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==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Woolf
|title=Chronosphere: Time Out of Time
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's the 22nd Century, and finally the ideal gap year is available. Before being forced into a career prescribed him by his big society, Raffi buys his way into the Chronosphere, whereby his body will live in stasis for one minute in general time, while passing a year of sunny hedonism, with sports, shopping, girls and partying in a perfect idyll of mod-cons. But of course all is not well in paradise. His peers have a habit of vanishing without trace, and who knows? - even his newly-found friends may have something to do with it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184554</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Epstein
|summary=And so to the end. Alex and his closest friends have escaped the Furnace Penitentiary, that mile-deep hell-hole cum nightmare scientific experiment writ large. He's arisen to find the country in tatters, as the nasty creatures born there are in charge and decimating the population. There is only one thing to do - kill the man responsible. And Alex, eight feet tall, with an obsidian blade for an arm and muscles upon his muscles, will still face his hardest battle yet.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259405</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lesley Fairfield
|title=Tyranny
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=As Tyranny shakes her - ''I '''TOLD''' you not to eat! You are '''TOO''' fat!'' - Anna thinks back. She used to take joy in life. She used to dream of a bright future - a career, boyfriends, children - but it all went wrong when she hit puberty. She wasn't keen on on the curves of her new, more womanly body. When she looked in the mirror, she didn't see an hourglass figure developing; she saw fat and flab. Deaf to the warnings of her parents and her boyfriend, she listened to Tyranny and entered into the desperate, downward cycle of anorexia.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331139</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Helen Bailey
|title=Running in Heels
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=You'd like Daisy Davenport. Her father might be rich but she's a lot nicer than most fourteen year old girls. She's perhaps a little too attached to the good things in life, such as her mother's Louboutins and her own cracked silver Mulberry bag, but as she's always had that sort of lifestyle it's easy to understand why she sees nothing wrong in them. And besides everyone else at her private school has the same sort of lifestyle: some girls don't even look the side you're on unless you have a swimming pool at home.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900846</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garth Nix and Sean Williams
|title=Troubletwisters
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jack and Jaide Shield, twins, are living perfectly normal lives until a brief visit from their elusive father sparks an unexplainable, chaotic, reality-bending storm that destroys their home and introduces them to the mysterious world of the Wardens, a group gifted with diverse powers, and their perpetual struggle against a force known only as The Evil. As young Wardens, or Troubletwisters, just growing into their Gifts, the pair struggle to make sense of the chaos that surrounds them and discover the true nature of their heritage.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405258578</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andy Mulligan
|title=Return to Ribblestrop
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Before they even get back to Ribblestrop, Millie and her friends singularly or together hitchhike, pay their bus drivers the fare in fags, survive a car crash, set fire to a hotel, survive being eaten by a lion and other big cats, and encourage a Brazilian with a criminal record to take his unemployed circus animals to Ribblestrop. And what is Ribblestrop, you may ask?
 
"Ribblestrop's a school?" said Flavio.<br>
"Kind of", said Ruskin. "It's trying to be."
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388124</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ali Lewis
|title=Everybody Jam
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Danny lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback. His brother Jonny died in an horrific accident last year and the subject is absolutely taboo. Nobody even mentions his name. But Danny keeps Jonny's room just as it was when he died, and he touches his picture every day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184939248X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Eve Edwards
|title=The Queen's Lady
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Although it's not long since Lady Jane Rievaulx's husband died she's already beginning a new life in service to the Queen at Richmond Palace. It's not enthusiasm which is driving her to this but her late husband's children are disputing her dower rights and her own father finds it difficult to accept that she is now an independent woman. In the Queen's service she has a degree of protection. The man she loves – James Lacy – has demons of his own to conquer and he's about to set sail to the Americas. When Jane's family force her into a dreadful situation it looks as though the one man who can save her is at the other side of the world.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327332</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sandra Glover
|title=Fallout
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hannah tries to object when her so-called friends throw an impromptu party at her house during her parents' absence, but she simply doesn't know how to stand up to them. At first things aren't too bad: her parents will go ballistic when they see the spilt beer on the carpets, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. Then drink and drugs begin to take their toll. A window is smashed during a fight, all manner of things are damaged beyond repair, and the house is burgled. And something terrible, something so bad she can't face it or admit it, happens to Hannah during that eventful night. And it will destroy lives in more than one family.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709941</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel H Wilson
|title=Code Lightfall and the Robot King
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Code Lightfall is on a school trip to a prehistoric mound when he falls through a trap into another world, where everything is made of crystal, or metal, and the only living 'animals' are all robotic. It's a world under threat, so can he journey across its bizarre landscapes and save it all? And what is the truth of the mound, where his grandfather disappeared a year ago?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814196</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tim Bowler
|title=Buried Thunder
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=On a walk in the woods near the family's new home, Maya is suddenly compelled by a glinting pair of yellow eyes to run away from her brother and deep into the trees. What she finds is shocking - three dead bodies with a figure standing over the third. Terrified, Maya stumbles back and recounts the horror to her parents, who call the police. But the police can't find any bodies, and it's clear they think she's a prankster. Even Maya's parents don't really believe her. They think she's seeing things and they're worried that she's ill.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192728385</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Berlie Doherty
|title=Treason
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Forced by his power-hungry aunt and uncle to leave the comfort of his modest family home, Will Montague finds himself utterly overwhelmed, as he works as a page to Prince Edward under the keen eye of the temperamental King Henry, just as prone to unexpected bursts of compassion as he is to brutal cruelty. Just as he begins to find his feet in this new position, Will finds himself suddenly on the run, desperately trying to clear the name of his father, convicted of treason for failing to revert to the Protestantism led by the King, and simultaneously gaining more awareness of the world he lives in and the plights of the working class.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391211</amazonuk>
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