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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]==Teens==__NOTOC__ {{newreview|author=Gabrielle Lord|title=January (Conspiracy 365)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts him. ''They killed your father <! They'll kill you! You must survive the next 365 days!'' The man is carted off in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off the incident but it's not easy. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing is, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detail, but is pretty sure he was on to something big. Could there be a connection? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Feasey|title=Changeling: Blood Wolf|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Trey is the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost uncle, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is old, halfRemove -blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Trey. But there is a pack out there, and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of control. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cliff McNish|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had a boyfriend and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems to stick around. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Glenn DakinMax Boucherat|title=Candle Man: The Society Last Life of Unrelenting Vigilance Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Birthdays for Theo are not exactly how we would recognise them. One bland, forgettable present from each of We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the three people who live house to herself – no neighbour to pop in his household. Some pink cake , babysitter poorly, mother at the best of times. A trip to the cemeterywork, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, with the butler making sure nobody else is in sighton her lonesome. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. What could possibly go wrong? And by the time burglars break Snuggled ina blanket fort, she has one main intention, and force Theo that is to log on to leave Voxminer, the confines of his bedroom and find some of the secrets of the houseworld-building, it is too late critter- Theo collecting game that is set on a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as the truths of his destiny, his origins, and his hands, come to the forehit in Lori's world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Celine Kiernan|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=In But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression t find herself entirely on her own, and torture (which the book graphically describes)then she finds something even more spooky. The magical aspects of For the kingdom, its talking cats server she and her bestie and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir nobody else should be able to the throne, has vanishedenter shows signs of tampering. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Womack|title=The Liberators|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off When malevolent eyes spark up on a South American expedition. As it's the school holidaysher phone screen, Ivo is off to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for the great and the good. Uncle Jago is her safe place in finance and there isn't much about wheeling and dealing that he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglectgame has been doctored – well, so what Ivo where is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London and enjoy everything it has a girl to offer. turn?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>0008666482

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn DolamoreRachel Greenlaw|title=Magic Under Glass|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Namira is a trouser girl - a music hall performer. In Lorinar, she's regarded as a faintly risque curiosity but at home in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted Compass and respected and Namira grew up in a palace. In Lorianar, she lives in poverty, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her art. And then suddenly, she's freed from the seedy music hall by Hollin Parry, a wealthy man and a member of Lorinar's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automaton, a curiosity that plays the piano, and he wants Namira's unique voice to accompany it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)|title=In My Sky at Twilight|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P J Reece|title=RoxyBlade

|summary=Maddie was at Aunt Gretchen's funeral when she got the phone call to tell her that her father was in a coma and likely to die. This might sound like a double whammy but Maddie's father had deserted her soon after her birth (during which her mother died) and she was brought up by Aunt Gretchen, who never missed an opportunity to point out that she was an unwanted burden.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Mansfield|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star Blaze|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Before I get into can hear the review song of this book, I'd like to suggest that if you haven't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh book, [[Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|sea. The Spirit call of London]]the deep, you go off and read the review of that first and then go and read the book itselfanswering beat in my heart. It's a fantastic read. But because this is a sequel, there are obviously going to be some SPOILERS ahead.  So, done that have you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie |title=Legacy and Spellbound (Wicked)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Holly Cathers has returned, and this time, she's more powerful than ever. The war between the House of Cahors witches and House of Deveraux warlocks still rages on, and only one side will eventually triumph.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Neal Shusterman|title=Everwild|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventureRosevear, part philosophical enquirya remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and part coming-of-age story that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessorplundering the wrecks. Everlost Mira, like her mother before her, is a kind one of limbo and home the seven who swim out to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow missed survey the tunnel ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the light - wherever and whatever Council Watch lays a trap to end the light actually is. Adults never make it therewrecking, but significant or much-loved objects they capture the island's leader and buildings sometimes doMira's father. Mary HightowerDesperate to save him from death, for instanceMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, is so-called because she took up residence sets off in New York search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the Twin Towerssea. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place 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 she "saves" the Afterlights ones she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternityholds most dear. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gemma MalleyHarry Allen|title=The ReturnersChildren of the Sun

|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 Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a ducktalented singer. He has precious little Life is hard and food is difficult to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely come by the pond, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years agoso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, when Will was just a tiny ladlooking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlAlexia Casale|title=Beautiful CreaturesSing if you Can't Dance

|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a small towndance performance that was going to change her life. They fall in love But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, he finds out and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as shecan possibly manage. Meanwhile there's harbouring a dark secretnew (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the pair day to day traumas of them try all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to find out if their relationship navigate. So even though she can work while 't dance anymore, might she tries be able to keep him safe from sing 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.way through instead?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam MillsSimon Fox|title=BlackoutDeadlock

