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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Joseph Delaney |title=The Spook's Stories: Witches|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary='Warning: Not to be read after dark,' are the only words on the back of ''The Spook's Stories'', and on the inside flap, 'The Times' warns us that this book is 'seriously scary'...  The whole thing kicks <!-off relatively tamely, though, with a story about a young Spook (a sort of monster-hunter) who falls in love with a witch and is forced to bear the consequences when the witch's sister comes to stay and exhibits a taste for the neighborRemove -children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Wake|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Janie is seventeen and studying hard for college. She's also working lots of hours at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in the way of resources. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn Moriarty Max Boucherat|title=The Spell Book of Listen Taylor|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Listen Taylor's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing family, with all of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed to work on the 'Zing Family Secret'. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break up. The stories of these people come together to create a tale of life, love, and ultimately, what being part Last Life of a family means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Berkeley|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)Lori Mills

|summary=I shall start with a word of adviceWe 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. When you're being hounded by What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a circus masterblanket fort, she has one main intention, and a magicianthat is to log on to Voxminer, for the soul of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a tiger thathit in Lori's contained in world. But first Lori has a tiger's egg tiny inkling thatthis stormy night doesn's contained in t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the brain of your teddy bear, server she and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best bestie and nobody else should be able to make sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogyenter shows signs of tampering. Still - never mindWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, the angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across her safe place in the world to desert oases and backgame has been doctored – well, and friends new and old will be on board where is a girl to help.turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreview|author=Lauren Kate|title=Fallen|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A 17 year old girl at a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn to. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to her, until he saves her life, and the two of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similarities.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsRachel Greenlaw|title=King Lear|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense Compass and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sarah Beth Durst|title=IceBlade

|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska''I can hear the song of the sea. She loves The call of the ice and deep, the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back answering beat in Fairbanksmy heart. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=A J Healy|title=Tommy Storm Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the Galactic Knights|rating=3wrecks.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's Mira, like her mother before her, is one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe seven who swim out to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with survey the ruins – rescuing EVERYTHING from destructionany survivors and any treasure that lies within. Not just But when the planet, or Council Watch lays a trap to end the solar systemwrecking, or even they capture the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know whatisland's leader and Mira's going father. Desperate to cause this destructionsave him from death, or when, but Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and his friends and their ship seem with only coordinates to be guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only people proactively going about saving nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the day. So itheart of the smuggler's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to kill themsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonHarry Allen|title=The Battle Children of the Sun

|summary=This book Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but a brief browse at the juvenile titletalented singer. Life is hard and food is difficult to come by, cover so Seo and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting her friends Nari and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene years. SoMin go foraging every evening, despite its label, I've given it four looking for tree bark and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read edible grasses to supplement the story avidly, meagre rations of rice and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly toldkimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alexander Gordon SmithAlexia Casale|title=Furnace: Death SentenceSing if you Can't Dance|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Alex Sawyer. Framed for It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a murder he certainly didnlife-changing disability too, but that't do, the lad s what Ven is given life (of a kind) dealing with after collapsing on stage in the Furnace, a literal hellhole middle of a private prisondance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, buried desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a mile under Englandlife that's as normal as she can possibly manage. ItMeanwhile there's a vicious existencenew (cute!) boy in school, with tribal gangs among the inmatesher music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and worse on just the staff - the warden is helped by his malevolent blacksuits, nasty medical aides called wheezers, and there are mutated, feral creatures day to day traumas of all kinds collectively called ratsthe challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. After two previous books of failed break-outs, Alex is under the knife of the wardenSo even though she can't dance anymore, who has a new tactic. He does not want might she be able to break Alex - he aims to remake him, with medicine, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing, as one of his own.sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleySimon Fox|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's MouthDeadlock

|summary=Young Robert Late one night Graham Blake is put on a train late back to school by from his stepmother. It's shift on the first journey force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he's made fetch something from a secret place, and join him on his ownthe run. It turns out They get together, but barely begin to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagined. The train stalls at smell the mouth whiff of a tunnel and while Southern trains when the other passengers sleep through father is arrested, leaving Archie on the waitlate express to Brighton, toting a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a difference. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Edgar Allan Poe tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and Gris Grimly|title=Tales the bearer of Death and Dementia|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master whole heap of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this editionquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jessica VerdayLex Croucher|title=The HollowGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=When Abbey's best friendWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Kristenit lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, disappears Gwen and is assumed deadArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, Abbey feels as though she has no-one left much to talk to. Refusing to believe that Kristen their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is really gone, while struggling to come to terms in love with life on her own, Abbey meets Bridget (the mysterious Caspian, a young man who appears to be the perfect gentleman, showering her with handkingdom's only female knight) -crafted gifts and words of wisdom within weeks of meeting something that Art discovers from herprivate diaries. But beneath those piercing green eyes and soft-spoken manner And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, Caspian has secrets creating the subterfuge of his falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their ownother romantic attachments. Hoping to uncover those But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and determined to will they find out what really happened to her best frienda way in which they can both truly be themselves, Abbey begins or are they destined to question her sanity, as the truth proves more frightening than she thought.live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael P. SpradlinNick Brooks|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail of FatePromise Boys

