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|summary=West Coast USA in the 1960sElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, and the city their friendship is wracked and wrecked by a slew of missing children reportsonce in a lifetime connection. The parents with their new anguishes, and new rules against playing They meet as children one day on a trip out after dark, have no idea of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trolls, guilty of snatching but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the childrentime. Last to goBut then chance brings them back together, Jack Sturgessand they are inseparable. Cue the modern era Something has happened though, something terrible and Jack's youngertragic, and now grown-up brother Jimthey must work through their grief, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginabletheir friendship, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as you'd expecttogether. Unfortunately, however, the trolls are about to make a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerMax Boucherat|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's StoryLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to The Lunar Chronicles is herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her fanslonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, The Lunartics. This book she has one main intention, and that is especially for voracious readers who have devoured Cinderto log on to Voxminer, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winterthe world-building, though it works as critter-collecting game that is a standalone toohit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. According to For the publisher’s note Queen Levana is a ruler who uses server she and her glamour bestie and nobody else should be able to gain powerenter shows signs of tampering. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, Scarlet and Cressher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, Levana lived where is a very different story- a story that has never been told… until now.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksRachel Greenlaw|title=The Snake Trap: Travis Delaney Investigates Compass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Teen private investigator Travis Delaney is still looking for ''I can hear the song of the people who killed his parentssea. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. AndThe call of the deep, fresh from a narrow escape from death at the hands of a criminal mastermind, Travis now suspects that there's a traitor answering beat in the campmy heart. This third installment in the ''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming opening. Travis is abducted by terrorists and held captive alongside Winston, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty of his father's death.

Travis has Rosevear, a lot remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of questionsthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But will when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they 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 get any answers? And can he get himself out is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of this horribly dangerous situation?her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessHarry Allen|title=Lady: My Life as a BitchChildren of the Sun

|summary=Sandra is Ra Eun Seo lives in a naughty kid. Fed up with the pressure of exams, a lovely but slightly boring boyfriend North Korean town and an overbearing mother, she's gone is a bit wildtalented singer. She's thrown over the boring boyfriend and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEs, Life is hard and food is running with some exciting but unreliable new pals. She's done a bit of shoplifting and slept with a few boysdifficult to come by, so Seo and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing moments. On this particular day, she's getting off with Wayne friends Nari and cheesing off MichelleMin go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into a homeless alcoholic man, causing him edible grasses to spill his can supplement the meagre rations of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious rice and chases her and Sandra is furious too, because he's ruining her day and HOW DARE HE? And then, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A dogkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Scott K AndrewsAlexia Casale|title= Timebomb|rating=4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In 2141, Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper. She never hits the ground. In 1640, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt woman. When she reaches out to comfort her, she’s flung through time. And on a rainy day in our time, Kaz Cecka sneaks into the ruins of Sweetclover hall in search of a dry spot to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from the time of Charles I, and an angry girl from the future. Thrown into a war that spans millennia, the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villains, and stay one step ahead of a fanatical army…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Silver Skin|author=Joan LennonSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Rab lives It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the distant futuremiddle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, in a world where space is at a premium due desperate to population pressures avoid the pity stares, and in which status is expressed by how much room you have desperate to get back to live ina life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. People Meanwhile there's lives are guided and supported by their Comsa new (cute!) boy in school, AIs which teach, medicateher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, navigate and just the day to day traumas of all sorts else besidesthe challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. When Rab So even though she can's mother buys him a silver skin - time travel technology - Rab is overjoyed. The fieldwork he'll t dance anymore, might she be able to do with it will allow him to produce work that will set him up for life. He decides to investigate the 19th century discovery of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae - because his tower block of the future is built on that very site. But something goes wrong and Rab is ejected from his status as time travelling observer right into life in Stone Age Skara Brae.