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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Gemma Malley|title=The Returners|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''Ducks are cool. Whatever happens, whatever gets thrown at them, they just carry on, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling.'' Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He has precious little to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800918 </amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl|title=Beautiful Creatures|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in a small town. They fall in love, he finds out she's harbouring a dark secret, the pair of them try to find out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Mills|title=Blackout|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary='I am a murderer. 'I'm standing in a bookshop, a gun hot in my palm. The bullet that sat in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced flesh, blown into brain tissue, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont the floor. Blood begins to trickle from her head. It drips onto a pile of signed copies stacked on the floor.' Oh my word! What an explosive beginning to a book! But what made a boy do something like this? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk-- Remove -->}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ebony McKennaMax Boucherat|title=Ondine: The Summer Last Life of Shambles|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ondine de Groot wants out of psychic summercamp, so together with her pet ferret Shambles, she flees from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classes, back to her family's restaurant. Only, as soon as she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voices. Specifically a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be coming from her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, is in fact a man, turned into a ferret by a witch. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man, but her imaginings are soon interrupted by the arrival of handsome Lord Vincent, son of the Duke, who sets Ondine's heart fluttering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=ChainsLori Mills
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|summary=In this third adventureWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Jackmother at work, a fourteen just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgilon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, a bad-tempered shield maidenshe has one main intention, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue and that is to log on a quest to quell Voxminer, the draugr world- the malevolent spirit of building, critter-collecting game that is a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned hit in Lori's world. to JackBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's village and who seeks revenge for t find herself entirely on her earlier ill treatment at human hands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sophie McKenzie|title=The Hostage (Medusa Project)|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenagers Nicoown, Kitty, Ed and Dylan were implanted with the Medusa gene when they were babiesthen she finds something even more spooky. Now they're adolescents, For the intended psychic abilities are coming server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the fore. Nico has the power enter shows signs of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mindtampering. Ed can read other people's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and no weapon can harm her. Kitty safe place in the game has visions that predict the future. been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>0008666482
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Diane HarkerRachel Greenlaw|title=House of SecretsCompass and Blade
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|summary=Jane has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving from place to place, never staying in ''I can hear the same school for long, and always reminded song of her mother's money worries, Jane longs for the kind sea. The call of life where she can just be a kidthe deep, and not have to deal with adult problemsthe answering beat in my heart. ''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentHarry Allen|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater with high hopes. He wants to study, become a surgeon, work hard and make a better life for himself. But when the school he enrolled in turns out to be a deserted building, his money is swindled from him, and he's framed for breaking into a shop, he's ready to turn round and go back to the country. His last hope is to collect a volume Children of local stories for a back-alley publisher. One by one, he hunts down the tellers of these grisly tales and records their words, but it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330479512</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Dickinson|title=WESun
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|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from the World Ear Ra Eun Seo lives in readiness for a mission that will last North Korean town and she is a lifetimetalented singer. Sent Life is hard and food is difficult to man a tiny station built at enormous effort come by, so Seo and her friends Nari and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar systemMin go foraging every evening, he will never be able looking for tree bark and edible grasses to return. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wasted, his bones enbrittled without supplement the strength meagre rations of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there rice and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfullykimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>1805140493
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alan SkinnerAlexia Casale|title=Furnaces of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], itSing if you Can's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Saci Lloyd|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017t Dance
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|summary=It's been hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a year since we read life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a diary entry from Laura Browndance performance that was going to change her life. We left her with a boyfriend But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and just about adjusted desperate to get back to a Britain life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the full throes day to day traumas of carbon rationingall the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. Her nu-punk band, ''dirty angels'', hadn So even though she can't quite made itdance anymore, but things were looking rather promising for its future. might she be able to sing her way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>0571373801
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|summary=Teenage Fin Late one night Graham Blake is rescued late back from his remote forest home by Raggshift on the force, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the first man he has ever encounteredrun. Having such a sheltered childhood has equipped Fin with They get together, but barely begin to smell the speech and education whiff of a nobleman's son but little idea about Southern trains when the real world. Other than relying father is arrested, leaving Archie on the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his instincts father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and resourcefulness, Fin has no way the bearer of a whole heap of knowing who to trust, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Raggquestions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>1839944420
