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==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Matt Haig
|title=The Radleys
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Rowan Radley is a freak who has to wear factor 60 sunblock. Clara is wasting away as she tries to turn vegan. Their parents are a normal suburban couple – aren't they? When a bully tries to take advantage of Clara in a secluded field, he finds he's bitten off rather more than he can chew – and she's bitten off rather more than he can survive without. Who do you call when you need a body to be buried? Abstainers Peter and Helen haven't had to deal with this sort of thing since they gave up drinking human blood – so in a moment of desperation they turn to Will, Peter's brother, who's rather more of a traditional vampire. Things are about to get messy…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406330280</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maria V Snyder
|summary=Chaucer was a fascinating bloke. Not only did he write the famous Canterbury Tales, but he also found the time and courage to be a spy for the king at a time of civil unrest and political intrigue in Britain. So a story set during one of his journeys, one which combines his secret work and some of the more memorable characters from the tales, is an intriguing proposition, metaphorically as well as literally. Add a dreamy, motherless girl whose guilt at causing her father's accident only reinforces her tendency to self-harm and obsessive behaviour, and a cracking good plot emerges.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849164088</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Mark Robson
|title=The Devil's Triangle
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=A rebellious boat journey into the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, prompted by Sam's annoyance at his father's obsession with the area's notoriety, turns out to be very ill-advised as Sam and his friend, Callum, find themselves lost and stranded on an island that is terrifyingly different from anything they have witnessed before. Meanwhile, Sam's twin sister Niamh is caught up in the search for the boys, co-ordinated by their father, Matthew, who is desperate to rescue Sam and Callum from the same mysterious phenomenon that took his wife nine years ago. As the search for the boys threatens to disintegrate under allegations that Matthew may be responsible for their disappearance, Niamh goes on the run, desperate to keep searching for her brother, but with only their rather ambiguous twin bond to guide her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389783</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie Jordan
|title=Firelight
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jacinda was singled out as special by her Pride when she manifested with the ability to breath fire. A fire-breather hasn't been born to the Draki for generations, and there are those in the Pride who would use her for their own ends. Craving freedom, Jacinda takes a risk that nearly costs her life. Now Jacinda's mother has dragged her and twin sister Tamra from their mountain home, sneaking away in the middle of the night, leaving everything they knew behind.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756508</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin
|title=Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Jenna and Jonah, Charlie and Fielding – they're the stars of the hit TV show 'Jenna and Jonah's How To Be A Rock Star'. On-screen they're next-door neighbours in a will they, won't they plot. Off-screen they're every bit the perfect couple they are on TV, romantic dinners, flowers – the lot. The problem is they hate each other. You heard me right, they loathe each other.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140881630X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jon Mayhew
|title=The Demon Collector
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Edgy Taylor – a 19th century dog muck collector for a cruel master, Talon – wouldn't claim to have had the best of lives. His only enjoyment of his 13 years or so so far has been setting and solving riddles, while he's spent most of his time avoiding the cruelty of his employer. But when Professor Envry Janus rescues him from Talon, revealing the tanner to be a demon called Thammuz and turning him to stone, Edgy may have cause to look back on his old life with nostalgia. Because inside the Royal Society of Daemonologie, there are people who think Edgy can help them in their quest to find the heart of the legendary demon Moloch, who turned against Satan. There are people who think he's a nuisance. And there are people who want him dead. Can Edgy figure out who's who? He'll have to, because a mistake could cost him his life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803941</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen Mahoney
|title=The Iron Witch
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Donna has always been an outcast. The arms she hides underneath long gloves are covered in iron tattoos that give her enhanced strength – strength she has tried to hide. But, despite her best efforts, Donna was involved in an incident at school, an incident that means she's now homeschooled and a social pariah.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552563811</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aidan Chambers
|title=The Kissing Game
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=You don't see that many short story collections in YA circles. But when they do appear, you often wonder why there aren't more of them. And this is absolutely the case with The Kissing Game. Ranging from short pieces of flash fiction to "proper" short stories, each one will incite, surprise and stimulate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370331974</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian Falkner
|title=Brainjack
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Sam comes to the attention of the CDD (Homeland Security's Cyber Defence Division) when he crashes the entire American internet network because he wants a top spec laptop and one of those super-cool new neural headsets, but doesn't have the money to buy them. Thinking he's been given a hacker network initiation test, Sam then successfully penetrates the White House's security system. It's all the CDD needs to know, and Sam finds himself sprung from federal custody and recruited.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406329061</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Brian
|title=Private: The Book of Spells
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Following in her older sister's footsteps after May's return from the exclusive Billings School for Girls to marry the handsome George Thackery III, Eliza Williams is expecting that everyone at the school will remember her sister with affection. But Theresa Billings – as powerful as her name suggests – clearly wasn't a great friend of May's, and Eliza must navigate the rivalries and friendships of school as she tries to settle in. Then the girls find a spell book, and bond over frivolous magic as they help each other and embarrass people they dislike. What could possibly go wrong?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cat Clarke
|title=Entangled
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=The story starts on day three of Grace's imprisonment by a kidnapper. She's been given pen and paper to explain her recent actions, including falling in love with her boyfriend Nat, the ups and downs of her friendship with Sal, her self-harming, and her attempted suicide. As we learn more and more about Grace's life, the one thing we're never quite sure of is where the mysterious Ethan, her
kidnapper, fits into things…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849163944</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander Gordon Smith
|title=Furnace: Execution
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|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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