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780272847</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John McNallySimon Fox|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Deadlock|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall and still a teenager, but he's already saved the world once. Accidentally shrunk by his mad scientist Uncle Al, he joined a crack military team and helped foil the threat of a lethal bio-weapon, the Scarlatti wasp. But there's no let-up for Finn. Before Al can restore him to normal size, a new threat emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Craigie|title= What Was Never Said |rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have faced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Non Pratt|title= Remix|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Kaz and Ruby have been best friends for a long time but their lives are about to change irrevocably. Ruby has a sassy, devil may care outer shell that hides her vulnerability but where do her loyalties really lie? Kaz, short for Karizma, thinks she knows what she wants but what does she really need? Stu longs to shake off his bad reputation and win back the love of his life while Tom is unsure of what he wants and takes the coward’s way out. Meanwhile Ruby’s brother Lee and his boyfriend Owen have some of their own decisions to make. Throw into the mix an arrogant pop star, secrets, betrayal, jealousy, misunderstandings, new faces and some bad choices and the ingredients are there for an explosive weekend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347701</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cassie Beasley|title=Circus Mirandus|rating=5

|summary=Micah Late one night Graham Blake is an orphan who has been raised by late back from his grandfathershift on the force, but now Micah’s grandfather is dying. And if that wasn’t bad enoughand then suddenly rings Archie, his horrible great aunt has arrived to take care of him, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is not lost. When grandpa Ephraim was demanding he fetch something from a child he visited the mysterious Circus Mirandussecret place, where he was promised a miracle by and join him on the miraculous Man Who Bends Lightrun. All Micah has to do is They get a message together, but barely begin to smell the Light Bender and his grandfather can have his miracle. With the help whiff of Jenny Mendoza (Southern trains when the smartest girl in the class)father is arrested, Micah sets his sights leaving Archie on the circuslate express to Brighton, toting a task that requires unconditional love tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and faith. Aunt Gertrudis is wrong, Ephraim’s stories aren’t just stories ..the bearer of a whole heap of questions. are they?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Finding AudreyLex Croucher|authortitle=Sophie KinsellaGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Audrey has been stuck at home for Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a while nowgay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, ever since that awful business at her last schoolit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. It left her suffering from social anxiety disorder In this story, Gwen and depression. Dr Sarah is impressed with Audrey's progress towards recoveryArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, but Audrey still can't go out of the housemuch to their mutual disgust! Gwen, speak to strangersyou see, or even make eye contact is in love with her family. The painfully slow path to wellness is beginning to weight heavily on her. And then her brotherBridget (the kingdom's friend Linus shows up and begins to entice Audrey outside of herself again. He has a lovely orangeonly female knight) -slice smile and writes funny notes and - to Audrey's disbelief - seems to like something that Art discovers from herprivate diaries. But Audrey really does need to heed Dr Sarah's warning that recovery is not a smooth progression: it's And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a series of two steps forward and one step back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534580</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Extraordinary Means|author=Robyn Schneider|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Lane rocks up at Latham Houseboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, he has no intention creating the subterfuge of being there long. There is no way he is going to allow a diagnosis of total-drug-resistant tuberculosis to get falling in the way of his inexorable progress to an Ivy League college and a stellar career. He has even brought extra textbooks and test papers love with himeach other, so that he doesn't fall behind during this period of quarantine in this medical facility for kids with this new strain of TBwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But when he meets Sadie and her group of misfit friendsas their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, Lane begins or are they destined to wonder if he's got his priorities straight. Perhaps there's more to life - and illness - than live a progression of tests and achievements.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115488</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Steven CamdenNick Brooks|title= It’s About Love|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= As an acclaimed hip-hop style performance poet, Steven Camden is skilful at painting evocative imagery with words. His second novel for teens enters the world of the film script, cleverly playing with cinematic intertextuality. It is a tale of past mistakes, violence, revenge, friendship and love. An emotive, powerful, thought provoking experience it rates a 4.5 because it lacks the magical ingredients of Camden’s debut, ‘Tape’. It doesn’t make the reader’s heart sing but it does put their nerves on edge. I challenge you not to shed a tear. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007511248</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jennifer Niven |title= All the Bright Places|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Finch and Violet are both counting the days. Violet is on countdown to graduation, to getting away from the school and town that hold so many torturous memories. Finch, meanwhile has started from zero and is logging the number of days in a row he is awake. And he doesn’t mean that in terms of physically awake, but more so in terms of his emotions. Neither of them are particularly happy. At least one of them has a plan to make the pain stop in the most final way possible. It’s pretty horrific.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357037</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer|title=Off the PagePromise Boys

