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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=J RyanJenny Valentine|title=Missing Dad: Wanted|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Joe is Us in big trouble. He's been driving the car his grandfather bought him before he's even old enough to take the driving test. And been caught. Still worse, he's suspected of a hit-and-run and the police don't look as though they believe him when he insists he - and his car - were nowhere near the scene. Mum is unimpressed but also worried Before and Joe feels horribly guilty. As if things couldn't be worse, Joe is also suspended from school. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784624748</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Natasha Carthew|title=The Light That Gets LostAfter

|summary=At just seven years of ageElk and Mab are best friends, Trey witnesses the murder of his parents and the grievous injuring of his older brother. He escapes the attack by hiding in a wardrobe. After or more than thateven, he their friendship is taken into carea once in a lifetime connection. We They meet Trey again years later, as an adolescent. Hechildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's on his way to Camp Kernow, a work camp for recalcitrant teens. For Trey, this is the realisation of a longstanding plan - he believes that the man who murdered his parents works contact details at the camp and he intends to find him and kill himtime. In Trey's mind But then chance brings them back together, things and they are simple: find the maninseparable. Something has happened though, kill himsomething terrible and tragic, escapeand now they must work through their grief, rescue his brother from the care homeand their friendship, live happily ever aftertogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140883586X</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)Max Boucherat|title=Once Upon a Place|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to me, is more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, and of stories, which is where this compilation Last Life of short works for the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sam Munson|title= The November CriminalsLori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Addison Schacht is a high school senior (that's sixth form if you're British) in Washington DC and a bit of a classics nerd. His favourite book is Virgil's Aeineid - he owns three copies and reads from one of them every single day. He has applied to the University of Chicago, where he wants to study classics.So far, so model pupil, right?The thing is, Addison is also a consistent truant and runs his own business - selling drugs to his peers. Hmm!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349002398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andy Mulligan|title= Liquidator|rating= 5|genre=Teens|summary= Ladies and gentlemen, please turn off your phones and suspend your disbelief as you enter the crazy, exciting and thoroughly silly world of the new book by the fantabulous Andy Mulligan. You will encounter ruthless villains, non-stop danger, at least one near-death experience and a rather jolly lorry driver. Where does all this happen, you ask? In the mountain-top fastness of some evil spy? In the secret laboratory of a crazed wizard? Nope – somewhere way, way more dangerous. Work experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191020014X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander Yates|title=The Winter Place|rating=4

|summary=Axel and Tess live We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in rural New York state with a father obsessed with mediaeval reconstructions, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. They have What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a knight for a father! This eccentricity blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is both entertaining and a good thing to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter- because Sam collecting game that is the only parental figure a hit in their lives. Axel and TessLori's mother died when Axel was bornworld. Tess is just moving into oppositional adolescence 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. She For the server she and Sam enjoy sparring over the care her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Axeltampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, who and her safe place in the game has inherited a rare form of muscular dystrophy from his late mother. Axel is, been doctored – well, an individual child, currently haunted by where is a mischievous wheelchair only he can see. The pesky thing follows him everywhere.girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471123839</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca SteadRachel Greenlaw|title=Goodbye StrangerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary= ''I can hear the song of the sea. The book opens with a prologue about an eight year old Bridget Barsamiancall of the deep, who woke up the answering beat in hospital following my heart.'' Rosevear, a horrific remote and life threatening traffic accident involving roller skates partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and New York trafficplundering the wrecks. Bridget Mira, like her mother before her, is told by a nurse that she is lucky one of the seven who swim out to be alive survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that she must have survived lies within. But when the accident for Council Watch lays a reason. Bridgettrap to end the wrecking, who has no real memory of they capture the accidentisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, has to miss Mira makes a bargain with a year of school wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and on with only coordinates to guide her return, tells everyone she now wants sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to be known as Bridgeunearth what might save her father, asher journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, ''I don't feel like Bridget anymore''Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443197</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah MussiHarry Allen|title=Here Be Dragons Children of the Sun

