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|summary=Addie and Eva are 15 year olds living somewhere in America. They have a mother, a father and a younger brother. But Addie and Eva are not sisters, or twins, in the usual sense. They are two minds who share one body, and they are in trouble.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007476817</amazonuk>
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|author=Jeyn Roberts
|title=Rage Within (Dark Inside)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
We left Aries, Michael, Clementine and Mason in a world they can barely recognise. After a series of devastating earthquakes many people changed. They became murderous monsters that the normal survivors called Baggers. There are few normal people left and they must hide in ruined cities, avoiding death at the hands of the Baggers. And in ''Rage Within'', the battle for survival is about to get even tougher. The Baggers are organising themselves, clearing the streets of bodies and setting up worker camps for captured survivors.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144721790X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melissa Marr
|title=Carnival of Souls
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In the City of daimons, the fighting is raging. Not war - this is much more organised. The Carnival of Souls is a once in a generation opportunity to change your future. Lower caste Kaleb and Aya, fighting the prejudice agaist women, aim to do just that. Meanwhile, in our world, Mallory knows of the City's existence but not she and her father need to run away so much. These three are about to be drawn together, and the consequences for everyone could be huge.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0061659282</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Crossan
|title=Breathe
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When the trees were all felled to make crop land to feed an exploding population, oxygen levels on Earth fell. Eventually, the air became unbreathable. A government lottery decided who would live inside the life-saving Pod created by Breathe. Those left on the outside died. Years later, Pod society is divided into Premiums, who have easy lives, plenty of air and positions of power, and Auxiliaries, who labour at endless shifts and pay through the nose for enough oxygen to get by. A resistance group is trying to replant the Earth and reduce dependence on the Pod, but Breathe and the Pod Minister will stop at nothing to crush them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408827190</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Gardner
|title=Maggot Moon
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=There are certain books that you know, right from the first pages, are destined to be classics. There is something about the phrasing, about the concept and about the main character which chime so perfectly together that they cannot fail to move you, to open a window in your world and show you another, deeper truth. Such a book is 'Maggot Moon'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471400042</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Holly Black
|title=Red Glove (Curse Workers 2)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassel lives in a world where magic is frowned upon. Practice is banned and everyone wears gloves to prevent being worked. Cassel himself is a transformation worker - the rarest type. And he is the most powerful transformation worker in living memory. This makes him extremely valuable to the crime families who use curses to support and maintain their empires. It also makes him extremely dangerous as far as the authorities are concerned. And that's why Cassel tries to keep his status to himself, since he discovered it in the [[The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1) by Holly Black|first book]] in this ''Curse Workers'' sequence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575096764</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ilsa Bick
|title=Ashes
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Beware: it's impossible to review ''Shadows'' without giving spoilers for [[Ashes by Ilsa Bick|Ashes]], the first book in this dystopian trilogy, which ended on a huge cliffhanger.
 
The world has been devastated by a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse. Many of the young have become ''Changed'' - cannabilistic monsters with a penchant for violence. Alex was hiking in the wilderness when it all happened and although she isn't Changed, her senses have heightened and it seems the progression of her terminal brain tumour may have halted.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857382640</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Shusterman
|title=Unwholly
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=
At last! It's been five years since ''Unwind'', Neal Shusterman's first book set in a dystopian future where teenage children are ''unwound'' - retroactively aborted to provide organs and limbs for transplant surgery. If you're an adult reader, the world of ''Unwind'' is very much like ''Never Let Me Go'' by Kazuo Ishiguro. ''Unwind'' had a profound effect on me - as the best books for children do - it was exciting, touching, shocking and, above all, fearless. But there were flashes of humour that made it all bearable.
 
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857078623</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Libba Bray
|title=The Diviners
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=1920's New York City. Jazz and gin mix with murder and mystery. For Evie O'Neill - fresh in from Ohio to the city of her dreams after her demonstration of a strange power caused a scandal in society - this is what she's always dreamed of. But dreams can become nightmares, and when Evie, her uncle Will and their friends find themselves trying to stop a serial killer, she'll have to use all of her wits, as well as her power, to stay alive.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410392</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stefan Bachmann
|title=The Peculiar
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=
''Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.''
 
Such is life for peculiars like Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie. Their mother is human but their - absent - father is a Sidhe, a high fairy. Fairies are contemptuous of the half-breed peculiars and humans distrust and suspect them. Hapless peculiar children are often hanged by humans. And, even more worryingly, bodies of peculiars have been turning up recently, quite dead, covered in ancient faerie script and as empty of bone and organ as they are of life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062195182</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Cann
|title=Witch Crag
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Kita lives in a hill fort as part of the sheepmen community. Life since the Great Havoc has been hard and brutish. There are few survivors from the time of technology and nature is gradually retaking the land. There are often droughts and both food and water are often in short supply. For the sheepmen, it's all about survivial. Food, what there is of it, is bland. Days are filled with grinding hard work. Relationships are frowned on. Women are treated like chattels. Although they have an alliance with the horsemen, other groups are avoided and disliked - the farmers, those who live in the ruins of the Old City.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140710702X</amazonuk>
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