|summary=After his ship When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is lost in a storm murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as he is returning to Englandsuspects. Each, seemingly, Tristan is washed up on has a grudge of some foreign shoredescription against Principal Moore, completely lost and with no sign each could have been there at the time of his companionsmurder. When he wakes But who killed him, he's surrounded by four men and two womenwhy, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises he's in France. He explains his situation to Celia, one and if any of the young womenboys are innocent, and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly will they be a spy, she ignores his pleas for directions able to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with them.clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marilyn Kaye 1919635017|title=Gifted: Here Today, Gone TomorrowA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Emily has a gift – she can predict the future. But her visions arenSolomon Klyne isn't always clear and she sometimes gets them wrong. She a bad lad, so why is one he running around London committing a series of nine students from the Gifted class, though at the moment she feels like the weakest person there. But now her classmates need her, they are starting to disappear and Emily is their only hope. Will she robberies? And how did he learn how to interpret her blurry visions in timecrack safes? And be able You'll have to wait to use her gift get an answer to save her friends?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330510061</amazonuk>the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew Klavan Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=The Last Thing I Remember (Homelander)Different for Boys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Charlie West - US Air Force hopeful Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and karate expert - remembers when is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his main concern was whether schoolmate Beth would best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out with himoften turns to sex. So why Which is confusing for Ant, as he strapped to doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a chair secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in a windowless cell?stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755352998</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Beck1800901232|title=PastworldStitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=In Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the futurerural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperous, London has been restored so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to its Victorian state and turned into the village to offer Hahn a theme park. Pastworld prides itself on its authenticity and indeed many of its full time residents don't even realise that they're living job in a fantasy recreation of Hanoi it was an old reality. Eve is one suchopportunity not to be missed. Cossetted Some money changed hands and overHanh was on the mini-protected by her guardianbus to Hanoi. Only, Jack, she feels a desperate need for freedom Hanh and runs away the other girls were not going to join work in a travelling circusshop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. Here she discovers not only You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the truth about Pastworld, but some remarkable, almost supernatural, talentsartfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747581738</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alyson Noel Patrice Lawrence|title=The Immortals: EvermoreNeedle

|summary=Sixteen-year-old Ever used Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to be normallike, popular evencharacters and readers both. She had Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a best friendpleasant yoga tutor, a cute boyfriendAnnie, and has taken up residence in her whole future ahead of her. Then a tragic car accident claimed the lives of her family – her parents and her little sister Riley. Ever survived, but not unscathed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512854</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Walter Moers |title=The Alchemasterson Blake's old room while he's Apprentice|rating=4at uni.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Meet Echo the Crat. He is Such a rare example tempestuous personality may be in need of his speciesa comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, which is a cat that can speak every language known. His life among and the miserable, permanently ill citizens creation of Malaisea one such item is not greatpart of the plot here, which as Charlene is whya wonder knitter, when the strange scientist from the castle that looms over everyone and everything offers him is making something full of love for her younger sister – a month of entertaining gluttony before he kills Echo, as opposed to three days' starving penury on the streets, the offer is accepted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846552222</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L J Smith|title=Dark Visions: The Strange Power, The Possessed, The Passion|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Kaitlyn Fairchild has always known younger sister she was different. She's able to draw things that haven't happened yet - although the drawings are never specific enough to be of any useallowed contact with no more. WorseWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, they scare and then force peopleto give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as do her weird eyesexpletively ignorant. And then... Sowell, when she's given the opportunity what exactly happens is not for me to go away say, only to an Institute where she, remark how sharp and four other teens with other powers, will pointy those knitting needles can be trained to control their abilities, she jumps at the chance. After meeting charismatic healer Rob, psychokinetic Lewis, and Anna, who can talk to the animals, she already feels at home. Even the addition of the fifth teen, convicted murderer Gabriel, can't dull her happiness.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386822</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne Dahme Ann Sei Lin|title=The PlagueRebel Skies|rating=2.5|genre=Teens|summary=The story begins Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in 1348, the year in which sky where soldiers of the Black Death first reached England. Nell and her younger brother George lose their parents Empire come to the plague, drink and as orphans make merry between their future looks bleakconquests. But However, when a chance meeting leads man named Himura arrives to Nell's lookalike similarity to the Princess Joan transforming their fate. She tell her that she is taken into a Crafter like him, someone with the royal household power to act as form paper into whatever she desires – a double for power sought after all across the Princess in times of dangerEmpire. Two years later she and He asks her brother accompany the Princess on her voyage to marry come with him, to leave the Prince life of Castiledreary servitude that is all she has known. Nothing goes Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as planneda shikigami, and Nell finds herself being passed off as she is forced to flee out into the Princess against her willworld.She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762433442</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mary Hogan Marcus Sedgwick|title=Perfect GirlWrath

