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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicole BursteinJenny Valentine|title=OthergirlUs in the Before and After|rating=45
|genre=Teens
|summary= Imagine a world where superheroes Elk and Mab are real and very much awesome. Imagine a teenage girl who discovers she has amazing powersbest friends, or more than that she can fly and toss fire. And then imagine that you aren’t this girleven, but rather her very normal best friendtheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. The They meet as children one who patches up her friendday on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's costume and covers for her contact details at schoolthe time. But then chance brings them back together, who worries and frets about her GCSEs while simultaneously planning how to get her friend noticed by the worldwide network of heroesthey are inseparable. Something has happened though, the Vigils. This isn't the story of Erica the superherosomething terrible and tragic, but rather the story of Louiseand now they must work through their grief, loyal friend and sidekicktheir friendship, together.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440619</amazonuk>1471196585
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingMax Boucherat|title=Haunt: Dead WrongThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother 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 that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Will ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and Dougie have been friends for agespartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. They each understand how the other thinks (wellMira, like her mother before her, most is one of the time) and they stick together through thick seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and thinany treasure that lies within. LiterallyBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, in fact: Willthey capture the island's dead but somehow heleader and Mira's not father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only unable coordinates to move on guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to whatever comes nextunearth what might save her father, he actually canas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't stray more than a few feet away from his best friend. The possibilities for embarrassment are endlesss territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115798</amazonuk>0008664730
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HendrickHarry Allen|title=The AccidentChildren of the Sun|rating=2.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Accident alternates between three characters telling their story before, just after Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and much later than the day of the accident which connects them. Before the car crash, Eliat she is a teenage mum knowing she needs to be an adult whilst never feeling more like a kidtalented singer. Just after the car crash, Will Life is hard and food is struggling difficult to hold his dysfunctional family together when his oldest sister moves back home. Latercome by, Sarah is struggling to move on with so Seo and her life with the injuries friends Nari and grief the accident has left her with. It’s a story about, whether we realise it or notMin go foraging every evening, how we’re all connected by split-second decisions looking for tree bark and we can’t control edible grasses to supplement the impact they havemeagre rations of rice and kimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1921922850</amazonuk>1805140493
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jandy NelsonAlexia Casale|title=ISing if you Can'll Give You The Sunt Dance|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Twins Noah and Jude used It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to be inseparable until tragedy tore them apart. Now Noahnavigate a life-changing disability too, but that's changed utterly from what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the boy he used middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to beavoid the pity stares, and Jude is reduced desperate to get back to spying on him through his friend a life that's as normal as she struggles with can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her own issues at music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day to day traumas of all the exclusive art school Noah was always supposed challenges her body continues to go throw at her tonavigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, but Jude ended up at might she be able to sing her way through instead.?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406326496</amazonuk>0571373801
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G HarrisSimon Fox|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black HorizonDeadlock|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Life Late one night Graham Blake is changing very fast for Ben Carrington. He is at the opening of a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – the chap is hardly cold in back from his grave when Ben's mum and shift on the lad have to prove how adept they are at her old jobforce, of mountain rescue. She feels like setting up a new rescue agency with her nous and the family fortunes, but someone who can just amble into the opening/memorial ceremony is Jason Trubythen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a monumentally rich Internet magnate, who actually has a modern-day ''Thunderbirds'' entity alreadysecret place, and join him on the top secret Gemini Forcerun. Truby starts to They get close together, but barely begin to smell the family whiff of twoSouthern trains when the father is arrested, but leaving Archie on the school-aged Ben isn't going late express to be allowed Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to learn just what dramatic escapades keep away from his colleagues, and the agency has to cover – is he?bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy CannonLex Croucher|title=Secrets, Schemes Gwen and Sewing MachinesArt Are Not in Love
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Grace is looking forward Who knew that what I really needed to being the star read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the upcoming school production of Much Ado About Nothinga most delightful way. In this story, but after missing the auditionGwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, she's relegated much to understudy and making costumes in sewing club. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't the plantheir mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, but it may leave her is in a position to step into love with Bridget (the lead role if needed - and therekingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a compensation in boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the form subterfuge of new boy Connorfalling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, who's stage managing and after initially appearing or are they destined to dislike Grace starts to warm to her. Will Grace get the part and the boylive a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersNick Brooks|title=The Grindle Witch|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirring...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father is a pathologist and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moore's body. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out the most savage attack anyone has ever seen. And Jack, who has just moved to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happens. How wrong could he have been?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Smale|title=Geek Girl: All That GlittersPromise Boys
