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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Darren Shan|title= ZomAshley Hickson-B Goddess (Zom B 12)|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING!  If you haven't read the first book in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!  Go on. Run along|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077961</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marisa ReichardtLovence|title=UnderwaterWild East

|summary=Morgan has a post-it note Written in her apartment: ''1. Breathe''<br>''2. You are okay''<br>''3. You are not dying'' And if you had escaped a school shooting aliveverse, you might need a note like this too, right? People died. Kids died. Friends died. And afterwards, Morganis Ronny's school closed for story, a while. Morgan started attending a new school but it was just too much for her. She retreated young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to her apartment, enrolled Norwich and start at an online high a mostly white school and didn't leave. Morgan hasn The move is initiated by Ronny't crossed the threshold s mum who is worried for months. If she only stays inside then sheRonny's safe. And safety after a shut-tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in's life has a rhythm. Morgan's day is predictable: daytime TVnew town, online a new school, grilled cheese and soup for lunchkeep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, visits from her therapist. And Mom and little brother Ben to liven up the evenings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447287363</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Fallout (Lois Lane)|author=Gwenda Bond|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lois Lane is an army brat with has always dreamed of being a history of, shall we say, oppositional behaviour. Or at least, that's how her army general father sees it. Lois doesn't see it at all like that. Lois just hates injustice, that's all. And if something unjust is happening, she can't let it sliderapper. But this timenow, her nth time in a new town and a this new school, Lois has vowed his teacher encourages him to herself that things will be different. She'll be good. She'll keep her mouth shut. She'll fly under part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the radar. Heckconnections between rap and poetry, she might even make a friend or twoand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782023682</amazonuk>0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=CrushJenny Valentine|authortitle=Eve AinsworthUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5

|summary=Anna's mother has left her father - Elk and her brotherMab are best friends, and Anna herself. That's how Anna sees it and although her mother wants contactor more than that even, Anna their friendship is refusing ita once in a lifetime connection. It They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's not as though Anna sees this as some heroic defence of father and brother either: shet get each other's fed up with contact details at the time. But then chance brings themback together, tooand they are inseparable. Her father is always distracted Something has happened though, something terrible and he isdefinitely favouring little brother Eddietragic, whoand now they must work through their grief, as Anna sees itand their friendship, is a spoiled brat. School has picked up on the fact that all is not right with Anna and has signed her up for counselling sessions..together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407146904</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Secret Last Life of Daisy Fitzjohn|author=Tania UnsworthLori Mills

|summary=Daisy Fitzjohn lives with her mother in We meet Lori on the crumbling but grand Brightwood Hall. The house is full of antiques and treasures and hoardings - because Daisyfirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother does like to hoard at work, just an avidly rule- breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and Daisy that is rarely at a loss for something to look at or investigate. Which is just as welllog on to Voxminer, because Daisy has never gone outside the house and its grounds. We understand why Daisy's mother keeps her secluded world-building, critter- shecollecting game that is a hit in Lori's terrified of loss because of a family tragedy in her own childhoodworld. Despite this, Daisy But first Lori has a loving relationship with tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her mum and makes up for the isolation by developing friendships: with her pet ratown, with the peacocks and rabbits in then she finds something even more spooky. For the gardens, server she and also with paintings her bestie and topiary and other creatures nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her imaginationphone screen, all and her safe place in the knowledge that she's being kept safe from The Crazy that once ran in her family.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444010263</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Eliza RoseRachel Greenlaw|authortitle=Lucy WorsleyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=Eliza's family isn't as wealthy as it once wasI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. And she is well aware that Mira, like her mother before her duty , is one of the seven who swim out to marry well in order survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to repair end the wrecking, they capture the Camperdowne fortunesisland's leader and Mira's father. To this endDesperate to save him from death, Eliza Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is sent from as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her , she sets off in search of a family home at Stoneton Castle secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to Trumpton Hallunearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to be educated in the ways heart of noble ladies. Here, she meets the infamous Katherine Howard while she too is still a young girl. And from there, itsmuggler's on territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Tudor court future of Henry VIII, who is currently married to Anne of Clevesher home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408869438</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Nick Ostler and Mark HuckerbyHarry Allen|title= Defender Children of the RealmSun|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary=Alfie does not feel like he's the right person to be heir Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to the throne. He's awkwardcome by, bullied so Seo and her friends Nari and always in the front page of the news Min go foraging every evening, looking for his latest mishap. His brother Richard, as the papers love to remind him, would be much better suited tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the part. But when their father the King suddenly dies, ready or not, suitable or not, Alfie is no longer the heir, he is the king meagre rations of rice and with that defender of the realm. Together with an unlikely ally in the anti- royalist Hayley, Alfie learns his true heritage, protecting the kingdom from all the monsters no one knows exist... Suddenly all the royal duties he'd been expecting don't seem so onerous in comparisonkimchi at home. Alfie must quickly grow into the King the country needs, or who knows what will be left of the country? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1407164236</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Susin NielsenAlexia Casale|title= The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Susin Nielsen is adept at conveying how Sing if you shouldnCan't judge someone on a first impression and how it's who you are that matters not what you look like. When we first meet Henry he is in counselling and dealing with an emotional trauma by speaking in a monotonous robot voice. His family has been fragmented by the cataclysmic 'IT' which he refuses to talk about. Ripped away from his comfortable life in Port Salish, Henry is struggling to readjust whilst living with his dad in a cramped apartment in Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada. Gradually he starts to come out of his shell as he discovers new friends and interests but the road to recovery is not straightforward. Luckily he has his journal, albeit reluctantly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443669</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Richard Kurti|title= MaladaptedDance|rating= 35

