==Teens==
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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=The Drake Chronicles: Bleeding Hearts
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Things in Violet Hill are not looking good at the moment. The small town is practically over run by the vicious Hel-Blar vampires: not the civilised, friendly (and hot) variety that Lucy is used too – these are feral, and attack indiscriminately, humans and vampires alike.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408814978</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ian Beck
|summary=You might be thinking the worst problem a modern-day American girl could have is her rock-star-in-waiting boyfriend dying, and coming back as a ghost that she and those younger than her can see because of some untold event in the past, but suffering when he gets malevolent and becomes a shade, which means she has to help him move on before he's locked up in limbo. That's because you're not factoring in the last boy born before her, who can't see but is utterly repellent to ghosts, but who she's just about to fall in love with when her late love turns up again, this time with a strangely solid, corporeal form...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857071866</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ben Brooks
|title=Grow Up
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Jasper is seventeen. He spends his time pretending to revise for his AS levels, fantasising about sex with Georgia Treely, hanging out with self-harming best friend Tenaya watching cheesy TV shows, and taking ketamine and mephedrone with his friends. When he's at a loose end, he goes to sex chatrooms in a quest to see how far he can get without going private (paying). He's also convinced that his step-father, Keith, is a homicidal maniac whose next victim is likely to be Jasper's mother...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857861875</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Charlotte Moore
|title=Milicent's Book
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary='My name is Milicent Bella Ludlow and I am an orphan'.
So opens this story told in diary form of a year in the life of a young Victorian girl whose father has just died. Luckily there are some kind and loving relatives willing to help her and Mabel, her older sister, and they are able to stay living in their family home, Yotes, for a while.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846470803</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maggie Stiefvater
|title=Ballad
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=After his best friend fell in love with a faerie, James realised she would never love him that way. But his attempts to get away from her, and the unrequited love he still nurses, only lead him straight to more faeries than ever before. For at James' new school, Thornking-Ash, the student populace is entirely made of musical prodigies. And there's nothing that attracts faeries more than music. James has even attracted his own muse – the deadly and dangerously attractive Nuala. The music she helps him make is better than he could ever manage on his own, but James knows the deadly consequences of making a deal with faeries, and he knows Nuala won't give him freebies for long.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140712112X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cynthia Hand
|title=Unearthly
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Clara wants what ordinary teenagers want: friends, good school grades, a boyfriend. Only Clara isn't an ordinary teenager – she's part angel. She's fluent in all languages, naturally gifted academically and in sports. All the good stuff comes with a price, but even that's not so bad. Clara has a Purpose, an angelic calling, to save a mysterious boy from a forest fire, revealed to her in a series of visions that can strike any time of day or night.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405259647</amazonuk>
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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
|title=Chronosphere: Malfunction
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The ideal paradise of life inside the Chronosphere isn't supposed to be like this. If you're like Raffi and his friends you're spending a year inside, which only takes a minute of real life, enjoying a hedonistic, summery lifestyle with time on your hands and little cares. Except it's getting more than summery, it's a hothouse; the food is running out; the exits are locked; and people are rioting and fighting amongst each other as tempers fly and people sicken and feel the end of their happiness. But then, if you're like Raffi and his friends, you are actually unknowingly there for a much more sinister reason, and someone's "project" is about to get much less Utopian.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907184562</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maggie Stiefvater
|title=The Scorpio Races
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=At a young age Sean Kendrick watches his father die violently in the Scorpio Races – a race held every year on the beaches of the island where riders compete for a huge cash prize by riding the dangerous ''capaill uisce'', the water horses. Years later Sean is a four-time winner of the Scorpio Races with a prized mare – Corr – and plans to win again. Meanwhile, Puck (Kate) Connolly has been orphaned by the ''capaill uisce'' and struggles for every meal; their main source of income is her brother Gabe, but when he announces that he is leaving the island Puck realises that she has to fight for the survival of her family. Seeing no other option she enters her island pony into the races. The stakes are high as Sean and Puck compete against each other for the highest prize of them all – freedom.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407129856</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maxine Linnell
|title=Closer
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=This is one of those concise and powerful little books where it's best for the reader to come to it with as little knowledge of the plot as possible, so I'll feature the mood - and Mel has a lot of those. Beyond her yet-to-actually-start relationship with Raj, and her best friend Chloe, she has her family - fractious animosity with her older sister, a younger brother who only plays computer games, and little freedom it seems from her mother. At least her step-dad's a funky bloke though - although one mum finds fault with easily enough. It's hardly comfy domesticity, and is even worse when interrupted by something very disturbing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907869263</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joss Stirling
|title=Stealing Phoenix
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Phoenix is a thief. She's a very good one, thanks to having some rather useful psychic abilities. Working for the cruel and dominating Seer, she's forced to follow his instructions to bring him whatever he wants – just as the rest of their community of savants are. Then she's told to get something from Yves Benedict, and for the first time in her life, fails to take what she wants. Yves has powers of his own… and he may be the one who's stolen her heart. Can Yves and his family rescue her from the Seer?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192756583</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Damian Dibben
|title=The History Keepers: The Storm Begins
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=''Imagine if you lost your parents. Not just in place, but in time''
Scary, huh? But this is exactly what happens to Jake Djones (silent D, dears). Believing his parents have gone to a bathroom convention, he's carrying on as usual until they get home. But then he's abducted on his way home from school and taken to a secret base hidden beneath the Monument in London. Jake discovers that his parents have kept a secret from him: they are secret agents working for the History Keepers, working to prevent evil villains from tampering with history itself, and they have gone missing in sixteenth century Venice. B
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857530534</amazonuk>
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