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|summary=Tom is awkward, wary and self-reliant. He has spent his life on the road, moving from casino to casino with his dad and catching a little online education whenever the opportunity presents itself, but frankly he is far more concerned with finding his next meal than any more distant future. A poor diet and a life spent in gaming rooms has left him scrawny, small, and with a serious case of acne. He feels he is nothing and no one, and cannot imagine ever living any other life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147140000X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Easton
|title=HAV3N
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Initially, people thought it was just another media scare. Unfortunately, HAV3N is real and it is apocalyptic. Incredibly virulent, it is a strain of bird flu to which no one has any natural immunity. It spreads through global populations with the speed and ferocity of a forest fire, killing its victims within hours of infection, making them literally cough out their lungs. The small village of Great Sheen put up barricades isolating them from the infected, in a desperate bid for survival, but it does little to stop HAV3N. It is only the timely arrival of scientist Michael Pirbright with an experimental vaccine and antivirals that saves the village from eradication. However, when the villagers are finally able to freely venture outside of the village, they discover the horrible truth. Pirbright's discovery of the vaccine was an incalculable stroke of luck, one that hasn't been repeated, and by making the choice to save his family and the village Pirbright was too late to save anyone else. The rest of the population appears to have been entirely eradicated by the disease. They might be the only humans left alive…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394180</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cora Harrison
|title=Debutantes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The year is 1923. Everyone who is anyone is enjoying themselves in London, coming out as a debutante and eagerly anticipating the royal wedding. But the Derringtons aren’t really anyone – they’re stuck in their run-down house in the country with their father and their great-aunt, without the money or fashionable dresses for eldest sister Violet to have the season she desperately wants. Can these four young ladies make their way in the world?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205944</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bethany Griffin
|title=The Masque of the Red Death
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=In a society devastated by an illness which is killing off the poor as the rich are kept safe by wearing special porcelain masks, Araby is seeking oblivion. She is trying to get over the death of her brother, Finn, who even her scientist father - the inventor of the masks - wasn't able to save. Feeling she has nothing left to live for, she's resigned herself to drug-fuelled nights in the Debauchery Club along with April, niece of the city's ruler Prince Prospero. When she meets two different, but enchanting, boys there, and becomes involved in events which will shape the destiny of the city, will she find something worth fighting for?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621191</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cath Crowley
|title=Graffiti Moon
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lucy wants to celebrate the end of school by finding the mysterious graffiti artist Shadow, whose work she's becoming obsessed with. The last thing she wants is to be stuck with Ed, a boy she briefly dated a couple of years ago, especially since that date ended with her breaking his nose after he put his hands in an inappropriate place. Ed, though, is supposed to be able to help her find Shadow, so she puts up with him. During the night, we see the story from both Lucy and Ed's sides as they gradually grow closer to each other.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444907875</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Marsden
|title=The Dead of the Night (The Tomorrow Series)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Months after the invasion chronicled in the first book in this series, Ellie and her friends are still fighting against the enemy. Their latest plan - to rescue Kevin, who's imprisoned, and Callie, who's in a coma, after the ending of the first novel. Can they succeed?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857388738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Melvin Burgess
|title=The Baby And Fly Pie
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fly Pie, his sister Jane and his friend Sham live in an alternate London, one full of brutality and ghettos. They are rubbish kids, employed by Mother Shelley (an alternate Fagin) to pick through rich people's rubbish for profit. Their lives are hard and brutal and, often, hungry. But they still have their dreams. Fly Pie longs to become a baker. He has cold hands; perfect for pastry. Sham wants to become one of Mother Shelley's Big Boys - and, eventually, to rise as possible through the criminal ranks to become an important person in a big gang. Jane, she's a bit different. She wants more. Not more money. More integrity. Jane wants to live a life where lying and cheating aren't necessities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394555</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Boyne
|title=The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Whereas some children's authors make their young heroes and heroines out to be as regular human beings, [[:Category:John Boyne|John Boyne]] does things differently. After the [[The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne|boy]] whose dad had the strangest job in this world, came [[Noah Barleywater Runs Away by John Boyne|Noah Barleycorn]] and his unusual parentage, and now Barnaby Brocket. He shouldn't have turned out extraordinary in any way - both his parents are Mr and Mrs Average Australian, and his dad certainly keeps both feet on the ground - it's just Barnaby cannot. From the moment he was born, gravity has had the wrong effect on him, and he's spent his life bumping into the ceiling. Until one fateful day, when he is forced to both go and grow up, and finds out just what a rarity being normal is.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857531468</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lil Chase
|title=Secrets, Lies and Locker 62
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ever since popular, bright, sporty Hillary Randle vanished from Mount Selwyn High 13 years ago her locker - locker 62 - hasn't been used. At least not in the normal sense. Instead, people have posted their deepest, darkest secrets into it, knowing that no-one will find them out. Until a new girl, Maya, comes to school and is given the combination to the locker - and to a generation of people's mysteries. Will she use them to become popular, or to help people?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738483X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Miles
|title=Envy (Fury Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Spring is coming to Ascension and, despite everything that happened in [[Fury (Fury Trilogy) by Elizabeth Miles|Fury]], Em knows that the Furies will be back. With Drea's help, she fully intends to defeat them - only then will she be able to tell JD how she really feels about him. But the Furies are stronger than Em has realised. She's finding it hard to fit back in with Gabby and her old friends and she carries a dark feeling that she can't quite shake. JD isn't speaking to her and Crow, an Ascension high school dropout, seems to show up wherever she goes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707203X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Handler
|title=Why We Broke Up
|rating=2.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Minerva and Ed were in a relationship. For various reasons, that relationship has come to an end. Minerva decides to help herself to move on from her ex-boyfriend by packing up everything she connects with him into a box and leaving it on his doorstep, along with a long letter explaining why they broke up. A long, long letter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405261358</amazonuk>
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