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==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Ransom Riggs
|title=Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After his grandfather's death, sixteen year old Jacob is sent to a psychiatrist. He swears that he'd seen a monster of some description - just like the weird and unusual things the old man used to tell him about - when he discovered the body. As you can imagine, everyone thinks Jacob is crazy. But then events set in motion a visit to the island off the coast of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew up, and
as Jacob finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he discovers that his grandfather may have been telling the truth all along...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744769</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lindsey Leavitt
|summary=It's 1501 and Gabriele is in Florence without a penny to his name. As a greenhorn country boy, he managed to get himself robbed almost as soon as he arrived in the city. But he does have one big advantage: a renowned sculptor as a step-brother. Gabriele hopes this will be enough to find him work, but little does he dream that he will soon find himself the model for one of the world's greatest pieces of art - Michelangelo's David. Or that he'll become intimately embroiled in the deadly rivalries and politics of the city. As the statue of David is slowly created, Gabriele will have to walk the line between the republican faction and those supporting the return of the Medicis without being exposed by either. It won't be easy...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408800527</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Rees Brennan
|title=The Demon's Surrender
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cynthia 'Sin' Davies is a Market girl through and through. Her whole life has been about the dance, the performance and the Market. But now the Market is at war with the magicians, Merris has pitted Sin against Mae – a tourist – for leadership of the Market, and everything is coming apart around her. Sin needs a plan, and fast. Unfortunately, Sin is more of a doer than a thinker. Thinking is where Mae excels, and the pink haired tourist is winning the race for leadership despite Sin's lifelong service to the Market.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382916</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kate Maryon
|title=A Million Angels
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mima's father is the light of her life. She loves him more than anything. But he's also an army officer and this story opens with him leaving for a six month tour of Afghanistan. Her mother is heavily pregnant and her grandmother is spending all her time thinking about her childhood sweetheart. Her friend Jess is busily trying to make friends at school - army brats are forever having to make new friends. So nobody really has time to pay attention to Mima, who can't get her fears about her father being killed and injured out of her mind...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007326297</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kit Berry
|title=Moondance of Stonewylde
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=[[Magus of Stonewylde by Kit Berry|Magus of Stonewylde]] left us at a crucial turning point with Yul receiving the Earth Magic at the Solstice instead of Magus. However, ''Moondance of Stonewylde'' begins with Stonewylde operating normally, and the population unaware of the significance of the previous festival. Nevertheless, even the Machiavellian Magus can't keep covering the cracks that are beginning to show in Stonewylde's community for ever, and there are subtle signs of a revolution brewing. However, things take a turn for the worse when Magus discovers a way to use Sylvie to rejuvenate his Magic, and it is up to Yul and his only other ally, the ancient Mother Heggy, to stop history from repeating itself and save the girl that he loves.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575098856</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neal Shusterman
|title=Everfound
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=We rejoin the limbo world of ''Everlost'' for this final volume in Neal Shusterman's ''Skinjacker'' trilogy with Mary Hightower asleep and encased in a glass coffin, Allie tied to the front of a train, and Nick still amnesiac and still puddling chocolate wherever he goes. Milos is trying to continue with Mary's demonic plan to end the living world, but he lacks her charisma and the vapour of Afterlights is getting smaller as a steady trickle decamps.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071823</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Liz Miles (Editor)
|title=Truth and Dare
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=I love anthologies, especially ones containing a host of unfamiliar authors, so when I was given the chance to get my hands on a collection of twenty stories by writers who, in the main, I hadn't encountered before, I jumped at it. The selection, however, of
this score of tales about ''slipping on the stepping stones of life'' left me feeling curiously unsatisfied in many cases.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015864</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Candle Man: Society of Dread
|author=Glenn Dakin
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=We left Theo after he had discovered his true identity as the Candle Man and defeated his evil ex-guardian, Dr Saint. The young boy is still ambivalent about his superhero status and conflicted over his ability to use tripudon energy to melt his - and London's - enemies. But the fight against evil pays no attention to inexperience or moral ambiguity and Theo is about to find himself down in the Network again. This time, his attempts to return The Society of Good Works to its original benevolence are thwarted by the renaissance of an old, and even more terrifying, villain - Dr Pyre. With his friends abducted and enslaved, Theo must use his Candle Man abilities once again...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405246774</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Bang Bang You're Dead
|author=Narinder Dhami
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mia is holding her family together. She's never known her father, her mother is suffering from manic depression which she refuses to seek help for, and her twin brother Jamie is causing
her real concern. So when the fire alarm is set off at school and rumours fly around that there's a pupil with a gun on the loose, she starts to worry that Jamie has done the unthinkable. Ignoring all common sense, she desperately tries to see for herself whether he could be the one with the gun...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>055256043X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Momentum
|author=Saci Lloyd
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=London, 2030. Energy wars are consuming the globe now peak oil is past. Britain creaks on with ever-declining influence and is now partly dependent on aid from China. The gap between rich and poor is now so great that the poor (the Outsiders) live in dreadful slums while the rich (the Citizens) spend most of their time plugged into the net, experiencing life as a fantasy. Civil unrest is springing up, only to be ruthlessly put down by the Kossacks, the new security force.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900811</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Asylum
|author=Rachel Anderson
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Sunday arrived in the UK at Lowestoft. He'd have preferred Iceland, ''which, so he'd heard, was cold and treeless but democratic and respectful of human life''. Sent from a refugee camp by his Auntie Pru, Sunday is very religious and very respectful of human life, unlike the militia who destroyed his village. So it's difficult for Sunday to become a Muslim. But that's what he has to do. His papers confiscated by a shady people trafficker, Sunday finds himself the unpaid caretaker at Hawk Rise, a condemned London tower block. And his name isn't Sunday any more; it's Piet Ali.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340997680</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Darkness Becomes Her
|author=Kelly Keaton
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|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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