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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Libba BrayLeanne Egan|title= Lair of DreamsLover Birds|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a supernatural showdown with a serial killerWhen new girl, Isabel, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. With her uncanny ability moves to read peopleLou's secrets, shehometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's a media darlingdisdain for everything around her. It seems like everyone's in love A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with New York Cityher, and that's latest It Girl – their definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn'Sweetheart Seer'. But while Evie t it? Because Lou is enjoying the high lifestraight, isn't she? Even though none of her fellow Diviners Henry DuBois relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and Ling Chan will fight she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to keep their powers secret.hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1907410422</amazonuk>000862657X

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maureen WhiteAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Butterfly ShellWild East|rating=4.5

|summary=One of the worst kind of nerve-wracking days has arrived: that first day of Secondary School. As we all rememberWritten in verse, thatthis is Ronny's part scarystory, part exciting for any girl (or a young black fourteen year old boy too, of course, but this is from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a girls' mostly white school). It The move is initiated by Ronny's an age when youmum who is worried for Ronny're anxious about making s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new friends town, a new school, and fitting keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in anyway, but at ''her'' this new school twelve-year-old Marie falls victim , his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of bullies. They call themselves The Super Six which they think makes them look important. But Marie privately renames them The Stupid Sixcreativity and crafting your words.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184717678X</amazonuk> 0241645441

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris WeitzJenny Valentine|title= The Young World|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= After a mysterious sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors band together Us in small tribes, desperately trying to rebuild their society of old. In New York City, Jefferson, reluctant leader of the tribe from Washington Square, hears of a potential cure for The Sickness. So, he Before and a squad of heavily armed teens set out across New York in search of this cure. Along the way they must avoid gangs and cults, and brave the perils of the subway – all in the pursuit of mankind's future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jenn Bennett|title=Night OwlsAfter

|summary= Beatrix is a serious girl; small Elk and slightMab are best friends, considered and studious with or more than that even, their friendship is a quiet determination to follow her dream of becoming once in a medical illustratorlifetime connection. Pretty and petite, too quirky for jocks and not quirky enough for hipsters, Beatrix knows that Jack is all They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the kinds of boys she should avoidtime. Loose-limbed But then chance brings them back together, and slim with a slash of unruly hair that works for him in all those adolescent bad boy ways; Jack is leanly muscled they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and has cheekbones you can hang from tragic, and when Beatrix meets Jacknow they must work through their grief, purely by chance on San Francisco's Night Owl Bus Transitand their friendship, her world is turned upside downtogether. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471125300</amazonuk>1471196585

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rupert WallisMax Boucherat|title=All Sorts The Last Life of PossibleLori Mills

|summary=Tamaya isnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't allowed s got the house to herself – no neighbour to walk home from school pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her ownlonesome. And Tamaya doesn't like to break any rules. So when walking partner Marshall insists on taking What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a "shortcut" through the woods one dayblanket fort, she goes with himhas one main intention, even though she isn't really supposed and that is to walk through the woods. Unbeknownst log on to TamayaVoxminer, Marshall has chosen the route in order to avoid school bully Chadworld-building, who has threatened him with a reckoning. A reckoning for nothing at all critter- but you know, collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's how school bullies workworld.  But lying 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 woods game has been doctored – well, where is an even greater threat than Chad...a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408864746</amazonuk>0008666482

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Ryan GraudinRachel Greenlaw|title=The Walled CityCompass and Blade|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In the walled city of Hak Nam, there are three rules; run fast, trust no one, and always carry your knife. In streets controlled by vicious and sadistic drug lords, three individuals all seek something. Dai seeks information on the criminal brotherhood which employs him, lest he be imprisoned. Jin Ling seeks her sister in the Walled City's brothels, evading the roaming street-gangs as she goes. Mei Yee, trapped in a brothel in the city and forced into sexual relations with the two-faced Ambassador Osamu, desperately seeks freedom3. The three have just eighteen days to accomplish this, as the officials of Seng Ngoi plan to evict all residents of Hak Nam in preparation for its demolition…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316405051</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=The Self-Esteem Team|title=The Self-Esteem Team's Guide to Sex, Drugs and WTFs?!!|rating= 45

|summary= Did you know that there are (on average) three children in every British classroom who are self-harming? Or that 48% ''I can hear the song of teenage girls avoid everyday school activities because the sea. The call of a lack of body confidence?the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

ShockingRosevear, isna 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 the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira't it?s 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 coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's 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>1784186422</amazonuk>0008664730