|summary=Many readers can identify with When the idea principal (headmaster) of falling in love with a hero from a bookUrban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. After all, they are written to be appealing Each, with rugged good looksseemingly, charming personalityhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, strength and witeach could have been there at the time of his murder. But what if the hero from your favourite book came to life who killed him, and joined you in the real world? Can a storybook romance flourish in a High School setting? Or will our fairytale prince be keen to return to his homeland of unicornswhy, fairies, castles and mermaids? These if any of the boys are the dilemmas faced by awkward teen Delilah and her fantasy prince Oliverinnocent, who swaps places with a human boy in order to join his true love in the real world. The lovers may will they be together for now, but the book has other ideas, and soon begins rewriting itself able to put everything back to how it was.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473614287</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Melissa Marr1919635017|title=Made For YouA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=Eva Tilling comes from Solomon Klyne isn't a wealthybad lad, influential family and reigns supreme at school - she so why is well thought he running around London committing a series of and has expectations to live up to - nothing ever changes for her, but that’s just robberies? And how things are in obsolete Jessup: nothing unusual or unexpected ever happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007584202</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Read Me Like A Book|author=Liz Kessler|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Read Me Like A Book'' is both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story. Ash feels as though everything is a mess. Her parents aren't getting on and Ash is terrified they're going did he learn to split up. Shecrack safes? You's struggling ll have to keep up her relationships with her friends. She trying wait to decide whether or not get an answer to lose her virginity - and how exactly she even feels about the boy she might lose it withsecond question because I avoid spoilers. SheBut I's falling behind in her grades at school and half of her is a rebellious teen who couldn't care less about it, while ll answer the other half is panicking that she might not get into university. And if all that wasn't enough, Ash is struck by a bolt from the blue when she develops an almighty crush on Miss Murray, her English teacher...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622090</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Landers|title=Alienated|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Two years ago, aliens made contact. Now, Cara Sweeney has been chosen to host Aelyx, a L'eihr exchange student. The first exchange student. Cara gets a free ride to any college she chooses out of the deal, some excellent material one: for her blog, and a chance to be a part of history, helping in her own way to form an alliance between the two raceshis grandmother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Landers|title=Invaded|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= To save the alliance between Humans and the L'eihr, and save the planet from the deadly algae blooms that threaten to destroy all life, Cara and Aeylx have to persuade the L'eihr that Humans and L'eihr can peacefully co-exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423169492</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Simon Mayo|title= Itchcraft|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Third book in the Itch sequence about the audacious, intrepid teen obsessed with collecting elements from the Periodic Table to the detriment of his own life. Electrifying, explosive, punchy and action packed tour de force sizzling with surprising shocks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552569062</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=This is not a Love StoryDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=This Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a perfect holiday read 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 two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that doesn's set in stone, he can't mean you need to be on holiday to read itsure. And that's mostly because of who he'This Is Not A Love Story'' will waft you away from your bed or your fireside or your tube train seat s been having the relationship and relocate you to Amsterdamthe sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001405</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Frances Hardinge1800901232|title=The Lie TreeStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her booksa fashion designer. Mysteries lurk Life in the shadowsrural village where she lived with her family was happy, perplexing and sometimes menacing her charactersif not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the strange village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and the banal jostle each other for space Hanh was on the pagemini-bus to Hanoi. A world both familiar Only, Hanh and outlandish is offered the other girls were not going to uswork in a shop, where once again a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces which threaten they were to overwhelm work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her at every turnco-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael ByrnePatrice Lawrence|title=Lottery BoyNeedle|rating=43