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=If you're a bright, enthusiastic teen but not top When the principal (headmaster) of the popularity polls at Urban Promise Prep school then this series of books by Holly Smale is absolutely made for you. Harriet Manners ismurdered, according to your point of view, either beautiful enough to travel three boys find themselves called into the world modelling fabulous clothespolice station as suspects. Each, or a girl with a very ordinary face who got very, very lucky. She's clumsy and accident-proneseemingly, her dress sense leaves has a lot to be desiredgrudge of some description against Principal Moore, and she's far more inclined to research each could have been there at the fine art time of making friends in a book (or ten) than go out there and have a gohis murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007574584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michelle Falkoff|title=Playlist For The Dead|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=This book markets itself as a mystery with a bit of a love story thrown in but it is more than that. It is about loss But who killed him, angerand why, confusion, the pain caused by bullying and if any of the desire to fit into a social group by connecting with other people. It addresses how people can change after a tragedyboys are innocent, the dangers of isolating oneself and how teens focus on pursuits such as gaming, science fiction, graphic novels, art, music and popular culture will they be able to express themselves and try to make sense of clear their world.names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008110662</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lance Rubin1919635017|title=Denton Little's DeathdateA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Solomon Klyne isn''Tomorrow t a bad lad, so why is the day Ihe running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'm going ll have to die. I don't mean wait to get all dramatic about it. I've known that tomorrow is an answer to the day second question because I will die since I was born.. Just like almost everyone else in the world knows their deathdateavoid spoilers. But do I need to get movie-preview-voice-over-guy intense about it? Probably not.'' Oh! I think I would want to get intense about impending death. Don't you think you would, too? But imagine what it's like to live in a world where everyone knows ll answer the day they will die. Rituals and conventions spring upfirst one: for his grandmother. You get to go to your own funeral. You could even get to make the most of your life if you know when it ends. You won't pass up so many opportunities, perhaps?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124231</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tommy WallachPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=We All Looked UpDifferent for Boys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens|summary=PeterAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, Elizaso his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, Andy and Anita are two other old muckers – in fact they all about go back to graduate high primary schooldays together. They As they're all have plans fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and expectations, even slacker Andy. But those expectations are about out often turns to be thrown into disarraysex. An asteroid Which is approaching Earth and thereconfusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a 66% chance of a collision and an extinction level event. There are just casual relationship, a few weeks before a possiblesecret one, no a likelyfor several months now, end of and so has effectively progressed up the world. What will happen? How will they react? What will they ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can'dot be sure. And that's mostly because of who he'?s been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147112455X</amazonuk>1529509491
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 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner1800901232|title=This Shattered WorldStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
|rating=5
|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=StoneTwelve-faced Captain Jubilee Chase is year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the best soldier on Avonrural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a planet job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the midst of mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a rebellionshop, where they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the terraforming won’t take, ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the mysterious Fury infects soldiers legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and turns distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them into mindless killers. Only Lee is immune, ? It's quite possible that Hanh and she doesn’t understand whyher co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171039</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Elizabeth WeinPatrice Lawrence|title=Black Dove, White RavenNeedle|rating=53
|genre=Teens
|summary=The essential role Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of aviators 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 might perhaps think, and the success or failure creation of modern war one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a givenwonder knitter, and fiction is making something full of the derring-do 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, and dog-fight exploits of moustachioed heroes waving their trade-mark silk scarves then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as they land their frail and battered craft at a friendly airstripexpletively ignorant. And then... But well, what if the enemy planes outnumber those of your country by hundreds, if exactly happens is not thousandsfor me to say, only to remark how sharp and you, the pilot, are barely out of your childhood?pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405271361</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Donald HounamAnn Sei Lin|title=GiftedRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen-year-old Frank is Kurara has spent her entire life as a forensic sorcererservant on the Midori, employed to solve murders and other grisly crimes a massive dining hall floating in a world the sky where adults get soldiers of the blur Empire come to drink and lose make merry between their eyesight conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by their mid-twentiesa monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and only she is forced to flee out into the world. She joins Himura aboard the young have enough sorcerous power Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to summon demons hunt down shikigami, and angels.