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==Teens==
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|author=Sophie McKenzie
|title=The Medusa Project: Hunted
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Many teens (and older people, too!) wish they had a super-power or two: life would surely be easier if you could read other people's minds or move objects without touching them. But if this fascinating series about a team of crime-fighting teenagers shows us one clear thing, it is that psychic powers can bring as many problems as solutions. Dylan, the central character in this particular volume, is an angry, bad-tempered girl whose bristly exterior echoes her gift of protection her from physical harm. She is not well-liked by the other three, and this becomes a real problem when she finds herself having to deal not only with terrible revelations about her father, but with the appearance in her life of a mysterious boy, Harry. Why does he know so much about her? And can she trust him? Lonely, vulnerable Dylan is in the ideal position to make poor judgements and get herself into serious trouble.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385281</amazonuk>
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camp of her childhood friend Prince Alberon. Can she, along with her travelling companions Razi Kingsson - Alberon's brother - and Christopher Garron, persuade the Rebel Prince to make peace with his father, or is their quest to end in bloodshed and failure?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498238</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=Out For Blood
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academy. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes in staking all vampires, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brenna Yovanoff
|title=The Replacement
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mackie lives in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and the trials and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recently, however, things have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop raining. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning to fail. It's getting more and more difficult to avoid the truth...
 
... because Mackie is different.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lisa McMann
|title=Gone
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now she's graduated from high school, has a guaranteed job with the local police after college, and a boyfriend who loves her like crazy. Her future should be bright, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - has to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fighting, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll be blind and crippled.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jenny Downham
|title=You Against Me
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you?''
 
It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother's an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social services. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Donnelly
|title=Revolution
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Andi, a New York girl on a trip to Paris. She's a talented musician at a school for exceptional students. She's a wisecracking, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. She's a brilliant people watcher, and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Lynn Barnes
|title=Raised by Wolves
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bryn has lived almost all her life around Werewolves. Ever since a Rabid killed her family – only narrowly escaping herself – she's been under the care of her saviour, the Stone River Pack alpha, Callum. Marked as Pack, but Human, not Werewolf, Bryn is something of an oddity. She lives by Pack rule, but tries at every opportunity to undermine it – to keep her distance and maintain that piece of her that is her true self. She doesn't want to submit to Callum's alpha dominance and lose her last piece of freedom.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738029X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scott Westerfeld
|title=Behemoth
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=World War One looms and Europe's powers are getting ready their armies. In a last ditch attempt at diplomacy, the British air ship Leviathan carries aboard a gift for Sultan Mehmed V, Lord of the Horizons and ruler of the Ottoman Empire. But when things go drastically and dramatically wrong Deryn, a girl posing as a male midshipman aboard the Leviathan and Alek, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, find themselves fighting their own battles. Everyone has their own secrets, but not everyone wants to spark a deadly war...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738675X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Stroud
|title=The Ring of Solomon (Bartimaeus)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Barty is back!
 
Well, he isn't actually back. But we do get to revisit him. Which is good.
 
I'm sure you know who I'm talking about. But just in case you don't, Bartimaeus is a sarcastic, wisecracking djinni and the star of a wonderful and best-selling series by Jonathan Stroud. Whilst tied to various enslaving magicians, Bartimaeus has had a finger in many pies of world history, particularly that of London. In fact, he's saved the day almost as many times as Doctor Who has. But Bartimaeus is no Doctor Who. He's a rude, sarcastic egomaniac and unselfish behaviour isn't his byword. But he cracks an irresistible one liner. And he usually comes through in the end.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385619154</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alexander Gordon Smith
|title=Furnace: Fugitives
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=It has taken three books for Alex to get out of prison. He wouldn't have been there if the powers-that-be hadn't framed him for murder, and he would have found it a better experience were it a regular prison. But no. Over those three books we have seen just what lives and works in the completely subterranean nightmare - The Warden, Mr Furnace, and the evil creatures they are both making, breeding and employing down there. But the whole experience has come at a cost. Alex has been around these evil men too much, and they are changing him too - making him one of their tools. It's only now, on the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture of just how many tools there are - and just how much evil has been spread.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571259391</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Carl Hiaasen
|title=Scat
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Nick and his friend Marta are ordinary kids. They don't look for trouble, and they don't cause it. But when an unpopular teacher punishes a difficult classmate by making him write an essay about his pimples, then trouble can't be far away. The teacher goes missing during a wildfire, and Duane (nicknamed Smoke, because he has a reputation for setting fires) gets the blame. But the evidence doesn't add up, and our young heroes decide it's up to them to discover the truth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444000594</amazonuk>
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