teen online reviews

Knox Youth Services is on Facebook

2011-10-10T14:09:00.002+11:00

Just got word from Angela at Knox Youth Services - Knox Youth Services is on Facebook! From Angela: We’d love to have you all ‘like’ our page so we can share info with you about upcoming events and exciting things happening in and around Knox. The information shared on this page will be for young people aged 10-25 years who live, work, recreate or study in the City of Knox. It’s also a great

Knox Youth Council Recruitment 2012-2013

2011-10-10T13:54:00.002+11:00

Got something to say? Do you have ideas and energy? Do you want to have a say about local issues? Are you between 12 and 23 years and live, work, study or hang out in the City of Knox? If you said YES to any of these questions, then you might be interested in joining the 2012 – 2013 Knox Youth Council. The Knox Youth Council is an Advisory Committee – a group of like minded individuals, who

Blog rec: Steph Bowe's Hey! Teenager of the year

2011-09-14T09:05:00.000+10:00

You looking for a cool new blog to check out? Wander over to Steph Bowe's Hey! Teenager of the Year. Steph's a 17 year old YA author & if you want a teaser of her writing, then check out this post - Little Death. Place a hold on her first book Girl Saves Boy Cheers, webgurl

2011 Inky Awards Teen Choice shortlist - vote for faves

2011-09-13T11:02:00.001+10:00

The Inkys are Australia's teen choice book awards. The 2011 shortlisted titles are *drumroll* Gold Inky (Australian book) Awarded to the most popular teen book from an Australian author Graffiti Moon - Cath Crowley This is Shyness - Leanne Hall Silvermay - James Moloney Black Painted Fingernails - Steven Herrick All I Ever Wanted - Vikki Wakefield Silver Inky (International book) Awarded

Books - Poison study by Maria V. Snyder

2011-09-02T13:23:00.003+10:00

Rate the book: 10 I thought the book was amazing! If you love fantasy with a dash of romance....then this is the book for you! A MUST READ for all fantasy lovers! ----kara

Games - Mastermind Clone - CodeBreaker

2011-09-02T13:21:00.000+10:00

Game platform: Online game Game genre: Puzzle Rating (Aust): Unknown Rate the game: 8 Mastermind is the classic game of logic and deduction. This version is nice and clean and has a few interesting features. Unlike many other on-line versions you can play multiplayer. There is also a scored version and a Top 10 Players list. If you can crack the code fast enough you can make the list.

CD - Stand up and Scream by Asking Alexandria

2011-05-06T16:07:00.000+10:00

Rate the CD: 10 AWESOME!! ----reviewed by bagginsz

Book - The Other Countess by Eve Edwards

2011-05-06T14:31:00.000+10:00

Rate the book: 9.5 I reckon the book could have been one of the best books I have ever read. Ellie was so innocent but her family *spoiler removed* at the end I think that should be changed. But other than that i loved it. And always will!!!!!!!!!!!!! ----reviewed by jessica

Book - The dark divine by Bree Despain

2011-05-06T11:32:00.000+10:00

Rate the book: 10 It was a really good book. [Read a synopsis and the first chapter of The Dark Divine at breedespain.com] ---- reviewed by hannah

Games - Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

2011-04-01T11:09:00.000+11:00

Game platform: X-box 360 Game genre: Action Rating (Aust): MA15+ - Mature accompanied Rate the game:9.5/10 What you thought: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is a great game that is as good if not better than it's predecessors. After escaping the warehouse you were hiding in during Assassin’s Creed 2 you make your way to Monteriggioni where you get into the animus (a machine that relives

Games - Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight

2011-02-08T09:45:00.002+11:00

Game platform: PC Game genre: Strategy Rating (Aust): M - Mature Rate the game: 3 When I first saw the trailers of C and C 4 it looked like a winner and I immediately pre-ordered one, but the reality is very different. The first trailers looked very promising, showing new units, new gameplay and a brand new construction and deployment system, these changes were a surprise at first glance

Books - The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

2010-12-29T16:29:00.001+11:00

Rate the book: 9 I think this book was pretty amazing. I mean, yes, it did get annoying when I didnt know whether what the book was talking about was past or present- but then I re-read it and it made a bit more sense. The story is about a girl named Isabella (a.k.a: Belly) and how she spends her summer in a holiday house with some friends every year. So her mums friend owns this

Books - My life and other catastrophes by Rowena Mohr

2010-12-21T09:43:00.001+11:00

Rate the book: 8 This book is extremly funny and light- hearted. It is well written and the use of diary entries instead of chapters adds extra fun to reading this book. The use of adjectives is brilliant and the perspective of this teenage girl is absolutly perfect. Great book! ----reviewed by elysia