|summary=Cillian isnIt't an average teenager. He knows hes hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you's re having to navigate a mathematical geniuslife-changing disability too, hebut that's already at university studying advanced theory, but Cillian doesn't realise quite how above average he what Ven is until he's dealing with after collapsing on stage in the sole survivor middle of a train explosiondance performance that was going to change her life. With his father is dead But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and his last words desperate to get back to Cillian a riddle, Cillianlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's existence is thrown in a whole new light(cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all 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>1406346292</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teri TerrySimon Fox|title=Book of LiesDeadlock|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalConfident Readers|summary= As teenage fiction ''Book of Lies'' has all Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the usual themes -- confused sense of identityforce, and then suddenly rings Archie, relationship troublesdemanding he fetch something from a secret place, difficult family backgroundsand join him on the run... But it also has another element: They get together, but barely begin to smell the supernatural. The story starts whiff of Southern trains when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagersfather is arrested, having been separated at birth. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal leaving Archie on the complexities of their shared familylate express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints the bearer of witchcraft, hounds a whole heap of death and family cursesquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408334283</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachLex Croucher|title=Thanks for the TroubleGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4.5

|summary=Parker hasn't spoken Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a singlegay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, solitary word for the last five yearsit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. He hasn't started applying for college yet In this story, either. Not that he'd likely get in: his grades are rubbish Gwen and he spends as Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much time skipping school as he does attending classto their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. He has also developed And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a petty theft habitboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, which he indulges creating the subterfuge of falling in well-heeled hotels. Oh dearlove with each other, I hear you sayingwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. It's not But as though there aren't reasons for Parker's behaviourtheir impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, there or are, but reasons don't help much.they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147114612X</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah PinboroughNick Brooks|title=13 MinutesPromise Boys

|summary=If you think about itWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, you can count several things in 13s. It probably took me 13 months to three boys find a book more emotionally satisfying than this author's previous release, [[The Death House by Sarah Pinborough|The Death House]]. It probably took me 13 seconds to accept by email themselves called into the chance to read this titlepolice station as suspects. You can almost hear Andy Warhol changing his adage to '13 minutes Each, seemingly, has a grudge of fame'some description against Principal Moore, considering that the Internet he would never and each could have known about just makes fame even faster to achieve than ever, and one of those social media starlets – as far as ''been there at the hive'' time of Brackston Community School is concerned – Natasha Howland, was clinically dead for 13 minutes, before she was fished out of a frozen river one pre-dawn January morninghis murder. This utterly dramatic teen read is concerned with the fight for her to work out But who killed him, and why she was in that river, although it's mostly taken from the point and if any of view of a girl on the edge of her circleboys are innocent, Becca.will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1473214033</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Lim1919635017|title=Afterlight|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary= A freak motorbike accident that claims the life of your parents is really all it takes to make your world fall apart. You might hope that a new beginning in a different high school is going to jumpstart your life; that a chance to reinvent yourself as just Sophie Teague, rather than Sophie-The-One-Whose-Parents-Died might just be all you need to get by. But before Sophie gets the chance Thief to find out, she is visited by Eve. Eve isn’t like other girls. She is beautiful and mesmerizing and Eve needs Sophie to be her go-to girl. Because Eve can’t do much for herself since she died. Eve is Catch a ghost and dealing with the dead who have ''unfinished business'' could be the biggest challenge of Sophie’s life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925240495</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Beautiful Broken ThingsKiller|author=Sara BarnardKitt Townsend

