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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__{{newreview|author=Jessica Verday|title=The Hollow: The Haunted|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In [[The Hollow by Jessica Verday|The Hollow]], Abbey tried to cope with thedisappearance of her best friend and her feelings for new boyfriend Caspian <!-- Remove - only to find herself losing her grip on sanity when she discovered Caspian was dead, a Shade, rather than another real person. After a summer away from Sleepy Hollow, she returns, trying to concentrate on making perfumes and getting science tuition from nice cute Ben - but then Caspian reappears. Will the two find true love? Why are there so many other weird strangers around Sleepy Hollow who Abbey keeps meeting? What exactly DID happen to Kristen? Where do Katrina Van Tassel and Nikolas, the famous Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow, fit into all this? And does anyone who missed the first book have any hope of following what's going on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384994</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Simone ElkelesMax Boucherat|title=Rules The Last Life of AttractionLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Carlos Fuentes isnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't interested s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in living in America with his over-protective brother Alex, but his babysitter poorly, mother sends him there for his senior at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year of high school to try old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and keep him out of trouble. Kiara Westford that is happy to help log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a new guy settle hit in - at least until 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. For the shy stutterer actually meets the bad boyserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Despite their initial dislike of each other When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, they're thrown together when Carlos has drugsplanted on him and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well respected father takes him in to stop him being sent back , where is a girl to Mexico. Will these two headstrong youngsters find loveturn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070436</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah SilverwoodRachel Greenlaw|title=The Nowhere Chronicles: The Double-Edged SwordCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

|summary=When Fin's guardian, Judge Harlequin Brown is murdered, life as he knows it becomes a whole lot more exciting and dangerous. In 'I can hear the course song of one life-changing day, he learns that there is a pathway between his London in 'Somewhere', and an alternate London the sea. The call of a parallel world called 'Nowhere', and that the fates of both worlds are now under threat from a group of rogue Knightsdeep, who have the ability to travel between these worlds using their double edged swordsanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095288</amazonuk>}}''

{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Chandler|title=Dark Secrets 3: The Back Door Rosevear, a 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 Midnight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Like the first four novellas in seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Dark Secrets series - previously released in two 'bind-up' editions - this story features Council Watch lays a teenage girl returning trap to Wisteriaend the wrecking, Maryland they capture the island's leader and trying Mira's father. Desperate to find closure on past events. In this casesave him from death, Anna Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is summoned there by a letter from her uncle asking her to return secretive and with only coordinates to the place where guide her mother died so that he can tell her something important about their family, but by the time she returns her uncle is dead, his body found sets off in the boot search of a burnt out carfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Her aunt seems crazyWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her first instinct is from the watched streets of foreign islands to get out as quickly as possible, but instead shethe heart of the smuggler's drawn into territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the mystery along with future of her cute neighbour Zack. The O'Neill women have always been said to be psychic, home and Anna starts getting her own flashes which may draw her towards a solution - but also further into dangerthe ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070347</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisi HarrisonHarry Allen|title=Monster HighChildren of the Sun

