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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerJenny Valentine|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's Story|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Meyer’s dedication in this prequel to The Lunar Chronicles is to her fans, The Lunartics. This book is especially for voracious readers who have devoured Cinder, Scarlet and Cress and are desperately awaiting Winter, though it works as a standalone too. According to the publisher’s note Queen Levana is a ruler who uses her glamour to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet and Cress, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until now.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Brooks|title=The Snake Trap: Travis Delaney Investigates |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Teen private investigator Travis Delaney is still looking for the people who killed his parents. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. And, fresh from a narrow escape from death at the hands of a criminal mastermind, Travis now suspects that there's a traitor Us in the camp. This third installment in the ''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming opening. Travis is abducted by terrorists Before and held captive alongside Winston, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects is the person guilty of his father's death. Travis has a lot of questions. But will he get any answers? And can he get himself out of this horribly dangerous situation?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=Lady: My Life as a BitchAfter

|summary=Sandra Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a naughty kidonce in a lifetime connection. Fed up with the pressure of exams, They meet as children one day on a lovely trip out but slightly boring boyfriend and an overbearing mother, sheunfortunately they don's gone a bit wild. Shet get each other's thrown over contact details at the boring boyfriend and the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEs, and is running with some exciting but unreliable new palstime. She's done a bit of shoplifting and slept with a few boys But then chance brings them back together, and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing momentsthey are inseparable. On this particular day Something has happened though, she's getting off with Wayne something terrible and cheesing off Michelletragic, and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into a homeless alcoholic mannow they must work through their grief, causing him to spill his can of Special Brew. The homeless guy is furious and chases her and Sandra is furious tootheir friendship, because he's ruining her day and HOW DARE HE? And then, everything changes for Sandra. The homeless guy has changed her into a dog. Yep. You heard. A dogtogether.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Scott K AndrewsMax Boucherat|title= Timebomb|rating=4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In 2141, Yojana Patel throws herself off a skyscraper. She never hits the ground. In 1640, Dora Predennick discovers a badly burnt woman. When she reaches out to comfort her, she’s flung through time. And on a rainy day in our time, Kaz Cecka sneaks into the ruins of Sweetclover hall in search of a dry spot to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from the time of Charles I, and an angry girl from the future. Thrown into a war that spans millennia, the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villains, and stay one step ahead of a fanatical army…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Silver Skin|author=Joan Lennon|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Rab lives in the distant future, in a world where space is at a premium due to population pressures and in which status is expressed by how much room you have to live in. People's lives are guided and supported by their Coms, AIs which teach, medicate, navigate and all sorts else besides. When Rab's mother buys him a silver skin - time travel technology - Rab is overjoyed. The fieldwork he'll be able to do with it will allow him to produce work that will set him up for life. He decides to investigate the 19th century discovery of the Neolithic village of Skara Brae - because his tower block Last Life of the future is built on that very site. But something goes wrong and Rab is ejected from his status as time travelling observer right into life in Stone Age Skara Brae.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780272847</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John McNally|title=The Forbidden City (Infinity Drake, Book 2)Lori Mills|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Finn may be only 9mm tall and still a teenager, but he's already saved the world once. Accidentally shrunk by his mad scientist Uncle Al, he joined a crack military team and helped foil the threat of a lethal bio-weapon, the Scarlatti wasp. But there's no let-up for Finn. Before Al can restore him to normal size, a new threat emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emma Craigie|title= What Was Never Said |rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= This story is narrated by Zahra, a teenage girl who spends her early years in her home country of Somalia before her family move to the UK to escape civil war. Inevitably, some traditions travel with them and in the novel Zahra recounts her efforts to protect herself and her younger sister, Samsam, against FGM, a practice that claimed the life of her older sister in Somalia several years previously. Zahra intersperses her account with flashbacks to Somalia and the civil war that drove them away, thus giving a clear picture of the trials that she and her family have faced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178072179X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Non Pratt|title= Remix|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Kaz and Ruby have been best friends for a long time but their lives are about to change irrevocably. Ruby has a sassy, devil may care outer shell that hides her vulnerability but where do her loyalties really lie? Kaz, short for Karizma, thinks she knows what she wants but what does she really need? Stu longs to shake off his bad reputation and win back the love of his life while Tom is unsure of what he wants and takes the coward’s way out. Meanwhile Ruby’s brother Lee and his boyfriend Owen have some of their own decisions to make. Throw into the mix an arrogant pop star, secrets, betrayal, jealousy, misunderstandings, new faces and some bad choices and the ingredients are there for an explosive weekend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406347701</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cassie Beasley|title=Circus Mirandus|rating=5