|summary=Few people would be happy living Ra Eun Seo lives in a remote farmhouse on Mount Snowdon, especially when that means spending Christmas without any electricity – no heating, no way to charge your phone, no telly North Korean town and no Christmas dinnershe is a talented singer. But when you’re sixteen, like Ellie Morgan, it can become almost unbearable. All Ellie wants Life is hard and food is a regular ‘four-difficult to come by-four life’ with four walls around , so Seo and her friends Nari and four wheels under herMin go foraging every evening, all designed to keep her safe. But safe is one thing that Ellie’s not destined looking for tree bark and edible grasses to be … not from the moment she glimpses the strange boy through supplement the mist meagre rations of rice and snow and sets her heart on discovering who (and what) he iskimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910240346</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John BoyneAlexia Casale|title=The Boy at the Top of the MountainSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Pierrot. As It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a very young child life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in 1930s Paris he is the middle of a dance performance that was going to have a very awkward journey through his young change her life. His father is a violent drunkBut she comes back fighting, reacting badly desperate to what he saw in WWIavoid the pity stares, and although married desperate to get back to a French woman, is still staunchly Germanlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. That womanMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, Emilie, is going her music A Level performance piece to try to diesort out, and leave Pierrot an orphan, which will leave him in a home where he is bullied. But from just the reaches day to day traumas of Europe and from all the black corners of his family comes an aunt, Beatrix, who will give him a home, of a kind, challenges her body continues to throw at a most unusual mountaintop buildingher to navigate. ItSo even though she can's not her home – t dance anymore, might she just works there and had be able to ask special permission from someone special. The placesing her way through instead? The Berghof.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857534521</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Robert L AndersonSimon Fox|title=DreamlandDeadlock

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=17 year old Dea has been to several schools in several townsLate one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, moving with her mother as if pursued. It's always the same. She'd make a friend and then the rumours would start about how she and her mum were crazy suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the friend wouldn't talk to herrun. Dea isn't crazy. She becomes curiously ill from time They get together, but barely begin to time but she has a cure: walking through people's dreams. There are rules that keep her safe smell the whiff of Southern trains when she's doing this but when Connor moves in to the neighbourhood father is arrested, leaving Archie on the rules become far less important late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and that's when Dea's life becomes far more dangerousthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473621003</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Spirit of LondonLex Croucher|authortitle=Rob KeeleyGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=EllieWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Charlie Gwen and Mum Arthur have left Inchwood Manor and are headed home been betrothed since they were tiny, much to Londontheir mutual disgust! Gwen, where Mumyou see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's latest ''Journeyback'' project is renovating an old 18th century houseonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, 47 Foster Squarewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But it's not quite ''home'' to London. They're not returning to as their old house but to another tiny, cramped flat. When asked whyimpending wedding draws ever closer, all Mum will say isthey find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, "Ask your father."or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784624055</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroNick Brooks|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to other areas of the place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Annabel Pitcher|title=Silence is GoldfishPromise Boys

|summary=''In which Tessie-T discovers she's a Pluto and her parents wanted a Mercury or Venus, at least.'' When Tess the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is in her father's studymurdered, she discovers a blog post he has written which gives away a devastating family secretthree boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Suddenly Each, for Tessseemingly, everything has changed. She decides to run away but chickens out a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the last minutetime of his murder. As her life falls apart But who killed him, and why, Tess retreats into selective mutism and her only conversations if any of the boys are with an imaginary friend: a talking goldfish torch.innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780620004</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=C J Skuse1919635017|title=MonsterA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=More than anything elseSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, sixteen year-old Nash wants so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to be Head Girl of Bathory School. Indeed shecrack safes? You's willing ll have to put up with almost anything wait to get an answer to the top jobsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But, just when sheI's poised to be awarded ll answer the role, everything starts to unravelfirst one: for his grandmother. Nash and a group of school misfits have to stay at school over the Christmas holidays and, trapped by the worst weather in decades, suddenly find themselves fighting for their lives. Not everyone is going to survive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848453892</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe SuggPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Username: EvieDifferent for Boys