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sophie McKenzie Harry Allen|title=All My Secrets Children of the Sun|rating=4.5

|summary=Fifteen-year old Evie is a normal teenager until a solicitor from Scotland appears on her doorstep with news of Ra Eun Seo lives in a £10 million inheritance North Korean town and she is a secret that turns her world upside downtalented singer. It's little wonder she struggles Life is hard and food is difficult to cope come by, so Seo and ends up being enrolled on a summer programme for troubled teens on the remote island of Lightsea. Little does she suspect that her troubles are only just beginning. At the same time as coping with her burgeoning attraction to two of the boys on the programmefriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, she discovers the island is linked to her family secret. Evie is determined to get looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the bottom meagre rations of the mystery, unaware of the dangers that this will bring for both her rice and her new friendskimchi at home.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471122212</amazonuk>1805140493

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Will HillAlexia Casale|title= Darkest Night (Department 19, Book 5)Sing if you Can't Dance

|summary= Zero Hour has passed. Despite throwing absolutely everything they had into It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a full on assault on Draculalife-changing disability too, but that's forces, what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the combined might middle of the supernatural departments failed a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to destroy avoid the ancient vampirepity stares, and he has returned desperate to full strength, ready get back to strike at humanity with unadulterated violencea life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Secrecy is no longer an option as the entire world reels from the revelation that vampires are real. Department 19 has been through so muchMeanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, shaken her music A Level performance piece to its core by secretstry to sort out, betrayals and losses. With just the public eye now firmly upon them, the very fundamentals day to day traumas of all the Department come under fire, as issues of morality that have long writhed beneath the surface finally burst challenges her body continues to throw at her to the forenavigate. Jamie, Larissa, Kate and Matt have always found themselves at the centre of the chaos, and despite each struggling with their own demons, their friendship and companionship has helped them survive and So even thrive within the department. Humanitythough she can's last stand will need them at their very bestt dance anymore, will need every force that the supernatural departments of the world can muster, whether it might she be human, machine, monster or vampire. For failure simply isn't an option when the entire future of humanity is at stake. able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007505892</amazonuk>0571373801

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia Jones and Claudia MyattSimon Fox|title=Black Waters (Strong Winds)Deadlock

|summary=Xanthe Ribiero had won the area championships in her sister's boat, but she Who knew that what I really needed to read right now had sponsorship ''and'' was a new laser dinghy. gay Arthurian RomCom? Best of all she had the letter from the GB Racing Committee which confirmed that she was But honestly, it lifted my spirits in the squad and was off to the Easter training camp at the National Sailing Academy at Weymoutha most delightful way. She was full of plans to train harderIn this story, watch her diet Gwen and - she had to admit - just a little bit pleased that she might not Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to worry about exam results and university applications. their mutual disgust! ''This'' was as good as it got.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1899262261</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Meg Haston|title= Paper Weight|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Stevie had a plan. A good plan (in her mind). ButGwen, you see, as is often in love with Bridget (the way, her plan has been interrupted. In her case itkingdom's by an unexpected and involuntary admission to an eating disorder unit in a different state. Under lock and key and constant supervision, she doesn't have the resources or the freedom to go through with itonly female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And it's all then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a bit annoying.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404560</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Carl Hiaasen|title= Skink No Surrender|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= Skink No Surrender is a love letter to boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the wildlife subterfuge of Florida. The narrative is engaging and fast paced peppered falling in love with references to literature, folk legends, the ecological history of the areaeach other, the importance of conservation and the art of fishing. Hiaasen's protagonists when really they are vividly observed and fully roundedenabling their own other romantic attachments. Skink is an eccentric But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, crazy, courageous, reckless renegade with will they find a n anarchicway in which they can both truly be themselves, devil may care attitude and a no nonsense attitude. He is or are they destined to live a good hearted protector of the innocent, possesses an assortment of false eyes, wrangles alligators, battles storms, lectures on politeness and deals out rough justice. His portrait is messianic and folkloric in places. Richard is plucky and loyal but is he in over his headlie their whole lives? Malley is selfish, stubborn, smart, caustic, sarky and brave but also naive, vulnerable and susceptible to charm.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780622198</amazonuk>1526651793

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Garth NixNick Brooks|title=To Hold the BridgePromise Boys

|summary= A collection When the principal (headmaster) of 21 short stories loosely divided Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into six different categories, ‘’To Hold the Bridge’’ will probably divide opinion amongst readerspolice station as suspects. It’s undoubtedly Each, seemingly, has a must-read book for fans grudge of Garth Nix and these fans will, I suspectsome description against Principal Moore, quibble with my four star rating and challenge me to add another stareach could have been there at the time of his murder. Those new to Garth’s writing might But who killed him, in turnand why, think I’ve been over-generous given the mixed nature and if any of the stories in the book.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>147140448X</amazonuk>1035003155

