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|author=Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti
|title=Swarm
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The Zeroes have found a new home. If you didn't meet them all [[Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti|last time]], they are six super-powered teens, with a guru amongst them and generally a skill that works best when concerning crowds of people. Their home is a night-club – one can imbue the simple act of handing out flyers to it with the magic of his inner voice that tells everyone what they want most to hear, the lighting gal is so in tune with technological signals she is practically part of her rig, and the DJ herself can feed off and feed back to the emotions of the revellers. But while their secretive little club – also a Faraday cage – is an ideal place for them to experiment, to enhance their powers and learn every nuance of using them and what that means, they are inviting regular humans to come along. That is, of course, until two brand new Zeroes slip the net – and prove to be quite talented, and more than a little malicious…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124916</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Ryan Graudin
|summary=In a speculative near-future London, there's a new wonder drug to treat ADHD. Concentr8 is cheap and effective. So effective that the mayor has instituted a programme to identify children for early, preventative treatment. Almost every troublesome teen in London is taking it, often before they've actually become troublesome. But then an austerity drive sees the program cut abruptly. Riots break out, led by the unmedicated teens.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408866242</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|title=The Leaving
|author=Tara Altebrando
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Eleven years after they disappeared in the traumatic event the local community knows as The Leaving, five sixteen-year-olds come home. Where have they been? Who took them? And where is Max, the sixth child? Why has he not come home too? And why can the five remember nothing about themselves or where they have been?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408877805</amazonuk>
}}