|summary=HomeworkMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Drinking your milkLockdown 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 talks to his best friend, Cassie. Coming home on time. Keeping your mouth shut. These are the sort They were half of rules you would associate with 14 year old Ruthie's mother. Her mother's glamorous sistera desultory school band, Aunt Marty (aka but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the Goddess enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of Love at a swish NYCher eco-based magazine), on warrior parents saying the end of the other hand, world is already a different story. And when done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she swoops into town and sweeps Ruthie away in a whirlwind of silk underwear, virgin Cosmopolitans and a whole career's worth dreaming of advice on all things boy related? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, Ruthie not when Cassie has a feeling things will never be quite the same againgone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382290</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy Brett Tori Bovalino|title=Ember FuryThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Ember Morton-Fury Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the daughter of rock super-star Lyndon Fury and artist Amica Morton, who died last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when Em was she gets a request for over a small childhundred books that she has to deliver herself. It's What makes it worse is the beginning of man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school holidays and she's on her way to Los Angeles to see her father (well, his entourageheadmaster, actually as he doesn't do ''the dad thing'') and his new wife ''the'' actress Charity Lanea man Tess hates. I say that As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it's the beginning notes on each of the school holidaysbooks, but thatscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They's a moot point as Em has been expelled from yet another school because re never meant to reach him, of the small matter of a major fire which she startedcourse. You just know that things are not going Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be any better in LA, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347889</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Trisha Telep (Editor) Philip Reeve|title=The Eternal KissUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Do you love vampires but aren't sure where to go from here? Perhaps you've just read the [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series everyone's talking about but don't know what else is out there. Maybe you've always been In a die-hard vampire fan and aren't sure which of the contemporary fantasy authors fit your tasteword, rich.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762437170</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=G P Taylor|title=Mariah Mundi and the Ship of Fools|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Mariah Mundi There is leaving the famed Prince Regent Hotel certainly an abundance of his past adventures and going out into riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the wider worldScillies. This timeThere are troll people on it, his friend and mentorsea-witches, Captain Charityand legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, is bringing him along on board a luxury liner called where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the ''Triton''Watcher, as it races another linerAndrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the ''Ketos''Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, across the Atlantic. Charityand Andrewe's mission is to protect foundling daughter, who washed up out of the prize money that the ''Triton'' carries in its holdsea one day eleven years ago. But someone doesn't want when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the ''Triton'' to win. In factworld of protecting their island, they don't even want to give like it a chance. What they want is the prize money, preferably before they sink the ''Triton'' to the bottom of the seaor not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571227007</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ann Turnbull|title=Alice in Love Kiran Millwood Hargrave and War|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alice Newcombe is unhappy, and has been since the death of her father five years ago. Living on a farm with an uncle who makes advances on her whenever he can, and an aunt who doesn't believe a word she says, and never really wanted her anyway – Alice dreams of escape, to run away and find something better. Now, with the Civil War on, everything is about to change. Royalist soldiers soon set up camp on the farm and one soldier in particular catches Alice's eye – Robin.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406302449</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gabriella Poole Tom de Freston|title=Secret Lives (Darke Academy)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie Bell knows the value of information. Raised in a care home, she's tough and smart, and when she earns a scholarship to the exclusive Darke Academy, she knows it's her ticket to a new and better life. The snobby, upper class students who bought their way in aren't going to stop her experiencing life at the Academy to its fullest, Julia and taking all the opportunities it offers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Scott Westerfeld|title=LeviathanShark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=You have to hand it to Scott Westerfeld. He writes a great pageJulia, our pre-turner teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and he has an enviable eye their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a good angle on contemporary interestssummer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. In Leviathan Here be Vikings, he's bringing steampunk that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to junior readers. If you're not a trainspotterish fan of be automating the maze of sci-fi and fantasy sub-genreslantern, you may not know what steampunk which ishis specialist thing, let alone whether you or your children while mum will like it. Basically, steampunk fiction is set be leaving her career in a world in which steam is still algae behind to hunt the main source of powerelusive Greenland shark. Often And Julia, the world is an alternate history pastwell, but it can she will be the future too. Westerfeld's chosen an alternate history for Leviathan - we're in 1914, the Archduke Ferdinand has just been assassinated homesick and Europe is on the brink of WWIalone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385192</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Charlie HigsonJonathan Stroud|title=The EnemyOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=HA! ''28 Days Later'' and ''Shaun Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Dead'' meet ''Lord of Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the Flies'' in Charlie Higson's latest series. A mysterious disease has decimated wildlands between the populationSeven Kingdoms of Britain, attacking everyone over fourteen. Most of the adults are dead but the ones that remain are shuffling zombies with just one thought in their addled brains - killing robbing banks and feasting on childrenshooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The narrative focuses on LondonBut then she meets Albert Browne, where pockets of children are holed up in old supermarkets a dark boy with dark powers and tourist attractionsa darker past. Rumour has it that there's a group in Buckingham Palace who are not only safeWith mysterious militiamen hunting them down, but who are beginning they plan to flee to envisage ways the mythical Free Isles of building a new lifethe London Lagoon. Both Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the Waitrose cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Morrisons crew know that Free Isles, but will they can't last forever by scavenging, and so be any more accepted there than they decide to make are in the dangerous journey across London to the Palace. rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141384646</amazonuk>1406394815