|summary=Micah is 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 orphan who has been raised by his grandfatheravidly rule-breaking eleven year old, but now Micah’s grandfather is dyingon her lonesome. And if that wasn’t bad enough What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, his horrible great aunt she has arrived one main intention, and that is to log on to take care of himVoxminer, cutting their limited time together further. But don’t worry all hope is not lost. When grandpa Ephraim was a child he visited the mysterious Circus Mirandusworld-building, where he was promised critter-collecting game that is a miracle by the miraculous Man Who Bends Lighthit in Lori's world. All Micah But first Lori has to do is get a message to the Light Bender tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and his grandfather can have his miraclethen she finds something even more spooky. With For the help server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Jenny Mendoza (the smartest girl tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the class), Micah sets his sights on the circusgame has been doctored – well, where is a task that requires unconditional love and faith. Aunt Gertrudis is wrong, Ephraim’s stories aren’t just stories ... are theygirl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1101892315</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreview|title=Finding AudreyFrontpage|author=Sophie Kinsella|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Audrey has been stuck at home for a while now, ever since that awful business at her last school. It left her suffering from social anxiety disorder and depression. Dr Sarah is impressed with Audrey's progress towards recovery, but Audrey still can't go out of the house, speak to strangers, or even make eye contact with her family. The painfully slow path to wellness is beginning to weight heavily on her. And then her brother's friend Linus shows up and begins to entice Audrey outside of herself again. He has a lovely orange-slice smile and writes funny notes and - to Audrey's disbelief - seems to like her. But Audrey really does need to heed Dr Sarah's warning that recovery is not a smooth progression: it's a series of two steps forward and one step back.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857534580</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRachel Greenlaw|title=Extraordinary Means|author=Robyn Schneider|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When Lane rocks up at Latham House, he has no intention of being there long. There is no way he is going to allow a diagnosis of total-drug-resistant tuberculosis to get in the way of his inexorable progress to an Ivy League college Compass and a stellar career. He has even brought extra textbooks and test papers with him, so that he doesn't fall behind during this period of quarantine in this medical facility for kids with this new strain of TB. But when he meets Sadie and her group of misfit friends, Lane begins to wonder if he's got his priorities straight. Perhaps there's more to life - and illness - than a progression of tests and achievements.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471115488</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Steven Camden|title= It’s About LoveBlade|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= As an acclaimed hip-hop style performance poet, Steven Camden is skilful at painting evocative imagery with words. His second novel for teens enters the world of the film script, cleverly playing with cinematic intertextuality. It is a tale of past mistakes, violence, revenge, friendship and love. An emotive, powerful, thought provoking experience it rates a 4.5 because it lacks the magical ingredients of Camden’s debut, ‘Tape’. It doesn’t make the reader’s heart sing but it does put their nerves on edge. I challenge you not to shed a tear3. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007511248</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jennifer Niven |title= All the Bright Places|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Finch and Violet are both counting the days. Violet is on countdown to graduation, to getting away from the school and town that hold so many torturous memories. Finch, meanwhile has started from zero and is logging the number of days in a row he is awake. And he doesn’t mean that in terms of physically awake, but more so in terms of his emotions. Neither of them are particularly happy. At least one of them has a plan to make the pain stop in the most final way possible. It’s pretty horrific.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141357037</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer|title=Off the Page|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Many readers can identify with the idea of falling in love with a hero from a book. After all, they are written to be appealing, with rugged good looks, charming personality, strength and wit. But what if the hero from your favourite book came to life and joined you in the real world? Can a storybook romance flourish in a High School setting? Or will our fairytale prince be keen to return to his homeland of unicorns, fairies, castles and mermaids? These are the dilemmas faced by awkward teen Delilah and her fantasy prince Oliver, who swaps places with a human boy in order to join his true love in the real world. The lovers may be together for now, but the book has other ideas, and soon begins rewriting itself to put everything back to how it was.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473614287</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Marr|title=Made For You|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Eva Tilling comes from a wealthy, influential family and reigns supreme at school - she is well thought of and has expectations to live up to - nothing ever changes for her, but that’s just how things are in obsolete Jessup: nothing unusual or unexpected ever happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007584202</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Read Me Like A Book|author=Liz Kessler|rating=5

|summary=''Read Me Like A BookI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' is both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story.