|summary=Caddy and Rosie have been best friends for years and even going to different schools hasnSolomon Klyne isn't parted them. a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And this is the summer that Rosie intends how did he learn to be different. Shecrack safes? You'll have to wait to get a boyfriend, finally. Perhaps even lose her virginity. And experience a Significant Life Eventan answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the best laid plans and all thatfirst one: for his grandmother...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>150980353X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Jo Cotterill Patrick Ness and Cathy BrettTea Bendix|title= ElectrigirlDifferent for Boys|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens |summary= Holly Sparkes Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is an ordinary 11-year-old schoolgirlsurprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, until she so his desk is struck by a mysterious bolt of lightning and then everything changes and she becomes extraordinary! Just like one of four with both his best buddy from the characters football team, and two other old muckers – in her brotherfact they all go back to primary school days together. As they's much loved comics Holly has developed superpowers. Holly can generate a massive amount of electricity in secondsre all fired up, straining at the leash only a skill that single-sex school canform, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as Holly discovershe doesn't know what his score is, cause mayhem unless she can learn to control itwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Her brother Joe He's had a casual relationship, an expert in these thingsa secret one, for several months now, decides to become her mentor and together they resolve to use Hollyso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's new powers to good effectset in stone, he can't be sure. They get the opportunity sooner than they expect with the arrival in their town And that's mostly because of who he's been having the company CyberSky relationship and the sinister Professor Macavitysex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192743554</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Whelan1800901232|title=The Box of Demons|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Meet Ben Robson. He is haunted by owning a Box of Demons, which like those TV-advertised DIY liquids, does exactly what it says on the tin. It contains three demons, of different kinds, that have hampered his concentration at school, caused no end of mischief he has had to take the blame for, and may even have had something to do with his mother being incarcerated in a special hospital. But is that all it contains? The demons, as naughty as they might be – where do they sit in the grand scheme of things, and where as a result might Ben end up, if the forces of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and for all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447273737</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Mimi Thebo|title=Dreaming the BearSteve Cole

|genre=Confident Readers Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Darcy's Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a typical teenager whose natural habitat is fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the shopping mall village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the multiplexmini-bus to Hanoi. It's, therefore Only, Hanh and the other girls were not surprising that she's finding it almost impossible to adjust going to living work in a snowy wilderness without televisionshop, a phone signal or wifithey were to 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 doesn't help s quite possible that she's also recovering from pneumonia Hanh and tires quickly. But it is this very weakness that changes her life when, exhausted, she stumbles into the shelter of a cave and finds herself embraced by a hibernating grizzly bearco-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192745883</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross WelfordPatrice Lawrence|title=Time Travelling with a HamsterNeedle|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Al Chaudhury. He lives, unknowingly, among a family of time travellers. His grandfather has such a brilliant memory he can use a mind palace to store anything and everything, and could tell you what happened on every day of his life, and take himself back with his thoughts. His father knows the starlight at night is years old, and is a snapshot of a sun that is remote both in time and space. But even harder to fathom is that Al's father is a real time traveller, and is going to speak from beyond the grave, and send Al on a true mission through time, one that will either save his life, or completely ruin all Al's forevers, for, er, for ever.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000815631X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Anna and the Swallow Man|author=Gavriel Savit|rating=53

|summary=ItBrave. 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 Poland fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in 1939. And Annaher son Blake's old room while he's linguistics professor father is about to at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be rounded up in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the Nazi purge creation of intellectuals. Knowing this one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is likely to happena wonder knitter, he leaves her in the care and is making something full of a friend love for the day. When her father doesnyounger sister – a younger sister she't return to collect s allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove herbelligerence with a store detective, the frightened friend loses his nerve and abandons Anna then force people to a new and dangerous worldgive her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... Anna well, what exactly happens is just seven years old not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and will never see her father againpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178230052X</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Michael GrantAnn Sei Lin|title= Front LinesRebel Skies