|summary=I don't know about everyone else, but I'm getting Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a bit fed up of all the vampires, werewolves talented singer. Life is hard and other creepies that seem food is difficult to have popped up since the explosion of hype around [[Twilight come by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. So, when this book landed on my doorstepso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, I can't say I held much hope looking for it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410635</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clare Chambers|title=Burning Secrets|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel, his mother tree bark and his sister Louie are escaping the city edible grasses to spend six months on supplement the isolated island meagre rations of Wragge. They're all escaping something: Daniel's mother is still getting over a broken marriage; Louie is prone to black depressions rice and self-harming; Daniel has just been released from a youth offenders institution after a conviction for fire-setting resulting in the death of an old itinerant. There's plenty to leave behindkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007307284</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kenneth OppelAlexia Casale|title=Half BrotherSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=BenIt's thirteen and an only child. Youhard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you'd think he was entirely used re having to being navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the centre middle of attentiona dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, thendesperate to avoid the pity stares, wouldnand desperate to get back to a life that't you? But this isn't really the cases as normal as she can possibly manage. Ben Meanwhile there's parents are academics. His father is a fiercely ambitious behavioural psychologist and his mother is both completing her doctorate and acting as new (cute!) boy in school, her husband's research assistant. Ben is used music A Level performance piece to coming second try to sort out, and just the advance day to day traumas of science. He can cope with that. Usually. But then his parents up sticks and move him all the way across Canadachallenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Why? Because his father So even though she can's new university is prepared t dance anymore, might she be able to underwrite his new project - raising a chimpanzee as human and trying to teach it American Sign Language. sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385618417</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreview|author=Marie-Louise Jensen|title=Sigrun's Secret|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=It must have seemed to Sigrun that she had an ideal life in Iceland, breaking and training the colts on the family farm or helping her mother, Thora, who was a healer. Life seemed to be complete when her father's ship returned home and the family was together again. It was not to last though. Sigrun's parents were hiding a dreadful secret and when it caught up with them, Sigrun, her father and Asgrim, her brother were forced into exile in Jorvik for three years. She was completely unused to the busy city life and disliked the violence and cruelty she found around her. But – at the same time – her own skills as a healer and midwife began to blossom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728822</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Darren ShanSimon Fox|title=Birth of a Killer (The Saga of Larten Crepsley)Deadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Larten Crepsley leads Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a hardsecret place, hard lifeand join him on the run. One child amongst many They get together, born during an industrial revolution, he works horrendously long and dangerous hours in a silk factory even though he's yet but barely begin to see his teens. If smell the whiff of Southern trains when the family father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to eatBrighton, there is little choice. The foreman is toting a violent bully, issuing regular beatingstin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and nobody dares challenge him and if it wasn't for his orphan cousin, Vur, Larten's life would be grim indeedthe bearer of a whole heap of questions. But things never seem quite so dark when you have a true friend, do they? |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007315856</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Beate Teresa HanikaLex Croucher|title=Learning to Scream|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Malvina is thirteen years old, the youngest of three children in a dysfunctional family. Her father is a very grumpy teacher, with little understanding of children, whilst her mother seems to suffer permanently from migraine. She has a good friend, Lizzy, Gwen and they play together as much as they can, united Art Are Not in their dislike of the 'boys from the estate'. Her grandmother died last year, leaving her granddad on his own and it's Malvina's job to go and visit him and take him his meals. The family think this is a great arrangement because they know how much Granddad loves Malvina and looks forward to her visits. There's a problem though. Malvina doesn't like going, particularly on her own. Granddad kisses her on the mouth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390606</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Bracegirdle|title=The Joy of Spooking: Unearthly AsylumLove|rating=3.54

|summary=The district of Spooking is still Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a problem for the evil diplomats from Darlingtongay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, the city that surrounds itlifted my spirits in a most delightful way. It was in the way of their waterpark [[The Joy of Spooking: Fiendish Deeds by P J Bracegirdle|last time]]In this story, Gwen and now puts a stop Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to a new sewage plant. their mutual disgust! ActuallyGwen, chiefly you see, is in love with Bridget (the way last time was Joy, who still calls it homekingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. A coldAnd then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, decrepit, run-down and gothic home creating the subterfuge of falling in her instancelove with each other, but home neverthelesswhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But the evil diplomats as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are still making their plans they destined to redevelop the place. If only Joy could claim historical prestige for it with her beloved author E A Peugeot as live a son of Spooking.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385206</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leila RasheedNick Brooks|title=The World Turned Upside DownPromise Boys

