==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Karen McCombie
|title=Six Words and a Wish
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jem has a dad who's a clown, a best friend who's a hypochondriac, a house where it's always Christmas, and a sister who's missing – or is she? Gracie left home after something Jem said, and the younger girl has always wondered whether she's to blame for her big sister's disappearance. When her mother receives a present from Gracie on her birthday, she thinks she might finally be able to ask her. As well as hoping her sister returns, Jem also tries to form a band, helps her dad do his clown shows, and may even have found a cute boy she likes…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107887</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=It's 1036 in Trondheim, Norway. Solveig lives with her father, stepmother and stepbrothers. Her mother died many years ago and neither Solveig nor her father Halfdan have ever truly recovered. Before his injury, Halfdan was a Viking mercenary and his dearest wish is to rejoin his old commander, Harald Hardrada in Miklagard (Constantinople). He promises Solveig that, should the call ever come, he will take her with him...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249396</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Justin Richards
|title=The School of Night: Creeping Terror
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When a boy and his father enter a village asking for directions, the unexpected happens. They find all the inhabitants observing a WWII blackout, and thinking it's 1943. But it's definitely 2011. Luckily the lad belongs to the School of Night, an arcane institute of ghost-hunters where merely talking to the shade of your dead sister could come across as a fail. It will still take a lot of pluck and smarts from staff and students to solve the problem of the ghost village of Templeton, and the evil barriers surrounding it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245099</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Sparkes
|title=Unleashed : A Life and Death Job
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A new series about what happens when Britain's most important and secret assets - teenagers with paranormal abilities - get a week's holiday. In book one, Lisa gets involved with kidnapping and assassination attempts. And she only wanted to go shopping at Harvey Nicks!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756060</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Hawkins
|title=Hex Hall: Raising Demons
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Raising Demons (published in the US under the title Demonglass) is the second book in a planned trilogy about a teenager who has strong magical powers. This review may contain spoilers for the first book in the series, [[Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins|Hex Hall]]; the book certainly does.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387233</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Martyn Bedford
|title=Flip
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=With no warning, no hint of anything wrong or out of the ordinary in his life, Alex wakes up one morning having lost six months of his life and in a foreign house filled with strangers; the morning turns from weird and scary, to outright crazy and terrifying when Alex discovers that the body he has woken up in is not his own but that of a boy called Philip, or ''Flip'' for short. Before he has time to even contemplate the horrifying possibility that he isn't dreaming or hallucinating, and is actually stuck in the body of a boy who he has never seen before, Alex is forced to face a day in the life of Philip Garamond, literally. As he goes through every possible route of enquiry, every logical way to at least make sense of his situation, if not try to reverse it, growing panic sets in and a chaotic, thrilling, and truly frightening sequence of events are set off.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329894</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rosalie Warren
|title=Coping With Chloe
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Anna and Chloe are twins who share everything. If anything, the terrible accident Chloe suffered has brought them closer. Apart from teacher Miss Tough and new boy Joe, though, everyone seems worried by Anna's references to her twin. They seem to think Chloe's dead – but can't they understand the two girls are just sharing a body? Then Chloe falls for Joe, who Anna likes herself, and Anna is left trying to see how this could ever work…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907912029</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Nimmo
|title=The Secret Kingdom
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Protected by a moon cloak, a ring, and three mysteriously powerful leopards, Timoken the magician and his camel Gabar seek a new home after the boy is forced to flee the secret kingdom. But will they ever find peace with the vicious viradees on their trail? This prequel to the Charlie Bone series contains new and old characters, including a couple of brief cameos from Charlie himself, but is well worth reading as a stand-alone or introduction to the series if you've never heard of it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405257326</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Blakley-Cartwirght
|title=Red Riding Hood
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ok, the biggest let down of this book was the missing chapter at the end, which will be made available after the film is released – bad move. I understand that it's meant to keep people interested in it, and not spoil the film, but honestly, it's just frustrating, Now, my book will be forever incomplete – not good.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410821</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Stephens
|title=The Emerald Atlas: The Books of Beginning
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Whisked away from their parents in the dead of night ten years ago, Kate, Michael and Emma have seen more than their fair share of orphanages. Nobody wants to adopt three children together - least of all when the youngest has a strong penchant for using her fists whenever she can - and so when we meet them, they're on their way to yet another. But the orphanage at Cambridge Falls is unlike any other. They're the only children in residence, the housekeeper seems to think they are members of the French royal family, and the town is in the middle of a barren wasteland and is bereft of children.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857530186</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=M J Putney
|title=Dark Mirror
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Born around a hundred years after the nobility decided that magic was a tool which should be used only by commoners, when Tory Mansfield discovers she can float in the air she knows she must keep it to herself. Until a terrible accident leaves her powers as the only thing that can save one of her family, and she's forced to reveal herself and face disgrace and humiliation. For an outed mage in London's high society there's only one thing that can be done – a
spell in Lackland Abbey, the school which can cure youngsters of magic. Not everyone at Lackland wants to be cured, though… and Tory needs to decide whether her powers are a curse or a gift.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0312622848</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Singleton
|title=The Stranger
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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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