|summary=1942: Hitler is pushing his way ever furtherKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the USA adds its strength Empire come to the Alliance drink and women are allowed make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to fight in tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the military for power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the first timeEmpire. Rio Richlin’s sister He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has already died known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the warmatter, Frangie Marr because the Midori is desperate for destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a way to keep her family’s heads above water shikigami, and Rainy Schulterman wants she is forced to kill flee out into the man who world. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is murdering Jews. All three go to war hunt down shikigami, and all three are changed. Although they do they do not start together, their paths intersect as they all take on roles that leave more scars than expected.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405273828</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Courtney SummersMarcus Sedgwick|title=All The RageWrath|rating=4.5

|summary=In a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone elseMeet Fitz, a teenage girl is rapedyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. ''All The Rage'' Lockdown is as simple as thatonly just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and yet with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it is so much more complicated toowhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. It touches upon They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the blame that is laid at enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the victim's feet; the ways in which survivors cope earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the days and weeks and years after such an ordeal; end of the idea that, while world is already a done deal? Is it changes yousome spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, it cannot fully erase what makes you younot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>150981759X</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Juno DawsonTori Bovalino|title=Mind Your HeadThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|summary=The number of young people suffering from mental ill health is increasing year-on-year. Yet we still find it difficult to talk about. And mental health still hasnWorking all summer in her boarding school't achieved parity with physical health in terms of services and healthcare available. Enter Mind Your Head.This s library is a frank and accessible overview of the issues facing young people with regards last thing Tess Matheson wants to mental ill health. It covers the various types of illness, the treatments available, how do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to manage themdeliver herself. It includes personal stories and exercises and is written in a chatty but serious way. Juno Dawson What makes it worse is the transgender author you might have known before as James Dawsonman who requested the books: Mr Birch. SheThe boarding school's brought in clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt to help herheadmaster, and a man Tess hates. And also illustrator Gemma Correll to avoid any appearance As a petty act of dourness. Because Mind Your Head is about serious things but is an absolute pleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471405311</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alyssa Sheinmel|title=Faceless|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary=Maisie is revenge for making her find and deliver such a normal high school student. She's the star large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the school running teambooks, has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend and scribbled with the ugliest insults shecan think of. They's all set to go re never meant to a good college. But when an early morning run ends in tragedyreach him, Maisie finds herself in hospital in the serious burns unit and without most of her facecourse. When a donor appears, Maisie Her plan is given a miraculous face transplant. Her doctorsto get her anger out like this, parents and her annoyingly beautiful and upbeat physical therapist then take them all keep telling her how lucky she isoff before delivering them... But Maisie doesnNo harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't feel lucky. Under this new face, with its heavy scarring, she has no idea who she is anymoredelivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910655198</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=How not to DisappearPhilip Reeve|authortitle=Clare FurnissUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hattie In a word, rich. There is having rather certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a miserable summer. Both her best friendspeculiar island called Wildsea, Reuben and NatBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are awaytroll people on it, living it up in the south of France and Edinburgh respectively. Hattiesea-witches, meanwhile, is stuck at home babysitting her younger siblings and working at a burger joint. It's hardly glamorous and it's very dispiriting legends of the Dark family that has to be the one waiting at home keep watch for the odd text or email from friends who are having the times of magical islands and their lives. Ho hum.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471120309</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Caroline Lawrence|title=Queen of the Silver Arrow|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=King Metabus had not been a good king and his escape monster approaching from his kingdom was hurried and pursuedeven further west, where no ship dare sail. When he reached The current Darks are the river he had Watcher, Andrewe, who has to make a decision and he thought first keep notes of activity from the safety of the baby daughter he carried Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his arms and tied her head to his javelinworry about such local yokel superstitions, which he threw across the torrentand Andrewe's foundling daughter, pledging as he did so that he would serve the Goddess Diana. Camilla should have grown who washed up as a Princess but instead she lived in a cave with her father and ran wild in out of the forestsea one day eleven years ago. In nearby LaurentumBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Acca had grown up hearing the story of how Camilla giggled as she swung on the javelin embedded in the ground both his sullen brother and dreamed of meeting her, but this didn't happen until after his curious ward are thrust into the death world of Camilla's fatherprotecting their island, when the girls became firm friendslike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125260</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary HooperKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=A Dark TradeJulia and the Shark