|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens |summary=Meet Evie. She's surprisingly unwelcome and alienated Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school – for a trendy , and attractive girl, nobody at all is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems to have any time for herabsolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, apart so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the geeky card-collecting boy with the milk-bottle glasses on the bus. Perhaps it has something to do with her father's thatched house football team, and two other old muckers – after in fact they all, she must be a witch go back to live thereprimary school days together. ItAs they's not that she would wish to live therere all fired up, with nobody else aroundstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and the memory of her deceased motherout often turns to sex. But luckily someone Which is choosing a place confusing for her –her father Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is able to put all , where his work into achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a cyber-world secret one, for herseveral months now, and so has effectively progressed up the E-Scapeladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, which is close to the perfect worldhe can't be sure. All And that remains is to programme 's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the humans sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her friendsfamily was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and make woman came to the connection Evie has with them and them with her village to offer Hahn a job in return Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be of mutualmissed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, confirmingHanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, happy benefitthey were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. But someone else has entered You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the Eartfully-Scape, placed rips and their influence seems all distressed seams that much more powerful than Eviefelt so soft when you touched them? It's tentative happiness…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473619130</amazonuk>quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanPatrice Lawrence|title=Zom-B Fugitive (Zom B 11)Needle|rating= 43

|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you havenmight perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this seriess allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a 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 not for me to say, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857077929</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sarah MussiAnn Sei Lin|title= BreakdownRebel Skies

|summary= From Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the start sky where soldiers of "Breakdown" Mussi painfully grips the reader by the hand Empire come to drink and doesn’t let gomake merry between their conquests. She uses shortHowever, sharp, savage sentences to urge them when a man named Himura arrives to follow tell her protagonist Melissa on that she is a terrifying odyssey Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a relentlessly brutal world where only power sought after all across the meanestEmpire. He asks her to come with him, smartest and toughest surviveto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. It Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a horrific vision of monstrous paper spirit known as a post-apocalyptic, lawless society devastated by nuclear radiation, set 100 years after Orwell’s bleak "1984", driven feral by food shortages, frenzied fearshikigami, poverty, corrupt militarisation and anarchyshe is forced to flee out into the world. Ravenous dogs roam She joins Himura aboard the streets Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and the stench a whole world of violence and sexual slavery is never far away. Melissa is blessed with beauty which some might consider a curse. Will she emerge into the light or be trapped in Hades forever?adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140191X</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark LinganeMarcus Sedgwick|title=Fusion: Volume 4 (Tesla Evolution)Wrath

|summary=(By the way there are spoilers ahead – this Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is definitely a series only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to be read in ordergo where he wants and with whom he wants, starting but he cannot stop himself from [[Tesla 1 by Mark Lingane|Tesla 1]] ). Alone again now that Melanie has been killed, Sebastian makes putting his foot in it when he talks to North Americahis best friend, Cassie. Far 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 it being the land earth. Is this connected with one of promise it used to be, her eco-warrior parents saying the country is now an apocalyptic ruin, full end of people scavenging for their survival and the Infected forging world is already a path done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of worse-than-death and destruction. Sebastian needs to focus on his ultimate challenge as foreseen in a rather scary way but theremusic she's a small matter distracting him: whodreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can's firing rockets at him?t...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1515000796</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate ScelsaTori Bovalino|title=Fans of the Impossible Life|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary= Jeremy, Mira and Sebby are very different people, each with their own complex and difficult issues, who find themselves inexplicably drawn together. Jeremy is an artist, painfully shy and still struggling to get over the horrible incident that ruined his last year of school. Mira is cool and fashionable, but suffers from depression, constantly fighting against a sleep that threatens to overpower her for days on end. Then there's Sebby, flamboyant, irreverent and charming, but with hurt and troubles simmering behind his façade, and no family or support network to lean on. The powerful friendship and love that forms between them could save them from their broken selves, but it could just as easily drag them all down together. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509805141</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Courtney Sheinmel|title= EdgewaterDevil Makes Three|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Lorrie may run with the big dogs, but right now she's more of a mutt. Her mother is AWOL and her aunt is becoming more eccentric by the day. She's politely asked to leave her sleepaway riding camp when payment fails to arrive, and so she sets off home to sort it all out. Again4. It's becoming something of a habit this need to act the grown up while the real grown ups fail to make the grade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419716417</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Rosemary Hayes|title= The Mark|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary='She's his mark'. Rachel's on the run. Naïve, homeless and emotional, she's easy prey. But for whom?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190999118X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Miriam Moss |title=Girl on a Plane|rating=5

