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|summary=The Earth has been invaded by the Illyri, a vaguely humanoid race far in advance of humankind, who were able to conquer the planet gently by proving how futile it would be to resist. They are keen to ensure the human race remains compliant, but are mostly keen to avoid bloodshed. Humankind, however, is not a race to take conquest lying down. There is a very active resistance, particularly in Scotland, where the Scots come out of the Highlands to strike on the Illyri garrisons and power bases in cities like Edinburgh.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147220963X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Saving Silence
|author=Gina Blaxill
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Sam moved to London fairly recently and has struggled to settle in. Imogen has never had problems making friends, she's a former head girl and a school sports star. She's tried to make friends with Sam, however, but he doesn't seem interested - until one night when he approaches her out of the blue, only for someone to speed towards him and try to knock him over. Imogen saves his life - but why would anyone try to kill him? And has she put herself in danger by getting involved? With Sam reluctantly telling Imogen a secret, the pair are left frantically trying to save themselves from some seriously nasty people.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447208846</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Trap
|author=Andrew Fukuda
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
''The Trap'' is the third and final book in this sequence about a world in which vampires rule and humans are hepers, eaten almost to extinction.
 
We left Gene and Sissy, along with Epap and David, on the train that delivers hepers from the Mission to the City, destined for the Ruler's feast table. Gene now knows that he and Sissy form the Origin, the cure that will return Duskers to humans formulated by Gene's missing scientist father. But is that all there is to it? Where did the Duskers come from? Can Gene and Sissy end their plague? Will they all make it out alive? And what of Ashley June, newly turned to Dusker? What does she know that Gene and Sissy don't?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00BORD2RG</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Shadowlark
|author=Meagan Spooner
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Lark escaped the city of her birth after being tortured and stripped of her magic by its architects. Lark's post-apocalyptic world runs on magic and there isn't enough of it about. So Renewables - people whose magic will replenish after it is drained - are in demand - not as people but as a resource. But the architects have made Lark different. She can drain the magic of others and use it herself. We last saw Lark when she escaped the Iron Wood and went in search of her missing brother Basil.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552565571</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Debutantes: In Love
|author=Cora Harrison
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Poppy and Daisy Derrington leave Beech Green Manor to launch themselves in London. The pair know they need to marry well as their father is in dire financial straits - but marriage is something of a distraction to their real dreams of films and music. Can they find themselves love and happiness in the Roaring Twenties?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447205952</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Naturals
|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cassie Hobbes doesn't feel like an average teenager. Average teenagers don't lose their mothers to unsolved murders. Average teenagers can't profile other people within minutes of acquaintance. Average teenagers aren't headhunted by the FBI to train as specifically-talented crimefighters. Cassie Hobbes is special.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780876823</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=ZOM-B Baby
|author=Darren Shan
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
WARNING! If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, STOP READING NOW! NOW! Spoilers ahoy!
 
Gone? Good.
 
The story so far
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077686</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=How to Love
|author=Katie Cotugno
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Katie Cotugno's debut novel ''How to Love'' is, unsurprisingly, all about love. It has at its centre Reena and Sawyer, a gritty portrayal of first love. But it also has family love, friendship, and all those other kinds of loves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782060006</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Killing Woods
|author=Lucy Christopher
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Popular girl Ashlee is dead. They’re saying the father of her less-popular classmate Emily is responsible. She cannot accept this, cannot accept that her own father could do something like that, but all the evidence points that way. Emily can’t stop thinking about it. She starts investigating what really happened in the woods that night, but the more she uncovers, the more uneasy she feels. Could her father actually be the one who killed Ashlee? And should she stop digging before she unearths something really unpleasant?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906427720</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=She Is Not Invisible
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Laureth is used to her father's writerly obsessions and enthusiasms. She's accepted the fact that he will hare off across the world in search of some obscure information for a story, and the fact that he rarely asks her about herself and her life at school, preferring to lecture her instead about his latest theory. He even pays her to answer the fan mail on his website for him. And, like it or not, there's nothing she can do about the barely suppressed hostility that has grown in recent years between her parents.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780621094</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tone Almhjell
|title=The Twistrose Key
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=
Lin and her family are living in a rented house in the city because Lin's mother has been given her dream job as professor of traditional songs at the university. Lin's novelist father doesn't mind: he can write and play at riddling in the city as well as anywhere. But Lin hates it. She misses the farm where she was brought up and she misses playing at troll-hunting with her friend Niklas. But most of all, she misses her pet vole, Rufus, who is buried under a rosebush.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349001669</amazonuk>
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