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|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 Late one night Graham Blake is late back from her head. It drips onto a pile of signed copies stacked his shift 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>}} {{newreview|author=Ebony McKenna|title=Ondine: The Summer of Shambles|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Ondine de Groot wants out of psychic summercampforce, so together with her pet ferret Shambles, she flees from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classesthen suddenly rings Archie, 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 demanding he fetch something from her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, is in fact a mansecret place, turned into a ferret by a witchand join him on the run. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man They get together, but her imaginings are soon interrupted by barely begin to smell the arrival whiff of handsome Lord VincentSouthern trains when the father is arrested, son of leaving Archie on the Dukelate express to Brighton, who sets Ondine's heart fluttering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Laurie Halse Anderson|title=Chains|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left toting a will that said so. But Miss Mary Finch is dead tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, and her greedy nephew and heir denies all knowledge the bearer of the will. So Isabel and Ruth are sold to the Locktons and taken to New York. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but the patriots are in control whole heap of the cityquestions. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michelle HarrisonLex Croucher|title=The Thirteen CursesGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Red is backWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, but she's trapped it lifted my spirits in the fairy realma most delightful way. Having swapped places with Tanya In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, she is bound thereyou see, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience in love with Bridget (the fairy court, but the realm is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get therekingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And guess what happens then when she gets there? She is set another challengeGwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, twisted with creating the cruelty subterfuge of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes onfalling in love with each other, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's homewhen really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. MeanwhileBut as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, Tanya has returned or are they destined to Elvesden Manor for half term and let's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the live a lie their whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nancy FarmerNick Brooks|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy) Promise Boys

|summary=Teenagers Nico, KittyWhen the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, Ed and Dylan were implanted with three boys find themselves called into the Medusa gene when they were babiespolice station as suspects. Now they're adolescents Each, seemingly, the intended psychic abilities are coming to the fore. Nico has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the power time of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mindmurder. Ed can read other people's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield But who killed him, and why, and no weapon can harm her. Kitty has visions that predict if any of the future. boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Diane Harker1919635017|title=House of SecretsA Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=34.5

|summary=Jane has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving from place to placeSolomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, never staying in the same school for long, and always reminded so why is he running around London committing a series of her motherrobberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You's money worries, Jane longs for the kind of life where she can just be a kid, and not ll have to deal with adult problemswait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers.  When she's sent to stay at her sisterBut I's student digs, ll answer the Laurels, things go from bad to worsefirst one: for his grandmother.. The Laurels is a decrepit Victorian Townhouse, freezing cold, with no food, and to make matters worse, Jane's sister, Billa, doesn't even want her there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Bruno Vincent|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 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=WE|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from the World Ear in readiness for a mission that will last a lifetime. Sent to man a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar system, he will never be able to return. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wasted, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfully. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alan Skinner|title=Furnaces of Forge|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it'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>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Saci Lloyd|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's been a year since we read a diary entry from Laura Brown. We left her with a boyfriend Patrick Ness and just about adjusted to a Britain in the full throes of carbon rationing. Her nu-punk band, ''dirty angels'', hadn't quite made it, but things were looking rather promising for its future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alyxandra HarveyTea Bendix|title=My Love Lies Bleeding|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Solange Drake hates being the only born female vampire. Not only does she have to put up with her pheromones making her irresistible to male vampires, who all want to use her to start their own vampire families, she has a prophecy looming over her head, one that states a female Drake vampire will overthrow the current ruler to become Queen of the Vampires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Markus Zusak|title=Fighting Ruben Wolfe|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=The Wolfe family are only just getting by. Times are hard Different for Cameron and his older brother Ruben. Their father has been injured at work and even though he's mostly recovered now, he's finding it hard to get jobs and the ultimate emasculation of the dole is looming ever nearer. Older brother Steve has ambitions and he can't wait to get out of the house. Sister Sarah is drinking too much and getting a tarty reputation at school. Their mother's fighting to hold things together, but it's taking a heavy toll. Cameron and Rube can't even manage to win a bet at the dog track - even when they get a policeman to put it on for them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1862309574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Ward|title=The Comet's ChildBoys

