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==Teens==
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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
|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.