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552571873</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diana SweeneyMarcus Sedgwick|title=The MinnowWrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Diana Sweeney's ''The Minnow'' is an Australian book aimed Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at Young Adults that features death, grief, abuse, fear and lonelinesshimself. Teenage pregnancy lies at its heart while bereavementLockdown is only just over, and trying he should be free to come do what he wants, to terms go where he wants and with losswhom he wants, bubbles just under the surfacebut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, constantlyCassie. But don't be misled. This novel isn't some earnest pedagogical attempt to convey teenage angst and elicit grave pity or understanding They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the readerearth. What rescues it from mawkishness is Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the beautiful voice end of the narrator, Tom (or Holly, if you prefer her real name). Tom doesn't fall prey to self-pity. She simply describes her world as is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she sees it, matter-'s dreaming of-fact. ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the fact that her view is rather unusual (she talks to fishtruth? Well, dead people and her unborn child - and they talk back) doesnnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't really matter. Nothing can detract from the sheer lyricism of her voice. As a reader, you just have to suspend disbelief and enjoy the ride. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>192218201X</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren St JohnTori Bovalino|title=The GloryDevil Makes Three
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alex Working all summer in her boarding school's library is what you might call the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a disruptive teenagerrequest for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. SheWhat makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's always getting into trouble but the latest trouble is the worst yet headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her mum find and stepdeliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-dad have had enough. Even her fatherit notes on each of the books, far away in Australia scribbled with his new familythe ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, thinks something must be doneof course. So Alex Her plan is sent to get her anger out like this, and then take them all the way out to the States to a teenage boot campoff before delivering them. But even naughty teenagers have their plus pointsNo harm done… Or it would be, and Alexif someone hadn's is t delivered them for her love of horses. She'll do anything to save the mustang scout from the slaughterhouse.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444012754</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Teresa TotenPhilip Reeve|title=The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Fifteen year old Adam has a list. He needs to get better, grow taller Utterly Dark and marry the love of his life, Robyn. But while Adam develops a metaphorical tunnel vision so that he can focus only on winning Robyn’s love, everything he is ignoring in the periphery is unravelling. How can Adam help his own overwhelming OCD when he’s so focussed on fixing everyone around him? When is it ok to hang up your own superhero cloak and admit that you might need saving?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406362999</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tim Bowler|title=Game Changer|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mikey is afraid Face of open spaces. He would much rather hide in his room - in his wardrobe, actually - than face the world outside. But his family, in particular his sister Meggie, are very supportive. And with Meggie's help, Mikey is gradually beginning to face that world outside. But then something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Mikey sees something he shouldn't have seen. And the gang knows what he saw. The gang knows where he lives. And the gang wants to talk to him...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192794159</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Pinborough|title=The Death HouseDeep
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Toby would appear to be lucky, having the run of an isolated country mansion on a small island off the coast of Britain. But no. His domain only exists at night, and only then because he sleeps in the day and refuses to take the 'vitamin' pills given him by the staff of an evening. He is a captive of a mansion that works as a place of exile for teenagers with the Defective gene. Whatever it would normally lead to, even having it risks becoming suddenly really quite ill, and being the cause of the night-time lift ride on the one way route to the top floor Sanatorium. But Toby has it good as these things go, the teenaged head boy almost out of the small collection of children in his Dorm, the only one not to have suffered a loss of life. But things are about to change – new inmates arrive to bulk up the numbers, and one of them, Clara, is the agent of that change. For when she stumbles on Toby's nocturnal habits she doesn't want to sleep either…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473202329</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charlie Fletcher
|title=Dragon Shield: 02: The London Pride
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Your city is lostIn a word, rich. Your city There is not yourscertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Your city is mine.'' That's what Bast says. The Ancient Egyptian goddessThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, freed and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from thousands of years imprisonmenteven further west, has unleashed her magicwhere no ship dare sail. Time has stopped. All the humans The current Darks are frozen in suspended animation. All the humans exceptWatcher, that isAndrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother and sister Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and JoAndrewe's foundling daughter, who are protected by washed up out of the scarab bracelets they wearsea one day eleven years ago. And nowBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Bast has even succeeded in freezing some of the Spits (good statues) both his sullen brother and has sent his curious ward are thrust into the bad statues (Taints) to find the two children who are threatening her plansworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444917358</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melinda SalisburyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Sin Eater's Daughter |rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=In a land of fantasy, Twylla lives in the court, engaged to the prince. But this is no fairytale – he is one of Julia and the only people she can touch, made immune to the poison carried in her veins. The embodiment of a goddess, Twylla is the executioner, forced to kill those who commit treason. Nearly everyone around is terrified of her. Until new guard Lief arrives, who could see her as a friend, or even romantically. The question of whether the two could have a future together is an intriguing one, but before long, it’s the least of Twylla’s worries as she’s thrown into danger by the queen’s obsession with destroying her enemies. Can she survive?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407147633</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Teri Terry|title=Mind GamesShark
