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==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Nancy Werlin
|title=Impossible
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Life is just as it should be for Lucy Scarborough. She lives with loving foster parents and at seventeen is looking forward to attending prom with her friends and her date, who has definite boyfriend potential. The only fly in the ointment is Miranda Scarborough, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving her in the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy's life has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possible.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carlos Ruiz Zafon
|summary=Felix's father was a bomb disposal expert. He died on Day Zero - the day global terrorism united and destroyed Heathrow Airport, killing countless thousands of innocent people. It changed everything. Bent on avenging his father, Felix has signed up to a training program for the Minos Chapter - a shadowy counter-terrorist unit of underage operatives. He knows the risks if he's successful, but what he doesn't know is that another, even more devasting, Orpheus attack is imminent...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552560839</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Westerfeld
|title=Extras
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the future city of this book, many people live with what is called a reputation economy. With everybody practically a cyborg, they're online permanently, using optical and brain implants to see everybody's status, output and more. Many people have hovercam companions, to make their own documentaries and film their own lives. They rely on metablogs to interact and keep their popularity up. They continuously spread their opinions and interests in order to become more well-known. A girl called Aya is struggling to get any renown, but things change, when she meets other people doing incredibly notorious things, but in complete secrecy and anonymity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389228</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jaclyn Moriarty
|title=Dreaming of Amelia
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=New scholarship students Riley and Amelia are so mysterious that everyone at Ashbury High School is talking about them. Add to that the creepy happenings around school, and Lydia Jaackson-Oberman's PC actually typing its own messages to her, and it seems pretty appropriate that the Higher School Certificate question these teens are answering for much of the book is on Gothic Fiction.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512889</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fridrik Erlings
|title=Fish in the Sky
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary='I've got a dad in a shoe box and a mum who's struggling for her life against a famished cannibalistic sewing machine.'
 
Oh dear! Josh Stephenson is just thirteen. His father is separated from his mother and works away on a ship and so he's a much-missed presence in Josh's life (the shoe box). Money is tight with only one parent at home, so his mother works multiple jobs, some of them at home (the sewing machine). Josh occupies a middle position at school: neither clever nor stupid; neither jock nor geek. He and his best friend Peter are natural history fanatics and they spend a great deal of time watching documentaries on television, or planning their own.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845393422</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melissa de la Cruz
|title=Blue Bloods
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Blue Bloods'' is the first book in a series aimed at teenagers and it's about vampires, currently a popular theme in young adult novels. However Melissa De La Cruz offers an original twist on this topic: the Vampires are known as 'Blue Bloods' and they're part of the New York elite. They're rich, young, beautiful and popular. Thought to be immortal, their world is shattered as one of them is found murdered.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190565474X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Westerfeld
|title=Specials
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the un-named city of the future, all the adults are living in the delusion that their city is right. After a teenage life as an ugly, they all undergo a welter of medical procedures, to make their minds and bodies conform to the bland, but gorgeous, society norm. But one young woman is not like that. She is going to a party, looking ugly, and she knows it is not what we look like, but how special we feel inside, that is of most importance. The good news is that this woman is our returning heroine, Tally. The bad news is that her ugliness is a temporary disguise, and worse than that - she knows how to feel special inside, because she IS A Special.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389082</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lauren Oliver
|title=Before I Fall
|rating=5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Samantha 'Sam' Kingston is, in many ways, your typical American high schooler whose concerns are pretty predictable: boys, friends, fashion, weird parents, annoying little sisters. Today it's Cupid Day, a chance to show off just how ''In'' you are at school, as measured by the number of roses you're sent, but Sam's not too worried about that. She knows she's part of a group who, by most definitions, would be called popular, and though sometimes inside she might feel on the inside a little like an imposter, on the outside, well, she's the definition of ''in''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980893</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Cassidy
|title=Guilt Trip
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Two years ago, Ali and her friends saved Daniel Feeny from committing suicide. They became local heroes and were looked up to as good examples of modern day teenagers. Ali was on her way to Cambridge, Stephen about to start his own business, Jackson getting ready to be reunited with his brother in Brighton where he'd also study history, and Hannah joining her mother's hairdressing business.
 
Then something dreadful happened. Five weeks later, Daniel was dead, and the gang of friends who had been adjusting to life as heroes were responsible.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407110705</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Chandler
|title=Dark Secrets: Legacy of Lies and Don't Tell
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After years without seeing her grandmother, Megan receives an invitation - or perhaps a summons - to visit the old lady at her house in the town of Wisteria. Reluctantly, she goes there to please her mother, but finds out that despite the invitation, her grandmother doesn't seem happy to see her, and neither does her cute but sullen cousin Matt, who's currently living there. More worryingly, the house seems strangely familiar, because she's seen it many times in her dreams...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388728</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Enthoven
|title=Crawlers
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Why are the men that want to take over the world using evil alien beings always so stupid? Steadman is stupid. Ever since the Great Fire of London trapped her in an underground dungeon in 1666, the Queen has been neutralised. Even then, the great and the powerful couldn't quite bring themselves to kill her. She had too much potential. But they did have the sense to keep her safely locked away. But now Steadman thinks he knows better. He thinks he can rule the world through the Queen and he's set her a test. If she passes, he will set her free.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552558702</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Westerfeld
|title=Pretties
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the unnamed city of the future, all the adults are pretty. They've had mental and physical surgery to make them calm, placid and perfectly aesthetic human beings. If they have any trouble as young adults it is the problem of what to wear at parties, or how to get rid of their hangovers when they wake up at 5pm. Unfortunately, one of these bright young things is our heroine, Tally, one of the few people in the world to have learnt how damnably horrid and sapping the life of Riley can be.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389074</amazonuk>
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