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|author=Lindsey Leavitt
|title=Princess for Hire
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Desi is not the happiest of teenagers, although when are teenage girls ever actually happy? Anyway, her ex-best friend Celeste is doing everything possible to humiliate and alienate her from their friends, and to top it all off Celeste is also dating the boy Desi has a huge crush on, Hayden. (He is perhaps a dubious prospect for Desi since he can't even get her name right). Still, she has landed herself summer job working for a pet store and although it involves being dressed in a furry groundhog costume at least no-one can tell it's her in there. Well, not until Celeste comes along and unmasks her. In front of Hayden. Desi finds herself feeling more and more like vapour every day, that she doesn't matter or almost doesn't exist. Cue the fairy-godmother style entrance of Meredith, an agent for Facade which is a magical company that offer jobs to teens with magical potential to work as substitute princesses...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524612X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|summary=I have hesitated to write this review because, truthfully, I am not ''entirely'' sure that I know what happened at the end. I read it all. I actually read the end several times. And then I skipped back to the middle, just to check something, before trying the end again. I have decided to just believe in what I ''think'' happened, and since I don't want to spoil it for other readers then I don't have to make a complete fool of myself writing down what it is I think! And actually, that mysteriousness is part of the charm of the story. So, slight confusion aside, I still gave this book four stars, and this is why...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434020079</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeff Somers
|title=The Eternal Prison
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=This book stands out in the high-energy, hard-edged sci-fi adventure/thriller genre, in that it covers two stories at the same time. In one chapter we have Avery Cates, practically the best gun-for-hire in his post-apocalyptic North America, being told to kill one of the most protected and important people left in the world, by other, almost as important people, in the cruel mix of powerplays that make up the current politics. In the other corner is Cates, being thrown in prison - one of those basic, hell-on-earth, surrounded by miles of desert, prisons. Here, too, he will be told to do jobs for other people...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841497053</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A.Roger Ekirch
|title=Birthright: The True Story That Inspired Kidnapped
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and it is not unusual for novels to be based partly on fact. So it was in the case of Robert Louis Stevenson's ''Kidnapped'', Sir Walter Scott's ''Guy Mannering'', and at least three others, all of which can point to the saga of James Annesley for inspiration.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066150</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Laila Lalami
|title=Secret Son
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''Secret Son'' is the story of Youssef El-Mekki, the slum-dwelling teenage son of single mother Rachida. Youssef has always been told that his father is dead, so when he finds out his mother has lied to conceal the fact that he was born out of wedlock, he plunges headlong into an identity crisis. He tracks down his real father, a wealthy businessman called Nabil Amrani who is surprisingly enthusiastic about his illegitimate son's arrival. Nabil has recently fallen out with his daughter and he seizes this opportunity to mould Youssef into the obedient son he has always wanted.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670918296</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill
|title=Star Crossed: Aries Rising
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ordinary teen Logan McRae discovers an old book called 'Fearless Astrology'. Can the book help her and her friends get the boys they want, catch the vandals who are shocking their school with pranks, and win her the approval of cantankerous English teacher Mr 'Frankenstein' Franklin? This is a novel written for teens – of course it can.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762436700</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Gabrielle Lord
|title=January (Conspiracy 365)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Callum is wandering along home on New Year's Eve when crazed itinerant accosts him.
''They killed your father! They'll kill you! You must survive the next 365 days!''
The man is carted off in an ambulance, and Cal tries to shrug off the incident but it's not easy. How did the man know his name? How did he know that Cal's father was dead? Who could possibly want to kill a run of the mill adolescent like him? What is the Ormond Singularity that the man kept shouting about? And the thing is, Cal's father had written to him shortly before returning home already in the throes of a fatal illness. His father was vague on detail, but is pretty sure he was on to something big. Could there be a connection?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340996447</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steve Feasey
|title=Changeling: Blood Wolf
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Trey is the last living hereditary werewolf - or so he thinks. So when he discovers he has a long-lost uncle, he shrugs off all objections from his vampire guardian, Lucien and catches the first available plane to Canada. When he arrives, he finds that not all werewolves are fearsome, forbidding and courageous creatures. And they're certainly not all family-friendly. His uncle is old, half-blind and alcoholic. He lives in filth and he couldn't give a fig for Trey. But there is a pack out there, and it's vicious, bloodthirsty and rapidly spinning out of control.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330470493</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cliff McNish
|title=Savannah Grey: A Horror Story
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Savannah Grey is doing her best to settle into her latest foster placement - Annette is really nice; she's warm and kind and respects her adolescent charge's privacy. But Savannah has perenially itchy feet and she finds it difficult to make lasting relationships. She's never had a boyfriend and friendships are often fleeting. Nina is the only one that seems to stick around. Then her throat gets sore. Then Annette tells her that she's making odd noises at night. Savannah knows her body is changing and she's developing powers that she doesn't understand. Then the leaves start to swirl for no apparent reason and the birds to behave oddly.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842551124</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daren King
|title=Frightfully Friendly Ghosties
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Pamela Fraidy has gotten herself locked in the attic with a leggy spider. Her fellow frightfully friendly ghosties are doing all they can to help her, but it's not easy to pick up a key and carry it up the stairs if you don't have a body. In the process of rescuing their friends, they also decide to make friends with the still-alives who inhabit their house. The ghosties are fed up of the still-alives being so mean - running off screaming every time the ghosties say hello.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249930</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Aravind Adiga
|title=The White Tiger
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Balram Halwai, a Bangalore entrepreneur (of sorts) and a natural philosopher, hears that there is a planned visit from the Chinese leader to India to learn the source of Indian entrepreneurial talent. Balram knows that the story he will be told by the Indian leader will be a long way from the true story of modern Indian life, and so resolves, over the course of seven nights, to write to the Chinese premier with the story of his life and his own journey from a poor son of a rickshaw driver to the head of his own business.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843547228</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Casey
|title=The Missing
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In 1992, Sarah Finch's twelve year old brother Charlie says to her ''Tell mum I'll be back soon.''
Sixteen years later, his family are still waiting to find out what happened to him. Now in her twenties, Sarah is teaching at a local private school while looking after her uncaring mother, who since Charlie's disappearance has slid into alcoholism.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091935997</amazonuk>
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