|summary= ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's September 1970 and 15 year old Anna library is on her way back the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a 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 in England's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Friends As a petty act of revenge for making her family joke about find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the recent hijackings but Anna is far more concerned about leaving her home in Bahrain and their mongrel dogbooks, Woofascribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. These worries areThey're never meant to reach him, however, wiped from her mind when her plane of course. Her plan is hijacked by Palestinian guerrillas and diverted to a disused airstrip in the Jordanian desert. Here they are forced to wait for days with almost no food get her anger out like this, and very little water while their captors issue their demands to the British governmentthen take them all off before delivering them. If these demands are not met within three daysNo harm done… Or it would be, they will blow up the plane killing all the hostagesif someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443316</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Claire McFallPhilip Reeve|title= Black Cairn Point|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Heather agrees to a camping holiday with Dougie Utterly Dark and his friends because she's desperate to get closer to him. But when they disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, Heather becomes certain that they have woken a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in Face of the pitch-black dark, and it is planning deadly revenge.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404870</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=One|author=Sarah CrossanDeep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's always been Tippi-and-GraceIn a word, rich. Never Tippi and Grace. These twins can't be separated - and we don't mean just socially or emotionally; we mean physicallyThere is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, toobeyond the Scillies. Because Tippi and Grace There are conjoined twins. They have two headstroll people on it, two heartsand sea-witches, two sets of lungs, two pairs and legends of arms. But at the waist, they come together. Life hasn't been easy - their father Dark family that has lost his job as a college professor and so their mother works ridiculously long hours at the bank to keep up the health insurance payments. Medical bills are crippling watch for magical islands and money is tighttheir monster approaching from even further west, so tight that the twins are going to have stop being homeschooled and enroll in a "normal" school for the first timewhere no ship dare sail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408863111</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Clive Gifford and Professor Anil Seth|title=Brain Twisters: The Science of Thinking and Feeling|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Meet current Darks are the brain. We all have one. We all use it (and by 'it' I mean a heck Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of a lot more of it than activity from the 10% of urban myth) every second of the day. We engage Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with different parts of it for balance, catching a ball, memorising a list of moves too much science in controlling a video game characterhis head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, or understanding things ranging from written instruction to body language. Itand Andrewe's such a vital part of the bodyfoundling daughter, taking who washed up 20% out of our glucose fuel intake as well as of oxygen, that understanding of it cannot come at too young an agethe sea one day eleven years ago. But in this varied and complex bookwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, looking at a varied both his sullen brother and complex subjecthis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, I do wonder if the right approach has been taken at all timeslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782402047</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rebecca LimKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Astrologer's Daughter|rating=5|genre=Teens |summary=Horary Astrology is an ancient branch of horoscopic astrology in which an astrologer attempts to answer a question asked at an exact time by the construction of a horoscope around it. Clear as mud? Yes, me too. Suffice to say, an horary astrologer would have to be a very gifted individual indeed Julia and Avicenna Crowe's mother, Joanne, is such an astrologer. In fact, her predictive powers have been uncannily exact for her whole life and with such a gift comes an assortment of negative aspects; stalkers and maniacally obsessed clients at the bad end of the scale to, well, worse. Sometimes ''much'' worse…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922182001</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Derek Landy|title=Demon RoadShark

|summary=They may be quite far apartJulia, our pre-teen heroine, but three houses has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a row summer, in the rural suburbs far NE of 1950s Sydney contain some incredibly unusual peoplethe Scottish islands. In oneHere be Vikings, a solitary old man that kind of very few words, shuffling Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the end of lantern, which is his daysspecialist thing, but brandishing a Japanese sword he's purloined after WWII, and with a gun while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the corner of his loungeelusive Greenland shark. In the middleAnd Julia, a family of fivewell, with a father figure suffering from PTSD due to the same war, a mother feeling friendless she will be homesick and alone in the isolated time and location, and their three daughters – until she suddenly finds company one of whom has given up on school after an alleged nervous breakdown, the middle one who barely speaks more than the neighbour, and Matilda, our key interest, who likes the idea of spies, and has an imaginary friend who came out of the radionight. The third house however might be where the most interesting people live – after all, it had been empty, but now the luxurious building is home to several shady men in suits, who turned up out of the blue in luxury cars, and with at least one gun of their own…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358746</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Libba BrayJonathan Stroud|title= Lair of DreamsThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4.5