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens |summary=Teenage Fin Ant is rescued from in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his remote forest home by Ragggeography 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 first man he has ever encounteredfootball team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Having such As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a sheltered childhood has equipped Fin with single-sex school can form, the speech talk in class and education of a nobleman's son but little idea about the real worldout often turns to sex. Other than relying on Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his instincts and resourcefulness, Fin has no way of knowing who to trustscore is, or where he is bound as he leaves home with Ragg.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905537123</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malcolm Walker|title=The Stone Crown|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Neither Emlyn nor Maxine feel completely at home his achievements in Yeaveburgh - yet they both have roots therethat regard lie. Emlyn He's come back to the town in which he was born because his mother and sister, archaeologists, are working on had a dig nearby. His father is in a care homecasual relationship, having suffered a nervous breakdown. Maxine returned to the town to live with her grandmother after her mother died of a heroin overdose. Emlyn is quiet and shysecret one, a bit geekyfor several months now, and lonely. Maxine is lonely tooso has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but shewhether that'd never admit its set in stone, he can't be sure. She And that's too spiky mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and defensive. They both feel like outsiders, and yet they both have a nagging sense that they are where they were meant to bethe sex with. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321516</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tonya Hurley 1800901232|title=Ghostgirl|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Charlotte Usher is desperate to be popular. She 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 of Damen, a popular and handsome jock. Yet even after all her hard work she still remains invisible at best, despised at worst. Finally, in a moment of tragic bad luck, Charlotte chokes on a gummy bear, alone in a classroom, and dies. This isn't the end of the story however, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStitched Up|author=Anthony Horowitz |title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Fans of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider series have had 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 is he being targeted by a hitman, he's also being pursued by a journalist who wants to tell the nation all about the fact that MI6 are using one of his tender years to do their dirty work. 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>}} {{newreview|author=P C and Kristin Cast |title=Tempted (House of Night)|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Last time we left Zoey, she'd just banished Kalona, an ancient fallen immortal, from the Tulsa House of Night, along with evil High Priestess Neferet. Stevie Rae's Red Fledglings were regaining their humanity, but Stark, second ever Red Vampire, was badly injured. Her official boyfriend was Erik, but she's re-Imprinted with Human, Heath, and Stark had pledged a Warrior's Oath to her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905654804</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Blackwood|title=Mysterious Messages - A History of Codes and CiphersSteve Cole

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Marie-Louise JensenPatrice Lawrence|title=Daughter of Fire and IceNeedle

|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

 {{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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Michael GrantMarcus Sedgwick|title=HungerWrath

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rachel CaineTori Bovalino|title=Carpe Corpus (Morganville Vampires)The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5

|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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joanne Dahme Philip Reeve|title=Tombstone TeaUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=Having recently moved to In a new schoolword, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a new townpeculiar island called Wildsea, Jessie is struggling to make friends and fit inBritish but way west, beyond the Scillies. She is afraid to show these new There are troll people who she really is on it, and sea- in her old school she often found she had 'blank' momentswitches, when she could hear voices and 'see' people who weren't really there. In desperation to become part legends of a 'group' she accepts the dare of a group of girls Dark family that has to spend the night in the Cemetery keep watch for magical islands and collect some gravestone rubbings to prove she was theretheir monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. Once there she bumps into Paul, The current Darks are the handsome caretakerWatcher, and finds herself in the middle of a strange evening whenAndrewe, Paul claims, local actors get together who has to rehearse for something called keep notes of activity from the 'Tombstone Tea'Hidden Lands, a play his brother Will who lives in which they portray those buried London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the graveyardsea one day eleven years ago...there's something strange though about these actors But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and Jessie soon finds herself caught up in a chilling dramahis curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762437189</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=K M GrantKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Paradise Red (Perfect Fire Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=We are back in the south of France for the third and final time. In one corner, the 'French', with King Louis and his henchmen rampaging through, warring in the name of peace. In another corner, the local people, struggling in the harsh environment Julia and none too pleased to see their corner of the world the location for religious wars, with the Cathar ''heretics'' also present. The lines are drawn, in a realistically convoluted way, and this book will see one of our heroes cross one such line, just as other people make their own momentous decisions. It will take all the narrative skills of the land itself to get the story across to us.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847247075</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Naylus|title=The DresskeeperShark