 {{newreview|author=Harry Hill|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It's been a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world: Fly is getting married to his girlfriend. Tim's a little worried because they've only known each other for a week. The marriage goes ahead, and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a pet. And so the brief episodes in the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark WaldenMercedes Helnwein|title=Dreadnought (Hive)Slingshot|rating=3.5

|summary=Life goes on at H. IGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. V. E. (the Higher Institute As a secret illegitimate daughter of Villainous Education)a man with a "real" family, with the pupils heading off she is used to the 93%er - an Arctic training exercise where only 93% of students survivenot being a priority in people's lives. Things are going less smoothly at the parent organisationBut when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, Gher simple existence is changed for good. L. O. V. E. (the Global League of Villainous Enterprises)No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Jason Drake has broken away and is planning to overthrow his former colleagues, installing himself as the new headWade Scholfield. Why oh why can't villains play nicely with one another?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747594848</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ross KempT L Huchu|title=Ganglands: BrazilThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Luiz Alves Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and his sister Ana were adopted into a good home and escaped bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Ever since she dropped out of school, she's been using it to support not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there'favela'' which is now under s an evil stalking the control ruined streets of a vicious gangEdinburgh, targeting the Comando Negrocity's children. Only Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a matter missing boy at the request of days ago a young basketball star had been murdered on a bus for no better reason than his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that he had once made the killer look badworld of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined. Luiz had no intention of getting involved with Will she find the gangmissing children and bring an end to this evil, or with another shadowy organisation, Trojan Industries, but events dictated otherwise.will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141325895</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steve Augarde Kristen O'Neal|title=X-isle|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It was a momentous day when the salvage ship sailed up Baz's street. This is a future England, where an eco-catastrophe has drowned the world, and left just pockets of humanity, with no power, no Internet, little hope. But this is a momentous day, not because of the boat travelling across Baz's town, not because this is the only powered vehicle anyone knows of, but because today is the day Baz and his best-friend-to-be Ray manage to barter their way on board, and across to a different island, and a land of milk Lycanthropy and honey.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610610</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=The Bride's FarewellOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Pell Ridley runs away from home on Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the morning fact that she's supposed to get marriedmay be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She just canjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''t face it. Birdie is a good man, an online support group where she talks to a good friend evenbunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, but Pell doesnwhile also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't want respond to the chat for a husbandwhile, Priya becomes concerned. She doesn't want decides to end up like steal her mother - 'parents'worn car and shapeless with a leaking bladder, great knotted blue veins, and breasts flat as old wineskinsdrive to Brigid''. And who can blame her? So she saddles s house to check up on her white pony Jack and, at the last minute, takes her foster brother Bean along for the journey. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141383933</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lili St Crow |title=Strange Angels|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Most teenagers think their lives are over when their crush rejects them, they get an ugly zit on their foreheads, or their parents do something unspeakably embarrassing in public. But thatwhat she doesn's t expect to find there is a werewolf in the normal world. Dru lives in The Real World basement – a world populated by ghosts, suckers, werwulfen and zombies, and when her Dad doesn't come home from a hunt she knows for that werewolf to be the girl she's got things far worse has been talking to worry about than boys and zitsonline for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161259</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie|title=Wicked: Witch and Curse|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Holly Cathers always thought she was a normal teenage girl. Until one day when she's forced Move on to move across the country to live with her aunt, Marie-Claire, and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. Struggling to cope with the loss of her parents and trying to settle into her new environment, Holly can't help but notice strange incidents surrounding her new family. Plagued with visions from her mysterious ancestors and struck with an immediate enchantment to a boy she hardly knows, Holly is thrown into the world of magic and witchcraft with her cousins and drawn into a voracious war against a warlock clan that has been spanning generations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386628</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]