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Luna is a Refuser. In her world, a Refuser is a kind of cross between a conscientious objector and a Luddite. In this post WW3 Britain, almost everyone has a brain implant which they use to spend most of their lives in a virtual environment. People don't just play in the vast array of games: they work, they learn, they date. Even hacking is encouraged. And those who opt out, like Luna, are shut out of the best careers and viewed with suspicion.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408334259</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Elson
|title=How to Fly with Broken Wings
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Willem doesn't usually find homework challenging. He's good at schoolwork. But Mrs Hubert Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has given him an assignment he's going been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to find difficultbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. He must make two friends Here be Vikings, that kind of his own ageScottish island. That's tricky when you're on Dad is going to be automating the autistic spectrum and you don't communicate well. It's even more difficult when almost all your classmates join lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in with Finn when he bullies you and makes you jump from increasingly high placesalgae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. Sasha is torn. She loves Finn to pieces but And Julia, well, she can't bear bullying will be homesick and alone – until she hates herself for not standing up for Willem. And Finn has a secret of his own that's driving his rotten behavioursuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444916769</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Megan MirandaJonathan Stroud|title=SoulprintThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Alina Chase lives in a future America obsessed by soulprinting. Scientific advances have enabled Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the tracking draconian conformity of the soul by markers carried in spinal fluidSurviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. Reincarnation is now an established fact But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and the government maintains a database of all darker past lives. People without heirs can even make wills leaving their worldly goods With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the person in whom their soul is reincarnatedmythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. But Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the discovery has led to problems cannibalistic Tainted and all the problems have led horrors of post-apocalyptic society to Alina's ''containment''.reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408855402</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jasmine WargaMercedes Helnwein|title=My Heart and Other Black HolesSlingshot|rating=4.53
|genre=Teens
|summary=Aysel lives in the middle of nowhereGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. She’s smart but not popular, so high school’s not much fun, and her part-time job, cold calling the town’s residents on behalf As a secret illegitimate daughter of various customersa man with a "real" family, she is far from satisfying. It’s understandable that she’s used to not being a very happy girlpriority in people's lives. She’s not the preppy cheerleader or the honour roll student who sidelines as But when she defends a random boy in her class presidentwith her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. She’s nobodyNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, really. But she’s nobody with a dark secret. She wants to take for her own life, and she’s making plans to make this happennow has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444791532</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Victoria AveyardT L Huchu|title=Red QueenThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Mare Ropa Moyo is a Red - ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a race kept in lives bit of poverty and servitude by Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the Silversdead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, a race with wealth but her younger sister and mutant powers that allow them to live lives of luxuryher aging grandmother. Learning to survive amongst However, there's an evil stalking the slum like conditions that ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the Reds inhabitcity's children. Soon, Mare Ropa is swiftly thrown pulled into the search for a missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of the Silvers - one that proves to be magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she had ever could've imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to this evil, with treachery, plots and deadly games lurking round every corner.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1409155846</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreview
|title=The Darkest Part of the Forest
|author=Holly Black
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The people of Fairfold know not to meddle with the faerie folk, they wear their socks inside out, fill their pockets with oatmeal and they stay out of the forest on the full moon. Tourists don’t know these things. People travel far and wide to see the faerie town and the sleeping boy in the glass coffin but one or two always go missing, never to be seen again. Tourists, the locals say, the folk don’t interfere with locals, if they do, you must be acting like a tourist.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621736</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Malorie Blackman
|title=Love Hurts
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Love Hurts'' is all about heartache but it doesn't leave you bereft. Mixed in are enough moments of heartsease (and heart's joy!) to keep you believing in love. And we all want to believe in love, don't we? If you are one of the few who don't, you might as well look away now. The rest of us are in for a treat. This anthology has been gathered together by Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman, one of our favourite YA authors here at Bookbag, and certainly one who understands exactly how to write about the highs and lows of love as it is experienced by young people.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552573973</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
|title=These Broken Stars
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lilac is the untouchable LaRoux princess, daughter of the richest man in the Universe. Tarver is a decorated war hero, allowed to mingle outside his social circles because the upper classes love to celebrate his heroism. After chance meeting aboard the Icarus - the most luxurious ship space travel has to offer - neither Lilac nor Tarver can deny the attraction blossoming. But Tarver knows he isn't good enough for Lilac, and Lilac knows that her father has very strong ideals about who she spends time with. It's over before it's even begun.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1423171020</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Darren Shan
|title=ZOM-B Bride (Zom B Book 10)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=REPEATING STANDARD WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077880</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=I Was Here
|author=Gayle Forman
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
''I regret to inform you that I have had to take my own life.''