|summary=Stratford upon Avon 1642 – The English Civil War has come to When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the townpolice station as suspects. Mary is Each, seemingly, has a young Catholic grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at a the time when her religion was regarded with deep suspicionof his murder. She is drawn to Jack But who killed him, even though he is a Roundhead soldier with no moneyand why, land or statusand if any of the boys are innocent, and he is from an inferior background will they be able to her.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956506402</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rick Yancey1919635017|title=The Monstrumologist: The Curse of the WendigoA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary=While the celebrated monstrumologist Dr Peregrine Warthrop has spent his life tracking down dark and mysterious creatures, the existence of some of these fiends is too much for him to believe. In fact, thereSolomon Klyne isn's t a split between Warthropbad lad, his former close friend John Chanler, and their mentor Von Helrung over whetherthere really are such things as vampires, werewolves, and the terrifying wendigo, rumoured to be the ultimate predator. Warthrop scoffs at the other men's belief in this creature - and at one point in the book gives an interesting lecture on so why it's impossible for it to exist - but nevertheless goes in search of Chanler when is he disappears searching for it. It's not just friendship that drives him to look for his colleague though, as he's asked by Chanler's wife Muriel - who is Warthrop's former fiancee. The search for Chanler takes the monstrumologist and his young assistant John Henry deep into the Canadian wilderness, but when they return to New York they bring back someone - or something - that can endanger their lives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387675</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Rebel Prince|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=After spending the entire of [[Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded Shadows by Celine Kiernan|The Crowded Shadows]], the excellent second book in this running around London committing a series, looking for it, the Protector Lady Wynter Moorehawke has finally discovered the hiddencamp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can she, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince to make peace with his father, or is their quest to end in bloodshed and failurerobberies?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra Harvey|title=Out For Blood|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academy. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes in staking all vampires, no questions asked. But then, And how did he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter learn to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isncrack safes? You't so sure on either count.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brenna Yovanoff|title=The Replacement|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Mackie lives in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and the trials and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recently, however, things ll have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop raining. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning wait to fail. It's getting more and more difficult get an answer to avoid the truth... ... second question because Mackie is differentI avoid spoilers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Gone|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=JanieBut I's made it through so much. And now she's graduated from high school, has a guaranteed job with ll answer the local police after college, and a boyfriend who loves her like crazy. Her future should be bright, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - has to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great first one: for a career in crime fighting, but it's burning her outhis grandmother. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll be blind and crippled. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jenny Downham|title=You Against Me|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you?'' It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother's an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social services. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer DonnellyPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=RevolutionDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=Meet AndiAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, a New York girl on a trip 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 Parisprimary school days together. SheAs they's a talented musician 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 exceptional studentsAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. SheHe's had a casual relationship, a wisecrackingsecret one, for several months now, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. Sheand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's a brilliant people watcherset in stone, and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smilehe can't be sure. SheAnd that's also seriously depressed mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer Lynn Barnes1800901232|title=Raised by WolvesStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Bryn has Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed with her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Pack, but Humanwas happy, if not Werewolfprosperous, Bryn is something of so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity not to undermine it – to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true selfbe missed. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=Behemoth|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=World War One looms Some money changed hands and Europe's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacy, Hanh was on the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard a gift for Sultan Mehmed V, Lord of the Horizons and ruler of the Ottoman Empiremini-bus to Hanoi. But when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn Only, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan Hanh and Alek, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secrets, but other girls were not everyone wants going to spark work in a deadly war...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jonathan Stroud|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Barty is back! Wellshop, he isn't actually back. But we do get they were to revisit himwork in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Which is good. I'm sure you You know who I'm talking about. But just in case those jeans you don't, Bartimaeus is a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the star of a wonderful artfully-placed rips and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies of world history, particularly distressed seams that of London. In fact, hefelt so soft when you touched them? It's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who has. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. He's a rude, sarcastic egomaniac quite possible that Hanh and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible one linerher co-workers made them. And he usually comes through in the end. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithPatrice Lawrence|title=Furnace: FugitivesNeedle|rating=43

