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==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Sally Gardner
|title=The Red Necklace
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Paris's streets are already humming with talk of revolution, when the young gypsy Yann Margoza is summoned to perform his magic at the chateau of a selfish, debt-ridden marquise. He is to tell the assembled aristocracy their future. But what he hoped would be the ticket to a better life turns into a nightmare when he has a vision of the richly-dressed crowd drowning in a sea of blood.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556347</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian the Great Cardamom, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmen. Their relatively peaceful existence is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note the capital letter, never a good sign…) descend on them, and Cardamom instructs Josie, with his dying breath, to find the twin brother he'd never told her about and destroy the Amarant.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Green
|title=Drawing with Light
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Emily doesn't remember her biological mother. She ran away with another man when Emily was just two. Now, her older sister Kat, her father, and her stepmother Cassy make up the family unit and Emily thinks it's just fine that way. She doesn't need a mother who didn't want her and has never even tried to get in touch. But then Kat goes off to university, her father buys a rundown house in the middle of nowhere and moves them into a caravan while it's being renovated, and Cassy gets pregnant.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408802732</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Dessen
|title=Along for the Ride
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Auden has always felt like the odd one out amongst her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics and high achievers, and they, especially her mother, want the same for Auden. Auden's older brother is the rebel and so Auden feels as though she needs to be the one who satisfies her mother's ambition. So she works hard and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even a moment. But she's socially awkward and lacking in experience. She's never had a boyfriend, hates the colour pink and can't even ride a bike.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rook Hastings
|title=Nearly Departed
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=At first sight, you'd think Weirdsville was Anytown - it has a slightly rundown feel; everything's just a little bit shabby. But it's pretty much like any other town. Parents go to work. Kids go to school and clump together in little peer groups of geeks and swots and jocks and bullies. But Weirdsville isn't like any other town. There's a strangely abundant wood right in the middle of it, and at night, everythings turns, well, a little bit weird. The darkness is so dark it almost sucks you in. And there are odd noises too...
 
... and Emily thinks she's seen a ghost.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007258100</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill
|title=Star Crossed: Aries Rising
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers an old book called 'Fearless Astrology'. Can the book help her and her friends get the boys they want, catch the vandals who are shocking their school with pranks, and win her the approval of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' Franklin? This is a novel written for teens – of course it can.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gabrielle Lord
|title=January (Conspiracy 365)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts him.
 
''They killed your father! They'll kill you! You must survive the next 365 days!''
 
The man is carted off in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off the incident but it's not easy. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing is, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detail, but is pretty sure he was on to something big. Could there be a connection?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Feasey
|title=Changeling: Blood Wolf
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Trey is the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost uncle, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is old, half-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Trey. But there is a pack out there, and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of control.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cliff McNish
|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had a boyfriend and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems to stick around. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Glenn Dakin
|title=Candle Man: The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Birthdays for Theo are not exactly how we would recognise them. One bland, forgettable present from each of the three people who live in his household. Some pink cake at the best of times. A trip to the cemetery, with the butler making sure nobody else is in sight. But this one is different - some person unknown leaves something for him. And by the time burglars break in, and force Theo to leave the confines of his bedroom and find some of the secrets of the house, it is too late - Theo is set on a nightmarish trail between two warring forces, as the truths of his destiny, his origins, and his hands, come to the fore.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246766</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Celine Kiernan
|title=The Poison Throne (Moorehawke Trilogy)
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=In ''The Poison Throne'' what had been a benevolent kingdom has become characterised by repression and torture (which the book graphically describes). The magical aspects of the kingdom, its talking cats and ghosts, have been suppressed, while Alberon, the heir to the throne, has vanished. Wynter, along with Alberon's half brother Razi and his friend Christopher are increasingly at risk as they attempt to deal with this situation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498211</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Philip Womack
|title=The Liberators
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|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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