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jess Vallance1919635017|title=BirdyA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend

|summary= Frances has always been Solomon Klyne isn't a loner, quiet and isolatedbad lad, so when shewhy is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's asked ll have to wait to get an answer to look after the eccentric new girl Alberta for a few days she doesnsecond question because I avoid spoilers. But I't expect anything to come of it, only hoping that ll answer the whole incident will pass without embarrassmentfirst one: for his grandmother. The last thing she expects is for the new girl to become her best friend. Alberta's warm companionship is everything Frances has been missing for so many years, so when conflict inevitably arises, Frances is determined to do anything to save their friendship. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471404668</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Leah ThomasPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Because You'll Never Meet MeDifferent for Boys

|genre=ThrillersTeens |summary=Ollie Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and Moritz can never meet. Because if they didis 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 them would almost certainly die. Why? Because Ollie is allergic to electricty four with both his best buddy from the football team, and Moritz has an electrical pacemaker inserted two other old muckers – in his heartfact they all go back to primary school days together. Ollie spends his life hidden away in As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a log cabin in the forest single- away from all sex school can form, the electricity that sends him into life-threatening seizures - with only his mother talk in class and the occasional visit from Dr Auburn-Stache out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for companyAnt, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He did also have 's had a friendcasual relationship, Liza secret one, but he lost her a while back. Moritz is equally isolated even though he goes to school. Born without eyesfor several months now, Moritz "sees" and so has effectively progressed up the world through echolocationladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, like a bathe can't be sure. You might think And that's miraculous, but Moritz just thinks it makes him a freakmostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140886262X</amazonuk>1529509491

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Dead End Kids: Heroes of the Blitz Stitched Up|author=Bernard AshleySteve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=It's London Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in 1940. Most of the men have been conscripted rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the East End is populated mainly by women and childrenvillage to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Josie Some money changed hands and her friends are carrying Hanh was on much as usual, thoughthe mini-bus to Hanoi. Only, grouping into little gangs Hanh and arguing over turf via mud fights along the Thames. But then comes other girls were not going to work in a terrible night of bombingshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. It's You know those jeans you really wanted: the start of the Blitz ones with intricate embroidery and 57 consecutive nights of bombing for beading on the East End. legs? The fire service is stretched way beyond its capacity and the lucky ones make it out of with the shelters in the morning, while the unlucky ones donartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It't see another sunrises quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408338955</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Accident SeasonPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Moira Fowley-DoyleNeedle|rating=43

|summary=For a month in every yearBrave. Charlene, the month leading up 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to Halloweenlike, characters and readers both. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, Caraand has taken up residence in her son Blake's family are susceptible to accidentsold room while he's at uni. There are cuts Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and scrapes the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and bruisesis making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. Sometimes there are broken bonesWe 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 sometimes, the accidents are even fatalthen... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be... it's a curse, right? What else could it be?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>055257130X</amazonuk>1800901011

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Fire Colour OneAnn Sei Lin|authortitle=Jenny ValentineRebel Skies|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Iris Kurara has never known spent her fatherentire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. He didn't want However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell herthat she is a Crafter like him, her mother has always saidsomeone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empire. He threw them out years ago. But now she's about asks her to meet come with him again, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Her father is rich, you see, and dyingWell, and Irissoon Kurara won's mother and stepfather t have worn out their welcome any say in LA. So they're running away from debts and towards a rich, terminally ill old man, ripe for exploitation. There's also the small matter of some of Iris's own bad behaviour. But the less said about that, because the better|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007512368</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Potion Diaries|author=Amy Alward|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Samantha Midori is destroyed by a mixer of potions extraordinaire. Which is just monstrous paper spirit known as well, because someone has to save a princess who has fallen in love with herself. Yesshikigami, you heard right! You might not think this is the most enormous problem - princesses are so spoiled and pampered, she is it any wonder they fall in love with themselves? But this isn't what's happened. Princess Evelyn has taken a love potion meant forced to make someone else fall in love with ''her''. And the resulting havoc caused by the wrong person taking the right potion leads to some very unstable magic that could threaten flee out into the very kingdom itselfworld. Hence She joins Himura aboard the ''Wilde Hunt''Orihime, a national quest sky-ship whose express purpose is to find the ingredients for hunt down shikigami, and a cure.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471143562</amazonuk>1406399590

