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==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Rhys Thomas
|title=The Suicide Club
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Craig Bartlett-Taylor's third attempt at killing himself is nearly successful – except when he announces in class that he's taken a whole bottle of pills, new boy Frederick Spaulding-Carter steps in and saves his life. Freddy attains instant celebrity as a hero, and our narrator Richard Harper is as impressed as anyone else.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552774979</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=Ivo's parents have gone off on a South American expedition. As it's the school holidays, Ivo is off to London to stay with some glamorous relatives. Aunt Lydia is a socialite and art expert who arranges exhibitions and parties for the great and the good. Uncle Jago is in finance and there isn't much about wheeling and dealing that he doesn't know. They're fond of Ivo and the kind of guardians who are likely to practise some benign neglect, so what Ivo is really looking forward to about his stay is freedom - he intends to explore London and enjoy everything it has to offer.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595526</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jaclyn Dolamore
|title=Magic Under Glass
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Namira is a trouser girl - a music hall performer. In Lorinar, she's regarded as a faintly risque curiosity but at home in Tiansher it wasn't like this. Performers like her mother were feted and respected and Namira grew up in a palace. In Lorianar, she lives in poverty, performing for drunken fools who don't understand her art. And then suddenly, she's freed from the seedy music hall by Hollin Parry, a wealthy man and a member of Lorinar's Sorcerer Council. Parry has an automaton, a curiosity that plays the piano, and he wants Namira's unique voice to accompany it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802120</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gaby Morgan (editor)
|title=In My Sky at Twilight
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Off the back of the success of Stephenie Meyer's [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] series there has been a boom in vampire novels aimed at teenagers. In My Sky at Twilight is perhaps one of the most unusual books to come out of this craze as it is a collection of love poetry aimed at teenage fans of the series.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230745865</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=P J Reece
|title=Roxy
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Maddie was at Aunt Gretchen's funeral when she got the phone call to tell her that her father was in a coma and likely to die. This might sound like a double whammy but Maddie's father had deserted her soon after her birth (during which her mother died) and she was brought up by Aunt Gretchen, who never missed an opportunity to point out that she was an unwanted burden.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1896580017</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Keith Mansfield
|title=Johnny Mackintosh: Star Blaze
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Before I get into the review of this book, I'd like to suggest that if you haven't read Keith Mansfield's first Johnny Mackintosh book, [[Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield|The Spirit of London]], you go off and read the review of that first and then go and read the book itself. It's a fantastic read. But because this is a sequel, there are obviously going to be some SPOILERS ahead.
 
So, done that have you?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849161267</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
|title=Legacy and Spellbound (Wicked)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Holly Cathers has returned, and this time, she's more powerful than ever. The war between the House of Cahors witches and House of Deveraux warlocks still rages on, and only one side will eventually triumph.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738689X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Shusterman
|title=Everwild
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Neal Shusterman continues his part zany adventure, part philosophical enquiry, and part coming-of-age story that began with Everlost in this follow-up that is perhaps even better than its predecessor.
 
Everlost is a kind of limbo and home to children - Afterlights - who have died, but somehow missed the tunnel and the light - wherever and whatever the light actually is. Adults never make it there, but significant or much-loved objects and buildings sometimes do. Mary Hightower, for instance, is so-called because she took up residence in New York in the Twin Towers. Mary thinks Everlost is a wonderful place and she "saves" the Afterlights she finds by giving them repetitive but addictive tasks to fill eternity.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847387322</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gemma Malley
|title=The Returners
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary='Ducks are cool. Whatever happens, whatever gets thrown at them, they just carry on, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling.'
 
Will almost wishes he could be a duck. He has precious little to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800918</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
|title=Beautiful Creatures
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in a small town. They fall in love, he finds out she's harbouring a dark secret, the pair of them try to find out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from her world. This kind of book appears to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely in the past few years has it been done as well as it has in Beautiful Creatures.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Mills
|title=Blackout
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary='I am a murderer.
 
'I'm standing in a bookshop, a gun hot in my palm. The bullet that sat in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced flesh, blown into brain tissue, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont the floor. Blood begins to trickle from her head. It drips onto a pile of signed copies stacked on the floor.'
 
Oh my word! What an explosive beginning to a book! But what made a boy do something like this?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ebony McKenna
|title=Ondine: The Summer of Shambles
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|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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