Books - Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

2010-08-27T14:35:00.001+10:00

Rate the book: 8 I started off as a twilight hater. Every time someone mentioned Twilight I brought my steel tipped stakes out [Buffy style]. Once I actually took the time to read the books, I quite liked them. Yeah the books are not particularly well written and yeah Bella appears to have lost her brain at times. Yet their romance still has a certain appeal to it. Bella comes across

Books - Out of the Frying Pan by Andrew and Ben Whitehouse

2010-08-25T17:32:00.002+10:00

Rate the book: 7 Put your hand up if you have ever felt like you are jumping from the frying pan only to realise you have landed feet first into the fire? I think most of us have been there at some stage as we have grown up and this book puts it down on paper oh so well! Out of the Frying Pan is a collection of 15 Australian stories that recount the trials and tribulations of

George Ivanoff book signing

2010-04-30T11:59:00.001+10:00

George Ivanoff, author of Gamers' Quest (Ford Street Publishing, Melb., 2009), a science fiction novel for children and young teens will be doing a book signing in Ringwood in May. Official Gamers' Quest website When: Saturday 8th May 11:30am-12.30pm Where: Angus & Robertson bookstore (Ringwood - Shop L026a, Eastland Shopping Centre, 171-175 Maroondah Hwy, Ringwood) Cheers,

CD - Last Forever Throw your hands up by Mitchel Musso

2010-03-17T13:49:00.000+11:00

Rate the CD: 9 I think that the song is a good one to listen to when you want to 'cool' down and it is a soft and easy song to listen to and to sing if you want to resing the song ----reviewed by ashleigh

Books - Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody

2010-03-17T13:47:00.000+11:00

Rate the book: 20!!!!!!! Obernewtyn is by far the most gripping book I have read. Isobelle Carmody is a fantastic author, and she really makes you believe in the characters. By the end of the book, I felt as though I had been best friends with the characters all of my life. Obernewtyn is written in such a way that you can imagine yourself there, and you feel the emotions of the characters as if

Books - Ruby Clair: Ghost with a Message by Mary K Pershall

2010-03-17T13:44:00.001+11:00

Rate the book: 9 I loved this book and the first one in the series, Ruby Clair: The Trouble with Ghosts becasue they are about an every-day girl like me, the only difference is she sees ghosts. Mary K Pershall is really good at bringing her characters to life, even the ghosts! In this book, Ruby has to help a little girl ghost to cross over into the next world. I can't wait for the next book to

Books - Stolen by Lucy Christopher

2010-03-17T13:41:00.000+11:00

Rate the book: 8 Sixteen year old Gemma is avoiding spending time with her parents at Bangkok airport when she is approached by a mysterious man with beautiful eyes. Suddenly she finds herself kidnapped and taken to outback Australia where she has to fight for her life and escape from this man who believes he has saved her by bringing her to live in the desert with him. This is a gripping story

Books - Jinx by Meg Cabot

2010-03-17T13:34:00.001+11:00

Rate the book: 9 The book is really good i loved reading it and i think other people should read it. it's a really really good book and you cant put it down! ----reviewed by Rachael

Games - Reviewing The Wii

2010-02-15T10:14:00.000+11:00

Game platform: Nintendo Wii Game genre: Other Rating (Aust): Not applicable Rate the game: 2 In the begining there was the Nintendo, Now there's the Wii. The Wii is Nintendo's attempt at getting America active by using our favorite pastime, Gaming. Now the Wii is only great for one thing, exersise. Now there may not be many games out for it now, the Wii gives you a wireless remote that

Books- Dan Dare Pilot of the Future by Frank Hampson

2009-12-11T14:31:00.001+11:00

My 15 year old son is so in love with this series of adventure comics and the pictures are so decent that any parent need no fear of negative elements in his child's reading.Please replenish your libraries with the whole set of this series of books which are so hard to find, in the midst of stacks of other gory, occult and sexually explicit books filling the library shelves which make visits to

Books - Dan Dare Pilot of the Future by Frank Hampson

2009-12-11T14:26:00.002+11:00

This is an enthralling, must-read series of space adventure for all people young at heart. My 12 year old son said it is the BEST series he has read so far with its tremendous stimulus to his imagination and wholesome way of spending his free time! Please promote this series among your young readers and please order the rest of the books in this series which are not available in your libraries.

Books - Then by Morris Gleitzman

2009-10-09T09:58:00.001+11:00

Rate the book: 9 This is such a gripping novel about the times during the holocust it is the second book after Once. THEN is so undescribable it blows you away to know what was going on during the holocust. It is a must read including the first story ONCE (to understand THEN you have to read ONCE first which is also a great novel) ----reviewed by sarah