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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jenna Evans WelchLeanne Egan|title= Love & GelatoLover Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= I picked up When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel'Love & Gelato'' in hope of a light-hearted summery reads disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with an added draw being that the action takes place in Italy, a favourite country of mineher, and that's exactly what I got. The novel tells the story definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of Linaher relationships with boys have gone very well so far, a teenager who fulfils her dying Motherand she's wish by spending never had a summer in Tuscany, conveniently staying good kiss with any of them? So she just outside of Florencefinds herself watching Isabel, getting and wanting to know the father she has never known. She is aided on this quest by a journal hang out with her Mom left because fighting with heris fun, documenting the year and she met Linadefinitely just hates Isabel, doesn's father whilst studying photography in Florence.t she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372323</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Callie BatesAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= The Waking LandWild East|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''They need something to believe Written inverse, something beyond crowns and kingdoms. They need to believe in the old stories. In the power of the land.'' It was fourteen years ago that Elanna's life changed completely. Fourteen years ago that her fatherthis is Ronny's plans of revolution fell throughstory, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at the tender age of five, King Antoine held a pistol to her head and took her hostagemostly white school. Raised The move is initiated by the King, Elanna grows into adulthood suppressing her magic and resenting the parents she once loved. Now twenty, Elanna prepares for either study or marriage, until King Antoine dies and sheRonny's condemned to death mum who is worried for treason. On the run, Elanna encounters her fatherRonny's mensafety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds herself moving from one imprisonment himself trying to anothersettle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. Her father it seems He listens to music constantly, wants to carry out the revolution that failed fourteen years agoand has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, he wants to unite the people in creating a fair kingdom and he wants Elanna this new school, his teacher encourages him to be the face part of the rebellion. He wants her a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to be see the Steward of connections between rap and poetry, and the Land capable power of powerful magic to make the very Earth move. Elanna must to decide which side she'll align with creativity and how she will shape her destinycrafting your words. Can she deny her people the help they desperately need to build a new world?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473638720</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreview|title=The Ethan I Was BeforeFrontpage|author=Ali StandishJenny Valentine|rating=4|genretitle=Confident Readers|summary=Ethan and his family are moving to a little town Us in Georgia from the big city of Boston in a last ditch attempt to help Ethan get over the loss of best friend Kacey. And the move does give Ethan a great deal else to think about. There's living in Grandpa Ike's dilapidated old house Before and the uncommunicative Grandpa Ike himself. There's a new school with a new pecking order to navigate. There's a new friend in Coralee, who has a great line in tall stories and who likes adventures almost as much as Kacey did. But it's hard to leave grief behind, especially when you feel as guilty as Ethan does...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408342928</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sonya Hartnett|title=SurrenderAfter

|summary=Anwell lives with his physically abusive father - vicious corporal punishment for a minor infraction Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a constant threat - and his mentally abusive mother who loses no opportunity to belittle her young son and express her disappointment once in hima lifetime connection. Anwell is not popular They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at school the time. But then chance brings them back together, and his life at home is severely proscribedthey are inseparable. So Something has happened though, when Finnigan appearssomething terrible and tragic, Anwell is grateful for a friend. Finnigan is strange and wild now they must work through their grief, and full of a dark freedom. He doesn't even go to schooltheir friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406368210</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cassandra ClareMax Boucherat|title= Lord The Last Life of Shadows (The Dark Artifices 2)Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=After the cataclysmic events of the devilishly macabre 'Lady Midnight', Cassandra Clare produces another melodramatic magical mêlée for its sequel, conjuring up new risks and agonisingly painful decisions for the Blackthorn family and their friends. Their troubles are by no means over as they face the aftermath of Malcolm Fade's reign of madness and the malicious machinations of the cohort [a sect of power-hungry Centurions who want to punish Downworlders and minority groups with draconian legislation]. Above all Julian wants to keep his siblings safe but his self-destructive love for Emma and the reappearance of Annabel threatens to tear them apart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116654</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=Resurrection|rating=4

|summary=Skulduggery Pleasant We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – the sharply dressed and wiseno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-cracking skeleton – is back and he needs helpbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. A small group of disgruntled sorcerers have banded together What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and have plans that is to use their unique set of skills log on to wage war on Voxminer, the mortal world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Others have tried this in the past but this particular group have But first Lori has a scheme tiny inkling that should guarantee their success: theythis stormy night doesn're going to resurrect a terrifying evil. Despite his powerst find herself entirely on her own, Skulduggery can't defeat them aloneand then she finds something even more spooky. He successfully persuades his former partner – Valkyrie Cain – to join him for just twenty-four hours. But will For the server she stay when the time runs out? Will they and her bestie and nobody else should be able to save enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the worldgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008169020</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire HennessyRachel Greenlaw|title= Like Other GirlsCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5

|summary=Like Other Girls is ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a story about a girl called Laurenremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. She is not like other girlsMira, though she does sometimes like other girls. For oneher mother before her, her mum is one of the headmistress of her school, for two, she doesn't fit in seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a cliquetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and for three, her boyfriend thinks sheMira's madfather. Lauren's world has been turned upside down by Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a revelation wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of someone close a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her and when something enormous happens father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to Laurenthe heart of the smuggler's territory, she has no one she can turn Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to, or so save the future of her home and the ones she believesholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471406342</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=RookHarry Allen|authortitle=Anthony McGowanChildren of the Sun

