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==Teens==
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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
|summary=Ondine de Groot wants out of psychic summercamp, so together with her pet ferret Shambles, she flees from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classes, back to her family's restaurant. Only, as soon as she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voices. Specifically a broad Scottish voice – one that seems to be coming from her ferret. Shambles, it transpires, is in fact a man, turned into a ferret by a witch. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like as a man, but her imaginings are soon interrupted by the arrival of handsome Lord Vincent, son of the Duke, who sets Ondine's heart fluttering.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laurie Halse Anderson
|title=Chains
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Isabel and her sister Ruth are slaves. But they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will that said so. But Miss Mary Finch is dead and her greedy nephew and heir denies all knowledge of the will. So Isabel and Ruth are sold to the Locktons and taken to New York. The Revolutionary War is underway and New York is a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but the patriots are in control of the city.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michelle Harrison
|title=The Thirteen Curses
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate to get both her and her brother back into the human world. She must seek an audience with the fairy court, but the realm is full of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challenge, twisted with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes on, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's home. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned to Elvesden Manor for half term and let's just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nancy Farmer
|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In this third adventure, Jack, a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bard, and Thorgil, a bad-tempered shield maiden, follow the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest to quell the draugr - the malevolent spirit of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned to Jack's village and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human hands.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie McKenzie
|title=The Hostage (Medusa Project)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Teenagers Nico, Kitty, Ed and Dylan were implanted with the Medusa gene when they were babies. Now they're adolescents, the intended psychic abilities are coming to the fore. Nico has the power of telekinesis - he can move objects with his mind. Ed can read other people's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield and no weapon can harm her. Kitty has visions that predict the future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Diane Harker
|title=House of Secrets
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jane has had to grow up fast. Constantly moving from place to place, never staying in the same school for long, and always reminded of her mother's money worries, Jane longs for the kind of life where she can just be a kid, and not have to deal with adult problems.
 
When she's sent to stay at her sister's student digs, the Laurels, things go from bad to worse. The Laurels is a decrepit Victorian Townhouse, freezing cold, with no food, and to make matters worse, Jane's sister, Billa, doesn't even want her there.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846243572</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bruno Vincent
|title=Grisly Tales from Tumblewater
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Daniel Dorey comes to the vast and decaying city of Tumblewater with high hopes. He wants to study, become a surgeon, work hard and make a better life for himself. But when the school he enrolled in turns out to be a deserted building, his money is swindled from him, and he's framed for breaking into a shop, he's ready to turn round and go back to the country. His last hope is to collect a volume of local stories for a back-alley publisher. One by one, he hunts down the tellers of these grisly tales and records their words, but it soon becomes evident that he's hiding a dark secret of his own...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330479512</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Dickinson
|title=WE
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Paul Munro has been disconnected from the World Ear in readiness for a mission that will last a lifetime. Sent to man a tiny station built at enormous effort and expense on a desolate moon in the outer reaches of our solar system, he will never be able to return. Gravity is one-tenth that of Earth and his flesh has wasted, his bones enbrittled without the strength of calcium. 'If he stood on the Earth now... his skeleton would splinter under his weight.' It took eight years to get there and the rest of his life stretches before him fearfully.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385617895</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Skinner
|title=Furnaces of Forge
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In this [[Blue Fire and Ice (The Land) by Alan Skinner|sequel]], it's almost as you were, except here the mysterious powers of the blue flame are not being used by some outlander arsonist, but have been usurped by two inept young scientists from the Myrmidots, to fuel their industry. We can predict this will prove a bad thing, but the breadth of the journey to capture the flame, and the efforts of all our returning characters to put things right might still be a surprise.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955726859</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Saci Lloyd
|title=The Carbon Diaries 2017
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's been a year since we read a diary entry from Laura Brown. We left her with a boyfriend and just about adjusted to a Britain in the full throes of carbon rationing. Her nu-punk band, ''dirty angels'', hadn't quite made it, but things were looking rather promising for its future.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340970162</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=My Love Lies Bleeding
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Solange Drake hates being the only born female vampire. Not only does she have to put up with her pheromones making her irresistible to male vampires, who all want to use her to start their own vampire families, she has a prophecy looming over her head, one that states a female Drake vampire will overthrow the current ruler to become Queen of the Vampires.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803402</amazonuk>
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