|summary=Things are pretty grim for Picky. She is thirteen years oldJulia, being bullied at schoolour pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and has their cat from the family home in SW England to spend her weekends helping her singlebe lighthousekeepers for a summer, working mum to take care in the far NE of her little brother and her senile grandmotherthe Scottish islands. One evening, at her Gran's houseHere be Vikings, she goes up into the attic and tries on an old dress that she finds inside an old chestkind of Scottish island. The dress turns out Dad is going to be magicautomating the lantern, and she suddenly finds herself back in 17th Century Londonwhich is his specialist thing, struggling with a strange man who is calling while mum will be leaving her 'Amelia' and is trying career in algae behind to kill herhunt the elusive Greenland shark. Picky ends up embroiled in Amelia's 17th century life as And Julia, well, she tries to find out the truth of who is attempting to murder her, at the same time as trying to avoid arousing suspicion with her strange behaviour whenever will be homesick and alone – until she returns to the present daysuddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956122280</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rick YanceyJonathan Stroud|title=The Monstrumologist: The Terror BeneathOutlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=In late 19th century AmericaScarlett McCain is an outlaw, young Will Henry has been rejecting the apprentice draconian conformity of the stern, forbidding Dr Warthrop since Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the death Seven Kingdoms of his parentsBritain, who were also employed by the doctorrobbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. The twelve year old But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy has seen many things in his service with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the monstrumologist mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man- a specialist in monsters - but nothing can prepare him for eating wildlife, the fateful day when an elderly grave robber brings the doctor cannibalistic Tainted and all the twin corpses horrors of a young girl and post-apocalyptic society to reach the headless creature with fangs Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in his chest who had tried to feast on her.the rest of Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184738546X</amazonuk>1406394815

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joseph Delaney Mercedes Helnwein|title=The Spook's Stories: WitchesSlingshot|rating=43

|summary='Warning: Not Gracie Welles has resigned herself to be read after dark,' are the only words on the back being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of ''The Spook's Stories'', and on the inside flapa man with a "real" family, 'The Times' warns us that this book she is used to not being a priority in people'seriously scary's lives...  The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamely, though, with But when she defends a story about a young Spook (a sort of monster-hunter) who falls random boy in love her class with a witch and her slingshot, her simple existence is forced to bear the consequences when the witch's sister comes to stay and exhibits changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a taste boy in it that she never asked for the neighbor-children: Wade Scholfield.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannT L Huchu|title=WakeThe Library of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Janie Ropa Moyo is seventeen a ghostalker, using Zimbabwean magic (and studying hard a bit of Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the dead of Edinburgh for collegetheir living relatives. SheEver since she dropped out of school, she's also working lots of hours at a local nursing home been using it to earn money for college as itsupport not only herself, but her younger sister and her aging grandmother. However, there's unlikely her alcoholic mother is going to provide much in an evil stalking the way ruined streets of resourcesEdinburgh, targeting the city's children. College Soon, Ropa is Janie's only chance pulled into the search for a missing boy at a life better than the one she's lived so request of his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that the world of magic is far bigger and so you canmore dangerous than she ever could't blame her for being so single-minded in ve imagined. Will she find the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in missing children and bring an end to this evil, or will it claim her way...too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn Moriarty Kristen O'Neal|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=3.5

|summary=Listen Taylor's father has just moved in Having recently been diagnosed with his girlfriend and they are adopted into the Zing familychronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with all of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night fact that she may be in constant pain for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed to work on the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'Zing Family Secret', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong They talk about their troubles and losing Nathaniel help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and Listenmess around. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with When Brigid—one of her home lifeclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and her daughterdrive to Brigid's year two teacher is coming house to terms with a break check upon her. The stories of these people come together But what she doesn't expect to create find there is a tale of life, love, werewolf in the basement – and ultimately, what being part of a family meansfor that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>1683692349

{{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 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 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 trilogy. Still - never mind, 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 the world to desert oases and back, and friends new and old will be Move on board to help.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>}} {{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>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]