Cody finds out that her best friend Meg has committed suicide by email. A flat, formal, email. We follow her over the ensuing months as she searches for answers. How could she not have realised that her friend was in such pain? What had caused that pain? When packing up Meg's belongings, Cody finds emails Move on her laptop to a boy that has broken her heart. Is Ben McAllister the cause of Meg's suicide? But there's an encrypted file, too. And when Cody finally opens it, she finds information that will take her on a journey, not only through Meg's life, but also her own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124398</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sherman Alexie|title=The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Arnold Spirit, or Junior as he is known on the Spokane Indian Reservation where he lives, is about to face the biggest challenge of his life, fourteen years that have already seen their fair share of challenges. He knows the decision to go to the rich all-white school, in the nearby town of Reardan, is a necessary one. It means travelling twenty-two miles every day to a town where he's going to be even more of a target, even more out of place, than he already is on the rez. It means risking the wrath of the other Indians, who will see him as a traitor, a turncoat. And worst of all, it means losing his best friend and partner in crime, Rowdy. However, it is the only way he can possibly break through the vicious cycle of impoverishment, depression and rampant alcoholism that has taken over the lives of so many of the inhabitants of the reservation, and it is a path that he must walk for the sake of not just his future, but that of his tribe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783442018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Watkins|title=Juvie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=With the title ''Juvie'' it’s clear what this book is going to be about, even before you've seen the orange jumpsuited figure on the cover. Sadie and Carla are sisters who are not much alike, but they look out for each other. So when Carla is at a party and finds herself at a situation, Sadie helps her out, against her better judgement. The two girls end up at the wrong place at the wrong time, and before they know it they're in court trying to clear their names. Carla has a history and so her sentence will be stiffer. It will put her away for some time, away from her young daughter in a way that no one wants. There is a way out, though. Sadie is, if not a good girl, then definitely the better sister. If she takes the blame, she'll likely get off with a caution for a first offence, no harm done. She'll be fine, and so will Carla and baby Lulu. It's not ideal, but she can take one for the team. Except things don't go to plan, and Sadie gets sent to, you've guessed it, juvenile detention for her supposed role in the crime.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406358622</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The New Enemy: Liam Scott Book 3|author=Andy McNab|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Liam Scott has joined Recce Platoon. The recruitment process was more gruelling than Liam had even imagined. But if you're going to be an in-theatre intelligence gatherer for the British Army, then you need to be ready for anything. And despite his training, Liam is new to this game. He still has a lot to learn and he's going to have to do it the hard way - in Kenya, where the border with Somalia is subject to incursions from the al-Shabaab militant group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857533428</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Thompson Walker|title=The Age of Miracles|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=''The Age of Miracles'' was one of those much-talked about books that I never got the time to read on its first go around. I'm not sure how I managed that, but I did. Anyway, it got debut author Thompson Walker a seven figure deal after a bidding war and it has dystopian themes, so it is right up my alley and not the sort of thing I'd usually miss. And so, I was happy that Simon & Schuster decided to reissue it for a YA market and even happier that they decided to send me a copy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124851</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]