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Malcolm WalkerLex Croucher|title=The Stone CrownGwen and Art Are Not in Love
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|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in Yeaveburgh - yet a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they both have roots there. Emlyn's come back were tiny, much to the town in which he was born because his mother and sistertheir mutual disgust! Gwen, archaeologistsyou see, are working on a dig nearby. His father is in a care home, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to love with Bridget (the town to live with kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdoseprivate diaries. Emlyn is quiet and shy, And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a bit geekyboy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, and lonely. Maxine is lonely toocreating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, but she'd never admit itwhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. She's too spiky and defensive. They both feel like outsiders But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, and yet will they both have find a nagging sense that way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are where they were meant destined to be. live a lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>1526651793
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tonya Hurley Nick Brooks|title=GhostgirlPromise Boys|rating=3.54
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|summary=Charlotte Usher When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is desperate to be popularmurdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. She Each, seemingly, has spent the entire summer break transforming herself to try and fit in with the 'in' crowd all in an attempt to try and attract the attention a grudge of Damensome description against Principal Moore, a popular and handsome jock. Yet even after all her hard work she still remains invisible each could have been there at best, despised at worstthe time of his murder. FinallyBut who killed him, in a moment of tragic bad luck, Charlotte chokes on a gummy bear, alone in a classroomand why, and dies. This isn't the end if any of the story howeverboys are innocent, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going will they be able to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way...clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>1035003155
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Horowitz 1919635017|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Fans of Anthony HorowitzSolomon Klyne isn' Alex Rider series have had t a two-year wait for this installment of our young hero's escapades and they are not going to be disappointed. He's fourteen year old now and not only bad lad, so why is he being targeted by running around London committing a hitman, series of robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's also being pursued by a journalist who wants ll have to wait to get an answer to tell the nation all about second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the fact that MI6 are using first one of : for his tender years to do their dirty workgrandmother. The trouble is that he can't be positive that it was a sniper that caused the car he was in to skid off a Scottish road and land at the bottom of a Loch. And MI6 don't seem all that bothered about the journalist, unless, that is, Alex might be willing to find some simple information from a GM crop research centre, in which case they might be able to have a quiet word with the gentleman.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P C Patrick Ness and Kristin Cast Tea Bendix|title=Tempted (House of Night)Different for Boys|rating=34.5|genre=Teens|summary=Last time we left ZoeyAnt is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, sheand two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they'd just banished Kalonare all fired up, an ancient fallen immortalstraining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, from the Tulsa House of Nighttalk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, along with evil High Priestess Neferetwhere his achievements in that regard lie. Stevie Rae He's Red Fledglings were regaining their humanityhad a casual relationship, but Starka secret one, second ever Red Vampirefor several months now, was badly injured. Her official boyfriend was Erikand so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but shewhether that's re-Imprinted with Humanset in stone, Heath, and Stark had pledged a Warriorhe can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's Oath to herbeen having the relationship and the sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905654804</amazonuk>1529509491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gary Blackwood1800901232|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersStitched Up|author=Steve Cole
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=There's something utterly cool about codes and ciphersTwelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. It's not just Life in the spies rural village where she lived with their secret worldher family was happy, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it's the mystery of was an ostensibly random set of letters or picturesopportunity not to be missed. It's being able Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the mini-bus to unravel them and see what they're hidingHanoi. It's a combination of geeky riddle solving (and geeks are cool Only, so there) Hanh and uncovering the unknown meanings. Gary Blackwood treats us other girls were not going to work in a history of codes shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and ciphers, looking at their creation, beading on the legs? The ones with the stories behind artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them, ? It's quite possible that Hanh and how to crack her co-workers made them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0525479600</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenPatrice Lawrence|title=Daughter of Fire and IceNeedle