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Thirteen Days of MidnightMarcus Sedgwick|authortitle=Leo HuntWrath

|summary=Luke Manchett really isn't that upset Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he gets the news that talks to his father has diedbest friend, Cassie. You might think that's They were half of a tad harshdesultory school band, but Luke has been estranged Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from his father for yearsthe earth. His primary concern is his mother, who Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is disabled by crushing cluster headaches. So, rather than worry her, Luke heads off to already a lawyer's office to done deal with the reading ? Is it some spooky new kind of his fathermusic she's will by himself. dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he gets a shockcan't.. Luke's inheritance adds up to six million dollars. SIX MILLION!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408337460</amazonuk>1800900899

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus and Sean MurrayTori Bovalino|title=TrollhuntersThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=West Coast USA 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 deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the 1960sbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and the city is wracked and wrecked by a slew man Tess hates. As a petty act of missing children reports. The parents with their new anguishes, revenge for making her find and new rules against playing out after darkdeliver such a large request, have no idea Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the horrors in their vicinity – literally under their feet lies a city of trollsbooks, guilty scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of snatching the children. Last They're never meant to goreach him, Jack Sturgessof course. Cue the modern era and Jack's younger, now grown-up brother JimHer plan is to get her anger out like this, and Jim Jr live a sheltered life in the most barricaded and secure home imaginablethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, and Jim Jr's life is as exciting as youif someone hadn'd expectt delivered them for her. Unfortunately, however, the trolls are about to make a return to their nastiest of ways – and their intentions are a lot more surprising than Jim Jr could ever predict…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1471405192</amazonuk>1789098130

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Marissa MeyerPhilip Reeve|title= Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana's StoryUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Meyer’s dedication In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this prequel to The Lunar Chronicles is to her fansstory set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, The Lunarticsbeyond the Scillies. This book is especially for voracious readers who have devoured CinderThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, Scarlet and Cress legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are desperately awaiting Winterthe Watcher, though it works as a standalone too. According Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the publisher’s note Queen Levana is a ruler Hidden Lands, his brother Will who uses her glamour lives in London with too much science in his head to gain powerworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But long before she crossed paths with Cinderwhen Andrewe Dark drowns himself, Scarlet both his sullen brother and Cresshis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, Levana lived a very different story- a story that has never been told… until nowlike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1250069661</amazonuk>1788452372

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Snake Trap: Travis Delaney Investigates Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Teen private investigator Travis Delaney is still looking for the people who killed his Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents. He needs more than anything to find out why they died. And, fresh and their cat from a narrow escape from death at the hands of family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a criminal mastermindsummer, Travis now suspects that there's a traitor in the campfar NE of the Scottish islands. This third installment in the ''Travis Delaney'' series has a barnstorming opening Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Travis Dad is abducted by terrorists and held captive alongside Winstongoing to be automating the lantern, the security officer gone bad who Travis suspects which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the person guilty of his father's deathelusive Greenland shark. Travis has a lot of questions And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. But will he get any answers? And can he get himself out of this horribly dangerous situation?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1447238982</amazonuk>1510107789

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessJonathan Stroud|title=Lady: My Life as a BitchThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=54|genre=Teens|summary=Sandra Scarlett McCain is a naughty kid. Fed up with an outlaw, rejecting the pressure draconian conformity of exams, a lovely but slightly boring boyfriend the Surviving Towns and an overbearing mother, she's gone a bit wild. She's thrown over Faith Houses to wander the boring boyfriend and wildlands between the worthy best friend, done pretty badly at her GSCEsSeven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and is running with some exciting but unreliable new palsshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. She's done But then she meets Albert Browne, a bit of shoplifting and slept dark boy with a few boys, dark powers and caused her mother a good few hair-tearing momentsdarker past. On this particular dayWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, she's getting off with Wayne and cheesing off Michelle, and just generally being rebellious, when she runs slap bang into a homeless alcoholic man, causing him they plan to flee to spill his can the mythical Free Isles of Special Brewthe London Lagoon. The homeless guy is furious and chases her and Sandra is furious tooTogether, 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 dog.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783443030</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Scott K Andrews|title= Timebomb|rating=4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In 2141they must brave man-eating wildlife, 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 cannibalistic Tainted and all the ruins horrors of Sweetclover hall in search of a dry spot post-apocalyptic society to sleep. Instead he finds a frightened housemaid from reach the time of Charles I, and an angry girl from the future. Thrown into a war that spans millenniaFree Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the three must harness powers in order to escape deadly villains, and stay one step ahead rest of a fanatical army…Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444752081</amazonuk>1406394815

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)|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 Move on to normal size, a new threat emerges.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007521650</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]