life on her own, Abbey meets the mysterious Caspianmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, a young they must brave man who appears to be -eating wildlife, the perfect gentleman, showering her with hand-crafted gifts cannibalistic Tainted and words all the horrors of wisdom within weeks of meeting her. But beneath those piercing green eyes and softpost-spoken manner, Caspian has secrets of his own. Hoping apocalyptic society to uncover thosereach the Free Isles, and determined to find out what really happened to her best friend, Abbey begins to question her sanity, as the truth proves but will they be any more frightening accepted there than she thought.they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreview|author=Michael P. Spradlin|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=After his ship is lost in a storm as he is returning to England, Tristan is washed up Move on some foreign shore, completely lost and with no sign of his companions. When he wakes, he's surrounded by four men and two women, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises he's in France. He explains his situation to Celia, one of the young women, and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly be a spy, she ignores his pleas for directions to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]