|summary=Twelve year old Bully 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 his mongrel dogschools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, JackAnnie, have been living rough for almost six months – ever since Bullyand has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's mum diedat uni. The future holds no hope untilSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, quite by accidentyou might perhaps think, he finds and the creation of one such item is part of the lottery ticket he purchased plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for his mum hidden inside the last birthday card her younger sister – a younger sister she gave him. He checks the numbers and discovers he's won the jackpotallowed contact with no more. But there's only We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days left before the ticket expires and Bully's off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not old enough for me to claim the money. To make matters worsesay, word of his winning ticket has got out only to remark how sharp and every unsavoury character on the streets is now after himpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358290</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=PantherAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=David OwenRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Things have gone woefully wrong for Derrick. He's binge eating 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 his weight has spiralledmake merry between their conquests. He's fallen out with his best friend. The girl he likes doesn't However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He's in trouble at school. And if it weren't for his sister Charlotteasks her to come with him, none to leave the life of this shiznit would be happeningdreary servitude that is all she has known. If Charlotte wasnWell, soon Kurara won't depressedhave any say in the matter, if because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and she hadn't tried is forced toflee out into the world... wellShe joins Himura aboard the Orihime, you know... everything would be finea sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, just like it used to be.and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472116429</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy BirchallMarcus Sedgwick|title=The It GirlWrath

|summary= Anna Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is an awkward 14-year-old who is trying only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to fit go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in with people at her new school – and convince them that she wasn’t actually trying it when he talks to set her popular classmate’s hair on firehis best friend, it just happenedCassie. Her dad is They were half of a well-known journalist who’s just written a bookdesultory school band, and they get on well - until he falls for but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a famous actresssubhuman hum coming from the earth. With the paparazzi buzzing over Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the news end of the engagement, Anna becomes world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new target for them – but kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can this shy, nerdy girl cope with Fitz find out the sudden attentiontruth?Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Taran MatharuTori Bovalino|title=The Novice|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The Novice'', Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received a staggering five million reads. This book doesn’t just survive the hype; it deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs|title= Exposure (Virals 4)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= In the fourth book of this electrifying sci-fi crime thriller series the resourceful teen Virals pit their wits against a cunning villain when two of their classmates go missing. An exciting adventure with a shocking twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099567245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Syson|title=Liberty's FireDevil Makes Three

|summary=Paris Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for this tense, dramatic novelover a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. ''Liberty's Fire'' What makes it worse is Lydia Sysonthe man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's third work headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of fiction revenge for making her find and certainly ensures that deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she will not can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be stereotyped into any single historical period, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> 1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessPhilip Reeve|title=PersistUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confusedIn a word, rich. People keep coming and looking at herThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but they don't seem to see ''her''way west, beyond the Scillies. She wonders if she's something shinyThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, such as a mirror. Her and legends of the Dark family are desperate: Marianne that has been in a coma to keep watch for so long that magical islands and their monster approaching from even her mother is beginning to doubt that she can surface from wherever she isfurther west, where no ship dare sail. The doctors current Darks are sure that therethe Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's no hope for foundling daughter, who washed up out of the girl sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and they're talking about switching off his curious ward are thrust into the machines which are keeping her aliveworld of protecting their island, allowing her to fade away painlessly... It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthdaylike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Bomber|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Harry Friedman is only 17. But WWII is raging all across Europe Julia and Harry felt the call to serve his country and the Allied cause. And that's how he became a gunner on the ''Macey May'', an American Flying Fortress stationed in East Anglia, far away from Harry's New York home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408858495</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ben Davis|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the GeekShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Joe Cowley Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has got it bad. Whatever ''it'' isbeen packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, he's got it badin the far NE of the Scottish islands. The hots for his girlfriendHere be Vikings, Natalie? Badthat kind of Scottish island. Living arrangements with his ex-school-bullying-nemesis-turned-step-brother? Very bad. Some greasy swazz trying Dad is going to take be automating the lantern, which is his girlfriend from himspecialist thing, at the same time as sucking up to while mum will be leaving her father who is also his business mentor? Pretty awful. An attitude that means a devil-may-care voice career in his head leads him to support his oddball friends through a dance music competition just algae behind to get one