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|summary=Welcome to Viking timesBrave. The land is ruled by a pitiless and greedy ChieftainCharlene, Bjorn Svanson, who always gets what he wants. And what he wants the 'heroine' of this piece is Thora. She is a healer – very useful when you're going extremely hard for some people to set out on a voyagelike, characters and also very prettyreaders both. The Chieftain's destination is the land Kicked out of fire multiple homes and iceschools, also known as Iceland. Impatientlyshe's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, the Chieftain kidnaps ThoraAnnie, but what and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he doesn't know is that Thora has powerss at uni. YesSuch a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, a historical fantasy where the heroine has powers – didn't see that coming did you? She can read auras might perhaps think, and at timesthe creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, see the future. And what she sees and is making something full of love for her new masteryounger sister – a younger sister she's murderallowed contact with no more. Before you know itWe see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, he has been stabbed and Thora and a mysterious male slave are freethen force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then.. What is their destination still? The land of fire and ice. Impersonating Bjorn Svansonwell, the male slave commandeers his ships and they sail away what exactly happens is not for me to Icelandsay, where a precarious future awaits. Will Svanson's men follow them across the oceans for revenge? Can they live with what they have done? Will they ever get a chance only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be together? ...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192728814</amazonuk>1800901011
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lili St CrowAnn Sei Lin|title=Betrayals: A Strange Angels NovelRebel Skies|rating=45|genre=Teens|summary=To startKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, I have to cover a massive dining hall floating in the ground sky where soldiers of the mythology of this seriesEmpire come to drink and make merry between their conquests. HumansHowever, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, vampires and werewolves someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all live in this worldacross the Empire. He asks her to come with him, and both species to leave the life of 'the other' have people halfway turneddreary servitude that is all she has known. Vampires and werewolves arenWell, soon Kurara won't exactly have any say in the sort to mix with each other - one liking to spill bloodmatter, because the others going into feeding frenzies every time they smell it. In Midori is destroyed by a previous book, our heroine Dru, has realised her best friend can become semi-wolf in monstrous paper spirit known as a shape-changing wayshikigami, and she's tending is forced to flee out into the vampire side of thingsworld. She's also discovered joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a very strong threat against her life.whole world of adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849161283</amazonuk>1406399590
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantMarcus Sedgwick|title=HungerWrath
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|genre=Teens
|summary=The kids of Perdido Beach are still within the FAYZMeet Fitz, a barrier erected by Little Pete - no-one knows how - when the nuclear plant went into meltdownyoung Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. An uneasy truce between Sam's tribe of Perdido Beach kids Lockdown is only just over, and Caine's Coates Academy kids is beginning he should be free to do what he wants, to waver. The food is running out go where he wants and the Darkness has its claws with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in all those it's encounteredwhen he talks to his best friend, Cassie. Caine himself is reduced to delirium by They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the voice earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the Darkness in his head and Lana end of the healer knows world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's inevitable that dreaming of? Is she too will answer its call. Sam is struggling to keep any form of order. As more and more kids begin to develop special powers and just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the hunger bites deeper into everyone's belliestruth? Well, itnot when Cassie has gone missing he can's inevitable that conflict will break outt.. And it does, in some very unpleasant ways. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405251522</amazonuk>1800900899
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel CaineTori Bovalino|title=Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires)The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5
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|summary=If you havenWorking all summer in her boarding school't already, meet Claire. She s library is beholden the last thing Tess Matheson wants to Mr Bishop, the horrid evil vampire do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is ruling the town of Morganville, even more so than man who requested the other humanbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and vampire, inhabitants are, now that he has taken over things from Claire's former ruler Ameliea man Tess hates. She is caught in As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a struggle between large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the two warring vampire factionsbooks, especially over an unusual form scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of disease among the undead - Amelie. They's side definitely trying re never meant to cure itreach him, Bishop somehow trying of course. Her plan is to provoke it get her anger out like this, and profit from then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it. Not only thatwould be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her boyfriend is imprisoned, along with his father, one of the world's least subtle vampire hunters. Can she have enough quality time with him? Can she and her captured-and-turned ex-housemate Michael survive the horrid things asked of them? And who is Ada?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>074900777X</amazonuk>1789098130
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne Dahme Philip Reeve|title=Tombstone Tea|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Having recently moved to a new school, in a new town, Jessie is struggling to make friends and fit in. She is afraid to show these new people who she really is - in her old school she often found she had 'blank' moments, when she could hear voices and 'see' people who weren't really there. In desperation to become part of a 'group' she accepts the dare of a group of girls to spend the night in the Cemetery and collect some gravestone rubbings to prove she was there. Once there she bumps into Paul, the handsome caretaker, Utterly Dark and finds herself in the middle Face of a strange evening when, Paul claims, local actors get together to rehearse for something called the 'Tombstone Tea', a play in which they portray those buried in the graveyard...there's something strange though about these actors and Jessie soon finds herself caught up in a chilling drama.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762437189</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=K M Grant|title=Paradise Red (Perfect Fire Trilogy)Deep
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|summary=Things are pretty grim for PickyIn a word, rich. She There is thirteen years oldcertainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, being bullied at schooland sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to spend her weekends helping her singlekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, working mum where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to take care keep notes of her little activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and her senile grandmother. One evening, at her GranAndrewe's housefoundling daughter, she goes who washed up into out of the attic and tries on an old dress that she finds inside an old chestsea one day eleven years ago. The dress turns out to be magicBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and she suddenly finds herself back in 17th Century London, struggling with a strange man who is calling her 'Amelia' and is trying to kill her. Picky ends up embroiled in Amelia's 17th century life as she tries to find out his curious ward are thrust into the truth world of who is attempting to murder herprotecting their island, at the same time as trying to avoid arousing suspicion with her strange behaviour whenever she returns to the present daylike it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956122280</amazonuk>1788452372