Ash feels as though everything is Rosevear, a mess. Her parents aren't getting remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and Ash is terrified they're going to split up. She's struggling to keep up her relationships with her friends. She trying to decide whether or not to lose her virginity - and how exactly she even feels about plundering the boy she might lose it withwrecks. She's falling behind in Mira, like her grades at school and half of mother before her , is a rebellious teen one of the seven who couldn't care less about it, while swim out to survey the other half is panicking ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that she might not get into universitylies within. And if all that wasn't enough, Ash is struck by But when the Council Watch lays a bolt from trap to end the blue when she develops an almighty crush on Miss Murraywrecking, her English teacherthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780622090</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Melissa Landers|title=Alienated|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Two years ago, aliens made contact. Now, Cara Sweeney has been chosen Desperate to host Aelyxsave him from death, Mira makes a L'eihr exchange student. The first exchange student. Cara gets bargain with a free ride wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to any college guide her, she chooses out sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the dealsea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, some excellent material for as her blogjourney takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and a chance Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be a part save the future of history, helping in her own way to form an alliance between home and the two racesones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423185250</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melissa LandersHarry Allen|title=InvadedChildren of the Sun

|summary= To save the alliance between Humans Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer. Life is hard and the L'eihrfood is difficult to come by, so Seo and save the planet from the deadly algae blooms that threaten to destroy all lifeher friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, Cara looking for tree bark and Aeylx have edible grasses to persuade supplement the L'eihr that Humans meagre rations of rice and L'eihr can peacefully co-existkimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1423169492</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Simon MayoAlexia Casale|title= ItchcraftSing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Third book It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Itch sequence about middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the audaciouspity stares, intrepid teen obsessed with collecting elements from the Periodic Table and desperate to get back to the detriment of his own a lifethat's as normal as she can possibly manage. Electrifying Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, explosiveher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, punchy and action packed tour de force sizzling with surprising shocksjust 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>0552569062</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keren DavidSimon Fox|title=This is not a Love StoryDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=This 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 perfect holiday read – secret place, and join him on the run. They get together, but that doesn't mean you need barely begin to be smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrested, leaving Archie on holiday the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to read it. ''This Is Not A Love Story'' will waft you keep away from your bed or your fireside or your tube train seat his colleagues, and relocate you to Amsterdamthe bearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0349001405</amazonuk>1839944420

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frances HardingeLex Croucher|title=The Lie TreeGwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=54

|summary=Fans of Frances Hardinge will be familiar with the eerieWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, unreal atmosphere of her booksit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. Mysteries lurk In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her charactersprivate diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and creating the strange and the banal jostle subterfuge of falling in love with each other for space on the page, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. A world both familiar and outlandish is offered to us But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, where once again will they find a fallible but endearing heroine battles forces way in which threaten they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to overwhelm her at every turn.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>144726410X</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael ByrneNick Brooks|title=Lottery BoyPromise Boys

|summary=Twelve year old Bully and his mongrel dogWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, Jackhas a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been living rough for almost six months – ever since Bully's mum died. The future holds no hope until, quite by accident, he finds there at the lottery ticket he purchased for time of his mum hidden inside the last birthday card she gave him. He checks the numbers and discovers he's won the jackpotmurder. But there's only days left before the ticket expires who killed him, and Bully's not old enough to claim the money. To make matters worsewhy, word and if any of his winning ticket has got out and every unsavoury character on the streets is now after him.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406358290</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1919635017|title=PantherA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=David OwenKitt Townsend