over on hunt the swazz? elusive Greenland shark. You can guessAnd Julia, what with that being the main thrust of the plot herewell, that that too is B A D badshe will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192736965</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole BursteinJonathan Stroud|title=OthergirlThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Imagine a world where superheroes are real Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and very much awesome. Imagine a teenage girl who discovers she has amazing powersFaith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, that she can fly robbing banks and toss fireshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. And But then imagine that you aren’t this girlshe meets Albert Browne, but rather her very normal best frienda dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. The one who patches up her friend's costume and covers for her at schoolWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, who worries and frets about her GCSEs while simultaneously planning how they plan to flee to get her friend noticed by the worldwide network mythical Free Isles of heroesthe London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the Vigils. This isn't cannibalistic Tainted and all the story horrors of Erica post-apocalyptic society to reach the superheroFree Isles, but rather will they be any more accepted there than they are in the story rest of Louise, loyal friend and sidekick.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440619</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingMercedes Helnwein|title=Haunt: Dead WrongSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary= Will and Dougie have been friends for agesGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. They each understand how the other thinks (well, most As a secret illegitimate daughter of the time) and they stick together through thick and thin. Literallya man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in fact: Willpeople's dead but somehow he's not only unable to move on to whatever comes nextlives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, he actually her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can't stray more than she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a few feet away from his best friend. The possibilities boy in it that she never asked for embarrassment are endless: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115798</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HendrickT L Huchu|title=The AccidentLibrary of the Dead|rating=24.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Accident alternates between three characters telling their story beforeRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, just after using Zimbabwean magic (and much later than a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the day dead of the accident which connects themEdinburgh for their living relatives. Before the car crashEver since she dropped out of school, Eliat is a teenage mum knowing she needs 's been using it to be support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an adult whilst never feeling more like a kid. Just after evil stalking the car crashruined streets of Edinburgh, Will is struggling to hold his dysfunctional family together when his oldest sister moves back hometargeting the city's children. LaterSoon, Sarah Ropa is struggling to move on with her life with pulled into the search for a missing boy at the injuries request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and grief realise that the accident has left her withworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. It’s a story aboutWill she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, whether we realise or will it or not, how we’re all connected by split-second decisions and we can’t control the impact they have.claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921922850</amazonuk>1529039452

{{newreview|author=Jandy Nelson|title=I'll Give You The Sun|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twins Noah and Jude used to be inseparable until tragedy tore them apart. Now Noah's changed utterly from the boy he used to be, and Jude is reduced to spying Move on him through his friend as she struggles with her own issues at the exclusive art school Noah was always supposed to go to, but Jude ended up at instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406326496</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=M G Harris|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black Horizon|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Life is changing very fast for Ben Carrington. He is at the opening of a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – the chap is hardly cold in his grave when Ben's mum and the lad have to prove how adept they are at her old job, of mountain rescue. She feels like setting up a new rescue agency with her nous and the family fortunes, but someone who can just amble into the opening/memorial ceremony is Jason Truby, a monumentally rich Internet magnate, who actually has a modern-day ''Thunderbirds'' entity already, the top secret Gemini Force. Truby starts to get close to the family of two, but the school-aged Ben isn't going to be allowed to learn just what dramatic escapades the agency has to cover – is he?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Katy Cannon|title=Secrets, Schemes and Sewing Machines|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Grace is looking forward to being the star in the upcoming school production of Much Ado About Nothing, but after missing the audition, she's relegated to understudy and making costumes in sewing club. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't the plan, but it may leave her in a position to step into the lead role if needed - and there's a compensation in the form of new boy Connor, who's stage managing and after initially appearing to dislike Grace starts to warm to her. Will Grace get the part and the boy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Benjamin J Myers|title=The Grindle Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirring...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father is a pathologist and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's body. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out the most savage attack anyone has ever seen. And Jack, who has just moved to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happens. How wrong could he have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]