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==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie McKenzie
|title=The Medusa Project: Double Cross
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Each of the 'Medusa Project' books is narrated by one of the teens involved in turn, and this time it is Nico who is the first person speaker. Things are not going well for the group: their former mentor Geri has just tried to kill them, and by using all her government and police contacts she has managed to make it look as if they are guilty of murder. The four teens' psychic abilities allow them to escape to France, and now they need to work out how to stop Geri and clear their names. But things just get worse and worse: the strain of their situation and the introduction of new characters start to pull the group apart just at the time when they need to trust each other the most.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707069X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alex Woolf
|summary=Growing up in foster care has always left Ari wondering where she came from. The teal coloured eyes and strange, unchangeable, silver hair just adds to the mystery surrounding her. When she searches for answers to her questions about her past, she finds a simple message left for her by her mother – ''RUN''. Desperately seeking answers and with scary figures on her trail, she returns to her birthplace of New 2, once known as New Orleans, to find herself plunged into a power struggle which could have far reaching consequences.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071459</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Deserter
|author=Peadar o Guilin
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's been four years coming, but this sequel to The Inferior won't disappoint those who have loyally waited. I've loyally waited. And I would like to say that four years has been too long. In that time dystopian fiction for young adults has become more and more popular - lots of it is very good - and I did wonder if I would love the central character Stopmouth quite as much as I had before. I shouldn't have worried. He's a gorgeous creation - brave, honest, loyal and committed, he will appeal equally to male and female readers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385610963</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paige Harbison
|title=Here Lies Bridget
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bridget Duke, daughter of a famous celebrity, is the undisputed queen of her school. Popular, wanted by the boys and feared or adored by the girls, she barely even notices the trail of destruction she leaves behind her as friends, teachers and even her stepmother end up being hurt by her actions. So when Bridget is in a car accident, and ends up in limbo, she's sent into the shoes of those she's wronged to see the effect she's had on them. Can she redeem herself?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>077830499X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Karen McCombie
|title=Six Words and a Wish
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jem has a dad who's a clown, a best friend who's a hypochondriac, a house where it's always Christmas, and a sister who's missing – or is she? Gracie left home after something Jem said, and the younger girl has always wondered whether she's to blame for her big sister's disappearance. When her mother receives a present from Gracie on her birthday, she thinks she might finally be able to ask her. As well as hoping her sister returns, Jem also tries to form a band, helps her dad do his clown shows, and may even have found a cute boy she likes…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407107887</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bali Rai
|title=Killing Honour
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=Sat comes from a prosperous Sikh family in Leicester. His mother spends a lot of time at the gurdwara but his father and brother don't and are not above breaking parts of the Sikh code - they both eat meat and drink alcohol. Overall, though, Sat's family is a traditional one and so when his parents hear a rumour that his sister Jas has a boyfriend at college, they withdraw her and arrange a marriage to Taz Atwal, a wealthy local businessman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552562114</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paula Rawsthorne
|title=The Truth About Celia Frost
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Celia Frost has always been extremely careful, never playing with other children, always wearing gloves and long sleeves, and never getting into unwanted confrontations. For she knows from her mother that the rare disorder that she suffers from, which is not unlike haemophilia, will mean that just a small cut, a seemingly insignificant graze, can leave her bleeding uncontrollably until she dies. However, one day Celia snaps. When she humiliates a bully, the boy gets his revenge and with a small flick of a knife starts a cut that will kill her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409531090</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kelley Armstrong
|title=Darkness Rising: The Gathering
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Maya has lived her whole life in strange little rural town, Salmon Creek. Although 'little' means a population of less than 200 and 'rural' really does mean in the middle of nowhere, Maya is happy living where she does. Sure, she gets more contact with cougars than she does with people some days, but she's always loved nature and she's always been content at Salmon Creek.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907410171</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carlos Ruiz Zafon
|title=The Midnight Palace
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Calcutta, 1916. Lieutenant Peake sacrifices his life to save two twin babies from a terrifying and murderous demon.
 
Sixteen years later, the separated twins meet again. Sheere has spent her childhood moving from place to place with her grandmother - never staying still, always hypervigilant. Ben has lived in a Calcutta orphanage and has a band of friends - the Chowbar Society - who are all about to be released from care to make their way in the world.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001671</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Green
|title=Looking For Alaska
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=When Miles Halter leaves his safe, comfortable life in Florida for Culver Creek – a boarding school his father used to attend – he's looking for what French poet Francois Rabelais called the Great Perhaps. Miles thinks he's found it in Alaska Young – beautiful, flirty, sexy, but messed up Alaska. Her mood changes like the flip of a switch. She smokes and drinks too much. Miles couldn't be more in love with her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007424833</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Katy Moran
|title=Dangerous to Know
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Jack and Bethany are in love. But Bethany's mother thinks Jack is a bad influence. He comes from a bad family - a broken home, one brother was a drug dealer, the other smoked too much dope and ended up sectioned - and he just isn't the sort of boy Bethany's mother wants her daughter to spend time with. It's not all snobbery though - Bethany's father is terminally ill and the family has too much on its plate to be thinking of first love affairs. Says Bethany's mother. But not Bethany.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406317292</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=R J Anderson
|title=Ultraviolet
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Alison wakes up to find herself sectioned in a secure psychiatric unit for teenagers. Arriving home with blood on your hands and gibbering endless confessions to having killed a girl who's gone missing will do that. But there isn't any proof and Tori is still missing so both the police and Alison's doctors want to get to the bottom of what happened.
 
The thing is, Alison herself can't explain what happened.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408312751</amazonuk>
}}

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