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Georgina FridayJulia, known to everyone as Ginaour pre-teen heroine, grew up has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in an orphanage and when she was sixteen went SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a servant is a big house summer, in central London. There were seven members the far NE of the family and twelve servants - and Gina was the one at the bottom who had to run about after everyone and who was the butt of practical jokesScottish islands. She could cope with Here be Vikings, that, but what she couldn't cope with was the attentions of one kind of the young men of the familyScottish island. She'd already heard Dad is going to be automating the stories of what had happened lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to another young maid who'd caught his eye - thrown out on hunt the streets to fend for herself elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and her baby - and could see no way of escape from ''him'' other than to run awayalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781125163</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kathryn Evans Jonathan Stroud|title=More of Me The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=At schoolScarlett 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, sixteen year old Teva Webb seems normalrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But at home Teva's life is about as far from normal as it's possible then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to getthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Locked away in what everyone outside thinks is a haunted house are eleven other TevasTogether, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all different ages. Why? Because every year Teva separates in two with the new Teva going out horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the world while the previous Teva is kept inside, trapped as her younger self.rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1474903029</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Changers, Book One: DrewMercedes Helnwein|authortitle=Allison Glock-Cooper and T CooperSlingshot|rating=43

|summary=''Some teenagers worry about who they'll wake up next Gracie Welles has resigned herself tobeing lonely. Others worry about who they'll wake up as...'' Ethan, who is 14As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is just hoping used to wake up not being a priority in time to begin his high school career in a brand new townpeople's lives. Imagine his shock But when he wakes up AS A GIRLshe defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. What the what? How No longer can this happen? It turns out that Ethanshe spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now Drew, is has a Changer, one of an ancient race of humankind, and he will undergo not one, but THREE more such changes - one boy in it that she never asked for each year of his time at high school. Drew's parents are overjoyed at their offspring's transformation but Drew is not happy at all: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349002428</amazonuk>152905818X

But River Boy doesn't drown. He holds on. And when he washes up on the banks of the Thames, something propels him to St Paul's Cathedral, where Reverend Solomon finds him, drenched, bedraggled, wild-eyed and wordless. After several days in hospital, River Boy remains unable to find his voice. Or his memory. Who is this boy? Why was he in the Thames? Will anyone claim him? What are the strange signs he obsessively draws?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144492043X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Maria Turtschaninoff and Annie Prime (translator)|title=Maresi (The Red Abbey Chronicles)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Despite the name, there is nothing masculine about the island of Menos at all. Apart from a few male farm animals and birds, everything is feminine – the island is a rugged mountain land, home to only one abbey where everyone is female, and worshipping a female holy trinity – one Mother Goddess in three ages of life. The novices there are on the cusp, in several ways – of girls turning to women, of students turning to Sisters, of people learning what the religion means for them starting to practise it with a duty to others. And, of course, they are on the border between the past that took them to the abbey and what could come if they ever leave. Maresi comes from a family that lost one daughter through famine, and the inability to support themselves. New girl Jai, who has latched Move on to Maresi like her shadow to learn the ropes, has come from a place even darker – but whose future might be more blackened by darkness is for you to discover, in this trilogy-opening fantasy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782690913</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Keil|title=The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alba and her friends have just finished high school. Now they must decide what to do with the rest of their lives. Move to the city? Enrol at university? Get a job and make a life in their rural Australian backwater? Pair off? Stay single? Alba herself must decide whether or not a career in art and comic books is possible. And if it is, is it worth leaving a happy life and a friendship group for? It's a frightening choice. Is she good enough? And in any case, the friendship group might disappear whatever she decides. Because each member of it has the same choice before them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847156835</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Becca Fitzpatrick |title=Dangerous Lies |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Whisked into the witness protection programme, 17 year old Estella's life is turned upside down. She's torn away from her long-term boyfriend and forced to abandon both her friends and her identity. Leaving city life behind her, she's convinced there is no way she will be able to adapt to Thunder Basin, Nebraska. But, then, she hadn't expected to fall for the boy next door. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471125084</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gary D Schmidt|title=Orbiting Jupiter|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Twelve year-old Jack is informed that his parents will be fostering another boy – fourteen year-old Joseph. But Joseph isn't like most fourteen year-olds. He's troubled: the rumour is that he spent time in juvenile incarceration for trying to kill his teacher. And there's something else about Joseph, too: he has a daughter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443944</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]