|summary=It has taken three books Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for Alex some people to get like, characters and readers both. Kicked out of prison. He wouldnmultiple homes and schools, she't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murders fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he would have found it 's at uni. Such a better experience were it tempestuous personality may be in need of a regular prison. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Wardencreation of one such item is part of the plot here, Mr Furnaceas Charlene is a wonder knitter, and the evil creatures they are both is makingsomething full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, breeding and employing then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down thereas expletively ignorant. And then. But the whole experience has come at a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too much, and they are changing him too - making him one of their tools. It's only nowwell, on the outside what exactly happens is not for the first timeme to say, that Alex gets a clearer picture of just only to remark how many tools there are - sharp and just how much evil has been spreadpointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl HiaasenAnn Sei Lin|title=ScatRebel Skies|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Nick 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 friend Marta are ordinary kidsmake merry between their conquests. They don't look for troubleHowever, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him write an essay about his pimples, then trouble can't be far awaysomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. The teacher goes missing during a wildfireHe asks her to come with him, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blameknown. But the evidence doesnWell, soon Kurara won't add uphave any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and our young heroes decide it's up she is forced to them to discover flee out into the truthworld.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Blade: Risking All|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's the final chapter. There's nothing let now but the last confrontation. Blade has nothing left to lose and at last revenge is in sight. Under pressure from the porkers and the gangs, and with his private empire crumbling, Hawk has retreated to his remote hideout. Blade is there, waiting. But Hawk is surrounded by a private army of security. Dozens of grinks and gobbos lie between Blade and his nemesis and getting past them isn't going to be easy. But Blade has his instinct back and nothing is going to stand in his way. Losing is not an option. But can he beat the man who has never known defeat? Can he find redemption? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>019275601X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Robert Muchamore|title=Shadow Wave (CHERUB)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=A shadow wave is a tidal flow that happens after a tsunami, and it can be deadly because it travels in the opposite direction and is often unexpected. Robert Muchamore's latest book in the CHERUB series is named after this phenomenon, and tells what happens when a bunch of young CHERUB secret agents and their teachers get caught up in the chaos in Malaysia which follows the 2004 earthquake and tsunami. They rescue impoverished villagers and help them begin rebuilding their homes, only to see all their hard work destroyed by government officials who use the disaster as an excuse to take away the fishermen's land and use it to build hotels for rich foreigners. Muchamore pulls no punches as he shows how greed and corruption win out over people's right to keep to their traditional lifestyles.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095647X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersMarcus Sedgwick|title=Bad Tuesdays 3: Blood AlchemyWrath

|summary=Chess and her brothers have been separated. Box and Splinter are incarcerated on Meet Fitz, a prison planet, young Scottish lad full of frustration at the mercy of the Twisted Symmetry and their Dog Troopershimself. Chess Lockdown is only just as much of a prisoner - she's being "protected" by The Committee over, and languishes in a safe house, itching to he should be free. None of the three intend on being locked up for long. Chess to do what he wants , to find out who she really is go where he wants and then to get on with destroying the Brain that feeds off the energy of innocent children, and Box whom he wants to get back to Chess and help protect her. And Splinter, well, but he's got ideas of cannot stop himself from putting his own and they certainly don't include an agonising death at the hands of foot in it when he talks to his captorsbest friend, Cassie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184255641X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nadia Aguiar|title=Secrets They were half of Tamarind|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The Island of Tamarind is once again under threata desultory school band, from the evils of the Red Coral. Once more Simon and his sisters Maya and Penny (but mostly Simon) must save Cassie was also one hundred per cent the island that only they can reach, as it lies in some exotic Bermuda Triangle. For enigmatic – saying she could hear a second book running they must breach the barriers, solve mysteries surrounding their native friend Helix's legacy, and subhuman hum coming from the native magical element ophalla, and put the island to rightsearth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384336</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Thomas E Sniegoski|title=The Fallen: Fallen and Leviathan|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Thousands of years ago, a bunch of angels fell in love Is this connected with human women. For their sins, they were cast out one of Heaven. Their children are her eco-warrior parents saying the Nephilim. They are hunted by Verchiel, leader end of the Powers, hell-bent (excuse the pun!) on destroying them, especially the leader who prophecy says will lead them. On his 18th birthday, Aaron Corbet has world is already a strange dream done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of weapons clanging and angels descending on a battlefield... and wakes up able to speak and understand any language, including that music she's dreaming of his dog Gabriel. We ? Is she just bonkers? And can see where this is goingFitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't we?...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857071211</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyTori Bovalino|title=The Dead of WinterDevil Makes Three