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Monstrumologist: The Terror BeneathJulia and the Shark
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|summary=In late 19th century AmericaJulia, our pre-teen heroine, young Will Henry has been the apprentice of the stern, forbidding Dr Warthrop since the death of his packed off with her parents, who were also employed by and their cat from the doctor. The twelve year old boy has seen many things family home in his service SW England to the monstrumologist - be lighthousekeepers for a specialist summer, in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor the twin corpses far NE of a young girl and the headless creature with fangs in his chest who had tried to feast on herScottish islands.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joseph Delaney |title=The Spook's Stories: Witches|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary='Warning: Not to Here be read after dark,' are the only words on the back of ''The Spook's Stories''Vikings, 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 kind 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 neighbor-childrenScottish island.|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 Dad is going to provide much in be automating the way of resources. College lantern, which 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 his specialist thing stands in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jaclyn Moriarty |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 while mum will be leaving 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 of a family means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Berkeley|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I shall start with a word of advice. When you're being hounded by a circus master, and a magician, for the soul of a tiger that's contained career in a tiger's egg that's contained in the brain of your teddy bear, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best algae behind to make sure hunt the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogyelusive Greenland shark. Still - never mindAnd Julia, the angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight and cloud citieswell, the chase after your enemies she will take you across the world to desert oases be homesick and back, and friends new and old will be on board to helpalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>1510107789
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren KateJonathan Stroud|title=FallenThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=A 17 year old girl at Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a new school meets dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious and impossibly good-looking boymilitiamen hunting them down, who she's immediately drawn they plan to flee tothe mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to herTogether, until he saves her lifethey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the two horrors of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight''post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but it certainly has striking similarities.will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>1406394815
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsMercedes Helnwein|title=King LearSlingshot
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|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in AlaskaGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. She loves the ice and the wilderness As a secret illegitimate daughter of her remote home and a man with a "real" family, she'd definitely prefer is used 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 not being a priority in Fairbanks. However, things arenpeople't all rosys lives. Cassie's mother died But when she was just defends a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole random boy in her heartclass with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very younglife now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>152905818X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=A J HealyT L Huchu|title=Tommy Storm and The Library of the Galactic KnightsDead|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one Ropa Moyo is a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and a bit of five teenagers snapped up Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from around the universe to be a gang dead of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING from destructionEdinburgh for their living relatives. Not just the planetEver since she dropped out of school, or the solar system, or even the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know whatshe's going been using it to cause this destruction, or whensupport not only herself, but he her younger sister and his friends and their ship seem to be her aging grandmother. However, there's an evil stalking the only people proactively going about saving ruined streets of Edinburgh, targeting the day. So itcity's children. Soon, Ropa is pulled into the search for a pity missing boy at the request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony whothe world of magic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could's about ve imagined. Will she find the missing children and bring an end to kill them.this evil, or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>1529039452
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeanette WintersonKristen O'Neal|title=The Battle of the SunLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
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|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonaldHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''s first adult novel, but an online support group where she talks to a brief browse at the juvenile titlebunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, cover while also providing an escape to just joke and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alleymess around. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when youWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn're stuck in t respond to the pre-scene yearschat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. So, despite its label, IShe decides to steal her parents've given it four car and a half stars based drive to Brigid's house to check up on its appeal as a girlie bookher. That said, IBut what she doesn'm well over eighteen, read t expect to find there is a werewolf in the story avidly, basement – and enjoyed for that werewolf to be the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, girl she has been talking to online for an entertaining story, cleverly toldthe past few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>1683692349
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