==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Amy Plum
|title=Die For Me
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ever since Kate's parents died, she's been living life on pause – moving from day to day without actually ever living. She's moved with her sister to Paris to live with their grandparents, but even the beautiful city of love can't shake her out of her apathy. At least, not until she meets Vincent.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190741102X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=After the the events of ''The Island'', Otto, Jen and Charlie have gone their separate gap year ways. Otto is in Mumbai but isn't having nearly such a good time as he'd anticipated. Jen has moved on from the retreat and is travelling with Kumar, but is getting itchy feet. She's not sure she wants to take things with Kumar any further. But Charlie is ecstatic in her dream job at the tiger sanctuary. It's challenging - poaching and corruption are big problems standing in the way of the sanctuary's funding - but she loves it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Janni Howker
|title=The Nature of the Beast
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bill Coward is mature for a child his age – cooking for his father and grandfather (Chunder), undressing his father and putting him to bed when he comes home drunk. So when the mill his father and grandfather work at is closed down, their world is thrown into turmoil. Mike's (Bill's best friend) father has a nervous breakdown. Bill's father goes off to Scotland to work in the oil fields.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Frances Hardinge
|title=Twilight Robbery
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mosca and her companions will be familiar to readers of 'Fly By Night', but it is in no way necessary to have read the first volume of her adventures to thoroughly enjoy this book. She is a twelve-year-old orphan, who travels the roads with her homicidal goose, and a rather shifty poet called, charmingly, Eponymous Clent. We meet them just after a particularly energetic display of destruction by the said goose: Eponymous has been thrown into jail until he can pay for the damage, and Mosca is trying to raise some cash by reading aloud an old newspaper to illiterate townsfolk.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405055391</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Judy Bartkowiak
|title=NLP For Teens
|rating=4
|genre=Home and Family
|summary=
NLP For Teens is part of the Engaging NLP series and is a follow-on from NLP for Children. Many a parent has been tempted to leave home when their children are teenagers; difficult as it is for the parents it's a traumatic time for the teens and anything which makes it a little easier is to be applauded particularly when the changes will come from the teens rather than being imposed by the parent.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907685901</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Caragh M O'Brien
|title=Birthmarked
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sixteen-year-old Gaia lives in a post-climate change America, near one of the Great Lakes - or the unlake as its waterless hollow is now known. Gaia is a midwife-in-training, following after her mother. For this family, the cool age - that is, our age - is almost forgotten. There is no power in Wharfton, and both water and food is in short supply. But Wharfton sits outside the walled city of Enclave, and things are entirely different there - the scenes of leisure, wealth and plenty are played out on the Tvalter's big screen, which serves as entertainment for Wharfton's residents.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071394</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gillian Philip
|title=The Opposite of Amber
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Jinn was quick and shining bright; Jinn was motor-mouthed and nurturing... Actually she catered for my every whim to the point where she anticipated it asked for it, spoke for me There was never any need for me to speak and I know I could never say anything as well as she did, so I didn't bother. I didn't resent her or anything. I was proud to be spoken for by Jinn, sparky and bold. I was spoiled voiceless.''
''Spoiled voiceless'' - isn't that a whole world of meaning contained in just two words?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599920</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=James Black
|title=Robin Hood Vs the Plague Undead (Mash Ups)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In 1194 AD, strange reports reach Robin Hood and his men in Sherwood Forest. There's an outbreak of plague in Nottingham and its victims are refusing to stay dead...
Robin Hood vs. The Plague Undead is a 'mash up' of the Robin Hood myth with contemporary zombie tales. All the usual Robin Hood characters are there - Friar Tuck, Little John, the Sheriff of Nottingham - but with loads of zombies thrown in as well. It must be very difficult to bring the two strands together and I don't think the author has quite succeeded. The problem is that both mythologies endure for different reasons and it's hard to fuse them together without compromising the strengths of both – zombies may work better in an urban setting, and having Robin Hood fighting zombies rather than the rich tends to undermine his leftwing credentials.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140831388X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Chandler
|title=Evercrossed (Kissed by an Angel)
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Evercrossed'' picks up where ''Kissed by an Angel'' left off. After her boyfriend Tristan was killed in a car accident, Ivy took up with Gregory, who turned out to be a serial murderer and all-round bad guy. She was saved from him by a combination of Tristan in angel form, her psychic best friend Beth and stalwart admirer Will. Now the three of them are working at a holiday inn for the summer, alongside Beth's cousin Kelsey and her friend Dhanya. Will is now Ivy's boyfriend but it's almost a year since Tristan died and Ivy is finding herself thinking about him more and more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389171</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lois Duncan
|title=I Know What You Did Last Summer
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=A year ago, four teenagers committed a shocking crime after a party where they all had too much to drink, and overwhelmed by indecision, fear and desperation they made a pact to keep the incidents of the fateful night a secret. However, someone knows their secret and that someone is determined to make them face up to the consequences of their actions. Their binding pact has held together for a year, partly out of the friendship they shared and mostly out of guilt, but when it becomes apparent that there is someone who is looking for revenge, it suddenly becomes deadly important that they face up to the truth, for their own sakes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410600</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Will Hill
|title=Department 19
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jamie Carpenter lived a normal, happy, suburban life until the night strange creatures arrived at his house and men in black combats with strange, ultra-violent weapons burst in and executed his father. Since then, Jamie and his mother have lived in a succession of miserable, dour little houses and Jamie has become less and less interested in a succession of miserable, dour little schools. He resents his mother, like all good disaffected teenagers do.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007354452</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K M Grant
|title=Belle's Song
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Chaucer was a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write the famous Canterbury Tales, but he also found the time and courage to be a spy for the king at a time of civil unrest and political intrigue in Britain. So a story set during one of his journeys, one which combines his secret work and some of the more memorable characters from the tales, is an intriguing proposition, metaphorically as well as literally. Add a dreamy, motherless girl whose guilt at causing her father's accident only reinforces her tendency to self-harm and obsessive behaviour, and a cracking good plot emerges.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>
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