|summary=ItWorking all summer in her boarding school's not enough library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to find out you're do — especially when she gets a request for over a clone and hundred books that she has to have both a renegade scientist deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a fundamentalist terrorist group trying to kill youman Tess hates. Oh no. Because when MI5 As a petty act of revenge for making her find and the FBI relocate youdeliver such a large request, they condemn you to living thousands Tess sticks post-it notes on each of miles away from the only other person in books, scribbled with the world that might understand what youugliest insults she can think of. They've been throughre never meant to reach him, of course. ItHer 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, if someone hadn's safer that way, apparentlyt delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387632</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Celine KiernanPhilip Reeve|title=Moorehawke Trilogy: The Crowded ShadowsUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Mark and Lily have left Agora and they have no idea what to expect from the land beyond the city wallsIn a word, rich. They have been brought up within a rigid system based There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on barter in a city where everything can be traded: goodspeculiar island called Wildsea, servicesBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll peopleon it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even emotions further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are up for sale. They have also been taught that outside the city walls is a wildernessWatcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with no civilised life. Do bear too much science in mind here that their idea of civilisation is Agora…They are ill equipped his head to surviveworry about such local yokel superstitions, and immediately make things worse by arguing with Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one anotherday eleven years ago. Mark is furious with Lily for her part in their banishment But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his actions lead to Lily being placed in great dangercurious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330120</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rook Hastings|title=Immortal Remains (Weirdsville)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Welcome back to Weirdsville, sorry Woodsville, the town set in a truly creepy hollow, whose forest contains the greatest concentration of ghosts you'll find anywhere in England. Fresh from vanquishing a ghost army and enabling Emily to pass on to the other side Kiran Millwood Hargrave and be reunited with her mother, our four reluctant ghosthunters have a new mystery to solve. Freak accidents have killed four local girls in the last four months, and Charlotte is convinced she will be next. She's the only one left alive from a seance she and her friends took part in, and she is certain that death is stalking her. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258119</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Mulligan|title=Trash|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Raphael lives in Behala, a slum that's grown up around a landfill site in an unnamed South American country. He's a dumpsite boy - this means he and his family scrape a living by combing through the detritus of richer people's lives. Behala replaced Smoky Mountain, another slum that got so dangerous that landslides killed dozens of people and the authorities closed it. What a home, eh? But Raphael has a smile that lights up his whole face and lifts the spirits of all those upon whom he bestows it. And he has good things in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secret. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619014</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sara StarbuckTom de Freston|title=Dread Pirate Fleur Julia and the Hangman's NooseShark

|summary=When a mysterious young girl in a barrel is fished Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the sea and rescued by the pirate ship belonging family home in SW England to Fleur's uncle William, it seems bad news might be on the way. The girl turns out to have psychic abilities - and they're just about to hit landfall at Salemlighthousekeepers for a summer, right in time for the witch-huntsfar NE of the Scottish islands. But worse is to come. William gets captured thereHere be Vikings, and someone Fleur thought long dead starts to take his place on board insteadthat kind of Scottish island. Fleur then has Dad is going to skipper be automating the craft herselflantern, on a rescue missionwhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in a very tense domestic situationalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. That's hard enough when you're a mere teenaged girlAnd Julia, against ruffians and pirateswell, but when the ship has secrets of her own to she will be revealed..homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1862307296</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ken HowardJonathan Stroud|title=The Young ChieftainOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=One minute, Jamie Doran Scarlett McCain is playing basketball with his friends in downtown LAan outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the next he's en route Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the island Seven Kingdoms of Doran in Scotland Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to bury his fatherkeep herself alive. James DoranBut then she meets Albert Browne, you see, had been Doran's clan chieftain. The island proves a culture shock for cosmpolitan Jamiedark boy with dark powers and a darker past. It's remote and dilapidatedWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, there's no internet or mobile phone access, and they plan to flee to the only TV is in mythical Free Isles of the community centreLondon Lagoon. Jamie's grandmother isn't welcoming either Together, they must brave man- in facteating wildlife, she barely bothers the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to hide her distate for her black daughter-reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in-law and mixed race grandson. the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848530331</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantMercedes Helnwein|title=Lies (Gone)Slingshot|rating=43