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=When Nicky Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and his learning-disabled brother Kenny come across a rook being attacked by she is a sparrowhawk, they chase off the raptor and rescue the rooktalented singer.Kenny Life is convinced that a good dollop of love hard and affection food is all that's needed difficult to keep the bird alive but Nicky is sceptical. And in any casecome by, Nicky has other things to worry aboutso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, like avoiding the bully at school looking for tree bark and finding a way to talk edible grasses to supplement the girl he likes. In the previous two books in this sequence, troubles were dogging Kenny meagre rations of rice and the boys' father but in ''Rook'' it's Nicky who could do with a helping handkimchi at home. Things are about to go wrong. Will Nicky find a way through?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781127239</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stewart FosterAlexia Casale|title= All The Things That Could Go Wrong|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alex has OCD, and as Sing if that wasn't awful enough, he's getting badly bullied at school. Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. The only thing Dan does know is that he really misses his brother, Ben. ''All the Things that Could Go Wrong'' follows both Alex and Dan's stories as they just try to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger that he seems to have inside him now. You might think this is going to be a cut and dried story of the nice boy who's being bullied and the bad boy who's doing the bullying, but it isnyou Can't. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471145425</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catherine Barter|title=TroublemakersDance|rating=4.5

|summary=Ever since Alena can remember, itIt's been her stephard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-brother Danny and his boyfriend Nick who have looked after her. Her mother died when she was just three years old. It might be small and unorthodoxchanging disability too, but Alenathat's family what Ven is a loving one. However, simmering political tensions dealing with after collapsing on stage in London, triggered by the middle of a series of bombings, threaten dance performance that was going to spill over and shatter the stability of the only family Alena has ever knownchange her life. Faced with complicated questions about family and politics, Alena finds herself looking But she comes back into the pastfighting, at desperate to avoid the life of activism that her mother ledpity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that 's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her brother has always been suspiciously secretive aboutmusic A Level performance piece to try to sort out, in and just the hope day to day traumas of finding some answersall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783445246</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashSimon Fox|title=Honor GirlDeadlock

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having the time of my life.'' That simple piece of dialogue Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the key to this autobiographical graphic novel. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being a sleep-walkerforce, and ignore the fact she's then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a different state to every other girl aroundsecret place, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition – she's all of a sudden become an ace shot join him on the rifle range, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performancerun. But those aren't enough for Maggie They get together, but barely begin to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problems. No, smell the whiff of Southern trains when the bigger problem father is something else – arrested, leaving Archie on the fact that she seems late express to be falling in love with one of the counsellor campersBrighton, there toting a tin his father was determined to look after keep away from his colleagues, and the welfare bearer of the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narratorwhole heap of questions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Karen M McManusLex Croucher|title= One of Us Is LyingGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating= 54