|summary=Things have gone woefully wrong for Derrick. HeSolomon Klyne isn's binge eating and his weight has spiralled. He's fallen out with his best friend. The girl t a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he likes doesnlearn to crack safes? You't like himll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. HeBut I's in trouble at school. And if it weren't ll answer the first one: for his sister Charlotte, none of this shiznit would be happeninggrandmother. If Charlotte wasn't depressed, if she hadn't tried to... well, you know... everything would be fine, just like it used to be.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472116429</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy BirchallPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The It GirlDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary= Anna Ant is an awkward 14-year-old who is trying to fit in with people Year Eleven at her new quite a standard school – , and convince them that she wasn’t actually trying is surprised to set her popular classmate’s hair on firefind 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, it just happenedand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Her dad is As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a wellsingle-known journalist who’s just written a booksex school can form, the talk in class and they get on well - until out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he falls for doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a famous actress. With the paparazzi buzzing over the news of the engagementcasual relationship, Anna becomes a new target secret one, for them – several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can this shy, nerdy girl cope 't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with the sudden attention?.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140527817X</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Taran Matharu1800901232|title=The Novice|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''The Novice'', Taran Matharu’s Wattpad sensation has already received a staggering five million reads. This book doesn’t just survive the hype; it deserves it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444923978</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStitched Up|author=Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs|title= Exposure (Virals 4)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= In the fourth book of this electrifying sci-fi crime thriller series the resourceful teen Virals pit their wits against a cunning villain when two of their classmates go missing. An exciting adventure with a shocking twist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099567245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lydia Syson|title=Liberty's Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Paris in the uneasy and violent months between March and May 1871 is an inspired setting for this tense, dramatic novel. ''Liberty's Fire'' is Lydia Syson's third work of fiction and certainly ensures that she will not be stereotyped into any single historical period. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140367X</amazonuk> }}{{newreview|author=Melvin Burgess|title=PersistSteve Cole

|summary=When we first meet Marianne she's confusedTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. People keep coming and looking at Life in the rural village where she lived with herfamily was happy, if not prosperous, but they don't seem so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to see ''her''be missed. She wonders if she's something shiny, such as a mirrorSome money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to Hanoi. Her family are desperate: Marianne has been Only, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a coma for so long that even her mother is beginning shop, they were to doubt that she can surface from wherever she iswork 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 doctors are sure that there's no hope for ones with the girl artfully-placed rips and they're talking about switching off the machines which are keeping her alive, allowing her to fade away painlessly... distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It all comes to a head on Marianne's fifteenth birthdayquite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781124949</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul DowswellPatrice Lawrence|title=BomberNeedle|rating=4.53

|summary=Harry Friedman is only 17Brave. But WWII Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is raging all across Europe and Harry felt the call extremely hard for some people to serve his country like, characters and the Allied causereaders both. And that 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 how old room while he became 's at uni. Such a gunner on tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the ''Macey May''plot here, an American Flying Fortress stationed in East Angliaas Charlene is a wonder knitter, far away from Harryand is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's New York homeallowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408858495</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ben DavisAnn Sei Lin|title=The Private Blog of Joe Cowley: Return of the GeekRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary= Joe Cowley Kurara has got it bad. Whatever ''it'' isspent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, he's got it bada massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. The hots for his girlfriendHowever, Natalie? Bad. Living arrangements with his ex-school-bullying-nemesis-turned-step-brother? Very bad. Some greasy swazz trying to take his girlfriend from him, at the same time as sucking up when a man named Himura arrives to tell her father who that she is also his business mentor? Pretty awful. An attitude that means a devil-may-care voice in his head leads Crafter like him , someone with the power to support his oddball friends through form paper into whatever she desires – a dance music competition just power sought after all across the Empire. He asks her to get one over on the swazz? You can guesscome with him, what with that being to leave the main thrust life of the plot here, dreary servitude that that too is B A D bad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192736965</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nicole Burstein|title=Othergirl|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Imagine a world where superheroes are real and very much awesome. Imagine a teenage girl who discovers all she has amazing powers, that she can fly and toss fireknown. And then imagine that you aren’t this girlWell, but rather her very normal best friend. The one who patches up her friendsoon Kurara won's costume and covers for her at schoolt have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, who worries and frets about her GCSEs while simultaneously planning how she is forced to get her friend noticed by flee out into the worldwide network of heroes, the Vigilsworld. This isn't She joins Himura aboard the story of Erica the superheroOrihime, but rather the story of Louisea sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, loyal friend and sidekick.a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1783440619</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Curtis JoblingMarcus Sedgwick|title=Haunt: Dead WrongWrath