|summary=Sam is tired of Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being heroiclonely. Tired As a secret illegitimate daughter of being relied upon. But he resents being sidelined by his own girlfriend. Astrid's Town Council a man with a "real" family, she is busy bringing bureaucracy and officialdom used to the FAYZ, but will it ever do anything other than procrastinate? Sam doesn't think so and henot being a priority in people's painfully aware that danger lurks around every cornerlives. Zil's band of freak-haters are gearing up to cause some damageBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Caine her simple existence is down but not outchanged for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, and food is still for her life now has a boy in short supply. Tensions are growing and the Town Council isn't up to the job. And what's worse is it that Sam doesn't think he is, either..she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405254297</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=T L J SmithHuchu|title=The Night Library of the SolsticeDead|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Claudia knew Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she wasn't really supposed s been using it to follow the fox - support not on only herself, but her ownyounger sister and her aging grandmother. However, to there's an evil stalking the oldruined streets of Edinburgh, forbidden house on targeting the hillcity's children. But she didSoon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. And it She will change everything. The fox is end up discovering an occult library and realise that the familiar world of Morgana Shee, powerful sorceress magic is far bigger and only guardian of more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Will she find the passageway to another universe, Wildworld. But Morgana has gone missing children and she must be found before the solstice, for then the gateway will be open bring an end to all, including Cadal Forge, an this evil magician dedicated to conquering Earth. Claudia, and her siblings, Charles, Jane and leader Alys, must find or will it claim her. And find her quickly, for everything hangs in the balance on the night of the Winter Solstice.too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0857070509</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy CassidyKristen O'Neal|title=Cherry Crush: The Chocolate Box GirlsLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When Cherry Costello told her teachers that she was leaving Glasgow and moving to live in a cliff-top house in Somerset where her father would make organic chocolates everyone thought that it was just another of her tall tales. But this one was true. Not only was Cherry moving to Somerset the Costellos, father and daughter, were going to live with his girlfriend and her four daughters. From it just being the two of them there would be seven altogether. How will Cherry cope? And how will the Tanberry family cope with two new members?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141384794</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kelly McKain|title=Half a Sister|rating=4

|summary=When Hannah's parents begin Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to have whispered, but obviously heated discussions about something terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her immediate thought is that theylife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones're splitting up. There's quite , an online support group where she talks to a bit bunch of that at school other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and Hannah would hate it help each other out, while also providing an escape to happen to her. But when it all comes out the reality is rather different. Sam has just discovered that he has a fifteen year old daughter living in Paris joke and that mess around. When Brigid—one of her mother has been in closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a serious car accidentwhile, Priya becomes concerned. Sam sees no alternative but She decides to bring Ellie steal her parents' car and drive to live with them, but Charlotte is worried about how this will affect their daughter. When itBrigid's put house to Hannah check up on her. But what she has visions of long girly chats and swopping clothes and makeup and agrees without further thought. To begin with itdoesn's everything she hoped it would be but then t expect to find there is a darker side of Ellie emerges werewolf in the basement – and life turns into a nightmare for Hannahthat werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0746091249</amazonuk>1683692349