|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killerScarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, Evie O'Neill has outed robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself as a Divineralive. With her uncanny ability to read people's secretsBut then she meets Albert Browne, she's a media darling. It seems like everyone's in love dark boy with New York City's latest It Girl – their 'Sweetheart Seer'dark powers and a darker past. But while Evie is enjoying With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the high lifeLondon Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois the cannibalistic Tainted and Ling Chan all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will fight to keep their powers secret.they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhiteMercedes Helnwein|title=Butterfly ShellSlingshot|rating=53

|summary=One of the worst kind of nerve-wracking days Gracie Welles has arrived: that first day of Secondary Schoolresigned herself to being lonely. As we all remembera secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, thatshe is used to not being a priority in people's part scary, part exciting for any girl (or lives. But when she defends a random boy tooin her class with her slingshot, of course, but this her simple existence is a girls' school)changed for good. It's an age when you're anxious about making new friends and fitting No longer can she spend her time writing novels in anywaysolitude, but at ''for her'' new school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim to life now has a group of bullies. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Sixboy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzT L Huchu|title= The Young WorldLibrary of the Dead|rating= 34.5

|summary= After Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a mysterious sickness wipes out bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the rest dead of the population, the young survivors band together in small tribes, desperately trying to rebuild Edinburgh for their society of oldliving relatives. In New York City, Jefferson, reluctant leader Ever since she dropped out of the tribe from Washington Squareschool, hears of a potential cure for The Sickness. Soshe's been using it to support not only herself, he but her younger sister and a squad of heavily armed teens set out across New York in search of this cureher aging grandmother. Along the way they must avoid gangs and cultsHowever, and brave there's an evil stalking the perils ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the subway – all in the pursuit of mankindcity's futurechildren. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenn Bennett|title=Night Owls|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Beatrix Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a serious girl; small and slight, considered and studious with a quiet determination to follow her dream missing boy at the request of becoming a medical illustratorhis dead mother. Pretty She will end up discovering an occult library and petite, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipsters, Beatrix knows realise that Jack is all the kinds world of boys magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she should avoidever could've imagined. Loose-limbed Will she find the missing children and slim with a slash of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled and has cheekbones you can hang from and when Beatrix meets Jack, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transitbring an end to this evil, or will it claim her world is turned upside down. too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1529039452

Somehow, Daniel makes it out of the sinkhole and emerges to safety with just a few scratches and bruises. But his father isn't so lucky. While he lies in hospital in an induced coma due to a severe brain injury, Daniel is released into the care of his aunt, a woman he has never met. There had been a family falling out after Daniel's mother died when he was just a baby, and since then it's just been Daniel and his dad. Although his aunt seems nice enough, Daniel finds it difficult to trust her or open up to her... ... and there's a lot to open up about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147114366X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ian Johnstone|title= The Mirror Chronicles: Circles of Stone|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Sylas Tate has been through a lot, considering he wasn't yet in his teens when his journeys began. His mother is lost, leaving him to the less than tender mercies of his uncle, and after a strange incident in book one of this series he found himself travelling to another world. Even more bizarre, while he was there he encountered Naeo, his other half – not some jokey reference to a future wife, but the true second part of his soul. The two worlds (ours, based on science, and the Other, based Move on magic) were once one, and it is the dearest wish of the down-trodden inhabitants Sylas meets to unite them again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007491174</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Katie Everson|title= Drop|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Katie Everson’s debut novel, ‘Drop,’ is a tale of grief and healing, whirlwind romance and brutal honesty. We follow the story of Carla - straight-A-student, rule-abiding daughter and somewhat uninteresting friend - who is determined to change her predictable life. When her absentee mother is offered a job in London, Carla transfers to yet another school and this time she is desperate to not be overlooked. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406356271</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]