|summary= Will and Dougie have been friends for agesMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. They each understand how the other thinks (wellLockdown is only just over, most of the time) and they stick together through thick he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and thinwith whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. LiterallyThey were half of a desultory school band, in fact: Will's dead but somehow heCassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not only unable to move on to whatever comes next, when Cassie has gone missing he actually can't stray more than a few feet away from his best friend. The possibilities for embarrassment are endless..|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471115798</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kate HendrickTori Bovalino|title=The Accident|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Accident alternates between three characters telling their story before, just after and much later than the day of the accident which connects them. Before the car crash, Eliat is a teenage mum knowing she needs to be an adult whilst never feeling more like a kid. Just after the car crash, Will is struggling to hold his dysfunctional family together when his oldest sister moves back home. Later, Sarah is struggling to move on with her life with the injuries and grief the accident has left her with. It’s a story about, whether we realise it or not, how we’re all connected by split-second decisions and we can’t control the impact they have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1921922850</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jandy Nelson|title=I'll Give You The SunDevil Makes Three

|summary=Twins Noah and Jude used Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to be inseparable until tragedy tore them apartdeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. Now NoahThe boarding school's changed utterly from the boy he used to beheadmaster, and Jude is reduced to spying a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on him through his friend as she struggles each of the books, scribbled with her own issues at the exclusive art school Noah was always supposed ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to go reach him, of course. Her plan is toget her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, but Jude ended up at insteadif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406326496</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=M G HarrisPhilip Reeve|title=Gerry Anderson's Gemini Force One, Black HorizonUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=Life is changing very fast for Ben CarringtonIn a word, rich. He There is at the opening certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a huge skyscraper hotel his late father founded in Abu Dhabi when disaster strikes – peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the chap is hardly cold in his grave when Ben's mum Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the lad have Dark family that has to prove how adept they are at her old jobkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, of mountain rescuewhere no ship dare sail. She feels like setting up a new rescue agency with her nous and The current Darks are the family fortunesWatcher, Andrewe, but someone who can just amble into has to keep notes of activity from the opening/memorial ceremony is Jason TrubyHidden Lands, a monumentally rich Internet magnatehis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, who actually has a modern-day and Andrewe''Thunderbirds'' entity alreadys foundling daughter, who washed up out of the top secret Gemini Forcesea one day eleven years ago. Truby starts to get close to But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the family world of twoprotecting their island, but the school-aged Ben isn't going to be allowed to learn just what dramatic escapades the agency has to cover – is he?like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444014064</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Katy CannonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Secrets, Schemes Julia and Sewing Machinesthe Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Grace is looking forward Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to being the star be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the upcoming school production far NE of Much Ado About Nothing, but after missing the auditionScottish islands. Here be Vikings, she's relegated that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to understudy and making costumes in sewing club. Being a costume mistress definitely wasn't be automating the planlantern, which is his specialist thing, but it may leave while mum will be leaving her career in a position algae behind to step into hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the lead role if needed - draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and there's a compensation in Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the form Seven Kingdoms of new boy ConnorBritain, who's stage managing robbing banks and after initially appearing shooting other outlaws to dislike Grace starts keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to warm flee to herthe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Will Grace get Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the part cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the boyrest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847155146</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Benjamin J MyersMercedes Helnwein|title=The Grindle WitchSlingshot|rating=4.53

|summary=''Deep in the woods something evil is stirringGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely...'' You can say that again. Jack Jolly's father As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a pathologist and neither he nor the armed police with him have ever seen anything like Tom Moorepriority in people's bodylives. Whoever or whatever killed the old man has carried out the most savage attack anyone has ever seenBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. And JackNo longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, who for her life now has just moved to the remote village of Grindle from the city, had thought a boy in it a boring and dull place with unfriendly people, where nothing ever happensthat she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. How wrong could he have been?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444011715</amazonuk>152905818X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Holly SmaleT L Huchu|title=Geek Girl: All That GlittersThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=If you're Ropa Moyo is a brightghostalker, enthusiastic teen but not top using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the popularity polls at school then this series dead of books by Holly Smale is absolutely made Edinburgh for youtheir living relatives. Harriet Manners isEver since she dropped out of school, according she's been using it to your point support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of viewEdinburgh, either beautiful enough to travel targeting the world modelling fabulous clothescity's children. Soon, or Ropa is pulled into the search for a girl with a very ordinary face who got very, very luckymissing boy at the request of his dead mother. She's clumsy will end up discovering an occult library and accident-prone, her dress sense leaves a lot to be desired, realise that the world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than sheever could's far more inclined ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to research the fine art of making friends in a book (this evil, or ten) than go out there and have a go.will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007574584</amazonuk>1529039452