==Teens==
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{{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
|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.
|summary=A 17 year old girl at a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boy, who she's immediately drawn to. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to her, until he saves her life, and the two of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similarities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gareth Hinds
|title=King Lear
|rating=3
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Hound me out of town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Lear. For me, even as a trained actor, the language is too dense and rich, the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to be. To my mind the acclaim and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blustering.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Beth Durst
|title=Ice
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A J Healy
|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic Knights
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Tommy Storm. He's one of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING from destruction. Not just the planet, or the solar system, or even the galaxy, but EVERYTHING. Nobody seems to know what's going to cause this destruction, or when, but he and his friends and their ship seem to be the only people proactively going about saving the day. So it's a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony who's about to kill them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanette Winterson
|title=The Battle of the Sun
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it's his birthday and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Max, who's a ''licking and a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging and a barking, racing, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Abby McDonald
|title=The Popularity Rules
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This book is labelled as Abby McDonald's first adult novel, but a brief browse at the juvenile title, cover and formatted content bowls it straight down the teen read alley. The Americanised language, music scene setting and media heroine are aspirational stuff when you're stuck in the pre-scene years. So, despite its label, I've given it four and a half stars based on its appeal as a girlie book. That said, I'm well over eighteen, read the story avidly, and enjoyed the irony. So well done, Abby McDonald, for an entertaining story, cleverly told.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099533898</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Alexander Gordon Smith
|title=Furnace: Death Sentence
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Alex Sawyer. Framed for a murder he certainly didn't do, the lad is given life (of a kind) in the Furnace, a literal hellhole of a private prison, buried a mile under England. It's a vicious existence, with tribal gangs among the inmates, and worse on the staff - the warden is helped by his malevolent blacksuits, nasty medical aides called wheezers, and there are mutated, feral creatures of all kinds collectively called rats. After two previous books of failed break-outs, Alex is under the knife of the warden, who has a new tactic. He does not want to break Alex - he aims to remake him, with medicine, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing, as one of his own.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571245617</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Priestley
|title=Tales of Terror from the Tunnel's Mouth
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Young Robert is put on a train back to school by his stepmother. It's the first journey he's made on his own. It turns out to be more of a challenge than he could ever have imagined. The train stalls at the mouth of a tunnel and while the other passengers sleep through the wait, a mysterious woman in white tells him a series of stories - stories with a difference.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800144</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Edgar Allan Poe and Gris Grimly
|title=Tales of Death and Dementia
|rating=5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=Wow! What a wonderful combination: Edgar Allan Poe, master of the gothic horror short story, and Gris Grimly, outstanding illustrator, known for his [[The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman and Gris Grimly|work with Neil Gaiman]]. Poe's ''Tales of Death and Dementia'' are shown off at their very best in this edition.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386474</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jessica Verday
|title=The Hollow
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Abbey's best friend, Kristen, disappears and is assumed dead, Abbey feels as though she has no-one left to talk to. Refusing to believe that Kristen is really gone, while struggling to come to terms with life on her own, Abbey meets the mysterious Caspian, a young man who appears to be the perfect gentleman, showering her with hand-crafted gifts and words of wisdom within weeks of meeting her. But beneath those piercing green eyes and soft-spoken manner, Caspian has secrets of his own. Hoping to uncover those, and determined to find out what really happened to her best friend, Abbey begins to question her sanity, as the truth proves more frightening than she thought.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384986</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael P. Spradlin
|title=The Youngest Templar: Trail of Fate
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=After his ship is lost in a storm as he is returning to England, Tristan is washed up on some foreign shore, completely lost and with no sign of his companions. When he wakes, he's surrounded by four men and two women, all pointing swords at him. As soon as they talk, he realises he's in France. He explains his situation to Celia, one of the young women, and though cautious of him at first – believing he might possibly be a spy, she ignores his pleas for directions to the nearest port and offers (almost insists) to take him with them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0399247645</amazonuk>
}}