|summary='The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little LiarsWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom?' Sign me up But honestly, pleaseit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. But In this YA mystery is more like a teenage Agatha Christie: it's twistystory, complexGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, and at several points I began much to wonder if their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the final reveal would be kingdom's only female knight) - something that everyone was Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the murderersubterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141375639</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Shannon Hale and Dean HaleNick Brooks|title= Marvel: The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel Meets WorldPromise Boys|rating= 54|genre= Teens|summary= Doreen Green moves from California to New Jersey andWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, quite by accidentseemingly, embarks on has a journey to become a herogrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. A fantastic origin tale for the brilliant Squirrel Girl character this story is engaging But who killed him, fast-pacedand why, hip and extremely cool. What would a person be like if any of the boys are innocent, will they had the proportional strength and agility of a squirrelbe able to clear their names? Wonder no more.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405287667</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ron Butlin1919635017|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the WorldA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kind. But this Solomon Klyne isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult booka bad lad, nor so why is it he running around London committing a gloomy book about young people who canseries of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision ll have to wait to simply sail away into the sunset, get an answer to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adultssecond question because I avoid spoilers. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at But I'll answer the timefirst one: for his grandmother... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|authortitle=Teri TerryDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=It's not Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and she dies two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the first few pages of ''Contagion''. Callie leash only a single- Calista - disappeared more than a year agosex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Her brother Kai Which is still looking confusing for herAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, hopeful where his achievements in that she will be found alive regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and well. But Callie isnso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't alive and wellbe sure. She And that's mostly because of who he's been taken to a secretive medical facility on having the island of Shetland, experimented on, relationship and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formsex with. How?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408341727</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tanya Landman1800901232|title=Passing for WhiteStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a slavefashion designer. He Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was a talented carpenter toohappy, if not prosperous, but on November so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the 19th he was unnerved: village to offer Hahn a white woman job in Hanoi it was looking at him, smiling and being politean opportunity not to be missed. What Some money changed hands and Hanh was going on? the mini-bus to Hanoi. He wasn't just unnervedOnly, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at Hanh and the white womanother girls were not going to work in a shop, looking ''her'' they were to work in virtual slavery in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than thatan illegal garment factory. Only this wasn't a white womanYou know those jeans you really wanted: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? She could pass for white, but she too was a slave. The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop RosaIt's master from taking sexual advantage of quite possible that Hanh and her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Harder They FallPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Bali RaiNeedle|rating=4.53|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Cal loves comic booksBrave. He also dreams Charlene, the 'heroine' of being 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 superhero pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and saving the day has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while simultaneously winning he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the heart creation of one such item is part of the girl (Freya being the girlplot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, hopefully). Batman and is his favourite superhero. But Calmaking something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-likeallowed contact with no more. Because Cal is We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a bit of a geek store detective, and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuthen force people to give her two days off school, who makes him complete homework assignments which when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then sells on to lazy classmates. Still.. well, it's what exactly happens is not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely for me to say, only to remark how sharp and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overturespointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessAnn Sei Lin|title= ReleaseRebel Skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious household. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacher. Adam is used to a restricted life and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead to...... well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sebastien de Castell|title= Spellslinger|rating= 4

|summary=''And when did I volunteer to die down there just so two lousy humans could live?'' Enter Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the world sky where soldiers of the Jan'TepEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, powerful mages someone with the ability power to draw on form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the seven magicsEmpire. Then meet KellenHe asks her to come with him, who despite being to leave the son of one life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the most formidable mages in matter, because the clanMidori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, has no magical ability whatsoeverand 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>1785761315</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CountlessMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Karen GregoryWrath

|summary=Hedda Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is 20 weeks pregnantonly just 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 it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with oneof her eco-night stand, so there's no father on warrior parents saying the end of the scene. Sheworld is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's 17. She's in dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the grip of an eating disorder and truth? Well, not when Cassie has been for yearsgone missing he can't. Her best friend recently died. She's living in a grotty flat because her relationship with her parents has broken down. I think we can all agree that the situation is dire.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408882507</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Pearl ThiefTori Bovalino|authortitle=Elizabeth WeinThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Julie Beaufort-Stuart - Lady Julia Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to you and me, if you please - do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has just returned to Strathfearndeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's 1938 headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her grandfatherfind and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the Earl of Strathfearnbooks, has recently died, leaving a mountain scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of debt behind him. The familyThey's ancestral home has been sold re never meant to meet the debt and the death duties and will soon become a schoolreach him, of course. ButHer plan is to get her anger out like this, as the contents of the estate and its treasures are catalogued and renovations are underwaythen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, there is time if someone hadn't delivered them for Julie and her family to spend the summer making their goodbyes - to home and landscape and to friends, including the McEwans, a family of Highlands Travellers, loved by the family but hated by the authorities.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408866617</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fallen ChildrenPhilip Reeve|authortitle=David OwenUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Life In a word, rich. There is tough on the Midwich Estate. Kids living there don't have much hope certainly an abundance of riches in the future. They're already judged by their poverty, their religion, their race. Carving out a prosperous future from this inauspicious place seems like story set on a pipe dream. Butpeculiar island called Wildsea, in their various waysBritish but way west, Siobhanbeyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, Keishaand sea-witches, Maida and Morris are all trying - whether legends of the Dark family that means making plans has to get outkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, or developing strategies to cope with life as it has been dealtwhere no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034900269X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Angie Thomas|title=The Hate U Give|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Garden Heights is a neighbourhood notorious for all current Darks are the wrong reasons: povertyWatcher, drugsAndrewe, shootings, it ticks all the ghetto stereotypes. It's also the place that sixteen-year-old Starr Carter calls home. Even if most people there only know her as 'Big Mav's daughter who works in the store', Garden Heights is where she was born and raised. It's where she can be herself and not care about what people think or how people expect her has to act - a freedom that isn't afforded to her at keep notes of activity from the posh suburban high school where she is one of just a handful of black students. HoweverHidden Lands, Garden Heights is also where her childhood friend was shot his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in a drive-by. And nowhis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, itand Andrewe's the place where Starr witnesses the devastatingfoundling daughter, fatal shooting who washed up out of her unarmed friend, Khalil. At the hands of a police officersea one day eleven years ago. It's an event whose repercussions will irrevocably change her lifeBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the lives world of everyone around herprotecting their island, like it or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406372153</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Laura LamKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Masquerade (Micah Grey Trilogy)Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= It's Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been a remarkable journey for our young protagonist. It wasn't long ago that Micah Grey was still living packed off with her parents and their cat from the life of Iphigenia Laurus, daughter of a noble family, trapped home in a gilded cage forever hiding her true self. Since running away, Micah has managed SW England to reinvent himself, first as be lighthousekeepers for a circus acrobatsummer, and then as a magician's apprenticein the far NE of the Scottish islands. Along the way he's discovered love and friendships Here be Vikings, that have helped keep him afloat, even as betrayal and tragedy seem ready kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to strike at every turn. But there's only so long he can keep running. His powers are growing, be automating the Chimaera are returninglantern, and Ellada which is about his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to reach a violent tipping pointhunt the elusive Greenland shark. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509807780</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tom Hoyle|title=The Challenge|rating= 3.5|genre=Teens|summary= One ordinary afternoon And Julia, Ben's best friend Will goes missing. Soon afterwell, twins Sam and Jack move to Ben's school she will be homesick and take an interest in himalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. It turns out both twins have an obsession with enacting challenges they set each other, and it doesn't take long for Ben to get involved in their strange game. But with every new challenge they set him, he starts to wonder whether they might be slightly unhinged…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447286774</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Cat ClarkeJonathan Stroud|title= GirlhoodThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne

|genre= General FictionTeens|summary=''Girlhood'' focuses on a group Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of friends; HarperBritain, Rowanrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, Lily a dark boy with dark powers and Amaa darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, who are fast approaching they plan to flee to the end mythical Free Isles of term at an elite boarding school in the middle of nowhereLondon Lagoon. The arrival of Kirsty causes a seismic shift in this previously supportive friendship group and Harper soon finds herself caught between her old friends Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the mysterious new girl who seems horrors of post-apocalyptic society to have so much reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in common with her. But is Kirsty who she claims to bethe rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784292737</amazonuk>1406394815

Ending three lives with seven words becomes Carver's reality when he sends a simple, impatient text to his best friend. His best friend who is driving and on the way to pick him up at any moment. His best friend who in replying to his text, rams into the back of a truck instantly killing himself and their other two best friends in the car.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445513</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Letters to the Lost|author=Brigid Kemmerer|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Juliet has always written letters to her mother. The award-winning photojournalist wasn't at home much and letters always seemed somehow more personal and intimate than email or Skype. And Juliet is still writing those letters even though her mother died in a hit-and-run accident, rushing home to surprise her daughter by arriving earlier than expected. Juliet leaves them at her graveside, overwhelmed with grief and guilt. If her mother hadn't come home early for her daughter, she would still be alive today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140888352X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Stargazing for Beginners|author=Jenny McLachlan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Meg loves space. And when we say Meg loves space, this doesn't quite explain how much Meg loves space. Meg loves all things space to the exclusion of almost everything else. She has a space mural in her bedroom. She belongs to a stargazing club with her grandfather. She is determined to become an astronaut one day. And she dreams of winning a competition that will earn her a place on a trip to NASA in Houston. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408879751</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kiran Millwood Hargrave|title= The Island at the End of Everything|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Set in the Philippines at the beginning of the last century, Ami lives with her mother on Culion Island. It's a beautiful place covered in lush forests and surrounded by a blue sea that matches the sky. It's Ami's home and the only place she has ever known. But Culion is an island for people with leprosy who are sent there to live Move on the edge of the world away from civilisation. Ami's mother is among the infected but Ami herself remains untouched, so when government official Mr Zamora arrives to transport the islanders who are free from the sickness to another island, Ami's world is torn apart. Banished across the sea to an orphanage, Ami is determined to get back home and crosses great lengths to return to her sick mother once more, on the island at the end of everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910002763</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cassandra Clare|title= Lady Midnight|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Cassandra Clare is particularly impassioned about her latest book as it is set in the City of Angels where she grew up. She recalls, "I was an imaginative teenager, always seeing supernatural creatures and potential magic around every corner". Her novel is imbued with her love of film noir, classical texts and the murky literary gothic world of Edgar Allan Poe. These influences charge her urban crime fantasy with mystery and imagination. It works as a standalone though will appeal especially to teenage fans of 'The Mortal Instruments' who will be happy to rejoin the brave Shadowhunter warriors Emma and Julian last seen battling for their lives at the age of 12 during the Dark Wars in 'The City of Heavenly Fire' and now facing painful decisions. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471116611</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]